Orodu Oyinkepreye David

Contents

  1. College
  2. School
  3. Department
  4. Research Interests
  5. Awards & Honours
  6. Teaching Areas
  7. Current Postgraduate Supervision
  8. Selected Publications (20)
  9. Collaboration/Linkages
  10. Conferences Attended
  11. Summary of Profile
  12. Curriculum Vitae

Professor Oyinkepreye David Orodu

B.Eng (UNIPORT) Chemical Engineering, MSc (Aberdeen), PhD (Wuhan, China) Oil & Natural Gas Engineering

College

College of Engineering

School

Departments

Department

Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests

Reservoir Characterization and Simulation; Petroleum Production Economics - maximizing recovery (decision analysis and stochastic modeling of optimal well utilization for multi-well system & Holistic wellbore sidetrack evaluation under uncertainty for reservoir management); Surfactant Synthesis and Evaluation for Enhanced Heavy-Oil Recovery, Evaluation of Silica Nanoparticles as Additives in Water-Based Drilling Mud and for Enhanced Oil Recovery; Waterflood performance and interconnectivity estimation by capacitance resistive model for layered reservoirs; Geostatistical Modelling and Stochastic Simulation of Nigerian Heavy Oil and Natural Bitumen Deposits

Awards & Honours

  • 2015 EducationUSA Leadership Institute: Industry-Private Sector Linkages & Innovation: Energy Sector Partnerships; An Initiative of the United States Department of States, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs’ (ECA) EducationUSA Network, Administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE); Denver, Colorado and Washington DC (July 28, 2015 – August 12, 2015)
  • 2014 Best Faculty Sponsor/Advisor Service Award in Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Lagos Section 61
  • 2014 Highest Attendance at Technical Meetings Service Award in Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Lagos Section 61
  • 2005 Recipient of the Federal Government Scholarship through the Nigeria – China Bilateral Educational Agreement, under the Chinese Scholarship Council and Federal Scholarship Board, Nigeria, PhD (2005 – 2009)
  • 2002 Recipient of the Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship through the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), MSc (2002 – 2003).

Teaching Areas

Reservoir Characterisation & Simulation, Fluid Characterisation, Petroleum Economics, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Field Development Planning

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Abraham, D. “Surfactant Synthesis and Evaluation for Chemical Enhanced Heavy-Oil Recovery”
Mosobalaje O.O. "Characterization and Techno-economic Assessment of Producing Medium-Heavy Oil Resources in the Niger Delta"
Olabode O.A. "Effect of Wag and Foam Injection on Performance of Thin Oil Rim Reservoirs"
Ogunkunle F.T. "Prediction of Sanding Potentials of Unconsolidated Sandstone Reservoirs using Log Derived Parameters."

Selected Publications (20)

1. Influence and Sensitivity Study of Matrix Shrinkage and Swelling on Enhanced Coalbed Methane Production and CO2 Sequestration with Mixed Gas Injection

[ Download 205.09 kB ]

2. Prediction of Crude Oil Viscosity using Feed-Forward back-Propagation neural network (FFBPNN)

[ Download 357.60 kB ]

3. Cumulative production forecast of an oil will using simplified “Hyperbolic-Exponential” decline models

[ Download 352.65 kB ]

4. Risk Evaluation for Production-Injection Recompletion and Sidetrack

[ Download 5.23 kB ]

5. Experimental Study of Darcy and Non-Darcy Flow in Porous Media

[ Download 5.56 kB ]

6. Optimal Well Utilization under Uncertainty for Naturally Depleted and Waterflooded Reservoir

[ Download 61.39 kB ]

7. Investment Decision and Profitability Analysis in an Upstream Petroleum

[ Download 82.26 kB ]

8. Realistic Optimization of Well Length for Horizontal Drilling

[ Download 82.37 kB ]

9. Well Deliverability Predictions of Gas Flow in Gas Condensate Resevroirs, Modelling Near-Critical Wellbore Problem of Two Phase Flow in 1-Dimension

[ Download 82.04 kB ]

10. Performance of High Paraffin Reservoir under Non-Isothermal Waterflooding

[ Download 83.84 kB ]

11. Hydraulic (Flow) Unit Determination and Permeability Prediction: A Case Study of Block Shen-95, Liaohe Oilfield, North-East China

[ Download 2.03 MB ] [Visit]

12. Sidetrack/Recompletion Time Evaluation by Proxy Model

[ Download 1,008.21 kB ] [Visit]

13. Education and Training: A sin qua non for Professionalism in the Oil and Gas Sector

[ Download 1.10 MB ] [Visit]

14. Risk Assessment of Optimal Sidetrack Time

[ Download 81.83 kB ] [Visit]

15. Investigating the Carrying Capacity and the Effect of Drilling Cutting on Rheological Properties of Jatropha Oil Based Mud

[ Download 996.25 kB ] [Visit]

16. Simulation Study on Waterflood Front: Block Hade of Tarim Oilfield in NorthWest China

[ Download 70.75 kB ] [Visit]

17. Prediction of crude oil viscosity using feed. Forward back-propagation neural network (FFBPNN)

[Visit]

18. Influence and sensitivity study of matrix shrinkage and swelling on enhanced coalbed methane production and CO2 sequestration with mixed gas injection

[Visit]

19. Application of prediction models to performance of high paraffinic content oilfields: Case study Shen95 Block of Jinganbao Oilfield

[ Download 354.64 kB ] [Visit]

20. Sidetrack and recompletion risk evaluation — Waterflooded reservoir

[ Download 243.64 kB ] [Visit]

Collaboration/Linkages

Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), R.Eng.
Society of Petroleum Engineers, Member
Member, Nigerian Content Consultative Forum (NCCF): Education & Training of NCDMB
Member Editorial Board of International Journal of Petroleum and Geoscience Engineering (IJPGE), http://www.aropub.org/journals/international-journal-of-petroleum-and-geoscience-engineering-ijpge/ijpge-editorial-board/
Reviewer, Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering, Elsevier, UK
Reviewer, Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering, Elsevier, UK
Reviewer, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Elsevier, UK
Reviewer, Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Multi-Science UK
Reviewer, Journal of Petroleum Technology and Alternative Fuels, Academic Journals
Reviewer, Journal of Petroleum & Gas Engineering, Academic Journals
Member Editorial Board Merit Res. J. Pet. Geo. and Min.

Conferences Attended

2018 - 1st Nigeria International Petroleum Summit, Abuja, Nigeria, 19th – 23rd
Feb. 2018
2018 - SPE Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, August 2018
Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry Research & Development Fair and Conference 2017
COREN - “Outcome Based Engineering Workshop and Review of Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard (BMAS) and Accreditation Scoring Criteria for Undergraduate Engineering Programmes in Nigerian Universities” (4-6 April 2017)
2017 - SPE Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, 31 – 2 August 2017
Certificate of Completion - EducationUSA Leadership Institute: Industry-Private Sector Linkages & Innovation: Energy Sector Partnerships; An Initiative of the United States Department of States, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs’ (ECA) EducationUSA Network, Administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE); Denver, Colorado and Washington DC July 28, 2015 – August 12, 2015
Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Lagos, August 2014
Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Lagos, August 2013
22nd Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) Assembly, Abuja, August 2013
Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, August 2011
International Conference on ICT Applications “Application of Information &Communication Technologies To teaching, Research and Administration (AICTTRA 2011), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, September 2011
Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, August 2009
Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, 4 – 6 August 2008
1st International Forum on Petroleum Sustainable Development for PhD Candidates, Beijing, 13-15 August 2007
Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, 31 July – 2 August 2006

Summary of Profile

Dr Oyinkepreye David Orodu has varied Oil & Gas industry experience spanning field operations and academia. He has authored/ co-authored over 50 publications including SPE papers and journal articles, and reviews articles for publication in journals. Preye holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and master's and a doctorate in Petroleum Engineering. His areas of core competence are reservoir engineering and characterisation, and petroleum production economics. He had undertaken reservoir studies of oilfields in the Far-East as a research assistant, and his current research interest includes "Stochastic and Decision Analysis for Optimal Well Utilisation", " Geostatistical, Flow Unit & HPHT-PVT Characterisation and Modelling", " and "Nanoparticle and additives application for Enhanced Oil Recovery and Drilling Fluid Formulation & Testing". Preye is an SPE member and a registered engineer (R.Eng., COREN) in Nigeria.

Curriculum Vitae

Orodu CV_June 2018.pdf 514.63 kB
 
 
Last Updated:

08/29/2018 05:47 pm