Professor Oyinkepreye David Orodu
HOD
B.Eng (UNIPORT) Chemical Engineering, MSc (Aberdeen), PhD (Wuhan, China) Oil & Natural Gas Engineering
College
School
Department
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
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)
2. Prediction of Crude Oil Viscosity using Feed-Forward back-Propagation neural network (FFBPNN)
[ Download 357.60 kB ]6. Optimal Well Utilization under Uncertainty for Naturally Depleted and Waterflooded Reservoir
[ Download 61.39 kB ]13. Education and Training: A sin qua non for Professionalism in the Oil and Gas Sector
[ Download 1.10 MB ] [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]20. Sidetrack and recompletion risk evaluation — Waterflooded reservoir
[ Download 243.64 kB ] [Visit]Collaboration/Linkages
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