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

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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 & Engineering, Fluid Characterisation, Petroleum Economics, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Field Development Planning, Fluid Flow in Pipes

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Abraham, D. “Surfactants’ Synthesis and Evaluation for Chemical Enhanced Heavy-Oil Recovery”
Supervisors; Prof. O.D. Orodu and Prof V. E. Efeovbokhan

Sowunmi, A. "Performance and Impact of Polymer Nanocomposite on Enhanced Oil Recovery"
Supervisors; Prof. V. Efeovbokhan and Prof. O.D. Orodu

Ojo, T. E. "High-Pressure High-Temperature Phase Behaviour of Natural Gas – Experimental, Machine Learning & Modelling Approach "
Supervisor; Prof. O.D. Orodu

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

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

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

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4. Risk Evaluation for Production-Injection Recompletion and Sidetrack

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

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

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7. Investment Decision and Profitability Analysis in an Upstream Petroleum

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8. Realistic Optimization of Well Length for Horizontal Drilling

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

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

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

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12. Sidetrack/Recompletion Time Evaluation by Proxy Model

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

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14. Risk Assessment of Optimal Sidetrack Time

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

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

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

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

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

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20. Sidetrack and recompletion risk evaluation — Waterflooded reservoir

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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

2019 - SPE Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, August 2019
2018 - SPE Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Abuja, August 2019
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

Summary of Profile

Oyinkepreye D. Orodu is a Professor of Petroleum Engineering and has varied Oil & Gas industry experience spanning field operations in pipeline integrity and academia. Preye holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt; master's in Oil & Gas Engineering, the Robert Gordon University and a doctorate in Oil & Natural Gas Engineering, China University of Geosciences. He had undertaken reservoir studies of oilfields in the Far-East and actively engaged by the World Bank Centre of Excellence in Oilfield Chemicals Research, University of Port Harcourt. He was selected as a participant in the EducationUSA leadership Institutes for Industry-Private Sector Linkages and Innovation: Energy Sector Partnerships in Denver, Colorado for two weeks in 2015. The program was an initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education. His areas of core competence are reservoir engineering and characterisation, reservoir fluid characterization, and petroleum production economics. He has authored/ co-authored over 70 publications with articles in high impact journals; a reviewer for high-impact journals; and has successfully supervised 9 PhD students. Preye is an active researcher and heads a research cluster on Petroleum Reservoir and Production Technology. Prof. Preye is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and also the American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG), and a registered engineer (R.Eng., COREN) in Nigeria.

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Orodu - CV.pdf 344.01 kB
 
 
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