List of Publications by EOR Centre Members

1) Journal Papers

Year 2012

1. F. Irawan, S. Irawan & M. Awang, “A Unique Opportunity for Liquid Carbon Dioxide as an Enhanced Oil Recovery Method”, Energy Sources, 2012
2. N. Yahya, P. Puspitasari, N. R. Ahmad Latiff, "Hardness Improvement of Dental Amalgam using Zinc Oxide and Aluminium Oxide Nanoparticles, "Characterization and Development of Biosystems and Biomaterials. Springer, 2012.

Year 2011

1. B. K. Tham, B. D. Mehmet Raif, I. Mohd Saaid, and E. Abllah” The Effects of Kv/Kh on Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage Process”, International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2011.
2. Mohammed Idrees Al-Mossawy, Birol Demiral and D.M. Anwar Raja, "Foam Dynamics in Porous Media and Its Applications in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Review",International Journal of Research and Reviews in Applied Sciences, 2011.
3. Mohammed Idrees Al-Mossawy and Birol Demiral, "An Improved Relative Permeability Model to Match Displacement Experiments", International Journal of Applied Science and Technology, 2011.
4. N. Yahya, M.N. Akhtar , A.F. Masuri and M. Kashif, "Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO-CNTs Filled PVA Composite as EM Detector", Journal of Applied Sciences, 2011.
5. M.N. Akhtar, N. Yahya , H. Daud , A. Shafie , H.M. Zaid , M. Kashif and N. Nasir, "Development of EM Wave Guide Amplifier Potentially used for Sea Bed Logging", Journal of Applied Sciences, 2011.
6. N. Nasir, N. Yahya , M.N. Akhtar , M. Kashif , A. Shafie , H. Daud and H.M. Zaid, "Magnitude Verses Offset Study with EM Transmitter in Different Resistive Medium", Journal of Applied Sciences, 2011.
7. M. Kashif, N. Yahya , H.M. Zaid , A. Shafie , M. Jasamai , N. Nasir and M.N. Akhter, "Oil Recovery by Using Electromagnetic Waves", Journal of Applied Sciences, 2011.
8. H.M. Zaid, N.B. Yahya , M.N. Akhtar , M. Kashif , H. Daud , S. Brahim , A. Shafie , N.H.H.M. Hanif and A.A.B. Zorkepli, "1D EM Modeling for Onshore Hydrocarbon Detection using MATLAB", Journal of Applied Sciences, 2011.
9. Sima Sh. Alian, Abdul Aziz Omar, Ali F. Alta’ee and Irzie Hani, "Study of Asphaltene Precipitation induced formation Damage during CO2 Injection for a Malaysian light oil", World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 78 2011.

Year 2009

1. Ayman Abo Jabal, Isa M. Tan, Zakaria Man, Saikat maitra, “A Kinetic Analysis of the Degradation of Grafted Anionic Polyacrylamide Gel under Nonisothermal Condition”, journal of engineering science and technology vol. 4, no. 4 (2009) 364 – 373.

3) Conference Papers

Year 2012

1. Muhammad R. Hashmet, Isa M. Tan, Saeed Majidaei, Muhammad Mushtaq,"Simultaneous Determination of Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeabilities", SPE 160878-MS presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition. Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
2. Muhammad R. Hashmet, Isa M. Tan,Muhammad Arif, Arshad Raza, Mohamed Ali, Arsalan Bashir "Production Optimization using Nodal Analysis - A Case Study",  ICIPEG 2012.
3. Muhammad Mushtaq, Isa M. Tan, Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad R. Hashmet, Susan Lee, Saeed Majidaei, Muhammad Rizwan Azam, "A Study to Investigate Point of Zero Charge (PZC) and Static Adsorption of an Anionic Surfactant Onto Native Malaysian Sandstone", ICIPEG 2012.
4. Cecilia Devi Wilfred, Divya Nair G., Abobakr Khidir Ziyada, "Synthesis and Characterisations of Aliquat 336® and Cetylpyridinium Ionic Liquids Incorporated with Sulfonate-Based Anions", ICFAS 2012.
5. Ahmad Latiff, N. R., Mohd Zaid, H., Yahya, N., & Demiral, B. (2012). The Effect of IFT and Viscosity of Nanofluids on Oil Recovery in Electromagnetically-Stimulated Dielectric Nanofluid Flooding. Kuala Lumpur, 2nd International Conference on Integrated Petroleum and Geosciences (ICIPEG) 2012.
6. H. Mohd Zaid,  N. R. Ahmad Latiff, N. Yahya, B. Demiral, "The Effect of Nanoparticles Crystallite Size on the Recovery Efficiency in Dielectric Nanofluid Flooding", 8th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids. Istanbul, Turkey.
7. H. Mohd Zaid,  N. R. Ahmad Latiff, N. Yahya, B. Demiral, "Synthesis and Characterization of Dielectric Nanoparticles for Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery", AIP Conference Proceedings, 1482, pp. 146-151, 2012.
8. S. Majidaie, A. Khanifar, Isa M. Tan, M. Onur. The Potential of Immiscible Carbon Dioxide Flooding on Malaysian Light Oil Reservoir,  the Second International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 2012 (ICIPEG 2012), 12-14 June, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012)
9. S. Majidaie, A. Khanifar, M. Onur, and Isa M. Tan, "A Simulation Study of Chemically Enhanced Water Alternating Gas (CWAG) Injection," in SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 16-18 April 2012, Muscat, Oman.
10. S. Majidaie, M. Mushtaq, I. M Tan, and B. Demiral, S. Y. Lee, "Non-Petrochemical Surfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery," in SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 16-18 April 2012, Muscat, Oman.
11. B. Moradi, M. Bt. Awang and N. El Khati, Prediction of Pressure and Temperature Profiles in HPHT Deep Gas Wells, Second International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia , June 2012.
12. B. Moradi, M. Bt. Awang and N. El Khati, Prediction of Pb and Bo for Asia Pacific Crude Oils, Second International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia , June 2012.
13. Sami A.Musa, Mariyamni Awang, N. El-Khatib. ”Prediction of Heated and Steamed Zone Volume During the Steam Flood Using Alternating Conditional Expectation Algorithm “ . (ICIPEG)  Malaysia, June 2012.
14. Yisa Ademola Adeeyo, Noaman El-Khatib, Mariyamni Bt Awang, ”Water/Oil/Surfactant Ternary Phase Behaviour Thermodynamic Mathematical Modelling Using Excess Gibbs Energy and SRK EoS“, (ICIPEG)  Malaysia, June 2012.
15.  Ahmad Khanifar, Birol Demiral, Nasir Darman. Numerical Study of  Asphaltene Control Parameters' Effects on Reservoir Performance, the Second International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 2012 (ICIPEG 2012), 12-14 June, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012)

 Year 2011

1. S.Mousa Mousavi Mirkalaei, S. Javad Hosseini, Rahim Masoudi, Abdolrahim Ataei & Briol M.R.Demiral, “Investigation of Different I-WAG schemes toward Displacement Efficiency Improvement”, SPE-EOR conference, KL, 2011.
2. Ahmad Khanifar, Sima Sheykh Alian, Birol Demiral, Nasir Darman, “Study of Asphaltene Precipitation and Deposition Phenomenon during WAG Application”, SPE-EOR Conference, KL, 2011.
3. Ahmad Khanifar, Birol Demiral, Nasir Darman. The Effects of Asphaltene Precipitation and Deposition Control Parameters on Reservoir Performance: A Numerical Approach, SPE-146188, presented in the 2011 SPE Reservoir Characterization and Simulation Conference and Exhibition (RCSC), 09-11 October 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2011)
4. S. Mousavi Mirkalaei, R. Masoudi and A. Ataei, “Evaluation of Steam Flooding and Cyclic Steam stimulation (CSS) for a Fractured Carbonate Heavy Oil Reservoir “, IPTC 2011.
5. J. Hoseini, S. Mousavi Mirkalaei and B. Demiral, and R. Masoudi and A. Ataei, “Investigating the Effect of Key Parameters on Volumetric Sweep Efficiency during Immiscible WAG Injection”, IPTC, 2011.
6. Muhammad Rehan Hashmet, Birol M.R.Demiral, Mohamed Ali, Muhammad Kashif, “Rheology of Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymers-A Review”, NPC, UTP, 2011.
7. Sami A.Musa, Mariyamni Awang, Noaman El-Khatib,Birol Demiral, “Two-dimensional mathematical model for Heat Assisted WAG with Chemical Additives for Heavy Oil Recovery”, NPC, UTP, 2011.
8. B. Moradi, J. Hosseini, B. M. Demiral & M. Amani , Development of New Correlation for Predicting Bubble Point Pressure and Bubble Point Oil Formation Volume Factor of Malaysian Crude Oils, EAGE-Petroleum & Geology Conference Exhibition, Kuala lumpur- Malaysia, March 2011.
9. B. Moradi, M. Bt. Awang and M. A. Shoushtari: Pressure Drop Prediction in Deep Wells, SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, SPE No. 147813, Jakarta-Indonesia, September 2011.
10. B. Moradi, M. Bt. Awang: Prediction of Heat Transfer in the Wellbore for Liquid Carbon Dioxide Flooding in High Temperature Formations, National Postgraduate Conference, Tronoh-Malaysia, September 2011.
11. Seyed Javad Hosseini, Birol M.R. Demiral, Seyed Mousa Mousavi Mirkalaei, “Comparison of Different Hysteretic Relative Permeability Models and their Performance on I-WAG Recovery Prediction”, NPC, UTP, 2011.
12. Noor Rasyada Ahmad Latiff, Hasnah M Zaid and Noorhana Yahya, “Novel EOR Method Using Dielectric ZnO Nanoparticles Activated by EM waves”, NPC, UTP, 2011.
13. Siti Nurbaya Mustafa Kamal, Ismail Mohd Saaid, Birol M.R.Demiral, “Effect of Flow rate on Foam Mobility-Malaysia Crude Oil”, NPC, UTP, 2011
14. Mushtagh et al.” Epoxidation of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters Derived from Jatropha Oil", NPC, UTP, 2011.
15. Ahmad Khanifar, Birol Demiral, Nasir Darman. Modelling of Asphaltene Precipitation and Deposition during WAG Application, IPTC-14147, International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), 15-17 November 2011, Bangkok, Thailand (2011)
16. Ahmad Khanifar, Birol Demiral. Investigation the Effects of Asphaltene Presence on Reservoir Performance, National Postgraduate Conference (NPC 2011), 19-20 Sept 2011, Malaysia (2011)
17. Ahmad Khanifar, Birol Demiral, Nasir Darman. Study of Asphaltene Precipitation and Deposition Phenomenon, National Postgraduate Conference (NPC 2011), 19-20 Sept 2011, Malaysia (2011)
18. Ahmad Khanifar, Birol Demiral, Nasir Darman. Investigation the Effects of Asphaltene Presence on Relative Permeability Characteristics during WAG Process, The First Iranian Students Scientific Conference, 9-10 April 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2011)

Year 2010

1. Ahmad Khanifar,“prediction of the oil properties fluid characterization after gas injection and swelling phenomena” International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (ICIPEG) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2010.
2. Akmal Aulia, Tham Boon Keat, Muhammad Sanif M., Noaman El-Khatib and Mazuin Jasamai, "Mining Data from Reservoir Simulation Results," in International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (ICIPEG) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2010.
3. Akmal Aulia and Noaman El-Khatib, "Mathematical Modeling of Adsorption and Dispersion in Chemical Flood EOS Compositional Flow," in International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (ICIPEG) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2010
4. A.F. Alta’ee, I. M. Saaid, R. Masoudi, “Carbon Dioxide Injection and Asphaltene Precipitation in Light Oil Reservoirs” The Eleventh Mediterranean Petroleum Conference and Exhibition, Tripoli – Libya, February 23-25/2010,
5. Babak Moradi, E.Malekzadeh, M.Amani, F.H.Boukadi., R.Khrrat: Bubble Point Pressure Empirical Correlation, SPE - Trinidad and Tobago Energy Resources Conference, Port of Spain-June 2010.
6. Elraies, K. A., Tan, I., and Fathaddin, M. (2010). A New Approach to Low-Cost, High Performance Chemical Flooding System. SPE 133004, presented at SPE Production and Operations Conference and Exhibition, June 8-10, Tunis, Tunisia.
7. Elraies, K. A., and Tan, I. (2010). Design and Application of a New Acid-Alkali-Surfactant Flooding Formulation for Malaysian reservoirs. SPE 133005, to be presented at the SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, October, 18-20, Brisbane, Australia.
8. Fikri Irawan, Sonny Irawan and Mariyamni Awang, "Core Flood EOR Experiment by Injecting Liquid Carbon Dioxide," in ICIPEG KLCC, Malaysia, 2010.M. Ahrimankosh, S. M. Mousavi Mirkalaei, and N. Kasiri, "Artificial-Intelligence Modelling for Permeability Prediction Using Well Log Data," in ICIPEG KLCC, Malaysia, 2010.
9. Hasnah Mohd Zaid, Noorhana Binti Yahya, Majid Niaz Akhtar, Muhammad Kashif, Hanita Daud, Samir Brahim, Afza Shafie, Noor Hazrin Hany Mohamad Hanif and Ahmad Aiman Bin Zorkepli “1D EM Modeling for Onshore Hydrocarbon Detection Using MATLAB” 1st International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences 2010 (ICFAS 2010)  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jun 15-Jun 17, 2010
10. Majid Niaz Akhtar, Noorhana Yahya, Hanita Daud, Afza Shafie, Hasnah Mohd Zaid, Muhammad Kashif, Nadeem Nasir “Development of EM wave guide amplifier potentially used for sea bed logging (SBL)”1st International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences 2010 (ICFAS 2010)  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jun 15-Jun 17, 2010
11. Mohamed Idrees Al Mossawy and Birol Demiral, Anwar Raja, "Duration of Transient Pressure of Single-Phase Flow in Porous Media," in ICIPEG KLCC, Malaysia, 2010.
12. Mohamed Idrees Al Mossawy and Birol Demiral, "Studies and Field Applications of Foam in Enhanced Oil Recovery," in MPC2010 Tripoli-Libya, 2010.
13. Mohamed Idrees Al Mossawy and Birol Demiral, "A Poroperm Function to Evaluate the Dynamic Pore Connectivity of Porous Media," in EUROPEC Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
14. Mohammed Abdalla Ayoub Mohammed, "The Use of Artificial Neural Networks for Effectively Optimizing Production from Multiphase Flow Wells," in ICIPEG KLCC, Malaysia, 2010.
15. Mohamed Ali Hamid and Prof. Birol Demiral, "The effect of Skin Factor On Water Injectivity during WAG process," International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (ICIPEG) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2010.
16. Muhammad Kashif, Noorhana Yahya, Hasnah Mohd Zaid, Afza Shafie, Mazuin Jasamai, Majid Niaz Akhter, Nadeem Nasir “Enhanced Oil Recovery by Using Electromagnetic waves” 1st International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences 2010 (ICFAS 2010) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jun 15-Jun 17, 2010.
17. Nadeem Nasir, Afza Shafie, Hanita Daud, Hasnah Mohd Zaid, Noorhana Yahya, Majid Niaz Akhtar, Muhammad Kashif “Magnitude Verses Offset (MVO) Study with EM Transmitter in Different Resistive Medium”1st International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences 2010 (ICFAS 2010)  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jun 15-Jun 17, 2010
18. Noorhana Yahya, Majid Niaz Akhtar, Ahmad Fauzie Masuri and Muhammad Kashif “Synthesis & Characterization of ZnO-CNTs Filled PVA Composite as EM Detector” 1st International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences 2010 (ICFAS 2010) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jun 15-Jun 17, 2010
19. Sami Adelrahman  Musa and Dr. Maryamani, "Development of a Mathematical Model for Heavy Oil Recovery using Heat Assisted WAG with Chemical Additives " in ICIPEG KLCC, Malaysia, 2010.
20. S. Majidaie, "Review of ASP Flooding- Field Experiences," in ICIPEG KLCC, Malaysia, 2010.
21. Tham Boon Keat, "Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage Project," in ICIPEG KLCC, Malaysia, 2010.

Year 2009

1. Ali F. Alta’ee, I. M. Saaid, R. Masoudi, “Phase Behavior and Asphaltene Precipitation Study on a Malaysian Light Oil Sample”, National Postgraduate Conference (NPC 2009) Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Perak Malaysia March 2009
2. Babak Moradi, E.Malekzadeh R.Khrrat,P.Moradi : Pressure-Volume-Temperature Correlations For Iranian Crude Oils, EAGE- First International Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Shiraz-May 2009.
3. Babak Moradi, E.Malekzadeh R.Khrrat: Oil Formation Volume Factor Correlation For Middle East Crude Oils, EAGE - First International Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Shiraz 2009.
4. Fikri Irawan, "Comparison of Gomaa, Myhill-Stegemeier and Neuman Method for Predicting Steamflood Reservoir Performance," in NPC-UTP UTP, Malaysia, 2009.
5. Mohamed Ali Hamid and Prof. Birol Demiral, "Simulation Of In jectivity Characterization During WAG Process," in NPC UTP, Malaysia, 2009.
6. Saeed Majidaie, "Feasibility Study of Drill Cuttings Re-Injection in the Ahwaz Field Iran," in Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Asia Pacific Health, Safety, Security and Environment Conference, 2009.
7. S. M. M. Mirkalaei, M. Tabibi, and M. A. Emadi, "Cold Production from a Fractured Carbonate Heavy Oil Reservoir in Iran-Case Study," in 1st International Petroleum Conference Shiraz, Iran, 2009.
8. S.M. Mousavi  Mirkalaei, and R. Masoudi, "A New Approach For Improving Permeability Estimation by Integrating Sequential Gaussian Simulation (SGS) with Co-Active Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (CANFIS) Network," in 16th Middle East Oil  & Gas Show and Conference Bahrain, 2009.