Ibrahim Kocabas, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
PhD, Stanford University, USA, 1990

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering
American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Room: EL 137
Office: +(971) 6 515 2973
Fax: +(971) 6 515 2979
E-mail: ikocabas@aus.edu

Research Interests

Tracer testing  in oil and geothermal reservoirs  and aquifers. Analytical and numerical solutions to Convection-Dispersion Equation and its applications to transport in porous media especially tracer tests,  miscible displacement,  formation damage, chemical flooding,  ground water contamination and remediation. Modeling stress and thermal transients in oil reservoirs.

Current research work: two-dimensional analytical models of tracer transport, stress and thermal transients during cold water injection into oil reservoirs; Double Laplace transform solutions of flow and transport equations.

Courses taught at AUS

Courses taught at other universities

Biography

Dr. Ibrahim Kocabas obtained his BSc from METU Ankara Turkey, and  MSc and PhD from Stanford University all in petroleum engineering.  He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering of AUS in August 2007. Prior to joining AUS, he worked as a research associate at Stanford University and as a faculty member in the Geological Engineering Department of S. Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey; the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department of UAE University; and the Petroleum Engineering Department of KFUPM.  He has also served on the executive committee of the Water Recourses Interdisciplinary Master of Science Program in UAE University.  He has supervised a number of MSc theses and authored and/or coauthored technical papers published in refereed journals such as SPE Production and Operations, JPSE, Geothermics and Energy Sources and technical conferences and served as a technical reviewer for JPSE and JCPT and Advances in Water Resources.  Currently, he is serving as the coordinator of the Minor in Petroleum Engineering program of AUS.

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

1. Kocabas, I. “An Analytical Model of Temperature and Stress Fields During Cold Water Injection,” SPE Production and Operations,  May 2006, 282-292.
2. Kocabas, I. “Characterization of Geothermal Reservoirs Via Thermal Injection Backflow and Interwell Tracer Testing,” Geothermics Vol. 34, no. 1, Feb., 2005, 27-46.
3. Al-awadhy, F. Kocabas, I., Abou Kassem, J.H., and Islam. M.R. "Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Sulfur Plugging in a Carbonate Oil Reservoir,"  Energy Sources, Vol. 27, Issues 1-2, 2005.
4. Kocabas, I. “Thermal Transients During Nonisothermal Fluid Injection into Oil Reservoirs,” J. Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 42, 2004, 121-133.
5. Kocabas, I, and Islam M.R. “Concentration and Temperature Transients in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Part I: Linear Transport,” J. Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 26, 2000, 211-22.
6. Kocabas, I, and Islam M.R. “Concentration and Temperature Transients in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Part I: Radial Transport,” J. Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 26, 2000, 221-23.
7. Kocabas, I., Islam, M.R. and Modarress, H. “A Wellbore Model for Field Scale Modelling of Asphaltene Plugging,” J. Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 26, 2000, 19-30.

Conference Papers

1. Kocabas, I. “A New Analytical Model of Geomechanics during Nonisothermal Injection,  SPE paper #105119 Proceedings of  the 15th Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, Manama, Bahrain,  March 11-14, 2007.
2. Kocabas, I. “An Analytical Model of Temperature and Stress Fields During Cold Water Injection”, SPE Paper 88762 Proceedings of 11th ADIPEC, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Oct. 10-13, 2004.
3. Kocabas, I. “Characterization of Asphaltene Precipitation Effect on Reducing Carbonate Rock Permeability”, SPE Paper 81572, Proceedings Of  MEOS, Bahrain, June 9-12 2003, 2003.
4. Kocabas, I. “Modeling Tracer Flow in Oil Reservoirs Containing High Permeability Streaks,” SPE Paper 81429, Proceedings Of  MEOS, Bahrain,  June 9-12 2003.
5. Kocabas, I.” Parametric Sensitivity Analysis of Tracer and Groundwater Contaminant Transport Models,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Geotechnical, Geoenvironmental Engineering and Management in Arid Lands, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE, 411-20, 2000.
6. Kocabas, I. "Multiwell Multitracer Recirculating Tracer Tests to Determine Hydrogeologic and Hydrochemical Parameters in Aquifer Remediation Studies,” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sustainability in Desert Regions, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE, 187-200, 1999.
7. Kocabas, I., Aboudheir, A. and Islam, M.R. “Improvement of Numerical Methods in Petroleum Engineering Problems”, Proceedings IASTED International Conference, Applied Modeling and Simulation (AMS’99), Cairns, Australia, Sept. 1-3, 1999.
8. Kocabas, I. and Islam, M.R. A Wellbore Model for Predicting Asphaltene Plugging,” SPE# 49199, Proceedings, SPE Annual Tech. Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, USA, 765-773, 1998.