Petroleum Fluid Phase Behavior (PDF)

Abhijit Dandekar is Professor and Chair of the Petroleum Engineering program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he has taught since January 2001. Before joining UAF, he was an assistant research professor at the Technical University of Denmark. In the summer of 2002 he also worked as visiting faculty at the University of Petroleum Beijing, P.R.C. He has also been a visiting professor at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Abuja, Nigeria and visiting professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (as Fulbright specialist). He holds a B.Tech degree in chemical engineering from Nagpur University, India and a Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Prof. Dandekar has authored more than 80 papers and a widely adopted textbook on Petroleum Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties and he is also the editor for Emerging Trends and Technologies in Petroleum Engineering book series (Taylor & Francis). He has supervised more than 30 graduate students and conducted several funded research projects primarily in the area of PVT and SCAL. In 2014 he received the SPE Distinguished Membership and Fulbright Specialist awards. In 2015 he was the recipient of the SPE Western North America Region Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty. Over the last 16 years he has contributed to numerous SPE activities, is a current petroleum engineering program evaluator (PEV) for ABET and has served on six visits.

Jaime Moreno is a reservoir engineer with focus on EOR R&D, instructor, and a principal engineer for Schlumberger. His strong expertise in field development and reservoir characterization with an emphasis in EOR was developed through a 20- year career, which started with Schlumberger's Holditch Reservoir Technologies in Denver as a simulation engineer working with NFR triple porosity reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico, South America and unconventional reservoirs in continental USA. Throughout his career he has worked as lead technical engineer in several field projects, including field development planning, in USA, Malaysia, Australia, Middle East and North Africa. Starting in 1998 he held a combined role in R&D for EOR, concentrating on screening (patented
technology), pilot planning, monitoring and surveillance. He has taught internal and external courses on EOR and compositional modeling. Mr. Moreno holds an Msc degree from the Colorado School of Mines in USA, has published nearly 20 papers in journals and conferences and has been a technical committee member of several SPE applied technical workshops and conferences in the Asia Pacific region.