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Congratulations on your successful Ph.D. defense, Jelena! Your dissertation on "Efficient Hole Cleaning: Experimental Investigation of Cuttings Transport in Horizontal Wells" is not only a significant accomplishment but also a valuable contribution to the field. Your dedication and hard work at KAUST have clearly paid off. It’s wonderful to see your journey at the Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center culminating in such a fantastic achievement. I extend my heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for your future endeavors. Keep shining and inspiring! For those interested in Jelena’s work and profile at ANPERC, you can find more details at [ANPERC - KAUST](https://lnkd.in/duP7wwS3)

Visting student Meha MEDJATI, Postdocs Niccolò Menegoni & Yuri Panara, and Research Professor Thomas Finkbeiner inspect a virtual outcrop created from photogrammetric data acquired last fall on Jebel Madar in Oman to map fault and fracture networks. The virtual data enable detailed fracture characterization in order to build high fidelity, analogous fracture network models and better understand fluid flow. Visualization Scientist Ronell Sicat from the KAUST Visualization Core Lab utlized the university’s state of the art soft- and hardware to enable realistic hands-on teaching tools for educational purposes. #ANPERC #KAUST #KAUSTResearch #PSE

New article ✨ Congratulations to Dr. Zeeshan Tariq and Prof. Bicheng YAN from DGYM for their recent publication, An Experimental Study and Machine Learning Modeling of Shale Swelling in Extended Reach Wells When Exposed to Diverse Water-Based Drilling Fluid, published on ACS Publications (2024/2). This work is a collaboration with Mr Mobeen Murtaza (KFUPM), Mr Salman Abdulrahman Alrasheed (KFUPM), Dr Muhammad Shahzad Kamal (KFUPM) and Prof. Mohamed Mahmoud (KFUPM).  You can find the full article by following the link provided: https://lnkd.in/exFsPJp3 #PSE #ANPERC #KAUST #Publication #KAUSTResearch #DGYM

Last Thursday, Professor Kassem Ghorayeb gave an insightful seminar on bridging the integration gap of simultaneous optimization of well placement, well trajectory, and facility layout. We thank Professor Kassem for sharing his expertise on field development planning and the technical options for developing a gas or oil field while considering environmental responsibility, emissions costs, and profitability. Thanks to all the students who joined us! Stay tuned for upcoming events! 📚💡 #FieldDevelopment #oilandgas #kaustspe #spe #speinternational #spe_ksa #anperc #kaustpse #kaustlife #phdlife #studentlife

From last week’s Carbonate class field trip #1! Exploring the dynamic carbonate geology at KAUST North Beach ! 🌊🪸 ANPERC KAUST Volker Vahrenkamp #kaust #ANPERC #CaResS #carbonate #group #fieldtrip #geology #sealife

Today, we had the pleasure of welcoming US Ambassador Michael Ratney to the ANPERC art exhibition presented at the KAUST library. The exhibition showcases the incredible images generated by our CT Scan technology. During the visit, our team, led by Center Manager Salah Al Saffar, Ph.D. Student Ali Alibrahim, and our Petrophysics Technician  Domingo Lattanzi BEng, MSc (Distinction), provided a detailed explanation of the process behind creating these stunning images and their significance in the field of research. If you haven't had a chance to see the exhibition yet, make sure to visit before it closes tomorrow, March 5th. KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) KAUST PSE KAUST Research #ANPERC #KAUST #KAUSTResearch #PSE #ArtExhibition

Microbial carbonates, and stromatolites in particular, represent the earliest geological record of life on Earth. In their new study for #GEOLOGY, Volker Vahrenkamp and colleagues report the first discovery of living shallow-marine stromatolites in the Middle East on Sheybarah Island, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, https://lnkd.in/gxtEWdMY. Vahrenkamp et al. detail their regional distribution, environmental conditions, internal structures, and microbial diversity. Another first is the discovery of reticulated filaments in a photic setting that have previously only been described from caves. Compositional microbial analysis revealed the presence of a wide range of microbial life forms. This discovery opens the door for further studies of living fossils that dominated the early world of the Archean and Proterozoic. #Stromatolites #LifeonEarth #Mars #Geoscience #Fossils Dr. Viswasanthi Chandra, Elisa Garuglieri, Ramona Marasco, Pankaj Khanna, Alexander Petrovic KAUST PSE, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar , Carmeuse 

Join us on March 7th for our SPE Seminar, "Bridging the Integration Gap—Simultaneous Optimization of Well Placement, Well Trajectory, and Facility Layout," presented by Professor Kassem Ghorayeb from the American University of Beirut. Professor Ghorayeb's research focuses on oil and gas field development planning and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS). With a long journey at SLB as a Global Reservoir Engineering Advisor, he brings a wealth of experience to the table. He is also the author and co-author of over 50 technical papers and holds multiple US patents. In this seminar, Professor Ghorayeb will present an integrated field development planning framework that bridges the integration gap by optimizing well placement, well trajectory, and facility layout. This approach screens the technical potential for developing a gas or oil field. It uses the available knowledge of emissions costs to balance profitability and environmental responsibility in field development planning  #spe #kaustspe #speinternational #spe_ksa #anperc #kaustpse #kaustlife #phdlife

New Article ✨ Excited to share another article titled "Modelling principal stress orientations in the Arabian Plate using plate velocities" by Santiago Peña Clavijo, Anindita Dash, Guillaume Baby, Prof. Abdulkader M. Afifi and Prof. Thomas Finkbeiner Is it now available at https://lnkd.in/efR3rhQQ #PSE #ANPERC #KAUST #Publication #KAUSTResearch #RockGem