MojdehDelshad

Mojdeh Delshad smiling while sitting at a desk in front of books and a computer monitor.
Research Professor

Research Areas
Research Interests

Hydrogen storage in geological formations; CO2 storage and utilization; Gas and chemical EOR; Computational modeling

About

Mojdeh Delshad is a research professor in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She served as the vice president (2013-2014) and the president/CEO (2015-2019) of Ultimate EOR Services LLC.  She also previously served as the assistant director for the Department of Energy-funded Center of Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (2009-2014).

She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Sharif University in Iran and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. She has over 30 years of experience in modeling multiphase flow, property modeling and reservoir simulation of enhanced oil recovery processes and more than 10 years of experience in modeling and designing subsurface contaminant transport and remediation processes. She has 86 journal publications and 138 proceedings papers.  

Her current research projects include mechanistic understanding and modeling key mechanisms for carbon storage in deep aquifers; Modeling and application of microgels for conformance control; Enhanced oil recovery processes involving chemical and gas injection; Modeling low salinity and smart waterflooding; Wettability and chemically altered wettability oil recovery methods; Numerical simulator development and application to EOR processes and CO2 sequestration; Petrophysical property modeling; Numerical modeling and EOR processes for naturally fractured reservoirs; Groundwater modeling and remediation.

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1986
M.S., Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Sharif University, Iran

Select Awards & Honors

  • Pioneer Award – Society of Petroleum Engineers (2024)
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member (2014)
  • “A Peer Apart” Rank from the Society of Petroleum Engineers for reviewing more than 100 papers (2010)
  • Best Paper in Petrophysics Award for “Assessment of in-situ hydrocarbon saturation in the presence of deep invasion and highly saline connate water” with C. Verdín (2004)
  • Outstanding Society of Petroleum Engineers Technical Editor (2003)

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