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. 

Delshad has over 30 years of experience in multiscale modeling of chemical and gas enhanced oil recovery EOR projects. She was a member of the Center for Subsurface Modeling led by Professor Wheeler at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (2009-2016) as well as the assistant director and coPI for the Department of Energy-funded Center of Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (2009-2014).  She served as the vice president (2013-2014) and the president/CEO (2015-2019) of Ultimate EOR Services LLC.

Delshad has led high quality research in collaboration with the industry and practical application to enhance the understanding and modeling of multiphase flow with and emphasis on traditional and hybrid EOR methods. She was the head of the research group for developing the UTCHEM reservoir simulator software, the most accepted simulator for chemical EOR processes used by many oil companies and universities worldwide. Her research is reflected in 150 journal publications and 170 reviewed conference papers. 

She became the SPE Distinguished Member in 2014 and received the SPE IOR Pioneer Award in 2024 and the 2026 SPE/AIME Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal for Technical Leadership. She was recently named a 2026 Distinguished Alumni in our department, recognizing her impact and excellence after receiving her M.S. and Ph.D. from the department in 1981 and 1986, respectively. 

Since 2020, she expanded her interests to explore the depleted oil/gas reservoirs for energy storage of hydrogen, heat, and hydro. She is currently a member of the GeoH2 research consortium at the Bureau of Economic Geology.

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

  • SPE/AIME Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal for Technical Leadership – Society of Petroleum Engineers (2026)
  • 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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