Researcher

Associate Professor Furqan Hussain

My Expertise

CO2 sequestration

Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS)

Laboratory investigation of CO2 injection into oil reservoirs and aquifers

CCS. 

Fields of Research (FoR)

Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering, Carbon Sequestration Science

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Biography

Furqan Le-Hussain research CO2 geosequestration in aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs. His research enhances the feasibility of CO2 geosequestration in heterogeneous and low-pressure formations to maximize CO2 storage. His research group discovered water-saturated CO2 injection into oil reservoirs to improve oil recovery and CO2 storage.

 


My Grants

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Furqan Le-Hussain research CO2 geosequestration in aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs. His research enhances the feasibility of CO2 geosequestration in heterogeneous and low-pressure formations to maximize CO2 storage. His research group discovered water-saturated CO2 injection into oil reservoirs to improve oil recovery and CO2 storage.

 


My Grants

Project Title Sponsor Name Awarded From Awarded To
A spatio-temporal partitioning approach to colloidal flows in porous media Australian Research Council / Discovery Project 1/01/2020 31/12/2022
Multiscale physics for enhanced oil recovery University of Adelaide / ARC Linkage Project  6/02/2020 5/02/2023
Low Salinity Fines-Assisted Waterflooding - Support provided in analysing samples from Wintershall Holding GmbH University of Adelaide / Wintershall Holding Gmbh  1/10/2019 1/05/2021
EOR assessment phase-1 Bridgeport Energy Limited  1/10/2019 30/09/2021
Core testing – Boggabri Mine Boggabri Coal Operations  15/02/2019 31/12/2020
Low Salinity Fines-Assisted Waterflooding: reservoir prediction tools & field study Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd / Wintershall Holding Gmbh  1/03/2014 1/04/2017
Laboratory Investigation of CO2-Brine Multiphase Flow Properties FEI Canberra Pty Ltd / Contract Research 8/10/2013 31/07/2015

My Qualifications

PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

BSc and MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

I am currently looking for PhD candidates in below areas:

Experimental investigation of CO2 injectivity and trapping during CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers

Co-optimization of CO2 storage and oil recovery


Currently supervising

CO2-water wettability,

Trapping mechanisms,

Injectivity,

CO2 storage capacity


My Teaching

I am currently teaching following courses:

PTRL 3001 Reservoir Engineering B

PTRL3040 Numerical Reservoir Simulation

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Location

Tyree Energy and Technology Building (H6)
Level 2, Room 219
Kensington Campus