Current Staff

Name: Zhengwen (Zane) Zeng

Educiation:
PhD: Petroleum & Geological Engineering, University of Oklahoma, USA, 2002
DSc: Tectono-physics, Institute of Geology, State Seismological Bureau, China, 1993
MS: Engineering Geology, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 1987
BS: Engineering Geology, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 1984

Interest:
Petroleum Engineering: reservoir characterization, petroleum geomechanics, petrophysics, CO2 - enhanced oil recovery.
Geological Engineering: CO2 sequestration, rock mechanics, site investigation.
Applied Geophysics : acoustics of porous media, imaging using induced micro-seismicity.

Email: Zeng@UND.EDU
Phone: (701) 777-3027
Personal home page: http://www.geology.und.edu/zeng/

Name: Kyle Bangen

BS: student in Geological Engineering

Interest:
1. Natural resource recovery
2. Petroleum engineering
3. Fluid mechanics and dynamics
4. Mining engineering

Name: Jun He

BS: Petroleum Geology and exploration, Southwest petroleum University,China, 1995

Senior Engineer (Petroleum Geology) of Exploration and Development Research Institute of SINOPEC

Interest:
Petroleum Geology and Seismic Exploration
Reservoir Forecasting, Reservoir Simulation
Computer Application

Name:Hadi Jabbari

MS: Sharif University of Technology(SUT),Iran,2006
BS: Petroleum University of Technology(PUT),Iran,2004

Interest:
1. Analytical/Numerical Modeling of EOR Processes in NFRs
2. Analytical/ Numerical Modeling of Thermal Recovery Methods
3. Horizontal Wells Performance

Name: Hong Liu
(Lab technician)

AS: Science in Business , New Mexico Tech,Socorro, NM, 2004;
AS: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China 1987.

Interest:
Preparation for rockspecimen; Petrophysical test: Geomechnical test: Geochamical test: Labmaintenance: Lab inventory management.

Name:Mehdi Ostadhassan

BS: Petroleum Engineering-Petroleum University of Technology(Iran,2005)
MS:Petroleum Geoscience,Geophysics-IFP-School(France,2007)
MS:Petroleum Engineering,Petroleum University of Technology(Iran,2009)
PhD student in Geological Engineering-petroleum Related

Interest:
1 Fracture characterization by integration of seismic, well log and well image data
2 Basin Analysis, Structural Geology based on Seismic Interpretation
3 Mechanical behavior and deformation of incompetent units versus Elevated Temperature integrated by Rock Physics
4 Oil and Gas Reserve Estimation Based on Risk Analysis
5 Velocity Analysis (from processing and interpretation point of view) of incompetent and plastic units and finding the relationships between velocity and structural and stratigraphical properties (e.g. lithology, deformation style, thickness, dip of flank and etc.)

Name: Peng Pei

BS: North China Electrical Power University
MS:University of North Dakota
PhD student in Engineering, Geologic Track

Interest:
Primary research interestes include CO2 capture, transportation, sequestration, underground coal gasification, and petroleum reservoir engineering.
Peng is a member of the Geologic Society of America.

Name: Xue Jun Zhou (John)

BS: Information Engineering, XiDian University, China
Diploma, Mining Technology, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 2005
MS: Mining Engineering, Montana Tech of the University of Montana,2007
PhD: Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota -

Research Interest :
Geomechanics , Site Characterization, Deep Sequestration of Greenhouse Gas, Numerical Modeling, Discrete Element Method, Discrete Fracture Network Model, Reservoir Simulation.