Hamidreza Karami

Hamidreza Karami, Ph.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PETROLEUM AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Email: karami@ou.edu
Office: SEC 1112

Education

Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, The University of Tulsa
M.Sc., Petroleum Engineering, The University of Tulsa
B.Sc., Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Hamidreza Karami is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where he teaches production engineering and related courses. Previously, Dr. Karami worked as a research associate in Tulsa University Fluid Flow Projects and Tulsa University Horizontal Well Artificial Lift Projects for 2.5 years. He received his B.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran in July 2009. He joined The University of Tulsa and TU's Paraffin Deposition Projects in fall 2009, and completed his M.Sc. degree, investigating paraffin deposition characteristics under turbulent flow. He then joined TUFFP in fall 2011 to pursue his Ph.D. degree, and completed his dissertation in May 2015, with the title “low liquid loading three-phase flow and effects of MEG on flow behavior.” He then started as a research associate, where he was involved in several projects, applying his knowledge on fluid dynamics and multiphase flow modeling. Multiphase flow through pipelines, wellbore, and restrictions, gas lift, foam lifting, plunger lift, and flow assurance issues such as wax and asphaltene are some of his areas of expertise.

Research Interests

Production engineering
Multiphase flow
Artificial lift
Flow assurance

Selected Publications

Cedola, A.; Nygaard, R. 2023. Shale Cuttings Addition to Wellbore Cement and Their Effect on Unconfined Compressive Strength. Energies, 16, 4727.
Zhu, X. and Tang, J. and Wu, Y. and Jiao, X. and Nygaard, R., Cercone, D. and Xiao, H., 2023. Glass Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing of a Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder for Downhole Pressure Sensing. IEEE Sensors Journal, 23(7), 6969-6975.
Wise, J., and Nygaard, R. 2023. Comparison of Numerical Methods That Predict Wellbore Cement Sheath Integrity. ASME Open J. Engineering ASME.
Meng, J., Pashin, J. C., Nygaard, R. 2020. Geomechanical characteristics of potential carbon dioxide sinks and seals in the DeSoto Canyon Salt Basin, eastern Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Geosciences, 27(2), 87--101.
Wise, J., Cedola, A., Nygaard, R., Hareland, G., Arild, Oystein, Lohne, H. P., Ford, E. P. 2020. Wellbore characteristics that control debonding initiation and microannuli width in finite element simulations. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 191, 107157.
Alsaba, M., Aldushaishi, M., Nygaard, R., Nes, O-M. and Saasen, A. 2017. Updated Criterion to Select Particle Size Distribution of Lost Circulation Materials for an Effective Fracture Sealing. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 149, 641-648.