Rouzbeh Ghanbar Moghanloo

Rouzbeh Ghanbar Moghanloo, Ph.D.

ONEOK CHAIR IN NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, DIRECTOR, NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PETROLEUM AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Email: rouzbeh.gm@ou.edu
Office: SEC 1176

Education

Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
M.S., Reservoir Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology
B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

Rouzbeh G. Moghanloo is the director of the Natural Gas Engineering and Management Program and ONEOK chair and associate professor at the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author or co-author of 148 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and the editor of a multi-author volume.

Moghanloo is a lifetime professional member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Chemical Society. He is the recipient of the 2018 SPE Mid-Continent Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award and the 2016 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Award. He received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology.

Moghanloo’s research spans both applied and fundamental areas, including machine learning applications in petroleum engineering, enhanced oil recovery, geological CO₂ storage, asphaltene deposition, and the modeling of multiphase and particulate flow systems. He has served as a technical advisor to several companies, holds three patents, and has been an associate editor for multiple technical journals. He has also served as principal investigator and co-principal investigator on several projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Research Interests

Enhanced oil recovery
Production
Flow assurance and emission reduction
Unconventional resources

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.