Khalid aziz biography

You are going to harder and harder areas and you want to do it as safely as possible. And our ability to monitor. We have now sensors on the wells, downhole, and surface. These sensors are constantly sending data and analyzing this data and being able to predict what is going to happen next. In terms of multiphase flow, what challenges do you see coming ahead for working in, say, deepwater, ultra deepwater?

And you would think that since then, our work and the work of other people in this area, and there are quite a few other people both industry and academia working on it, that we would have solved this problem, right? How long does it take to solve this problem? Unfortunately, our ability to accurately predict multiphase flow parameters, the pressure drop in multiphase flow pipeline is still not very accurate.

So if you are not predicting the pressure drop for a given flow rate very accurately or pressure drop in a long horizontal well very accurately, you can make your own decisions. So that problem is still bothersome. It bothers me a lot. And I think the only way to solve that problem would be collaboration with industry, between academia and industry.

And we have done some of this. I mentioned we worked with Schlumberger in this area because universities cannot really afford to build large scale experiment. But we have a lot of talent and students to analyze data, to take this data and analyze it. One of the things I like to see and I hope it happens is that a lot of very good data are just kept confidential.

They are filed away somewhere and not made available to people to develop new techniques. And this will have, I think, a very important effect on how we operate offshore fields and so on, especially in deepwater. Thank you, I appreciate that. You mentioned this a little bit earlier. Can you discuss the evolution of CO2 capture and sequestration and how you see it being used in the future?

Can you discuss the evolution of carbon dioxide capture and sequestration, and how do you see it being used in the future? While we are not sure how much impact CO2 is having, we also cannot ignore the fact that it may be having a large impact on the atmosphere. So we have to think about how we could capture and store CO2. Because we have been working on reservoir simulation already, we have been investigating how we could accurately model CO2 injection in deep aquifers and make sure that it does not escape back to surface.

And we have a major project currently being sponsored by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company on developing these techniques for CO2 sequestration in aquifers. There are other ways. People are looking at other aspects of this problem, other ways to sequester CO2 but our interest is primarily underground storage of CO2 in aquifers, mainly because that is an area we have some expertise in and we can leverage that expertise to look at this problem.

Myself, and one of my colleagues, Hamdi Tchelepi, was a professor in the department along with some of our other researchers where we are looking at this problem. I think we can sequester CO2 safely in underground aquifers, but perhaps the cost is going to be substantial and we have to look at other ways to sequester CO2 as well. There are other people working on many other aspects of this problem.

For me? Well, as I mentioned earlier, I have worked a bit in the industry but more in academia, but always I have had a very good link with the industry. I have always been interested in solving problems that are important for the industry and that is because I find this more exciting as an engineer to work on problems that would have an impact rather than problems that may not have an impact.

So I worked always in collaboration with the industry. I worked on khalid aziz biographies that I thought were important for the industry. And as a result, I have had extremely good support from industry throughout my academic career. From the day I started working as a professor to this day, the industry has been very supportive of my research.

So this kind of work has really been very exciting for me. But I continue to work on these problems, and I enjoy very much interacting with the young people on the one side and interacting with people in the industry who are working on similar problems and have similar interests. So this really defines our life really, what we do other than family life.

This is our professional life. This kind of interaction with industry, especially through the Society of Petroleum Engineers, has been key to my profession and how I have lived my life. I have been a member of SPE now for 55 years, I think. So SPE has changed a lot but I still have friends who were at these meetings a long time ago and they still come to these meetings.

So professional organizations, contacts with industry, contacts with students who bring new ideas and have new energies, this all defines my life. Well, I khalid aziz biography the exciting things are when you do something at the university and it becomes important for the industry. So the first field we designed using that software, that was very exciting.

Some things are more exciting than others. As I mentioned earlier, I have been a member of SPE for 55 years and this has been the main avenue for my contacts with industry and with colleagues and other universities. I think this has been a key. A professional organization like SPE is a key to the professional development of people like myself in academia or young people who are entering industry.

So it has been crucial for me. I have been on the board of directors of the society. I have been a distinguished lecturer for the society. I have organized many conferences and I continue to do that. I have just finished a conference in Istanbul last month which dealt with computer modeling of very large reservoirs.

Khalid aziz biography

Some of these reservoirs these days are huge. Saudi Arabia has one field that in aerial extent is larger than Lebanon, for example [laughter]. So these very large fields have new challenges to model. So we have organized a conference in Istanbul this year and two years ago, we had a similar conference in Istanbul. So I still continue to work on helping organize these, working with people in the industry to organize such conferences.

So I have been involved in a lot of activities of the society in addition to attending meetings and publishing papers in SPE literature. I have been the executive editor of one of the journals. I have served in the editorial committees of many journals. It has been crucial really. I mean, I want to work on problems that are important for industry.

This is where the society comes in. I made friends. Now, I come to this annual meeting not just for the technical papers but I want to continue seeing my old friends. You run into your students who have now become big shots in the industry, and you take pleasure in seeing them and their success. Thank you so much for coming and agreeing to be a part of our oral history project.

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