Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of Texas A&M Engineering, appointed three petroleum engineering faculty members to endowed positions starting July 2014. All of the appointments were given in recognition and support of the accomplishments and future potential of these faculty members.
“Please join me in congratulating several of the faculty on their appointments by Dean Banks to endowed positions. Professor Rashid Hasan has been appointed as the Larry Cress Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor Hadi Nasrabadi has been appointed as the W.D. Von Gonten Faculty Fellow, and Associate Professor Jerome Schubert has been appointed as the Mark Albers Faculty Fellow. Congratulations to all three for these well-deserved appointments,” said Dan Hill, head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.
A. Rashid Hasan, professor, was named the Larry A. Cress '76 Faculty Fellow. Hasan holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and has 30 years of teaching, consulting, and research experience in many areas, including fluid and heat flow modeling in wellbores, and pressure-transient testing. He has also worked with NASA on various aspects of multiphase flow and thermo-hydraulic transients. Hasan has published extensively, and is a co-author of the SPE book, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wellbores. He has served on various Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) committees, including editorial reviews for the SPE Production & Facilities and the SPE Journal, and was the recipient of 2011 SPE Production and Operations Award.
Hadi Nasrabadi, assistant professor, was named the Douglas Von Gonten Faculty Fellow. He was previously with the Texas A&M University of Qatar and also served as a research engineer in 2006 with the Reservoir Engineering Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. Nasrabadi has taught Reservoir Simulation, Basic Reservoir Engineering and Reservoir Petrophysics. His research interests include compositional modeling of multiphase and multicomponent fluid flow in porous media; CO2 enhanced oil recovery and sequestration; phase behavior of reservoir fluids; modeling asphaltene precipitation in porous media; and shale gas and oil recovery.
Jerome Schubert, associate professor, was named the W.F and Marilyn Albers Faculty Fellow. Schubert earned his B.S., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M and has more than 30 years in the petroleum industry with Pennzoil Co., Enron Oil and Gas, the University of Houston-Victoria Petroleum Training institute and Texas A&M. He joined the Texas A&M Engineering faculty as a lecturer in 1994, was promoted to assistant professor in 2004, and became an associate professor with tenure in 2010. In 2012 he was named an SPE Distinguished Member. Schubert’s main research areas include deepwater drilling, dual gradient drilling, managed pressure drilling and well control. Schubert is a co-author of the textbook, Managed Pressure Drilling, and an author of more than 40 technical papers. He has been a committee member for several SPE and International Association of Drilling Contractors committees, conferences and events, and a technical editor for SPE Drilling and Completions.