- Professor, Petroleum Engineering
- Flotek Industries, Inc. Career Development Professor
- Phone: 979-845-6614
- Email: hascakir@tamu.edu
- Office: RICH 401N
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara – 2008
- M.S., Environmental Technology, Dokuz Eylul University – 2003
- B.S., Environmental Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University – 2001
Research Interests
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- Heavy oil and oil shale recovery with enhanced oil recovery methods
- In-Situ combustion
- Hot fluid injection; steam/hot water/hot gas flooding, steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), cyclic steam injection (CC)
- Chemical/Thermal EOR applications: solvent flooding, solvent-steam injection, solvent-SAGD, surfactant flooding, surfactant-steam injection, surfactant-SAGD
- Thermal Stimulation: Electrical, Microwave, and Radio Frequency heating
- Diagnostic studies on reservoir rock and fluids
- X-ray computed tomography, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
- Analyze reaction kinetics with thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Produced water management
- Heavy oil and oil shale recovery with enhanced oil recovery methods
Certifications & Memberships
- Distinguished Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2018
Awards & Honors
- Leadership Development Program ADVANCE Administrative Fellow, Dean of Faculties – 2021-2022
- Stephen A. Holditch Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University – 2015
- Innovative Teaching Award, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2015
- Top 10 Associate Editors, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Elsevier – 2014
- Junior Faculty Research Grant, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2014-2016
Selected Publications
- Banerjee, S., Abdulsattar, Z.R., Agim, K., Lane, R.H., Hascakir, B., Adsorption Mechanism of the Water-Based Fracturing Fluids on Shale Surface, Petroleum, 3 (2017) 384-390.
- Hascakir, B., Editorial: Introduction to Thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) special issue, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, SI:Thermal EOR, 154 (2017) 438-441. Q1, IF: 1.655, SJR: 4902, H: 61.
- Aleksandrov, D., Kudryavtsev, P., Hascakir, B., Variations in In-Situ Combustion Performance due to Fracture Orientation, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, SI:Thermal EOR, 154 (2017) 488-494. Q1, IF: 1.655, SJR: 4902, H: 61.
- Kar, T., Hascakir, B., In-Situ Kerogen Extraction via Combustion and Pyrolysis, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, SI:Thermal EOR, 154 (2017) 502-512. Q1, IF: 1.655, SJR: 4902, H: 61.
- Prakoso, A., Punase, A., Hascakir, B., A Mechanistic Understanding of Asphaltene Precipitation from Varying Saturate Concentration Perspective, SPE Production & Operation, 32, 01, 86-98 (2017), SPE-177280-PA. Q1, IF0.818, SJR: 5341, H: 31.