
PhD, DIC, FHEA, CEng, Eur Ing, MEI Chartered Petroleum Engineer
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- l.akanji@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272793
- School/Department
- School of Engineering
Biography
- Senior Lecturer, Petroleum Engineering, University of Aberdeen, 2014 -
- Lecturer and Head of Petroleum Technology Research Group and Coordinator of Postgraduate Programme in Petroleum Engineering, University of Salford Manchester, 2012 - 2014
- Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, 2011-2012
- Visiting Lecturer, Reservoir Engineering, University of Leoben, Austria, 2008
- Reservoir Simulation Consultant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria, 2002 - 2005
- Trainee Drilling and Operations Engineer, Pan Ocean Oil Corporation, Nigeria 2000-2001
- PhD degree, Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College London
- B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. degrees in Petroleum Engineering, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Charted Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Petroleum Engineer, Member of the Energy Institute and the Society of Petroleum Engineers
Latest Publications
Recent Trends in Nuclear Accident Events Prediction: A Review
Nuclear TechnologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesA numerical technique for gas production from unconventional shale reservoir
International Journal of Coal Science and TechnologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesA pressure-projection pre-conditioning multi-fractional-step method for Navier-Stokes Flow in Porous Media
Journal of Computational Science, vol. 79, 102313Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCorium Interface Flow Dynamics Investigation During Severe Accident in Pressurised Water Reactors Using Compressive Advection Interface Capturing Method
Physics of Fluids, vol. 36, no. 6, 063313Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImpact of surface choking on gas-lift stability and flow behaviour in oil producing wells
International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 258-278Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
His research interests are in multiphase flow in porous and permeable media with applications to enhanced oil recovery in clastic, carbonate and unconventional shale reservoirs. He conducts research in theoretical, experimental and numerical investigation of pore to field scale modelling of static and dynamic flow and geomechanics of shale fracking processes using finite element methods and csmp-plusplus. Recent research focus involves application of AI in petroleum and alternative energy applications.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Engineering.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Petroleum Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
- Key research focus - subsurface production improvement and enhancement
- Flow through porous and permeable rocks - shale rocks, clastic and carbonate
- Porescale modelling (numerical investigation - PTDF funded)
This investigation involves porescale characterisation and numerical simulation of fluid flow through porous and permeable media. Fundamental approach involves CT-scanning of rock samples, digital conversion and image processing involving thresholding and segmentation. Advanced numerical codes are used to simulate fluid flow behaviour and derive basic and special rock properties. You can request for free CT-scanned images of shale rock samples here
Advanced EOR techniques (experimental investigation - PTDF/TETFUND/ Sonangol funded)
- Low salinity combined with biosurfactants EOR
- Microbial EOR processes - biosurfactant and biopolymer application
- Interfacial phenonmenon
Flow through production tubing and gas-lifted wells (pilot scale)
- Bubble coalescence and break up
- Density wave oscillation
- Casing heading
Application of artificial intelligence in improving oil production and screening of bio-surfactants for EOR processes
Technology development platform
1. Developer of advanced numerical computational platform based on object oriented cplusplus programming.
- Complex system modelling platform (CSMP++ - Aberdeen)
- Link to software development can be found here
2. Developer of Enhanced Neuro-fuzzy, machine learning and data analytic techniques
3. Technology innovator for the petroleum industry
- EOR special purpose technological development (Sonangol funded project)
- High-pressure high-temperature flow loop for biosurfactant production and IFT screening (PTDF funded project)
- Pilot scale rig project construction for gaslifted wells (Elphinstone funded project)
Past Research
Ongoing PhD projects
Abubakar Sadiq Ahmed
- Project - Evaluation of the molecular structure of surfactant on the performance of enhanced oil recovery process
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Friday Owolabi
- Project - Development of ensemble artificial intelligence system for petroleum production optimisation
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Temiloluwa Onimisi
- Project - Permeability upscaling in porous media flow
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Godwin Agunwoke
- Project - The Impacts of Heterogeneity of Reservoir Rock Property on the Multiphase Flow and Oil Recovery from Pore Scale to Reservoir Scale
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Kejian Wu
Stephen Ajah
- Project - Prediction of critical heat flux during severe events in nuclear reactors
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Adamu Adamu
- Project - Eigenfrequency analysis for resonance identification and penetration enhancement in radio-frequency heating of Nigerian tar sands
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Sumeet Aphale
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Prashant Jadhawar
Nouha Salmani
- Project - Application of AI in groundwater contamination monitoring and control
- Lead supervisor - Dr Tannaz Pak (Teesside University)
Completed PhD projects
Ibrahim Ayuba
- Project - Fluid flow and transport processes in shale rocks
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Bamikole Joshua Adeyemi
- Project - Surface complexation modelling
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Prashant Jadhawar
Joshua Dala
- Project - Flow Performance and Production Analysis in Gas Condensate Wells
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Prashant Jadhawar
Toochukwu Onwuliri
- Project - Coupled flow-geomechanical model for hydraulically fractured shale formations
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Hossein Hamidi
Adamu Tijjani Ibrahim
- Project - Experimental and Numerical Wellbore Stability Modelling: A Water Activity driven approach
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Hossein Hamidi
Tinuola Udoh
- Project - Productivity enhancement in a combined low salinity water and bio-surfactant injection projects
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jan Vinogradov
Chibuzo Onyemara
- Project - Screening of Environment-friendly Biosurfactants and Interfacial Phenomenon for Enhanced Oil Recovery Purposes
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Rainer Ebel
James Adeleye
- Project - Numerical Characterisation of Fluid Flow in Unconventional Shale Rocks
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Yingfang Zhou
Joao Chidamoio
- Project - Experimental and numerical modelling of gaslift cavitation and instabilities in oil producing wells
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Roozbeh Rafati
Geraldo Ramos
- Project - Neuro-fuzzy based screening for EOR projects and experimental investigation of identified techniques in oilfield operations
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Waheed Afzal
Industry based collaborators
- Christa Vindum (Vindum Engineering Inc. USA)
- Yogi Vindum (Vindum Engineering Inc. USA)
- Rafael Sandrea (IPC Petroleum Consultants, Inc. USA)
Collaborations
Academic collaborators
- Dr. Hossein Hamidi
- Dr. Waheed Afzal
- Dr. Yingfang Zhou
- Dr. Roozbeh Rafati
- Dr. Rainer Ebel
- Dr. Jan Vinogradov
- Prof. G. K. Falade
- Prof. Stephan Matthai
- Prof. Alfred Akisanya
- Prof. Lufianlisso Antonio
- Prof. Martin Blunt
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Engineering.
Ongoing PhD projects
Abubakar Sadiq Ahmed
- Project - Evaluation of the molecular structure of surfactant on the performance of enhanced oil recovery process
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Friday Owolabi
- Project - Development of ensemble artificial intelligence system for petroleum production optimisation
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Temiloluwa Onimisi
- Project - Permeability upscaling in porous media flow
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Godwin Agunwoke
- Project - The Impacts of Heterogeneity of Reservoir Rock Property on the Multiphase Flow and Oil Recovery from Pore Scale to Reservoir Scale
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Kejian Wu
Stephen Ajah
- Project - Prediction of critical heat flux during severe events in nuclear reactors
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Adamu Adamu
- Project - Eigenfrequency analysis for resonance identification and penetration enhancement in radio-frequency heating of Nigerian tar sands
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Sumeet Aphale
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Prashant Jadhawar
Nouha Salmani
- Project - Application of AI in groundwater contamination monitoring and control
- Lead supervisor - Dr Tannaz Pak (Teesside University)
Completed PhD projects
Ibrahim Ayuba
- Project - Fluid flow and transport processes in shale rocks
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Bamikole Joshua Adeyemi
- Project - Surface complexation modelling
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Prashant Jadhawar
Joshua Dala
- Project - Flow Performance and Production Analysis in Gas Condensate Wells
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Prashant Jadhawar
Toochukwu Onwuliri
- Project - Coupled flow-geomechanical model for hydraulically fractured shale formations
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Hossein Hamidi
Adamu Tijjani Ibrahim
- Project - Experimental and Numerical Wellbore Stability Modelling: A Water Activity driven approach
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Hossein Hamidi
Tinuola Udoh
- Project - Productivity enhancement in a combined low salinity water and bio-surfactant injection projects
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Jan Vinogradov
Chibuzo Onyemara
- Project - Screening of Environment-friendly Biosurfactants and Interfacial Phenomenon for Enhanced Oil Recovery Purposes
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Rainer Ebel
James Adeleye
- Project - Numerical Characterisation of Fluid Flow in Unconventional Shale Rocks
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Yingfang Zhou
Joao Chidamoio
- Project - Experimental and numerical modelling of gaslift cavitation and instabilities in oil producing wells
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Roozbeh Rafati
Geraldo Ramos
- Project - Neuro-fuzzy based screening for EOR projects and experimental investigation of identified techniques in oilfield operations
- Co-supervisor - Dr. Waheed Afzal
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Field Development Planning
Well and Production Engineering
Facilities Engineering
- Publications
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Recent Trends in Nuclear Accident Events Prediction: A Review
Nuclear TechnologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesA numerical technique for gas production from unconventional shale reservoir
International Journal of Coal Science and TechnologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesA pressure-projection pre-conditioning multi-fractional-step method for Navier-Stokes Flow in Porous Media
Journal of Computational Science, vol. 79, 102313Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCorium Interface Flow Dynamics Investigation During Severe Accident in Pressurised Water Reactors Using Compressive Advection Interface Capturing Method
Physics of Fluids, vol. 36, no. 6, 063313Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImpact of surface choking on gas-lift stability and flow behaviour in oil producing wells
International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 258-278Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUnlocking Efficiency in Radio-Frequency Heating: Eigenfrequency Analysis for Resonance Identification and Propagation Enhancement in Nigerian Tar Sands
ACS Omega, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 2931–2944Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Constrained Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Model for Upscaling Permeability
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 95, no. 6, pp. 899-916Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new explicit sequentially coupled technique for chemo-thermo-poromechanical modelling and simulation in shale formations
Energies, vol. 16, no. 3, 1543Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvolution and interfacial dynamics of thin electrolyte films in oil-brine-carbonate rock systems due to chemical equilibrium disruptions
Energy & Fuels, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 175–190Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffects of fluid–fluid interfacial properties on the dynamics of bounded viscoelastic thin liquid films
Journal of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, vol. 309, 104893Contributions to Journals: Articles