
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
- 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
- Automotive Engineering
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 technique
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)
PhD students
Ibrahim Ayuba
- Project - Fluid flow and transport processes in shale rocks
- Co-supervised by Dr. Jeff Gomes
Temiloluwa Onimisi
- Project - Permeability upscaling in porous media flow
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Bamikole Joshua Adeyemi
- Project - Surface complexation modelling
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Prashant Jadhawar
Stephen Ajah
- Project - Prediction of critical heat flux during severe events in nuclear reactors
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Jeff Gomes
Nouha Samlani
- Project - Application of AI in groundwater contamination monitoring and control
- Lead supervisor - Dr Tannaz Pak (Teesside University)
Past Research
GRADUATED DOCTORAL CANDIDATES
Dr Ibrahim Adamu
- Project - Sequentially-coupled chemo-thermo-poromechanical modelling in shale formations
- Lead supervisor - Dr. Hossein Hamidi
- Co-supervisor - Prof. Alfred Akisanya
- Project - coupled geomechanics and fluid flow in shale rocks
- Co-supervised by Dr. Hossein Hamidi
- Project - HPHT Aplicability of Environment Friendly Biosurfactants (EFBSs) and Interfacial Phenomenon In Enhanced/Improved Oil Recovery
- Co-supervised by Dr. Rainer Ebel
- Project - Experimental and Numerical Modelling of Gas-lift Cavitation and Instability in Oil Producing Wells
- Co-supervised by Dr. Roozbeh Rafati
- Project - advanced EOR techniques with focus in Angolan oilfields
- Co-supervised by Dr. Waheed Afzal
- Project - pore scale modelling in shale rock
- Co-supervised by Dr. Yingfang Zhou
Dr Tinuola Udoh
- Project - Combined low-salinity biosurfactant EOR
- Co-supervised by Dr. Jan Vinogradov
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
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Field Development Planning
Well and Production Engineering
Facilities Engineering
- Publications
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A Constrained Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Model for Upscaling Permeability
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 95, no. 6, pp. 899-916Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImpact of surface choking on gas-lift stability and flow behaviour in oil producing wells
International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal TechnologyContributions 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: ArticlesA quantitative analysis of flow properties and heterogeneity in shale rocks using Computed Tomography imaging and finite-element based simulation
Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering, vol. 106, 104742Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlanning and implementing the redevelopment of volve field, Norwegian north sea using knowledge discovery in databases data mining and numerical simulation techniques
Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2567 – 2593Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCondensate Well Production Optimisation in Oredo Field Using Simulated Surface Proportional Integral Derivative Controller, Downhole Transmitter and Wellhead/Bottomhole Chokes
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/212047-MS
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Investigation of drift phenomena at the pore-scale during flow and transport in porous media
Mathematics, vol. 9, no. 19, 2509Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA pseudo-radial pressure model for near-wellbore condensate banking prediction
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/208449-MS
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