Faculty Research Area

We have a large faculty contingent with considerable expertise on many subjects. Together, their knowledge covers virtually all aspects of petroleum engineering research.

Deepak Amban Mishra

Associate Professor

  • Experimental Rock Mechanics
  • Engineering Properties of Rocks
  • Rock Failure Mechanism
  • Geothermal Resources

Geetanjali Chauhan

Assistant Professor

  • Synthesis and study of Fracturing/EOR/Drilling fluids
  • Reservoir Simulation and Modelling
  • Digitization of Oil fields
  • Oil Spill Clean Up

Himangshu Kakati

Associate Professor

  • Gas hydrate
  • Enhance Oil Recovery (EOR)
  • Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Design
  • Drilling fluid for Unconventional Resources

Nilanjan Pal

Assistant Professor

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery
  • Conformance Control
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CSS)
  • Hydrogen storage
  • Structural and Residual gas Trapping models
  • Product synthesis and design
  • Reservoir simulation
  • Porous Media flow

Rajat Jain

Associate Professor

  • Drilling fluid design and analysis
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery
  • Well stimulation techniques

Ranjan Pramanik

Associate Professor

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Computational Geomechanics
  • Reservoir Simulation
  • Fluid-rock-fracture interactions
  • Large deformation and failure modelling of Geomaterials
  • Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
  • Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM)
  • Peridynamics (PD)

Shalivahan

Professor

  • Swarm Intelligence, Tectonics, Mineral Exploration, and Petrophysics

Sivasankar P

Assistant Professor

  • Numerical Reservoir Simulation & Modelling
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
  • Machine Learning & Data analytics in EOR
  • Carbon dioxide sequestration in subsurface
  • Bio-remediation of subsurface oil spills

Vijaya Kumar Kopparapu

Professor

  • Geochemistry of Earth’s material
  • Geochemical Exploration of Uranium deposits
  • Tectonics, Supercontinent cycles and Crustal Evolution