Mechanical Engineering Project

Mehrdad Gharib Shirangi

Objective: seeking an internship to get involved in challanging projects in Petroleum Engineering field

abpnrk@r.postjobfree.com

www.stanford.edu/~mehr

Address:ERE Dept. 367 Panama St., Rm. 123, Stanford, CA, 94305-2220

Education

2011-present Student of PhD in Petroleum Engineering, June 2015

Energy Resources Engineering Department, Stanford University

SCRF Research Assistantship

Advisors: Dr. Tapan Mukerji, Dr. Louis Durlofsky

GPA: 4.0

2009-2011 Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering,

The University of Tulsa,

TUPREP Research Assistantship

Advisor: Dr. Albert C. Reynolds

GPA: 4.0

2004-2009 Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering,

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran,

Ranked 3rd among 35 P.E. students in Sharif University

GPA: 17.50/20

2004-2009 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering,

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran,

Ranked 5th among 85 M.E. students in Sharif University

GPA: 17.33/20

Passed a total of 204 course units for the two BS degrees.

Academic Honors

2012 Recipient of SPE Star Fellowship in the Western North American Region

2011 - present SCRF Research Assistantship for PhD at Stanford University

2011 Member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

2009 - 2011 TUPREP Research Assistantship for MS

2005 Qualified for "Petroleum Engineering" as a second degree program for outstanding students

2004 Ranked 96th in the nation-wide university entrance examination for BS among more than 450 000

participants, Iran

Work Experience

Working on gradient-based history matching problems in TUPREP (2009 2011)

Internship in the North Drilling Company (NDCO) on a semisubmersible rig (IRAN ALBORZ),

Caspian Sea, Summer 2008

Experience of some drilling operations in Sarajeh Gas Field, Qom, Iran, Fall 2007

Internship in Gorgan Felez Company (Die casting), Iran, Summer 2006

Publications

2012 Gharib Shirangi, M., History matching production data with an efficient truncated SVD

parameterization, submitted to the SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium

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2012 Gharib Shirangi, M., Mukerji, T., Retrospective optimization of well controls under uncertainty using

kernel clustering, SCRF group meeting.

2011 Gharib Shirangi, Mehrdad: History matching production data with truncated SVD

parameterization, MS thesis, University of Tulsa.

2009 Rastgoftar, H., Gharib Shirangi, M., Eghtesad, M., Boundary control of temperature distribution in a

rectangular FGM plate, (IMECE2009-12081)

Some Graduate Courses

Large scale optimization, instructor: Michael Saunders, Spring 2012

Seismic reservoir characterization, instructor: Tapan Mukerji, Spring 2012

Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences, instructor: Jef Caers, Winter 2012

Geostatistics, instructor: Andre Journel, Winter 2012

Advanced Reservoir Simulation, instructor: Hamdi Tchelepi, Lou Durlofsky, Marco

Thiele, Fall 2011

Reservoir Simulation, instructor: Gaoming Li, Spring 2010

History Matching, instructor: Albert C. Reynolds, Fall 2010

Closed Loop Reservoir Management, instructor: Albert C. Reynolds, Fall 2009

Advanced Reservoir Simulation, instructor: Pishvaie, Spring 2008

Graduate Courses taken in BSc

1) Advanced EOR, 2)Reservoir Management, 3)Reservoir Simulation and Modeling, 4)CFD

Researches & Projects

Field Development Optimization Under Geological Uncertainty

2012 In this project, history matching is performed by using SVD parameterization, and

partical swarm optimization (PSO) and NOMAD are used for optimization (in progress).

Production Optimization Under Uncertainty

2012 Study on production optimizition with multiscale regularization.

2012 Applying a multi-stage optimizition approach (retrospective optimization) with a novel

clustering technique to the well control optimization problem for reservoirs with uncertain

gelological description, using derivative free algorithms: SPSA, QIM-SPSA, EnOpt.

2011 Improvement of the QIM-SPSA optimization algorithm (a derivative-free method) in

production optimization applications and comparison with other methods, SPSA, EnOpt,

PSO, Hook-Jeeves direct search, etc.

History Matching

2011 Implementing the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient for History Matching problems

to find a more efficient algorithm, and comparing with truncated SVD parameterization.

2011 Applying the Subspace method in the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to generate

multiple history matched models.

2011 A study on using SVD parameterization with different regularization terms to estimate

non-Gaussian permeability fields.

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2010 Developing a code in Fortran for SVD-EnRML algorithm with a 2phase - 3D simulator,

which aims to perform Randomized Maximum Likelihood (RML) to history match production

data with truncated SVD parameterization and generate plausible realizations of porosity,

horizontal and vertical log permeability. Implementing this method, required implementing the

adjoint method and the gradient simulator method (direct method).

2010 Developing a code in Fortran to compute the gradient of objective function w.r.t. model

parameters for a 3D, 2phase simulator with adjoint method, and history matching observed data

with minimizing objective function using the BFGS algorithm, as a course project of History

Matching.

2010 Implementing a fast DCT Parameterization (Discrete Cosine Transform) to use in the

Ensemble Kalman Filter for history matching production data.

2010 A detailed study on the History Matching with truncated SVD parameterization (based

on SVD of a dimensionless sensitivity matrix) to perform RML and trying different ideas to

improve its efficiency.

2010 Using the ensemble Kalman Smoother (EnKS) and the EnKF to estimate the depth of

oil-water contact (OWC), porosity and permeability fields by history matching production

data on some synthetic 3D reservoirs.

2010 A study on the effect of performing covariance localization in the EnKF on

inconsistency when we rerun the realizations from time zero. (Summer 2010)

2009 Using the EnKF to history match production data of a synthetic reservoir as a course

project of closed-loop reservoir management.

2009 Comparing the efficiency of Iterative forms of the EnKF on some toy problems.

Reservoir Simulation

2010 Developing a two phase - 3D- fully implicit simulator in Intel Fortran, as a course

project of Reservoir Simulation instructed by Dr Gaoming Li.

2009 BS project: Moving window method in Vorticity based Upscaling, advisor: Dr Bahar

Firoozabadi.

2008 Developing a two phase-2D Oil reservoir simulator and a one phase-2D gas reservoir

Simulator in MATLAB for the graduate course of Advanced Reservoir Simulation .

Production Desing

2010 Production design of an oil field with Pipesim softeware as the course project of

Advanced Production Design taught by Prof. Cem Sarica.

Drilling

2010 Determination of the contact force in lateral vibration of drillstring and its fatigue

analysis.

CFD

2008 Applying Finite Volume Method (FVM) with different approaches to solve Advection

Equation on a circular domain with unstructured grid, using C programming language for the

graduate course of CFD.

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2008 Applying Finite Difference Method (FDM) to solve the PDE of heat transfer equation

on a 2D domain, and comparing the effect of time step and grid size on the behavior of

explicit and implicit solution (using C programming language).

Mechanical Engineering Design

2007 Designing all parts of gear box of an automobile based on cyclic loading as a course

project of the course Mechanical Engineering Design 2 .

2006 Designing mechanisms using Simulink of MATLAB for the course Dynamics of

Machinery .

Teaching Experiences

Teaching Assistantship (2 hours per week of Class for Solving Sample Problems for students plus

assigning homeworks and grading them)

2008-2009 Energy & Mass Balance, (for 2 semesters, 33 students and 105 Students)

Department of Chemical& Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University

Instructor: Dr Asghar Molaei Dehkordi

2008 Mechanical Vibration, (1 semester, 40 students).

I also designed a course project for students of this course at which they were supposed to analyze the

vibration of a system of masses and springs.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University.

Instructor : Prof. Mohammad Taghi Ahmadiian

2008 Solid Mechanic & Statics, (37 Students)

Department of Chemical& Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University

Instructor: Dr Masoud Hoseinzadeh

Geology Field Trips

2011 Five day field trip to Owens Valley/Eastern Sierra Nevada to look at several geological phenomena

that were formed at different geological times ( instructed by Dr. Sara Cina)

2012 Five day field trip to Catalina island and Southern CA to examine geological evidence for the middle

Miocene rifting of the LA basin and the Sothern CA borderland (instructed by Dr. Sara Cina and Dr. Marty

Grove)

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