Petroleum, reservoir, production, drilling, and well completion engineering; Fluid flow in porous media; Geologic carbon sequestration; Geothermal energy systems; Energy geo-storage; Geomechanics and geochemistry applications; Geo-energy AI and machine learning applications
Faculty in this area apply science and engineering principles to advance cutting-edge research and technologies for the efficient and sustainable exploration, production, storage, and management of energy in subsurface porous media systems.
Faculty also actively research policy solutions for the sustainable use of subsurface energy resources. Research areas include carbon management, geothermal energy, hydrogen geo-storage and production, geologic carbon sequestration, conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs, enhanced oil and gas recovery, reservoir characterization, reservoir management, production and drilling, well completion, geochemistry, geomechanics, poromechanics, reservoir simulation, AI and machine learning applications, wastewater disposal, and environmental remediation of soil and groundwater.
Research Experts
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Luis F. Ayala H. Department Head John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 118 Hosler Building 814-865-4053 [email protected] |
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Seth Blumsack Professor of Energy Policy and Economics John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 156 Hosler Building 814-863-7597 [email protected] |
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Arash Dahi Taleghani Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 206 Hosler Building 814-865-5421 [email protected] |
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Derek Elsworth Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 231 Hosler Building 814-865-2225 [email protected] |
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Hamid Emami-Meybodi Associate Professor and Program Chair, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 151 Hosler Building 814-863-3987 [email protected] |
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Russell Johns Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 119 Hosler Building 814-865-0531 [email protected] |
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Thanasis Karamalidis Assistant Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 204 Hosler 814-863-0375 [email protected] |
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Zuleima Karpyn Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 512G Penn State Innovation Hub 814-863-2273 [email protected] |
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Gregory King Professor of Practice, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 123 Hosler Building 814-867-3547 [email protected] |
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Amin Kordestany Assistant Teaching Professor of Energy Mineral Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 131 Hosler Building 814-865-5945 [email protected] |
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Zhen Lei Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 125 Hosler Building 814-863-0810 [email protected] |
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Shimin Liu Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 103A Hosler Building 814-863-4491 [email protected] |
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Frank Male Assistant Research Professor of Applied Research and Energy and Mineral Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 814-867-1831 [email protected] |
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Yashar Mehmani Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 153 Hosler Building 814-863-7942 [email protected] |
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Amin Mehrabian Associate Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 102 Hosler Building 814-865-6892 [email protected] |
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Anne Menefee Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 222 Hosler Building 814-865-0033 [email protected] |
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Eugene Morgan Associate Head for Undergraduate Education John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 115 Hosler Building 814-863-1642 [email protected] |
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Sanjay Srinivasan Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering C211 Coal Utilization Laboratory 814-863-9470 [email protected] |
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John Wang Associate Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 202 Hosler Building 814-865-8474 [email protected] |