Muhammad Zulqarnain

Petroleum Engineering Data Scientist ! Risk Analyst

Profile summary

My multidisciplinary educational background in Petroleum engineering, Geology, Nuclear engineering and Physics have enabled me to comprehend complex problems and present simplified solutions. This has been demonstrated in successful completion of individual and large collaborative projects in all areas of Petroleum engineering specifically Reservoir, Production and Drilling engineering.

My areas of interest are

Enhanced Oil Recovery, Carbon Dioxide Geological Sequestration, System Reliability and Process Safety, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Quantitative Risk Assessment and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Tools and techniques that I am skillful in are

Reservoir Simulations - Reserve Estimation - Multiphase Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Reservoirs and Pipes – Nodal Analysis - Advance Well Control Techniques – Design of Experiments - Dimensionality Reduction - Regression Analysis – Hazard Identification - Fault Tree Analysis – Event Tree Analysis -Probability of Failure on Demand

I am pursuing new opportunities and can be reached through this profile.

Petroleum Engineering/Geology expertise areas

Reservoir Simulations, Reserve Estimation & Forecasting, CO2 Sequestration, CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery, Waterflooding & Chemical/Thermal EOR, Formation Evaluation, Reservoir Characterization, Geological Interpretations, Well Design Drilling/Production, Advance Drilling Well Control, Production Forecasting, Artificial Lift Systems, Uncertainty & Risk Assessment

Work History

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (January 2017-Current): Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Research Topic: CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery


  • Postdoctoral Researcher (August 2015-December 2016): Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Research Topic: Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications for Worst Case Discharge Calculations


  • Graduate Assistant (Research/Teaching) PhD (2012-2015): Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Research Topic PhD: Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Scenarios Development and Their Associated Risk Assessment


  • Graduate Assistant (Research/Teaching) PhD (20012-2015): Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Research Topic MS: Simulations of the Primary Cement Placement in Annular Geometries during Well Completion Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)


  • Design & Fluid Mechanics Engineer (Manager Technical (Researcher)) (2003-2008): Center of Excellence in Science & Applied Technologies, Pakistan R&D Topic: Fluid Flow and Thermal Analysis of Vehicles

Tools that I am good at

CMG-Reservoir Simulator, Petrel-Building Reservoir Models, OLGA-Mutiphase Fluid Flow Tool, PipeSim-Mutiphase Fluid Flow Tool, PVTsim-Fluid Property Analysis Tool, DrillSIM-Drilling Operation Simulator, Drillbench-Drilling Hydraulics Simulator, StimPlan-Hydraulic Fracture Design Tool, @Risk-Risk Assessment Tool, LOGAN-Fault and Event Tree Analysis Tool, SAS-Statistical Analysis Tool,ANSYS Fluent-CFD Tool, CFX-CFD Tool, CFD-FASTRAN-Aerodynamics Analysis, AutoCAD-Cad Modeling, Poinwise Gridgen-Mesh Generator for CFD Analysis, FieldView-CFD Post Processor, Tecplot-CFD Post Processor, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project-project Management