Hamid Emami-Meybodi
About:
Hamid Emami-Meybodi is an associate professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering and the director of Subsurface Energy Recovery and Storage (SERS) JIP at Penn State. He joined Penn State in 2015 following ten years in academia as a research associate/assistant at the University of Calgary (Canada), CSIRO (Australia), University of Regina (Canada), and Petroleum University of Technology (Iran). He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemical and reservoir engineering from the Petroleum University of Technology and an M.Eng., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Calgary.
Emami-Meybodi’s research has been centered on studying fluid flow and transport phenomena in porous media, spanning both applied and fundamental aspects, with applications to sustainable subsurface energy production and storage. His research focuses on developing new methods and technologies to maximize energy recovery from hydrocarbon resources and optimize carbon dioxide and hydrogen storage in geological formations.
Emami-Meybodi serves as an associate editor for SPE Journal and Journal of Energy Resources Technology-Part B and is a member of several professional committees. He is the recipient of international and regional awards, including several from the Society of Petroleum Engineers: 2025 SPE Distinguished Member Award, 2023 Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, 2021 Regional Service Award, 2019 Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, and 2018 Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.
- Multiphase Multicomponent Fluid Transport in Nanoporous Media
- Cyclic Solvent Injection in Ultratight Reservoirs
- Flowback Rate Transient Analysis of Multi-fractured Horizontal Wells
- Hydrogen Storage in Geological Formations
- Gas Lift Optimization in Unconventional Oil Reservoirs
Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- K. Babatunde, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Transport of binary gases in nanoporous media with non-equilibrium adsorption, Appl. Surf. Sci. Adv., 28, 100808.
- M. Jin, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Prediction of flowing bottom-hole pressure in gas-lifted wells using LSTM-ANN models, Energy Fuels, doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5c02240.
- D. Li, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Hydrogen mixing dynamics in depleted gas reservoirs, Geoenergy Science Eng. 255, 214090.
- M. Ma, Q. Zhang, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) A proxy-based workflow for screening and optimizing cyclic CO2 injection in shale reservoirs, Fuel, 400, 135742.
- C. Yang, F. Zhang, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Three-phase flowback rate transient analysis of shale gas reservoirs, SPE J., 30 (05) 2855-2871.
- M. Jin, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) An integrated machine learning algorithm for unconventional flowing bottomhole pressure prediction during dynamic gas lift operation, SPE J., 30 (5) 2726-2737.
- C. Yang, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Flowback rate transient analysis of multiphase flow through hydraulic fractures in gas condensate shales, Gas Science Eng., 135, 205561.
- K. Babatunde, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Gas transport in shales with applications to geological storage of H2 and CO2, Gas Science Eng., 135, 205550.
- M. Ma, Y. Shakeel, K. Babatunde, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Modeling of adsorption-controlled binary gas transport in ultratight reservoirs, Geoenergy Science Eng., 244, 213414.
- K. Babatunde, H. Emami-Meybodi (2025) Binary gas transport with multilayer adsorption in nanoporous media, Chem. Eng. J., 505, 158990
Selected Recent Awards
- SPE Distinguished Member Award, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2025
- Outstanding Associate Editor Award, SPE Journal, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, Eastern North America Region, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2023
- A Peer Apart Award, SPE’s Technical Journals, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2022
- Outstanding Technical Reviewer Award, SPE Journal, 2021 and 2023
- Service Award, Eastern North America Region, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2021
- Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2019
- Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, Eastern North America Region, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2018