Roland T. Okwen

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The status of a relationship is wavelike in nature.
What matters is the difference between its zenith and nadir.

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Roland Okwen

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the University of South Florida.  My current research area is "Sequatration of Carbon Dioxide in Geologic Formations." I also have extensive background knowledge in enhanced oil recovery, organic chemistry, Geographical Information Systems  and environmental management.

Languages:
  • English
  • French
  • Pidgin
 
Research Interests:
  • Carbon dioxide sequestration in deep geologic formations
  • Enhance oil recovery by carbon dioxide injection
  • Carbon dioxide induced precipitation of heavy organic fractions (asphaltenes, waxes and resins)
  • Reservoir simulation
  • Environmental management

 

Fundend Projects

Research assistant in the project: " Evaluation of Subsurface Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide at the Polk Power Station: Physical and Chemical Modeling. J. Cunningham (PI) and M. Stewart. Funded by Tampa Electric Company (TECO), from May 16, 2007 - June 30, 2009."

Computer Skills:

TOUGH2, TOUGHREACT, PetraSim, ENVI, ArcGIS, Crystal Ball, Eclipse, CT scanning software, Microsoft Office and Project, MatLab, C++, Fortran, AutoCAD,TECPLOT, FRACGEN etc.

2-D image of a 2mm slice of scanned sandstone core
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Sandstone core saturated with crudeoil containing irreducible water saturation.