Arash Dahi Taleghani

Email: aud440@psu.edu

Phone: (814) 865-5421

Office Address:
206 Hosler Bldg.

Title: Professor

Website: http://www.eme.psu.edu/faculty/dahitaleghani

https://sites.psu.edu/dahi/

Research Areas:
Carbon Dioxide Capture, Conversion & Sequestration
Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Unconventional Oil & Gas

Education Background:
• Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, 2009
• M.S. in Structural Mechanics and Material, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2003
• B.S. in Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2001

About:

Dahi Taleghani is a tenured associate professor of petroleum engineering. Before joining Penn State in 2017, he was an associate professor of petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University, while serving as an independent consultant in the oil and gas industry. He earned an M.S. in civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has more than twelve years of combined experience in applied engineering, research, and in academia and is a registered professional engineer. Dahi Taleghani is the associate editor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Energy Resources and Technology and has numerous publications and three patent applications in the field of drilling and completion. He has received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) and also the SPE Eastern North America Regional Completion Optimization and Technology. He is currently conducting research in reservoir geomechanics, hydraulic fracturing, wellbore integrity, drill bit mechanics, and poroelasticity.

Research Interests:

• Loss circulation management while drilling
• Cementing and wellbore integrity
• Petroleum geomechanics
• Hydraulic fracturing and refracturing
• Drill bit and rock interactions
• Enhanced geothermal systems

Memberships & Committees:

• Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Rock Mechanics Association,
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration
• Geophysics, American Association of Mechanics Engineers

Honors & Awards:

• SPE Eastern North America Regional Completion Optimization and Technology Award, 2017
• Recognized as a "Future Leader" by American Rock Mechanics Association
• Co-director of Unconventional Oil and Gas Summer School, Dubrovnik, Summer 2016
• LSU Foundation Tigers Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2015
• SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, 2014
• SPE Petroleum Engineering Junior Faculty Research Initiation Award, 2012

Teaching:

• Undergraduate level: Numerical Methods; Well Logging, Mechanical Earth Modelling, Unconventional Reservoirs
• Graduate level: Advanced Wellbore Stimulation; Petroleum Rock Mechanics
• Industry Short Courses: Overview of the Hydraulic Fracturing Design, Rock Mechanics for Drillers, Sand production; Prediction and Mitigation

Publications:

Elsevier: https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/arash-dahi-taleghani/publications/

Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=EzWiDmQAAAAJ

Arash Dahi Taleghani's Publications
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Lee, L. and A. Dahi Taleghani, (2022). Assessment of Lost Circulation Material Particle-Size Distribution on Fracture Sealing: A Numerical Study, SPE Drilling & Completion, pp. 1-15.
Lin, C., A. Dahi Taleghani, Y. Kang, and C. Xu, (2022). A coupled CFD-DEM numerical simulation of formation and evolution of sealing zones, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 208, pp. 109765.
Santos, L. and A. Dahi Taleghani, (2022). On quantitative assessment of effective cement bonding to guarantee wellbore integrity, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, v. 144 (1), [013001].
Santos, Livio, A. Dahi Taleghani, and D. Elsworth, (2022). Repurposing abandoned wells for geothermal energy: Current status and future prospects, Renewable Energy, v. 194, pp. 1288-1302.
Zhang, Q., W. Liu, and A. Dahi Taleghani, (2022). Numerical study on non-Newtonian Bingham fluid flow in development of heavy oil reservoirs using radiofrequency heating method, Energy, v. 239, [122385].
Cai, Y. A. Dahi Taleghani, (2021). Axial Fracture Initiation During Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests and Its Impact on Interpretations, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, v. 54 (11), pp. 5845-5865.
Magzoub, M. T. Anyaezu, S. Salehi, G. Li, J. Fan, C. Teodoriu, F. K. Saleh, and A. Dahi Taleghani, (2021). Evaluating sealability of blended smart polymer and fiber additive for geothermal drilling with the effect of fracture opening size, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 206, [108998].
Santos, L, A. Dahi Taleghani, and G. Li, (2021). Nanosilica-treated shape memory polymer fibers to strengthen wellbore cement, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 196, [107646].
Santos, L., A. Alghamdi, and A. Dahi Taleghani, (2021). Machine learning framework to generate synthetic cement evaluation logs for wellbore integrity analysis, American Association of Drilling Engineers, 5 pages.
Song, Y. and A. Dahi Taleghani, (2021). Numerical Simulation of Proppant Placement in Scaled Fracture Networks, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, v. 143 (4).
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