LATEST NEWS
- Dr. Babadagli was granted an NSERC-IRC in Unconventional Oil Recovery. The
award ceremony was held on Nov. 30, 2011 at the University of Alberta.
- Click here for the news in the
Edmonton Journal.
- Click here for the news in the
Calgary Herald.
For news on campus media
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here.
(Dec. 2011)
- Varun receives the third place in MSc section in the Student Paper Contest finals held at the SPE Annual Meeting in Denver in November 2011.
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(Nov. 2011)
- Dr. Babadagli was awarded the 2011-2012 Killam Annual Professorship.
click here for the news. For news on campus media
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here.
(Oct. 2011)
- Varun is on "EngineeringNEWS".
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for his academic story in Canada
(Sept. 2011)
- Varun wins the first prize (MSc section) in the SPE Canadian Section Student Paper Contest.
He will represent Canadian Section in the finals to be held at the SPE Annual Meeting in Denver in October 2011.
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(June 2011)
- John received (1) Alberta Innovates Graduate Student NSERC Top-Up Award followed by (2) NSERC MSc scholarship, and (3) Union Pacific Resources Inc Canadian Scholarship, all in 2011.
(June 2011)
- News in media about our research on CO2 for EOR and storage
- Department of Civil and Env. Eng. - Industry Mailout:
Research Matters
- Vertical News:
Researchers from University of Alberta describe findings in science and technology
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- US Department of Energy - NETL - Carbon Sequestration Newsletter - August 2009:
“Oil Recovery and Sequestration Potential of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs During CO2 Injection.”
(November 2009)
- News about our recent technology "Steam-Over-Solvent Injection in Fractured Reservoirs (SOS-FR)" in New Technology Magazine:
Hybrid Hope . For full article
click here.
(November 2009)
- To listen to Dr. Babadagli's
podcast on "Heavy-Oil/Bitumen Recovery and CO2 Sequestration" (May 2009) click here
- Berna's recent work on "Oil Recovery from Shales" (Hascakir, B., Babadagli, T. and Akin, S.: “Experimental and Numerical Simulation of Oil Recovery from Oil Shales by Electrical Heating,”
Energy and Fuels, vol. 22, no. 6, Sept. 5, 2008, 3976-3985.) received remarkable attention in the media. Here are some of them and interviews with Dr. Babadagli on this subject:
- Energy Daily:
Proposed Extraction Process May Have Economic And Environmental Benefits
- Biology online:
New hope for tapping vast domestic reserves of oil shale
- Green Car Congress: Researchers Develop Process That Could Result in Higher Yield from Oil Shale).
- Bio-Medicine:
ACS PressPac
- Science Daily:
Proposed Extraction Process May Have Economic, Environmental Benefits
- e! Science News:
Proposed Extraction
Process May Have Economic, Environmental Benefits
- Chi vó non pó:
Novas esperanças para a exploração de vastas reservas domésticas de xisto betuminoso
- Welt der Physik:
Mit Eisenpartikeln wollen Forscher den Schichtgesteinen leichter die nutzbaren Ölkomponenten entreißen – gigantische Reserven locken
- PHYSORG.com:
New hope for tapping vast domestic reserves of oil shale
- IEEE Spectrum:
The Price is Wrong for Oil Shale and Tar Sand Tech
(December 2008)
- A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Civil-Earth Science-Environmental Engineering Department of Kyushu University and Civil and Env. Eng.
Dept of the UofA. This was initiated two years ago during Dr. Babadagli's visit to Japan as a JSPS fellow (Summer 2006). The counterpart at Kyushu University is
Prof. Kyuro Sasaki visited our department twice this year. Two visiting researchers (one PDF and one graduate student)
are currently in the department conducting research on enhanced oil recovery through microbial injection and CO2 sequestration.
(July 2008)
- Dr. Babadagli was awarded the 2006-2007 McCalla Professorship
(July 2006)
click here .
- Tarek receives third place (MSc section) in the Student Paper Contest finals held at the SPE Annual Meeting
in San Antonio (September 2006) click here .
- Tarek wins the first prize (MSc section) in the Rocky Mountain/Mid-Continent Region Student Paper Contest. He will
represent the Canadian Section in the finals to be held at the SPE Annual Meeting in San Antonio in September 2006.
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For his
research (April 2006)
click here.
NEWS IN MEDIA
- Tapping into unbridled creativity: Click here for the news in
UofA Engineer - Alumni Magazine, Spring 2012 (December 16, 2011).
- Engineering lands six industrial research chair: Click here for the news in
FOLIO (December 16, 2011).
- U of A adds to tally with new industrial research chairs: Click here for the news in
The Gateway Magazine (December 7, 2011).
- Dr. Babadagli was granted an NSERC-IRC in Unconventional Oil Recovery. The award ceremony was held on Nov. 30, 2011 at the University of Alberta.
- 2011-2012 Killam Annual Professorship recipients (FOLIO, Oct. 7, 2011 issue)
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- For news on a recent patent from our group in JPT
click here
- 2006-2007 McCalla Professorship recipients (FOLIO, Nov. 3, 2006 issue)
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- Dr. Babadagli's comments on the status of Petroleum Engineering education
with increasing oil prices (Edmonton Journal E8, Feb. 22, 2006).
For details click here
- Dr. Babadagli's comments on the use of geothermal energy in heating and cooling (Strathcona County THIS WEEK, Friday, Sept. 30, 2005).
For details click here
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