Bahareh Nojabaei

Bahareh Nojabaei is a PhD student at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 2006 and 2009, with concentrated studies in mechanical engineering and energy conversion. She interned as a reservoir engineer with InPetro Technologies Inc. in 2014 and worked as a petroleum engineer, performing diagnostic fracture injection testing analysis for Hess Corporation in 2011.

Nojabaei co-authored a paper, “Modeling Wellbore Transient Fluid-Temperature and Pressure During Diagnostic Fracture Injection Testing in Unconventional Reservoirs” that was published in 2014 in the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. In 2013, her paper, “Effect of Capillary Pressure on Phase Behavior in Tight Rocks and Shales” became one of the top downloads of SPE’s OnePetro website.

Looking ahead, Nojabaei wants to concentrate her career in comprehensive, long-term university research in reservoir engineering.

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