M. R. Islam
is a professor of
Petroleum Engineering at the Civil and Resource Engineering Department
of Dalhousie University, Canada. During 2000 through early 2005, Dr.
Islam held the Killam Research Chair in Petroleum Engineering, which
was the only Petroleum Engineering Research Chair in Canada. Prior to
this, Dr. Islam was the first NRCan (Natural Resources Canada)
professor of engineering at the University of Regina, where he was the
program leader of petroleum engineering. He was instrumental in
establishing the Petroleum Technology Research Center (PTRC) and the
Greenhouse Gas Technology Center (GTC) in Regina. In his 20 years of
professional career, Dr. Islam has written over 700 research articles
on various modeling, petroleum, environmental, and communication
related topics. During the same period, he received more than 20
million dollars in institutional and over 10 million dollars in
individual research grants, and employed over 150 post-doctoral
fellows, and graduate and undergraduate research students. In
recognition of his research and teaching excellence, he has received a
number of international awards, including Einstein Gold Medal of
Honor, Kapitsa Gold Medal, and Crown and Eagle Gold Medal for all of
which Dr. Islam is the first recipient in Canada.
He taught virtually all petroleum engineering courses, ranging from
drilling engineering to reservoir engineering and improved oil
recovery. He gave numerous invited speeches and some dozen workshops
and short courses in many countries. At present, he employs dozens of
post-doc, PhD and MASc students, and research associates. He recently
published six books (three best sellers) on the topic of reservoir
simulation (Gulf Publishing), sustainable technology development and
resource management (Nova Science Publisher), Knowledge economics
(Nova Science Publishers), sustainable petroleum operations (Gulf
Publishing), greening of petroleum operations (Elsevier), and advanced
computational techniques (Gulf Publishing), and has completed several
more books on a wide range of topics to be published with Scrivener
Publishing. His current projects involve the development of the
world’s first Virtual Research University, realtime reservoir
management tool, productive expert system, downhole refinery, imaging
while drilling, in situ 3D ultrasonography and relative permeameter,
zero-waste petroleum production, closed loop drilling systems, laser
drilling of petroleum wells, new economic theories and energy policy
models, and novel materials and techniques. These projects are funded
by a number of industry and government sponsors from different
countries.
Dr. Islam is the
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nature Science and Sustainable
Technology, is a primary editor for Advances in Sustainable
Petroleum Engineering and Science, Journal of Characterization and
Development of Novel Materials , and Journal of Information,
Intelligence, and Knowledge. He also serves on the editorial
boards of a number of international journals. In the past, he served
on the Editorial Board of SPE Reservoir Engineering (technical
editor), J Petroleum Science and Engineering (associate
editor), J Canadian Petroleum Technology, AIChE J (EOR
Monograph editor), and others. He has been an active member of a
number of international societies, including the Society of Petroleum
Engineers.
Dr. Islam is a director
of Emertec Research and Development Ltd. and has been on the Board of
a number of companies in North America and overseas. He has offered
short courses around the world on topics, ranging from reservoir
engineering to energy pricing.
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