Education

B.Sc. – Petroleum Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, 1988

M.Sc. – Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA, 1994

Ph.D. – Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA, 1996

Research Interests

• Drilling Engineering, Production, and Oil & Gas Management
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and CO₂ Injection
• Reservoir Simulator & Neural Networks / Nonlinear Algorithms
• Subsurface Data Acquisition & Resource and Reserve Evaluation
• Upstream Oil and Gas Policy, Working Area Regulation, Contracts, and Governance
• Energy Transition and Future Oil and Gas Strategies

Courses Taught

• TM2204 — Decarbonization & Sustainable Earth Energy
• TM4038 — Field Development Planning

Selected Publications

• Graph modeling for verifying and validating reasonable flow quantity information: Evidence from Indonesia’s establishment of good governance in the upstream oil and gas sector (2025)
• The Importance of Reservoir Geomechanic Modelling for Carbon Sequestration, Storage, and Utilization: A Case Study from East Natuna (2024)
• The Effect of CO₂–Brine–Rock Interaction Towards Sand Onset Modeling in Dolomite-Rich Sandstone: A Case Study in Air Benakat Formation, South Sumatera, Indonesia (2024)
• Biostimulation in microbial enhanced oil recovery: from laboratory analysis and nutrient formulation to field monitoring (2023)
• Improved Joule Thomson equation of supercritical CO₂-rich natural gas in separation system (2023)

Professional Activities & Projects

• Development of Software for Estimation of Time & WBS for Post-Operation (KPO) Oil and Gas Work Areas (2025)
• Development of Reservoir Simulator using Neural Network-Based Nonlinear Solver (2021)
• Modeling of Microbubble CO₂ Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) (2020)
• Joint Study for CO₂–EOR in the Republic of Indonesia (2019)
• In-house Project for Subsurface Data Collection and Resource & Reserve Evaluation (2019)