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Associate Professor Furqan Hussain is a distinguished academic at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Engineering, specializing in petroleum engineering and carbon sequestration research. Based in the Tyree Energy and Technology Building at the Kensington Campus, he leads cutting-edge research in CO2 geosequestration and enhanced oil recovery techniques.
- PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- BSc and MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Professor Hussain's research focuses on CO2 geosequestration in aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs, with particular emphasis on enhancing feasibility in heterogeneous and low-pressure formations. His groundbreaking work includes the discovery of water-saturated CO2 injection into oil reservoirs to simultaneously improve oil recovery and CO2 storage capacity. His expertise spans petroleum engineering, carbon capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS), and laboratory investigation of CO2 injection processes.
His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on addressing mobility control challenges in high-pressure reservoirs, pore heterogeneity effects in carbonate rocks, and fines migration phenomena during water injection. These works represent significant contributions to both petroleum engineering and environmental sustainability through carbon management.
Professor Hussain is actively involved in research supervision, focusing on experimental investigation of CO2 injectivity and trapping, co-optimization of CO2 storage and oil recovery, and related areas including CO2-water wettability and trapping mechanisms.
- A spatio-temporal partitioning approach to colloidal flows in porous media (Australian Research Council / Discovery Project, 2020-2022)
- Multiscale physics for enhanced oil recovery (University of Adelaide / ARC Linkage Project, 2020-2023)
- Low Salinity Fines-Assisted Waterflooding (Wintershall Holding Gmbh, 2019-2021)
- EOR assessment phase-1 (Bridgeport Energy Limited, 2019-2021)
- Core testing – Boggabri Mine (Boggabri Coal Operations, 2019-2020)
He teaches core petroleum engineering courses including PTRL 3001 Reservoir Engineering B and PTRL3040 Numerical Reservoir Simulation, integrating his research expertise into the classroom while exploring innovative teaching methods to enhance student engagement in engineering education.
