Research List
The power behind the department is the research activity. The
department enhances this trend through its graduate program and
through funded projects. Projects range in their complexity from
surface to subsurface studies and from building 3D geological to
predicting future performance of petroleum reservoirs. Current
research activities keep pace with technology through the
continuous and ever-going projects and through the close-relation
to the industry. The following is a list for the research activities
for the staff:
Dr. Hassan S. Naji Projects
 Developing a mathematical model for the simulation of
petroleum reservoirs.
 Development of an expert system for the joint/fracture systems
in sedimentary rocks.
 Petroleum Reserves Definitions and Estimation Methods. A
Report submitted to the Energy Studies Department, OPEC
Secretariat. August 2004.
Professor Dr. Farooq A. Sharief Projects
 Assessment of Occurrences and Uses of Fine-Grained
Deposits (Clays& Shales) in Saudi Arabia.
 Depositional Environments and Digenetic Controls on
Reservoir Characteristics of Clastic and Carbonate Rocks in
Saudi Arabia and Surrounding Areas.
 Hydrocarbon Source Rocks of the Arabian Gulf Area.
Professor Dr. Mohammed H. Basyoni Projects
As Principle Investigator.
 Petrographic and Geochemical Properties and related
Economic Potential of the Khuff and Jubaila Carbonates in
Central Saudi Arabia
 The grain-Size Trends on a Recent Reef Island, Red Sea,
Saudi Arabia
 Selection and Design Studies of Solid Waste Landfills in
Makka Al Mukaramah City
 Assessment of the Kaolinitic Clay and Non Metallic Bauxite
of the Northern Zone of Az Zabirah Area for Ceramic
Industries North Saudi Arabia.
 Sedimentology and economic potentialities of Red Sea
coastal sediments at Umm Lajj area, Saudi Arabia.
 Exploration of placer gold in the stream sediments on close
to the Red Sea coast between Duba and Al Wajh,
northwestern Saudi Arabia
As Co-Investigator
 Geochemical Studies on Copper Sulphides Mineralization
in the Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia.
 Exploration of the Buried Wastes in Wadi Ibrahim
Catchment Area, Its Effects on the Ground Water (A
Confidential Report ).
 Sedimentology, Mineralogy, Chemistry and Industrial
Applications of Argillaceous Rocks in some Localities in
Makkah and Rabigh Quadrangles, West-Central Arabian
Shield, Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Rushdi J. Taj Projects
 Economic Aspects of Fine Grained Clastics in Southern
Saudi Arabia.
 Economic Aspects of Fine Grained Clastics in Sedimentary
Cover of Northern Saudi Arabia
 Sedimentology, Mineralogy, Chemistry and the Industrial
Applications of Argillaceous rocks in some Localities in
Makkah and Rabigh Quadrangles, West Central Arabian
Shield, Saudi Arabia
 Assessment of the Kaolinitic Clay and Non-Metallic Bauxite
Deposits of the Northern Zone of Azzabirah Area for
Ceramic Industries in North Saudi Arabia
 Dafin Formation: Litho-stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and
Depositional Environments, Rabigh Area, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mohamed M.Y. Bakr Projects
 Gas Generation from Late – Mature Middle Jurassic Source
Rocks, Northern Western Desert of Egypt
 The generation and expulsion of petroleum from Egyptian
coal by pyrolytic techniques
 Simulate maturation processes: Predictive techniques providing
information and parameters useful in the elaboration and
calibration of kinetic models
 Use of molecular parameters for characterization of petroleum
and source rocks
 Role of Oil Asphaltenes in Petroleum Exploration
 Effects of Biodegradation on Crude Oils
 New Insights into Petroleum Systems from Light Hydrocarbons
& Hetero-compounds.
 Investigation of Biomarkers and Polyaromatic hydrocarbon in
contaminated sediments.
 Biomasses conversion to liquid fuels and gaseous feedstock.
 Monitoring of Air Pollutants in Alexandria City, Egypt.
 Controlling and monitoring activated sludge processes in a
petroleum refinery complex, Egypt
 Mechanism of coke formation during the catalytic upgrading of
heavy oils (Heavy Oil Research, Nippon Mining and Petroleum
Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan)
 Characterization of Kerogen by in-situ high temperature ESR
 Role of Minerals during hydrocarbon generation
 The influence of facies and depositional environment on the
occurrence and
distribution of carbazoles and benzocarbazoles in crude oils:
a case study from
the Gulf of Suez, Egypt.
 Unusually high extraction yield from the liquefaction of an
egyptian coal from al maghara coalfield
 Separation and characterization of polynuclear aromatic
hydrocarbons in kerosine of some Egyptian crude oils
 Petroleum Exploration Geochemistry: Application of a novel
anhydrous pyrolysis paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
parameter for assessment of source rocks maturation and
petroleum generation
 Petroleum Geochemistry: a study of the gross compositions
of crude oils using Iatroscan analysis
 The significance of organincally bound sulphur compounds,
“The Benzothiophenes” in petroleum exploration: application
to crude oils and condensates from Egypt
 Tectonism, Organofacies And Petroleum Formation In The
Gulf Of Suez, Egypt: New Insights From Hydrocarbons And
Polar Compounds (Nancy, 2001). Accepted for publication.