Education:

1. Bachelor’s Degree: B.E. (Mechanical), Assam Engineering College
2. Master’s Degree: M.Tech. (Petroleum), Dibrugarh University
3. Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
4. Other: Honors Diploma in Computing, NIIT

Professional Experience:

• Lecturer at Dibrugarh University (2003–2004)
• Petroleum Engineer at Shivani Oil & Gas, New Delhi (2005)
• Assistant Systems Engineer at TCS, Gurgaon (2006)
• Assistant Professor at Dibrugarh University (2007–present)

Professional Affiliation:

• Professional Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), since 2010
• Life Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)

Areas of Interest / Specialization:

• Reservoir Engineering
• Chemical-Gas Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods
• Conventional, Smart and Carbonated Water Flooding.

Research Projects:

(i) Title: A Novel Chemical-Gas Enhanced Oil Recovery Process for Candidate Reservoirs of Upper Assam Basin.

     Duration:2019 - 2022

     Funding agency: AICTE, New Delhi

     Role: PI

(ii) Title: Study on Colloidal Gas Aphron Wellbore Fluid Properties Generated by Different Surfactants.

     Duration: 2021 - 2024

     Funding agency: AICTE, New Delhi

     Role: Co-I

(iii) Title: Development of Reservoir Simulation Laboratory.

      Duration: 2022 - 2024

      Funding agency: AICTE, New Delhi

      Role: Co-I

Administrative Assignments:

• Faculty Advisor, SPE Student Chapter, 2011–2015.
• Departmental faculty coordinator, Training and Placement.

Others:

• DST International travel grant was awarded for presenting oral paper entitled, ‘Optimization of Immiscible Alkaline-Surfactant-Alternated-Gas/CO₂ Flooding in an Upper Assam Oilfield,’ at the SPE Western Regional Meeting, 23^rd to 26^th April 2019, San Jose, California, USA, organised by Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Phukan and R. Saha. Low salinity surfactant alternating gas/CO2 flooding for enhanced oil recovery in sandstone reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, ELSEVIER, 2022;212:110253.
2. Pannu, R.Phukan & P.Tiwari(2022) Experimental and simulation study of surfactant flooding using a combined surfactant system for enhanced oil recovery, Petroleum Science and Technology, Taylor & Francis.
3. Phukan, S.B. Gogoi, and P. Tiwari, Effects of CO2-foam stability, interfacial tension and surfactant adsorption on oil recovery by alkaline-surfactant-alternated-gas/CO2 flooding. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, ELSEVIER, 2020;597:124799.
4. Phukan, S.B.Gogoi, and P.Tiwari, Alkaline-surfactant-alternated-gas/CO₂ flooding: Effects of key parameters.Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, ELSEVIER, 2019. 173: p. 547-557.
5. Phukan, S.B. Gogoi, and P. Tiwari, Enhanced oil recovery by alkaline‑surfactant‑alternated‑gas/CO₂flooding. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, SPRINGER, 2019. 9: p. 247-260.
6. Vadhan, Ramanpreet Singh, and Phukan. "Carbonated Smart Water Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Sandstone Reservoirs of Upper Assam Basin, India." Paper presented at the SPE EuropEC - Europe Energy Conference featured at the 83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, Madrid, Spain, June 2022.
7. R. Phukan, S.B. Gogoi, P. Tiwari, and R.S.Vadhan, Optimization of immiscible alkaline-surfactant-alternated-gas/CO₂ flooding in an Upper Assam oilfield, in SPE Western Regional Meeting 2019, Society of Petroleum Engineers: San Jose, California, USA. p. 23, SPE-196262-MS (Published in OnePetro).

Book Chapters:

1. Ranjan Phukan and Pankaj Tiwari, CO2 foams for enhanced oil recovery, Book: Nanotechnology for CO2 Utilization in Oilfield Applications, Gulf Professional Publishing, Elsevier, 2022.
2. Ranjan Phukan, Rahul Saha, Lalit Pandey, Pankaj Tiwari, CO₂-Based Enhanced Oil Recovery, Book: Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery, Springer, 2022.
3. Rahul Saha, Ranjan Phukan, Lalit Pandey, Pankaj Tiwari, Optimum Formulation of Chemical Slug and Core Flooding Studies, Book: Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery, Springer, 2022.
4. Ranjan Phukan, Subrata Borgohain Gogoi, Pankaj Tiwari, Characterisation of Reservoir Rock and Fluids for CO2 Foam Enhanced Oil Recovery Application, Book: Advances in Petroleum Technology, Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2020

Conference Presentations:

International:

1. Vadhan, Ramanpreet Singh, and R. Phukan. "Carbonated Smart Water Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Sandstone Reservoirs of Upper Assam Basin, India." Paper presented at the SPE EuropEC - Europe Energy Conference featured at the 83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, Madrid, Spain, June 2022.
2. R. Phukan, S.B. Gogoi, P. Tiwari, and R.S.Vadhan, Optimization of Immiscible Alkaline-Surfactant-Alternated-Gas/CO₂ Flooding in an Upper Assam Oilfield, in SPE Western Regional Meeting2019, Society of Petroleum Engineers: San Jose, California, USA.
3. C. Dutta, and R. Phukan, Low saline water & surfactant/alkali/alternated CO2 Flooding in Reservoir cores, in 6th Asia Pacific Congress on Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Hong Kong, September 2018.

National:

1. Phukan, P. Tiwari,and S. B. Gogoi, Characterization of reservoir rock and fluids for CO₂ foam enhanced oil recovery application. Reflux 2019, Indian Institue of Technology, Guwahati, India.
2. Phukan, P. Tiwari, S. B. Gogoi, and A. Goswami, Black liquor as a sacrificial adsorbate for EOR. Oil & Gas Workshop 2019, Dibrugarh University, India.
3. Phukan, S. B. Gogoi, and P. Tiwari, "Enhanced oil recovery by combined chemical/gas flooding," Research Conclave, IIT Guwahati, India, 2018.
4. Dutta, R. Phukan, S. B. Gogoi, and P. Tiwari, "A comparative study of adsorption of anionic, non-ionic and a natural surfactant by reservoir rocks of Upper Assam basin," International Conference on "Advances in Petroleum, Chemical & Energy Challenges", RGIPT, Amethi, India 2017.
5. Phukan, S. B. Gogoi, and P. Tiwari, "Static and dynamic adsorption of surfactants by reservoir rocks," Reflux 2017, IIT Guwahati, India 2017.
6. Phukan, S. B. Gogoi, P. Tiwari, and D. Das, "Screening of chemical formulations for alkali-surfactant-gas enhanced oil recovery process," in CHEMCON 2016, Anna University & IIT Madras, India, 2016
7. Phukan, P. Tiwari,and S. B. Gogoi "Enhanced oil recovery by alkaline-surfactant-alternated-CO₂ flooding," Chemcon 2015, IIT Guwahati, India, 2015.
8. K. Hazarika, S. B. Gogoi, R. Phukan, P. Tiwari, R. V. S. Uppaluri, and A. Rajbongshi, "Adsorption of chemicals on minerals during enhanced oil recovery processes," AIChE 2015, Salt Lake City, USA, 2015.