Petroleum Engineering

CRAFT & HAWKINS DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

Kam

Seung Ihl Kam
Assistant Professor
Holder of Donald W. and Gayle A. Keller Distinguished Professorship
Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering
Louisiana State University
Patrick F. Taylor Hall, Room 3521
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-5216 / Fax: 225-578-6039
E-Mail: kam@lsu.edu

Background

Employment History

Assistant Professor, Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State Univ., since June 2006
Adjunct Professor, Australian School of Petroleum, Univ. of Adelaide, since June 2006
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Australian School of Petroleum, Univ. of Adelaide, May 2002-June 2006
Full-time Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Santos, Australia, Nov. 2002-May 2003
Postdoc, Petroleum & Geosystems Engr., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Jan. 1999 - May 2002
Dept. graduate research assistant, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Sept. 1994 - Dec. 1998
Dept. graduate research assistant, Seoul National Univ., Korea, March 1992 - Feb. 1994

Education

Ph.D: Petroleum & Geosystems Engr., Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1998
MS: Mineral & Petroleum Engr., Seoul National Univ. (Korea), 1994
BS: Mineral & Petroleum Engr., Seoul National Univ. (Korea), 1992

Honors

Tenure granted by the U. of Adelaide, May 2005
Nominated for U. of Adelaide Teaching Excellence Award, May 2005
Completion of a semester-long “Teaching at University” course, U. of Adelaide, 2004
Three-day Provost’s Seminar on Teaching for New Faculty, Louisiana State U., August 2006
First prize winner in honor of Dr. John Earnshaw, European Conference on Foams, Emulsions and Applications, Delft, 2000
Korean Overseas Scholarship, Korea Government, 1994-1997
Scholarship by Asian Foundation, Hyundai, Korea, 1990-1992
Departmental Alumni Scholarship, Seoul National Univ., Korea, 1989

Professional Activities

Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), since 1992
Review Chairman of SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal, Sep. 2007 – Sep. 2009
Technical editor of SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal, since Dec. 2002
Member of Paper Selection Subcommittee (Fluid Mechanics and Recovery Processes) for SPE ATCE (since 2004)
Chairperson of 2007 SPE ATCE “Flow Through Porous Media”, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 2007
Chairperson of 2006 SPE ATCE “CO2 sequestration I” , San Antonio, TX, Sep. 2006
Member of International Centre of Excellence in Water Resource Management, Australia (2004, 2005)
Ad-hoc proposal and paper reviewer

American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, Proposal Reviewer, 2005
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), paper reviewer, 2006

Research Projects Experienced

Experimental and modeling/simulation studies on fluid flow in pipes
Development of dynamic foam simulator using Population Balance technique
Mechanisms of foam generation in homogeneous porous media
CO2 Sequestration in connection with Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO2CRC, Australia)
Simulation study of optimizing field development plan (Santos)
Foams for shallow subsurface environmental remediation (DOE, State Government of Texas, Duke Engineering and Services)
High-temperature foam-acid diversion process (Schlumberger)
Modeling study of solids-laden foams (Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL))
Evolution of gas phase and its response to ambient pressure change in a pore network model (PNNL)
Gas-blocking foam for near-wellbore flow control (Mobil)
Foam-acid diversion process near the wellbore (DOE)
Stress and stability of solids-coated bubbles (PNNL)
Development of multiphase flow simulator for well control (Korea)

Current On-going Research (as of fall semester, 2007)
It is my great privilege to work with such dedicated students as shown below!!

Mr. Gajbhiye Rahul Narayanrao, PhD student, Subsea Pipeline Leak Detection
Mr. Miodrag Bogdanovic, MS student, Rheological Properties of Foams in Pipes
Mr. Ali Afsharpoor, MS student, Foam Simulation in Porous Media (Gas Injection and Multidimensional Aspects)
Mr. Karn Gupta, BS student, Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

Recent Publications

S.I. Kam, “Mechanistic Modeling of Leak Detection in Horizontal Subsea Pipelines,” submitted into Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2007.
A. Rosman and S.I. Kam, “Modeling Foam-Diversion Process using Three-Phase Fractional Flow Analysis in a Layered System”, accepted in Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2007.
S.I. Kam, “Improved Mechanistic Foam Simulation with Foam Catastrophe Theory,” submitted into Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2007.
J.S. Tang and S.I. Kam, “Modeling of Pollutant Transport from a Stationary Phase into a Flowing Stream with Reversible Adsorption,” accepted in Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2007.
D.J. Mayberry and S.I. Kam, “The Use of Fractional Flow Theory for Foam Displacement in Presence of Oil”, SPE 100964 presented at the SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 11-13 September, 2006.
S.I. Kam, W.W. Frenier, S.N. Davies and W.R. Rossen, "Experimental Study of High-Temperature Foam for Acid Diversion," SPE 82266 presented at the SPE European Formation Damage Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, 13-14 May 2003; Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 58, p. 138–160, August 2007.
S.I. Kam, Q.P. Nguyen, Q. Li and W.R. Rossen, "Dynamic Simulation with an Improved Model for Foam Generation,” SPE 90938 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, TX, USA, 26-29 Sept., 2004; also presented at the European Conference on Foams, Emulsions and Applications as "Dynamic Simulation of Foam Generation in Porous media,” Paris, France, 5-8 July, 2004; SPE Journal, p. 35–48, March 2007.
Z.F. Dholkawala, H.K. Sarma and S.I. Kam, "Application of Fractional Flow Theory to Foams in Porous Media,” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 57, p. 152-165, May 2007; also presented at the Special Workshop of “From the Reservoir to the Market: An Integrated and Global Optimisation Approach to Finding Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience Solutions,” Adelaide, Australia, 16-17 Sep, 2005.
Z.F. Dholkawala and S.I. Kam, “Modelling of Foam Rheology in Porous Media" presented at the 5th IWA Symposium on Water Reclamation and Reuse Sustainability, Jeju, Korea, 8-11 Nov., 2005.
S.I. Kam and J. Choe, "Implication of Foam Generation Surface on Shallow Groundwater Remediation,” presented at the 5th International Symposium on Advanced Environmental Monitoring, Seoul, Korea, 28-30 April, 2004.
S.I. Kam and W.R. Rossen, "A Model for Foam Generation in Homogeneous Media," SPE 77698 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, USA, 29 Sept.-2 Oct., 2002; also in SPE Journal, p. 417-425, Dec. 2003.
C.K. Mamun, J.G. Rong, S.I. Kam, H.M. Liljestrand and W.R. Rossen, "Extending Foam Technology from Improved Oil Recovery to Environmental Remediation," SPE 77557 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, USA, 29 Sept.-2 Oct. 2002.
C.K. Mamun, J.G. Rong, S.I. Kam, H.M. Liljestrand and W.R. Rossen, "Simulating Use of Foam in Aquifer Remediation," presented at the 14th International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, Delft, The Netherlands, 23-28 June 2002; also in Developments in Water Science, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 867-874, June, 2002.
L. Cheng, S.I. Kam, M. Delshad and W.R. Rossen, "Simulation of Dynamic Foam-Acid Diversion Processes," SPE 68916 presented at the SPE European Formation Damage Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, 21-22 May 2001; also in SPE Journal, p. 316-324, Sept. 2002.
P.A. Gauglitz, F. Friedmann, S.I. Kam and W.R. Rossen, “Foam Generation in Porous Media,” SPE 75177 presented at the SPE/DOE 13th Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK, USA, 13-17 April 2002; also published as "Foam Generation in Homogeneous Porous Media," Chemical Engineering and Science, Vol. 57, p. 4037-4052, Oct. 2002.
S.I. Kam, P.A. Gauglitz and W.R. Rossen, "The Yield Stress of Foamy Sands," presented at the 75th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, 10-13 June 2001, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (together with compressibility issue); also in Colloids and Surfaces, A:Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Vol. 202, Issue 1, p. 53-62, March 2002.
S.I. Kam and W.R. Rossen, "The Compressibility of Foamy Sands," Colloids and Surfaces, A:Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Vol. 202, Issue 1, p. 63-70, March 2002.
S.I. Kam, P.A. Gauglitz and W.R. Rossen, "Effective Compressibility of a Bubbly Slurry I. Mechanisms of Bubble Growth," presented at the Gordon Research Conference (Modelling of Flow in Permeable Media), Andover, New Hampshire, USA, 2-7 Aug. 1998; also in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 241, No. 1, p. 248-259, 2001.
S.I. Kam, P.A. Gauglitz and W.R. Rossen, "Effective Compressibility of a Bubbly Slurry II. Fit to Field Measurement and Implications," Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 241, No. 1, p. 260-268, 2001.
S.I. Kam and W.R. Rossen, "Diffusive Growth and Compressibility of Bubbles in Porous Media," presented at the 3rd European Conference on Foams, Emulsions and Applications, Delft, The Netherlands, Proceeding p. 359-366, 2000.
S.I. Kam and W.R. Rossen, "Anomalous Capillary Pressure, Stress, and Stability of Solids-Coated Bubbles," presented at the 71st Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA, 29 June - 2 July 1997; also in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 213, No.2, p. 329-339, 1999.
S.I. Kam and J.M. Kang, "An Efficient Approach for Simulation of Kill," Journal of Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology, Vol. 60, No.3, 199-209, May, 1995.
S.I. Kam and J.M. Kang, "A Simulation of Kill Processes Combining Transient and Pseudosteady state," Journal of Korean Institute of Mineral & Energy Resources Engineers, Vol. 31, No. 5, 478-482, October, 1994.