Rahman Ashena

RAHMAN ASHENA (SOROUSH), PhD (ORCID No. 0000-0003-4161-6461)

Rahman Ashena has over 10 years of field experience as a drilling, completion, and production engineer and more than 10 years of global consulting exprience. He is the founder of Smart Energy and Data Analytics (SEDA) Group, based in Houston, USA, where his team develops AI-based software, including the xOptim™ software suite, and delivers data-driven solutions for the petroleum and geothermal industries. These solutions cover drilling (including UBD/MPD), reservoir PVT and material balance, and production engineering applications, including geothermal and carbon capture and storage (CCS) wells. SEDA Group also provides advanced engineering consulting, mentoring, training, and analytics support for energy projects worldwide.

Ashena is the author of several well-known books:The Practical Handbook of Well Control, Cement Bond Logs: Guidelines and Interpretation, and Coring Methods and Systems. He has also published more than 80 peer-reviewed technical papers in the areas of well engineering and artificial intelligence applications. Since 2023, he has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology.

He holds a PhD in Petroleum Well Engineering from Montanuniversität Leoben (2017), an MSc from Curtin University (2009), a BSc from the Petroleum University of Technology (2007), and an MSc in Data Science and Analytics.

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