Chemical Additives for Gas Hydrates

Dr. Bhajan Lal is a senior lecturer in Chemical Engineering Department at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. He is core research member of Carbon Dioxide Research Centre in Institute of Contaminant Management at UTP. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, he worked as postdoctoral research fellow and Research Scientist in USA, Canada, South Africa, Turkey, and Malaysia. His main areas of research interests are clathrate hydrates, CO2 capture and storage, natural gas storage, flow assurance (gas hydrate as well as corrosion), gas hydrate-based wastewater treatment, and water-based drilling fluid. He supervised master, Ph.D., and postdoc students since 2013. He has published 70 peer-reviewed journal papers, 38 conference papers, and 4 book chapters. In addition, as project leader, he has secured 8 gas hydrate-related research projects worth RM 2 million from oil and gas industries, UTP, and Malaysian Government.

Mr. Omar Nashed got his bachelor’s degree in Applied Chemistry at Aleppo University, Syria. He received his master’s degree by research in Chemical Engineering Department at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree by research on gas hydrate promotion for natural gas storage. Since 2012, he published 12 research articles and 3 conference papers in gas hydrate-related research areas such as flow assurance CO2 and natural gas storage, ionic liquids, and nanotechnology.