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Arash Dahi Taleghani is a professor of petroleum engineering at Penn State University. He joined Penn State after serving as an associate professor of petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University and has extensive experience as an independent consultant in the oil and gas industry. He earned a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and holds an M.S. in civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology. With over 12 years of combined experience in applied engineering, research, and academia, he is a registered professional engineer. Taleghani serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology and has numerous publications and patent applications in the field of drilling and completion. His research interests include reservoir geomechanics, hydraulic fracturing, wellbore integrity, and drilling mechanics. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in subjects such as petroleum rock mechanics, mechanical earth modeling, hydraulic fracturing, well-logging, and production engineering. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2014 and the SPE Eastern North America Regional Completion Optimization Technology Award in 2017.
Penn State University • University Park, PA
Teaching and conducting research in petroleum engineering.
Louisiana State University • Baton Rouge, LA
Engaged in teaching and research activities in petroleum engineering.
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