
Tatyana Plaksina
Assistant Professor
PhD - Petroleum Engineering
MSc - Petroleum Engineering
BA - Math/Computer Science
Contact information
Location
Office hours
Upon request
Courses
Graduate course:
Special Problems: Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoir Exploitation (ENCH 619.02)
Tight Oil and Unconventional Gas Reservoir Exploitation (ENPE 573.01)
Introduction to Reservoir Engineering (ENPE 523)
Preferred method of communication
Research
Research areas
- Geothermal energy
- Numerical reservoir simulation
- Petroleum economics
- Engineering education
Research activities
Renewable and sustainable energy (geothermal, CAES, hybridization of these systems with wind energy)
Conventional and unconventional (shale and tight)
Reservoir engineering
Production data analysis (RTA, DCA)
Production optimization
Application of AI, ML and information theory to reservoir engineering problems
Petroleum engineering education
Biography
Dr. Tatyana Plaksina is an assistant professor of petroleum engineering and renewable energy at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at University of Calgary, AB, Canada. She holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, an MS in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA and a BA in Math/Computer Science from Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, USA. Research interests of Dr. Plaksina include geothermal energy and CO2 sequestration, reservoir engineering of conventional and unconventional oil and gas assets, applications of optimization, ML, AI and control theory to reservoir engineering, rate transient analysis (RTA), petroleum economics, risk analysis, and petroleum engineering education. Dr. Plaksina is an author of multiple peer-reviewed journal publications (including Journals of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Geothermal Energy, Computers and Chemical Engineering, and Energy Optimization and Engineering) and a frequent speaker at reputable conferences such as SPE ATCE (Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition), URTeC (Unconventional Resources Technology Conference), GeoConvention, Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, and AAPG ACE (American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Conference and Exhibition).
Publications
Selected publications
McLean, E. And Plaksina, T. 2019. The Political Economy of Carbon Capture and Storage
Technology Adoption. Revisions submitted to Global Environmental Politics. Forthcoming May 2019.
Rahmanifard, H.*, Vakili, R., Plaksina, T., Babaei, M., and Fan, X. 2018. On improving the hydrogen and methanol production using an auto-thermal double-membrane reactor: Model prediction and optimisation. Computers and Chemical Engineering Journal 119 ( 2): 258-269.
Plaksina, T. 2017. Getting Off the Engineering Enrollment Rollercoaster: Interaction Between Academia and Upstream Petroleum Industry. In M. Gray, & K. Thomas (Eds.), Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Engineering Majors and Careers (pp. 260-286). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2212-6.ch012.
Ma, X., Plaksina, T., and Gildin, E. 2015. Efficient Optimization Framework for Integrated Placement of Horizontal Wells and Hydraulic Fracture Stages in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs. Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources 9: 1-17.