Department of Drilling Engineering

Chen Dong 


Ph.D., Associate Professor 
Email: dong.chen@cup.edu.cn TEL: 010-89732209 
Address of Office: Room 902 in the Zhongyou Building, Department of Petroleum Engineering,18 Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249,China 


Education 
Ph.D., Oil and Gas Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 2012 
M.S., Geotechnical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 2008 
B.S., Civil Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University (China), 2005 


Research Areas and Interests 
Smart Drilling 
Petroleum Engineering Machine Learning 
Reservoir Engineering and Simulation for Unconventional (Shale and Coal) Gas Production 
Coupled Modelling of Multiphysics 
Drilling Engineering 


Teaching 
Drilling Engineering 
English for Petroleum Engineering 


Professional Experiences 
2015.06-present, Associate Professor, Department of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, China 
2014.12-2015.06, Lecturer, Department of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China 
2012.11-2014.10, Research Associate, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London 
2010.03-2011.03, Visiting student, Department of Petroleum Engineering, CSIRO (Melbourne) 


Other Appointments 
Journal Reviewer, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering; Energy Fuels; Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering; Transport in Porous Media; International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology and so on 


Honors and Awards 
1. ESI highly cited paper: Chen D., Pan Z.*, Ye Z., 2015. Dependence of gas shale fracture permeability on effective stress and reservoir pressure: Model match and insights. Fuel 139, 383-392. 2015 
2. Shandong University Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award, first prize, (4/5), 2015 
3. Outstanding reviewer, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering,2015 

4. CSIRO Flagship Top Up Scholarship, CSIRO,2018-2012 
5. Scholarship for International Research Fees China (IRFSC),Top-Up Scholarship for China SIRF scholarships,The University of Western Australia,2008-2012 


Selected Publications 
1. Chen D., Ye Z., Pan Z., Zhou Y., Zhang J., 2017. A permeability model for the hydraulic fracture filled with proppant packs under combined effect of compaction and embedment. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 149, 428-435. 
2. Chen D. , Pan Z., Shi J.Q., Si G., Ye Z., Zhang J., 2016. A novel approach for modelling coal permeability during transition from elastic to post-failure state using a modified logistic growth function. International Journal of Coal Geology 163, 132-139. 
3. Chen D., Pan Z., Ye Z., Hou B., Wang Di, Yuan L., 2016. A unified permeability and effective stress relationship for porous and fractured reservoir rocks. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 29, 401-412. 
4. Chen D., Pan Z., Ye Z., 2015. Dependence of gas shale fracture permeability on effective stress and reservoir pressure: Model match and insights. Fuel 139, 383-392. 
5. Chen D., Shi J.Q.*, Durucan S., Korre A., 2014. Gas and water relative permeability in different coals: model match and new insights. International Journal of Coal Geology 122, 37-49. 
6. Chen D., Pan Z.*, Liu J., Connell L.D., 2013. An improved relative permeability model for coal reservoirs. International Journal of Coal Geology 109-110, 45-57. 
7. Chen D., Pan Z.*, Liu J., Connell L.D., 2012. Characteristic of anisotropic coal permeability and its impact on optimal design of multi-lateral well for coalbed methane production. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 88-89, 13-28. 
8. Chen D., Pan Z.*, Liu J., Connell L.D., 2012. Modeling and simulation of moisture effect on gas storage and transport in coal seams. Energy Fuels 26, 1695-1706. 
9. Ye Z., Chen D.*, Pan Z., Zhang G., Xia Y., Ding X., 2016. An improved Langmuir model for evaluating methane adsorption capacity in shale under various pressures and temperatures. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 31, 658-680. 
10. Ye Z., Chen D.*, Wang J.G., 2014. Evaluation of the non-Darcy effect in coalbed methane production. Fuel 121, 1-10. 

 

Project 
1. Knowledge Database for Geological Mode and Smart Drilling, Sub-project of Strategic Pilot Science and Technology (Class A), Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017-2021), PI. 
2. Study on the permeability model of propped fracture considering the combined effect of proppant pack compaction and embedding, National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund (2017-2019), PI. 
3. Research on shale gas adsorption capacity under the influence of multiple factors, China National Petroleum University (Beijing) Introduced Talent Scientific Research Fund (2015-2017), PI. 
4. EU Seventh Framework Program (2011-2013), CO2CARE-CO2 Remediation Assessment.