Our People
Doug Lillico, Manager, Ph. (780) 450-5362
Manages the AACI Research Program, contract R&D and secondary businesses in the areas of heavy oil and oil sands. Has over 20 years of direct energy R&D experience and is well known for his work in heavy oil and oil sands research.
Jose Alvarez, Ph. (780) 450-5395
Petroleum Engineering with emphasis on enhanced oil recovery. Waterflooding, enhanced oil recovery screening, thermal, chemical and solvent methods. Foam-flow behaviour in porous media.
Roy Coates, Ph. (780) 450-5261
Heavy oil & bitumen recovery using both thermal & non-thermal processes. Designed, managed and interpreted technology development projects related to insitu recovery.
Xiaohui Deng, Ph. (780) 450-5194
Numerical model development and numerical simulation.
Haibo Huang, Ph. (780) 450-5187
Stability of colloidal systems, characterization of dispersion systems, porous medium flow, organic synthesis, chemical analysis, spectroscopy.
Marlene Huerta, Ph. (780) 450-5034
Mathematical modeling and experimental work on formation damage in oil reservoirs and foamy oil behaviour in heavy oil reservoirs. Numerical simulation and cold production numerical simulation using STARS.
John Ivory, Ph. (780) 450-5121
Use of numerical simulators for modelling recovery of oil using solvents, steam or in-situ combustion. Gas separation and purification using membranes and/or adsorption. In-situ combustion experiments in small and large scale physical simulators.
Mike London, Ph. (647) 221-0984
Numerical modelling and high-performance computing.
Richard McFarlane, Ph. (780) 450-5257
Water-in-bitumen emulsions, bitumen heat exchanger fouling, catalysis for heavy oil and bitumen upgrading, spectroscopic analysis and chemistry of coal and resinintes, surface and catalytic properties of silicas, aluminas, zeolites, perovskites.
Brigida Meza, Ph. (780) 450-5149
More than 10 years experience in oil recovery research and development. Extensive technical expertise in the areas of cold heavy oil recovery processes and thermal heavy oil recovery processes plus additives. Project leadership of primary production projects related with sand control in horizontal wells. Development of innovative experimental techniques.
Justo Neda, Ph. (403) 210-5318
Cold production evaluation studies using Stars Simulator. Reservoir engineering studies to evaluate oil, gas, sand and water behaviour. Technology transfer specialists to link oil industry and research international or national. Hydraulic fracturing experimental studies. Geo-mechanical evaluation studies. Sand production studies.
Kaz Oldakowski, Ph. (780) 450-5190
Experimental investigation of influence of pressure pulses on relative permeability to oil and water in oil sands. Assessment of open channels (wormholes) stability in oil sands during oil recovery processes. Investigation of transport of sand in high viscosity liquids.
Raj Rajan, Ph. (780) 450-5248
Fluid dynamics and heat transfer, single-phase, two-phase flow, rheology. Two-phase flow thermal hydraulics related to nuclear reactor safety, transport phenomena in liquid crystals. Water coning suppression in heavy oil reservoirs, bitumen recovery by mass transfer assisted gravity drainage.
Ron Sawatzky, Ph. (780) 450-5252
Focus is on the cold production process, the deliberate production of sand during oil production from unconsolidated reservoirs. Provides field & exploitation planning support to clients for improving performance.
Mafiz Uddin, Ph. (780) 450-5047
Specialization in multi-phase flow in a porous media and numerical simulation.
Rong Zheng, Ph. (780) 450-5056
Heavy oil and bitumen reservoir simulation, computational mechanics and fluid dynamics, computer-aided design and engineering, engineering optimization, fuel cell technology, material testing and analysis.