Tawfik
Nasr is one of Alberta’s foremost researchers in the
petroleum industry. He has been working with the
Alberta Research Council (ARC) for twenty-two years
and is a member of the Petroleum Society of Canadian
Institute of Mining, the Society of Petroleum
Engineers and the Canadian Heavy Oil Association.
Having graduated from the University of Alexandria
in Egypt, he moved to Canada and received his PhD in
physics from the University of Manitoba. Nasr made
the move to Edmonton, Alberta when he joined the
geothermal project for the University of Alberta. He
then joined ARC’s heavy oil sands group and began
developing models for early thermal recovery. Dr.
Nasr is the team leader of the Thermal Gravity
Processes Group in the Heavy Oil and Oil Sands
Business Unit. One of his unit’s projects is called SAGD or steam assisted gravity drainage. It
allows for improved access to oil sands that are
much deeper than the surface deposits mined in open
pits.
Currently, Dr. Nasr and his team
are working on Field Research Energy Database
(FRED). It is a database that stores data
from the SAGD project, and includes a special viewer
that facilitates access and interpretation of data from the SAGD projects. The team has licensed the FRED
Viewer and has begun selling it to many companies in
the industry.
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