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Academic

Dr.

Talal M. Al-Bazali

Associate Professor

Office Location:
S04E1101
talal.albazali@ku.edu.kw

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering

University of Texas at  Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

 2005
M.Sc. Petroleum Engineering University of Texas at  Austin, Austin, Texas, USA 2003
B. Sc. Petroleum Engineering University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 1996

Research Interests

Oil & Gas Organizational Corporate Behaviour, Oil & Gas Investments & Valuations, Oil Price Volatility, Oil and Gas Supply & Demand Theory,
Petroleum Economics, Rock Mechanics (Geomechanics)

Courses Taught

ENG
304
Engineering Probability and Statistics
PE
341
Oil Well Drilling and Completion
PE
221
Reservoir Rock Properties
PE
449
Petroleum Economics
PE
351
Petroleum Geology

Selected Publications

  • Talal Al-Bazali (2025): Measurement of Chemically Induced Poisson’s Ratio of Shale, Journal of Energy Engineering, Volume 151, Issue 5, https://doi.org/10.1061/JLEED9.EYENG-5809.

  • Al-Bazali, T. (2025). Impact of water and ions on Poisson’s ratio of shale under loading and non-loading conditions. Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 20(6), 1262–1276. https://doi.org/10.1080/17486025.2025.2520328.

  • AL-Bazali, T. (2025). Insight on the impact of ion’s type and concentration on the tensile strength of shale. Geomechanics and Geoengineering, VOL. 20, NO. 5, 994–1005.

  • AL-Bazali, T. (2025). Impact of chemical osmosis, diffusion osmosis and ionic diffusion on drilling mud salinity design. Geosystem Engineering, 28(1), 1-11. 

  • Talal AL-Bazali (2024). On the DLVO theory: experimentally measured Debye Huckel length. J. Eng. Mech., 2024, 150(7): 04024034.

 

 

 

Professional Organizations

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Pi Epsilon Tau Society

American Association of Drilling Engineering (AADE)

American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) 

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