Aziz Odeh

Biography

Dr. Aziz Odeh was born in Nazareth, Palestine on December 10, 1925. He migrated to the United States in 1947 to attend the University of California at Berkelye where he received a B.S. in engineering in 1951. Odeh earned his M.S. from UCLA in 1951 and then took employment with the Magnolia Petroleum Company which would later be purchased by Mobil. He took a leave of absence in 1955 to pursue his PhD at UCLA and received his degree in 1959. Odeh next worked as a reservoir engineer with Mobil Oil de Venezuela until 1961 when he transferred to the Field Research Laboratory of Mobil Research and Development Corporation. He advanced through a number of technical positions until 1978 when he became Manager of Reservoir Engineering. While managing and directing research, Odeh maintained his technical activity which was recognized in 1980 when Mobil named him Senior Scientist, the company's most prestigious technical position. Dr. Odeh was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 1987 and has been the only member elected from Mobil's earth science organizations. He retired from Mobil in 1989, but continued to work as a consultant to Mobil and a number of other organizations until his death in 1994.

List of Patents

Method for Recovering Hydrocarbons, 67/02/07

Vertical Flooding Method of Oil Recovery, 68/03/05

Method of Improved Oil Recovery by Simultaneous Injection of Water with an In-Situ Combustion Process, 85/01/15

Method for Determining Consistent Relative Permeability Values from Dynamic Displacement Data, 87/01/20

List of Papers

Scale Limitations in Potentiometric Model Construction

Permeability Log Determination

Effect of Viscosity Ratio on Relative Permeability

Comments on...Two-Phase Flow Through Porous Media

A Potentiometric Study of the Effects of Mobility Ratio on reservoir Flow Patterns

The Material Balance as an Equation of a Straight Line

The Material Balance as an Equation of a Straight Line--Part II, Field Cases

Pressure Buildup Analysis, Variable-Rate Case

Pressure Drawdown Analysis, Variable-Rate Case

Unsteady-State Behavior of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

The Effect of Production History on Determination of Formation Characteristics From Flow Tests

The Equations of Motion of Fluids in Porous Media: I. Propagation Velocity of Pressure Pulses

Steady-State Flow Capacity of Wells with Limited Entry to Flow

Flow Test Analysis for a Well with Radial Discontinuity

Generalized Equations Relating Pressure of Individual Wells and Grids in Reservoir Modeling

Reservoir Simulation...What is It?

A Method for Determining the Static Pressure