Dr. Mehdi Loloi

• Experience Summary

Petroleum and Geotechnical Engineering:

Well Test Analysis: Data preparation and Analysis of drill cuttings injection wells using the well test analysis software PIE. Well tests included Step Rate Testing, Pressure Falloff Testing, and Interference Testing. Rock and unconsolidated sediment properties: Determination of rock and soil porosity, permeability, density, velocity and strength properties with geomechanical testing (consolidometer and triaxial) and conventional soil profiling test equipment. Geophysics: Integration of geophysical data, particularly seismic reflection, with physical properties to assist in engineering assessment. Slope stability analyses: Integration of geological, geophysical, and geotechnical data to conduct slope stability analyses under static and pseudo-static loading conditions, and study of potential failure types and trigger mechanisms for submarine slope failure in the study area.

Rock Engineering Analyses:

Site investigation and stability analyses of tunnels, underground excavations and powerhouses, and rock slope stability analyses using empirical, observational and numerical methods.

• Education

MEng, Petroleum Engineering, 2004, Dalhousie University (Technical University of Nova Scotia), Canada Thesis Title: Slope Instability Analysis of a Part of Orphan Basin off Newfoundland. Conducted at Geological Survey of Canada-Atlantic.

Ph.D., Rock Mechanics Engineering, 1993, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Dissertation Title: Three-Dimensional Stress Analysis of Underground Openings in Isotropic and Transversely Isotropic Rocks Using the Boundary Element Method.

M.S., Mines Exploration Engineering, 1980, University of Tehran, Iran