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Yousef Ghomian

Reservoir Engineering Adviser Chevron

Yousef Ghomian, SPE, is a reservoir engineering adviser with Chevron Subsurface in Houston, where he supports field development, enhanced oil recovery, CO2 sequestration, gas reservoir engineering, reservoir management, and uncertainty and optimization of complex oil and gas assets. He has over 20 years of industry experience, working on major producing assets across multiple regions, including the US, Australia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, and Algeria. Ghomian has authored over 20 technical publications. His technical interests include gas injection and production and subsurface aspects of lower-carbon energy development. Ghomian holds a PhD degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He is actively engaged with SPE, serving as an Associate Editor for SPE Journal. Ghomian previously served as an SPE Journal Technical Editor and is a two-time recipient of the SPE Journal Outstanding Technical Reviewer Award. He has also contributed to SPE technical programs, including the Energy Transition Symposium, and has developed and delivered numerous training courses and workshops on reservoir engineering and carbon management.

  • Across gas assets, operators are under increasing pressure to improve recovery, enhance production efficiency, and maximize the value of existing infrastructure under tighter technical and economic constraints. In shale developments, this translates to optimizing stage and cluster design and, more importantly, leveraging data-driven approaches to better understand sti…