Lab Members

Tesleem Lawal

Tesleem Lawal

Postdoctoral Fellow/ VP of Technology (Omni Carbon Technology Corp)

GLT 5.240


Research Area

  • Aqueous Nanobubble Dispersions
  • Chemical and Gas Enhanced Oil Recovery
  • PVT Fluid Sampling and Analysis
  • Core Analysis
  • Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

Biography

Tesleem Lawal is a postdoctoral fellow in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also earned his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering in Spring 2025. He serves concurrently as the Vice President of Technology at Omni Carbon Technology Corporation.

Since 2020, Tesleem has been conducting research under the guidance of Professor Ryosuke Okuno, focusing on topics such as ketone and CO₂-enhanced oil recovery (EOR), as well as PVT fluid sampling and modeling. His current work explores the behavior of aqueous dispersions of nitrogen and CO₂ nanobubbles under elevated pressures, with applications in both EOR and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Education

  • Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering (2025), The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • M.S. in Petroleum Engineering (2020), The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Representative Publications

  • Lawal, T., Wang, H., and Okuno, R (2024). Aqueous Nitrogen-Nanobubble Dispersion and Supersaturation at Elevated Pressures up to 277 Bara. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 398, 124340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2024.124340.
  • Lawal, T., Wang, H., Mirzaei Paiaman, A., and Okuno, R. Aqueous Nanobubble Dispersion of CO2 For Enhanced Oil Recovery – Coreflooding and Huff-n-Puff Experiments. SPE Improved Oil Recovery, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2118/218179-MS.
  • Lawal, T., Mirzaei Paiaman, A., and Okuno, R. Aqueous Ketone Solution for Wettability Alteration in High-Salinity High-Temperature Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE Improved Oil Recovery, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2118/218246-MS.
  • Lawal, T., Wang, M., Abeykoon, G. A., Argüelles Vivas, F. J., and Okuno, R. (2022). Effect of Chemical Partition Behavior on Oil Recovery by Wettability Alteration in Fractured Tight Reservoirs. Energy & Fuels, 36(2), 797-805. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c03344.