Professor Hadi Belhaj is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Khalifa University. He earned his PhD from Dalhousie University in 2004. Belhaj holds an MSc from the Technical University of Nova Scotia and a BSc from the University of Tripoli. Prior to his current appointment, he held positions at the Petroleum Institute, Texas Tech University, and Dalhousie University, accumulating over 40 years of combined industrial and academic experience in petroleum engineering.
Belhaj’s research focuses on petroleum engineering topics including enhanced oil recovery, reservoir characterization, sand production modeling, non-Darcy flow, CO2 sequestration, and unconventional reservoirs. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 refereed journal and conference articles. His books include Tight Oil Reservoirs: Characterization, Modeling, and Field Development (2023) and Geoengineering of Hydrogen Energy (co-authored). Belhaj is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and has received multiple honors, including the 2021 SPE Distinguished Service Award, the 2013 and 2020 SPE Regional Distinguished Achievement for Petroleum Engineering Faculty Awards, and the 2019 SPE Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award. He serves on the JPT Editorial Committee and the SPE-ATCE Technical Program Subcommittee, among other professional committees.
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