Mustafa Onur is McMan Professor of the McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering at University of Tulsa and Director of TU Petroleum Reservoir Exploitation Projects (TUPREP). Before joining TU, he was professor of Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. He also held the Schlumberger Professorial Chair at the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia. His current research is on the application of inverse problem theory, mathematical optimization, and data science to problems of relevance in optimal reservoir management and development, assisted history matching and uncertainty quantification for oil, gas, pressure and wireline formation testing, and conventional and unconventional geothermal reservoirs. Onur holds a BS degree from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Tulsa, all in petroleum engineering. He has served on the editorial committees of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering and SPE Journal. He is currently the Associate Editors of SPE Journal and Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. He is the recipients of the 2010 SPE Formation Evaluation and 2018 Reservoir Description and Dynamics Awards and a distinguished SPE member.

Pressure Transient (Well Test) Analysis
Wireline Formation Testers
Reservoir Engineering Methods
Reservoir Simulation & Modeling
Assisted History Matching
Nonlinear Parameter Optimization
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
EOR Methods
Geothermal Reservoir Engineering
Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs

Well Test Analysis
Reservoir Engineering
Rock Properties
Reservoir Modeling and Simulation
Computer Applications in Petroleum Engineering
Geothermal Engineering

Journal Articles

• Almasov , Azad, and Mustafa Onur. 2021. “Life-Cycle Optimization of The CO2 Huff-N-Puff Process In An Unconventional Oil Reservoir Using Least-Squares Support-Vector and Gaussian Process Regression Proxies.”
• Silvaa , • Thiago, Sinesio Pescoa, Abelardo Barreto, and Mustafa Onur. 2021. “A New Procedure for Generating Data Covariance inflation Factors for Ensemble Smoother With Multiple Data Assimilation.”
• Bela , Renan, Sinesio Pesco, Abelardo Barreto, and Mustafa Onur. 2021. “Analytical Solutions for Injectivity and Falloff Tests in Stratified Reservoirs With Multilateral Horizontal Wells.”
• Akdas , Satuk, and Mustafa Onur. 2021. “Analytical Solutions for Predicting and Optimizing Geothermal Energy Extraction from an Enhanced Geothermal System With a Multiple Hydraulically Fractured Horizontal-Well Doublet.”
• Bela , Renan, Sinesio Pesco, Abelardo Barreto, and Mustafa Onur. 2021. “Assisted History Matching and Graphical Methods for Estimating Individual Layer Properties from Well Testing Data in Stratified Reservoirs With Multilateral Wells.”
• Gul , Kiymet, and Mustafa Onur. 2019. “Linear Superposition Time for Variable-Rate, Variable-Pressure Production from a Fractured Tight Gas Well” 188.
• Panini , Filippo, Mustafa Onur, and Dario Viberti. 2019. “An Analytical Solution and Nonlinear Regression Analysis for Sandface Temperature Transient Data in the Presence of a Near-Wellbore Damaged Zone” 129, 779-810.
• Aydin , Murat, Mustafa Onur, and Altug Sisman. 2019. “A New Method for Analysis of Constant-Temperature Thermal Response Tests” 78, 1-8.

• Onur, Mustafa, and Murat Cinar. 2017. “Analysis of Sandface Temperature Transient Data for Slightly Compressible, Single-Phase Reservoirs.” SPE Journal published on line May 2017. SPE Journal.

• Onur, Mustafa, Gonca Ulker, Serhat Kocak, and Ihsan Gok. 2017. “Interpretation and Analysis of Transient Sandface and Wellbore Temperature Data.” SPE Journal published on line March 2017. SPE Journal.

• Palabiyik, Yildiray, Mustafa Onur, O. Tureyen, and Murat Cinar. 2016. “Transient Temperature Behavior and Analysis of Single-Phase Liquid-Water Geothermal Reservoirs during Drawdown and Buildup Tests: Part I. Theory, New Analytical and Approximate Solutions.” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 146. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering: 637–56.

• Onur, Mustafa, Yildiray Palabiyik, O. Tureyen, and Murat Cinar. 2016. “Transient Temperature Behavior and Analysis of Single-Phase Liquid-Water Geothermal Reservoirs during Drawdown and Buildup Tests: Part II. Interpretation and Analysis Methodology with Applications.” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 146. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering: 657–69.

• Habte, Azeb, Mustafa Onur, and Ismail Saaid. 2015. “Pressure Transient Behavior of Immiscible Water Alternating Gas (IWAG) Injection Well with and without Relative Permeability Hysteresis and Capillary Pressure Effects.” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 127. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering: 169–78.

• Talebian, Seyedeh, Isa Tan, Rahim Masoudi, and Mustafa Onur. 2014. “Fluid-Fluid Interactions in a System of CO2, Oil, Surfactant Solution, and Brine at High Pressures and Temperatures – A Malaysian Reservoir Case.” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 124. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering: 313–22.

• Türeyen , Ömer, Ayşe Kirmaci, and Mustafa Onur. 2014. “Assessment of Uncertainty in Future Performance Predictions by Lumped-Parameter Models for Single-Phase Liquid Geothermal Systems” 51, 300-311.
• Hashmet , Muhammad, Mustafa Onur, and Isa Tan. 2014. “Empirical Correlations for Viscosity of Polyacrylamide Solutions With the Effects of Salinity and Hardness” 35, 510-17.
• Hashmet , Muhammad, Mustafa Onur, and Isa Tan. 2014. “Empirical Correlations for Viscosity of Polyacrylamide Solutions With the Effects of Temperature and Shear Rate. II” 35, 1685-90.
• Habte , Azeb, and Mustafa Onur. 2014. “Laplace-Transform Finite-Difference and Quasistationary Solution Method for Water-injection/Falloff Tests” 19, 398-409.
• Satman , Abdurrahman, Mustafa Onur, I Mihcakan, Erdal Ozkan, and Cem Sarica. 2001. “Discussion Of‘ Equivalency of International Petroleum Engineering Programs’” 53, 26-32.
• Li , Ying, and Mustafa Onur. “A Physics-Based Data-Driven Reservoir Model for Water Flooding History Matching and Prediction.”

Conference Proceedings

• Atadeger , Ayku, Mustafa Onur, Leslie Thompson, and Barry Ruddick. 2021. “Predicting Estimated Ultimate Recovery from Flowing Material Balance Analysis Considering Rock and Connate Water Expansion for Unconventional Gas Reservoirs”. In . SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference.
• Almasov , Azad, Albert Reynolds, and Mustafa Onur. 2020. “Production Optimization of the CO2 Huff-N-Puff Process in an Unconventional Reservoir Using a Machine Learning Based Proxy”. In . One Petro.
• Almasov , Azad, and Mustafa Onur. 2019. “Optimization of the CO2 Huff-N-Puff Process in an Unconventional Reservoir Using a Machine Learning Proxy”. In . the 4th Biennial CO2 for EOR as CCUS Conference for 2019.
• Onur , Mustafa, Mauricio Galvao, Davut Bircan, Marcello Carvalho, and Baretto Abelardo. 2019. “Analytical Models for Interpretation and Analysis of Transient Sandface and Wellbore Temperature Data”. In .
• Atadeger , Aykut, Mustafa Onur, Ela Batur, and Leslie Thompson. 2019. “Comparison of the Methods for Analyzing Rate and Pressure Transient Data from Multistage Hydraulically Fractured Unconventional Gas Reservoirs”. In .
• Ozdogan , Tasansu, and Mustafa Onur. 2019. “Analysis of Sandface Temperature Transient Data Under Specified Rate or Bottomhole Pressure Production from a No-Flow Composite Radial Reservoir System”. In .
• Panini , Filippo, and Mustafa Onur. 2018. “Parameter Estimation from Sandface Drawdown Temperature Transient Data in the Presence of a Skin Zone Near the Wellbore”. In Society of Petroleum Engineers – SPE Europec Featured at 80th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2018.
• Onur , Mustafa, and Murat Cinar. 2017. “Modeling and Analysis of Temperature Transient Sandface and Wellbore Temperature Data from Variable Rate Well Test Data”. In Society of Petroleum Engineers – SPE Europec Featured at 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, 1261-94.
• Onur , Mustafa. 2017. “Modeling and Interpretation of the Bottomhole Temperature Transient Data”. In SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings.
• Onur , Mustafa, G. Ulker, S. Kocak, and I. Gok. 2016. “Interpretation and Analysis of Transient Sandface and Wellbore Temperature Data”. In Proceedings – SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Vol. 2016-January.
• Onur , Mustafa, and Murat Çinar. 2016. “Temperature Transient Analysis of Slightly Compressible, Single-Phase Reservoirs”. In Society of Petroleum Engineers – SPE Europec Featured at 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition.
• Onur , Mustafa, and Murat Çinar. 2016. “Temperature Transient Analysis of Slightly Compressible, Single-Phase Reservoirs”. In 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2016: Efficient Use of Technology – Unlocking Potential.

• Onur, Mustafa, P. Hegeman, and I. Gök. 2014. “A Novel Infinite-Acting-Radial-Flow Analysis Procedure for Estimating Permeability Anisotropy from an Observation-Probe Pressure Response at a Vertical, Horizontal, or Inclined Wellbore.” In SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, 17:152–64.

• Tang, C., and Mustafa Onur. 2014. “Analysis of Wireline Interval Pressure Transient Test Data from Multi-Layered Reservoir Systems.” In Society of Petroleum Engineers – International Petroleum Technology Conference 2014, IPTC 2014 – Innovation and Collaboration: Keys to Affordable Energy, 1:664–82.

• Khanifar, Ahmad, Mustafa Onur, and Nasir Darman. 2014. “New Experimental Correlations to Predict Water-Oil Relative Permeability Curves Affected from Asphaltene Deposition.” In Proceedings of the Annual Offshore Technology Conference, 1:844–50.

• Onur , Mustafa, P. Hegeman, and I. Gok. 2013. “A Novel Infinite-Acting Radial-Flow Analysis Procedure for Estimating Horizontal and Vertical Permeability from an Observation-Probe Pressure Response”. In 75th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2013 Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2013: Changing Frontiers, 2760-79.
• Karacaer , C., and Mustafa Onur. 2012. “Analytical Probabilistic Reserve Estimation by Volumetric Method and Aggregation of Resources”. In SPE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium, 316-32.
• Majidaie , S., A. Khanifar, Mustafa Onur, and Isa Tan. 2012. “A Simulation Study of Chemically Enhanced Water Alternating Gas (CWAG) Injection”. In Society of Petroleum Engineers – SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2012, OGWA – EOR: Building Towards Sustainable Growth, 1:242-50.
• Onur , Mustafa, and Fikri Kuchuk. 2012. “A New Deconvolution Technique Based on Pressure-Derivative Data for Pressure-Transient-Test Interpretation”. In SPE Journal, 17:307-20.
• Almasov , Azad, and Mustafa Onur. “Life-Cycle Optimization Of The CO2 Huff-N-Puff Process In An Unconventional Oil Reservoir Using Least-Squares Support-Vector And Gaussian Process Regression Proxies”. In . 2020 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.
• Altin , Melek, and Mustafa Onur. “Comparison of Stochastic Based Volumetric Heat in Place Methods for Predicting Power (Electricity) Generation Potential of Liquid-Dominated Geothermal Systems”. In . 2020 World Geothermal Congress.
• Bircan , Davut, and Mustafa Onur. “Temperature Transient Tests: Modeling, Interpretation, and Nonlinear Parameter Estimation”. In . 2020 World Geothermal Congress.

Books

• Kuchuk , Fikri, T.S Ramakrishnan, and Mustafa Onur. 2021. Wireline Formation Testing: Hardware, Pressure Transient Testing, Interpretation, and Sampling. Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Other

• Onur , Mustafa. 2013. “Executive Summary”. SPE Journal.

• Research and Dissertation
• Rock Properties
• Fundamentals and Applications Of Geothermal Energy
• Research and Thesis
• Unconventional Resources
• Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
• Well Test Analysis I
• Independent Study

• United Chamber of Turkish Petroleum Engineering Association
• Society of Petroleum Engineers

• 2021 Chevron Fellows Award
• 2020 Chevron Fellows Award
• Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award
• ICIPEG Best Paper Award
• Outstanding Associate Editor
• SPE International Formation Evaluation Award
• SPE International Distinguished Member Award
• SPE Peer-Apart Honoree
• Honorary Member
• Outstanding Academician of the Year Award