Boyun Guo, Ph.D.
Dr. Guo has 27 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas industry and academia in US and outside. He worked for China Petroleum and Natural Gas Corp (CNPC) as a drilling engineer, New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) as a reservoir engineer, and Edinburgh Petroleum Services (EPS) as a production engineer and TechTEAM Leader.
Dr. Guo has provided training and consulting services to numerous oil and gas producing companies in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Clients include many of national oil companies, the major, mid-size and small oil and gas companies, and service providers.
Special technical expertise in the areas of:
Horizontal well engineering
Production optimization
Aerated fluid drilling
Training courses provided:
Production Optimization Using NODAL Analysis
Natural Gas Engineering
Reservoir Simulation
Underbalanced Drilling
Representative books authored:
Guo, B., Lyons, W.C. and Ghalambor, A.: Petroleum Production Engineering, Elsevier, Oxford (2007)
Guo, B. and Ghalambor, A.: Natural Gas Engineering Handbook, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston (2005)
Lyons, W.C., Guo, B. and Seidel, F.A.: Air and Gas Drilling Manual, McGraw-Hill, New York (2001)
Representative papers published:
Guo, B., Ling, K., and Ghalambor, A.: "A Rigorous Composite-IPR Model for Multilateral Wells," SPE Drilling & Completion Journal (June 2008).
Fang, Q, Guo, B., and Ghalambor, A.: "Formation of Underwater Cuttings Piles in Offshore Drilling," SPE Drilling & Completion Journal (March 2008).
Guo, B., Al-bemani, A.S. and Ghalambor, A.: "Improvement in Sachdeva's Multiphase Choke Flow Model Using Field Data," Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (May 2007).
Guo, B. and Ghalambor, A.: "Characterization and Analysis of Pressure Instability in Aerated Liquid Drilling," Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (July 2006).
Wang, X., Guo, B., and Ghalambor, A: "2nd and 3rd-Order Finite Difference Methods with Counter-Error Formulations for Solving the Convection-Diffusion Equation," Polish Academy of Sciences- Archives of Mining Sciences, 51, No. 1, 2006.
Sun, K, Guo, B. and Ghalambor, A.: "An Analytical Solution for Aerated Mud and Foam Drilling Hydraulics in Deviated Holes," Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (March, 2006).
Guo, B., Ghalambor, A., and Xu, C: "A Systematic Approach to Predicting Liquid Loading in Gas Wells," SPE Production & Facilities Journal (February, 2006).
Guo, B., Duan S., and Ghalambor, A.: "A Simple Model for Predicting Heat Loss and Temperature Profiles in Insulated Pipelines," SPE Production & Facilities Journal (February 2006).
Guo, B., Ghalambor, A., and Duan, S.: "Correlation between Sandstone Permeability and Capillary Pressure Curves," Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering (August 2004), 43, No. 3-4.
Guo, B., Stewart, G, and Toro, M.: "Linearly Supported Radial Flow- A Flow Regime in Layered Reservoirs," Journal of Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering (April 2002).
Guo, B. and Schechter, D.S.: "A Simple and Rigorous IPR Equation for Vertical and Horizontal Wells Intersecting Long Fractures," Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (July 1999).
Guo, B. and Lee, R.L.: "A Simple Approach to Optimization of Completion Interval in Oil/Water Coning Systems," SPE Reservoir Engineering Journal (November 1993).