Vera Dogo, REM MSc graduate 2024, won RFD Modelling Innovation Student Challenge award 2025. She was shortlisted with 2 other finalists: and Marialuna Loffredo (Politecnico di Torino).
All three finalists gave great presentations at the RFD Tech Summit in London, May 2025, that demonstrated a high international level and quality research work that the students undertook going the extra mile further beyond their MSc.
Vera’s Individual project on “CO₂-Efficient Reservoir Optimization Under Geological Uncertainty” already received the SPE student paper award: 2nd place in SPE Europe Regional Student Paper in 2024.
Vera has consolidated and capitalised on the earlier work by Dr Amirsaman Rezaeyan during her recent internship with RFD in Aderdeen this year also co-supervised by HWU Prof. Vasily Demyanov and Dr Dan Arnold.
The study applies a multi-objective optimization approach to enhance oil production while minimizing CO₂ emissions under geological uncertainty. By evaluating a range of geological scenarios, Vera’s work delivers smarter production strategies tailored for uncertain subsurface environments. The developed CO2 footprint optimisation workflow was applied to the Watt benchmark field case that was designed to represent the hierarchy of geological uncertainties for history matching and reservoir development optimisation studies.
This joint work aims to make an REF enterable impact journal publication to be submitted later this year. Vera did a stellar job streamlining modelling/optimisation/CO2 footprint calculation components into a bespoke tNavigator (TM) workflow.
Congratulations to Vera for well deserved award for all her hard work during and past her MSc! With a great appreciation to Rock Flow Dynamics Bastian Steffens, Tom March and Aberdeen office team for enabling this collaborative effort and hosting the internship.
