Dr Nayef Alyafei, assistant professor of petroleum engineering at Qatar Foundation partner university Texas A&M University at Qatar (Tamuq), has published the second edition of his textbook, Fundamentals of Reservoir Rock Properties.
Alyafei said he wrote the textbook after his first semester teaching the reservoir petrophysics course for Tamuq petroleum engineering students. The book covers the essential concepts of rock properties aiding students, petroleum geoscientists, and engineers to understand petroleum reservoirs. Alyafei is a Class of 2009 petroleum engineering graduate of Tamuq who earned his PhD at Imperial College London before returning to Tamuq as a faculty member. In 2018, Alyafei was named the university’s Alumnus of the Year and in 2020 was named an Energy Influencer by The Way Ahead, a publication of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Dr Nayef Alyafei.
