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Dr. Daniel Ocran

docran@umat.edu.gh


Position

Departmental Training Officer

Department

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Research Interest

  • Petroleum Economics
  • Petroleum Upstream Exploration Policy Analysis,
  • Oil and Gas Reservoir Characterization and Simulation
  • Natural Gas Engineering
  • Oil and Gas Production Optimization
  • Design of Petroleum Fiscal Systems 




Daniel Ocran currently works at the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa-Ghana. His research interests include petroleum economics and petroleum upstream exploration policy analysis, oil and gas reservoir characterization and simulation, natural gas engineering, oil and gas production optimization, and applications of metaheuristic intelligent systems in optimal design of petroleum fiscal systems.

2022
PhD
University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana
2016
MSc
African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria
2013
BSc
University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana
2018--2022
University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana
2015--2016
African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria
2009--2013
University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana
2012--Date
Society of Petroleum Engineers
2018
UMaT Staff Development Fund
2015
AUST Nelson Mandela Institute Scholarship
2023--Date
Lecturer
2017--2023
Assistant Lecturer
  1. Ocran, D., Ikiensikimama, S. S. and Broni-Bediako, E (2023), "Grey Wolf Optimizer for Solving Well Placement Optimization Problem Constrained to Minimum Well Distance ", Petroleum Science and Technology, Vol. 41, No. 14, pp. 1391-1413

  2. Broni-Bediako, E., Ocran, D., Johnson, R. T. and Larweh, S. L. (2023), "Characterisation of Iron Ore from Opon Mansi in Ghana and its Potential as a Weighting Agent in a Water-Based Mud", Ghana Journal of Technology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 62-72

  3. Ocran, D., Ikiensikimama, S. S. and Broni-Bediako, E. (2022), "A Compositional Function Hybridization of PSO and GWO for Solving Well Placement Optimization Problem", Petroleum Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 401-408

  4. Broni-Bediako, E., Ocran, D., Amenyah, P. E. K and Marwa, S. N. (2020), "Deregulation of Diesel and Petrol Pricing in Ghana: Perspectives of Commercial Drivers", Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering Journal, Vol. 4, No. 5, 8 pp.

  5. Ocran, D., Broni-Bediako, E. and Ofori-Sarpong, G (2019), "Boundary Applicability of the Ghana’s Oil Block Fiscal Regimes", Ghana Mining Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 70-76

  6. Buah, E A., Borsah, A. A., Ejeh, C. J., Asamoah, E. and Ocran, D (2019), "Mapping of Porosity, Permeability and Thickness Distribution: Application of Geostatistical Modeling for the Jubilee Oilfield in Ghana", Geosciences, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 27-49

2022--2023
Departmental Training officer, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department
2021--2022
Departmental Examination officer, Petroleum Geosciences and Engineering Department
2019--2021
Departmental Training officer, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department
2018--Date
Lecturer in Charge of Laboratory, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department