(MERS) Group

News

• 06/19/2025: Dr. Olorode wins LSU Prestigious Pathway Award.
  We are proud to share that Dr. Olufemi Olorode, the PI of the MERS lab, was one of the five LSU Researchers who won the highly competitive LSU Prestigious Pathway Award. Here is the official LSU blog (LSU Prestigious Pathway Award).
  
  
• 06/16/2025: Our journal was published in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Journal.
  In collaboration with Dr. Oladoyin Kolawole at NJIT, we published a paper titled "Experimental and Computational Insights into the Nanomechanical Characterization of Ultramafic Rocks for Geologic Hydrogen Production and Storage". It was published in the Materials Today Sustainability Journal.
  
  
• 04/30/2025: Dr. Olorode wins $500,000 NSF Early CAREER award.
  The MERS group was awarded the prestigious NSF Early CAREER Award to conduct cutting-edge research that will improve hydrogen gas storage in solid hydrate structures.
  
  
• 04/17/2025: Our journal was published in Materials Today Sustainability Journal.
  Meisam Adibifard was the first-author on our papter titled "Coarse-Grained Molecular Studies Reveal Potential for Increased CO2 Storage in Hydrates". It was published in the Materials Today Sustainability Journal.
  
  
• 04/07/2025: Our journal was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
  Temitayo Adeyemi was the first-author on our papter titled "Molecular Studies and Advanced Visualization of the Trapping of Methane Nanobubbles During Hydrate Growth". It was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
  
  
• 01/25/2025: Our journal was published in Journal of Energy Storage.
  We published a paper titled "Taking bio-induced precipitation to the field for sustainable geo-energy storage: Experimental and numerical studies of leakage mitigation". It was published in the Journal of Energy Storage.
  
  
• 01/10/2024: Our journal was published in Advances in Geo-Energy Research Journal.
  Rashid, H* and Olorode, O. M.** (2024). "Use of controlled fractures in enhanced geothermal systems." Advances in Geo-Energy Research Journal.
  
  
• 01/10/2024: Our journal was published in SPE Journal.
  Rashid, H* and Olorode, O. M.** (2024). "A Continuous Projection-based EDFM Model for Flow in Fractured Reservoirs." SPE Journal.
  
  
• 12/03/2024: Ahmed Abdullah successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Now at Oxy.
  Ahmed Abdullah successfully defended his M.S. thesis and joined Oxy.
  
  
• 10/01/2024: Dr. Olorode wins $1,400,000 DOE award as co-PI
  Dr. Olorode is co-PI on a new DOE-funded project.
  
  
• 08/14/2024: Meisam Adibifard successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.
  Congratulations to Meisam Adibifard on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation.
  
  
• 06/01/2024: Dr. Olorode wins $550,000 ARPA-E award as LSU PI
  Dr. Olorode is LSU PI for a new ARPA-E project.
  
  
• 03/05/2024: Harun Rashid successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Now at Los Alamos National Lab.
  Harun Rashid defended his Ph.D. and is now at Los Alamos National Lab.
  
  
• 08/29/2023: Dr. Olorode wins $525,000 DOE award as sole PI
  Dr. Olorode received a DOE award as sole PI.
  
  
• 07/18/2023: Our journal was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
  Adibifard, M.* and Olorode, O. M.** (2023). "Large-Scale Nonequilibrium Molecular Studies of Thermal Hydrate Dissociation." Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
  
  
• 07/01/2023: Dr. Olorode wins $110,00 ACS PRF ND Award as co-PI
  Dr. Olorode is a co-PI on a new ACS PRF ND Award.
  
  
• 06/19/2023: Research group wins $63,444 AWS Research Credit
  The group received AWS Research Credits to support cloud-based research.
  
  
• 12/20/2022: Our journal was published in Scientific Reports.
  Read our latest in Scientific Reports.
  
  
• 08/11/2022: Our journal was published in SPE Journal.
  Egbe, U., Awoleke, O., Olorode, O. M.**, Goddard, S. (2023). "On the Application of Probabilistic Decline Curve Analysis to Unconventional Reservoirs." SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering.
  
  
• 07/01/2022: Our journal was published in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
  Ihunde, T.* and Olorode, O. M.** (2022). "Application of physics informed neural networks to compositional modeling." Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
  
  
• 04/01/2022: Our journal was published in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
• 02/14/2022: Thelma Ihunde successfully defended her M.S. thesis. Now at Tellurian inc.
• 07/08/2021: Hassan Amer successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Now at UT Austin.
• 08/13/2020: Our journal was published in SPE Journal.