Rizwan Sarwar Awan
Associate Professor
Cell: +8618715061194
E-mail: rsageoche@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rizwan-sarwar-awan-ph-d-09510667
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rizwan-Sarwar-Awan-3
Research interests:
1. Sedimentary Geochemistry
2. Isotope Geochemistry
3. Unconventional Oil and gas Resources
4. Paleoclimate and Palaeoecology
5. Marine Vertebrate Fossils Geochemistry
6. Carbonates Microbial Activities
Degrees:
2021 PhD Geological Resources and Geological Engineering, China University of Petroleum Beijing
2016 MSc/M.Phil Geological Sciences University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan
2012 BS Applied Geology, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (UAJK) Muzaffarabad, Pakistan
Current Position:
2024-present Associate Professor, North East Petroleum University, Daqing
Research and Professional Experience
2024 –2024, Researcher, North East Petroleum University, Daqing
2021-2024 Postdoc Research Fellow, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei
2017-2017 Field Engineer, Pakistan Industrial Trading Corporation (Pvt) Limited, Lahore, Pakistan
2016-2017 Intern Geologist, Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan
2015-2016 Geologist, Soil and Foundation Engineering Services, Lahore, Pakistan
2015-2015 Jr. GIS Professional, The Urban Unit, Lahore, Pakistan
Scholarly and professional activities
Academic Editor PLOS ONE
Editorial Board Member Energy Geoscience
Editorial Board Member Earth Sciences (EARTHS)
Editorial Board Member International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Engineering
Selected Publications:
1. Awan, R.S., Liu, C., Yasin, Q., Liu, B., Wood, D.A., Dehao, F., Yuping, Wu., Iltaf., K.H. (2024). Geologic Characterization of the Lower Paleozoic Black Shale of the Niutitang Formation: Implications for a Shale Gas Potential in Western Hunan, China. Marine and Petroleum Geology. Volume 163, May 2024, 106756
2. Awan, R.S., Liu, C., Khan, A., Iltaf, K.H., Zang, Q., Wu, Y., Ali, S., Gul, M.A. (2023). Geochemical Characterization of Organic Rich Black Rocks of the Niutitang Formation to Reconstruct the Paleoenvironmental Settings During Early Cambrian Period from Xiangxi Area, Western Hunan China. Journal of Earth Science 34(6)
3. Awan, R.S., Liu, C., Aadil, N., Yasin, Q., Salaam, A., Hussain, A., Yang, S., Jadoon, A.K., Wu, Y., Gul, M.A. (2021). Organic Geochemical Evaluation of Cretaceous Talhar Shale for Shale Oil and Gas Potential from Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 108404. 200.
4. Awan, R.S., Liu, C., Gong, H., Dun, C., Tong, C., Chamssidini, L.G. (2020). Paleo-Sedimentary Environment in Relation to Enrichment of Organic Matter of Early Cambrian Black Rocks of Niutitang Formation from Xiangxi Area China. Marine and Petroleum Geology 112 (2020) 104057.
5. Feng, D., Liu, C., Yang, H., Han, Y., Li, G., Awan, R.S., Yang, X., Su, J., Xie. (2024). Experimental investigation of hydrocarbon generation, retention, and expulsion of saline lacustrine shale: Insights from improved semi-open pyrolysis experiments of Lucaogou Shale, eastern Junggar Basin, China. J. Anal. Appl. Pyrolysis, 106640.
6. Ali, S., Li,M., Jian, F., Hakro, A.A.A.D., Xiao, H., Lu, X., Awan, R.S., Wang, W. (2024). Molecular organic geochemistry and origin of oil in the Potwar Basin, Pakistan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2024.106215
7. Li, G., Liu, C., Awan, R.S., Yang, X., Feng, D., Wang, F., Zeng, X., Yang, H., Su, J., Wu, Y. (2023). The implication of kinetics characteristics of modern organisms for the hydrocarbon generation evolution of organic matter components in the lacustrine source rocks: A case study of the Dongying Formation from the Bozhong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin. J. Anal. Appl. Pyrolysis 106328.
8. Zang, Q., Liu, C., Awan, R.S., Yang, X., Lu, Z., Li, G., Wu, Y., Feng, D., Ran, Y. (2022). Comparison of pore size distribution, heterogeneity and occurrence characteristics of movable fluids of tight oil reservoirs formed in different sedimentary environments: a case study of Chang 7 Member of Ordos Basin, China. Natural Resources Research. 2022.
9. Wu, Y., Liu, C*., Jiang, F., Hu, T., Awan, R.S., Chen, Z., Lv, J., Zhang, C., Hu, M., Huang, R. (2022). Occurrence Space and State of Petroleum in Lacustrine Shale: Insights from Two-Step Pyrolysis and the N 2 Adsorption Experiment. Energy & Fuels 36, 10920–10933.
10. Awan, R.S., Liu, C*., Dehao, F., Zang, Q., Wu, Y., Ali, S. (2022). Origin of organic matter and depositional characteristics of early Cambrian Niutitang Formation from South China: New insights using molecular fossils. Geological Journal.
11. Zang, Q., Liu, C., Awan, R.S., Yang, X., Li, G., Wu, Y., Lu, Z., Feng, D. (2022). Occurrence characteristics of the movable fluid in heterogeneous sandstone reservoir based on fractal analysis of NMR data: A case study of the Chang 7 Member of Ansai Block, Ordos Basin, China. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 110499. 214.
12. Awan, R.S., Liu, C., Yang, S., Wu, Y., Zang, Q., Khan, A., Li, G. (2021). The Occurrence of Vanadium in Nature-its Biogeochemical Cycling and relationship with Organic Matter: A Case Study of the Early Cambrian Black Rocks of the Niutitang Formation, Western Hunan, China. Acta Geochimica, 2021 40(6), 973-997.
