E-mail: kulga@itu.edu.tr
Phone +90 212 285 6269
Room D-205, Faculty of Mines
Website akademi.itu.edu.tr/kulga
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Research Interests Unconventional reservoirs, CO2 sequestration, machine learning, reservoir simulation
Education
Ph.D. Penn State University, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, 2014
M.S. Penn State University, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, 2010
Istanbul Technical University, Energy Science and Technology, 2010
B.Sc. Middle East Technical University, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, 2004
Courses Given
Graduate PET 504E: Advanced Well Test Analysis, PET 513E: Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Undergraduate PET 428E: Simulation of Geosystems, PET 332E: Production Engineering and Surface Facilities, MAT 202E Numerical Methods
Selected Publications
1. Artun, E., Kulga, B. (2020). Selection of candidate wells for re-fracturing in tight gas sand reservoirs using fuzzy inference. Petroleum Exploration and Development47(2):413-420.
2. Kulga, B., Ertekin, T. (2018). Numerical representation of multi-component gas flow in stimulated shale reservoirs, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 56: 579-592.
3. Kulga, B., Artun, E., Ertekin, T. (2018). Characterization of tight-gas sand reservoirs from horizontal-well performance data using an inverse neural network. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 59:35-46.
4. Kulga, B., Artun, E., Ertekin, T. (2017). Development of a data-driven forecasting tool for hydraulically fractured, horizontal wells in tight-gas sands. Computers & Geosciences, 103:99-110.