About Me

Motonao (Sean) IMAI

Born in Tokyo in 1984

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Experience

Reservoir Engineer at Japan Petroleum Exploration Co.,Ltd

April 2010 – Present

(Intern) Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited, Schlumberger, Daiwa Institute of Research


Honors and Awards

Chinese Government Full Scholarships

Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China

September 2005

Government Supported Full Scholarship: September 2005 – August 2006


Publications

  • A New Interpretation Method of 4D Seismic for Estimating Steam Chamber Extent

October 2009

Authors: Motonao Tanaka (Imai), Kenji Endo, Toru Nakayama, Shigenobu Onozuka

  • Estimation of Steam Chamber Extent Using 4D Seismic

May 2010

Authors: Motonao Tanaka (Imai), Kenji Endo, Shigenobu Onozuka

  • Estimation of Fracture Effective Permeability by Upscaling Using Ensemble Kalman Filter and Streamline Simulation

October 2010

Authors: Motonao Tanaka (Imai), Shusei Tanaka, Norio Arihara, Hiroshi Okabe

  • Reservoir Fluid Characterization for Tight Fractured Reservoirs: Effect of Diffusion

October 2012

Authors: Motonao Imai, Isami Sumikawa, Tomomi Yamada, Masanori Nakano

  • How Heavy Gas Solvents Reduce Heavy Oil VIscosity?

June 2013

Authors: Motonao Imai, Ichiro Nishioka, Masanori Nakano, Fuminori Kaneko


Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)

Japanese (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Chinese (Full professional proficiency)

Cantonese (Professional working proficiency)


Skills & Expertise

Java

C++

CUDA

C#

Fortran

PHP

MySQL

Databases

MATLAB

Reservoir Engineering

Reservoir Characterization

Reservoir Simulation

Thermodynamics

Optimization

Android Development

Equity Derivatives

High Performance Computing

SAGD


Education

Stanford University

MS, Petroleum Engineering, 2014 – 2016, Stanford, CA, United States

Waseda University

MS, Petroleum Engineering, 2008 – 2010, Tokyo, Japan

Waseda University

BA, Petroleum Engineering, 2003 – 2008, Tokyo, Japan

Sun Yat-Sen University

School of Business, 2005 – 2006, Guangzhou, China


Interests

Reservoir Engineering, Thermodynamics, Optimization, Chinese Dialect, Chinese Economic & Political System, History of Hong Kong