UTP Scholars: Dr Nor Syazwani binti Zainal Abidin
11-03-31
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
Bandar Seri Iskandar, 32610 Perak
P:+6053687125
Email: norsyazwani.z@utp.edu.my
Note: Updated as of Quarter 2, 2025 (May)
- [2025-2027], Evaluating the Feasibility and Safety of Integrating Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Oligocene-Miocene Coals, Borneo, Malaysia.
- [2021-2024], Unlocking Microbial Methanogenesis in Hydraulically Fractured Shale.
- Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM) (Member).
- European Associations of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) (Member).
- [2024-2025], PRE-TERTIARY STUDIES (PETRONAS Cari Gali Sdn. Bhd).
- [2022-2023], PENYU BASIN AND ARONG GRABEN: Integrated Onshore-Offshore studies. (PETRONAS).
- Physical Geology (Undergraduate - Year 1).
- Organic Geochemistry (Undergraduate - Year 2).
- YITP-PRG.
- YUTP-FRG.
- Petroleum Geochemistry
- Petroleum System Analysis
- Carbonates Sedimentology & Petrography
- Coal Geology
- Basin & Petroleum System Modellingli>
- Organic Petrology
- [2021], PhD in Geology, Universiti Malaya
- [2012], MSc in Petroleum Geosciences, UTP
- [2008], BSc in Geology, UKM
Dr. Nor Syazwani is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS with over a decade of academic and research experience in petroleum geoscience. Her expertise lies in petroleum geochemistry, organic petrology, basin modelling, and coal geology, particularly in Southeast Asia. Her research interests cover integrated onshore to offshore study from source-to-sink and core-to-reservoir scale as well as Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS). With her expertise, she has led and contributed to multiple high-impact research and consultancy projects with PETRONAS, and has received national and international awards for her research excellence. She is also a certified HRDCORP trainer and active in science outreach programs.
Barham, A. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. (2024) Machine Learning Approach to Predict the Illite Weight Percent of Unconventional Reservoirs from Well-Log Data: An Example from Montney Formation, NE British Columbia, Canada. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 14 (1).
Hisham, N.F. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. (2023) Sedimentology and Paleodepositional Environment of the Early-Middle Miocene Tanjong Formation, Southeast Sabah: Evidence from Bulk Geochemistry and Palynology Analyses. Minerals, 13 (4).
Ai Zamruddin, N.N.S. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. and Endut, Z. and Makoundi, C. and Lok, L.K. and Ismail, M.S. (2023) Trace Element Analysis of Pyrite and Arsenopyrite Using the LA-ICPMS Technique in Pulai, Central Belt of Peninsular Malaysia. Minerals, 13 (8).
Kumar, A. and Hakimi, M.H. and Singh, A.K. and Abdullah, W.H. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. and Rahim, A. and Mustapha, K.A. and Yelwa, N.A. (2022) Geochemical and Petrological Characterization of the Early Eocene Carbonaceous Shales: Implications for Oil and Gas Exploration in the Barmer Basin, Northwest India. ACS Omega, 7 (47). pp. 42960-42974. ISSN 24701343
Zainal Abidin, N.S. and Mustapha, K.A. and Abdullah, W.H. and Konjing, Z. (2022) Paleoenvironment reconstruction and peat-forming conditions of Neogene paralic coal sequences from Mukah, Sarawak, Malaysia. Scientific Reports, 12 (1). ISSN 20452322
Barham, A. and Ismail, M.S. and Hermana, M. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. (2021) Biomarker characteristics of Montney source rock, British Columbia, Canada. Heliyon, 7 (11). ISSN 24058440
Gharib, A.F. and �zkan, A.M. and Hakimi, M.H. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. and Lashin, A.A. (2021) Integrated geochemical characterization and geological modeling of organic matter-rich limestones and oils from Ajeel Oilfield in Mesopotamian Basin, Northern Iraq. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 126. ISSN 02648172
Zainal Abidin, N.S. and Raymond, R.R. and Bashah, N.S.I. (2017) Diagenetic history of late Oligocene-early Miocene carbonates in East Sabah, Malaysia. In: UNSPECIFIED.
Ayinla, H.A. and Abdullah, W.H. and Makeen, Y.M. and Abubakar, M.B. and Jauro, A. and Sarki Yandoka, B.M. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. (2017) Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the Upper Cretaceous coal and mudstones of Gombe Formation, Gongola sub-basin, northern Benue trough Nigeria: Implication for organic matter preservation, paleodepositional environment and tectonic settings. International Journal of Coal Geology, 180. pp. 67-82. ISSN 01665162
Ayinla, H.A. and Abdullah, W.H. and Makeen, Y.M. and Abubakar, M.B. and Jauro, A. and Sarki Yandoka, B.M. and Mustapha, K.A. and Zainal Abidin, N.S. (2017) Source rock characteristics, depositional setting and hydrocarbon generation potential of Cretaceous coals and organic rich mudstones from Gombe Formation, Gongola Sub-basin, Northern Benue Trough, NE Nigeria. International Journal of Coal Geology, 173. pp. 212-226. ISSN 01665162