Rate My Professor Christopher Lagat

Dr. Christopher Lagat is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Petroleum Engineering within the Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University. He obtained his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Curtin University in August 2015, with a doctoral thesis titled "Evaluation and selection of an optimum material for coil tubes in CT drilling technology for hard rocks in mineral exploration." Lagat also holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. A Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng NER) registered with Engineers Australia and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), he manages the Subsea Engineering course and contributes to education in energy and chemical engineering fields.

Lagat's research focuses on hydrogen technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS), drilling engineering, flow assurance, pipeline and subsea erosion-corrosion, decommissioning, and psychosocial health and safety in offshore oil and gas operations. His studies address enhanced gas recovery via CO2 injection in shale reservoirs, polymer erosion in sandy marine waters leading to microplastics, MEG inhibition performance, methane hydrate under magnetic fields, and mental wellbeing amid casualisation and pandemics in the industry. He has collaborated on projects including Curtin University's corrosion control initiative with Chevron Australia and a pioneering natural gas research facility.

Prominent publications include "Statistical Analysis of Controlling Factors on Enhanced Gas Recovery by CO2 Injection in Shale Gas Reservoirs" (Energy & Fuels, 2023), "COVID-19 and Offshore Oil and Gas Workers: The Role of Personality" (Safety Science, 2023), "Erosion of Rigid Plastics in Turbid (Sandy) Water: Quantitative Assessment for Marine Environments and Formation of Microplastics" (Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2024), "Predictive Modelling of Erosion Behaviour in Polymeric and Composite Materials Using Machine Learning" (Lubricants, 2026), "Incident Case Study of Baseline Pigging During In-Line Inspections for Corrosion Resistant Alloy Clad Pipelines" (Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 2022), and his 2015 PhD thesis. With 404 citations from 34 works, Lagat's contributions advance sustainable energy engineering and subsea technologies.