Professor Pavel Bedrikovetski

Biography/ Background

After defending PhD at Applied Mathematics Department of Moscow Gubkin Petroleum University in 1982, I was working at the Oil-Gas Fluid Mechanics Department of this University until 1991, holding positions of Research Fellow, Senior Researcher and, finally, Research Professor (DSc) in Petroleum Engineering. During this period I was a project manager of reservoir studies in gas-condensate, volatile oil and oil-gas-condensate fields Vuktyl, Astrakhan (Russia), Karachaganak, Tengiz (Kazakhstan), Sovetabad, Gugurtly, Balkui (Turkmenia), Western Barch, Sekhalom-1 and Ulesh (Hungary). Reservoir management activity was accompanied by research in phase behaviour, fractured-porous reservoirs, inverse pronlems of reservoir characterisation and EOR.

In 1991-1994 I was a Visiting Professor at Delft University of Technology and at Imperial College of Science and Technology, where I consulted BP, British Gas, Chevron, Total, Shell and Statoil on EOR and reservoir characterisation. From 1994 and since now I am a Senior Staff Consultant to Petrobras in formation damage, waterflooding and IOR.

I joined ASP at University of Adelaide in January 2008 and work on unconventional energy resources, EOR and formation damage in close co-operation with Australian oil companies.

Qualifications

BEng in Applied Mathematics, Moscow Gubkin Petroleum University MING, 1975

MSc in Applied Mathematics and Petroleum Engineering, MING, 1977

PhD in Fluid Mechanics, MING, 1982

DSc in Reservoir Engineering, MING, 1990

Teaching Interests

Formation damage, its prevention and mitigation;                                                                    Waterflooding
EOR and IOR
Environmental fluid mechanics
Mathematical modelling and fluid mechanics for petrleum engineers and geo-scientists

Transport in porous media

Reservoir Simulation

 

Research Interests

Mathematical modelling, laboratory studies and field projects on:

-unconventional energy reservoirs: CSG, shale gas and geothermals;                                             -formation damage                                                                                                               -waterflooding;
-IOR/EOR

Formation damage includes fines migration, sand production and control, horizontal and fractured wells, gravel pack, oilfield scaling, drilling fluid invasion and cake formation

Suspension/colloid transport in porous media with applications to environmental engineering, aquifer and soil contamination, artesian wells, water cleaning and treatment, industrial filtering, membrane science, size exclusion chromatography, medical applications

Mathematical modelling of well stimulation and exploitation of Unconventional Energy Resources (CBM, shale gas, geothermal reservoirs) for invention of new well stimulation and recovery technologie

Research Funding

1. Formation Damage and Improved Oil Recovery, Research Project sponsored by Santos Ltd, 2009-2011

2. Modeling the capillary entrapment phenomena and integrity of geological reservoirs for clean energy, water and waste management technologies, ARC Discovery grant, 2010-2013

3. Development of innovative technologies for oil production based on the advanced theory of suspension flows in porous media, ARC Linkage grant, 2010-2013

4. Novel technology for enhanced coal seam gas production utilizing mechanisms of stimulated cleat permeability through graded particle injection, ARC Linkage grant, 2011-2014

5. Determination of rates from different layer from the temperature profile in gas wells, Research Project sponsored by Santos Ltd, 2010-2011

 

 

 

Publications

Author of three books in reservoir engineering and 160 papers in international journals and SPE (see the publication list attached). Some pdf files are attached to the file section at the bottom of the page.

Professional Associations

SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Community Engagement

Reviewer for Journals:

Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPEJ

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering,

SPE REE Society of Petroleum Engineers, Production and Facilities, SPE PF

Transport in Porous Media

Vadoze Zone 

Journal of Porous Media

Journal of Transport in Porous Media

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Canadian Journal of Petroleum Technology

Reviewer for Springer Publishing Co

Files

• simple suspension flow model - TiPM_journal_2005.pdf [301.0K] (application/pdf)
• exact models for deep bed filtration Polyanin - exact_solution_deep_bed_filtration.pdf [215.5K] (application/pdf)
• random walk model for suspension flow - PhysA_2008_Elliptic_suspension.pdf [631.3K] (application/pdf)
• multiple particle capture mecahnisms - SPE98623_multiple_rafael_journal_090330.pdf [444.4K] (application/pdf)
• suspension flow model with incomplete plugging - TIPM_2006_journal_incomplete_plug.pdf [331.8K] (application/pdf)
• deep bed filtration with diffusion - JPSE_capture+diffusion.pdf [504.6K] (application/pdf)
• publications_130205.doc [139.5K] (application/msword)
• random walk model for suspensions with different partcile sizes - PhysA_2010_Elliptic_suspension_sizes.pdf [1013.7K] (application/pdf)
• Upscaling of suspension flow - TIPM_upscaling_journal_2008.pdf [603.0K] (application/pdf)
• micro model for fines detachment - detachment_TiPM.pdf [635.2K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013