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, Professor 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 to Petrobras in formation damage, waterflooding and IOR.

I joined ASP at University of Adelaide in January 2008 and plan to work with Australian and Brazilian industries on formation damage and IOR.

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
Applied Mathematics for geo-scientists and geo-engineers

Theoretical physics and fluid mechanics for geo-scientists and geo-engineers

Transport in porous media Formation damage in oil and gas reservoirs

Research Interests

Mathematical modelling, laboratory studies and field projects on:

-formation damage
-waterflooding
-IOR/EOR

Formation damage includes oilfield scaling, fines migration, sand production and control, horizontal and fractured wells, gravel pack, 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

Publications

Author of three books in reservoir engineering and 140 papers in international journals and SPE (see the publication list attached)

Professional Associations

SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

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

Reviewer for Springer Publishing Co

Files

• publications_080225.doc [145.0K] (application/msword)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 13 May 2008