
PhD, MPhil, MEng & BEng in Petroleum Engineering
Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- prashant.jadhawar@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274180
- Office Address
- Lecturer in Petroleum EngineeringFraser Noble Buliding (Office FN350)School of EngineeringUniversity of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE.
- School/Department
- School of Engineering
Biography
Dr Prashant Jadhawar hold more than 20 years’ experience of teaching (16 years) plus oil and gas industry (4 years) in UK, Germany, Australia and India, with exerptise in Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery (EOR/EGR), CO2 sequestration/utlization, Reservoir Modelling and Simulation, Reservoir fluid characterization and flow assurance, with expertise dissemination at several conferences, invited talks, journal papers and technical reports. In academia, he taught numerous multi-disciplinary Masters level courses: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation, PE Reservoir fluid properties, EOR/EGR, Well testing, flow assurance, and Well plugging & abanodnment. As a Senior reservoir Engineer EOR (R&D) at Wintershall Holding GmBH, Germany, Prashant worked on surfactant, CO2, low salinity waterflooding EOR application in sandstones and carbonate reservoirs.
In academic programme leadership over 16 years in UK & India, Prashant played pivotal leading role in the establishment of petroleum engineering programme at the University of Portsmouth, UK (01/2011 to 01/2014) while liaising with SPE London section and oil and gas industries to setup SPE industry-guest lecture series, industry software/laboratory equipment resource worth £4 million; successful establishment of an industry-academia collaboration for teaching and reseach at University of Aberdeen (since 09/2017); liaising with piping industry (Uhde, Kvaerner, Linde etc.) at MITWPU Pune (Lecturer -Petroleum Eng & Piping Design & Engineering, 05/1997-09/2003).
As a Principal Investigator (PI), his research is focussed on Hydrogen Innovation: H2 pipeline transport and its TerrWatt (TWh) scale underground (UG) storage in the depleted oil & gas reservoirs / aquifers, alone and/or combined with the Carbon Capture Utilization and storage (CCUS); with funding support from the Net Zero technology Centre (NZTC) & UKCS industry partners in a collaborative consortium.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy Petroleum Engineering (Dissertation: CO2-Assisted Gravity Drainage EOR Process: Reservoir Simulation & Scaled Model studies)2010 - University of Adelaide
- Master of Philosophy Petroleum Engineering (Dissertation: CO2 sequestration and storage in gas hydrate reservoirs for clean energy methane recovery)2005 - Heriot-Watt University
- Master of Engineering Petroleum Engineering2000 - University of Pune
- Bachelor of Engineering Petroleum Engineering1996 - University of Pune
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Course Coordinator:
- CARBON CAPTURE, UTILISATION AND STORAGE (CCUS) - EG504K EG504L
- Well Plugging and Abandonment - EG50R2 and EG503T (MSc Decommissioning)
- EG502A: WELL TESTING: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN (2023-2024)
- Field Development and Petroleum Economics (FDP) - EG502F MSc Petroleum Engineering
- External Memberships
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Memberships/Professional affiliations
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) (since 2003).
- Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK. (Since 2011).
- Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK (since 2012)
- Associate Member of Energy Institute (AMEI)
Editorial assignments:
- Associate Editor, Journal of GeoEnergy Science and Engineering (previously Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Elsevier) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geoenergy-science-and-engineering/about/editorial-board
- Editorial Board Member, Scientific Data, Springer NATURE
Reviewer for:
- Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Elsevier.
- Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Applied Energy, Elsevier.
- Environmental Science & Technology, American Chemical Society (ACS).
- Energy and Fuels, American Chemical Society (ACS)
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
- Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Springer
- Journal of dispersion Science and technology
Technical/programme Committee Member:
- Member of the SPE's Continuing Education Committee at the SPE Aberdeen Section, since Nov 2022.
- Programme committee member, DEVEX conference, SPE Aberdeen Section, Since Dec 2017.
- Member of panel of judges for the SPE’s prestigious Offshore achievement Awards (OAA) committee, Aberdeen, March 2019
- DEVEX conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (Since 2018)
- Session Co-chair at SPE’s DEVEX 2019 conference; 7-8 May 2019, AECC, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
- International Petroleum Technology conference (IPTC), Beijing, China. March 2019.
- SPE oil and gas conference India, Mumbai, India. April 2019.
Academic programme reviewer
- Undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University (2012) and London South Bank University (2012).
- A member of the academic advisor committee in petroleum engineering at the Commonwealth commission, UK.
Latest Publications
Effects of Ultrasound on the Removal of Emulsion Plugging in Oil Reservoirs
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 676, no. Part B, 132289Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOptimizing Underground Hydrogen Storage in Aquifers:: The Impact of Cushion Gas Type
International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.08.352
A Comprehensive Review of Pre- and Post-treatment Approaches to Achieve Sustainable Desalination for Different Water Streams
Desalination, vol. 566, 116944Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFluid-Fluid and Rock-Fluid Parametric Investigation of The Underground Storage of Hydrogen in a Deep North Sea Aquifer
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/215598-MS
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Optimizing the Operational Efficiency of the Underground Hydrogen Storage Scheme in a Deep North Sea Aquifer Through Compositional Simulations.
Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 73, no. Part A, 108832Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
Research Expertise:
- Underground Storage of hydrogen and carbon dioxide in depleted Oil and Gas reservoirs and Aquifers
- Hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide (CO2) and their blends' Transportation in pipelines (including repurposing options)
- Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery
- CO2 sequestration & Storage (CCUS)
- Exploitation of Methane Hydrates in Porous Media: CO2-CH4 replacement and other methods
- Reservoir Modelling and Simulation
- Field Development: Feasibility screening and deployment studies
- Flow Assurance
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Engineering.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Energy Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Fluid Mechanics
- Artificial Intelligence
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
Underground Hydrogen and CO2 Storage in Depleted Reservoirs and Aquifers
Hydrogen spreading in a deep North Sea Aquifer (adapted from Jadhawar and Saeed, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.108832)
Hydrogen, methane and their blends', and carbon dioxide (CO2) Transportation in pipelines (including repurposing options); digital twin development
CO2 Sequestration and Storage: Oceanic and permafrost gas hydrates
Visual 2D micromodel section depicting the released methane bubble transport during the liquid CO2 injection (A) subsequent CO2 hydrate formation (hence CO2 storage) or mixed CO2-CH4 hydrate formation (figures B-F) (B) stabilized larger methane bubbles after 90 minutes (Figure H) (Jadhawar et al., 2021; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c02839)
Collaborations
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras India
- University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, India
- The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
- University of Leeds, UK
- Louisiana State University, USA
- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA
- Texas Tech University, USA
- University of Calgary, Canada
- MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU), India
- MIT ADT University, Pune
- MIT ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, Pune. India
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Engineering.
Graduated students:
- Saeed, Motaz. 2022. PhD Petroleum Engineering. Dissertation, "Geochemical and surface complexation modelling of low salinity water - chemical flooding in sandstone reservoirs".
- Adeyemi, Bamikole. 2022. PhD Petroleum Engineering. Dissertation, "Smart water-CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery from Sandstone Reservoirs
- Odunlami, Kazeem. 2023. MSc by Research, thesis titled, "Impact of grain roughness on liquid permeability in packed columns of glass spheres"
- Otumundia, Ephraim. 2023. PhD Petroleum Engineering. Dissertation, "Effect of Ultrasonic Waves on the Removal of Asphaltene Deposition and Emulsion Plugging in Oil Reservoirs"
- Dala, Joshua. 2023. PhD Petroleum Engineering. Dissertation, "Flow Performance and Production Analysis in Gas Condensate Wells"
PhD students: Lead Supervisor
- Adeyemi, Bamikole; Research Topic:"Smart water-CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery from Sandstone Reservoirs", February 2018-February 2022, sponsored by Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF, Nigeria)
- Saeed, Motaz. 2022. Research "Geochemical and surface complexation modelling of low salinity water - chemical flooding in sandstone reservoirs", Novermber 2018 - November 2021, sponsored by Sudanese ministry
- Adamu, Adamu; Research Topic:Electromagnetic Enhanced Oil Recovery; Oct 2019-Oct2022, sponsored by PTDF
- Odunlami, Kazeem, Reseach Topic: Impact of grain rughness on three phase flow in water-wet Media: A Pore Scale Study using X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography", Oct 2019-Oct 2022, sponsored by PTDF
- Chinedu, Alamezie, start 11/2019, sponsored by NDDC
PhD students: Co-Superviser:
- Otumundia, Ephraim. Research Topic: "Effect of high frequency waves on formation damage reduction", February 2018-June2021, Funding - TETFund
- Joshua Dala, Research Topic: "Flow Performance and Production Analyses in Gas Condensate Wells", June 2019-June2022, Funding - PTDF, Nigeria
External Examiner:
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, India.
- Heriot Watt University, UK.
Supervisees
Funding and Grants
- Global Challanges Research Fund (GCRF) Internal Pump Priming Fund IPPF, "Accelerating the energy/environment/water nexus in Malaysia by triggering hydrogen economies" (co-investigator: Geo-chemical and geomechanical effects of H2 and CO2 on rock integrity during its underground storage) - (£20,000) 2021.
- Petroleum Technology Development Fund; £49,200.00 (2018-2021) - “Smart water-CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery from Sandstone Reservoirs”.
- Petroleum Technology Development Fund; £50,791 (2019-2022) -“CO2 EOR / sequestration".
- Petroleum Technology Development Fund; £53425.00 (2019-2022) - “Electromagnetic EOR”
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, January start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
EG504K/4L: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS); (MSc Energy Transition)EG502A, EG551Q: Well Testing - Analysis and Design (MSc Petroleum Engineering)EG50R2, EG503T: Well Plugging and Abandonment (MSc Decommissioning)EP4018: Petroleum Production Engineering and Technoloy (BEng, level 4): Flow assurance (Hydrates, wax and asphaltene), Sand Production and control.Supervision of MSc, MEng and BEng research projectsPreviously taughtEG502F: Field Development and Petroleum Economics (MSc Petroleum Engineering); 2018-2021EP4531: Field Development and Petroleum Economics (BEng/MEng Petroleum Eng, level 4); 2017-2021Reservoir Engineeing/EORReservoir fluid properties/characterization (PVT phase behaviour, EoS development)Reservoir Simulation - Publications
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Effects of Ultrasound on the Removal of Emulsion Plugging in Oil Reservoirs
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 676, no. Part B, 132289Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOptimizing Underground Hydrogen Storage in Aquifers:: The Impact of Cushion Gas Type
International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.08.352
A Comprehensive Review of Pre- and Post-treatment Approaches to Achieve Sustainable Desalination for Different Water Streams
Desalination, vol. 566, 116944Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFluid-Fluid and Rock-Fluid Parametric Investigation of The Underground Storage of Hydrogen in a Deep North Sea Aquifer
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/215598-MS
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Optimizing the Operational Efficiency of the Underground Hydrogen Storage Scheme in a Deep North Sea Aquifer Through Compositional Simulations.
Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 73, no. Part A, 108832Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMechanistic Evaluation of the Reservoir Engineering Performance for the Underground Hydrogen Storage in a Deep North Sea Aquifer
International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.07.272
Underground Hydrogen Storage in Subsurface Geoformations: practical considerations
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsGeochemical Effects on Storage Gases and Reservoir Rock during Underground Hydrogen Storage: A Depleted North Sea Oil Reservoir Case Study
Hydrogen, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 323-337Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSurface Complexation Modeling of HPAM Polymer–Brine–Sandstone Interfaces for Application in Low-Salinity Polymer Flooding
Energy & Fuels, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 6585-6600Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvaluating the Performance of Various Cushion Gas Types for Underground Hydrogen Storage in an Aquifer
Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations