Dr Prashant Jadhawar

Biography

Dr Prashant Jadhawar has more than 18 years’ work experience of teaching (14 years) plus oil and gas industry (4 years) in UK, Germany, Australia and India, with exerptise in Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery, CO₂ sequestration combined with EOR/EGR, Reservoir Modelling and Simulation, Reservoir fluid characterization/PVT phase behaviour and flow assurance (hydrate, wax and asphaltenes). He disseminated more than 40 conference and journal papers, several technical reports and number of invited talks. Over the years, he taught numerous multi-disciplinary courses including Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS established at the University of Aberdeen), Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Simulation, PE Reservoir fluid properties/ thermodynamics, Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery, Surface Production Systems, well test interpreation. Prior to the University of Aberdeen, Prashant had been a Senior reservoir Engineer EOR (R&D) at Wintershall Holding GmBH, Germany.    

His administration experience spans over 14 years (programme leadership) in the UK and in India. He designed and developed/established a petroleum engineering programme during his tenure at the University of Portsmouth, UK (Programme Leadership: January 2011 to January 2014) while liaising with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (as a SPE faculty advisor), and oil and gas industries in the UK (through in-house SPE industry-guest lecture series, field visits, industry software/laboratory equipment resource etc.). Prashant had also been a Lecturer in Petroleum Engineering and a Programme Leader for the post-graduate diploma in Piping Design and Engineering for 6.5 years (1997-2003) at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT), Pune, India.

Prashant currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal "Scientific Data" published by Spinger NATURE (https://www.nature.com/sdata/about/editorial-board#eb).

Research Overview

Research Expertise: 

• Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery, 
• Exploitation of Methane Hydrates in Porous Media: CO₂-CH₄ replacement and other methods
• Flow Assurance: wax and hydrates, asphaltene and scale inhibition
• Reservoir Modelling and Simulation
• Reservoir Fluid Characterization/PVT phase behavior and modelling

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Open to expression of interests for collaborative research from industry & academics: 

• Underground Storage of hydrogen and carbon dioxide in Depleted Reservoirs and Aquifers
• Hydrogen and CO₂ Transportation in pipelines (repurposing of existing transportation pipelines)
• CO₂ sequestration & Storage coupled with Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery 
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), fractured carbonates, sandstone reservoirs

Current Research

Hydrogen/CO₂ Transportation in pipelines and Underground Storage in Depleted Reservoirs and Aquifers

CO2 Sequestration and Underground Storage in geoformations

Subsurface CO₂ Sequestration and Storage in Methane Hydrate Reservoirs & Clean Methane Energy Recovery (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c02839)

Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) from depleted Sandstone and Carbonate/chalk reservoirs

Exploitation and production from Methane Hydrate reservoirs (Arctic and Subsea porous media)

Collaborations

• Indian Insitute of Technology (IIT), Madras India

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”

Scholarships applications OPEN

Carnegie Trust Scholarships: deadline 14 January, open only for students graduating in Scotland. More details at Carnegie Trust PhD Scholarships

Teaching Responsibilities