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BP Ltd, Chertsey Road

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Middlesex

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Mohsen Tavakolian

Senior Reservoir Engineer & EOR Specialist

Work Biography

. Mar. 2011 - Present

Senior EOR Specialist and Reservoir Engineer - BP Research Centre,

Sunbury, Greater London, UK

. Aug. 2010 - Mar. 2011

PhD Student, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt

University, Edinburgh, UK

. Apr. 2006 - Aug. 2010

Senior Reservoir Engineer and EOR Specialist in IOR/EOR Department of

Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), Tehran, Iran

. Jan. 2004 - Mar. 2006

Reservoir Engineer in Technical Group of Petran Co., Tehran, Iran

. Mar. 2003 - Dec. 2004

Researcher and Laboratory Head, Faculty of Engineering, University of

Tehran, Iran

. Sep. 2001 - Mar. 2003

Reservoir Engineer in Project Control Team, Oil and Energy Industries

Development Company (OEID Co.), Tehran, Iran

Skills and Work Background

. Experienced in different reservoir types, light and heavy oils,

Middle Eastern, North Sea, American oilfields

. Design, perform, analysis and simulation of EOR studies

. Reservoir simulation and study

. SCAL study and analysis

. Full field study of two giant offshore oilfields

. Full field study of 16 Central Iran oilfields, heavy and light oils

. PVT study of two Middle Eastern and one North Sea oilfields

. Reservoir rock characterisation

. Update of the reservoir simulation model of three Iranian oilfields

Work Experience

. Senior Reservoir Engineer: Laboratory Investigation and Simulation

Study of EOR Projects (Alaskan, North Sea and Middle East semi-heavy

and light oils)

. Reservoir Engineer: SCAL Studies and Analysis (giant Iraqi reservoir)

. Job Leader: Laboratory Investigation and Simulation Study of CO2-

Enriched Water Injection for Enhancing Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage

(Brazilian heavy oil and Middle Eastern light oil)

. Project Leader and Researcher: Laboratory Investigation of Gas and

Water Injection Projects for EOR, Condensate Recovery, CO2 Storage

. Reservoir Engineer: Full Field Study (FFS) and Master Development

Plan (MDP) Preparation of Foroozan - Esfandiar Oil Fields

. Designing and Construction of Foroozan and Esfandiar Data Bank Based

on Browser Technique and html Pages

. Researcher and Laboratory Head: Opening of Flow Visualization Lab -

Designing and Fabrication of Glass Micromodel, University of Tehran

. Reservoir Engineer: Full Field Study (FFS) and Master Development

Plan (MDP) Preparation of 16 Oil Fields of Central Iran

Education

. PhD Student in Petroleum Engineering (not complete), Heriot-Watt

University, Edinburgh, UK, Aug. 2010 - Mar. 2012

Laboratory Investigation and Simulation Study of Carbonated Water

Injection, CO2 injection for EOR and CO2 Storage (different scenarios

for light and heavy oils)

. M.Sc. in Reservoir Engineering, University of Tehran - Faculty of

Engineering

Tehran, Iran, Sep. 2001 - Jan. 2004, GPA: 17.16

Thesis: Production Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm (GA)

Technique and Its Code Development in MALTLAB Environment

. B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology

(PUT)

Ahwaz, Iran, Feb. 1997 - Apr. 2001, GPA: 17.01

Thesis: Prediction of Dispersion Coefficient in Porous Media Using

Artificial Neural Networks and Its Code Development in MATLAB

Environment

Honours and Awards

. Scottish Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (S-ORSAS) and James

Watt Scholarship (JWS)

. First ranked in nationwide M.Sc. entrance exam (among 856 graduated

participants)

. Ranked 12th in nationwide B.Sc. entrance exam (among 35,678

participants)

. President of student union of PUT for 2 years

Key Skills

EOR (light and heavy oils), Reservoir Simulation and Study, Production

Optimization, Laboratory Investigation

Scientific Publications

. "Improved Oil Recovery and Injectivity by Carbonated Water Injection"

International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts, Aberdeen,

Scotland, UK, 27-30 August, 2012

. "Significant Improvement in Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage by

Carbonated Water Injection (CWI)"

Third EAGE CO2 Geological Storage Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 26 - 27

March 2012

. "Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage by Carbonated Water Injection"

8th DEVEX event, Aberdeen, UK, 11 - 12 May 2011

. "Investigation of Effect of Gas Injection Pressure on Oil Recovery

Accompanying CO2 Increasing in Injection Gas Composition"

paper SPE 140749 presented at SPE conference (Nigeria Annual

International Conference and Exhibition, 31 July - 7 August 2010)

. "Laboratory Investigation on The Effect of Water Injection Process

on Rock Structure and Permeability Reduction"

paper SPE 126266 presented at SPE conference (Kuwait, 14 - 16 Dec.

2009)

. "Laboratory Investigation of Injection Water Compatibility for Water

Injection Project of One Iranian Giant Oil Field"

issued in "Iran Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" journal

. "Feasibility Study of Gas Injection to Increase Oil Recovery in One

of Iranian Heavy Oil Reservoirs"

issued in "Iran Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" journal

. "A new WAG - Based Method To Improve Oil Recovery From An Abandoned

Water-Invaded Reservoir - Part 1 (Simulation)"

paper SPE-133123-PP which has been accepted for the 2010 SPE Trinidad

and Tobago Energy Resources Conference to be held 27-30 June 2010

. "Production Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm Approach"

paper SPE 88901 presented at SPE conference (Nigeria, 2 - 4 Aug.

2004)

. "Production Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm Approach"

(M.Sc. Thesis Report)

. "Dispersion Coefficient Prediction in Porous Media Using Neural

Networks Method"

(B.Sc. Thesis Report)

Industrial Publications

. Collaborator in final report of "WAG injection study in Orion heavy

oil"

. "Rumaila SCAL Data Review & Analogue Search"

. Collaboration in final report of "Experimental compatibility

investigation of injection and formation water; Water injection

project; Ahwaz oil field"

. PVT analysis reports on some well samples of Foroozan oil field

. Collaborator in "Full Field Study Proposal of Esfandiar Oil Field"

. Collaborator in "Full Field Study Proposal of Foroozan - Esfandiar

Oil Fields - Phase II"

. Collaborator in "Well Performance Report of Foroozan - Esfandiar Oil

Fields"

. "Rock Type Analysis and Selection of Burgan Reservoir - Foroozan Oil

Field"

Language Proficiency

. English: Fluent

. Persian: Native

. Arabic: Intermediate

Training Courses

. VIP, SCAL

BP, London, UK

. Eclipse 100 & 300, Well Test 200, Advanced Thermodynamics and Phase

Equilibrium of Hydrocarbon Mixtures, Petroleum Geology

Research Institute of Petroleum Industry

. CMG

OEID Co.

. On-the-job training of drilling and production operation

Iran Central Oil Fields Company, Khangiran, Iran

. On-the-job training of production operation

Petroleum University of Technology, Lavan Island, Iran

Experimental and Software Skills

. Fully familiar with and expert in VIP/Nexus simulator

. Fully familiar with and skilful in Eclipse 100 & 300

. Fully familiar with and skilful PVTi

. Familiar with PipeSim, Olga, OFM

. Fully familiar with Sendra simulator

. Professional in light and heavy oil EOR research, thermal and non-

thermal methods

. Professional in EOR laboratory and flooding rigs equipped with

scanning system

. Familiar with PVT lab system

. Fully familiar with office tools (Word, Excel, Power Point)

. Fully familiar with MATLAB programming

. Fully familiar with MS Project

. Familiar with Visual Basic

. Familiar with P3e (Primavera Project Planning enterprise)

Referees

. Dr. Reza Oskui, IOR/EOR scientist at Kuwait Institute for Scientific

Research

Tel: +965-****-****, Email: acgpfx@r.postjobfree.com, acgpfx@r.postjobfree.com

. Prof. Bahman Tohidi, Deputy Head of Institute, Heriot-Watt

University, Edinburgh, UK

Tel: +44-131-***-****, Email: acgpfx@r.postjobfree.com

. Dr. Manouchehr Haghighi, Senior Lecturer, The University of Adelaide,

Australia

Tel: +61 8 8303 4296, Email: acgpfx@r.postjobfree.com

. Dr. Abbas Shahrabadi, Head of IOR/EOR Department, Research Institute

of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), Tehran, Iran

Tel: +98-21-482*-****, Mobile: +98-912-***-****, Email:

acgpfx@r.postjobfree.com

. Sadegh Taheri, Principal Reservoir Engineer at BG Group, Reading,

United Kingdom

Tel: +44-118-***-****, Email: acgpfx@r.postjobfree.com

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