Dr Prashant Jadhawar

Biography

Dr Prashant Jadhawar hold more than 22 years’ experience of teaching (18 years) plus oil and gas industry (4 years) in UK, Germany, Australia and India, with expertise in Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery (EOR/EGR), CO₂ sequestration/utilization, 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 & abandonment. 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 18 years in UK & India, Prashant also 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 research 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) and innovator, his research is focused 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.

Prizes and Awards

Invited Talks:

1. Jadhawar, P. 2024. "NET ZERO targets achievement through Underground Hydrogen Storage in Depleted Oil and Gas Reservoirs and Aquifers", Powering the Net Zero (PNZ), IET Conference, Birmingham, UK (5 Dec 2024). https://poweringnetzero.theiet.org/programme/speakers/hydrogen-speakers
2. Jadhawar, P. 2024. "Underground Storage of gases to achieve Net Zero Targets for Energy Transition", International Conference on Oil and Gas for Energy Security, 17 February 2024, Gandhinagar, India
3. Keynote Speaker: Jadhawar, P., 2023. "Energy Transition - The Underground Storage of Hydrogen". 1st International conference in Earth Sciences and Energy Transition. (Keynote Speaker). 8/02/23. Muscat, Oman
4. Invited speaker: Jadhawar, P. 2021. Natural Gas Hydrates: Challenges and Opportunities in India, Virtual conference: Future of Natural Resources (Hydrocarbons, Rare Earth Metals and Blue Economy), invited by Government of India. (Invited speaker), 29/10/2021. Conference on Future of Natural Resources: Government of India (from 2:14:15 onwards)
5. Jadhawar, P., 2021. "CO2/H2 Transportation and Underground Storage". Energy Transition - Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage, (Oman Drilling and Exploration Symposium), 21/03/2021.

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 

Current Research

Accepting self funded PhD studentship applications:

NET ZERO Innovation: Underground gas (Hydrogen, CO2) Storage; Pipeline trasportation of methane, Hydrogen and CO2

for more details please contact: Prashant.Jadhawar@abdn.ac.uk

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Postdoc opportunity: Newton International Fellowships

Newton International Fellowships to open on 24th January 2024, for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career (less than 7 years post PhD) and wish to conduct research in the UK. Interested Post-doctoral candidates with strong publications record, please get in touch (Prashant.Jadhawar@abdn.ac.uk) for hydrogen innovation research on "Underground #hydrogen and CO2 Storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and Aquifers"; "#Subsurface #CO2sequestration and #storage as #gas #hydrates".

https://lnkd.in/es98Cd2Y

Underground Hydrogen and CO₂ Storage in Depleted Oil and Gas Reservoirs and Aquifers (NZTC funded project)

Hydrogen, methane and their blends', and carbon dioxide (CO2) Transportation in pipelines (including repurposing options); digital twin development (NZTC funded project)

CO₂ Sequestration and Storage: Oceanic and permafrost gas hydrates

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

Funding and Grants

• Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) - Hydrogen Innovation Grants for technology development (ongoing), two projects: (i) Hydrogen, CO2 and blend's transportation in pipelines and  (ii) Underground Storage of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide in Depleted Oil and Gas Reservoirs and Aquifers. 
• Global Challenges 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 Responsibilities