borisbukhanov

Boris Bukhanov

Senior Research Scientist
Center for Petroleum Science and Engineering
Supervisor: Mikhail Spasennykh
Boris graduated with honors from the Geological Department of the Moscow State University (MSU) in 2009 where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 2013 investigating thermal conductivity of gas and gas hydrates saturated sediments. During his postgraduate research, Boris created a methodology for investigating thermal conductivity of gas- and hydrate-bearing sediments, identified key factors of thermal conductivity, and compared laboratory and real values of thermal conductivity of bottom sediments in the shelf of Laptev Sea.

While studying at MSU, Boris Bukhanov participated in a variety of research projects of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Academy of Science, VNIIGAS, Total and others. In 2007, he took part in deep-water drilling in the Lake Baikal, one of the modules of international studies of natural gas hydrates. In 2011 and 2012, Boris took part in the Russia – USA polar expedition to the shelf of Laptev Sea that was part of the international project Investigation of Methane Potential of Seas in East Arctic.

In 2013, Boris Bukhanov started working as a Geologist in the Department for Testing Physical and Mechanical Properties of Frozen Sediments at the Design Institute Fundamentproekt. At the Institute, he participated in projects for the construction of the South Tambey gas field and Yamal LNG plant in Sabetta, Sila Sibiri gas pipeline, power plants in Yakutsk, systems on Yamburg gas field and others.

 

 

Reservoir fluid technology

Presentations at international conferences and foreign experience

  • 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference. Oral report. Quebec City / Method of determining the thermal conductivity of dispersed gas-saturated sediments under conditions of hydrate and ice formation.
  • 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference. Poster report. Quebec City / Thermal conductivity of bottom sediments in the East Siberian Arctic seas: a case study in the Buor-Khaya Bay
  • Geomodel-2015. EAGE Conference. Oral report. Gelendzhik / Evaluation of equilibrium water content in hydrate saturated porous media.
  • Discussion of results of pile tests in Sabetta with Total and TechNip. Oral report. Moscow / Processing technique of field test piles, the LNG plant, Yamal Peninsula.
  • Midterm report project MSU and Total. Oral report. Paris / Prediction of interaction of production wells with Permafrost within the north-east coast of the Yamal Peninsula.
  • Tenth International Conference on Permafrost. Poster report. Salehard / Thermal Conductivity of Gas-Saturated Sediments during Gas Hydrate Formation at Negative and Positive Temperatures.
  • 2007. International conference on gas hydrates studies. Oral report. Irkutsk / Experimental estimation of thermal properties of frozen gas hydrate saturated sediments.

 Refereed publications:

  1. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Thermal conductivity variations of gas-saturated sediments during hydrate formation and freezing–melting. Part 2. Results // Earth’s Cryosphere. 2014. p. 51-57
  2. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Changing the thermal conductivity of the gas-saturated sediments during hydrate accumulation and freezing-thawing. Part 2. Results of reasearches// Cryosphere of the Earth. №2. 2014. p. 57-65 (in Russuan)
  3. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Changing the thermal conductivity of the gas-saturated sediments during hydrate accumulation and freezing-thawing. Part 1. Method of investigation // Cryosphere of the Earth. №1. 2014. p. 70-76 (in Russuan)
  4. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A., Tumskoy V.E. Shahova H.E., Dudarev O.V. Semiletov I.P. Thermal conductivity of bottom sediments in the area of Buor-Haya bay (Laptev sea shelf) // Cryosphere of the Earth. № 2. p. 24-36. (in Russuan)
  5. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Experimental study of the thermal conductivity of frozen hydrate-bearing sediments at atmospheric pressure // Cryosphere of the Earth. № 1. p. 69-79. (in Russuan)
  6. Sergienko V.I., Lobkovskiy L.I., Semiletov I.P., Dudarev O.V., Dmitrievskiy N.N., Shakhova N.E., Romanovskiy N.N., Kosmach D.A., Nikolskiy D.N., Nikiforov S.L., Salomatin A.S., Ananiev R.A., Roslyakov A.G., Salyuk A.N., Karnaukh V.V., Chernykh D.B., Tumskoi V.E., Yusupov V.I., Kurilenko A.V., Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. The degradation of submarine permafrost and the destruction of hydrates on the shelf of East Arctic seas as potential cause of the methane catastrophe: some results of integrated studies in 2011 // Doklady Earth Science. 2012. 446. № 1. p. 1132-1137.
  7. Sergienko V.I., Lobkovskiy L.I., Semiletov I.P., Dudarev O.V., Dmitrevskiy N.N., Shakhova N.E., Romanovsky N.N., Kosmach D.A., Nikolskiy D.N., Nikiforov S.L., Salomatin A.S., Ananiev R.A., Roslyakov A.G., Salyuk A.N., Karnaukh V.V., Chernykh D.B., Tumskoy V.E., Yusupov V.I., Kurilenko A.V., Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Degradation of submarine permafrost and the destruction of the hydrates of the sea shelf of the Eastern Arctic as a possible cause of “methane catastrophe”: some results of complex research of 2011 // Reports of Academy of Sciences. 2012. V. 446. № 3. p. 330-335. (in Russuan)
  8. Istomin V.A. Chuvilin E.M., Mahonina N.A., Bukhanov B.A. Determination of temperature dependence of the maintenance of unfrozen water in sediments by water potential // Cryosphere of the Earth. №2. 2009. p. 35-43. (in Russuan)

 Articles in international conferences:

  1. Istomin V., Chuvilin E., Bukhanov B., Uchida T. A method for determination of water content in real and model porous media in equilibrium with bulk ice or gas hydrate, in.: GEOQuebec2015, Quebec, Canada, 2015, 8 pp.
  2. Chuvilin E., Bukhanov B., Grebenkin S., Tymskoy V., Shakhova N., Dudarev O., Semiletov I. Thermal conductivity of bottom sediments in the East Siberian Arctic seas: a case study in the Buor-Khaya Bay / Proceedings of the 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Quebec City.
  3. Chuvilin E., Bukhanov B., Brovka G. Method of determining the thermal conductivity of dispersed gas-saturated sediments under conditions of hydrate and ice formation / Proceedings of the 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Quebec City.
  4. Istomin V.A., Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Evaluation of equilibrium water content in hydrate saturated porous media / Proceedings of the Geomodel-2015. EAGE Conference. p. 1-4.
  5. Chuvilin E., Bukhanov B. The effect of freezing and melting on the thermal conductivity of gas hydrate saturated sediments / Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH8-2014). 2014. Beijing. № T1-201. p. 1-7
  6. Chuvilin E.M., Tumskoy V.E., Gavrilov A.V., Bukhanov B.A., Tkacheva E.V., Tipenko G.S., Audibert-Hayet A., Cauquil E. Relict gas hydrate and possibility of their existence in permafrost within the South-Tambey gas field / Society of Petroleum Engineers – SPE Arctic and Extreme Environments Conference and Exhibition. 2013. Moscow. p. 1945-1962
  7. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Thermal Conductivity of Gas-Saturated Sediments during Gas Hydrate Formation at Negative and Positive Temperatures / Tenth International Conference on Permafrost. 2012. Salehard. vol. 4. p. 66-67
  8. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A. Change of thermal conductivity of gas saturated sediments during hydrate formation and freezing / Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates. 2011. Edinburgh
  9. Chuvilin E.M., Bukhanov B.A., Guryeva O.M., Istomin V.A., Takeya S., Hachikubo A. Experimental study of self-preservation mechanisms during gas hydrate decomposition in frozen sediments / Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates. 2011. Edinburgh
  10. Bukhanov B.A., Chuvilin E.M., Guryeva O.M., Kotov P.I. Experimental Study of the Thermal Conductivity of the Frozen Sediments containing Gas Hydrate /  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Permafrost. 2008. Fairbanks. vol. 1. p. 205-209

2013 Cand. of Science in geology in the sphere of Engineering Geology and Geocryology by the topic «The regularities of changes of thermal conductivity of gas and gas hydrate containing sediment under different thermobaric conditions».

2009 – 2012  PhD student of geocryological department at the geological faculty of the Moscow State University (MSU).

2007 – 2009  graduated masters program with honors at the geological faculty of the MSU, speciality: ecological geocryology.

2003-2007  graduated Bachelor’s program with honors at the geological faculty of the MSU, speciality: ecological geology

  • 2015- now. Project with Herriot Watt University, Edinburg. Methane gas recovery from gas hydrate reservoirs by N2 and flue gas injection. Post: research scientist.
  • 2015- now. Project with Herriot Watt University, Edinburg. Geomechanical, geophysical, geothermal properties of gas hydrate-bearing permafrost sediments. Post: research scientist.
  • 2015- now. Project with IPE RAS & MSU. Geophysical methods of exploration and evaluation of geological risks during development of shelf’s hydrocarbon fields. Post: supervisor.
  • 2013-2015. Project by pipeline “Power of Siberia”. The complex laboratory testing of soils for engineering surveys during projecting and construction the pipeline “Power of Siberia”. Post: senior geologist.
  • 2013-2015. Project by pipeline system Eastern Siberia – the Pacific Ocean. The laboratory testing of soils for engineering surveys during projecting and construction “The pipeline system Eastern Siberia – the Pacific Ocean”. Post: senior geologist.
  • 2013-2014. Project with “Yamal LNG”. Engineering surveys for construction of a seaport in Sabetta for the plant Yamal LNG. Post: senior geologist.
  • 2013-2014. Project with Total and TechNip (Total and TechNip with Fundamentproekt). Organization and carrying out of pile tests under tanks for plant Yamal LNG in Sabetta. Post: geologist-researcher.
  • 2013-2015. Grant RFBR № 13-05-12039 (Russian-American project of Arctic researches). Investigation of the role of salt transport processes as a factor of influence on the degradation of subsea permafrost and gas hydrates. Post: researcher.
  • 2013-2015. Grant RFBR № 13-05-12038 (Russian-American project of Arctic researches). New approaches to modeling the formation and decomposition of methane hydrates on the basis of acoustic and optical methods. Post: researcher.
  • 2013-2015. Grant RFBR № 13-05-12013 (Russian-American project of Arctic researches). Determination of the rate of degradation of submarine permafrost offshore Eastern Arctic seas. Post: researcher.
  • 2013-2015. Grant RFBR № 13-05-00034. Evolution of thermokarst depressions on the coast of the Eastern Arctic seas. Post: researcher.
  • 2012-2014. Grant RFBR № 12-05-00993. Investigations of formation of thermophysical properties of methane-saturated sediments during hydrate formation and freeze. Post: researcher.
  • Project with VNIIGAS. Experimental investigation of the effect of freezing-thawing on the structure and physical properties of rock cores. Post: senior engineer.
  • 2011-2014. Project with Total (Total with MSU). Prediction of interaction of production wells with Permafrost within the north-east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Post: researcher.
  • 2011-2012. Grant RFBR № 11-05-12043 (Russian-American project of Arctic researches). Investigation of structure, composition and properties of sediments of submarine permafrost area and deposits of gas hydrates offshore Eastern Arctic. Post: senior engineer.
  • 2011-2012. Grant RFBR № 11-05-12026. Diagnosis of the formation and decomposition of methane hydrates by acoustic and optical methods. Post: senior engineer.
  • 2009-2010. Grant RFBF № 09-05-92102. The Self-preservation effect of gas hydrates in the pore space. Post: engineer.
  • 2006-2007. Grant RFBR № 06-05-91573 (Russian-Japanese project on researches of gas hydrates). Investigation of phase equilibriums of gas hydrates in pore space of sediments. Post: junior
  • 2006-2007. Grant RFBR № 05-05-39019. Formation of gas hydrates in sediments and properties of hydrate-containing soils. Post: junior engineer.
  • Moscow State University. Graduation gold medal. 2007, 2009.
  • Lomonosov students’ conference. Best oral science report.
  • Science festival. For development and popularization of science. 2011,2012