Biography of Andrey Bakulin (Андрей Бакулин)
Andrey Bakulin (Андрей Бакулин) is unique geophysicist for the
modern-day oil and gas industry. He enjoys all aspects of geophysics: good
theory, elegant numerical studies, field experimentation and practical
implementation. Most of all he enjoys when he meets the combination of all of
these. And of course he does not sit and wait for them to come together – he
is motivating industry and academia colleagues to join forces and always
actively arranging for these things to happen. He does not believe in
geophysics as a closed science with clearly defined boundaries. In fact his research
has pushed many of these boundaries and broken quite a few barriers. His
credo is simple: if there is good science and promising practical
applications – then it is geophysics and it is for him. This credo has
several historical roots. Theoretical side is firmly rooted in St. Petersburg
Russian school of wave propagation while attraction to real-life applications
stems from his father – well-known Russian inventor and geoscientist.
Andrey had a brief academic career at St. Petersburg State University and the
Colorado School of Mines. His industrial career followed and now includes
tenures at Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Shell Bellaire Technology Center,
and WesternGeco. Since April 2010 Andrey works at
EXPEC Advanced Research Center of Saudi Aramco.
Andrey’s geophysical and
engineering interests are numerous but few passions are worth of particular
notice. Andrey focused on land carbonate seismic monitoring with buried
receivers in desert environment. He contributed to processing of challenging
land seismic data using supergrouping and
non-linear beamforming. He pioneered use of DAS for near surface and land
imaging. Andrey did extensive work on using seismic anisotropy to
characterize fractures, stress and lithology. He developed rock physics transform
between 3D stress and anisotropic velocity. He is co-author of the Virtual
Source Method. He introduced use of tube waves for reservoir and well
monitoring. His publication record includes two books and numerous papers and
patents. He is serving SEG in various roles and has received a variety of
professional awards, including Honorable Mention and best presentation at an
SEG Annual Meeting (twice), Honorable mention Best Paper in GEOPHYSICS
(twice), the J. Clarence Karcher Award, and a 2007
E&P Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation.
Updated: 2017
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