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’s geophysical and engineering interests are
numerous but few passions are worth of particular notice. 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 works
on applying tube waves for reservoir and well monitoring. His publication
record includes two books and numerous papers and patents. Finally, Andrey
Bakulin has won two prestigious technology awards. First, 2007 E&P
Special Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation, Hart E&P industry
award was given to Virtual Source technology (eandp.info/area/meawinners). Second, J. Clarence Karcher
Award from Society of Exploration Geophysics (2005) was presented to Andrey
in “recognition of your contributions in the areas of imaging scattering
series, time-lapse seismic monitoring, inversion and processing on
anisotropic media, rock physics and fracture characterization.”
First Andrey enjoyed an academic career
at St. Petersburg
State University
and short stay at Colorado School of Mines. Industrial career followed with
three years at Schlumberger Cambridge Research and seven years with Shell.
Since April 2008 Andrey works at Schlumberger/WesternGeco.
Updated: October 25, 2008
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