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Professor Bahman Tohidi

Position:

Professor and Director of Centre for Gas Hydrate Research

Bahman Tohidi

Tel:

+44 (0)131 451 3672

Fax:

+44 (0)131 451 3127

Mobile:

0776 116 5784

e-mail:

bahman.tohidi@pet.hw.ac.uk
Expertise:

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Research Areas:

Flow assurance: gas hydrates, wax, halite, asphaltenes. PVT and properties of reservoir fluids. Gas hydrates in sediments, Positive applications of gas hydrates, CO2 capture and storage, Alternative energy and energy conversion/storage, Production technology.

Start Date:

1994
Qualifications:

PhD Petroleum Engineering (1995)
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
 

BSc Chemical Engineering (1984)
Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran.

Academic Experience:

July 2006 to Present
Honorary Professor, The School of Engineering and Electronics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
 

November 2004 to Present
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
 

August 2003 to Present
Professor, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK
 

August 2001 to July 2003
Reader, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
 

October 1997 to July 2001
Lecturer, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
 

January 1996 to September 1997
Senior Research Associate, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.
 

January 1994 to December 1995
Research Associate, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.

 

November 1987 to January 1991
Production Engineer, National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Ahwaz, Iran. Engineer in charge of various production units in Ahwaz.
 

October 1984 to October 1987
Instructor/Lecturer, Abadan Institute of Technology, Ahwaz, Iran.
Industrial Experience:

2006 to Present
Managing Director, HYDRAFACT Limited, a Heriot-Watt spin-out company with expertise in flow assurance (experimental, modelling, software, laboratory equipment and training), Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
 

2001 to Present
Director, Centre for Gas Hydrate Research, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
 

1994 to Present
Consultant to Various National and International Companies.
 

1987-1991
Production Engineer, National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Ahwaz, Iran.
 

1984-1991
Researcher/adviser in several NIOC and government projects
 

1978-1979
Summer Trainee, Tehran Refinery, National Iranian Oil Company
 

1977-1978
Summer Trainee, Abadan Refinery, National Iranian Oil Company