Val Pinczewski is Emeritus Professor in the School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He established Australia’s first fully accredited degree program in Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales in 1985. He conducts research in the areas of improved oil and gas recovery and in flow through porous media.
He was a founding member of the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre and managed its improved oil and gas recovery programs. In collaboration with colleagues at the Australian National University, he established a large interdisciplinary research group which is pioneering the use of high-resolution X-ray tomography to study the microstructure and transport properties of naturally occurring porous rocks of specific interest to the petroleum industry. The research was supported by a large consortium of the world’s leading petroleum companies and has produced a spin-out company based on this emerging technology.
He is a technical consultant to Westpac’s Institutional Bank where he assesses field development plans for major oil and gas developments throughout Australia and SE-Asia. He was involved in the development of NSW State Government industry guidelines for fracking and well integrity for Coal Seam Gas developments in the state.
Prior to joining the University of New South Wales, he worked for Esso Australia as a reservoir engineer both in Australia and abroad where he was responsible for conducting reservoir simulation studies and conducting and interpreting oil and gas well tests. He is an active consultant to industry in these areas.
He holds BE and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales and is the author of numerous technical publications in the areas of improved oil and gas recovery, reservoir simulation and image-based core analysis.
Note: Professor Val Pinczewski will conduct a 5-day course Advanced Reservoir Simulation course on June 24-28, 2019 in Singapore.
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