"Building on Collaboration"

Boris Gurevich

Research Areas/Expertise

  • Modelling elastic properties of fractured reservoirs
  • Angular fracture distributions and squirt-flow effects in isotropic rocks.
  • Seismic signatures of patchy saturation
  • Velocity-stress relationships (for 4D)
  • Simulation of rock properties from microstructure
  • Modelling of properties of rocks saturated with heavy oil

 

Professor of Petroleum Geophysics
Department Exploration Geophysics, Curtin University of Technology
Director of Curtin Reservoir Geophysics Consortium (CRGC) 

WA:ERA projects

Seismic response of partially saturated petroleum reservoir zones: towards quantitative recovery monitoring

Computational Rock Physics

Modeling and inversion of tube-wave signatures for formation permeability changes in producing boreholesn

Curtin Reservoir Geophysics Consortium 

Background

Boris has worked as a researcher for the Institute of Geosystems, Moscow and was a visiting scientist at the Geophysical Institute of Karlsruhe University and at Birkbeck College of London University. He also worked as a research geophysicist at the Geophysical Institute of Israel.

His research interests include theory of seismic/acoustic wave propagation in rocks and other porous materials, and seismic imaging. He is a member of SEG, AGU and EAGE.

Education

Ph.D. (Geophysics)
M.Sc. (Exploration Geophysics) 

Grants

ARC Linkage Project to collaborate with ANU to develop a capability for simulation of dynamic elastic properties of rocks from microtomographic images (Computational Rock Physics)

Curtin Strategic Research Funding until 2011 

Publications

list of publications (PDF)

Contact

Email: B.Gurevich(at)curtin.edu.au