Artur Shapoval
South Brisbane,QLD
Summary
PhD in Petroleum Engineering from UNSW, specialising in Rock-Fluids Interactions and Digital Rock Physics. Over 10 years of academic and professional geoscience-related experience including research, engineering and data analytics. Proven record of scientific contributions with peer-reviewed publications and presentations at international conferences. Full working rights in Australia.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Engineer – Well Construction
inGauge
05.2022 - Current
- Engineering design of reservoir and aquifer isolation, well plug and abandonment in Queensland (ex-Link Energy and Carbon Energy Underground Coal Gasification facilities) and New South Wales (Legacy Mines Program)
- Projects included technical and geological data analysis, development of testing procedures for novel well abandonment technique (bentonite plugging), project management and cost analysis
- Engineering and Project Management support of Carbon Capture and Sequestration wells drilling in Queensland
- Developed procedures for and led company-wide Geospatial Analysis projects (tools: QGIS, TUFLOW, Python) for Environmental Management Plans in the Northern Territory
- Hydrology modelling (tool: TUFLOW) of potential flooding events for the purpose of risk assessment of civils and underground constructions in the Northern Territory
- Developed multiple templates that allow for data standardisation, aggregation and analytics within the engineering and finance domains that are currently implemented across the company (tools: Excel and Power Query M)
- Developed software for visualising the well downhole diagrams (tools: Python, Excel)
- Was awarded the company’s 2023 Best Innovator Award for developing a GIS-based environmental constraints model for field development
- Received a Letter of Recommendation from the Queensland Department of Resources for contributions to the decommissioning of an Underground Coal Gasification plant
- Authored a research paper that was accepted for presentation at the Australian Energy Producers 2025 conference
PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales
11.2017 - 11.2023
- PhD thesis: Investigation of Rock-Fluids Interactions in Carbonate Reservoirs with the Use of Digital Rock Physics
- Developed novel data acquisition and analysis methods for assessing fundamental chemistry between petroleum, water and carbonate reservoirs via experiments, analytical tools and geochemical and flow modelling
- Experience in semi- and fully-automated quantitative analysis of tabular, 2D, 3D-image data of rock and fluid samples
- Development of course materials for Seismic Imaging and Petroleum Geology courses
- Tutoring (2018-2019) and lecturing (2020) Seismic Imaging
- Supervision of students: in total 4 Master of Science Theses completed under my supervision in the period 2018-2022
- Participated in the collaboration project on R&D of a novel sand retention technology between UNSW-University of Technology Brunei-Imperial College of London
- Contributor and participant in the International Artificial Intelligence Workshop with major participants from Australia (UNSW), Brunei (UTB), UAE (ADNOC), Saudi Arabia (KFUPM), China (Chinese Academy of Science)
- Multiple high-ranking international journal publications, including a publication in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, #1 Petroleum Engineering Journal (2022, Elsevier)
- Certificate of achievement for most online views of the conference poster at Interpore 2022
Consulting Engineer
DC Works
06.2018 - 01.2019
- Business and supply chain analytics: gathering of requirements, data analysis and findings reporting
- Design of operations using quantitative methods and analytics results
- The client reported $0.5 million in savings after my automation design re-evaluation
Field Engineer
Weatherford International
08.2014 - 06.2016
- Logging data quality analysis, interpretation and reporting to client
- Operation and maintenance of a variety of logging devices (gamma, resistivity, neutron-density and others)
- Working in teams internally (Weatherford crew) and externally (other contractor crews)
- Strictly following HSE procedures
- Developed procedures for Graduate Program
- Was promoted to Field Engineer II in 2015 due to consistently high quality of work
- Was in 25% of highest performers in region in 2015 by annual evaluation
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - Digital Rock Analysis
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia11.2022
Master of Engineering Science - Petroleum Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia07.2018
Undergraduate Degree in Engineering - Petroleum Engineering
Ufa State Petroleum Technical University
Ufa, Russia06.2014
Skills
- Programming: Python (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Scikit-learn, scikit-image)
- Geospatial Analysis: QGIS, TUFLOW
Key Skills
- Data Visualization: Tableau, Power BI
- Modelling Tools: PHREEQC, TUFLOW
- Design: AutoCAD
Workingrights
Full working rights in Australia
Publications
Alzahrani, Mohammed K., Artur Shapoval, Zhixi Chen, Sheikh S. Rahman, Pore-GNN: A Graph Neural Network-Based Framework for Predicting Flow Properties of Porous Media from Micro-CT Images, Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 10, 1, 10/25/23, https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.10.05, Shapoval, Artur, Aleksandr Zhuravljov, Zakhar Lanetc, Sheikh S. Rahman, Pore-Scale Evaluation of Physicochemical Interactions by Engineered Water Injections, Transport in Porous Media, 148, 3, 07/01/23, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-023-01963-z, Shapoval, Artur, Investigation of Rock-Fluid Interactions in Carbonate Reservoirs with the Use of Digital Rock Physics, Doctoral Thesis, UNSW Sydney, 2022, https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/24519, Tkachev, Sergey, Artur Shapoval, Gevorg Galechian, Danila Golub, Alim Dymov, Stanislav Ali, Lee Yuliya, Kidney Stones Characterization Using Digital Core Analysis, InterPore2023 / Book of Abstracts, 2023, https://events.interpore.org/event/41/attachments/1123/1828/Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf, Nalinakumar, Harikrishnan, Bhavik H Lodhia, Stuart Clark, Artur Shapoval, Structure and Burial History of the South Nicholson Basin, Adelaide, Australia, 2022, http://sub22.p.tas.currinda.com/days/2022-11-28/abstract/17216, Lanetc, Zakhar, Aleksandr Zhuravljov, Artur Shapoval, Ryan T. Armstrong, Peyman Mostaghimi, Inclusion of Microporosity in Numerical Simulation of Relative Permeability Curves, OnePetro, 2022, https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-21975-MS, Shapoval, Artur, Mohammed Alzahrani, Sheik Rahman, Characterization of Fluid-Fluid Interactions in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Book of Abstracts, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2022, https://events.interpore.org/event/40/book-of-abstracts.pdf
Notableshortcourses
- TUFLOW Hydrological Modelling Course, Australia, 2023
- PHREEQC Geochemical Training Course, Netherlands, 2019
Timeline
Project Engineer – Well Construction
inGauge
05.2022 - Current
Consulting Engineer
DC Works
06.2018 - 01.2019
PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales
11.2017 - 11.2023
Field Engineer
Weatherford International
08.2014 - 06.2016
Doctor of Philosophy - Digital Rock Analysis
University of New South Wales
Master of Engineering Science - Petroleum Engineering
University of New South Wales
Undergraduate Degree in Engineering - Petroleum Engineering
Ufa State Petroleum Technical University
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