EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree : B.E (Chemical) from Assam Engineering College
• Master’s Degree : M.Tech(Petroleum Technology)
• Ph.D: Completed (Topic: A Study on Smart Water flooding and it’s effect  on improving oil recovery efficiency in a part of Naharkotia oil field of Upper Assam Basin, India)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 07 years as Production Engineer at BVFCL (a Central PSU), Namrup, Assam

AWARDS RECEIVED:

1. Best Paper Published: Prof. J.S.R. Krishna Rao, Dr. R. Dhana Raju, medal for the best paper published (New empirical correlation for oil formation volume factor and bubble point pressure of crude oils for a part of Upper Assam basin oil fields, India) in the “Journal of Applied Geochemistry” (ISAG) for the year 2007.

2. Best Oral Presentation: SPE National conference, NCUPE-2019, ‘Smart Water (SMW) flooding in a part of oil field of Upper Assam Basin, India’, 02/11/2019, IIT, Guwahati.

3. Best Poster Presentation: International conference, ESTEC-2020, ‘Smart Water Flooding: A Sustainable and Environment Friendly Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Method with reference to Oil Field of Upper Assam Basin, India.’ 20/02/2020, CSIR, NEIST..

AREAS OF INTEREST/SPECIALISATION:

• Petroleum Refining, Petrochemicals, Natural Gas Engineering, Health safety and environment, Enhanced oil recovery, Green and sustainable EOR, UHV and ethics.

PAPER PRESENTED:

1. International Seminar, Emerging Trends in Chemical Science (ETCS-2018), 'Importance of polar organic compounds (NSO) and multiple ion exchange in improving oil recovery in a part of Upper Assam Basin, India.' 27.02.2018, Dibrugarh University.
2. National Seminar, REFLUX-2019, 'Role of COBR interactions in wettability alteration during SMW EOR flooding in a part of oil field of Upper Assam Basin, India,' 28.09.2019, IIT, Guwahati.
3. National Seminar, NCUPE-2019, 'Smart Water (SMW) flooding in a part of oil field of Upper Assam Basin, India,' 02/11/2019, IIT, Guwahati.
4. International Seminar, ESTEC-2020, 'Smart Water Flooding: A Sustainable and Environment Friendly Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Method with reference to Oil Field of Upper Assam Basin, India,' 20/02/2020, CSIR, NEIST.
5. National Seminar, RESTS-2020, 'A Study on improving oil recovery efficiency by sustainable SMW flooding in oil fields of Upper Assam, India,' 15/07/2020, DUIET, Dibrugarh University.
6.  International Seminar on Water Management, ‘Smart water flooding: An emerging enhanced oil recovery method with reference to oil fields of Upper Assam basin, India.’, 08/02/2022, Petroleum Technology, Dibrugarh University.
7. National Seminar, Origin of Rasayana in India-II, (Diverse aspects of Indian Knowledge system), 12/08/2022, DUIET, Dibrugarh University.

SEMINAR/WORKSHOP/STTP/FDP CONDUCTED:

Ø  Convener for the Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on ‘Role of Pedagogy’ under AICTE-NEQIP sponsored and organised at DUIET, Dibrugarh University from 6^th to 16^th February, 2017.

Ø  Short term training programme (STTP) coordinated (Topic: Reservoir Modelling and Simulation in EOR Perspective) held during June 18^th – 22^nd, 2018, sponsored by TEQIP-III and organised by DUIET, Dibrugarh University.

Ø  Coordinated one week workshop on ‘NBA Accreditation, NBA SAR Filling and Research Methodology’ at DUIET, Dibrugarh University under TEQIP-III from 3^rd – 7^th June, 2019.

Ø  Coordinated 02 days Webinar on ‘Waste management’ under the banner of TEQIP-III held at DUIET, Dibrugarh University from 13^th – 14^th August, 2020.

ADMINSTRATIVE DUTIES PERFORMED:

Ø  Performed as part time teacher in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Dibrugarh University from 08/10/2012 to 10/08/2012.

Ø  Worked as an Assistant officer in-charge (AOC) for the B.Tech Examination, 2015-2016 at DUIET, Dibrugarh University.

Ø  Mentor for the International student Mr. Najib Fares Najib Al Haddad from Yemen for the academic session 2015-2016.

Ø  Performed as Assistant officer in-charge (AOC) of B. Ed CET, 2015 in Dibrugarh University Campus.

Ø  As Project Evaluator in 24^th National Children’s Science Congress, 2016 held at Dibrugarh University from 13^th to 16^th October, 2016

Ø  Performed as Assistant officer in-charge (AOC) of B. Ed CET, 2016 in Dibrugarh University Campus.

Ø  Member in the DUIET, NBA Committee from 30/11/2017 for 03 years.

Ø  Member in the Institute Management Committee for Dibrugarh University Institute of Engineering and Technology (DUIET), Dibrugarh University from 22/03/2018 for a period of 03 years.

Ø  Member in the BoG for the TEQIP-III project from 06/04/2018 for a period of 02 years.

Ø  As Environmental coordinator to look after the activities of Environmental Management Framework (EMF) at DUIET from 30^th July, 2018 for three years under TEQIP-III project, NPIU, MHRD, Govt. of India.

Ø  Member for framing new curriculum in the department of Petroleum Engineering (Course Structure and Course Content) as per AICTE from 02/04/2018.

Ø  Performed as a National Testing Agency (NTA) observer for the conduct of NEET (UG) – 2019 held at Tezpur, Assam on 05/05/2019.

Ø  As mentor for the International student Mr. Gasper Soares Mendes from Angola for the Academic session 2021-2022.

Ø  Committee member for the purpose of cleanliness of the west campus, Dibrugarh University for a period of 03 years from 13/08/2021.

Ø  As faculty coordinator for Training and placement (TPC) in the department of Petroleum Engineering, Dibrugarh University for the Academic session 2021-2022.

Ø  Committee member in the DUIET, Dibrugarh University from 24/06/2022 for preparatory works on MERITE, a flagship project of Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.

Ø  Member in the DUIET, Dibrugarh to look after the implementation of various AICTE Programme from 31/05/2022

Ø  IQAC Coordinator, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Dibrugarh University for a period of 03 years w.e.f 26/09/2022.

Ø  Member of the screening Committee under P&C, Dibrugarh University to examine the applications/bids received against EoI on 21/02/2023.

Ø  Member of the Tender Committee of Dibrugarh University from 06/03/2023.

   FDP/SEMINAR/STTP/WORKSHOP ATTENDED:

§  02 Days National Seminar on ‘Academia Industry Interface’, Petrotech Society at Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, 23^rd-24^th Sept, 2005.

§  01 Week Short term course on ‘E-governance, Eco-premiership and Green IT in Technical Institutions through ICT’, NITTR, Chandigarh at Dibrugarh University, 9^th-13^th Feb, 2015.

§  02 Weeks Short term course on ‘Research methodology in Technical Education’, NITTR, Kolkata at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 16^th-28^th Feb, 2015.

§  02 Days Industry-Academia workshop on ‘Instrumentation and Control’, Petrofed at IOCL, Digboi, 19^th-20^th Feb, 2015.

§  01 Month Orientation Programme, HRDC Centre, Gauhati University, Guwahati, 31^st Oct- 27^th Nov, 2016.

§  02 Weeks Short term course on ‘Role of Pedagogy in Engineering Education and Curriculum’ NITTR, Kolkata at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 6^th-16^th Feb, 2017.

§  01 Day National Workshop on ‘NBA Accreditation’ Assam Science & Technology University (ASTU), Guwahati, 27^th December, 2018.

§  03 Days International Conference on ‘Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences (ETCS-2018)’, Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, 26^th – 28^th Feb, 2018.

§  03 Days FDP on ‘NBA-SAR Filling and Preparedness for Assessment’, TEQIP-III at Dibrugarh University Institute of Engineering and Technology (DUIET), Dibrugarh University, 7^th – 9^th March, 2018.

§  01 Week Lecture series on ‘Advances in Reservoir Simulation and Drilling Technology’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 24^th – 29^th, March, 2018.

§  01 Week STTP on ‘Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering’, TEQIP at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 22^nd – 26^th May, 2018.

§  01 Week STTP on ‘Reservoir Modelling and simulation in EOR Perspective’, TEQIP at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 18^th -22^nd June, 2018.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Active Learning’, IIT, Chennai, 9^th – 13^th July, 2018.

§  02 Days ‘Industry Academia conclave’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 24^th – 25^th September, 2018.

§  02 Weeks training on ‘Research Methodology in technical Education and Documentation using Latex’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 25^th Sept– 06^th Oct, 2018.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Pedagogy to Andragogy’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 17^th – 21^st Dec, 2018.

§  01 Week STTP on ‘Well Testing: Design and Interpretation’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 1st –5^th April, 2019.

§  01 Week STTP on ‘Advanced Experimental Techniques’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 28^th May –1^st June, 2019.

§  01 Week STTP on ‘NBA and SAR Filling’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 3^rd – 7^th, June 2019.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Quality Management: Importance, Issues and Challenges’, IIT, Roorkee, 17^th – 21^st June, 2019.

§  01 Week STTP on ‘Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 2^nd - 6^th Sept, 2019.

§  02 Days ‘Chemical Engineering Symposium’ (REFLUX-7.0), IIT, Guwahati, 28^th – 29^th September, 2019.

§  02 Days National Seminar on ‘Upstream Petroleum Engineering (NCUPE-2019)’, SPE at IIT, Guwahati, 2^nd – 3^rd Nov, 2019.

§  01 Day ‘Workshop on SWAYAM and MOOCS Courses’, SPIU, NE at Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat, 6^th Feb, 2020.

§  03 Days International Seminar on ‘Engineering Sciences and Technologies for Environmental Care (ESTEC-2020)’, CSIR at NEIST, Jorhat, 20^th – 22^nd Feb, 2020.

§  01 Day Workshop on ‘Future Skills & Digital Initiatives of Govt. of India and NITTT-AICTE’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 27^th Feb, 2020.

§  01 Day online training workshop on ‘Development and Delivery of Engineering Courses by Online Mode’, IIT, Kharagpur, 23^rd May, 2020.

§  02 Days National Seminar on ‘Recent Advancements and Emerging Challenges in Science and Technology for Sustainable Development (RESTS-2020)’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 14th-15^th July, 2020.

§  01 Week STTP on ‘Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB’, TEQIP-III, ASTU & GIMT, Guwahati, 24^th – 28^th July, 2020.

§  02 Days SDP on ‘Waste Management’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 13^th – 14^th Aug, 2020.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘E-Content Development and Delivery’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, DU & SSBUICET, 19^th to 23^rd Aug, 2020.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Online Teaching and Assessment Pedagogy’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, DU & SSBUICET, 24^th to 29^rd Aug, 2020.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Pedagogical Technique for Virtual Class Room’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, DU & SSBUICET, 2nd to 6th Sept, 2020.

§  03 Days online training workshop on  ‘Streamlining Engineering Curriculum for NEP 2020 and Management of Teaching Learning in Online Education’, IIT, Kharagpur, 11^th – 13^th Sept, 2020.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Effective Online Teaching and Learning’, TEQIP-III at DUIET, DU & SSBUICET, 14^th – 19^th Sept, 2020.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Sustainable Environmental Engineering Practices (SEEP-2020)’, TEQIP-III, NIT, Rourkela, 21st – 25th Sept, 2020.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Environmental Issues in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry’, Department of Petroleum Technology, Dibrugarh University, 2^nd-8^th Nov, 2020.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Pedagogy Training to Faculty Especially With Regard to Addressing The Needs Of Weak Students’ TEQIP-III at DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 22^nd-26^th February, 2021.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Implementation of National Education Policy (NEP-2020)’, DUIET, Dibrugarh University, 13^th – 20^th Sept, 2021.

§  01 Week FDP on ‘Advanced Experimental and Simulation Research Trends in Chemical Engineering’, ATAL Academy, AICTE, 07^th – 11^th Jan, 2022.

Research Publications:

i. Bhaskarjyoti saikia, Minati Das, Pradip kumar Gogoi ‘‘Development of correlation for oil formation volume factor for certain fields of eastern part of Upper Assam Basin’’, Indian journal of petroleum geology, Vol-15, No-2 (Dec, 2006), P. 31-41

ii. Minati Das, Bhaskar Jyoti Saikia ‘‘New empirical correlation for oil formation volume factor and bubble point pressure of crude oils for a part of Upper Assam basin oil fields, India’’ Journal of Applied Geochemistry, Vol -9, No-2(2007), P.170-182.

iii.Chinmoy Dutta, Bidisha Borah, Suraiya Rahman, Ranjan Phukan, Bhaskarjyoti Saikia, ‘‘Phase Behaviour Study for Chemically Enhanced Waterflooding’’, International Journal of Engineering , Science and Mathematics, Vol-6, Issue-7, 2017, ISSN: 2320-0294, pp: 533-537.

iv. Bhaskarjyoti Saikia & Minati Das (2019): ‘‘A study on Petrographic Analysis in Smart Water (SMW) EOR Flooding in a part of Oil field of Upper Assam Basin, India’’, Infokara Research, ISSN:1021-9056, Vol-8, Issue-9, 2019, pp: 677-687

v. Bhaskarjyoti Saikia & Minati Das (2019):  ‘‘Optimisation of Smart Water to Enhance Oil Recovery Efficiency in a Part of Oil Field of Upper Assam Basin, India’’, International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Volume-9, Issue-2, December, 2019, pp: 3620-3626, http://DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.B3285.129219

vi. Minati Das & Bhaskarjyoti Saikia (2020):  ‘‘Effect of smart water composition on improving oil recovery efficiency’’, Journal of Xidian University, Vol-14, Issue-10, October, 2020, pp: 217-225, https://doi.org/10.37896/jxu14.10/021

vii. Bhaskar Jyoti Saikia (2022):  ‘‘A study on tertiary mode of smart water (SMW) flooding on improving oil recovery efficiency’’ International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Vol-9, Issue-3, March-2022, pp: 213-217.

A.    Book Chapter:

a. Bhaskar Jyoti Saikia (2016); ‘The significance of RUSA in Higher Education’, INSIGHT, UGC-HRDC Centre, Gauhati University, ISBN-978-81-92955-45-2, Nov, 2016, Page:75-80.

1. Chemistry of Petroleum and Petroleum Refining
2. Natural Gas Enginneering
3. Petrochemicals Engineering
4. Health, Safety, Security and Environment in Petroleum Industry
5. Universal Human Values and Ethics

ONGOING RESARCH PROJECTS:

(i)         1. DST, SERB-SURE Sponsored Project “An Environmentally Sustainable Method for Enhancing Oil Recovery in Candidate Reservoir of Upper Assam Basin" (Sanctioned order No: SUR/2022/002650) Sanctioned amount: Rs. 22,29,450.00, Sanctioned Date: 17/11/2023, Role: Principal Investigator.

 

(ii)     2.  DST, SERB-SURE Sponsored Project “Enhancing Utilization and Storage of Anthropogenic CO2 in Candidate Oil Reservoirs of Assam Shelf Basin" (Sanctioned order No: SUR/2022/001159) Sanctioned amount: Rs. 23,97,010.00, Sanctioned Date: 21/09/2023, Role: Co-Principal Investigator.