Editorial Team

Bashar Rayes: adviser to the General Manager of Petroleum Research Centre in Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering and in the areas where experience was gained since joining PRC in 1983 until heading the Petroleum Engineering Department.

B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Univ. of Tripoli, Faculty of Engineering, Libya. He worked as Assistant Researcher in Drilling Fluids Lab. and in PVT and EOR Lab. He completed his M.Phil. from Univ. of Bath, U.K. in 1992 on data acquisition and commissioning of fully automated combustion tube to investigate the method of in-situ combustion on heavy oil (Atabaska-Canada). He led the Reservoir Fluid Section in 1993 to be responsible for a wide range of laboratory testing services related to PVT studies of black oils, gas condensate and enhanced oil recovery experiments such as miscible displacement studies by hydrocarbon gases, carbon dioxide and inert gas.

He headed Pet. Eng. Research Department Manager in 1997 to direct a team of geoscientists in a structure consisting of three main sections: (reservoir fluid section, rock section and Cement & drilling fluid section). These sections were formed to provide a wide range of laboratory testing services in the fields of exploration and exploitation. He completed his Ph.D. from Univ. of Miskolc, Hungary in 2005 in reservoir characterization. “The Effect of Fluid/Rock Interaction on Wettability: Practical Experiences and Consequences at the Sharara Field, Libya”, was studied.

He was The Drilling & Reservoirs Research’s Coordinator in 2006, under the R&D department. Reservoir studies section was formed to conduct the reservoir simulation studies under this coordination. He was a project leader of PRC Libyan team of Ghani-Zenad reservoir Simulation study. That was the 1st study to be conducted in PRC, the basic engineering phase and some tasks of the static model phases were conducted under the supervision of Biecip Franlab-France.

Manager of the Petroleum Engineering Department in 2008, once again.

• Member of the LPI Petroleum Engineering Technical Committee.
• Member of the TOG Conference & exhibition Technical Committee.
• A Project leader in the NOC & Petro Canada sustainable development project.
• NOC Enhanced Oil Recovery Committee Member, to Detect the EOR potentials of Libyan oil reservoirs, follow up the EOR studies, identifying the gas sources that might be used in the EOR application, and finally, define strategies and the road map for EOR technology application.
• Part time lecturer and supervisor of B.Sc. projects in Tripoli University, Faculty of Engineering, Petroleum Engineering section.
• 2013, Adviser to the Technical Affairs Management Committee Member of PRC.