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Prof. Jones Graduated in Physics and Economics (post graduate work in International Economics) at Cornell University (1974, Ithaca, NY, USA), has a post-graduate degree in Oil and Gas Engineering from UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and a masters (2009, Basin Analysis) and doctoral (2014, MEOR - Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery) degree in Geology, also from UERJ. He is also an Environmental Auditor (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Prof. Jones is currently a researcher at INOG (Instituto Nacional de Óleo e Gás – INCT/CNPq - Brazil), member of the Geosciences Advisory Board of NXT Energy Solutions, Inc. of Canada, and Associated Consultant of CEGeo, provider of geoscience services. He was founder and director of several environmental and biotech firms, Course Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program in Environmental Management (FUNCEFET, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Coordinator of the Industrial Engineering Studies Group (NEPRO) at UERJ, coordinated a major Knowledge Management System project (Petrobras/UERJ) and an Environmental Diagnostic Project at Brazil´s largest municipal landfill, participated in the Rio de Janeiro Legislature´s Millennium Development Goals Project, and several sustainable development and new technology projects. He is a consultant to District Attorneys and oil and other industries, directed several major environmental remediation projects, including one at one of the world´s largest refining centers (Venezuela), in environmentally sensitive areas (Uruguay), and in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. He is an expert in resource assessment (yet-to-find-oil), bioaugmentation, bioremediation and biotech applications, such as MEOR, shrimp farming and sanitation. Prof. Jones is a frequent speaker, author of technical articles, and member of Mensa Brazil and other professional organizations. Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Currently involved in assessments of yet-to-find-oil in Brazil's presalt region and geopolitical studies of the world oil and energy scenario.
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Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Engineering materials, 2022

O objetivo desta Pesquisa de Mestrado foi propor uma metodologia de avaliacao de reservas a desco... more O objetivo desta Pesquisa de Mestrado foi propor uma metodologia de avaliacao de reservas a descobrir (oleo iminente a descobrir - yet-to-find-oil), que utiliza metodos estocasticos e analises probabilisticas, aplicados as informacoes disponiveis sobre bacias com largo historico exploratorio, e que incorpora informacoes sobre a area exaurida por esforcos exploratorios passados. As simulacoes estocasticas foram realizadas por uma ferramenta de modelagem do processo exploratorio de ciclo completo, disponivel comercialmente, e tambem no Laboratorio de Correlacao Geologica (LABCG) da Faculdade de Geologia da UERJ. Uma aplicacao pratica dessa metodologia composta, de modelagem estocastica e ajuste por area exaurida, foi realizada no play definido como a area de aguas rasas da Bacia de Campos. Utilizando apenas dados parciais sobre as descobertas de campos de petroleo e gas, os resultados sugerem que essa area ainda nao pode ser considerada exploratoriamente madura. Tambem foram apontadas...

Chemical engineering transactions, 2018

This research investigated the use of produced water (PW) and raw glycerine, waste products from ... more This research investigated the use of produced water (PW) and raw glycerine, waste products from the oil and biodiesel industry, respectively, as a growth medium and source of nutrients in a bioprocess employing Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas strains, in order to simultaneously produce xanthan gum and rhamnolipids, products already used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. The xanthan gum and rhamnolipid produced exhibited excellent viscosity and emulsifying activity characteristics, and better pseudoplasic rheological behaviour than conventional chemical EOR compounds. EOR benefits of incremental oil production, coupled with the use of waste products to produce the compounds employed, minimize the environmental impact of EOR methods employing such compounds.

Technologies which employ biostimulation and bioaugmentation processes are amply utilized for the... more Technologies which employ biostimulation and bioaugmentation processes are amply utilized for the treatment of effluents and organic wastes, in the bioremediation of areas contaminated with oily residues, and in numerous other industrial applications, including in the oil industry. These technologies are well developed, and today there is sufficient scientific basis to suggest their use in the stimulation of oil production, especially from mature fields, in wells with high viscosity oil, and in reservoirs with low permeability or other flow problems. The traditional methods of stimulating production, involving the injection of water, steam, gas or other products, have established the conceptual basis for new methods of extraction of oil from the reservoir matrix. Increasingly, these techniques seek to take advantage of effects which occur at the molecular level, and which induce modifications in the structure of the reservoir matrix or in the oil itself, in order to ease its flow and consequent production. These molecular scale effects, propagated to a scale encompassing entire fields, are the very same effects which occur in biostimulation and bioaugmentation processes, which, through the action of microorganisms, can induce solubilization or transformation of certain compounds, the formation of bioflocs, or other physical effects in the oil or the reservoir matrix. Based on the known biological processes employed industrially, it is easy to imagine that minor adaptations can result in great benefits, when applied in EOR (enhanced oil recovery) applications, for the stimulation of oil production. Given the enormous economic dimension of the oil industry, any technology which can find application in any of its productive aspects creates the expectation of large technical, economic and strategic benefits. This possibility has, in fact, been tested by some promising studies and research projects, which point to the need for more aggressive efforts in order to better study the potential and the ways in which biological methods may be applied to EOR. The advent of MEOR (microbial enhanced oil recovery) and BEOR (biological enhanced oil recovery) technologies represents the dawn of a new era in the stimulation of production from mature fields and wells with low returns, and even in the stimulation of production from certain new productive areas. The strategic importance of these advances has turned BEOR into a leading theme in the petroleum world.

Brasil Offshore, 2011

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... Page 3. Figure 2. Unconventional gas needed to meet demand for natural gas of major consuming... more ... Page 3. Figure 2. Unconventional gas needed to meet demand for natural gas of major consuming countries (US DOE-EIA, 2008). Page 4. ... Other researchers are also involved in work in this area (eg, Dr. PR Bishnoi, University of Calgary). ...

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências

The thermal effects of an igneous intrusion on organic-rich sedimentary rocks can be considering ... more The thermal effects of an igneous intrusion on organic-rich sedimentary rocks can be considering an important source of maturation of organic matter. The Permian Irati Formation of Paraná Basin (Brazil) is a carbonatic and organic-rich shale sequence intruded by Jurassic-Cretaceous basic rocks. This study reports possible effects of igneous intrusion on the organic matter content of Irati Formation, in Sapopema region (Paraná State). Total organic carbon (TOC), total sulfur (S) and insoluble residue (IR) data were combined with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The relatively low TOC values recorded in well where Irati Formation is in contact with 60 m of diabase sill (SP-58-PR) are residuals, associated with the depletion of organic carbon, caused by the thermal effect from the overlying intrusive rock. It was responsible to promote the cracking of the organic matter and reduced those values in relation to the original ones, observed in SP...

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Engineering materials, 2022

O objetivo desta Pesquisa de Mestrado foi propor uma metodologia de avaliacao de reservas a desco... more O objetivo desta Pesquisa de Mestrado foi propor uma metodologia de avaliacao de reservas a descobrir (oleo iminente a descobrir - yet-to-find-oil), que utiliza metodos estocasticos e analises probabilisticas, aplicados as informacoes disponiveis sobre bacias com largo historico exploratorio, e que incorpora informacoes sobre a area exaurida por esforcos exploratorios passados. As simulacoes estocasticas foram realizadas por uma ferramenta de modelagem do processo exploratorio de ciclo completo, disponivel comercialmente, e tambem no Laboratorio de Correlacao Geologica (LABCG) da Faculdade de Geologia da UERJ. Uma aplicacao pratica dessa metodologia composta, de modelagem estocastica e ajuste por area exaurida, foi realizada no play definido como a area de aguas rasas da Bacia de Campos. Utilizando apenas dados parciais sobre as descobertas de campos de petroleo e gas, os resultados sugerem que essa area ainda nao pode ser considerada exploratoriamente madura. Tambem foram apontadas...

Chemical engineering transactions, 2018

This research investigated the use of produced water (PW) and raw glycerine, waste products from ... more This research investigated the use of produced water (PW) and raw glycerine, waste products from the oil and biodiesel industry, respectively, as a growth medium and source of nutrients in a bioprocess employing Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas strains, in order to simultaneously produce xanthan gum and rhamnolipids, products already used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. The xanthan gum and rhamnolipid produced exhibited excellent viscosity and emulsifying activity characteristics, and better pseudoplasic rheological behaviour than conventional chemical EOR compounds. EOR benefits of incremental oil production, coupled with the use of waste products to produce the compounds employed, minimize the environmental impact of EOR methods employing such compounds.

Technologies which employ biostimulation and bioaugmentation processes are amply utilized for the... more Technologies which employ biostimulation and bioaugmentation processes are amply utilized for the treatment of effluents and organic wastes, in the bioremediation of areas contaminated with oily residues, and in numerous other industrial applications, including in the oil industry. These technologies are well developed, and today there is sufficient scientific basis to suggest their use in the stimulation of oil production, especially from mature fields, in wells with high viscosity oil, and in reservoirs with low permeability or other flow problems. The traditional methods of stimulating production, involving the injection of water, steam, gas or other products, have established the conceptual basis for new methods of extraction of oil from the reservoir matrix. Increasingly, these techniques seek to take advantage of effects which occur at the molecular level, and which induce modifications in the structure of the reservoir matrix or in the oil itself, in order to ease its flow and consequent production. These molecular scale effects, propagated to a scale encompassing entire fields, are the very same effects which occur in biostimulation and bioaugmentation processes, which, through the action of microorganisms, can induce solubilization or transformation of certain compounds, the formation of bioflocs, or other physical effects in the oil or the reservoir matrix. Based on the known biological processes employed industrially, it is easy to imagine that minor adaptations can result in great benefits, when applied in EOR (enhanced oil recovery) applications, for the stimulation of oil production. Given the enormous economic dimension of the oil industry, any technology which can find application in any of its productive aspects creates the expectation of large technical, economic and strategic benefits. This possibility has, in fact, been tested by some promising studies and research projects, which point to the need for more aggressive efforts in order to better study the potential and the ways in which biological methods may be applied to EOR. The advent of MEOR (microbial enhanced oil recovery) and BEOR (biological enhanced oil recovery) technologies represents the dawn of a new era in the stimulation of production from mature fields and wells with low returns, and even in the stimulation of production from certain new productive areas. The strategic importance of these advances has turned BEOR into a leading theme in the petroleum world.

Brasil Offshore, 2011

ABSTRACT

searchanddiscovery.com

... Page 3. Figure 2. Unconventional gas needed to meet demand for natural gas of major consuming... more ... Page 3. Figure 2. Unconventional gas needed to meet demand for natural gas of major consuming countries (US DOE-EIA, 2008). Page 4. ... Other researchers are also involved in work in this area (eg, Dr. PR Bishnoi, University of Calgary). ...

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências

The thermal effects of an igneous intrusion on organic-rich sedimentary rocks can be considering ... more The thermal effects of an igneous intrusion on organic-rich sedimentary rocks can be considering an important source of maturation of organic matter. The Permian Irati Formation of Paraná Basin (Brazil) is a carbonatic and organic-rich shale sequence intruded by Jurassic-Cretaceous basic rocks. This study reports possible effects of igneous intrusion on the organic matter content of Irati Formation, in Sapopema region (Paraná State). Total organic carbon (TOC), total sulfur (S) and insoluble residue (IR) data were combined with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The relatively low TOC values recorded in well where Irati Formation is in contact with 60 m of diabase sill (SP-58-PR) are residuals, associated with the depletion of organic carbon, caused by the thermal effect from the overlying intrusive rock. It was responsible to promote the cracking of the organic matter and reduced those values in relation to the original ones, observed in SP...