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CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Uttam Kumar Bhui
Associate Professor

School of Petroleum Technology
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
Raisan, Gandhinagar, GUJARAT
PIN 382 007
Phone : +91-79-23275209 (O)
09426330369(mob)
Fax. : +91-79-23275030
E-mail:-uttam.bhui@spt.pdpu.ac.in; ukbhui@rediffmail.com
Skype: uttam.k.bhui


Education
Ph.D. (Sc.) - Jadavpur University, Kolkata,West Bengal, India 1999
M. Sc. (Applied Geology - Gold Medalist) - Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 1992
B. Sc. (Geol. Scs. - 1
st
Class Honours with Distinction) - Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 1990
Professional Appointments
2008 present Associate Professor, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
2006 2008 Lecturer (Sr. Scale), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2002 2006 Lecturer, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
1999 2002 Assistant Executive Engineer (Reservoir), ONGC, India
Honours
Post Doctoral Research project under SERCYS programme by the DST, 1999
Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lecturership by CSIR, 1993
Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lecturership by UGC, 1992.
University Medal for standing First in M. Sc. Examination, 1992
P. N. Bose Memorial Bronze Medal for standing First in M. Sc. Examination, 1992
Secured percentile score in GATE 92 Examination for admission in the PG programmes.
First class honours with Distinction in B. Sc. (Final) Examination, 1990
National Scholarship of MHRD, Govt. of India, during 1990 1992.
National Scholarship of Ministry of Education. Govt. of India, during 1985 - 1990.





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Research Activities

(1) Present Research Interest
Oil-source rock correlation study: geochemical approach
Petroleum system analysis and basin modeling
EOR for heavy oil
Reservoir characterization and modeling
Clay Mineralogy

(2) Current Collaboration

Prof. Dr. Pulak Sengupta, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
West Bengal.

Dr. Samir Kumar Pal and , Associate Professor and Dr. Rajib Kumar Mitra, Reader,
Department of Chemical, Biological & Macromolecular Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre
for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Topic: (1) Physocochemical characterization of hydrocarbon crudes: Its application in
exploration and production activities.
(2) Optical characterization technique for Gemstone (Ruby).

Dr. Indra Sen, Dept. Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
360 Woods Hole Road, Clark 410, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541, USA
Topic: (1) Geochemical characterization of hydrocarbon crudes for oil-oil and oil-source
rock correlation: study from Cambay basin
Dr. Manish Mishra, Assistant Professor, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad - 387001
Topic: (1) Study on interaction between clay minerals and saline water: its application in
EOR processes for better hydrocarbon recovery

(3) Publications

a. Publications in peer-reviewed journals:


Published:

Dutta, U., Bhui, U.K., Sengupta, P., Sanyal, S, and Mukhopadhyay, D. (2011). Magmatic
and metamorphic imprints in 2.9 Ga old chromitites from the Sittampundi Layered
Complex, Tamil Nadu, India. Ore Geology Review 40, 90-107.
Sengupta, P., Bhui, U. K., Braun, I., Dutta, U. and Mukhopadhyay, D. (2009). Chemical
Substitutions, and physical conditions of of formation of hgbomite in the Sittampundi
layered anorthosite complex, south India. American Mineralogist 94, 1520-1534
Sengupta, P., Dutta, U., Bhui, U. K. and Mukhopadhyay, D. (2009) Genesis of wollastonite-
and grandite- rich skarns in a suite of marble-calc-silicate rocks from Sittampundi, Tamil
Nadu: Constraints on the P-T-fluid regime in parts of the Pan-African mobile belt of South
India. Mineralogy and Petrology 95, 179-200.
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Bhui, U. K., Sengupta, P. and Sengupta, Pranesh (2007). Phase relations of a suite of mafic
dykes and their host rocks from Kondapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India: Implications for the
time-depth trajectory of the Palaeoproterozoic (late Archaean?) granulites from southern
Eastern Ghats Belt, Precambrian Research, 156, 153-174.
Sengupta, P., Sen, J., Dasgupta, S., Raith, M., Bhui, U. K. and Ehl, J. (1999). Ultra-high
temperature metamorphism of metapelitic granulites from Kondapalle, Eastern Ghats belt:
implications for the Indo-Antarctic correlation. Journal of Petrology 40, 1065-1087.
Sengupta, P., Dasgupta, S., Bhui, U. K., Ehl, J. and Fukuoka, M. (1996). Magmatic
evolution of mafic granulites from Anakapalle, Eastern Ghats, India: implications for
tectonic setting of a Precambrian high-grade terrain. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth
Sciences 14, 185-198.

b. Publications in proceedings of seminar/conferences/:

Bhui, U.K., (2013). Chromite layering from Kondapalle Layered Magmatic
Complex:indication of Cr-saturation during several stages of magmatic differentiation.
Abstract Volume of Nation Seminar on Synergy of Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics
towards natural and energy resources, environment and health p 19, held on 14 -15
th

February, 2013 at Department of Geology, University of Pune, Pune.
Bhui, U. K. (2012).Petrogenesis of cheomite deposits of the Indian high-grade Terrains:
Implications on early Precambrian crust-mantle processes. Abstract Volume of International
Workshop on Magmatic Ore Deposits recent developments in the Chromitite-Platinum
group of elements and Ni-Cu-sulfides, Cr, Ti and V ore fields p 2-3, held on 7-8
December 2012 in Bengaluru, India.
Bhui, U. K. (2010). Chromitite suite of rocks from Kondapalle complex, Eastern Ghats Belt,
India An estimation of subsolidus re-equilibration. In: Geology, genesis & Resource
analysis of metallic, non-metallic & energy minerals (Coal, Petroleum & atomic Minerals)
ed. Dr. M. S. Shekhawat. National Seminar volume, Department of Geology, Mohanlal
Sukhadia University, Udaipur, pp 36 44.
Bhui, U.K. and Sengupta P. (2007). Petrology of a suite of Mesoproterozoic dolerite dykes
from Kondapalle, Eastern Ghats Belt: significance of their depth of emplacement and
physical conditions of metamorphism. In: J. S. Roy and C. Bhattacharya(Eds.)Igneous
Petrology:Twenty first century perspective Allied Publishers, 20-36.
Bhui, U.K., Sengupta Pranesh and Sengupta P. (2005). Phase relations of a suite of mafic
dykes/sills from Kondapalle, Eastern Ghats belt: implications for depth-time trajectory of a
former lower crust. Abstract Volume in the Worksnop on Igneous Petrology:Twenty first
century perspective held on 18
th
February, 2005 at University of Calcutta.

c. Books and Monographs: Nil

d. Patent/copyright obtained/filed: Nil
(4) Research projects supervised (since 1999):
As Co-Principal Investigator
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Title: Tectonothermal evolution of the granulite-amphibolite facies rocks along the
Namakkal-Alambadi corridor across the Palghat-Cauvery suture zone and its significance to
Indo-Antarctic-Madagascar connection. Funding authority: DST, Govt. of India, New
Delhi. Duration: 2005 2009.
Title: Lithology and tectono-metamorphic evolution of a Precambrian terrane boundary in
southern India: the Bhavani shear zone. Funding authority: DST(India)-DAAD(Germany).
Duration 2005 2007.

As Principal Investigator

Title: Petrogenesis of the Archaean Anorthosite-Chromitite complex of Sittampundi,
Southern Granulite Terrain (SGT), India. Funding authority: Jadavpur University.
Duration 2003 2005.
Title: Petrogenesis of the Archaean Anorthosite-Chromitite complex of Sittampundi,
Southern Granulite Terrain, India. Funding authority: Department of Science and
Technology, Govt. of India. 1999. (The project could not be taken).


(5) Doctoral student supervised
(1) Thesis Title: P-T-Fluid Evolutionary history of a suite of calc-silicate rock and anorthosite
from parts of the Eastern Ghats Belt.
Niloy Ranjan Datta for the degree of Ph. D. (Sc) of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Status: Awarded in 2010

(2) Thesis Title: Petrology of a suite of mafic rocks and metapelites from parts of the Southern
Granulite Terrain, South India.
Upama Dutta for the degree of Ph. D. (Sc) of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Status: Awarded in 2010
(6) Academic visit
From 11
th
September to 14
th
September 2012: To Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany,
Lucknow to present a class/talk on Geochemical characterization of Hydrocarbon crudes:
Its application in exploration during the training programme on Palynology in Fossil Fuel
Exploration for Research Scholars.
From 9
th
April 2012 to 15
th
April 2012: To Indian Institute of Science Education and
Research Kolkata (IISER-K) to present a series of lectures on Petroliferous Basins of
India for their BS/MS students.
From 27
th
May 2010 to 1
st
June 2010: To S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,
Saltlake, Kolkata as visitor for discussion on collaborative research projects on Optical
characterization technique for gemstone (Ruby) and for discussion on collaborative
research on enhanced oil recovery using surfactant system.
From 17
th
to 22
nd
October2009: To S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Saltlake,
Kolkata as visitor for discussion on collaborative research projects on Optical
characterization technique for gemstone (Ruby).
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From 19
th
September2005 to 19
th
October 2005 : One-month visit to The Department of
Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Bonn, Germany in connection with DST-DAAD
PPP-2005 research project entitled Lithology and tectono-metamorphic evolution of a
Precambrian terrane boundary in southern India: the Bhavani shear zone.


Experience
(1) Teaching: More than 10 years in Under-Graduate and Graduate (Masters) Degree level
Under Graduate Level : B. Sc (Geological Sciences-major)
: B. E. (Civil and Metallurgical engineering)
: B. Tech. (Petroleum Engineering)
Graduate (Masters) Level : M. Sc. Applied Geology
: M. Tech. Petroleum Engineering
(2) Industrial (Petroleum E & P sector): Nearly 3
1
/
2
years
On hand working experience in multidisciplinary activities for Petroleum exploration and
exploitation of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) as Reservoir Engineer. During the
tenure of the job, I was associated with the activities related to data acquisition, petroleum
reservoir management and development programmes.