Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk
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Emmanuïl Bogdanovych Chekaliuk ( Gnizdychev, Zhydachiv District, Lviv Oblast
, May 6, 1909 – Lviv, January 5, 1990) was a Ukrainian
petroleum
engineer and statistical thermodynamicist
. He first produced rigorous physical and mathematical evidences of petroleum thermodynamic stability at mantlean conditions. Since 1990’s the heavy hydrocarbons mixture enriched with organometallic compounds is widely known as “Chekaliuk’s petroleum”.
Born in the family of a parson he graduated from Electromechanics Faculty at Lviv Polytech Institute in 1933 and then worked as an electrician at Kalush potash
plant and later received the job of an engineer at the factory for domestic electric appliances in Warsaw
. His first research paper on electrophysics was published in Przeglad electrotechniczny Jour. in 1938. After WW II he come back to Ukraine and linked his career with petroleum industry and passed through all positions from a field engineer to a director of large production enterprise. In 1951 Chekaliuk started to work at Central Research Lab of Ukrnafta Co. in Boryslav, and in 1955 he joined Ukrainian Research Geoexploration Institute (UkrDGRI). Defended his PhD thesis entitled “Non-stationary phenomena of homogeneous liquid inflow from porous medium” at Lviv Polytech Inst. in 1957. A Dr.Sc. dissertation in Engineering “Some thermodynamic phenomena in porous medium and the ways of their application to petroleum industry” was defended in Moscow at All-Union Research Institute for Petroleum (VNIGNI) in 1962. He studied different aspects of reservoir properties, filtration of liquids and gases, physical parameters of deep oils, pay zone testing, production well-logging, oil field
development, enhanced oil recovery
, thermodynamics of hydrocarbon
deposits, liquidation of accidental gas gushers.
Since 1964 he worked for Inst. of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals, Nat’l Ac. Sci. Ukraine, in Lviv where he headed the Abyssal Hydrocarbons Dept. and coined new scientific trend of petroleum geology
, geo-thermodynamics. With his colleagues he developed a principally new technology of enhanced oil recovery from the deep pools (to 3000 m depth) using the water with higher thermodynamic parameters. He has determined the optimal depth to preserve mantlean hydrocarbons and calculated their chemical composition and with his teammates conducted first experiments on high temperature synthesis of hydrocarbon systems in hydrocarbonate medium. Also he studied the problem of hydrocarbon systems kinetic transformation at sedimentary cover conditions. Besides, he interested in theoretical physics and published a fundamental monograph “Gnoseological potential of classical mechanics (to 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton research career)” and several articles on the topic.
He generated more than 170 research publications, including 9 monographs and received 14 inventor’s certificates related to hydrocarbon fields development and enhanced oil recovery
. His technology applying the special water solution for oil recovery was patented in the UK, Canada, and Mexico.
Soviet authorities did not deservedly value Chekaliuk’s work because his own brother was a soldier of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment. Therefore Prof. Chekaliuk had no chance to become a Member of UkrSSR Academy of Sciences, to head the institute or even to travel abroad.
Selected publications
Chekaliuk E.B, 1961. Basics of oil and gas pools piezometry. - Kiev, GosTechIzdat. - 268 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1965. Thermodynamics of oil pay zone. – Moscow, Nedra Press. - 240 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1966. Petroleum in the Earth’s upper mantle. In: Problem of oil gas origin and formation of their commercial accumulations. - Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - p. 49-62 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1967. Petroleum in the Earth’s upper mantle. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - 256 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B., 1971. The thermodynamic basis for the theory of the abiotic genesis of petroleum. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. – 256 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B., Fedortsov I.M., Ossadchy V.G., 1974. Field geothermal surveying. - Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - 103 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1975. Thermodynamic properties of hydrocarbon systems. In: Problems of Endogenous petroleum geology and geochemistry. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - pp. 30-39 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1971. Petroleum-producing layer of the Earth’s upper mantle. In: Genesis of oil and gas and formation of their commercial accumulations. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - pp. 37-51 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1976. The thermal stability of hydrocarbon systems in geothermodynamic systems. In: Earth’s Outgassing and Geotectonics [Degazatsiia Zemli i Geotektonika], P.N.Kropotkin, Ed. - pp. 267-272 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1975. Energetic processes in the interior part of the Earth and their role in the formation of oil fields. In: Regularities of formation and distribution of commercial oil and gas fields. - Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - p. 66-76. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B. and Filyas Yu.I.,1977. Water-oil solutions. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. – 128 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1978. Gnoseological potential of classical mechanics (to 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton research career). - Lviv. Dep. in VINITI, October 3, 1978. - 248 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B. and Oganov V.A., 1979. Thermal methods to improve oil recovery. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. – 208 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B. and Boyko G.E., 1982. Geo-thermodynamic evidences for abyssal genesis of oil. In: Peculiarities of the Earth’s crust abyssal structure and theoretical provisions of inorganic origin of petroleum. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - pp. 185-210 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1986. Towards the problem of oil synthesis at great depths. Mendeleev All-Union Chem. Soc. Jour. – Moscow, [Khimiya] Chemistry, vol. XXXI (5). – pp. 556-562 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B., 1990. Thermodynamic fundamental of experimental chemical kinetics. – Lviv, Institute for Geology and Geochem. of Combustible Minerals. – 32 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B. and Kenney J.F., 1991. The stability of hydrocarbons in the thermodynamic conditions of the Earth. Proc. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 36(3): 347.
Filyus R.I., 1979. Emmanuil Bogdanovych Chekaliuk (Bibliography). - Lviv. - 19 p. (in Russian)
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...
, May 6, 1909 – Lviv, January 5, 1990) was a Ukrainian
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
petroleum
Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
engineer and statistical thermodynamicist
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation...
. He first produced rigorous physical and mathematical evidences of petroleum thermodynamic stability at mantlean conditions. Since 1990’s the heavy hydrocarbons mixture enriched with organometallic compounds is widely known as “Chekaliuk’s petroleum”.
Born in the family of a parson he graduated from Electromechanics Faculty at Lviv Polytech Institute in 1933 and then worked as an electrician at Kalush potash
Potash
Potash is the common name for various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. In some rare cases, potash can be formed with traces of organic materials such as plant remains, and this was the major historical source for it before the industrial era...
plant and later received the job of an engineer at the factory for domestic electric appliances in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
. His first research paper on electrophysics was published in Przeglad electrotechniczny Jour. in 1938. After WW II he come back to Ukraine and linked his career with petroleum industry and passed through all positions from a field engineer to a director of large production enterprise. In 1951 Chekaliuk started to work at Central Research Lab of Ukrnafta Co. in Boryslav, and in 1955 he joined Ukrainian Research Geoexploration Institute (UkrDGRI). Defended his PhD thesis entitled “Non-stationary phenomena of homogeneous liquid inflow from porous medium” at Lviv Polytech Inst. in 1957. A Dr.Sc. dissertation in Engineering “Some thermodynamic phenomena in porous medium and the ways of their application to petroleum industry” was defended in Moscow at All-Union Research Institute for Petroleum (VNIGNI) in 1962. He studied different aspects of reservoir properties, filtration of liquids and gases, physical parameters of deep oils, pay zone testing, production well-logging, oil field
Oil field
An oil field is a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum from below ground. Because the oil reservoirs typically extend over a large area, possibly several hundred kilometres across, full exploitation entails multiple wells scattered across the area...
development, enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced Oil Recovery is a generic term for techniques for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field...
, thermodynamics of hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons from which one hydrogen atom has been removed are functional groups, called hydrocarbyls....
deposits, liquidation of accidental gas gushers.
Since 1964 he worked for Inst. of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals, Nat’l Ac. Sci. Ukraine, in Lviv where he headed the Abyssal Hydrocarbons Dept. and coined new scientific trend of petroleum geology
Petroleum geology
Petroleum geology refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons .-Sedimentary basin analysis:...
, geo-thermodynamics. With his colleagues he developed a principally new technology of enhanced oil recovery from the deep pools (to 3000 m depth) using the water with higher thermodynamic parameters. He has determined the optimal depth to preserve mantlean hydrocarbons and calculated their chemical composition and with his teammates conducted first experiments on high temperature synthesis of hydrocarbon systems in hydrocarbonate medium. Also he studied the problem of hydrocarbon systems kinetic transformation at sedimentary cover conditions. Besides, he interested in theoretical physics and published a fundamental monograph “Gnoseological potential of classical mechanics (to 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton research career)” and several articles on the topic.
He generated more than 170 research publications, including 9 monographs and received 14 inventor’s certificates related to hydrocarbon fields development and enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced Oil Recovery is a generic term for techniques for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field...
. His technology applying the special water solution for oil recovery was patented in the UK, Canada, and Mexico.
Soviet authorities did not deservedly value Chekaliuk’s work because his own brother was a soldier of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment. Therefore Prof. Chekaliuk had no chance to become a Member of UkrSSR Academy of Sciences, to head the institute or even to travel abroad.
Selected publications
Chekaliuk E.B, 1961. Basics of oil and gas pools piezometry. - Kiev, GosTechIzdat. - 268 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1965. Thermodynamics of oil pay zone. – Moscow, Nedra Press. - 240 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1966. Petroleum in the Earth’s upper mantle. In: Problem of oil gas origin and formation of their commercial accumulations. - Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - p. 49-62 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1967. Petroleum in the Earth’s upper mantle. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - 256 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B., 1971. The thermodynamic basis for the theory of the abiotic genesis of petroleum. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. – 256 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B., Fedortsov I.M., Ossadchy V.G., 1974. Field geothermal surveying. - Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - 103 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1975. Thermodynamic properties of hydrocarbon systems. In: Problems of Endogenous petroleum geology and geochemistry. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - pp. 30-39 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1971. Petroleum-producing layer of the Earth’s upper mantle. In: Genesis of oil and gas and formation of their commercial accumulations. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - pp. 37-51 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1976. The thermal stability of hydrocarbon systems in geothermodynamic systems. In: Earth’s Outgassing and Geotectonics [Degazatsiia Zemli i Geotektonika], P.N.Kropotkin, Ed. - pp. 267-272 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1975. Energetic processes in the interior part of the Earth and their role in the formation of oil fields. In: Regularities of formation and distribution of commercial oil and gas fields. - Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - p. 66-76. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B. and Filyas Yu.I.,1977. Water-oil solutions. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. – 128 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1978. Gnoseological potential of classical mechanics (to 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton research career). - Lviv. Dep. in VINITI, October 3, 1978. - 248 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B. and Oganov V.A., 1979. Thermal methods to improve oil recovery. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. – 208 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B. and Boyko G.E., 1982. Geo-thermodynamic evidences for abyssal genesis of oil. In: Peculiarities of the Earth’s crust abyssal structure and theoretical provisions of inorganic origin of petroleum. – Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publ. - pp. 185-210 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk E.B., 1986. Towards the problem of oil synthesis at great depths. Mendeleev All-Union Chem. Soc. Jour. – Moscow, [Khimiya] Chemistry, vol. XXXI (5). – pp. 556-562 (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B., 1990. Thermodynamic fundamental of experimental chemical kinetics. – Lviv, Institute for Geology and Geochem. of Combustible Minerals. – 32 p. (in Russian)
Chekaliuk, E.B. and Kenney J.F., 1991. The stability of hydrocarbons in the thermodynamic conditions of the Earth. Proc. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 36(3): 347.
Filyus R.I., 1979. Emmanuil Bogdanovych Chekaliuk (Bibliography). - Lviv. - 19 p. (in Russian)
See also
- Abiogenic petroleum originAbiogenic petroleum originAbiogenic petroleum origin is a largely abandoned hypothesis that was proposed as an alternative to theory of biological petroleum origin. It was relatively popular in the past, but it went largely forgotten at the end of the 20th century after it failed to predict the location of new wells.The...
- Lviv Polytechnic National University
- Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals, NASU, Lviv
External links
- http://www.gasresources.net/Introduction.htm
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army