Staff

Position: Managing Director
Tel: +44 (0)131 451 3672
Fax: +44 (0)131 451 3127
E-mail: bahman.tohidi@hydrafact.com

Following graduation in 1984 (BSc in Chemical Engineering, Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran), Bahman Tohidi joined the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), where he worked as production engineer and university lecturer for seven years. In 1991 he joined Heriot-Watt University, graduating with a PhD in Petroleum Engineering in 1995 with his doctoral work on the phase behaviour of water-hydrocarbon systems and gas hydrates. He started his employment at Heriot-Watt in January 1994, working on both Hydrate and Reservoir Fluids research projects.

Prof Tohidi's research interests include gas hydrates, flow assurance, phase behaviour and properties of reservoir fluids, and the development of low carbon energy technologies. Currently, he leads the Reservoir Fluids Research Group and is Director of the Centre for Gas Hydrate Research and the newly formed Centre for Flow Assurance Research (C-FAR) at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, where he manages a wide variety of research projects on gas hydrates, flow assurance, phase behaviour and properties of reservoir fluids. 
Prof Tohidi teaches Petroleum Engineering and Production Technology at postgraduate level, as well as offering several short courses to the industry (including Advanced Flow Assurance and Gas Hydrates, PVT and Phase Behaviour of Reservoir Fluids, Gas Hydrates; Friend or Foe? and Petroleum Engineering for other Disciplines). He has published more than 150 papers and currently holds 8 patents primarily concerning gas hydrate and PVT technologies. He is a Professor at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tehran, and Honorary Professor at the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Prof Tohidi is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, and a member of EPSRC (the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) Peer Review College for 2006-2009. He was SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2004-2005, giving high-profile presentations on gas hydrates worldwide over the course of the year.