Dr Ashok Kumar
Water Aquifer Consulting, New Delhi, India
E-mail: ashok.kumar@wateraquifer.com; ashok_bcst@yahoo.com
Education
- Ph.D., 1999, Faculty of Science (Geo-hydrology), Patna University, India
- MScTech, Earth Science, 1986, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India
- BSc Honours, Geology, 1983, Dept. of Geology, Patna University, India
- Fellowship
- CSIR Research Fellow (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi
- UNDP Fellow (Ground Water Modeling at CSIRO / CGS, Perth, Australia)
Employment
- 2005 (October) – 2020 (August)
- Cairn Oil & Gas, Gurugram
Team Leader –cum- Advisor Hydrogeologist, Reservoir Development, Rajasthan Asset, Cairn India Limited (formerly a subsidiary of Cairn PLC, Scotland) Gurgaon, India. (Cairn – MNC IN Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Company).
Major Responsibilities
Oil field water (source water) management of MBA fields, Barmer, Rajasthan, India. (Aquifer mapping, testing, well field development, aquifer monitoring, groundwater modelling, quality assessment and compatibility analysis, treatment, land subsidence monitoring etc.)
- 1987 (Sept) – 2005 (October)
- BCST, Dept. of Science & Technology, GoB
In-charge / Principal Investigator / Technical Officer / Resource Scientist, BIRSAC/BCST, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of Bihar, Patna, India. (BIRSAC – Natural Resource mapping organisation, BCST- S&T promotion and research organisation).
Major Responsibilities
Aquifer mapping, Groundwater modelling, Remote sensing and GIS for groundwater development and management, Natural resource mapping etc.
Experience
He has more than 33 years of experience (more than 15 years exclusive in oil field water management) in the areas of groundwater exploration (geophysical, geo-hydrological, remote sensing and GIS based), well field and well design, waste disposal well, Groundwater Information System, Flow-Solute Transport- Reactive modelling using various public domain and commercial computer packages in hard rock, alluvial plain, marginal alluvial plain, and sedimentary basins (shallow and deep aquifer), selective experience in using flow and solute transport models for impact assessment of lignite mining dewatering, and also in modelling land subsidence models using MODFLOW, hydrochemistry and hydro-chemical database management, geochemical modelling (PHREEQC), landfill monitoring and contamination risk analysis. Considerable experience in project evaluation, supervision, and implementation. Also, as a resource person for groundwater modelling courses, Academic journal and research project reviewer
Expertise
Primary
Groundwater Modeling – Hard rock and Alluvial – sedimentary multi layered aquifer system (Numerical 3D flow, transport and reactive modeling using MODFLOW, MT3DMS, RT3D, PHT3D (GMS, PMWIN, GV, VM, ModelMuse, PHAST) – trained at CSIRO, Perth and Waterloo Hydrogeologic Inc, Canada)
Secondary
Aquifer test and analysis, High-capacity deep production well– monitoring well – deep disposal well planning and design, Land subsidence modelling (MODFLOW and related package) and field monitoring network design and analysis of data (Geodetic grade DGPS based),
Groundwater Information System and database management,
Hydrochemistry, Geochemical modeling (PHREEQC) – surface and reservoir level scaling, compatibility etc., Hydro-chemical database management, reservoir formation / injection water chemistry and reservoir souring (H2S)
Tertiary
Terrain Analysis, Natural Resource Database Management using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing
Community related Experience
Working experience in community development in groundwater and natural resource development and management. Organized awareness camps at village level in tribal areas for water conservation and sanitation. Actively involved with NGO for translating scientific findings to community level. Honorary Secretary of VSED – a Delhi based NGO working in Rural India.
Publications
Papers (>68)
