Baghir Suleimanov


Baghir Suleimanov was an Azerbaijani petroleum scientist and academic. A Doctor of Technical Sciences, he was a Corresponding Member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Early life and career

Suleimanov was born in Baku on 22 June 1959. He graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University. He received his PhD in 1987, his DSc in 1997, and his professorship in 2011. In 2014, he was chosen corresponding member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on the specialization of "Development of oil and gas fields", and in 2019, he was elected foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He attended the scientific school of academician Azad Mirzajanzade.
From 1981 to 1985, Suleimanov worked as an operator and engineer on oil and gas production in the Oil and Gas Production Unit named after N. Narimanov. He worked as an assistant at the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemical Institute's "Development and exploitation of oil fields" faculty from 1985 to 1988, and as a senior, lead, and head scientist at the ANAS Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics' "Nonlinear mechanics of oil and gas" department from 1988 to 2000. Since 2000, he worked at the as director and deputy director. Since 2009 he was working as deputy director for oil and gas production at the same Institute.
The construction of scientific and experimental basis for the use of heterogeneous systems in the development of oil fields, as well as the development of novel methodologies, technologies, and chemical compositions for oil recovery, was the major focus of research activities.
Suleimanov wrote 321 scientific publications, including 118 patents, two monographs, and four textbooks. He mentored 25 PhD students and 6 DSc students.

Scientific activity

  • In the development of oil fields, based on the physical and mathematical modeling of the filtration of heterogeneous systems in non-homogeneous porous media, novel technologies for increasing the oil recovery, bottom-hole stimulation and water shut off have been developed and successfully applied;
  • The existence of the S-shaped filtration law during the flow of non-Newtonian fluids in non-homogeneous layers is determined, experimentally and theoretically justified;
  • As a result of a comprehensive study of the stationary and non-stationary filtration of gaseous Newtonian, non-Newtonian fluids and gas under pre-critical phase conditions, the theory of flow of the studied systems based on the slip effect in the porous medium was developed;
  • As a result of the statistical modeling of the life cicle of oil fields, the methodology of dividing the development process into stages, determining the maximum production and recoverable resources was developed;
  • Based on the use of fractal, multifractal dimensions and Fisher-Shannon indicators, new methods of oil field development analysis were developed and applied;
  • Methods of selecting candidate wells for the application of various geological-technical measures have been developed based on mathematical modeling;
  • As a result of modeling various technological processes in oil production wells, new types of well equipment - submersible pumps, workover equipment, sand screens, etc. have been developed and successfully applied;
  • Various oil industry chemicals, such as demulsifiers, depressants, surfactants, polymers compositions were created and effectively employed.

Scientific achievements

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  • More than 500 thousand tons of oil and gas were produced as a result of the application of developed techniques and technologies.

Membership in scientific and engineering institutions

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  • Member of the of the ;
  • Foreign member of the on "Oil and gas" section;
  • Member of SOCAR's central commission on oil and gas resources;
  • Member of SOCAR's central commission for the development of oil, gas and gas-condensate fields;
  • Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of the, SOCAR;
  • Chairman of the "Development, exploitation and drilling of wells" section of the Scientific Council of the, SOCAR;
  • Member of the Scientific Council of the ;
  • Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Activities in scientific and technical publications

  • Editor-in-chief of ;
  • Deputy Editor-in-chief of ;
  • Deputy Editor-in-chief of ;
  • Member of the editorial board of ;
  • Member of the editorial board of ;
  • Member of the editorial board of ;
  • Member of the editorial board of ;
  • Reviewer in .

Death

Suleimanov died on 6 January 2026, at the age of 66.

Awards and prizes

Selected publications

Books

  • Print, Online
  • * Paperback, eBook

Articles

Suleimanov B. A., Abbasov H. F. Gasified acid solution in pre-transition state for well stimulation // Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology. — Received 21 Aug 2024, Accepted 26 Dec 2024, Published online: 10 Jan 2025. — doi: 10.1080/01932691.2024.2448758;

Presentations

USA, Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc. participated as a speaker in international forums, conferences and symposia held in different countries.

Academic editorship

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  • Ahmad М. Salmanov, Bakir I. Maharramov, Elmir Sh. Qaragezov, Nizami S. Kerimov. Geology of oil-gas fields and development stages of Azerbaijan area of Caspian sea. Referencebook / Scientific editor: Baghir A. Suleimanov. - Baku: «MSV» publishing house, 2023. - 508р. ISBN 978-9952-39-083-4
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He is the scientific editor of the New Bibliography of Academician Azad Mirzajanzade and 4 volumes of Selected Works, published by ANAS "Elm" publishing house in connection with the implementation of the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan Republic on the 90th anniversary of Academician Azad Mirzajanzade.