Renowned scientist Eldar Shakhbazov turns 75
29.01.2023 /On January 29, 2023, Professor Eldar Gasham oglu Shahbazov, Head of Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling of Nanotechnology Application in Oil Industry, Institute of Control Systems of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief for General Affairs of the Azerbaijan Oil Industry magazine, Doctor of Engineering, celebrates his 75th birthday.
Eldar Shahbazov was born in West Azerbaijan on January 29, 1948 in an intellectual family. In 1966-1972 he studied at the petro-mechanical faculty of the Azerbaijan Petrochemical Institute named after M. Azizbekov (now the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University) and graduated as a mechanical engineer. The main areas of scientific activity of the outstanding scientist are devoted to the problems of reliability of oilfield machinery and equipment, problems of development of theoretical and practical principles of nanotechnology in oil industry. In 1984 E.Shahbazov defended at the Specialized Scientific Council his Candidate's thesis titled "Modes of maintenance and repair of lifting equipment for current and overhaul repair of oil and gas wells" and received an academic degree of the Candidate of Technical Sciences. In 1990 he defended his doctoral thesis on "Development of academic principles and experimental methods to improve the reliability of mobile oil field installations" and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering Sciences, and in 1997 he was awarded the title of Professor.
E. Shahbazov started his multidisciplinary career in 1972-1990 as an engineer at Azerbaijan Scientific Research and Design Institute of Oil Machinery. In 1990-1992 he worked as the first vice-rector of the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry, and later as the first deputy director of Scientific Research Institute of Geotechnology Problems and Oil and Gas Chemistry at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. For many years he worked as head of the technical and production department of the administration of the Marine Oil and Gas Production Association of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan and then as adviser to the first vice-president of SOCAR, academician Khoshbakht Yusifzade. He has been working at SOCAR since 1993 to the present day.
In 2011-2014 E. Shahbazov served as Head of Nanotechnology Department of SOCAR. Professor Shahbazov also served as advisor to the director of the Oil and Gas Research Projects Institute of SOCAR and advisor to the rector of the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University. At present E. Shahbazov holds the position of Deputy Editor-in-Chief for General Affairs of the editorial board of the Azerbaijan Oil Industry magazine.
The well-known scientist in the field of problems of creation and reliability of oil-and-gas equipment E. Shakhbazov has a number of fundamental and applied works in this field. For the first time the author has developed theoretical foundations of probabilistic characteristics of equipment reliability assessment for a full cycle of operation, from the stage of design specifications for building oil and gas equipment to its production. A strategy for improving the reliability of oil and gas equipment based on the functional theory of "small perturbation" was developed.
E.Shahbazov made a report at the International Standards Committee on "Reliability of Oil and Gas Production Equipment" located in Norway in 1994 as the author of several international standards applied worldwide to solve theoretical problems in the field of oil and gas equipment reliability. Reliability of gas-turbine compressor station No.2 built together with SOCAR and American Pennzoil was calculated by these standards and at present time it is operating in Guneshli oilfield. The mentioned standards and results of more than 80 scientific researches were summed up by E. Shakhbazov and were accepted as a new scientific direction in the problem of increasing the reliability of oil and gas equipment. The mentioned achievements were reflected in the monographs "Reliability and Maintenance of Mobile Oilfield Equipment" and "Theory and Practice of Problems of Compressor Stations Reliability in Market Economy" by the prominent scientist.
E. Shakhbazov has presented papers on oil and gas industry problems at international symposia and conferences held in countries such as Russia, Great Britain, France, Scotland, USA, and Norway, and a number of his scientific works have been translated into Russian, English, and French. A number of his studies, which gave impetus to the development of the country's oil industry, have been met with enthusiasm by leading oil companies of the world. On the initiative and under the direct supervision of the scientist the "Initial technical proposal and a business plan for a service center for repair and restoration of oil and gas technological machinery, systems and equipment" was developed. Professor Shakhbazov for the first time outlined the theoretical basis of the effect of "small impact and perturbance" and on its basis "GOST 27503-81 (ST SEV 283681). Reliability in Engineering. System for Gathering and Processing of Information. Methods of Reliability Indicators Estimation" was developed. Nowadays the development and successful application of nanotechnology methods in oil industry are also linked with the name of Professor E. Shakhbazov. The scientist proposed a mechanism to integrate fundamental and applied sciences, developed the charter of the joint scientific and technical council of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and was elected to the bureau and the chairmanship of the section in this council.
Under the scientific leadership of the scientist, who made a great contribution to the training of personnel, 12 PhD dissertations were defended, and currently three doctoral students are successfully continuing work on their dissertations. E.G. Shahbazov is the author of 181 scientific works, including 22 patents and 12 monographs.
E. Shahbazov is an Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Oil and Gas Academy and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, a member of the editorial board of the Azerbaijan Oil Industry magazine, Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council of the Supreme Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 2010 the scientist was awarded the UNESCO Prize in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Full Member of the Ukrainian Oil and Gas Academy since 1993, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences since 2014.
In 2010, for his contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology, the outstanding scientist E. Shahbazov was awarded the UNESCO Prize, and his scientific achievements were included in the UNESCO Encyclopedia. In addition, he is the recipient of the "Golden Pen" media award. In 2009, by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, he was awarded the "Progress" Medal. In 2020, E. Shahbazov was awarded the "Honorary Oilman" badge by the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).
We congratulate the outstanding scientist Eldar Shakhbazov, who has made a significant contribution to world science, on his 75th birthday, we wish him good health and new successes!