SPYRIDON BELLAS, PhD
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER, EQUAL TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (FORTH)
INSTITUTE OF GEOENERGY (IG), Chania / Crete, Greece
Biography
On 2020, Dr. Bellas appointed the position of Principal Researcher at the Institute of GeoEnergy (IG) [former Institute of Petroleum Research (IPR)] of the Foundation for Technology & Research -Hellas (FORTH), based on the Technical University Campus of Chania, Crete Island, Greece.
Between 2016 and 2020, he held the position of Vice President (Upstream), Executive BoD, in the State Company Hellenic Hydrocarbons Resources Management S.A. (HHRM SA). Since 2011 he became a key player and team leader of the hydrocarbons Working Group (Ministry of Environment & Energy, Upstream: Hydrocarbons Directorate). He had been Member & Negotiator in various Evaluation Committees for Awarding Blocks for E&P Licensing (On- and Offshore), in Technical Advisory Cmtes., Member of, the Prinos Production Field Cmte., the South Kavala Underground Gas Storage Project Cmte., the Maritime Licensing Cmte. (MFA) and the Environmental Preservation Cmte. of Limin Keri (Zakynthos oil seeps & leakages), while he has initiated many SEIAs, in the framework required for future sustainable Exploration. He acted as the Oil & Gas Expert representative of Greece in the European Federation of Geologists (EFG).
Spyros was three times External Evaluator of the Greek Authority for the Evaluation of the Quality of the Higher Educational Institutes (HAHE ex HQA, evaluating Departments and Universities of Greece).
He owns the ?C. Ktenas? Prize for the Natural Sciences of the Greek Academy of Sciences (2000).
He studied Geology at Patras University, Greece and holds his Ph.D. from the Freie Universtit
Research Interest
Oil and Gas Exploration, Source Rocks Geochemistry, Basin analysis controlling factors, Hydrocarbons in Fold and Thrust Belts (FTB), Biostratigraphy and correlations, depositional paleoenvironments, onshore and offshore fields, geological analogues, subsurface gas storage (natural gas, CO2 or hydrogen)
