VISWANATHA REDDY

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San Diego, CA, 92117

ab2ezw@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile no: +1-858-***-****

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging technical position in Oil and Gas company as drilling engineer suitable for my skills with 5 years of experience, and I would deliberate contribute for the company expansion, simultaneously provides me with opportunities to expand my knowledge and move forward professionally.

Drilling Engineering Experience:

• Drill string design and application modeling

• Drilling and well completion

• Well planning and cost estimation

• Under balanced and managed pressure drilling

• Casing while drilling operations

• Rotary steerable operations

• Multi-lateral drilling completion design

• Horizontal drilling and completion

• Directional tools and survyeing

• Deep water drilling and operations

• Well de-completion and abandonment planning and operations

• Safety audit and hazard assessment

• Rotary drilling through tubing

• Caluclating kill mud weight and stabilising well

• Utilize all type of drilling rigs

• Caluclating and performing directional drilling

• Team building and project management

EDUCATION:

Masters in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-watt University in UK

Bachelors in Petroleum Engineering from Anna University in India

LANGUAGES:

• English, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi.

CERTIFICATE:

FFFP -Fire Fighting & Fire Prevention

EFA -Elementary First Aid

PSSR -Personal Safety & Social Responsibility

PST -Personal Survival Technique

HUET -Helicopter under water Escape Training

SKILLS:

• Drilling engineer softwares like DrillNet, DOX

• Microsoft package tools

EXPERIENCE: Project 1- CBM filed at Raniganj Essar Oil Limited India

• Designed well program for CBM fields

• During this project the well program has been designed for maximum recovery in a weak strength Coal bed field.

• Directonal planning the profile of the well with all the considerations

• Directional surveying caluclations and plotting the results

• To use downhole telemetry tools

• To use MWD directional tools for accurate survey

• Design well program to connect all the face cleats

• Caluclate the number of perforations required for production

• Hydraulics with wellbore loading and EAD

• Geo Mechanicl modelling of wellbores and pore pressures

• Used rotary steerable systems for directional control

Project 2- Field Development Project on North Sea Field UK

• Worked in a team as drilling engineer for the total field development project and used field operationl knowledge to design, plan, coordinate and implement drilling programs

• Design drilling and casing programs for the field with the help of sub surface data from team members

• Implementation of operational plans to achieve well construction and data gathering objectives

• Caluclate mud weights for the removal of cuttings and minimize the fractures during drilling

• Worked with reservoir engineer to choose the best drilling spots for the maximum recovery

• Developed cost estimates and risks vs. rewards analysis to determine the best operational methods

• Optimized drilling programs by recommending appropriate wellbore hydraulics, bit and casing seat selection, mud and cementing programs, and procedures to predict and detect abnormal pressures

• Design single stage and multi stage cementing depths

• Used the latest technology and equipment, techniques to gather data during drilling and to keep the wellbore stable

Project 3- Lead Drilling Engineer at Reliance Industries Limited K&G basin in India

• Reduced drilling costs in development and exploration wells using sesmic to pore pressure data and wellbore stability transforms

• Utilized real time monitoring and mwd data to increase ROP and decrease time lost on rig

• BHA optimizer

• Improved bit trip decisions

• Cost estimation and AFE preparation

• Maintaining HSE standards of the company

• Performed well caluclations for casing setting depths and liner hangers

• Estimated the number of perforations required for econmic production and to minimise sand production

Project 4- Drilling Engineer at Cauvery field at ONGC in India

• Designed drilling parameters, BHA assembly, WOB, and casing desigh for vertical and directional wells

• Used whipstock for directional control

• Optimized bit selection and prepared AFE for wells

• Improved ROP by 5% in directional wells by optimizing drilling fluid parameters and BHA

• Mud program evaluation

• Kill mud weight caluclations

• Killing well and stabilizing it for furthe drilling

• Perfoemed pressure gradient calucltions

• Monitored operatins at rig site

• Matained HSE standards at the rig site

• Abandonment planning and operations

Project 5- Drilling Engineer at ONGC India

• Caluclate and predict abnormal formation pressures,formation fracture gradients and perform leak-off tests and formation breakdown tests

• Predict primary and secondary kicks and design well killing procedures

• BOP stack arrangment

• Design casing scheme configuration and selecting casing types and setting depths and caluclating loads on casing

• Estimate frictional pressure drops in pipes and annuli

• Estimate frictional pressure drop across bit

• Bit selection using IADC bit comparison charts and according to formation strength

• Optimising the hydraulics of the circulating system

Project 6- Assisting drilling engineer at Reliance Industries Limited in K&G gas field

• Used various drilling engineering priciples to design a complete well under the supervision of senior drilling engineer

• Used various geological subsurface data for casing the weak formations and then continue to the next stage of drilling

• Caluclated the mud weights required for drilling of a complete well

• Estimated various casing depths with the help of completion engineer

• Caluclated the amount of cement required for each stage of cementing

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Relocation: Yes

Driving License: International

Authorized to work in USA: Yes (without sponsorship)

MEMBERSHIP

• Member of Society Of Petroleum Engineer (SPE).

• Member of Emirates Society of Geosciences (ESG).

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