Engineering Assistant

KAVYA PALAKALURI

**** * **** ** ***#**A*, Lawrence, KS 66047, 562-***-****, **********@*****.***

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Aspiring and self-motivated person looking to put my skills for achieving company’s objectives and goals.

EDUCATION

The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (Expected - May-2018)

Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering, GPA: 3.5

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India (May - 2014)

Bachelors of Technology in Petroleum Engineering, GPA: 3.5

SKILLS

•Programming Languages

: C, Matlab, Python, R

•Web Development tools

: HTML

•Software

: CMG Suite, MS Office Suite, Petrel, MBAL, Autodesk AutoCAD.

GRADUATE RESEARCH

Organization: University of Kansas, TORP (Jan 2016 – present)

•Performed Equation of State (EOS) tuning and miscibility modeling using the CMG’s WINPROP.

•Compositional dynamic simulation studies for CO2-enhaced oil recovery (EOR) project performance and economics.

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

Organization: Institute of Reservoir Studies- Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, Ahmedabad, India (May 2013 – July 2013)

•Conducted material balance calculations - for future prospect of the field using MBAL.

•Geologic static model building and dynamic reservoir simulation studies using the CMG IMEX.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

•Graduate Teaching Assistant, Aug 2016 - present

•Teaching Assistant for Production Engineering (Fall-2016)

•Drilling engineering and drilling fluids laboratory (Fall-2017)

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India

•Teaching assistant, Sept-2014 - May-2015

•Reservoir Engineering & Production Engineering

RESEARCH PROJECTS

•Inflow Performance Relationship of Oil wells in heterogeneous reservoir.

•Permeability of core sample by using Variable head method.

•Modeling Single Phase and 2 phase flows In Multi-Layered Reservoir using MatLab.

CERTIFICATIONS

•CMG Reservoir Simulation Model Creation & Analysis using BUILDER & RESULTS.

•Introduction to Data Analysis using Excel – Microsoft(Edx-MOOC)

•Analyzing and Visualizing data with Excel – Microsoft(Edx-MOOC)

•Programming with R for Data Science – Microsoft(Edx-MOOC)

PUBLICATIONS

•“Challenges in exploration and production of Natural gas hydrates”, paper presented at International Conference on Petroleum Science and Technology-2K14, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

•Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Aug 2010 - present

•Member, LEO club, Aug 2012 - May 2014

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