CT.
Sugar Land, TX
77479
Partha Biswas
Experience 2011 October - To date Fronterra
Integrated Geosciences
Houston. TX
Senior Petrophysical Advisor
Responsible for leading petrophysical team for
field studies. Integrating core, log and image data
Develop anisotropy routines for calculating fast
shear azimuth and degree of anisotropy
Core log integration for TOC, permeability etc.
using non-parametric regression
2011 February - September 2011 BHP Petroleum
Houston, TX
Member Equity Determination Team, ROD Field,
Algeria
Responsible for developing petrophysical routines
integrating core, log, seismic and geological data
for BHP's share in equity determination in ROD
field.
Pore pressure analysis and determining field-wide
oi-water contact
July 2010 - January 2011 Weatherford Core
Lab
Denver, CO
Petrophysical Consultant
Develop routines for core log integration for
organic shale
Calculate adsorbed and free gas from logs
Estimate total gas in place
2003 October - July 2010 Weatherford
Geoscience
Houston, TX
Sr. Petrophysical Advisor
Responsible for developing petrophysical analysis
routines not currently available off the shelf
Stoneley permeability study in Yemen for NIKO in
fractured granite
Clay typing algorithm development for spectral
gamma ray
Flow characterization in Woodford, Barnett and
Devonian shale
Thin bed identification and characterization using
raw sonic waveform and potentials
Did a 188 well field study for Petrom (Romania).
Work involved integrating core and well log data,
developing algorithms for calculating porosity and
resistivity from old Russian logs and verifying the
results from core and wells with modern well log
data.
Thin bed characterization from raw neutron and
density counts
Electrofacies analysis of tight gas sands to
identify potentially productive zones
Developed new techniques to identify open fractures
from sonic and nuclear logs
1999-2003 Geobiz Inc. Sugar Land, TX
Owner
Developed and marketed software for processing raw
array sonic waveforms including acoustic anisotropy
Clients include Statoil, Norway, BPAMOCO, Phillips
Petroleum, Devon, Anadarko, Shell and Norsk Hydro
Stoneley permeability study in Ekofisk field,
Norway
1981-1999 Baker Atlas Houston, TX
Geoscientist, Manager, Computer Center
Computer center, manager in Alaska, Saudi Arabia
and Stavangar, Norway.
Interpreted and matched core and production data
for various oil companies.
Led a team for flow characterization of Shedgum
field, Saudi Arabia, from stoneley, core and
production log data.
1978-1980 Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Kuwait
Senior Log Analyst
Interpreted well log data and other petrophysical
data for all the wells in Kuwait.
1976-1978 Sonatrach. Alger
Senior Log Analyst
Was responsible for analyzing, mapping all the
exploratory wells drilled in Algeria
Special responsibilities were characterization of
Quartzites du Hamra (fractured quartzites) in
Algeria
1968-1976 Oil and Natural Gas Commission. Dehra Dun
Log Analyst
Was responsible for analyzing, mapping all the
wells drilled in Western India
Special responsibilities were characterization of
micrites in Bombay High (Offshore Western India)
Have extensive experience in interpreting Russian
logs (EKZ, BKZ, neutron and density)
Education 1967 Indian School of Mines Dhanbad India
M.Sc. Applied Geophysics
Publications Petrophysical characteristics of Kuwait Wells
SPE Mid- East Conference, 1981
Use of Pulse Neutron logs as a production logging
tool
SPE California Conference, 1992
Reservoir characterization and hydraulic unit
identification in Shedgum Field, Saudi Arabia
SPE Mid-East Conference, 1992