Engineer Engineering

Summary

With **+years of experience in the oil and gas industry as a petroleum and reservoir engineer, my expertise has a broad range of project evaluation to substantial experience in water flooding, rate transient analysis, pressure transient analysis, and numerical simulation modeling of oil and gas reservoirs. In addition, I have experience with unconventional and conventional mature clastic, carbonate reservoirs, pilot well data acquisitions, and performance evaluations. During my career, I have dealt with economic evaluations ranging from BLM acreage lease sales to large mature field acquisitions with hundreds of wells with most recent experience focused on Williston Basin managing Bakken, Three Forks, and Madison horizontal multi-stage stimulated well production.

Education

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 2007 – 2010

M.E. Systems Engineering

University of Texas, Austin, Texas 2003 – 2005

M.S. Petroleum Engineering, Specialization in Reservoir Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University, India 1999 – 2003

B.E. Chemical Engineering, First Class with Distinction

Professional Experience

Engineering Consultant, Houston, TX October 2015 – Present

Reservoir Engineering Consultant

Assist clients in the development and exploitation of unconventional resource plays and mature oilfields.

Perform economic evaluations using industry standard software and assist in data room visits.

Evaluate the development plans and associated future capital expenditures. Review historical operating expenses and wellhead oil and gas prices and differentials in order to establish an expense and pricing model. Provide economic valuations associated with the production forecasts for each category of reserves and/or resources.

Prepare a report estimates of proved, probable, and possible reserves, revenue, expenses, capital, and discounted present worth for the properties. Comment on or evaluate any additional upside reserves or resource potential

Performing evaluations of technology applications and field development investment opportunities on a consulting basis.

Clients include PE backed companies such as Resource Drilling LLC & Kraken Oil &Gas LLC.

Oasis Petroleum, Houston, TX March 2014 – October 2015

Senior Staff Reservoir Engineer/ Petroleum Engineer

Provide analytical and numerical engineering support

Estimate SEC compliant reserves and economic evaluation of Bakken and Three Forks

RTA and PTA analysis of multi-stage stimulation of unconventional reservoirs

Identify appropriate SCAL tests for evaluation of unconventional reservoirs

Occidental Petroleum, Long Beach, CA October 2010 – March 2014

Reservoir Engineering Advisor/ Senior Reservoir Engineer

Economic evaluation of $600 MM full field redevelopment plan including Well Drilling Program

Advisory support to executive management for decision analysis

Participated in the acquisition of the Huntington Beach field including Jeffries data room evaluation

Lead reservoir engineering support for exploratory drilling in the Monterrey shale reservoirs in Los Angeles Basin

Maintain permit applications such as a water flood permits with the Division of Oil and Gas in the State of California

Develop high volume acid stimulation program for stimulation of unconventional reservoirs

Annual SEC Reserves documentation and evaluation with Ryder Scott

Aera Energy, LLC, Bakersfield, CA January 2009 – October 2010

Production & Reservoir Engineer

Reservoir surveillance over 11,000 bbl/day for oil production from North Belridge and Lost Hills fields

Increased oil production and arrested the previous year on year decline in oil production by efficiently redistributing water injection using sound secondary recovery reservoir management practices

Built a sector black oil reservoir simulation model from ground up to model the depletion drive recovery from the Monterey formation in South East Lost Hills, recommend future infill drilling, and re-fracturing opportunities in the unconventional reservoir

Created and implemented well repair, maintenance, and workover procedures as required with rig supervision for these required activities

Attain production goals by analyzing well data and formulating recommendations to economically optimize rates and minimize well downtime

Frequent peer reviews with field operators, engineers, and production supervisors to generate solutions

Landmark Halliburton, Houston, TX July 2005 – January 2009

Product Architect/ Reservoir Consultant

Product development to improve simulation and decision making workflows in the Oil and Gas Industry

Product management and development to ensure DMSTM (Decision Management System) delivers appropriate features to achieve a successful market

Provide understanding of the reservoir simulation and history matching workflows implemented by clients

Deliver suitable specifications to R&D and coordinate with core team of researchers and software developers

Develop and support a $30 MM global consulting business around DMSTM

Mentor and train junior reservoir consultants in reservoir simulation and decision analysis workflows

Develop reservoir simulation and modeling experience with fields from Mexico (dual porosity, fractured carbonates), Venezuela and Russia (compositional, sandstone), Argentina (heavy oil, sandstone), West Texas (tight gas, sandstone), Romanian Black Sea (offshore infill drilling)

Tool development for statistical analysis of exploration activity in South Texas along the Gulf Coast for a large U.S. independent company with exploratory activity in this region

Develop data mining with PI Dwight, PDS, TRC, Petroworks Industry databases, and drilling information to identify South Texas counties with significant exploration activity

Professional License & Organizations

Texas Board of Professional Engineers License, License #118803.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Houston World Affairs Council, Young Professionals in Energy

Software: ARIES, PEEP, PHD Win, VIP, NEXUS, Petrel RE, CMG, Eclipse, Emeraude, Topaz, Fekete Harmony, Spotfire, SAS JMP, ArcGIS, IHS Enerdeq, Crystal Ball, @Risk, MBAL, GAP, Prosper, Desktop PVT

Skill sets: Project Management, Decline Curve Analysis, Probabilistic Risk Modeling, SEC Reserves Estimation, Material Balance, Pressure Transient Analysis, Volumetric Analysis, Numerical Reservoir Simulation, Petroleum Economics, Reservoir & Production Engineering, Waterflood Management, Shale analysis, Well Logging, Petrophysics, SCAL, Phase Behavior Analysis, and Reservoir Surveillance

WORK STATUS: US CITIZEN

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