Engineer Engineering
Resume:
Anup Viswanathan
Katy, TX 77494
adc40t@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY – Well-rounded Petroleum Engineer with 15+ years of experience and proven technical leadership skills in oil and gas industry with core competencies in areas of Reservoir, Completion and Production Engineering, with specific emphasis on Unconventionals. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
M.S. Petroleum Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Jan 2007 Thesis : Viscosities of Natural Gases at High Pressure and High Temperatures B.S. Chemical Engineering A.C.Tech, Anna University (Chennai), India May 2004 Thesis : Design of an industrial plant for Manufacture of 100 TPA of Prussian Blue WORK EXPERIENCE (15+ years)
Organization: Schlumberger, Wireline – Houston, TX [Aug 2018 – Apr 2020] Designation: Domain Champion – Production Stimulation and Completions Responsible for providing stimulation and completions engineering solutions to the North America Wireline business unit.
• Integrating across all domains to create consolidated answer products to present the wireline technologies for customers.
• Led and established streamlined workflows for integration of wireline data into completions and reservoir models to evaluate fit-for-purpose stimulation parameters.
• Commercialized the Lateral Landing Point Advisor answer product for Wireline and Schlumberger Integrated Solutions to rapidly identify horizontal well target layers using key pilot hole wireline measurements.
• Performed pre-commercial testing and acceptance of major improvements to Kinetix fracture simulation models in 2018, 2019, and 2020 versions – specifically tested advanced proppant transport and multi-physics models and cloud computing simulations.
Organization: Schlumberger, Well Services and Integrated Production Services – Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia Designation: Senior Production & Stimulation Engineer (Senior PSE) [Jul 2015 – Jul 2018] Responsible for providing stimulation and completion engineering solutions to Schlumberger operations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. My duties include:
• Designing completions and Stimulation treatments for all unconventional wells in Jafurah and South Ghawar basins.
• Evaluating the performance of previously completed wells in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and determine the feasibility for recompleting wells.
• Kinetix Fracturing and Reservoir engineering local champion actively mentoring junior engineers.
• Stimulation and Lead production engineer on the Jafurah Production Optimization Study to increase the EUR of unconventional wells.
Organization: Schlumberger, Data and Consulting Services (DCS) – Houston, TX [Sep 2012 – Jun 2015] Designation: Senior Production & Stimulation Engineer (Senior PSE) Responsible for providing completions and production engineering solutions to the South Texas Technical Integration Group. My duties include:
• Reviewing completion and stimulation designs for new wells in the Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Permian basins.
• Identifying best candidates for implementing new stimulation and related technology for customers in Houston area.
• Evaluating the performance of new technology tests in the South Texas Basin.
• Lead stimulation engineer on the Eagle Ford Completions Optimization Consortium where lateral measurements were utilized to create geo-engineered completions design.
• Performed pre-commercial acceptance testing of major functionality of Kinetix (previously Mangrove) From 2013-2015, I was assigned as the in-house completions advisor to BHP Billiton Petroleum to accelerate the field development of their recently acquired acreage in South, East and West Texas. I worked closely with the BHPB central engineering department and the various assets to improve well productivity and overall operations efficiency. Organization: Schlumberger, Data and Consulting Services (DCS) – San Antonio, TX [May 2010 – Aug 2012] Designation: General Production & Stimulation Engineer (General PSE)
• Designing hydraulic fracture treatments for wells which Schlumberger Well Services was treating. Anup Viswanathan
4126 Wheat Harvest Ln,
Katy, TX 77494
adc40t@r.postjobfree.com
• Creating a basin model including petrophysical and completion parameters to characterize the Basin.
• History matching single wells using numerical simulations to create reservoir models to forecast recovery and productivity.
• Creating a statistics and neural network-based model to identify performance drivers to best producing wells. Organization: Schlumberger, Data and Consulting Services (DCS) – San Antonio, TX [Feb 2007 – Apr 2010] Designation: Production Technologist (PT) and Production & Stimulation Engineer (PSE)
• Identifying best candidates for fracturing and re-fracturing through moving domain evaluation and transient production data analysis. Designing the fracture treatments.
• Using analytical modeling and nodal analysis to forecast production of tight gas wells and create scenario’s to improve overall productivity.
• Performing post-stimulation production data analysis of single and multi-stage fractured wells. Organization: Texas A&M University, Dept. of Petroleum Engg., College Station, TX [Feb 2005 – Jan 2007] Designation: Research Assistant
UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES EXPERIENCE (13 years):
Over the last 13 years, I have worked extensively in multiple unconventional oil and gas basins on projects from Single Well optimization to multi-well field development strategies in various roles from team member to team lead.
• Gulf Coast Basin • Delaware Basin • Midland Basin • DJ Basin
• Powder River Basin • Appalachian Basin • Anadarko Basin • Jafurah Basin
• South Ghawar Basin
OTHER TECHNICAL PROJECTS:
• Participated in a month long onsite training/project at the Schlumberger Information Services (SIS) office in Abingdon, U.K. Project involved regression testing of unreleased Petrel RE, and building test cases for future software testing. I was responsible for the completion engineering portfolio.
• Presented a plant trainee project on “Lube Expansion and Diesel Hydro desulfurization in Petroleum Refining” after leading a team of interns.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Managed the Schlumberger Unconventional Resources Special Interest Group (SIG) for last 2 years to help promote integration between disciplines to foster greater understanding of unconventional reservoirs.
• Winner of best poster award at 2014 Schlumberger Production Symposium for project on application of diversion technique in enhancing horizontal completions and improving well EUR
• Winner of Performed by Schlumberger Silver medal in 2014 for Collaboration project with BHP Billiton
• Winner of Conrad Schlumberger prize for Technical Depth at Production Symposium for Eagle Ford Completion Optimization Consortium
• Winner of best poster award at 2013 Schlumberger Production Symposium for project on completion optimization using novel integrated workflow
• Winner of Performed by Schlumberger Silver medal in 2013 for Completion Optimization using lateral measurements consortium project
• Received the Quarterly Presidents excellence award in 2013 for Integrated Completion Optimization project
• Received 3 more Performed by Schlumberger Silver awards for contribution to different technical projects
• Reviewed over 25 technical papers in the last 10 years for publications into all major SPE journals.
• Provided technical reviews for candidate career advancements for over 10 nominations in the last 5 years.
• Invited speaker – SPE workshop on unconventional completions optimization and oil and gas conferences all over US
• Interviewed and recruited over 10 field engineers and 10 petro-technical experts from 5 major universities in the US.
• Presented a review of my master’s project “Viscosities of Natural Gases at High Pressures and High Temperatures” at the student chapter of SPE at Texas A&M University. The presentation was awarded the third rank overall.
• Received the Richard Morse fellowship at Texas A&M University. Anup Viswanathan
4126 Wheat Harvest Ln,
Katy, TX 77494
adc40t@r.postjobfree.com
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Completion Engineering: Completion Optimization, Field Development Planning, Hydraulic Fracture design and modeling, Rock Mechanics, Petrophysics and Geomechanics in unconventional reservoirs, Stress analysis, Well spacing optimization
Reservoir Engineering: Applied Reservoir Simulation (Black Oil/Compositional), Production Data Analysis, Production Optimization using probabilistic methods and statistical techniques, Decline Curve Analysis and Reserve Estimation, Pressure/Rate Transient Analysis, Economics/risk analysis Production Engineering/Others: Basics of Artificial Lift methods and Sand Control Techniques, Artificial Neural Network Algorithms and applications in Petroleum Engineering, Geology and Geophysics concepts, surface facilities SOFTWARE SKILLS
• Proficient in analytical/numerical fracture modeling – Petrel Kinetix (Planar3D, UFM, MLFP3D), GOHFER, E- STIMPLAN
• Proficient in numerical reservoir simulation/reservoir modeling – ECLIPSE, INTERSECT
• Proficient in petrophysics and log analysis - TECHLOG
• Proficient in Economics/Risk Analysis/Optimization – Merak PEEP
• Proficient in Nodal Analysis software – PIPESIM, Petrel PE
• Proficient in Production Engineering software - OFM SELECTED TECHNICAL PAPERS:
• SPE 189871 – “Fracturing Fluid Selection to Maximize Well Productivity for Tuwaiq Mountain Source Rock”, 2018
• SPE 188091 – “Optimizing Hydraulic Fracturing Design by Analyzing Reservoir, Completion, and Stimulation Parameters and Their Influence on Post-Fracturing Gas Rates”, 2017
• SPE 179110 – “Impact of Ash Beds on Production in Eagle Ford Shale”, 2016
• SPE 171660 – “Sequenced Fracture Treatment Diversion Enhances Horizontal Well Completions in the Eagle Ford Shale”, 2014
• SPE 170983 – “Understanding Mechanisms for Liquid Dropout from Horizontal Well Completions in the Eagle Ford Shale Condensate Wells”, 2014
• SPE 167726 – “Logging Solutions for Completion Optimization in Unconventional Resource Plays”, 2014
• SPE 163873 – “Utilization of Microseismic Event Source Parameters for the Calibration of Complex Hydraulic Fracture Models”, 2013
• SPE 153728 “Understanding the Impact of Channel Fracturing in the Eagle Ford Shale through Reservoir Simulation”, 2012
• SPE 149390 “Completion Evaluation of the Eagle Ford Formation with Heterogeneous Proppant Placement”, 2011
• SPE 145403 “Channel Fracturing in Horizontal Wellbores: the New Edge of Stimulation Techniques in the Eagle Ford Formation”, 2011
RELEVANT COURSES AND TRAINING
Academic Courses
Reservoir Engineering, Pressure Transient Testing, Well Logging, Production Engineering, Natural Gas Engineering, Well Stimulation, Phase behavior of Reservoir Fluids Industry Training
• Advanced DataFRAC Analysis, Bogota, Colombia
• Production & Stimulation Engineers (PSE), Houston, TX
• DeepBlue 3 Course – Production Technologist, Houston, TX
• OFM Candidate selection course, Houston, TX
• Petrel Introduction course, Houston, TX
• Shale Gas Fracturing Essentials, Sugar Land, TX
Anup Viswanathan
4126 Wheat Harvest Ln,
Katy, TX 77494
adc40t@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
REFERENCES:
Available upon request
Contact this candidate