Reservoir / Exploitation Engineer

Hoshne A. Banu

****-**** ********* ***** **

Calgary, AB T3G 1P3

Tel: 587-***-****, 403-***-****

E-mail: **********@*****.***

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATION

• Long experience in Oil and Gas Sector; worked in multi-disciplinary and international environment.

• Proficient in reserves estimation, reservoir performance analysis and management utilizing pressure data and production data, and type curve analysis. Proficient in Reservoir characterization.

• Expert in Economic Evaluation and uncertainty analysis. Proficient in preparing budget/ long range strategic planning, Work-over/completion Program and Field Development Plan.

• Proficient in preparing Well Testing Program/Analysis (PTA) and reservoir surveillance Plan. Expert in preparing gas pipeline network modeling.

• Experienced interpreting well log, tubing designing (including artificial lift), EOR, Water flood optimization and project management.

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

• Reservoir Simulator- Eclipse-100, Exodus, and Boast98.

• Other Petroleum Engineering Software: Fekete Product (VirtuWell, RTA, Harmony, PIPER), Petroleum Expert (MBAL, PROSPER, GAP, PVTP), SAPHIRE, TOPAZ, Crystal Ball, PEEP, RISKOG, HYSYS, GeoScout, Energy Navigator, DSS and OFM.

EXPERIENCE

09/2011- 11/2011 RPS Energy-Canada, Calgary –Consultant.

• Estimated reserves and forecast production performance of heavy oil (CHOPS).

• Prepared and analyzed normalized type curves for both vertical and horizontal wells.

• Prepared reservoir model (MBAL) for oil field.

07/2011-08/2011 Niko Resources Ltd., Calgary – Consultant.

• Prepared Reservoir model for a gas field using IPM toolkit. Forecasted production performance using IPM toolkit and Harmony.

• Analyzed PLT data for estimating production allocation of comingle wells.

05/2009-07/2011 Chevron Bangladesh - Senior Petroleum Engineer.

• Evaluated reserves for year-end reserves booking, maintain reserves data, forecasted pool wise and field wise production forecast of gas fields.

• Prepared Reservoir Surveillance plan, Well Test Program, Work over Program and Field Development Plan. Analyzed well test data.

• Prepared budget & business plan, did economic evaluation and uncertainty analysis for in-fill wells drilling and work over program. Managed WH compression installation project.

• Responsible for monitoring day to day well performance, and water level movement. Gathered and analyzed production data and pressure data.

• Developed a integrated pipeline networking model for the Chevron operating area (60 wells/5 gas fields) using GAP, MBAL & Prosper to check any bottleneck/back pressure in the system.

• Worked with G&G to find uncertainties and opportunities by using log data. Developed PVT model for additional liquid recovery from gas-condensate well.

2004–2009 Niko Resources Ltd. - Deputy Manager/ Sr. Petroleum Engineer.

• Estimated reserves, predicted reservoir/well performance. Analyzed Well Test Data. Prepared Well Test Program, Well Completion Report, Work-over Program and Field Development Plan.

• Monitored drilling activities and daily production and prepared report as per JVA requirement. Prepare budget & business plan jointly with the other professional.

• Lead a frac-pack stimulation project (detailed engineering and economic study) for a tight gas field.

• Responsible for installing wellhead compression for depleted gas wells.

• Gathered and analyzed production data and pressure data.

• Liaised on technical issues with the JV partners and Niko head office in Calgary.

2001-2002 Petroleum Development of Oman-Shell - Reservoir Engineer.

• Interpret data to estimate P* (using Horner’s Plot) from BHP Survey records. Corrected and updated the data in the existing BHP Database.

• Developed database for fields, capable of evaluating PVT data, including a quality check by comparing with the industry correlations (Standing, Lasater and Begg’s methods).

• Developed an excel-based RFT database Tool, capable of estimating GOC and OWC.

1998-2000 Reservoir Study Cell, Petrobangla - Reservoir Engineer.

• Worked as the counterpart with a BEICIP-FRANLAB team in the project titled 'Reservoir Management Program for Bangladesh'.

• Estimated gas reserve by Material Balance Calculation. Analyzed Pressure Test Data. Involved with engineering study of Coal Bed Methane Production from Barapukuria Coal Deposit.

• Involved with MSTE plant and NGL fractionation plant installation project. Worked on detail engineering study of Water Injection at Horipur Oil field.

EDUCATION

1998 Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering.

Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Year Organizer Area / Topic

2011 Chevron ETC, Houston Thermal Simulation (SAGD)

2010 PetroSkill, Calgary Petroleum Risk and Decision Analysis

2010 Chevron, Dhaka Decision Analysis and Project Management

2009 Chevron (ETC), Dhaka Project Management Process.

2009 British Council, Dhaka Problem Solving and Decision Making

1999 University of Alberta, Canada Gas Production Optimization

1997 University of Alberta, Canada` Corrosion Control.

1996 Petrobangla/PETRAD, Norway Petroleum Safety & Management,

1996 Petrobangla/DONK, Denmark Gas Offtake Analysis.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Applied for P.Eng with APEGGA

• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

• Engineers’ Institute of Bangladesh (EIB).

WORK ELIGIBILITY: Permanent Resident in Canada.

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