Manager Management

VENKAT SURA PATHI

****A, *th Street, NW, Calgary, AB T2K 1C9

***********@*****.***

Phone: 403-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

INTERGRATED RESERVOIR SOLUTIONS; CORE LABORATORIES Calgary, Alberta

Staff Geologist (August 2011 – Date)

•Primarily responsible for the characterization of gas shale and tight sand reservoirs through core analysis, petrophysics, sedimentology and sedimentary petrography to support reservoir management and development planning processes.

•Assigned to the Duvernay Shale (DSS), Global Shale Gas (GSS) and Montney Shale (MSS) reservoir studies funded by consortia of E&P companies. Also supervise Nordegg, Muskwa and Second White Specks shale.

•Moderate experience using WellCAD and Geoscout software.

Trican Geological Solutions, Calgary

Shale Gas Specialist/Geologist (Dec 2008-Aug 2011)

•Manage and oversee Shale Geomechanics projects

•Experimenting and analyzing reservoir rock and fluid properties

•Rock mechanical and formation analysis based on routine core analysis, petrophysical properties analysis

•Reservoir characterization of existing and previously drilled Oil and Gas wells by using data from core, XRD, SEM, particle size and sieve analyses

•Mineralogical and Lithological Interpretations using core, log, drill cuttings

•Hands on experience on running pulse decay, XRD and SEM machines, Gas Chromatograph, Adsorption Isotherms

•Contributed to all stages of project work including data collection, compilation and analysis as well as report writing and editing.

•Well-site work. Describing cores and running desorption and gas analysis on shale gas reservoirs

University of British Columbia

Graduate Research Assistant (Jan 2006 to October 2008)

•Worked on analyzing the reservoir rock properties of Western Canadian and Woodford shales

•Measuring and analyzing Matrix permeability of gas shales and coals using pulse decay experiments

•Mineralogical and Lithological Interpretations using core, log, drill cuttings

•Mineralogy identification using X-ray diffractometer and Scanning Electron Microscope.

•Measuring and analyzing rock mechanical properties of gas shales and coals using triaxial machine

•Worked on core analysis program to understand reservoir complexity and control on gas accumulation.

Information Manager (1999-2005)

Worked with various organizations in India and Dubai

•Overall planning, Management and Policy guidance

•Provide services such as reference assistance, Database searching

•Acquisition of documents using the major bibliographic utilities Including the Internet

•Online and CD-ROM searching

•Database Management and Technology Support

EDUCATION

University of British Columbia, Canada

MSc Petroleum Geology, 2006 - 2008

Thesis: The factors affecting the permeability of Gas Shales (Western Canadian and Woodford shale)

Andhra University, India

MSc Information Sciences, 1995-1997

Andhra University, India

BSc Geology, 1992-1995

PRESENTATIONS

•Xiaojun Cui, R. Marc Bustin, Ron Brezowski, Venkat Pathi, Brent Nassichuk and Ken Glover. Simultaneous measurement of In-situ effective permeability and porosity under reservoir conditions: A consistent approach to characterize unconventional gas reservoirs, poster presentation at the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention, New Orleans.

•R.Marc Bustin, A. Bustin, D. Ross, G. Chalmers, Venkat Pathi, C. Laxmi and X. Cui Shale gas opportunities and Challenges, Search and Discovery articles # 40382, 2009.

•Venkat Pathi and R. Marc Bustin Factors affecting the permeability of shales in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Oral presentation at the CSPG, CSEG and CWLS joint Conference, May 2008, Calgary, AB.

•Amanda M.M. Bustin, Xiaojun Cui, Venkat Pathi and R. Marc Bustin Importance of Fabric on Production Rates of Gas Shales: Experimental and Numerical Analyses AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, April 2007, Long Beach, CA

•Sanjay Kumar, Venkat Pathi Change in Information Quality in the Context of ERP Implementation', Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco (November 2005)

INDUSTRY TRAINING

•Using Core Data in Formation Evaluation, Geoscout software, WellCAD software.

•Shale school on North American Shale reservoirs

•IRP 16 Safety Orientation

•WHMIS

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

•Active member of the CSPG, AAPG

•APEGGA membership

•Interests: traveling and reading.

COMPUTER SKILLS

•Well CAD, Geoscout, MatLab, ArcGIS, Petrel (basic)

References provided upon request

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