EDUCATION
M.S., Petroleum/Natural Gas Engineering (Geology Minor)
Major GPA: 3.8
Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Graduation Date: Dec’11
B.Tech. Petroleum & Gas Engineering
University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, India
Graduation Date: May’08
WORK EXPERIENCE
NITO & G Resources Inc., Houston June’13 - Present
Petroleum Engineer
• Created databases for Eagleford shale wells
• Database includes Production data, Fracturing data, Casing data, Location data
• Utilized PHDwin to characterize production profiles
CHEVRON, Houston Aug’12 – May’13
Junior Drilling Engineer - Contractor
• Provide final technical assurance review of all Chevron well containment responsible party documents ahead of submission to the regulators
• Defined Scope of Work for Contracting companies to supply personnel & equipment for oil spill response services
• Built a response time model in Microsoft project to calculate typical times to drill a relief well versus times to cap and contain a blowing well
• Developed internal presentations on capping and containment activities for management and technical audiences
• Maintained a budgetary oversight for internal and external spends. Assisted in the development of annual Opex budgets for containment projects. Tracking project expenditure against “Approval For Expenditures” (AFE’s)
• Designed, developed, built, and populated a Share point document management site to act as a source of key information for the Chevron Business Units in developing their location specific capping and containment plans
• Helped identify, source, and co-ordinate Chevron resources from across the company to participate in peer reviews, audits, and technical workshops)
• Calculate the worst case discharge for wells to determine if the well can be capped in case of an incident
• Analyzed the market and wrote business justifications for the need of a new piece of equipment worth 1 million dollars
• Team player co-coordinating with reservoir engineers, facility engineers, subsea engineers, Legal, finance, project managers
• Participated in team discussions, presentations , summarizing the key points, identify future work areas and creating agendas for the forthcoming meetings
Avasthi & Associates, Inc., Kingwood Mar’12 - Aug’12
Petroleum Engineer – Independent Contractor
• Analyzed the performance of the drilling operations and identified potential loss areas to reduce nonproductive-time & trouble cost, unnecessary unsafe procedures
• Made recommendations to engineering studies to improve drilling operational performance
• Supported the client Drilling Engineering Manager for generating drilling performance reports and presentations for management
• Cost estimates and AFE preparation
• Well Trajectory planning and BHA selection
• Performed Production History Matching and Forecasting for CO2 EOR wells
• Worked on over 200 wells production data in the Permian basin to Identify potential zones for CO2 Re-injection
Reliance Industries Limited, Mumbai, India Jun’08 - Jan’10
Drilling Engineer
• Documented the ‘lessons learned while drilling’ helped in lowering the Non-productive-time (NPT) by 8 to 10 % in the future wells which saved the company 20,000 dollars per well
• Daily updated and monitored the Actual vs. Planned Cost-Depth curves to ensure all the wells on schedule and within AFE.(completed 6 well campaign)
• Monitored the real-time drilling data of multiple rig sites at the onshore data center with experienced engineers & mud loggers. Highlighting any anomalies to drilling superintendent to provide solution/closure.
• Compared the breakdown of AFE’s, Well design, Mud program, Drilling program & Completions Program for 4 deep-water wells recommending program alterations for 18 well optimum package.(Value: more efficient program, with cost savings and higher productivity wells with lower skin)
• Monitored the condition of the drilling bits during drilling, recommending replacement from operator point of view to optimize costs per section drilled and optimizing ROP cost ratio.
• Successfully completed 6 well engineering support campaigns with supervisors and drilling team.
• Participated in the morning calls with the onshore rig team to discuss the daily drilling report with the Company representative on the rig. Worked with Drilling enginee...
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