Professional Experience
BP America Inc, Houston, TX, USA Jan 23,2012-Till date
• Worked on Deep water turbidites in Gulf of Mexico and developed expertise in reservoir description Petrophysics, core analysis and operational Petrophysics. Successfully completed the “Accelerated Development Petrophysics” program . Successfully supervised core analysis on 300 feet of core acquired in deepwater GoM.
• Developed expertise in Thin bed analysis and integrated static and dynamic data to reduce uncertainty and risk in reserves estimation.
• Developed expertise in cement bond log for zonal isolation and gravel pack log interpretation for re-completion decisions.
Shell International Exploration and Production, Houston, TX, USA Feb 13, 2011- Jan 16, 2012
• Worked on Unconventional Resources like Shale gas projects, calculated TOCs, Luffel saturations and carried out core analysis for evaluating shale gas potential.
Shell technology India Pvt. Ltd.-Bangalore, India March 19, 2008- Feb1, 2011
• Worked individually on appraisal & field development projects from South African, Australian and European basins. My role covers a vast spectrum of Petrophysical work starting from proposing logging programs, QA/QC of data, data editing, Synthetic log creation by Neural network, Computing NET, POR, SW by applying deterministic & probabilistic approaches, SHF, thin bed evaluation, core data handling and its integration with log data, establishing Poro perm transforms, analyzing Wireline/LWD pressure data to estimate fluid contacts and finally computing sums and averages.
• Worked as a sole petro physicist for CO2 sequestration into the Australian basin.
• Trained and experienced in data interpretation of LWD, open hole and cased hole tools covering radioactive, resistive, acoustic, NMR & imaging tools of Schlumberger, Weatherford, Baker Atlas. Experience of handling all kinds of Petrophysical data formats.
• Learn to integrate data from various sources like mud logs, LWD logs, open hole logs, RCA & SCAL data.
Responsibilities held in projects
• QA/QC of log data: environmental correction, depth shifting, log editing, identifying washouts, coal, calcite streaks.
• Provide petrophysical input and support to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Communicated petrophysical results to teams via presentations and reports. Calculated the porosity using different methods (neutron-density, density, sonic, NMR) and cross-checked or calibrating against the core data.
• Calculated the Shale Volume using neutron-density and Gamma Ray methods.
• Derived Net/Gross cutoffs by performing sensitivity analysis on effective hydrocarbon column (EHC).
• Calculated water saturation using alternative appropriate methods including Archie and Waxman Smits using the SCAL data.
• Used NMR data for calculating the water saturation and permeability.
• Saturation Height Modeling by incorporating capillary pressure data using different methods including the Lambda, Brooks-Corey equations.
• QC pressure data and derived fluid contacts using RFT and logs.
• Definition of post Production fluid contact movements/sweep pattern using RST/PLT data.
• Carried out facies definition (electro-facies) using logs and geological facies description.
• Develop poro-perm transforms to predict permeability
• Definition of in-situ stresses.
• Uncertainty analysis.
• Permeability modeling using Neural Networks and porosity-permeability transforms using routine core analysis data.
• Generated synthetic logs using Neural Network technique.
• Performed uncertainty analysis of the porosity, water saturation and net/gross.
• Established the fluid contacts using the formation pressure data and log data.
• Documentation, Assurance and Review of the whole Petrophysical interpretation in detail.
Professional Training
• Successfully completed the “Accelerated Development Petrophysics” program run by BP’s subject matter experts.
• Attended a short course on Shaley sand analysis given by Shell’s Subject matter experts.
• Successfully completed two week’s Basic Petrophysics course “P262” run by “Shell open university” recognized by Curtin University, Australia.
Skill Set
• Operating System LINUX, UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows
• Programming Languages C++, Fortran
• Software TechLog
Education
• PhD (Physics) Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai 2008
• MSc (Physics) Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai 2003 (6.51/10)
• B.Sc. (Physics) St Xavier’s College, Mumbai 2000 (82 %)
Papers
1. Design, Operations and Interpretation of CO2 and Water Injection test in Low-Permeability Saline Aquifer. SPE, 139562-MS
2. What does it take to evaluate a potential CO2 storage site? The ZeroGen Example. SPE, 137447-MS
3. Reconciliation between core and water injection test permeability in a tight saline aquifer using flow zone indicators. Shell Journal of Technology, SR.11.11237_11. Also presented at the CO2 CRC conference in Brisbane Dec 2010.
4. Thin Bed Potential: Identifying hidden pay in the Gulf of Mexico, Abstract accepted by SPE Russian Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technical Conference and Exhibition; Document Tracking Number 171196, (2014);
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