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Bakersfield, CA, US

San Ramon, CA, US

• Developed solutions to increase profitability and reduce cost through resolving technical deficiencies.
• Responsible for maintaining quality reference data by performing operations such as cleaning, transformation and ensuring Integrity in a relational environment.
• Initiated a lot of fine tuning mechanisms to tune the database as well as the queries to complete a set of given jobs or tasks in optimal time.
• Provided reservoir engineering and project management support for field operations, wireline tools testing and other technologies in support of well integrity programs, reservoir monitoring and corrosion.
• Scrutinized performance evaluation and key performance indicator system to analyze and eliminate operations slippages and resolved conflicts to enhance team member retention.
• Evaluated and appraised engineering standards and accordingly proposed recommendations for revising company engineering standards.

San Ramon, CA, US

Executed the first phase development of 3 hydraulically fractured horizontal wells in Antelope Shale reservoir targeting an unconventional resource base of 29,000,000 barrels of oil equivalent. Matured drilling plans for 150+ heavy oil wells. 29 wells drilled in 2018 and produced 1800 barrels of oil per day.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Managed reservoir & simulation engineering work for NOJV major capital project including; design, development and analysis.
• Coordinated with partners, managed stakeholder relationships, and served as primary point person on day-to-day interface issues.Key Achievements
• Represented company’s views and position in partner meetings to help resolve technical issues and influence partnership for two deep water Gulf of Mexico projects with an estimated original oil in place of 215,000,000.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Oversaw the planning, evaluation, and execution of a development drilling program.
• Supervised vendor work on core analysis, SCAL, PVT Sampling, and Tracer design.Key Achievements
• Successfully led the of execution of development drilling program for 16 wells producing over 50,000 barrels of oil per day.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Effectively and successfully managed West Texas CO2 EOR project from inception through Phase 2.
• Analyzed the results of prior water flood and CO2 pilot and made efficient recommendations. Key Achievements
• Spearheaded design and execution CO2 flood expansion targeting 200,000,000 barrels of oil.
• Implemented and shared best practices to assist in the development of a CO2 center of excellence within the business unit

San Ramon, CA, US

• Effectively performed heat management analyses, monitored well performance, and identified data collection needs to recommend optimized field exploitation plans.
• Successfully managed all aspects of business planning including; forecasting, consolidating, and economic analysis.
• Presented assets annual reviews before business unit management as well as mentored interns and new employees.
• Developed, tracked, and reconciled project budgets, as well as performed plan-to-actual variance analysis.Key Achievements
• Reduced operational costs per well by 10% by advocating for the redesign of the steam flooding design paradigm to lithology-specific design using data analytics.
• Eliminated catastrophic failure caused by high hydrogen sulfide (H2S) production by preventing CVX from investing more than $1B for field-wide cyclic steam development using statistical modeling.

San Ramon, CA, US

79409, TX, US

New Delhi, Delhi, IN

• Evaluated production processes by designing and conducting research programs.
• Supervised processes including well testing, logging, well stimulation, safety analysis, and annulus pressure monitoring.Key Achievements
• Assisted team in analyzing and controlling production profile rates of 97 oil wells on water flood producing over 52,000 barrels of oil per day.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Science - Ms, Petroleum Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Petroleum Engineering