Arash Memarzadeh Email & Phone Number

Ventura County, California, United States

• Managing all subsurface operations across basin and implementing massive influx of capital for field development.
• Creating down-hole equipment designs to substantially increase production and/or well runtime.
• Directing 3-4 maintenance rigs on injectors and producers, including ESP’s and rod wells on all unit types.

United States

Commercial Real Estate Manager and Developer

Socorro, New Mexico, United States

• Chairman of the NMT Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board
• Coordinate all efforts to bring industry experience into the NMT PE curriculum

Ventura, California, United States

• Directed subsurface operations across basin, leading all regulatory efforts and coordinated with CalGEM engineers.
• Increased cash margins by ~15% across field through coordinated effort to optimize CRC’s Ventura portfolio.
• Programmed all rigless well-work activity.
• Created new standardized acid and chemical programs to prolong well life and improve injection capacity.

Huntington Beach, California, United States

• Directed subsurface operations across basin.
• Managed regulatory efforts for optimizing fracture gradients in injection wells to protect existing operations.
• Reduced well failure rate by ~30% by increasing chemical spending by only ~11%, year over year.
• Improved decline rate from 12% to a 3% incline after the first year with minimal increase in OPEX.

Ventura, California, United States

• Reduced well failure rate by optimizing downhole designs in PCWO’s.
• Improved decline rate from 11% to 6% year over year.
• Won 1st place in the International SPE Student Paper Contest for research on CRC’s Oxnard oilfield.

Socorro, New Mexico, United States

• Researched optimal enhanced oil recovery methods for the Oxnard field through CRC funded tuition, salary and research.
• Identified a modified Liquid Addition to Steam for Enhancing Recovery (LASER) through physical and simulation studies
• Research was awarded 1st place in the International SPE Student Paper Contest

Bakersfield, California, United States

Conceived completion strategy for CSS in the Oxnard oilfield, adding annual monetary value $3.5MM.

• Conducted cutting edge research on solvent assisted steam injection through both experimental and computational approaches
• Completed research on behalf of Occidental Petroleum, California Resources Corporation and Unconventional Resources Research Project

• Instructed six reservoir engineering (2013 - 2014) and two petroleum fluids (2014) laboratory courses
• Trained students in various reservoir simulation tasks through ECLIPSE PVTi and Excel VBA
• Created experimental exercises for fluid and rock analysis through a multitude of laboratory apparatuses

• Continuously optimize laboratory setups for professional reservoir engineering research and practice
• Assemble and perform maintenance on numerous reservoir testing machinery and systems
• Perform reservoir modeling tasks with PVT simulations and identify erroneous pseudo-components and parameters

Master Of Science, Petroleum And Natural Gas Engineering

• Thesis: Thermodynamic Analysis and Experimental Design of Solvent Assisted Steam Injection in a Tar-Sand Formation with an Overlying.

Bachelor Of Science, Physics