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SUMMARY
* A Petroleum Engineering professional with sixteen years of diversified E&P experience in onshore environments with an Indian national oil company, Oil India Limited and Cairn-Energy India Pty. Ltd (incorporated in Autralia)
* Experience includes completion techniques, workover operations and re-completions, well stimulation, coiled tubing and silk line operations in oil and gas wells.
* Experience in well production monitoring and well productivity optimization studies through an integrated approach involving reservoir engineering, production engineering and open/cased hole log evaluation.
* Experience in project planning and implementation of production related projects such as Early production set-ups, Gas-oil-water separation plant, Oil & gas pipe lines, etc.
* Strong supervisory skills - leads a team of Production engineers for surveillance and management of oil and gas field operations and all attendant functions.
* Good knowledge of HSE management
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Date of Birth: 11 January - 1965
Nationality: Indian
Education: M. Eng. (Industrial Eng. & Management.); B. Eng. (Mechanical)
Profession: Petroleum Engineer
Present Position: Principal Petroleum Engineer & Service Rig Superintendent
Cairn-Energy India Pty. Ltd.
Marital Status: Married
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:
1994: Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering and Management from Asian Institute of Technology; Bangkok; Thailand. (CGPA = 3.67 out of 4.00)
1988: Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Jorhat Engineering College; Assam; India. (First Class First, Overall Percentage = 79%)
PROFESSIONAL CAPABILITIES:
1. Skills and Expertise in:
* New well completion & testing-philosophy, design and Implementation.
* Work over planning, design & execution.
* Artificial lift technique specifically Gas Lifts design, installation, operation & troubleshooting.
* High-pressure well control.
* Subsurface production equipment.
* Well stimulation specifically Acidization.
* Well maintenance & production optimization.
* Well intervention by slick line, Coil tubing, etc.
* Planning, design and installation of onshore field projects such as Early production set-ups, Gas-oil separation plants, Oil & gas pipe-lines, Water injection stations, etc.
* Cost control.
2. Knowledge Of:
* Nodal analysis by Well-Flow
* Custody transfer of crude oil and its reconciliation.
* Field Procedures of coiled tubing operations.
* Reservoir Engineering.
* Open & cased hole log interpretation
* PLT operation & evaluation of the same.
* Perforation technique.
* Drilling operations.
* Work over fluid.
* Sucker Rod pump, Progressive Cavity pump, Hydraulic Jet Pump
* HSE practices of E&P sector.
* Preparation of tender documents & Bid evaluation.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
* Principal Petroleum Engineer & Service Rig Suptd (Cairn-Energy India Pty. Ltd.)
August-2004 till date
- Responsible for operations and management of the service rigs.
- Well Completion design, program formulation and testing including DST operations.
- Work-over Planning and program formulation.
- Materials and down hole equipment requirement planning and indenting including technical evaluation.
- Contract management.
* Suptdg Engineer-Production (in OIL's onshore operation) of Moran & Shalmari oil fields
January 2000 to 23rd July-2004.
- Responsible for production of 7,000 BOPD and 15 MMSCFD gas from four installations.
- Responsible for various functions such as operation and maintenance of Gas-oil separation plants, Early production set-ups, Water injection stations, Central tank farm, etc.
- Responsible for Work-over operations, well maintenance and production optimization of the assigned fields (Moran and Shalmari oil fields).
- Responsible for well servicing / intervention activities like paraffin removal, NCTU operation, fish recovery, pressure survey by slick line for 55 nos. producing wells.
- Preparation of field procedures for Acid jobs of water injection wells, Coiled tubing operations for fish recovery, sand cleaning, etc.
- Management of formation water handling and disposal.
- Responsible for maintenance of flow lines and crude oil delivery line, Water injection lines.
- Stop cocking well monitoring in Moran and Shalmari fields.
- Planning, Budgeting and co-ordination of Three (3) Early Production Set-ups, One (1) Water injection station and One(1) crude oil dehydration project.
- Materials and Equipment requirement planning, Manpower scheduling and Contract management, etc.
- Responsible for safety of the production installations & persons working in it as per regulation of Oil Mines Regulation of India.
- Cost control & improvement of oil quality.
- 125 employees & 5 production engineers are reporting.
* Senior Production Engineer (Well Completion, Testing and Work-over section)
January-1995 till January-2000
- New well completion including initial production testing of Exploratory as well as Development wells (oil and gas) with high-pressure surface and sub-surface production equipment.
- Selection and Installation of the wellhead assembly including testing.
- Installation and commissioning of wellhead production testing facilities for Exploratory wells.
- Work-over planning, program formulation and execution. Production string design and handling of down-hole equipment such as various types of packers, sub-surface safety valves, circulating sleeves, etc.
- Gas lift design (Intermittent, Continuous, Chamber-lift), valve calibration, and installation. Performance analysis as well as trouble shooting of gas lifts valves operation.
- High pressure well control like killing, well activation / unloading.
- Acidization and formation fracturing. Installation of bottom-hole heater.
- Planning, Budgeting of various activities, materials and equipment, Materials requirement planning and inventory management.
- Supervise various CTU and Nitrogen pumping operations for well activation, stimulation, fish recovery etc including preparation of detailed field procedures.
- Preparation of final well completion report.
- As Installation Manager of OIL COLLECTING STATION, (July-1992 to December-1994)
- Operations and maintenance of Gas-Oil- Water separation plant and its management.
- HSE management.
- Well monitoring, servicing (such as wire line scrapping, sand cleaning, etc.) and performance analysis for production behavior.
- Production optimization.
* Production Engineer (Projects)
April-1988 to June-1992)
- Planning, Budgeting, Design and Estimation of production related projects such as Gas-Oil separation plants, Early production set-ups, Cross-country pipelines, Water injection Station, Gas distribution networks, etc.
- Materials requirement planning and their indenting, Preparation of NIT, Evaluation of technical offers, Inspection of materials and equipment, etc.
- Supervision of project installation, construction, fabrication and commissioning.
- Project monitoring and control, PERT CPM analysis, Project report generation, Cost analysis and control.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
- Hands on experiences in MS Office, MS Word, MS Excel, Power point, Corel Draw, etc.
COURSES ATTENDED:
2003 &
2002 Participated in the National Business Games conducted by All India Management Institute, New-Delhi and became finalist in 2003.
2002 Gas Lift school by Ken Hilse of Weatherford at Duliajan- India
1999 Basic well log interpretation¡¨ conducted by OGCI at Colorado Spring; USA
1999 Production optimization by nodal analysis¡¨ conducted by OGCI at Denver; USA.
1998 Cased hole and Production Log Evaluation¡¨ conducted by Smolen Associates; USA at Duliajan, India.
1995 Workshop on QC Circle¡¨ conducted by QC Forum of India.
1991 Computer application program at Duliajan, India.
1990 Motivation Techniques at NITIE; Mumbai, India.
1989 Well Productivity Workshop conducted by IHRDC at Duliajan, India.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
* Visiting faculty on Production Technology in Dibrugrah University, Assam for Petroleum Technology Department.
* Conducted training courses on ¡* Production Technology¡¨ for the newly recruited engineers and Refresher courses for supervisors and workpersons of Oil India Limited at Duliajan
* Participated in the National Business Games in 2002 and 2003
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