Reliance Industries Limited (E&P Business), Mumbai, India
Development Geophysicist July’ 2007-March’ 2010
Senior Development Geophysicist April’ 2010-July’ 2014
- One of the key geophysicists in a multi-disciplinary team, responsible for developing one of the biggest gas fields and several other satellite gas fields in deep water in Krishna Godavari basin, India, with responsibilities of seismic data interpretation and reservoir characterization.
- Extensive experience in seismic attribute and AVO analysis for ascertaining the hydrocarbon bearing potential of prospects and identifying possible associated risks.
- Carried out wavelet estimation, well to seismic tie and synthetic seismogram generation.
- Experience in performing simultaneous inversion leading to significant improvements in reservoir definition and delineation leading to effective field development planning.
- Extensive experience in velocity modeling using seismic velocities, time-depth relations, picks & surfaces and depth conversion.
- Supervised and unsupervised waveform classification using different seismic and inversion attributes for facies identification, continuity and distribution.
- Deterministic and probabilistic volumetric estimation for both pre-drill prospects and post-drill discoveries.
- Carried out subsurface risk and uncertainty identification, statement and mitigation.
- Proposed appraisal and/or development wells in deep water clastic reservoirs.
- Carried out commerciality evaluation of discoveries and preparation of Commerciality and Development plans.
Field Trips:
- Rocky Mountain field trip, Wyoming, to have a look at different formations, the lithologic, and structural changes in the area of Big Horn Mountains, 2014.
- Geological field trip following a deep-water core description, at Krishna-Godavari beach, south-east part of India, to look at double-mud layers and the rate of sedimentation, 2008.
- Land Acquisition Seismic Survey with ONGC, India, 2006.
- Took part in field trips organized by IIT, Roorkee, India, for Seismic, Magnetic, Gravity and Electrical surveys, 2004-2007.
- Geology field trip, organized by IIT, Roorkee, India, Lower Himalayas near Dehradun, India, 2004.
Internships:
- Seismic interpretation and mapping of an offshore data for building a geological framework, in Reliance Industries Limited, Mumbai, India, 2006.
- Electrical survey at NGRI (National Geophysical research Institute) Hyderabad, India for groundwater research, 2005.
Training and Workshops:
Trainings
- Landmark suite of softwares
- Acoustic Impedance Inversion by Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Jason Inc.
- Stratimagic for seismic attribute & facies analysis and 3D visualization, interpretation and well planning, Paradigm.
- Basics of Mud Logging by Mr. Stan Alford, Mi Swaco.
- Safety: Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting, Sea Survival Techniques, First Aid and Helicopter Underwater Egression Techniques.
Workshops/ Seminars
- AVO, Inversion and Beyond by Dr. Adrian Smith, Geo-India conference, New Delhi, September 2008.
- Fundamentals of Rock Physics by Dr. Chandra S. Rai and Mr. Carl H. Sondergeld.
- Introduction to Structural Geology by Dr. Guillaume Backe & Dr. Robert Humphreys, BP Inc., June 2012.
- Use of Seismic Attributes for Risk Reduction and Reservoir Characterization by Dr. Patrick Connolly, SPG Conference, Hyderabad, January 2010.
- Introduction to Deep-water depositional systems and Process Sedimentology by Dr. G. Shanmugam, January 2008.