Experience

Santos Ltd

• Australia
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Petroleum Engineer

  • Oct 2018 - Present



AGL

• Australia
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reservoir Engineer

  • Aug 2012 - Sep 2018

  Responsibilities Include:- Build and update 3D black oil models and Compositional models for CSG fields, conventional Oil and tight gas fields- Perform History matching, decline curve and type curve analysis for reservoir forecasting.- Perform 1P, 2P, 3P remaining reserve estimations and provide yearly updates - Integrate geological, geophysical, petrophysical data in project evaluation and field development process - Supervised DFIT operations and performed well test interpretations of a tight sand field to determine permeability, fracture gradients, closure pressure and initial reservoir pressure - Co-ordinate Drawdown & Build up tests for poor performing wells to determine, skin and near well bore production parameters.- Investigate behind pipe opportunities to optimize CSG/Conventional Oil production; fracture stimulation, additional perforations, infill drilling.- Managed Production optimization for CSG Project & Oil and Gas conventional wells- Perform Nodal analysis for well optimization- Analyze well performance trends to determine completion designs and artificial lift types i.e. PCPs, ESPs, Insert pumps etc (Conventional oil and gas field) - Perform cost benefit and economics analysis on workovers and optimization scenarios in oil & gas fields to assess project viability- Provide reservoir inputs and forecasts during appraisal/development drilling phase, well spacing and Expected Ultimate recovery (EUR) estimations.- Establish production parameters for the design of surface installations, gas gathering lines and gas facilities- Co-ordinate yearly well sampling and gas compositional analysis as part of reservoir management plan.- Daily well performance monitoring to improve daily production and achieve day to day production targets- Update field Reservoir management plans for government audits- Input to project risk registers and risk analysis- Support day to day field operations



UNSW

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  University of New South Wales Australia“Introduction to Petroleum Industry” Deliver weekly lectures, set up assignments/exams.- Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering and Well testing- Origin of oil & gas; generation and migration- Exploration & Drilling for oil & gas - Well completion designs & production techniques- Introduction to Coal Seam Gas and Shale oil & gas University of New South Wales Australia“Introduction to Petroleum Industry” Deliver weekly lectures, set up assignments/exams.- Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering and Well testing- Origin of oil & gas; generation and migration- Exploration & Drilling for oil & gas - Well completion designs & production techniques- Introduction to Coal Seam Gas and Shale oil & gas



SPE NSW CHAPTER

• Committee Member

  • 2014 - 2015



UNSW

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • 2008 - 2012

  Research focus on “Simulation of Fluid Flow & Estimation of Production from Naturally Fractured Reservoirs” (Numerical modelling and laboratory experiments).- Modelling single phase fluid flow for estimation of permeability tensor in fractured porous media- Two phase flow numerical modelling (oil-water) for fractured porous media- Build synthetic laboratory based fractured models to perform single and two phase flow experiments to validate numerical models- Build an innovative relative permeability model based on experimental fracture orientations and geometries- Present a novel procedure to upscale relative permeability from laboratory to reservoir scale for fractured reservoirs.