OIl Exploration Manager

to evaluate geological and 2D/3D seismic data and to identify drillable prospects for oil/gas exploration

June 2007-Present In-Charge Interpretation, North Assam Shelf Basin, ONGC, Jorhat, Assam, India
- Supervising 2D/3D seismic interpretation projects
2000-May 2007 Geo Data Processing & Interpretation Centre, ONGC, India
• Project/Team Leader/3D seismic Interpreter:
- Carried out 3D and 2D seismic Interpretation Projects of on-land, shallow and deep waters of India, Qatar operational block for appraisal & Acreage evaluation of bid blocks of Indonesian Deep waters,Venezuela and Iraq
- Identification & critical review of exploratory prospects in Indian on-land, Shallow waters and Deep waters
- Integrated 8 adjacent 3D seismic data sets and more than 300 wells over an area of 1500 sq.km. of an intra-cratonic basin of India
- Carried out PNN technique based multi-attribute transform to map thin sands
- Mapped Miocene relict features in Indian eastern deepwater block
• Presentation through Virtual Reality Centre

1994-1999 ONGC, Mumbai
• 2D seismic interpreter
- Brought out tectonic model in the Western Offshore Deep waters, off Kerala-Konkan and off Mumbai High, India

1989-1993 ONGC, Mumbai
• Party Chief, Onboard Seismic Crew
- Carried out 2D seismic, Gravity & magnetic surveys on-board mv Anweshak, Geophysical Survey vessel, owned by Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., India, in East Coast and West Coast of India.

1987-1988 ONGC, Chennai, India
• Party Chief, 2D Seismic Field Party
- Acheived Maximum monthly production among all Indian seismic field parties

1980-86 ONGC, Chennai, India
• Field Geophysicist
- Planned and executed day-to-day field work as field Observer
in 2D seismic field parties and briefly in Gravity/Magnetic field parties

• 1977-79 Post Graduate in Physics IIT, Madras (Chennai), India I Class
• 1973-77 Graduate in Physics, University of Madras, I Class, Gold medalist in Physics in the Degree College

• Orientation Course on Petroleum Exploration
• 3 month Course on Petroleum Geology & Geophysics at IIT,Roorkee,
India
• 3D Seismic Data interpretation on Interactive work station
• Seismic based reservoir characterization
• Volume interpretation using VoxelGeo
• Deepwater depositional system

Skills:

Structural mapping, Time and depth map preparation in CPS-3, seismic attributes generation and analysis, stratigraphic interpretation, Geobody mapping, Volume visualization, DHI identification, integration, prospect identification and documentation
• Highly conversant with GeoFrame(IESX), CPS-3, GeoViz and Landmark seismic interpretation modules, Paradigm-Epos 3’s Reservoir Navigator and VoxelGeo, Reservoir Characterization tools –Hampson Russell’s STRATA and EMERGE
Evaluated more than 200 exploratory proposals and put forward the merits/demerits of each of them in the exploration board meetings in the past 4 years.
• Published technical papers in International Conferences such as Petrotech, India and SPG, India
• Reviewed technical papers for Petrotech and SPG(Society of Petroleum Geophysicists, India) conferences. Edited the technical periodical �Geohorizons’ published by SPG, India for 2 years.
• Self-motivated. Maintains good inter-personal relationship among multi-disciplinary team members, cool-tempered and hard-working.