Geophysicist- Quantitative interpretation specialist for hydrocarbon prediction through integration of seismic, well and geological information.

Quantitative Seismic Interpretation including Post-stack Inversion, AVO modeling/Inversion, Fluid Substitution/Rock Physics Modeling, Seismic/VSP/Well tie, Single/multi-well wavelet extraction, Pre-stack waveform Inversion.

4D feasibility analysis for six projects.
• QI expert for Field development Planning (FDP) and Full Field Review (FFR) Projects in operational areas of PETRONAS Carigali
• Team leader of out-sourced project on Malay Basin Rock Physics.
• Quantitative interpretation Geophysicist for Exploration and development fields
• Post-stack and pre-stack seismic inversion, AVO and rock physics studies including time depth conversion for all operated fields.
• Member of multidisciplinary review group charged with quality assurance and quality check for data integration in all exploration, appraisal and development fields.
• Conduct Simultaneous/Stochastic and AVO/fluid substitution studies in-house as well as supervise inversion and rock property analysis studies for several exploration and development projects.
• Coaching /mentoring of junior staff.

1994 M.Tech. Applied Geophysics, with First Class First (University Medal recipients), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
1991 BSc (First Class) Physics, Chemistry and Math, Meerut University, Meerut, India.
PhD- awarded in 2005.

AWARDS :8
2003 SPG India award for best technical paper publication in ‘GEOHORIZONS’ during 2002-2003.
2003 M.B.R. Rao Gold Medal best paper award from AEG, India
1999 NPMP (National Petroleum Management Programme) AWARD OF EXCELLENCE for the year 1998-99. Certificate of Recognition for Creativity & Innovation.
1995 Award of Dr. K.S. Krishnan research fellowship (SRF) of Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in 1995.
1994 University Medal of year 1994 for standing first in first class in order of merit.
1994 Certificate of Trust prize (Sri Bagirath Lal Wadhwan cash prize for obtaining highest marks in M.Tech.(Applied Geophysics) Dissertation.
1994 Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) – 1994 with percentile Score of 87.52.

MEMBERSHIPS: SEG and SPG India.
PAPERS- PUBLICHSHED : 6
PAPERS- IN CONFERCNES : 18
TRAINER
Petronas Carigali internal trainer for Two Training course: 1. Seismic Inversion and 2. Rock Physics and its application of Quantitative Interpretation
Training:INDUSTRY REQUIRED
2008 History Matching
2006 Understanding 3D seismic data and interpretation
2006 Resource assessment training course
2006 Sequence stratigraphy training course
2006 Advance Rock physics
2005 Well driven seismic training course
2004 Post-stack, simultaneous inversion, stochastic inversion and rock physics training course by Fugro-Jason
2004 Seismic attributes and their application in reservoir characterization
2003 Advance seismic data processing training course
2002 AVO, Inversion and rock physics training course
2001 Structural geology and play fairway analysis by Robertson research.
2000 HSE, first-aid and fire fighting course
1999 Training for trainers- Indian Institute of Management.
1998 Safety training course
SOFTWARE TRAININGS
2007 RockDoc for Rock Physics modelling
2005 Petral Geophysics module,
2004 Jason Geoscience Workbench
2001 Hampson-Russell AVO, STRATA, Time Lapse 4D modules
1999 3D visualization/Volume rendering applications
Expert user of all the above softwares listed above.

PERSONAL BIO


Date & Place of Birth 19 August 1971 – Muzaffar Nagar, India.
Citizenship India
Marital status Married- 2children (9 years and 7 years)