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Sailesh Saha

Bangalore

Summary

Highly analytical and process-oriented petroleum engineer with around 5 years of experience in the E&P industry, with significant exposure to domains like production optimization, reservoir surveillance and management, wellbore and artificial lift modeling, sick well identification and remediation, with exposure in conventional multi-Darcy polymer-flooded fields and unconventional developments in the Permian Basin, US.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Unconventional Asset Engineer

Exxon Mobil Tech. & Engg. Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2023 - Current
  • Artificial lift surveillance of wells recommending possible reasons for performance variability and guide BU for remedial actions and highlight key learning for upcoming developments.
  • Participating in Various Wellbore Utility Reviews (WBUR) and assist BU to understand existing well performance and possible well intervention options to help enhance well performance
  • Daily Surveillance by Monitoring well parameters identification of well/casing failures and plan possible reme plan
  • Opportunity identification for re-fracs and stimulation activities.
  • Performed root cause analysis on production issues, developed corrective actions, and monitored results.
  • Performing investment reappraisal to determine expected vs. actual production, and share learnings for future development.
  • Non-Op AFE evaluation for 10+ non-operated water/CO2 flooded fields, which includes forecasting stream and performing economics for the overall project.
  • Monitored production operations to ensure compliance with safety regulations and quality standards.
  • Created detailed reports on production performance and made recommendations for process changes helped BU with finalizing Reservoir Surveillance Plan.

Reservoir/ Production Engineer

Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited
Gurgaon
10.2020 - 01.2023
  • Monitoring reservoir data and selecting candidates for intervention, for which evaluation of liquid rates and PI of almost 180 producers in the field is done, and based on the performed analysis, candidates are selected for different interventions.
  • Selecting surveillance candidates and performing surveillance jobs, like PLT and IFO, using the Emeraude Tool.
  • Interpreting IFO Temp logs and ILTs gauge data of injectors for evaluating any interference with nearby wells to try and determine the reservoir conformance.
  • Wellbore modeling using Petex Prosper for jet pump size selection and power fluid optimization, also performing ESP modeling for the horizontal wells.
  • Evaluating day-to-day job gains and loss analysis of JPCOs and other intervention jobs performed in the Mangala field also performs hits and misses of the jobs conducted, and evaluating the missed jobs for planning further jobs to revive the well.
  • Keeping track of polymer injectors and the polymer injector wellhead samples to check the injection polymer ppm and viscosity.
  • Analyzing day-to-day well trends of ESP and jet pump wells to monitor the well performance and suggest the well parameters in case of any issues.
  • Well test validation and production allocation.
  • Collaborative effort to execute very high, daily intervention activities.

Education

Bachelor of Petroleum Engineering - Oil And Gas

Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Pune
06.2020

Skills

  • Artificial lift design
  • Reservoir surveillance
  • Wellbore modeling and optimization
  • Production and well failure analysis
  • Unconventional development planning
  • Uncon Opportunity Generation
  • Competitor intelligence

Hobbies and Interests

Music

Languages

Fluent, Fluent, Good, Fluent

Skills

Very good, Very good, Very good, Good

Timeline

Unconventional Asset Engineer

Exxon Mobil Tech. & Engg. Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - Current

Reservoir/ Production Engineer

Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited
10.2020 - 01.2023

Bachelor of Petroleum Engineering - Oil And Gas

Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Sailesh Saha