ARJUN KRISHNAN KUTTY
Petroleum Engineer
Doha
Summary
Petroleum engineering with a business degree and a keen interest in deriving value from data. Passionate about automating and streamlining work processes that can add measurable value to the business bottom line. Very effective team player!
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Production Technologist
North Oil Company
01.2022 - Current
- Key focal point for subsurface department to communicate and engage with several departments across the organization to mature production and injection enhancement opportunities
- Built automated well surveillance system that uses Microsoft Excel, PETEX GAP, PETEX PROSPER and SQL to identify well and facility bottlenecks
- Matured well workover opportunities in collaboration with subsurface and drilling teams to enable oil reserves restoration and safeguard to the tune of >20 MMstb
- Managed and matured Machine learning studies with help of external vendors to identify root cause to slugging and well productivity analytics.
Well Performance Engineer
North Oil Company
07.2017 - 01.2022
- Coordinated and monitored daily production and injection optimization of 300+ wells in giant offshore oil field in Qatar
- Initiated and coordinated several technology trials including transient slugging modeling using LedaFlow, automatic choke control for real-time well optimization and demulsifier downhole injection feasibility
- Developed an exception based surveillance system using PETEX IVM software to flag key well events to engineers (well dying, fracture, set point deviation, etc.) and visualization dashboards using SPOTFIRE software for daily well monitoring purposes
- Responsible for streamlining regular business process like rolling forecast exercises and preparing guidelines/procedures for well operations
Reservoir Engineer
Maersk Oil Qatar A/S
9 2016 - 07.2017
- Responsible for achieving and maintaining a daily production target of 65,000 BOPD and a daily injection target of 300,000 BWPD from a total of 35 oil producers and 29 water injectors
- Other responsibilities included identifying and planning for well intervention opportunities (zonal shifting, GLV change-outs, etc) to improve well potential.
- Supported continuous improvement initiatives by mentoring junior engineers on best practices in reservoir engineering techniques
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop integrated field development plans for optimal resource extraction
MITAS Reservoir Engineer
Maersk Oil A/S
1 2016 - 9 2016
- Fracture characterization and modeling of injection induced fractures in Halfdan oil field, Denmark
- Designed and executed pilot project to re-open injection induced fractures to their maximum fracture area thereby increasing field recovery factor
- H2S Simulation using SourSim RL to predict evolution of H2S production and identify long-term mitigation strategies to minimize corrosion.
- Light Workover Rig Investment Proposal - Created investment proposal to replace existing workover rigs with fit-for-purpose solution, designed to optimally meet business needs and result in annual OPEX savings of 25%.
MITAS Well Site Engineer
Maersk Oil A/S
09.2014 - 01.2016
- Offshore well site (drilling) engineer on 3 different workover rigs in the Danish sector of the North Sea.
- Actively involved in wide range of workover and well intervention activities ranging from tubing change-outs to plug and abandonment jobs.
- Managed on-site resources effectively, including personnel allocation, equipment utilization, and material storage to ensure smooth project progression with minimal downtime
Education
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Indian School of Business
Hyderabad 01.2023 - 07.2024
Master of Science - Petroleum Engineering
Heriot Watt University
Dubai 09.2013 - 09.2014
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology
India 07.2009 - 07.2013
Skills
Project management, Problem solving
Automation, Streamlining processes
Production optimization and technical skills in petroleum engineering
SQL, Python, VBA, PowerBI, Spotfire
PETEX IPM suite
Software and Progamming skills
- Comprehensive programming skills with VBA for excel, IronPython and Python
- IPM Petex tools (GAP, PROSPER, MBAL)
- Familiar with Reservoir Simulation tool – Eclipse and Well Test analysis tools – Kappa
- Extensive user of Spotfire to create well surveillance dashboards
- MS Office
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 10/24/1991
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Indian School of Business
01.2023 - 07.2024
Senior Production Technologist
North Oil Company
01.2022 - Current
Well Performance Engineer
North Oil Company
07.2017 - 01.2022
MITAS Well Site Engineer
Maersk Oil A/S
09.2014 - 01.2016
Master of Science - Petroleum Engineering
Heriot Watt University
09.2013 - 09.2014
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology
07.2009 - 07.2013
Reservoir Engineer
Maersk Oil Qatar A/S
9 2016 - 07.2017
MITAS Reservoir Engineer
Maersk Oil A/S
1 2016 - 9 2016
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