Raj

2/10/2015
Houston, TX

Position Desired

Petroleum Engineering
Anywhere in the U.S.
Yes

Resume

OBJECTIVE
Seeking a mid-level to senior level position that utilizes my research expertise, knowledge and experience in the Oil and Gas Industry.

SUMMARY
•More than 6 years of experience working on front end cost estimation, project development to forecast capital and operating costs and oil/gas production for a proposed onshore or offshore field development.
•Estimated drilling, wellpads, topsides, pipelines, subsea and production facility requirements and costs for a global client base.
•Experience in delivering field development strategies and cost engineering approaches to international, national and independent oil companies.
•Experience developing and enhancing technical specifications for software used to analyze oil and gas projects from exploration to concept selection and field plan development life.
•Excellent written, communication and presentation skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Engineer IHS, Houston (TX) Feb 2012 - Present
•Enhanced and reviewed current offshore technology in Subsea installation to include improvements in installation in deep and shallow waters for cluster, template, satellite, Pipeline end termination, flying leads, jumpers with reasonable assumptions in response to market demand
•Worked on inclusion of reciprocating compressors in onshore, offshore and LNG modules in the program.
•Continued working with Product Development team for improving the product with new ideas and suggestions.
•Provided in-depth technical support and engineering advice to customers of QUE$TOR which is pre-feed cost estimation tool.

Development Engineer IHS, Houston (TX) Aug 2008 – Feb 2012
•Provided product and engineering support and advice to customers from concept selection to detailed design.
•Created projects, open and edit cost and technical databases, develop technical specifications to the product.
•Produced technical engineering development specifications for inclusion into cost estimation software.
•Presented technical demonstrations for training & sales purposes in US and Venezuela.
•Developed a detailed understanding of the new and changing technology in order to develop specification and instructional documents for enhancement and development of the program.
•Built client relationships and understanding of client requirements to ensure the product meets the needs of the market.
•Support Product Management and Product Development teams with technical and non-technical input and comment as required.
•Developed understanding of workflows and programs within the software suite to identify areas of synergy and development.

Field Development Engineer IHS, Houston, Singapore & Japan Jan 2006 - Aug 2008
•Design develop and engineer oil and gas fields using IHS products (QUE$TOR, AssetBank).
•Demonstrated by researching developments and writing reports and infilling the engineering database for the AssetBank software which is international forecasting product.
•Experience of field development in QUE$TOR and the interactive relationship to AssetBank. Knowledge of database structure within AssetBank and methods to create derived engineering data.
•Built pre-feed onshore & offshore development models & life cycle cost estimates for discoveries, developing and producing fields using QUE$TOR.
•Analyzing and determining the key challenges for different oil/gas field prospects.
•Provided presentations, support and troubleshooting to the clients regarding IHS tools in Japan. Client visits made in Japan to JOGMEC, IDEMITSU, ITOCHU and INPEX.

Process Engineer IHS CERA, Houston (TX) Nov 2005- Dec 2005
•Economic evaluation using cost estimation software for onshore and offshore oil and gas projects/ field developments.
•Cost analysis for offshore projects using various versions of Questor and estimating percentage variance.


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant Texas A&M- Kingsville Aug 2003- May 2005
•Developed the conceptual layout of a pipeline to transport natural gas from Corpus Christi to Chicago. Involve...

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