Skills Summary
- Planning, execution and managing of research projects within a tight budget.
- Coordinating research between national laboratories, universities, and industry to leverage Amoco's research dollars.
- Leading Amoco's research effort in geochemical and basin modeling technology
- Coaching of colleagues and creating enthusiastic work environment
- Teaching results of research to customers in Amoco's business units
- Teaching classes at TU at the request of Geoscience staff
- Communicating upward, lateral and downward in an effective and concise manner
Experience (Administrative)
- Coordinated a joint industry vision for the development 4D (3D space and ID time) Hydrocarbon System Models, between Amaco-BP-Chevron-Mobil-Shell-Texaco and Western Atlas.
- President of ABCM, Inc. 1997-
- 1997 AAPG National Meeting, section chairperson for 3-D Simulation and Visualization
- Research Director: geochemistry, basin modeling and sequence stratigraphy division of Amoco 1996
- Served on Amoco's Global Diversity Advisory Committee reporting to the CEO Bill Lowry (1993-95).
- Served on the Barriers Task Force to identify barriers to the full utilization of global workforce of the 21st century (1994).
- Served on Amoco Performance Management (APM) Committee to assist in designing of performance management issues and dimensions for the workforce of the nineties. (1986)
- Served on Amoco Corporation's Committee on Computational Chemistry (1990-88)
- Led a group of scientists to synthesize basin modeling research conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Indiana, University of Illinois and Amoco Production Research into a comprehensive modeling package which is being applied worldwide.1990-95
- Organized symposia, research conferences and workshops for American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Amoco Production Company 1987, 1989, 90, 97
Experience (Technical)
- 22 years (1974-1996)of Research and Development at Amoco Production Research
- Awarded by Amoco Norway Resource Management Group "Excellent Contribution to the Valhall Task Force 1996-1997"
- Recognized as a 1992-93 Distinguished Lecturer by American Association of Petroleum Geologists and traveled to CIS, Denmark, Norway , Canada and in the continental USA to deliver a lecture on benefits of integration of scientific disciplines in basin modeling.
- Edited a book for American Association of Petroleum Geologists on Reservoir Prediction 1990.
- Awarded: "Achieved major cost-savings by completing challenging task of transferring Basin2 to the in house SGI system.''
- Awarded Best Poster award at the Amoco GADGETS meeting for "Simulation of Porosity Evolution in Karroo Sandstones of Madagascar.
- Academic Excellence Awards:
Earth Science Graduate Fellowship, The University of Tulsa, 1977-76
Daxina Fellowship, the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay, 1966-65
Merit scholarship, The University of Bombay, 1960-64
Education
PhD in Earth Science from the University of Tulsa 1981.
MSc in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bombay 1966
BSc Chemistry and Physics University of Bombay 1964.
