Group General Manager
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd
Total years of experience :40 years, 1 Months
1977-1980 Modi Industries. Ltd, (Manufacturing polymer, synthetic resin and surface coatings)
1980-2013 Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd
2013- till date Dean and Hod of Petroleum Engineering
at Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering (RGCE), Anna University, Chennai, India
June 2003Till date Head Regional Geoscience Lab, Chennai
Laboratory support to exploration/drilling / production operations
CORE COMPETENCE: A: Management: • Has a extensive experience in management. Provided leadership to a large no of highly qualified and experienced technical workforce in providing solutions to exploration and exploitation operations
• Lead Territorial Army Regiments to operate oil installations during emergent situations like Gujarat Riots, and earthquake ONGC strikes, operation Bajrang and ops Rhino in Assam etc
• Has undergone numerous management and leadership programs in India as well as abroad
B: Laboratory Management: Vast experience in management of laboratories at
• Regional Geoscience Laboratory (RGL), Chennai as its head since 2003.
Also to function as Basin Manager from time to time to oversee the entire exploration in Cauvery Basin
B: Research & Development and Field Implementation: Have worked in R&D institutes viz. KDMIPE (Keshav Dev Malviya Institute of Petroleum Exploration) and IDT (Institute of Drilling Technology), RGL Mumbai and
RGL, Chennai. Developed various technologies for field implementation, redressal of operational problems.
C. Flow Assurance: • Developed technology for analysis and characterization of crude oils. Complete
rheological investigation like viscosity yield value, shear, time temperature
dependency pour point Restartability at ambient as well as under simulated
conditions.
• Developed lab setup to simulate and study wax deposition and scale up to field
pipelines down hole and other facilities.
• Evolved transportation strategy for transportation of waxy and heavy crude of North
Gujarat (1981-82)
• Indigenization of PPD for Bombay Offshore (1983-84)
• After exhaustive field and lab studies and field trials, stopped the usage of PPD in
Mumbai High offshore pipeline resulted in saving of recurring expenditure to the tune of INR 600 million annually (2001-02)
• Published about 15 technical papers in international and national journals/conferences on Flow Assurance
• Conduct courses / talks for ONGC, IIT and other organizations/institutions in flow
assurance
D: Petrophysics:
• Basic and special core studies on cores of exploratory wells. Studied include fluid
saturation, density, porosity, permeability, pore throat distribution, resistivity, and electrical properties.
• Has long experience of processing and studying conventional and unconventional
cores. In addition to undertaking core study from my company, ONGC, has also
provided services to other multinational companies working in this part of the world.
• Has upgraded laboratory by introducing GR Logger, Porosity and Permeability at ambient and overburden pressure, a, m n parameter at ambient and OBP, Pore
throat distribution etc.
• Developed methodology for processing and study of unconsolidated core studies. Has
long working association with Core Lab International BV for core studies. Provided
services also to multinational oil companies operating in this part of the world.
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E: Drilling Fluid and Cementation Technology: • Designing and operation of drilling fluids in highly pressured and dipped formations of Cachar Area of Assam Handling of high pressure, stuck-up, mud loss and other
problems faced during drilling problems
• Cement slurry design for highly loss zones
• Developed and field tried Acid systems and Hole cleaning system in laboratory for
Activation of tight reservoirs.
• Provide laboratory services to oil companies
• Operated oil installations (GGS and CTF) through Territorial Army during international and external disturbances.
Publications/Presentations
a) As First (Main) Author
• "Flow Assurance in 30" BUT oil pipeline without usage of PPD" 'Offshore
Technology Conference', Houston in 5-8 May, 2008. (OTC 19166)
• 'Testing Eliminates Crude PPD use' - Oil & Gas Journal, March2, 2009
• Multipronged Strategy to combat Wax Deposition in B173 Area - Neelam sub-sea
crude oil pipe line' Petrotech '95
• 'Characterization of Subsurface Accumulation through Geochemical surveys" has
been presented in Geo India Conference, September, 2008.
starte fro E1 level and .superannuated at E-8 level. gained expertize in the following areas:
- Drilling Fluid Engineering
- Flow Assurance
- Basic and special Core studies
- Crude analysis, characterization and surface processing
- Laboratory Management etc
Worked in different areas of operations like drilling R&D, Flow Assurance, Core Studies, Oil field Chemical Management, Crude oil processing and Laboratory Management
Some of the papers published are:
• 'Oilfield Chemicals Scenario in Premier Oil NOC - Issues and Challenges OFC 2011
(Oct 19-21) Conference, Dalyan. China
• 'Estimation and characterisation of Wax Deposition in Bombay High sub-sea and
KNK pipelines' Paper No.7054. Multiphase Flow-Technology and Consequences For
Field Development - 1989 Stavanger Norway, 8-9 May, 1989.
• Role of Blending in Transportation of Difficult crude, Chemical Environmental
Research. 1 (3) 1992.
• 'Analysis of Rock Permeability in D-1 and B 55 Structures of Bombay Offshore by their Capillary Pressure Profiles' Petrotech 2001 Conference, New Delhi, Jan 2001.
• 'Effect of Ageing on the Efficacy of PPDs on Indian Waxy Crudes' in Petrotech 2003
Conference.
• 'Rheological Studies of Bombay High Crude Under Stimulated Pipeline Condition' in
Hydrocarbon India, 15 May, 1993
• 'Effect of Pressurisation on Flow Behaviour of Waxy Crudes' at National Seminar on
Frontier Areas, RRL, Jorhat, Aprl 1989.
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• 'Replacement of Imported PPDs by indigenous PPDs for Bombay High Crude Oil'at
June 1994 To 02.05.2003 MRBC, Mumbai ( Studies of consolidated and unconsolidated
cores, Laboratory support to offshore processing of oil and gas)
• Regional Geoscience Laboratory (RGL), Mumbai 1994-2003
May 1991 to May 1994 ERBC, Silchar, Assam (Drilling and Cementing operations.)
Dec.1989 to May 1991 IDT, Dehradun (Indigenization of Drilling Fluid Chemicals and
Cement Additives)
19.09.1980 To Dec 1989 KDMIPE, Dehradun (R&D in Flow Assurance, crude
characterization and its field implementation)
Calcutta, 1989.
• 'Rheological Behavior of Indian Offshore Crudes' at International Seminar on
Indian Science Congress Annual Convention, Lucknow, 1-6 Jan 1985.
b) As Co Author
Fifteen (15) papers as co-author have been published / presented in various
M. Tech. Petroleum Indian School of Mines 3. (Petroleum 1991 Engg. (ISM), Dhanbad Engg.)
B.Tech. 2. (HBTI Kanpur, UP), 1977 Chemical Engg, surface coatings, Synthetic Resin, Polymer Tech. etc
MM Modi (PG) College, Modinagar, Meerut University in Physics, Chemistry, maths
