Jul 06, 2021
Profile Summary:
An industry expert advisor and leader with a strategic outlook covering ~25 years’ experience encompassing varied roles from Production Field Engineer, Sales Engineer, Project Engineer, Technical & Marketing Manager, Senior Reservoir Engineer (RE), Asset Owner, Geoscience Coordinator, Geoscience Manager, Project Management Lead, Region Reservoir Engineering Domain Expert to Subject Matter Expert (SME) Advisor and Independent Consultant. Experience (~1000+ well sections addressed) geography covers India, Bangladesh, USA (Gulf of Mexico-GoM), Brunei, Norway, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Mozambique, Indonesia, Thailand, China, and Australia.
Awards, Recognition, Publications:
Recipient of the SPE 2021 Regional Award for Formation Evaluation for the Northern Asia Pacific Region.
Nominated by customers for Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Lecturer for the year 2021-22 and 2022-23, in the capacity of SME for Formation Testing & Sampling (FT&S) domain.
SPE volunteer judge for Section Awards, Student Chapter Awards, Asia Pacific Regional Awards; Energy4me Ambassador; PetroBowl quiz question writer and Reviewer for SPE Journal - Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering – Formation Evaluation.
Core Values Award winner for Performance, Teamwork, Leading and Courage. Recipient of the highest-level award for publishing record maximum case studies in a single year and record holder for the maximum “firsts” in technology deployment in a single year and recipient of ‘strongest positive feedback’ from Management.
Influenced two award-winning technologies addressing fluid characterization {Wireline and Logging-While-Drilling (LWD)} in their nascent stages (~1 $MM revenue for each technology deployment per well section) and one established technology for continuous improvement stage of product-development, that led to securing short and long-term contracts.
Discipline Team Lead for numerous customers in Asia Pacific region (including Deepwater) - Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, Eni, Newfield, Petronas, Petronas Carigali, D18 Alliance, Woodside, Santos, PetroVietnam (PVEP POC), Rosneft, VietGazprom, Vietsovpetro, Inpex, JX Nippon, Mubadala, Murphy, PTTEP, Hibiscus, CNOOC, as well as ONGC, Reliance Industries and Cairn Energy in India. {Customer List not exhaustive}.
Founding member of Reservoir Leadership Team (RLT) and Community of Practice (CoP) for product development, business development, global deliverables’ standardization, reporting and best practices.
Authored and published 25 case studies and 18 industry papers. Presented at numerous technology forums and conference events - SPE, SPWLA, OTC, EAGE, AAPG etc.; publications related to regional and industry technology firsts, rig time and thus cost savings for customers and enhancing operational procedures through efficiencies and safety – contributed to projects that set region records and saved from $2.2MM to $15MM for the customers.
Spearheaded small-scale land-based fields Production Sharing Contract (PSC) projects in Gujarat, India, that went into Profit Petroleum stage (a company first and one of the earliest in India); successful first application of established technologies on a micro-scale regionally and coordinated the first gas sale and oil sale for two assets.
Coordinated to winning a contract and supervised the installation and commissioning of a patented artificial lift technology in remote and hostile geography of Assam (ONGC, India, onshore research & development project of IOGPT).
Supervised large-scale “oil & gas awareness” drive for farmers with land surrounding an oilfield, leading to massive confidence boost in ESG portfolio.
Accelerated business development for principals in the field of emerging technologies for production enhancement and gas markets; helped secure a contract for the former with India’s national oil company – ONGC.
Mentor and Course Instructor for young and senior talent – mentored and developed an Asia Pacific regional team and coached numerous team members globally. Visiting faculty for Drilling Technology at Maharashtra Institute of Technology, India.
University student paper presentation contest: runners-up for the paper titled ‘An Integrated Reservoir Management Strategy for Improving Oil & Gas Recovery’, at Manipal Institute of Technology, India.
Elected university class representative for consecutive two years.
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree (B.Engg.) in Petroleum Engineering, from Maharashtra Institute of Technology (University of Pune), India; graduated first class with distinction.
Excelled in almost all internal company courses at all timelines – Technical and excelled in all internal company courses at all timelines – Core Values, Supervisory Cornerstone, Compliance and HSE.
Personal Particulars:
Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1974.
Nationality: India; based in Kuala Lumpur for more than a decade; India Passport holder with Malaysia Talent Pass - 10 years duration starting 2020; first five years validity till 08-Jul-2025.
Languages: Fluent in English, Hindi, and Marathi (Mother Tongue).
Marital Status: Married (spouse is housewife and an avid cook) with one daughter (14 years).
Nominated Team Leader for university summer projects: western offshore; western onshore (international desert border area), courtesy of Oil India (Rajkot and Barmer project offices) and Institute of Reservoir Studies (IRS), Ahmedabad (courtesy of ONGC).
Member of university-level swimming team: runners-up in water-polo and relay.
Interest in Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU).
Long standing SPE member and volunteer.
Willing to relocate globally.
LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-hardikar-a47651b1
Consultant Advisor Subject Matter Expert - Formation Testing & Sampling
Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia