About

Gaurav Upadhyay is a Fiber Optics Data Analyst and Microseismic Geophysicist at Halliburton, with over 6 years of experience in Microseismic fracture mapping applications and Landmark's Drilling & Completion applications. He has a sound knowledge of Petroleum Geology, Drilling and Completions, Reservoir Engineering, Remote Sensing, and GIS. Gaurav has completed software training at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India, specialized in C, C++, and Java technology. He has experience in test management tool Quality Center and has good knowledge of SDLC and STLC. He has worked on methodologies like Agile and Waterfall models and has basic knowledge of Python, C++, Java, C#, and SQL Server. At Halliburton, Gaurav is responsible for real-time processing of downhole microseismic data via single or multiple subsurface geophone tool strings. He also works on post-processing of downhole microseismic data along with finalizing velocity models, tool angles, and QC as per client requirement. He has expertise in creating velocity models and tool string orientation/design. He has also worked on ways to incorporate optical fiber enabled Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) with traditional methods of downhole data acquisition. Gaurav has worked as a Support Drilling Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, providing software support to Drilling and Completion suite of Landmark applications that are being used in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has supported various E&P companies across the globe, worked on Landmark Applications, trained and inducted new recruits on Landmark applications, prepared use case and reference documents for complex issues resolved, prepared and evaluated Help Files, Release Notes, and Installation Manuals of Drilling and Completion applications, and helped users to deploy/install SQL and Oracle databases at their end. Gaurav completed his Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Petroleum Geoscience from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 2017 and his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech Geo-Informatics) from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies in 2012. He completed his 12th from Army School, Clement town, in 2007. Gaurav has a relevant experience of 2.51 years and is proficient in SQL, Java, test, and Python. He is an ISTQB certified professional with 75% marks.