Kaveh Dehghani

Chevron Emeritus Fellow Reservoir Management Consultant

Spring, Texas, United States

About

Leverage expertise in subsurface assessment and forecasting of major capital projects and base business operations. Apply experience in research, technology development, technical service, project management, business development opportunity assessments, and quality assurance peer reviews. Address challenges associated with optimization of asset development plan. Provide consulting services to adapt to change in digital transformation and energy transition to low carbon oil and gas production. Use interpersonal communication and relationship building skills and broad network of upstream technical and business leaders to build organizational capability, identify, and translate innovative ideas to value-adding products, while integrating input from all organizational levels.

Experience

  • Consultant Reservoir Management at Self-Employed
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    − Subsurface project management − Appraisal of oil and gas reservoirs to optimize field development schemes in primary and improved recovery processes − Quality assurance peer review for subsurface basis of design of major capital projects and production attainment look back analyses − Supervision and organizational capability development in reservoir engineering, modeling, and subsurface technical service, research, and consulting activities

  • Chevron (30 yrs 5 mos)
    • Retired at Chevron in Oct 2020
      Oct 2020 - Dec 2020 · 3 mos

      After 30 years

    • Chevron Fellow and Team Leader Reservoir Simulation and Consulting
      Jun 2006 - Oct 2020 · 14 yrs 5 mos

      Managed teams of 10-15 reservoir engineers to provide consulting and simulation services to Operating Companies on production forecasting and reserves assessments of Chevron’s global major capital projects and main producing assets in Deep Water Gulf of Mexico, Latin America, Nigeria, Angola, Kazakhstan, Australia, and Mid-Continent unconventional assets. Impacted billions of dollars of investment decisions and hundreds of millions of Bbls of reserves. -Participated in peer assist and subsurface technical reviews of Company's major capital projects. -Managed cross functional project teams to develop depletion plan for major assets. -Coordinated Technical Training for the ETC Reservoir Performance Services Unit on Subsurface Assessment and Forecasting and Assisted History Matching -Built reservoir engineering competency by recruiting significant number of top PhD graduates, and mentoring them on their career development and performance management plans, leading to more than 30 mentees building successful careers at Chevron -A Chevron Fellow (2015-2020) Chevron Fellows are few selected Chevron Technical Experts who are recognized by the corporation for exceptional technical accomplishments. Once awarded, the individual retains the title of Chevron Fellow, in addition to any other job title.

    • Reservoir Engineering Senior Advisor at TengizChevroil
      Jan 2001 - Jun 2006 · 5 yrs 6 mos

      Led reservoir engineering support for Tengiz and Korolev super-giant oil fields in Kazakhstan operated by Tengizchevroil (50% Chevron, 25% ExxonMobil, 20% KazMunaiGas, and 5% LukArco) including annual reserves assessment, simulation modeling of the development plan, design and implementation of data gathering and monitoring program, design and implementation of special core analyses program, coordination of field related technical work conducted by the service and technology companies, mentoring national staff for reservoir engineering activities, and ensuring technical alignment on the reservoir engineering activities with the main stakeholders and government agencies.

  • Asscociate Professor, Petroleum Engineering Department at University of Alaska Fairbanks
    1983 - 1990 · 7 yrs

    Played critical role in founding Petroleum Engineering Department at UAF, developed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Rock Fluid Properties, Petroleum Recovery Methods, Reservoir Engineering, Fluid Flow through Porous Media, Waterflooding and EOR.