Sharma Dronamraju

Biography:

Sharma Dronamraju is a Geoscientist and Director, AKD Professional Solutions in Houston, Texas, USA. He worked for Petrobras USA, Marathon Oil, Shell Petroleum, ONGC, and the service industry for over 30 years of upstream oil and gas. His expertise lies in rejuvenating mature fields. He was associated with several deep-water developments and exploration appraisals in GoM, the Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, deep-water Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and the South China Sea. Sharma’s recent work includes Geomodeling for EOR in mature oil fields in Miocene Syn-rift clastics and carbonates and regional prospectively of Gulf of Suez, Egypt, heavy oil development in Powder River Basin in Lower Cretaceous incised valley fills (Newcastle Fm.), addressing subsurface heterogeneity of Mishrif Carbonates in Southern Iraq and reservoir modeling of HPHT fields in offshore East Malaysia and Borneo, and sub-salt interpretation, appraisal, and reservoir delineation of Lucius Field, GoM. Sharma’s current focus is continental rift basins and their contribution to geoscience. Sharma earned his Master’s degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University, and an MBA from Rice University.

Mr. Sharma is on the Execitive Board of Houston Geological Society, and a State Registered and Certified in Texas USA, and had been Member of AAPG House of Delegates, one of the Distibguished Instructors for AAPG.  He held several trainings for target audiences, and clients, in the US, Middle East, and Asia; HGS and AAPG Technology Workshop in the US.