Speakers

Soodabeh Esmaili is the Well Analysis and Design Manager for Delaware Basin_New Mexico at Oxy. Her team is a multi-disciplinary team of reservoir, production, completion engineers and data scientists responsible for design optimization (spacing and completion), science/new technology data gathering and integration, Type Well Profile construction and wedge wells surveillance and lookbacks. Soodabeh has more than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, including offshore middle east, onshore conventional and EOR and unconventional reservoir managements and optimization.

Soodabeh rejoined Oxy in 2018 and held unconventional reservoir engineering roles with increasing responsibilities at Delaware Basin. She is known as an unconventional reservoir expert and published several papers addressing the development and optimization of unconventional resources. Prior to Oxy-houston, she worked at Devon, Oxy-California and National Oil Company. She is an active member of SPE and holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from West Virginia University.