Professor Satish Kumar Sinha is a faculty of Geophysics at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi and is currently serving as the Head of Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geoengineering. Prior to joining RGIPT, Dr Sinha was working for BP in Houston, USA, as a geophysicist where he worked on the world’s first field trial of cableless seismic technology, depth imaging surface seismic with borehole seismic, and Gulf of Mexico exploration. Dr Sinha holds his masters and PhD in geophysics from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA. While studying at Oklahoma, he worked on microseismic technologies for shale gas projects. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Dr Sinha had started his career in petroleum sector with Reliance Industries Ltd working on Krishna-Godavari basin.
Dr Sinha has developed a spectral decomposition technology using wavelet transform. His research interests include AVO, anisotropy, pore-pressure, formation evaluation, attribute analysis, petroleum geomechanics and unconventional resources. His team recently designed and developed a novel weight-drop seismic source for near surface studies which is low-cost, repeatable, portable, and easy to operate with no environmental impact.
Dr Sinha recently co-ordinated an effort on India Hydrocarbon Appraisal Program (I-HAP), an initiative of MoPNG and is currently on resource appraisal for Ganga-Punjab and Vindhyan basins in association with DGH.
