Indira Saripally

Indira Saripally, SPE, is a reservoir engineer senior adviser at Occidental Petroleum with more than 17 years of experience in the industry. Throughout her career, she has held a variety of roles within reservoir engineering, including reservoir management, international business development, and specialized technical positions, such as simulation modeling in fields using water and CO₂ injection for secondary and tertiary recovery. Saripally’s expertise spans both the US domestic energy sector and the Middle East. Currently based in Houston, she manages deepwater fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Saripally’s key technical interests are reservoir surveillance and field development planning. She holds a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree, also in petroleum engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology. Saripally has been involved with regional SPE chapters since 2005 and is a technical reviewer for SPE Journal. She is a member of the JPT Editorial Review Board and an advisory member of The Way Ahead.