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Sandeep Dhawan

Principal Well Engineer WellPerform

Sandeep Dhawan, SPE, is a principal well engineer at WellPerform in Denmark. A drilling engineering specialist, he has led high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT), extended-reach drilling, and deepwater projects in geographical areas such as the UK, the Danish and Norwegian North Sea, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Before joining WellPerform, Dhawan worked as principal drilling engineer and subject-matter expert in well design at Maersk in Copenhagen. He is a core group member of Shell E&P for the Drilling Engineering Manual (DEM1) standard and authored the first HP/HT casing design standard for Maersk in Denmark and Wintershall DEA in Germany. Dhawan has been an active member of SPE since 1990 and has written several SPE papers.
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    Drilling/completion fluids
    Well Integrity-2024
    Typically, oil and gas producing wells are abandoned toward the end of their life cycles with reservoir pressures depleted compared with the virgin pressures. Carbon capture and storage projects, however, present different operating conditions.
    January 1, 2024 • Sandeep Dhawan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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    Drilling
    Well Integrity-2023
    Moving into 2023, perhaps it will be safe to say that the era of the low-carbon energy mix has begun as the primary energy production landscape is changing fast. Until now, fossils fuels have dominated, and may still for the next few years dominate, the energy mix; however, a shift is taking place that will gain momentum, driven by global efforts toward addressing cli…
    January 1, 2023 • Sandeep Dhawan • Journal of Petroleum Technology