Syed Razavi
Syed Razavi is an application chemist at Clariant Oil Services. He provides flow assurance technical support to the Gulf of Mexico deepwater assets in the areas of wax, asphaltene, and hydrate mitigation and control. He is also involved in the process of umbilical qualification of production chemicals that require rigorous testing and evaluation before being deployed offshore via long umbilical lines. Razavi is experienced in flowback and produced water production modeling and reuse with friction reducers in the US shale basins in West Texas, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. He has been involved with SPE since 2012 and has participated in young professional volunteer opportunities in the past several years. He holds a BS in chemical engineering and a BA in chemistry with focus on petroleum engineering and mathematics from University of Houston.