Neha Bansal
Staff Engineer, Vice President
Neha Bansal joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2020 with a strong background in reservoir characterization studies. She has extensive experience in the development and evaluation of both unconventional and conventional reservoirs. Prior to joining D&M, she worked at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Reliance Industries Ltd.
Bansal earned a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, India in 2008. She received a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University in 2013. Bansal is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and serves in various leadership roles at technical conferences and workshop committees. She is a technical reviewer for the Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering. She was named a Vice President of D&M in 2022.
Geographical Experience
- Africa
- Argentina
- Colombia
- Gulf of Mexico
- India
- North America
- United Arab Emirates
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Reserves and resource evaluation
- Numerical modeling
- Analytical modeling
- Data collection program design
- Well performance analysis
- Fluid characterization
- Integrated reservoir studies
Major Projects
Bansal has been performing reserves and resources evaluations in various conventional and unconventional fields in the United States and internationally. She has also overseen the company’s Gulf of Mexico portfolio, leading reserves assessments and executing technical studies for new ventures, acquisitions, and divestiture projects.
At Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, she managed the multidisciplinary Delaware reservoir characterization team. She was also technical and project lead on many development projects in central and asset technology roles.
At Reliance Industries Ltd. in India, she worked extensively on erosion design studies and deepwater well-test design and analysis.
