Dr. Somen Mishra is a Senior Petroleum Systems Expert, presently working as a Domain Expert for Degolyer and Macnaughton in India. He completed M.Sc. (Applied Geology) at the University of Allahabad (1993), M.Tech. (1995) and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (2001). He has 23 years of experience of working in Operating Companies like Reliance, Service Companies like Schlumberger, Halliburton and National Oil Companies like ONGC, India, in varied roles such as Senior Geoscientist, Consultant, Domain Expert, and Petroleum Systems Analyst. His expertise includes Basin Analysis, Regional level data synthesis for building coherent G & G model, Thermal-maturity assessments, migration modelling-pore pressure predictions, Geochemical evaluations, PIEA (Play Identification, Evaluation and Assessments), Prospect Risking and Ranking, Uncertainty Analysis, Resource Assessments, and Unconventional Petroleum Systems Analysis. Dr. Mishra has extensively worked in several Indian and global basins and has more than a decade of experience in teaching different aspects of Petroleum Systems to various organizations like ONGC, OIL, IOCL, BPRL, HPCL in India and abroad. He has also reviewed manuscripts in journals like Marine and Petroleum Geology, Journal of Asian Earth sciences, Arabian Journal of Geosciences etc.
Dr. Santanu Banerjee has been a Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, since 1999. He completed M.Sc. (Applied Geology) at Allahabad University (1992) and Ph.D. at Jadavpur University (1997). He supervised several research projects on sedimentology, stratigraphy, and petroleum geology of Indian sedimentary basins. His research interests include microbial mat structures in Precambrian siliciclastics, origin of glauconite, sequence stratigraphy, and petroleum geology. He has worked extensively on sedimentary facies and basin analysis in the Precambrian Vindhyan basin of central India and Meso-Cenozoic Kutch basin. Dr. Banerjee has published more than 145 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to 25 book chapters, and edited 8 books. He supervised 20 students for the PhD degree. He is the country ambassador of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Palaeogeography, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Journal of Petroleum Geology, Scientific Reports, and Sedimentary Geology