Unconventional reservoir and production engineering
Simulation development
Numerical analysis
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Utah
B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas
Minor in Mathematics, University of Kansas
Language Skills
John Zink Graduate Scholarship Recipient, 2014
Conoco Phillips Fellowship, 2014
Energy and Geoscience Institute Fellowship, 2013
Best Petroleum-Geology Project, Kansas Geological Society, Wichita, Kansas,
2010
Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate Research Awards, 2008 – 2009
Raul Velasco, Palash. Panja, Milind Deo, 2016, New Production
Performance and Prediction Tool for Unconventional Reservoirs, Society of
Petroleum Engineers Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC), 1-
3 August, San Antonio, Texas
R. Velasco, and M. Deo, “Material Balance for Tight Formations”, Journal of
Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources (Under Peer Review), 2015
Palash. Panja, Manas Pathak, Raul Velasco, Milind Deo, 2016, Least Square
Support Vector Machine: An Emerging Tool for Data Analysis, Society of
Petroleum Engineers Low Permeability Symposium, 5-6 May, Denver, Colorado
Besson, D., R. Keast, and R. Velasco. “In Situ and Laboratory Studies of
Radiofrequency Propagation through Ice and Implications for Siting a
Large-Scale Antarctic Neutrino Detector.” Astroparticle Physics 31.5 (2009):
348-58. Print
