Deepankar Biswas is the President of SiteLark, an international petroleum engineering consulting and software firm. He has over eighteen years of hands-on experience in industry, research laboratory and field operations. His expertise includes interdisciplinary projects in conducting reservoir engineering and simulation studies, litigation support, reservoir characterization, simulator development including black oil, compositional, thermal and naturally fractured reservoir simulation projects; and working on waterflooding/gas-cycling and hydraulic fracturing projects.

His expertise also includes reservoir engineering and production analysis of naturally fractured reservoirs (including carbonates and clastics), and conducting enhanced oil recovery feasibility, and well and pipeline performance evaluation and also economic analysis e.g. DCF, scenario analysis and real opt7ions. He has been exposed to drilling operations and drilling-side of the business.  His progressive growth through projects in different companies has continuously evolved his engineering, implementation, management and decision making skills.

His experience spans assignments in Middle-East, Europe, Latin America, Asia and continental USA.  He had previous tenures with such companies as Mobil E&P, ONGC, TXU Energy Trading, Blade Energy Partners and DeGolyer and MacNaughton.  He has developed next-generation reservoir simulator for Mobil Exploration and Production.  He has performed Integrated Reservoir Studies for major international fields both at Mobil and DeGolyer and MacNaughton.  While at Blade he developed reservoir based Underbalanced Drilling evaluation tool and championed its usefulness and application in UBD screening through out the world. 

Deepankar has a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He also received a Certificate in Corporate Finance from Southern Methodist University. He has more than ten archival technical publications and two book chapters on real options.  He is an active member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, served as Vice Chairman Education of SPE Dallas Chapter (2006-07) and has been a technical editor for SPEJ. He is a professional registered engineer in the state of Texas.