Mr. Manoj Kumar Valluri is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has 9 years of experience in reservoir engineering, carbon capture and storage, enhanced oil recovery, and oilfield chemistry. He currently supports development and execution of multiple federal and commercial (45Q) carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects. His work is primarily focused on reservoir engineering, computer simulations, injection well permitting, and overall project implementation. He has led multiple reservoir engineering and experimentation related tasks on state and federally funded carbon dioxide storage and EOR projects. Mr. Valluri conducted reservoir assessments for CCUS projects within the U.S. as well as internationally. During previous role at Battelle, Mr. Valluri served at the principal investigator for multiple projects on developing soy-based oilfield chemistries and validating the products in oil and gas field applications. Mr. Valluri holds a master’s in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University – College Station and an honorary bachelor’s in chemical engineering from BITS Pilani, India. He is a board member of Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Ohio Section and a member for the Energy Institute’s CCS Reservoir Engineering committee.
