Oral-History:Satya Gupta

About the Interviewee

Satya Gupta

Dr. D.V. Satya Gupta is Baker Hughes Technology Fellow. He was previously Business Development Director, Technology for Baker Hughes pressure pumping (BJ Services). He has more than 37 years of oil field chemical product development and applications experience. His main personal research interests are green chemical technologies and unconventional fracturing fluids.

He has co-authored chapters on "Fracturing Fluids" in the book Modern Fracturing, edited by Economides and Martin; the new SPE monograph on Hydraulic Fracturing; and the chapter on "Fracturing Fluids and Proppants" in the book Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water published by AWWA.

He is on the editorial board of SPE and also the Hydraulic Fracture Quarterly Technical Journal. He has presented talks on unconventional fracturing fluids all over the world. He is a member of SPE, NACE, ACS, AIChE and the Petroleum Society of Canada. He was SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2014-15 giving lecture on “How to Frac with Less or No Water” around the world.

He has published more than 50 papers and is an inventor on over 120 international and US patents. He is the recipient of Baker Hughes Life Time Achievement Award in 2013. He has a Doctor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

About the Interview

Satya Gupta: An interview conducted by Amy Esdorn for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, September 28, 2015.

Interview SPEOH000122 at the Society of Petroleum Engineers History Archive.

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Interview

INTERVIEWEE: Satya Gupta
INTERVIEWER: Amy Esdorn
DATE: September 28, 2015
PLACE: Houston, Texas