Purushothkumar Santhana Mahalingam is a petroleum engineer with nine years of experience in hydraulic fracturing, acid fracturing, and well stimulation across the Permian and Delaware basins. He currently works as Region Engineer I at Cudd Energy Services, where he develops stimulation designs and technical proposals, leads bid response development, and acts as completion engineering focal point during job preparation and execution. He began his career as a Field Engineer I focused on hydraulic fracturing and later worked as Field Engineer II / Procurement Engineer, managing district inventory of proppants, acids, and stimulation chemicals, along with vendor negotiations and technical proposal writing.
A member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers since 2011, Mahalingam served as Completions and Operations Co-Lead for the SPE Permian Basin Section (2025–2026) and serves as a member of the SPE ATCE 2026 Completions Subcommittee. He served as Session Co-Chair and technical reviewer for URTeC 2025, was an Honorary Speaker at the SPE North American Student Symposium in 2025, and has judged the North America PetroBowl, SPE regional student paper contests, and the Giovanni Paccaloni Young Professional Service Award.
He earned a Master's in Natural Gas Engineering from Texas A&M University–Kingsville and a Bachelor's degree in Petrochemical Technology from Anna University, Tiruchirappalli, and completed a postgraduate program in Data Science and Business Analytics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is proficient in industry software including FRACPRO, Meyers, Aspen HYSYS, and PROMAX.
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