Mr. Pillai is currently a Senior Research Analyst in S&P Global's Cost and Technology team. He is a lead analyst for the Upstream Operating Costs Service covering the wells market segment. He is responsible for the well services and materials market; researching and analyzing price movements which are influenced by productions costs and market activity worldwide. He also supports in cost estimation of specific upstream oil and gas service markets and generating quarterly price updates and long-term forecasts analysis. He has also published special papers on how technology will impact future development costs associated with unconventional well construction.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Mr. Pilai worked for oil and gas services company Schlumberger in Australia and West Texas, where he performed high value engineering consultancy within the well completions and production services. He has expert technical and operational knowledge in hydraulic fracturing in unconventional and conventional formations. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Western Australia graduating with Honors in the Chemical and Process discipline.