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Energy Resume Energy CV Experienced Bilingual Spanish Reservoir Engineer MBA Open to International Opportunities

Energy Resume Energy CV of Candidate 10401. Twelve 12 year Reservoir Engineer versed in Production Engineering as well. Primary focus on economic evaluation for major projects in deep water, onshore, conventional and unconventional areas. Complete understanding of all aspects of Reservoir Engineering. Willing to consider opportunity globally.

EXPEREINCE:

Major Worldwide E&P, Calgary, Canada

Feb 2006-Current

Reservoir Engineering –Deep Basin Unconventional Gas

June 2009 – current

  • Project Manager for unconventional resources. Responsible for the capital execution of the development and exploration capital budget.
  • Responsible for the development plan and economic evaluation of holdings for major field.
  • Managed all exploration and development projects in Alberta and British Columbia.
  • Responsible for mineral land continuation packages and land expiries.

Reservoir Engineering –Shallow Gas

July 2007 – June 2009

  • Responsible for all shallow gas activities within the SE Alberta, for several formations.
  • Project manager for Shallow Gas drilling program, consisting of 98 wells at 28 M$ gross
  • Responsible for budget management, technical and economic analysis of all shallow gas initiatives (operated and non-operated).

Production Engineering

Feb 2006-July 2007

  • Performed decline curve analysis and pool studies to manage well recompletions.
  • Run IPR analysis to optimize well production. Evaluated and recommended artificial lift systems.
  • Booked reserves based on volumetrics, decline curve analysis and offsetting well trends.
  • Managed the inactive well project, making decision on reactivation, recompletion or abandonment of all wells.

Achievements: Completed the Shallow Gas program in record time and under budget.

Major Software Development Company, Calgary

2005-2006

Business Analysis – Mosaic application

  • Provided customer support (economic evaluation and reserves booking) for the Mosaic product, including database conversion, installation, initial setup and general support.
  • Run economic evaluations for clients (Shiningbank, Provident)
  • Provided input to the development team for testing and new functionality for Mosaic.

Achievements: Helped to establish a great product image by providing outstanding customer service.

Mid Sized E&P Argentina SA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2004-2005

Economic Evaluations

  • Performed deterministic and stochastic economic evaluations for existing assets (onshore and offshore) and for new ventures.
  • Optimized corporate-wide portfolio evaluation system and asset evaluation model using risk analysis techniques.
  • Trained and mentor junior staff in statistics, valuation, cash flow analysis and risk analysis.

Achievements: By optimizing the economic evaluations process, its frequency was reduced fromonce every two months to once every month. Mentored and trained employees who are now responsible for project evaluations.

Business Plans Development

  • Developed business plans for oil & gas upstream assets worth 300 MUS$ in a multidisciplinary team environment, working closely with geologists, reservoir engineers, facilities engineers and accountants.
  • Presented business plans to Board of Directors along with capital budget requirements for approval.

Achievements: Created business plans for exploratory and producing key producing assets and presented to the Board of Directors.

Major International Service Company, Buenos Aires , Argentina

2000-2003

Business Analyst

  • Managed and upgraded a Linear Programming and Mixed Integer Programming model (86k equations and 215k variables) to optimize and analyze business cases and produce budget forecasts (monthly, yearly, and 5-year).
  • Created and managed econometric models (time series analysis) to forecast natural gas consumption, using historical data and economic variables.

Achievements: Managed a complex simulation model, challenging historic business paradigms and provided innovative solutions and business practices. The Team won the 2003 Commercial award, competing with projects from  worldwide assets.

Major International E&P, Argentina

1998-2000

Production engineering – Artificial lift systems

  • Selected artificial lift systems for high temperature, high gas-oil ratio applications.
  • Analyzed IPR curves and reported performance on a monthly basis.
  • Managed 15 oil wells with average productivity of 2,800 bopd per well.
  • On multidisciplinary teams to increase oil production and lower lifting cost.
  • Co-responsible for production improvement program, including re-perforation, acid stimulation and bottom hole equipment optimization.

Achievements: Valued member of multidisciplinary team committed to improve extraction conditions.  Extended life-in-hole from 4 weeks to 4 months. Solved gas locking and corrosion pump failures.

Surface Facilities

  • Assisted Exploitation Manager in dealing with oil plants and compressor station operation. Duties included coordination of 6 – 8 maintenance crews, 3 construction contractors, and responsibility for hot operations inside plant premises.

Achievements: Proved a “dependable team worker, who faced a huge challenge in managing day-today plant operations when it was most needed” as quoted by former Exploitation Manager.

Education:

Mechanical Engineer, 1998

ITBA, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology

MBA, 2002

CEMA University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Energy Resume Energy CV Senior Reservoir Consulting Engineer Bilingual Spanish Houston Texas

Energy Resume Energy CV of Candidate 8688.  University of Texas Master Graduate with 4.0 GPA. Experienced, well rounded engineer: 14+ years experience working in the international and US domestic E&P sector as a reservoir, planning and risk engineer and asset manager. Unique, quantitative skill set: Has a solid understanding of classic reservoir engineering, integrated field development studies, production forecasting, simulation, risk and uncertainty assessment, reserve estimation and reporting, exploration and producing field development planning and valuation.  Involved in evaluating over $4 billion in energy transactions using both deterministic and probabilistic techniques.  Effective communicator in Spanish and English (oral and writing skills); real time, high-quality presentation skills.  Authorized to work in the US without restrictions.

EXPERIENCE

2009- Present

Engineering Consulting Firm, Houston, TX

Senior Reservoir Engineer

  • Prepare reserve estimates of oil and gas properties under SEC and SPE guidelines
  • Gas field pipeline network modeling to analyze bottlenecks, operational problems with existing and proposed systems. Production forecast and reserve determination using different system configurations.
  • International contract modeling.
  • Analysis of conventional and unconventional oil and gas fields.
  • Dewatering field analysis

2006 – 2009

Energy Consulting Group, Houston, TX

Director – Global Commodities Group

  • Evaluate potential conventional and unconventional oil and gas asset transactions (over ~$2 billion worth) in TX, OK, GOM, NM and the Rockies
  • Perform oil and gas field analysis, reserve forecasts and economic evaluations for both Upstream and Trading operations, resulting in over $400 million in closed transactions
  • Manage 650 Bcfe Hunton de-watering asset in OK which entails forecasting reserves, reviewing and approving expenditures and drilling plans, generating economic forecasts and reports, and managing relationships with key partners
  • Perform risk and financial evaluations for portfolio divestitures resulting in the sale of ~14 transactions worth ~$750MM
  • Perform fundamental gas analysis to support gas trading activities. Develop methodologies to analyze, build and evaluate production forecasts
  • Perform risk analysis of oil and gas properties to improve the understanding of downside potential and create strategies to reduce risks or capture upside
  • Analyzed gas storage transactions from subsurface to pipeline using IPM. Total assets value ~$1.5 billion
  • Created accounting database to improve ability to track and reconcile AFEs, volumes and revenues
  • Created probabilistic landfill gas forecasts based on EPA models and evaluated a NY biomass power generation project

1995 – 2006 Large South American Energy Company

Corporate Risk and Reserves Coordinator –E&P Planning & New Venture Department

2002-06 Corporate Risk and Reserve Coordinator * 1998-2002 Sr. Reservoir Engineer * 1995-1998 Jr. Reservoir Engineer

  • Performed mature oil field primary and secondary recovery surveillance, reserve analysis and production forecasts
  • Conducted economic and reservoir field studies of oil and gas, producing and exploration fields in South America, helping the company to achieve growth targets and to improve transaction profitability
  • Managed 2000 and 2001 Company reserves booking and reporting process (~2000 MMBOE 3P reserves booked). Acted as internal reserves auditor and was responsible for field report completeness and accuracy. Acted as company liaison with external consultants saving hundreds of internal HR hours per year
  • Provided technical engineering support for exploration teams. Responsible for integrating information, building development plans, performing economic analysis, analyzing uncertainties, evaluating and communicating conclusions to upper management which resulted in the acquisition of several projects in South America
  • Developed and implemented a probabilistic methodology to analyze exploration projects
  • Performed reservoir and risk analysis for numerous E&P conventional and unconventional properties across Latin America
  • Created and communicated internal guidelines for selection and analysis of oil and gas fields that improved the consistency of new transaction evaluation processes, efficiency of teams and reducing information costs
  • Wrote and published internal guidelines for reserve evaluation, classification and risking practices improving the consistency of the annual business plans and overall team efficiency
  • Wrote and implemented internal guidelines for annual field development plan reports that were implemented firm wide.
  • Evaluated, tested and implemented portfolio management tools that were appropriate for Petrobras’ environment
  • Designed and managed Intranet technical interest group devoted to risk and reserves that helped to improve understanding, communication and creating consensus across business units
  • Designed and implemented database to manage Company’s reserves, improving communication and facilitating reporting
  • Mentored engineers, geologists and techs in risk and reserve assessments, field, economic and portfolio evaluations

EDUCATION

2006 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN – Austin, Texas

Master in Arts – Energy and Mineral Resources. GPA 4.0/4.0

1995 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR – Bahia Blanca, Argentina

Civil Engineer with Hydraulic Orientation – GPA 8.5/10.0

MAIN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

  • Decision Modeling, Game theory, International Contracts, Decision Risk and Reliability, Large Scale Optimization, Managing People and Organizations. University of Texas at Austin 2006
  • Corporate Finance, Petroleum Macroeconomics, Petroleum Economic Analysis. University of Texas at Austin 2004
  • Project Management Director (PMI). Belgrano University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003.
  • Others: Real options, Water Flooding, Gas Reservoir Engineering, Advanced Oil and Gas Project Evaluation, Logging, Carbonate Geology, Reservoir Engineering.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Available Upon Request

PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES

Available Upon Request

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • Microsoft Office Advanced user: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Access
  • Programming: Visual Basic 6.0: Advanced, Matlab: Basic
  • Risk and Decision analysis: Crystal Ball, Opt quest, @Risk suite, Solver, GAMS
  • O&G Databases: Oil Field Management (OFM), Estimator, PIDwights, Powertools
  • Mapping: Petra (advanced user ), Arcview 9.3
  • Numerical Simulators: Merlin, Boast, Eclipse, Quicksim
  • Pressure testing: Pansystem
  • Economic software: PHDwin, Aries
  • Nodal analysis, Material Balance, Well Performance: Petroleum Experts IPM, Fast Piper.

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