RESUME

NAME: Rafael J. Salazar

LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and Portuguese

EXPERIENCE: 33 years in the Oil & Gas Industry

ADDRESS: ***** ******** ***** **.

Clermont, Florida, 34711

USA

e-mail: abg05q@r.postjobfree.com,

TELEPHONE:

- USA, FL.: Home +01-407-***-****

- USA, Mobile: +01-352-***-****

EDUCATION: - High School: Rochester Michigan, USA

- University: Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela.

Petroleum Engineer Degree, 1979

DESCRIPTION: Senior Petroleum Engineer with 33 years of experience in upstream oil and gas operation

and engineering. Available for consulting or permanent contract worldwide. I am able to work in the USA

without a sponsor.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS

1. Somoil, Sociedad Petrolifera Angolana (Oil and Gas Operation Company): 5 years (2008 - 2013)

2. Geoservices International (Oil & Gas Services Company): 2 years (2006 - 2007)

3. OGS (Otepi-Greystar, Oil & Gas Services Company): 3 years (2003-2005)

4. PDVSA (Venezuela National Oil Company): 22 years (1979-2002)

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE SUMMARY:

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, SOMOIL Sociedad Petrolifera, Angola, Africa.

From 2008 to 2013: General Superintendent, Somoil FS-FST Oil Production Field, located in Soyo Angola,

Africa. Managing daily POB of +200 employees, and +400 million dollar yearly budget for investment and

operation.

SURFACE FACILITY ENGINEERING – UPSTREAM

Working Experience: (14 years: 1993-2007).

From 2005 to 2007, Worked as Production Superintendent, with Geoservices International, Pandura-Oasis Gas

Production Field (north eastern Mexico).

From 2004 to 2005 Worked at Reynosa-Monterrey (north eastern Mexico) gas production field, Senior Engineer

support to Repsol-YPF Produccion & Exploracion de Mexico, to take over the O&M of this field.

From 2003 to 2004: Senior Engineer support to field staff of El Furrial High Pressure Gas Compression Station

(600 mmscf/day at 7500 psi), operated by Wilpro Energy Service in eastern Venezuela.

From 1993 to 2002: Surface Facilities Engineering Manager (PDVSA): Led 35 Process Engineers for designing,

monitoring and optimizing oil & gas production surface facilities and wells: including wells flow lines, pipelines,

production manifolds, gas oil separators, stabilization tanks, storage tanks and pumps; oil dehydration system

(dual polarity electrostatic dehydrators), fiscal metering; produced water treatment and disposal; including water

treatment and injection plant, for reservoir water flooding. Automation of all oil & gas surface facilities and wells.

Gas processing (treatment, compression and distribution). Production associated: 500 TBOPD -400 mmscfd.

GAS LIFT ENGINEERING

Working Experience: (3 years: 1990-1993). Supervisor of Gas Lift Engineering, supervised 35 Gas Lift

Engineers managing more than 2000 gas lift wells (400 TBOPD) in Lake Maracaibo.

COORDINATION OF OIL PRODUCTION, FACILITIES MAINTENANCE AND CRUDE OIL SHIPMENT

Working Experience: (3 years: 1987-1990). Supervisor of Oil Production Coordination (PDVSA, Lake

Maracaibo): worked together with production operations, maintenance, pipelines, storage facilities, oil marketing

and refining departments, in planning oil production targets and oil quality requirements for 800 TBOPD on a

monthly basis.

PRODUCTION ENGINEER / OIL DEHYDRATION / PRODUCED WATER TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL

Working Experience: (7 years: 1979-1986). In 1979 started working (PDVSA) as a Production Engineer for the

chemical treatment and dehydration of 110 TBOPD of heavy oil (12 API).

In 1984 Supervisor of Crude Oil Dehydration (PDVSA, Lake Maracaibo), for chemical treating and dehydration

800 TBOPD (14 to 32 ºAPI) and 350 MBPD of produced water. Led 13 Process Engineers and 35 Oil Laboratory

Technicians.

OIL & GAS OPERATIONAL RISK AND UNCERTAINTIES:

In the year 2000 attended the Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen, Scotland) and the Heriot-Watt University

(Edinburgh, Scotland) for three months of intensive training in Oil Production Asset Management.

Implemented this work philosophy, focus on Production Operational Reliability, using Risk Assessment and

Uncertainty Management Tools: LCC (life cycle cost); FMECA (failure mode effect & criticality analysis); FMEA

(failure mode effect analysis); RCA (root cause analysis); DTA (decision tree analysis); RC&B (risk cost &

benefits); DRA (decision analysis considering risk & uncertainties)

TRAINING SUMMARY

• Production Asset Management, Robert Gordon University & Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.

• The International Gas Business Management Program, IHRDC – Boston USA

• 62 Programa de Gerencia para Ingenieros, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA),

Caracas Venezuela

• Attended more than 40 other courses, seminars, and technical training (including 12 in USA and UK) in

Petroleum Engineering, Oil & Gas Operation, Safety, Finance and Management. Certifications are available

upon request.

Personal and professional references are also available upon request.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Methodology to Improve Sub-surface Reliability (Reservoir-Well)”. Co-author. Venezuela 2002

• “Furrial Oil & Gas Exploitation Unit, Description and Current Plan 2001-2007”. Co-author. Scotland 2000.

• “Automation Diagnoses Surface Facilities El Furrial Exploitation Unit”. Author. Venezuela 1999.

• “Automation of Petroleum Fiscal Metering, PDVSA Eastern Division”. Author. Venezuela 1999.

• “Lagoven Eastern Division Surface Facilities for Oil & Gas Production”. Author. Venezuela 1997.

• “Oil and Gas Production and Transfer, Surface Facilities Requirements. Lagoven Eastern Division”. Author.

Venezuela 1996.

• “Asphaltene Deposition, Experience in Deep Wells, Boqueron Field Venezuela”. Co-author. Brazil 1995.

• “SOLAG, Gas Lift Optimization System”. Co-author. Venezuela 1992.

• “API Gravity Optimization, Crude Oil Segregation Lagoven Western Division”. Author. Venezuela 1988.

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