ALVARO BOTERO

Email: acd6j7@r.postjobfree.com

Title: Senior Well Site Leader Location: Medellín, Colombia.

Citizenship: Colombian

Personal Skills

Team work: excellent team player with peers, field, contractors and other disciplines.

Innovative: open to challenge. Ability to focus on and improve areas that demand attention.

Committed to performance Improvement and safety.

Leadership: Leadership in multi-disciplined teams

Completely fluent in spanish and english.

Adaptability: Able to adjust readily into a foreign culture and multicultural working environment

Technical Competencies

Solid Drilling Engineering experience within a variety of projects including Colombia, Argentina and

UK.

Solid operational drilling experience from exposure to on site drilling operations harsh environments

including Colombia, Argentina.

Hard Rock Drilling: plan, execution, and post analysis of wells in remote locations- Argentina and

Colombia.

Work History

Equion Energia – Piedemonte Drilling & Completions Team. Casanare province, Colombia.

Senior Wellsite leader. November 2010 – Present

Responsible for the timely execution of deep gas condensate / oil wells in hard rock drilling

environment with logistics and complex community issues.

BP- Exploration Colombia .Piedemonte Drilling and Completions Team. Bogotá, Colombia

Senior Drilling Engineer. March, 2009- November 2010

Responsible for coaching a group of junior drilling engineers during planning, execution, and post

analysis activities of wells in complex and tectonically active drilling environments with logistics

concerns.

Pan American Energy . Acambuco Gas Business Unit . Salta province, Argentina

Well Site Drilling Engineer. March, 2006 – May 2009

Responsible for supporting well site leader to accomplish timely execution of deep dry gas wells in

hard rock drilling environment with complex logistic and community issues. Undertook well site leader

responsibilities during casing/liner running, cementing operations and BHA trips.

BP Exploration Colombia. Piedemonte Drilling & completions Team. Bogotá, Colombia

Drilling Engineer. May, 1999 – March 2006

Responsible for planning, execution, and post analysis of wells in harsh drilling (Hard rock drilling,

stuck pipe ) environment with logistics concerns.

BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd . Shared Petrotechnical Resource . Aberdeen, UK.

In house bit optimization engineer. February 1998 – May 1999

Responsible to monitor bit performance in the BP UKCS operations and generate recommendations for

operational teams related to bit selection, down hole vibration monitoring and drilling practices to

optimize bit and BHA performance

BP Exploration Colombia. Well Engineering Team. Bogotá, Colombia

Project Drilling Engineer. April 1995 – February 1998.

Part of team responsible to generate operational recommendations and establish best practices to

improve drilling operations efficiency and reduce NPT associated costs. Bit optimization, down hole

vibration management, stuck pipe, coring practices, well bore stability

Baker Hughes INTEQ . Bogota, Colombia

Mud logging data logger. November 1993- April 1995.

Responsible for on site real time drilling parameters monitoring.

Education:

BSc in Petroleum Engineering . Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1992

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