Engineer Project

Waleed Fazelipour

Houston, TEXAS 713-***-**** ********@*****.***

Summary

Petroleum Reservoir Engineer with diverse reservoir characterization,

simulation and uncertainty assessment experience in the international upstream

oil & gas industry, in service, consulting and R&D company environments.

Has worked as an integrated team member with numerous technical staff

representing a variety of upstream oil and gas companies (international,

national, major and independent E&P companies) on a multitude of reservoir

management studies, covering some of the largest fields in the world.

Special skills in reservoir management, reservoir characterization and

simulation, development and depletion planning, integrated production modeling,

reserves assessment, prospect generation and evaluation, and economic analysis.

Holder of international/national awards for developing complex codes/programs

for sophisticated reservoir simulators specifically EOS compositional, one of

the most challenging types of all.

Is fully conversant with classical analytical techniques for reservoir

management and has broad experience in all aspects of it from appraisal to

abandonment, including field development optimization, reserves assessment and

asset valuation through modern reservoir simulation technology.

Creative and innovative. Effective communicator and problem-solver with a

proven track record of generating a variety of profit-making opportunities.

Excellent presentation and writing skills. Member of SPE and AAPG.

Has promoted cutting-edge reservoir technologies/services throughout Americas;

educated, worked with, and provided technical assistance to the technical staff

of numerous E&P companies working on various field projects.

Interests include advanced reservoir characterization/modeling, fluid

characterization, and reservoir simulation for management of various fields

(unconventional/conventional fields, shale resource plays, CBM, tight sand,

hydraulic fracturing, primary depletion, naturally fractured, EOR, water

flooding, CO2 flooding, etc.), well performance monitoring, well test analysis,

reservoir monitoring techniques (4D seismic), reserves estimation methodology,

quantification of uncertainty in reservoir characterization/simulation studies

(appraisal, history matching, prediction/ forecast, field development

optimization, Big Loop technology).

Employment Summary

2007 - Emerson/Roxar - Americas Reservoir Engineer Consultant

Present

2007 Object Reservoir Reservoir Simulation Engineer

2006 Royalty Clearinghouse Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Engineer

2003 - 2007 C.P.G.E. Reservoir Engineering Research Assistant

2001 N.I.O.C. Petroleum/Chemical Engineer

2000 Total Fina Elf Petroleum Engineer

Education

MSc in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA

BSc in Petroleum Production Engineering/Chemical Engineering, Petroleum

University of Technology

Technical Software Skills

Reservoir Simulators: ECLIPSE 100, ECLIPSE 300, ECLIPSE 500, ECLIPSE FrontSim,

CMG IMEX, CMG GEM, CMG STARS, GPAS, RESOLVE, Sensor, Tempest-MORE, UTCHEM,

UTCOMP, VIP-COMP, VIP-ENCORE, VIP-CORE, Nexus, EXODUS, MERLIN, 3DSL

Simulation Pre/Post-Processing: ECLIPSE Office, Tempest-View, CMG Builder, CMG

Results Graph, CMG Results 3D, S3Graf

Reservoir Characterization/Modeling: CMG Builder, Petra, Petrel, RESOLVE, RMS,

Surfer

Uncertainty Assessment/Management, History Matching: CMOST, COUGAR, EnABLE,

MEPO

Fluid Characterization/PVT Analysis: CMG WinProp, PVTsim, Tempest-PVTx, ECLIPSE

PVTi

Petroleum Engineering: GAP, PROSPER Well Test Analysis: PanSystem, Saphire

Economic Evaluation of Oil & Gas Reserves: ARIES, PEEP, PHDWin, Tempest-Venture

Programming Languages: C/C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Fortran, QBasic, GW

Basic, Pascal

Operating Systems: Mac, Linux, Unix, Windows Mathematical Packages: MATLAB,

Mathematica

Communications Network: TCP/IP, Ethernet, ftp, FileZilla Databases: Access,

FoxPro Web Design

3D Studio Max Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access Graphics/Publication:

Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat

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Detailed Experience

Emerson/Roxar - Americas Engineering Consulting, Technical Support, Technical

Presales, Training, R&D

Worked on a variety of unconventional/conventional fields in consulting mode.

Assisted/worked with/educated many technical staff representing numerous oil

and gas companies (list below) dealing with different oil & gas fields.

Phone/email/on-site technical project support on multiple reservoir technology

software to many companies (list below).

Promoted cutting-edge technology/services/products & provided engineering

expertise to many companies (list below).

Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Repsol-YPF, Petro-Canada, PDVSA, Pemex,

Petrobras, D&M, PetroTel, Blade Energy, Schlumberger, Ryder Scott, Norwest,

iReservoir, Nitec, Hess, Anadarko, Devon, Nexen, Marathon, Pioneer,

Continental, EnCana, Kinder Morgan, IPR, Tullow Oil, Oxy, Chaparral, IRT, Delta

Petroleum, TR Operating, HighMount, Nations Petroleum, Barrick Energy, BHP,

Chesapeake, Cimarex, Zargon Oil, Petrominerals, Denbury, Apache, SWN Energy, SM

Energy.

TRANSFORM Unconventional Project: Development of a Modern Methodology to

Utilize Microseismic Fracture Mapping Data to Simulate Wells with Hydraulic

Fracturing, Drilled in Unconventional Shale Resource Plays.

MEYER & ASSOCIATES Unconventional Project: Development of a Modern Methodology

to Model and Simulate Multistage Multicluster Hydraulic Fracturing in Wells

Drilled in Unconventional Shale Resource Plays.

SHELL Projects: Uncertainty Assessment of Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico Reservoirs

Haynesville Shale CO2 Flood.

SM ENERGY Unconventional Projects: Development of a Modern Workflow to Simulate

Eagle Ford Shale Reservoir Characterization/Simulation, History Matching and

Forecast of Woodford Shale Horizontal Wells with Hydraulic Fracturing

Reservoir Characterization/Simulation of Eagle Ford Shale, Stimulated

Horizontal Wells with Microseismic Fracture Mapping Data, Producing Gas

Condensate Reservoir Simulation of CBM.

OXY Projects: CO2 Flooding in the Permian Basin, Advanced Reservoir Simulation

and Fluid Characterization.

BLADE ENERGY Project: Conversion of an ECLIPSE Reservoir Simulation of a

Russian Field into Tempest.

DENBURY, TR OPERATING Projects: Reservoir Simulation of U.S. Fields Involving

Waterflooding.

BARRICK ENERGY Projects: Conversion of an ECLIPSE Reservoir Simulation of a

Canadian Field into Tempest Involving Advanced Production Processes.

CHAPARRAL Project: Conversion of ECLIPSE Reservoir Simulations of a U.S. Field

Involving CO2/Water Flooding.

DEVON Projects: Simulation, History Matching & Uncertainty Assessment of a Gulf

of Mexico Field Conversion of an ECLIPSE Reservoir Simulation of a Brazilian

Field Involving Water Flooding.

HIGHMOUNT Unconventional Projects: Reservoir Simulation of Tight Sand, Shale

and CBM Fields in the U.S.

PIONEER Project: History Matching and Uncertainty Assessment of a U.S. Field.

iRESERVOIR Project: Reservoir Simulation of Multiple Fields Involving

Sophisticated Techniques- Dual Porosity/Permeability, CO2 Flooding, EOS

Compositional Cases, Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, Water Flooding.

ENCANA, DELTA PETROLEUM Unconventional Projects: Reservoir Simulation of

Haynesville Shale U.S. Fields.

CONOCOPHILLIPS Project: History Matching & Uncertainty Assessment of a Field in

the Middle East.

PETRO-CANADA Project: Reservoir Simulation of a Canadian Field Involving SAGD.

Multiple Courses Taught to Many Companies (On-site/Off-site): Uncertainty

Assessment, History Matching and Field Development Optimization with EnABLE

Advanced Compositional Reservoir Simulation Reservoir Simulation with Tempest

(MORE) Reservoir Characterization and Simulation with RMS.

Object Reservoir Engineering Consulting,

R&D

Worked with multidisciplinary teams to build integrated reservoir models for a

wide variety of unconventional and conventional fields using a cutting-edge

technology called Dynamic Reservoir Characterization for numerous projects

owned by national and international clients such as PEMEX, REPSOL-YPF, EOG,

MURPHY, NEW FIELD.

Performed reservoir characterization, phase behavior, dynamic reservoir

simulation, history matching, and forecasted the production and EUR for a wide

variety of encountered physics.

Hydraulic/natural fracture modeling, horizontal/vertical well modeling, well

planning, completion optimization.

Performed well test analysis, primary depletion, EOR and water flooding

simulation studies.

Worked with development and services teams on validation of RESOLVE technology

for reservoir modeling/simulation against client-provided geology, production

histories, artificially generated test scenarios, and published SPE cases.

Studied various development scenarios for numerous oil and gas fields and

presented the results of the study to the management/clients, stating the

benefits and drawbacks of each scenario.

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Modeled hundreds of stimulated vertical and horizontal wells to estimate the

well performance. Simulated complex fields with complicated physics.

Royalty Clearinghouse Engineering Consulting

Evaluated oil and gas properties by analyzing historical production data and

determining decline rates. Performed Decline Curve Analysis with PHDWin to

predict the future well performance. Calculated remaining oil and gas reserves

and used NYMEX pricing to determine the value of numerous U.S. reserves.

Forecasted the production, EUR and performed economic analysis on numerous oil

and gas fields involving thousands of wells.

C.P.G.E. R&D, Engineering

Consulting

Performed numerous reservoir simulation studies sponsored by BP, CHEVRON,

CONOCOPHILLIPS, DEVON, HALLIBURTON, MARATHON, OXY, PEMEX, PETROTEL, SHELL,

TOTAL, etc.

Performed advanced black-oil/compositional reservoir simulations of asphaltene

precipitation to investigate its detrimental effects on oil production under

primary depletion, CO2 and water flooding processes.

Performed computer programming on a daily basis for years to model complex

phenomena via a reservoir simulator.

Developed and implemented a cutting-edge multiphase flash calculation procedure

into a state-of-the-art, groundbreaking computer code for compositional

reservoir simulation.

Studied the architecture of multiple sophisticated reservoir simulators and

developed advanced algorithms.

Used an advanced scheme of mathematical formulations to develop and implement a

sophisticated Jacobian Matrix containing hundreds of mathematical terms

representing the complicated physics of oil and gas reservoirs.

Developed and implemented cutting-edge mathematical solvers for

high-performance computing that solve the Jacobian Matrix and give results

quickly for giant oilfields with million cells by solving numerous rigorous

physical formulations.

Performed advanced phase behavior and fluid characterization studies to create

complex computer models of subsurface oil and gas fluids for several crudes

from different locations in North America.

Performed EOS compositional simulation studies on validation of newly developed

sophisticated modules/models.

N.I.O.C. - Abadan Refinery Engineering

Worked on various petroleum distillation units of one of the largest oil

refineries in the Middle East, that converts crude oil into a wide variety of

hydrocarbon streams. Studied the architecture of each distillation unit and

performed engineering mass balance studies to analyze the input/output of

hydrocarbons into the unit.

Worked on a catalytic cracking unit (FCCU), the only one available in the

Middle East. FCCU converts hydrocarbons with absolutely no value to a product

of high value, gasoline for cars/airplanes. Performed heat transfer and fluid

mechanics studies on multiple units and studied various types of corrosion that

take place in pipelines, towers, etc.

TOTAL FINA ELF - South Pars Gas Field Engineering

Worked on design, construction and coating of a long underwater pipeline used

in the Persian Gulf to transfer offshore gas from the largest gas field in the

world to a giant gas refinery.

Studied the geology, petroleum reservoir/production engineering aspects of

South Pars gas field. Worked on multiple databases. Performed numerous fluid

mechanics studies.

Accomplishments & Technical Publications

2008 INTERNATIONAL SPE PAPER CONTEST - First Place

2007 U.S. GULF COAST SPE PAPER CONTEST - First Place

2005 BP 'BASE MANAGEMENT FORUM' RESEARCH CONTEST - First Place

Author of numerous technical papers/reports in the areas of: Development &

Utilization of Compositional Reservoir Simulators, Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing,

Modern History Matching and Uncertainty Assessment Techniques.

Paper SPE 120203 "Development of a Fully Implicit, Parallel, EOS Compositional

Simulator to Model Asphaltene Precipitation in Petroleum Reservoirs."

Paper AAPG "Modern Reservoir Modeling and Simulation of Wells in Shale Resource

Plays."

Paper SPE 124825 "Development of an EOS Compositional, Coupled,

Wellbore-Reservoir Simulator to Model Asphaltene Deposition in Vertical Oil

Wells."

Paper SPE 139114 "Innovative Simulation Techniques to History Match Horizontal

Wells in Shale Gas Reservoirs."

Paper SPE 140201 "Modeling Multistage Multicluster Hydraulic Fractures in

Horizontal Wells Drilled in Unconventional Reservoirs."

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