Sr. Reservoir Engineer

Career Summary

Petroleum engineer with diverse skills, trainings and expertise acquired over the last 14 years across the O&G industry worldwide in all aspects of reservoir management and characterization, production optimization and operation, IOR/EOR (Asp and CO2) oil and gas recovery processes. Responsible for several major fields in Venezuela, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, USA, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi including asset evaluation, FDP and IAMS Venezuelan nationality with US green card holder from 2011. Residing in US from 2011.

Employment History

November 2016-Present Quantum Reservoir Impact, Houston, TX, USA

Senior Analyst, Reservoir Engineering

Key Duties:

Define and develop reservoir management dashboards and KPI’s for major fields in Kuwait Oil Company

Evaluate best practices and new technology to monitor field development plan and honor reservoir management best practices

Define a methodology to set appropriate operating constraints to guide prudent reservoir management for Kuwait fields.

Define KPI’s to evaluate the compliance of the surveillance plan. Also, evaluate the impact of surveillance plan implementation on oil and water production.

Build risk registers from subsurface to surface to identify main risks and uncertainty and define mitigation plan

Generate metrics and workflow to evaluate and validate current Field Development Plan for Kuwait and Colombian assets

Generate production forecast for 18 months and 5 years plan using DCA (Type curve) and Simulation modeling.

Generate CapEx and OpEx algorithms to better understand the key drivers for Capex and OpEx, minimize variance of economic profitability indicators during new asset evaluations and improve efficiency of cash allocation.

Develop CapEx and OpEx estimation tool to forecast cost based on field development plan.

Portfolio Optimization for the major fields in Kuwait using Merak PEEP and Capital Planner considering key economic indicators and upstream and downstream constraints.

Reservoir characterization/modeling and field development plan to maximize ultimate recovery.

January 2015-October 2016 Frontender Corporation, Houston, TX, USA

Senior Advisor, Reservoir Engineering

Key Duties:

Well performance evaluation as well as workover plan proposal for Barnett Shale and Eagle Ford (Unconventional Reservoir). (North of Texas).

Acquisition and divestiture for some sweet spot in Barnett and Eagle Ford where a completed due diligence were conducted

Steam cycling stimulation analysis and optimization for 10 heavy oil producer wells in Lagia Field, Egypt.

Well production forecast (DCA) and probabilistic economic model to determine the optimum oil and gas recovery factor.

Perform pressure transient analysis (PTA) and rate transient analysis (RTA) using Ecrin Suite for oil producer wells in Guatiquía field in Colombia.

Perform well modeling for vertical, slanted well and horizontal well.

Well model for ESP and gas Lift wells for production and artificial lift optimization.

Senior advisor in Santos GLNG-Australia, Brisbane project relating to Integrated Production Modeling using prosper and Gap in a CBM reservoir with 90 % water cut.

Generate reservoir engineering and management workflows and guidelines for major fields in ADNOC, Abu Dhabi.

Main instructor in reservoir engineering, production optimization, completion technology (ICV, ICD, SICD, AICD) and best practices for major NOC and services companies worldwide (USA, Venezuela, Mexico, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Colombia and Egypt).

July 2015-July 2016 Halliburton USA, Houston, TX, USA

Senior Advisor, Reservoir Engineering Consultant

Key Duties:

Conduct integrated reservoir characterization studies for Guatiquía field in Colombia using numerical modeling (unstructured grid), RTA and PTA.

Perform nodal Analysis for vertical and horizontal wells (NF and AL) for existing and new wells.

Rate Transient and Pressure Transient Analysis for reservoir characterization, transient flow conditions and recovery estimation near wellbore.

Senior advisor for Pacific Rubiales-Colombia, reservoir characterization, Waterflooding and production/AL optimization.

Well production optimization and well completion design for Halliburton-USA in order to identify short-term opportunities for reducing time consumed, maximize oil production and minimize water cut.

Develop reservoir management and production performance dashboards using Spotfire for Halliburton-USA.

November 2012-January 2015 Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Ahmadi, Kuwait

Team Coordinator/Senior Analyst, Reservoir Engineering

Key Duties:

Coordinator of reservoir management, production performance and surveillance project in North Kuwait.

Construct full field simulation modeling for black oil reservoir to generate new field development plan to maximize RF

Construct full field simulation modeling for tight carbonate naturally fracture reservoir under Waterflooding

Reservoir management execution project for major fields in North Kuwait.

Fluid and rock-fluid interaction characterization and modeling

Field development plan for carbonate and sandstone reservoirs including workover, new well placement, re-entries wells, artificial lift, stimulation, etc.

Reservoir/well performance evaluation in Burgan reservoir to improve reservoir management and generate risk register associated with production and reservoir.

New surveillance plan based on needs and requirement to reduce risk and uncertainties from subsurface level

Workflow and process for reservoir/well surveillance were generated using Spotfire tool identifying in short time obstacles affecting oil production target, actions were recommended to ensure the oil production target.

Support field development and exploration teams in production and reservoir engineering assessments including drilling and workover proposal, completion and artificial lift design and optimization.

Probabilistic reserves evaluations, economic analysis and decision making.

Waterflood management plan were evaluated in a carbonate naturally fractured reservoir new strategy was proposed/implemented to improve swept efficiency and maximize the ultimate recovery factor.

Team member of chemical EOR projects in North Kuwait where three EOR (ASP) pilot were proposed and executed in different areas of a carbonate reservoir flooded by water achieving a residual oil saturation reduction.

Pressure transient analysis (PTA) and ESP/production optimization in Mauddud and Lower Burgan.

Nodal analysis for workovers and new drilling to define the optimum completion design and estimate the IP based on the reservoir conditions.

Advice on technical problems and operating efficiency, train of under development engineers and technicians on the subject.

March 2007-November 2012 Petroleos of Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela

Senior Analyst, Reservoir/Production Engineering

Key Duties:

Reservoir characterization and full-field simulation models for tight gas condensate reservoir to generate field development plan for short and long term (5 and 20 Years plan).

Reservoir characterization and Full-field simulation models for gas condensate and black oil reservoirs with miscible CO2 injection (EOR).

PVT phase behavior for black oil and gas condensate reservoirs for better reservoir characterization reducing uncertainties in the field development plan.

Field development plan considering gas recycling project in a tight gas condensate reservoir for reservoir pressure maintenance to increase condensate production.

Generate reservoir simulation workflows and guidelines for gas reservoir in San Joaquin field Northwestern of Anaco.

Reservoir characterization using material balance and decline curve analysis for a gas condensate and black oil reservoir for Zapato-Mata R field to determinate the ultimate recovery factor and drive mechanics in the reservoir.

Fluid and rock-fluid interaction model for black and gas condensate reservoir.

Perform well model (IPR/VLP) for workover wells and new drilling to estimate IP and PI and select the optimum production methods (NF or ALS) for each well

Generate data acquisition plan for major reservoir in the Northwestern of Venezuela.

Pressure transient analysis (PTA) and RTA for tight gas reservoir.

Prepare, read and interpret well testing and production logging.

Deterministic and probabilistic reserves and economic models for gas and black oil reservoir.

Production operation activities related to reservoir, well, drilling, completion and surface bottlenecking.

November 2002-March 2007 Petróleos of Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), Anaco, Venezuela

Analyst, Reservoir & Production Operation

Key Duties:

Monitoring data quality, accuracy and ensure sufficient details of data input.

Reservoir characterization and production performance analysis to generate new field development plan supporting asset action business plan for the next 5 to 10 years.

New surveillance plan for giant oil field based on needs and requirements to improve reservoir characterization and performance.

Search for reservoir candidates for Miscible CO2 injection in order to improve the ultimate recovery factor and assess the technical and economic feasibility of its implementation

Reservoir characterization study for heavy oil reservoir with and Thermal EOR (Alternate Steam injection) project was generated and proposed enhancing oil production rate.

Core and fluid sample selection for routine/special core analysis and PVT phase behavior for better reservoir characterization reducing uncertainties in the field development plan.

Portfolio optimization in Anaco fields, efficient frontier was generate to define the most profitable project in this asset.

Perform single well nodal analysis for new drilling well and workover using different methodologies and software to estimate the initial production and determine the optimum completion design (NF or ALS) for each well.

Oil and Gas reserves estimations under SPE guidelines using different methodologies and tools reducing uncertainty supporting the Asset action business plan of the company.

Artificial Lift System monitoring and optimization in around 200 ESP and Gas Lift wells in Zapato-Mata R field, Venezuela

Economic analysis for single well & project (Multi-Wells), perform decision and risk analysis for most of the previous project.

Design, execute and interpret open and cased hole logging.

Evaluate and review current operational procedures and efficiency to generate some workflows to work more effectively and efficiently

Field experience related to: well completion and artificial lift design, workover execution, stimulation, open hole & cased hole logging (production and pressure logging, RFT, SBHP and FBHP, temperature and noise spectral logging, Injectivity test, etc.).

Education

2010-2011 Diploma (Master) Petroleum Engineering with emphasis in E&P in Oil and Gas Industry

French Petroleum Institute, Venezuela-France

1998-2003 Petroleum Engineering Degree

Universidad de Oriente, Núcleo Anzoátegui, Venezuela-Cum Lauden, score 8.2/10

Publications

Bader Al-Saad, SPE, Kuwait Oil Company; Paul A. Murray, SPE, Maurice Vanderhaeghen, SPE, and Demetrios Yannimaras, SPE, Quantum Reservoir Impact; and Rami Kansao Naime, SPE, Kuwait Oil Company, SPE-167375 “Development and Implementation of the AVAILS+ Collaborative Forecasting Tool for Production Assurance in the Kuwait Oil Company, North Kuwait (KOC NK)”.

Supriya Gupta, Rami Kansao, Luigi Saputelli, Alvaro Escorcia, Frontender Corporation, SPE-181502 “Transforming the World of Asset Management in Near Real-time Using an Intelligent Application to Optimize Daily Production Operations”.

Rami Kansao, Andres Yrigoyen, Zameel Haris, Luigi Saputelli, Frontender Corporation, SPE-182877 “Leveraging the use of Real-Time Downhole Pressure Data, Pressure and Rate Transient Analyses to Enhance Reservoir Characterization and Expedite History Matching with Numerical Simulation”.

Rami Kansao, Andres Yrigoyen, Zameel Haris, Luigi Saputelli, Frontender Corporation, SPE-185454-MS “Improved Numerical Modeling and Better Risk and Uncertainty Assessment Using Real-Time Downhole Pressure Data and Pressure and Rate Transient Analyses”.

Rami Kansao, Andres Yrigoyen, Zameel Haris, Luigi Saputelli, Frontender Corporation, SPE-185813-MS “Waterflood Performance Diagnosis and Optimization Using Data-driven Predictive Analytical Techniques from Capacitance Resistance Models (CRM)”.

Main Skills

Maintain effective working relationships with employees, supervisors and clients

Ability to complete multiple tasks through effective time management

Reservoir engineering, characterization and management.

Field development strategy and IOR (Water and gas flooding)/EOR (Thermal, Chemical and CO2 miscible) oil and gas recovery.

Well Experienced in black oil and gas reservoir.

Experienced in conventional and unconventional (CBM, Tight Gas, Carbonate Naturally Fractured, Heavy Oil) reservoirs.

Experienced in Production Operation and Field Activities

Experienced well and reservoir surveillance

Skilled in handling Reservoir Modeling Software: Petrel RE, Eclipse, VIP, Petex suite (Gap, MBAL, Prosper), Ecrin Kappa Suite (Saphir, Topaze and Rubis) PVTi, MFrac, SPAN, WellFlo, PipeSim, Netool, Pansystem, etc.

Computer and programs skills with intermediate and advanced domain using Matlab, OFM, Merak Peep, Capital Planner, Spotfire, tableau, Linux, Cluster, Excel, Word, Project, PowerPoint, etc.

Wide experience as technical instructor in the oil and gas industry worldwide.

Languages

English, Spanish, Arabic

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