reservoir engineer

Calgary, AB

PROFILE

A Senior Engineer with over 19 years’ diverse experience in both the private and public sectors, including academia.

Have a proactive and identifiable track record of developing, executing and implementing strategic asset programs

that focus on energy and environment. Strong ability to communicate within multidisciplinary and cross functional

teams, subject matter experts and stakeholders. Generate results that have achieved organizational objectives within

time and budgetary expectations.

Areas of expertise:

Reservoir Management and Optimization Asset Management Acquisitions and Divestitures

Technology Evaluation and Commercialization Partnerships and Collaboration Project

Management Business Development Strategic Planning Economic Evaluation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Drichels Energy Inc., Calgary, AB 2016 – Present

Advisor Consultant, Engineering

Leading a team of five (5) experts to provide engineering studies to identify production optimization opportunities. Lead

information gathering, analysis and reporting pertaining to business and quality assurance and improvement opportunities.

• Ensuring projects are executed using agreed standards and procedures.

• Asset management and Program Evaluation Management

• Policy and Strategy Development, energy sustainability Planning,

• Macroeconomic and Environmental Analysis of Energy Resources

• Strategy & New Product Development Processes Management and Business Model Development

• Provide complete pre-and post project implementation documentation.

• Reserves and resource assessment for A&D.

• Petroleum reservoir Engineering – EOR, forecasting, conventional and unconventional resources

HUSKY ENERGY, Calgary, AB 2014 – 2016

Lead Reservoir Surveillance Operations Development 2014 – 2016

Led a multidisciplinary team of eighteen (18) professionals to execute the start-up, development and operations of projects

in a fast-paced result orientated environment. Facilitated the optimization of business unit performance by enhancing

alignment of policy, process, collaboration, innovation and designing/implementing for future business needs.

• Led the reserves estimation and determination, booking and categorization project of the Sunrise Asset. In 3 years,

added over 120%% more reserves to the Asset, through new technology assessment and strategic planning.

• Managed the successful start-up and ramp up of the ~$3.7B Sunrise Energy project to 60,000bbls/d capacity.

• Successfully provided management of administrative processes, including work orders, programs and activity planning,

budget preparation, partnership processes, Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) regulatory requirements and

representation.

• Advise the senior management on business development, new technologies, future development and operational

strategies.

• Lead several acquisition and divestiture initiatives, asset evaluations, including resource and economic evaluations.

• Lead and completed simulation standardization and synergy within the sunrise reservoir team, with a keen eye for

eliminating gaps with the development process.

• Developed an integrated approach for several stakeholder and interfaces most critical factors into a simple decision-

making analysis in optimising different projects and ensured that capacity and capability are continually planned,

maximized, and effectively utilized.

• Provided input to technology plan development within reservoir engineering, maximizing recovery, optimizing well

spacing and well design, identifying key parameters effecting estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) based on broad

understanding of cross-asset needs and knowledge of industry capabilities.

• Provided strategic interface with the senior management to align with decision gates for development engineering

projects implementation and stakeholders.

• Provided mentorship and coaching to junior and intermediate Engineers, enhancing positive attitudes toward

professional and career development as well as gains in practitioner knowledge and skills.

• Initiated cross-training with other business units to improve workflow and streamline project completion.

STATOIL 2011 – 2014

Principal Reservoir Development Engineer 2012 – 2014

Demonstrated strong technical support, collaboration and team work to successfully deliver to both internal and external

stakeholders required strategic technology development projects and its implementation that enhanced oil production at

Leismer.

• Successfully provided business case developments for new opportunities and asset development to ensure adequate

assessment of opportunities, risks and return on investment.

• Led the reserves estimation and determination, booking and categorization project of the Leismer team. In 3 years,

added 25% bookable reserves to the Asset.

• Led several expansion business case development and economic evaluation for project evaluation and feasibility, that

set the company on the path of profitability.

• Developed best practice and experience transfer within the engineering team for Canada onshore unconventional and

conventional assets, including production forecasting and reserve methodology for Canada onshore assets, ensuring

consistency, quality, and compliance while achieving greater efficiency and reducing annual cost 35%.

• Assisted other project leaders in specific areas as needed such as facilitation, analysis, process mapping, brain-

storming, project management issues, etc.

STATOIL (continued) 2011 – 2014

Principal Reservoir Operations Surveillance Engineer 2011 – 2012

Demonstrated strong technical support, collaboration and team work to successfully deliver to both internal and external

stakeholders required strategic technology development projects and its implementation that enhanced oil production at

Leismer.

• Lead the reservoir operations and surveillance of the Leismer asset, and increased production by 52%.

• Provided reservoir and production technology expertise study teams undertaking field development studies,

development plan revisions, implementation of field-life extensions and optimal exploitation of hydrocarbons recovery.

• Optimized well completions & well spacing between wells, which resulted in increase production, & bookable reserves.

• Developed workflow processes for designing and validating well and production network models to facilitate reservoir

surveillance and production forecast activities

Coordinated, managed and implemented initiatives for real-time surveillance and optimization of 23 producer and

injection wells to consistently deliver an average production of 20,000 BOPD in a safe and cost-efficient manner

Managed the regional bottom water strategy, history Matching, Uncertainty & Sensitivity Analysis, steam chamber

size quantification, spread and steam distribution, long range reservoir planning, production profile development and

yearly business case development for the Leismer asset.

Led several technical efforts and new initiatives like Infill well planning and production limit study, dynamic simulation

of ICDs in SAGD operations using discretized wellbore models field development & Optimization simulation, hotspot

elimination along production wells, ESP optimization using well sub cool, production rates and liner slotting design,

evaluation of differences in multiphase meters and test separators and accuracy in measurement of both equipment.

that resulted in 12% growth in production over a fifteen (15) month period.

Developed best practice and experience transfer and within reservoir engineering for Canada onshore unconventional

assets, including production forecasting and reserve methodology for Canada onshore assets, ensuring consistency,

quality, and compliance while forming greater efficiency and reducing annual cost 20%.

Assisted other project leaders in specific areas as needed such as facilitation, analysis, process mapping, brain-

storming, project management issues, etc.

CENOVUS, (FORMERLY ENCANA), Calgary, AB 2009 – 2011

Senior Reservoir Production Engineer

Provided detailed reservoir and project management input for the operations and subsurface team to develop and

implement strategies and technologies for field development studies, development plan revisions, implementation of field-

life extensions and optimal exploitation of hydrocarbons.

• Successfully conducted the engineering analysis of depleted gas cap re-pressurization by air, on schedule and on

budget, for the successful initiation and start-up of the $2.0B phase C/D/E/F of Christina Lake.

• Integrated operations and development activities by developing and implementing a work plan, and testing philosophy

that optimizes operating strategy, reduces operating cost, and increase overall production by 15%.

• Managed field development planning of Phase 1C and 1D/E/F brown field development of Christina Lake –an integrated

in-situ oil sands project to increase the field production rate from 18,000b/d to 95,000 b/d (~$2.0b).

• Provided technical interface between asset teams on development, and operations and performed detailed analysis of

data, workflows, procedures, and offered potential solutions in order to execute initiatives.

• Managed operations decisions to continuously improve operations and field management practices.

• Performed technical analysis of different sand control completions and high temperature down hole components for

horizontal wells, tubing and liner sizing to accommodate increased production volumes.

ENCANA, Calgary, AB 2008 – 2009

Senior Reservoir Engineer

Provided detailed reservoir and project management input for the operations and subsurface team to develop and

implement strategies and technologies for field development studies, development plan revisions, implementation of field-

life extensions and optimal exploitation of hydrocarbons.

• Initiated and successfully design new well completion, with sub placement, Optimize well placement in Phase 1C future

wells, and evaluated volume and liquid returns temperature to be under plant specified requirement.

• Led the dynamic model calibration and analyzed production performance for prediction/forecasting of future asset

performance, and to guide in decision making and determine asset revenue in the future.

• Investigated the performance of bigger injector liners in Christina Lake and Foster Creek operations using optimized

port locations, and analysed wellbore hydraulics design with maximum pressure drop of 50kPa across the injector liner

for all assets, and SAGD Pool drainage and well placement optimization & technology deployment on new projects.

KADE Technologies, Calgary, AB 2007 – 2008

Consultant Reservoir Engineer,

Provided technical assessment and performance optimization of reservoirs using numerical simulators, and provided

detailed development engineering input for project economic evaluation and engineering projects.

• Performed reservoir calibration/history match and forecast, using ECLIPSE simulator on reservoir pools in the western

Canadian sedimentary basin.

• Conducted reservoir simulation to determine best development strategy for some west Canadian Pools in the Athabasca

Oil Sands.

• Performed thermal recovery optimization on several thermal projects (SAGD, CSS and Steam Drive) in Canada, USA

and Venezuela.

• Carried out history match and reservoir simulation study on the lab test results, and field pilot for the air injection

project (ENCAID).

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, Lubbock, TX 2005 – 2007

Assistant Professor,

Conducted research in fluid flow in porous media, phase behavior and enhanced recovery schemes, and instructed

undergraduate students in the classroom and laboratory settings.

• Facilitated and co-ordinated several undergraduate courses and acted as chair on several multidisciplinary research

projects of the USA Department of Energy (DOE)

• Estimated reserves, reserve assessment and economic evaluation using the decline curve analysis and reservoir material

balance for the ERKM Unit of the Slaughter field, and also determined reservoir characteristics from well test analysis

of production data.

• Provided reservoir engineering/Simulation consulting services to industry teams on depletion studies: primary,

waterflood, polymer, Surfactant-Polymer and Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Floods, heavy oil - cold flow & thermal,

SAGD/VAPEX in reservoirs with complex fluid distribution, CSS, Air Injection, miscible and immiscible gas displacement,

gas reservoirs, horizontal wells, natural fractures in vertical and horizontal wells and reservoirs with fault systems, and

reservoir adjustment of reservoir description and complex carbonate reefs, sandstone reservoirs.

• Developed an Integrated Geologic and Reservoir Simulation/flow unit model in the San Andres Formation of the ERKM

Unit in Slaughter Field consisting of 81 wells, Correlation and construction of 10 cross sections across the unit,

construction of core porosity-permeability transforms, calculation of reservoir parameters, history matching primary and

secondary production and estimated reserves.

• Performed project risk analysis for Oil and Gas Projects and Profit evaluation, due diligence on new processes.

• Estimated Reserves using Decline Curve, volumetric analysis and Material Balance Analysis for pools in some Northern

Alberta pools.

• Presented scientific results at international conferences, providing insightful understanding and advancement in

knowledge of flow systems in petroleum reservoirs.

PRIME ASSOCIATE, Lagos, Nigeria 2000 – 2002

Petroleum Engineer,

Performed fluid test analysis in laboratory settings. Conducted analysis of fluid behavior, in reservoir conditions.

• Carried out flow meter recording, monitoring/maintenance of LACT Unit.

• Screened underperforming wells for gas lift optimization – wells with higher WPF are reviewed for inefficiencies and

prioritized

• Conducted well lining / testing and gas measurement through Orifice Barton meter.

CHEVRON, Lagos, Nigeria 1998 – 1998

Intern Reservoir Engineer,

Performed data analysis and review of project reports.

• Recalibrated old well logs using software to identify hydrocarbon zones previously left out.

• Evaluated the well status and production profile of the swamp Area III fields of Abiteye, Igbokoda and Opuekeba.

EDUCATION

- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Petroleum Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

- Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

- Leadership in the workplace, Husky Energy - Artificial Lift Systems, Statoil

- Project Management in Statoil, Statoil - Unconventional rate transient analysis, Cenovus

- Understanding the mid and downstream business, EnCana

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

- MS office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote), MS Project, MS SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

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