ELIO JOSE GONCALVES QUINTERO

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PETROLEUM ENGINEER

Petroleum Engineer professional with over 10 years of experience in the Oil & Gas Industry focused on Reservoir and Production Engineering in off-shore and on-shore fields, light and heavy oil reservoirs in South America and Europe. Proven expertise in artificial lift system design, optimization and troubleshooting (SR, PCP & ESP), sand control techniques, well reviews for optimization, production monitoring and surveillance activities’ analysis. Demonstrated proficiency in performing complex tasks involving OOIP and reserves estimation, production logging evaluation, waterflood projects surveillance/optimization, production forecasts and reservoir/field performance evaluation. Career track record of successful accomplishments.

Areas of Expertise

Production Engineering

Reservoir Engineering

Reserves Estimation

Artificial Lift System Selection

Reservoir Performance Evaluation

Reservoir Characterization

Nodal Analysis

Depletion Plan Design

Production Forecasting

Production/Injection Logging

Sand Control Techniques

Economical Analysis

WI and WO identification

Waterflood Optimization

Contract Administration

Professional Experience

OMV Oil&Gas, Vienna, Austria Aug-2014 to Feb-2016

Senior Production Engineer

Only Senior Production Engineer in OMV Austria in charge of evaluating, providing and applying new technologies; developing projects for ALS run life improvements in 650 Producers; and coaching Production Technologists

Oversee new technologies evaluation and field applicability focused on artificial lift systems, including sand handling plungers for SRP, plunger lift, hydraulic pump units and a continuous fluid level measurement device.

Manage the design and optimization for current ALS installed pumps, including Sucker Rod Pumps (SRP), Progressive cavity Pumps (PCP) and Electro submergible pumps (ESP).

Evaluate well integrity and propose upgrades and improvements. New wells maturation process participation.

Track and evaluate well failures to identify root cause and improvement opportunities.

CHEVRON, Maracaibo, Venezuela Sep-2013 to Jul-2014

Production Engineering Team Leader, boscan field

PE Team leader in North Area (6 Production Engineers); responsible for monitoring and increasing the production of 250 producers with a total production of 45MBOPD through different production engineering activities

Performed tasks involving artificial lift design, optimization and troubleshooting for various types of ALS.

Conducted well reviews for optimization, production monitoring through well test validation and surveillance activities analysis of fluid levels, dyna cards, fluid samples, sand cut and water cut evaluation.

Implemented QA/QC PE subsurface well programs for pumps changes and MRWO.

Identified LIWO and MRWO candidates for production incremental.

Tracked optimization jobs production incremental, pumps run life and metrics.

Performed annual well reviews with reservoir, geology and operation teams.

Collaborated with service companies to New Technologies identification to improve pumps run life.

Oversaw ALS contracts and services contracts for downhole and surface equipment.

CHEVRON, Maracaibo, Venezuela Oct-2008 to Sep-2013

Production Engineer, boscan field

Production Engineer responsible for the production of 125 wells (7 gathering stations) with an associated production of 35MBOPD; also served as the New Wells coordinator for Boscan Field (2010-2013 Campaign - 60 wells)

Artificial lift systems selection, design and optimization for Beam Pumps, Progressive cavity Pumps (PCP) & Electro submergible pumps (ESP) for new and existing wells.

Managed MRWO and LIWO candidate selection for Matrix stimulation, clean outs, water shut offs, add/re-perf.

Designed depletion plans, identified locations for new wells, analyzed offset wells performance to new well’s production prognosis and studied sand control techniques study.

Oversaw development areas by flow station and production monitoring through well test validation.

Performed ALS evaluation and monitoring through pump behavior parameters.

Production Engineer, boscan field (continued)

Managed various projects involving alternative PCP vendors, ESP design improvements, PCP improvement projects, well construction and PCP downhole sensors.

Served as a Boscan Field PCP and VFD purchase and service contracts administrator; open bid technical evaluation.

CHEVRON, Maracaibo, Venezuela Feb-2006 to Oct-2008

Reservoir Engineer, ll-652 field

LL-652 off-shore Reservoir Engineer responsible for entire field reserves estimation, as well as two waterflood projects optimization (32 injection wells and 70 producers); production associated 6,3 MBOPD

Conducted Corporative Reserves and Resources estimation, decline curve analysis and analog reservoirs comparison.

Performed Original Oil in place (OOIP) and recovery factor calculations for black oil and gas condensate reservoirs through volumetric methods and material balance.

Conducted waterflood project surveillance and optimization (Internal 5-spot patterns).

Provided production forecasts through nodal analysis/analog wells and economical analysis.

Identified mayor rig work over; conducted injection and production logging evaluations and wireline data validation; and carried out reservoir’s production potential estimation.

CHEVRON, Maracaibo, Venezuela Jul-2005 to Feb-2006

Petroleum engineer Thesis

Implemented a Waterflood project evaluation applied as secondary recovery process in the LL-652 field; this involved invasion radius, breakthrough time, displacement and volumetric sweep efficiencies calculation.

Petroleum engineer Internship

Performed Original volume in place (OOIP) and recovery factors calculation for gas condensate reservoirs.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Petroleum Engineering, University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Training

2013 Reservoir Management Forum – Reserves Workshop (40 Hours), TX

El Trapial Field, Sucker Rod Pump – Peer Assist (40 Hours), Argentina

Production Logging (40 Hours), TX

Completion and Well Intervention (40 Hours), Drilling Training Alliance (DTA), Venezuela

Heavy Oil Forum (32 Hours), CA

Sand Control: Gravel Pack & Frac Pack. (40 Hours), Drilling Training Alliance (DTA), TX

Rod Pumping Optimization (40 Hours), Theta Oil Services, Venezuela

Artificial Lift Systems (40 Hours), TX

Formation Damage: Causes, prevention and remediation (40 Hours), TX

Advanced Waterflooding, performance & predictions (40 Hours), Venezuela

Reservoir Management Forum (RMF). Reserves Workshop (40 Hours), TX

Integrated Production modeling (IPM(40 Hours), Venezuela

Publications

2013 Res. Mgmt Forum: Poster “Lean Sigma Project: new wells proposals maturation process”. The Woodlands – Texas.

2012 Heavy Oil Forum: Poster “Limiting water production at Boscan Field: Applying tried and true methods to increase oil production in the face of a rapidly moving aquifer”. Bakersfield - California

1st SPE LA Oil Congress 2011: Oral Session “High Gas resistance PCP elastomer application in Boscan Field”. Venezuela

1st SPE LA Oil Congress 2011: Oral Session “High HP surface PCP equipment’s for high potential wells”. Venezuela

1st Joint Venture Companies Venezuela 2009: Oral Session “Wireline Perforation technology through Tubing” and “Waterflood Project (5-Spot patterns) Evaluation in LL-652 Field using PLT and ILT data”

2007 Sub-Surface Forum: Poster “Flow units identification and water breakthrough prognosis through production and pressure information in LL-652 field”

Technical Proficiency

Microsoft office, Eclipse, Oil Field Manager (OFM), Dynamic Surveillance System (DSS), Well Evaluation (WEM), System Analysis Program (PROSPER), Reservoir Engineering Toolkit (MBAL), Crystal Ball, Theta’s Software (RodStar).

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