Engineering Engineer

NEIL BRYAN CLOSA

Address: Fountain Hall, * Fountain Street, Portsmouth, United Kingdom PO1 1BW

Contact No.: +44-737*-******

Email: *****.*********@*****.***

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-bryan-closa-0a3857b3/

CAREER PROFILE

Petroleum Engineer with MSc Petroleum & Gas Engineering (exp. October 2018), internship experience in the oil industry, experience on multiple commercial software, and knowledge of the oil and gas business, reservoir engineering and simulation, unconventional resources, economics & risk-analysis, and data science & machine learning.

SKILLS

• Contribute to multi-disciplinary teams

• Petroleum property analysis per ASTM procedures

• Well Test Analysis using Kappa Ecrin

• Reservoir modelling with Schlumberger Petrel, Eclipse, CMG, and tNavigator

• Well engineering design with IPM Prosper

• PVT characterization and simulation with IPM PVTP and Reveal

• Foundational knowledge of Python and its libraries (NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn)

• Proficient on data analysis with Microsoft Excel

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student University of Portsmouth

September 2017 – September 2018(Expected)

Final Project: “Gas Injection for Improved Recovery from Gas Condensate Reservoir” (Ongoing)

• Used specialized skills to conceptualize problematic situations involving multiple interacting factors

• Undertook studies on gas recycling and mitigation of condensate banking in gas reservoirs

• Characterized reservoir fluids and EOS tuning with IPM PVTP

• Modelled black oil and compositional reservoirs with comparative studies on Reveal, Eclipse, and CMG.

• Investigated near wellbore gridding effects on gas condensate reservoirs.

Petroleum Engineering Technician Islin Ventures LLC

August 2016 –December 2016

• Data entry for the Colville River Unit using public data sources.

• Prepared technical reports about correlations between completions, production data, and other tasks.

Main Laboratory Analyst Trainee Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation

November 2015 – March 2016

• Specialized internship under the Shell Science & Technology Education Program (STEP) Scholarship.

• Worked in morning and afternoon shifts performing low-risk and medium-risk tests for daily routine and tank white oils, black oils, utilities, and gas samples as per standard ASTM procedure.

• Routinely measured petroleum properties including: Density, pH, Sulphur, Viscosity, MCR, Water by Distillation, BS & W, Colour, Mercaptan, Cu/Ag Strip, Particulates, Conductivity, Distillation, Flashpoint, Schilling Density, Existent Gum, Chloride, Ammonia, Phenols, and H2S.

• Created weekly reports of other activities inside the Main Laboratory to immediate supervisor; and

• Conducted method reviews for oil and water tests.

EDUCATION

MSc Petroleum & Gas Engineering University of Portsmouth

September 2017 – September 2018 (Expected)

Domain Knowledge on Petroleum Fundamentals and Exploration, Reservoir Characterization, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation, Well Engineering, Unconventional Resources, Energy Economics Management and Risk Analysis; culminated by a final Dissertation.

Certificates in Data Science Lynda.com (from LinkedIn)

August 2017 – Ongoing

Sponsored by the University of Portsmouth, independently pursued certified courses on data science and machine learning through the professional learning platform Lynda.

BS Petroleum Engineering Batangas State University

June 2011 – October 2016

Final Project: "Design and Development of Laboratory Apparatus for Measuring Resistivity of Water-Based Drilling Materials".

Held multiple positions in student organization and competed in contests all throughout undergraduate study.

Reservoir Geomechanics Stanford University Online

March 2015 – June 2015

Assessed and certified course, considered key practical issues such as prediction of pore pressure, estimation of hydrocarbon column heights and fault seal potential, determination of optimally stable well trajectories, casing set points and mud weights, changes in reservoir performance during depletion, and production-induced faulting and subsidence.

ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP

Society of Petroleum Engineers Batangas State University Student Chapter

• SC Secretary, 2015–2016

• SC Business Manager, 2014–2015

• SC Public Relations Officer, 2013–2014

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Asia-Pacific Level

• 1st Place, Petro Quiz 2014, 4th Asia-Pacific SPE Student Chapter Conference, Palawan

• 3rd Place in Petrobowl, Pelantar 2015, Selangor, Malaysia

• Finalist, IOGS 2014, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

• Quarter-Finalist in Petrobowl, APOGCE 2015, Indonesia

• Elite Eight, Asia-Pacific Regional Qualifiers, SPE Petrobowl, OTC Asia, Malaysia

National Level

• 2nd Place National Physics Quiz, Philippine Science Consortium, 2015

• Eagle Scout Awardee of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines

University Level

• Certificate of Excellence

• STEP Scholar, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Company

• 1st Place in Physics Category, Math and Science Quiz Bowl, 2015

• Dean’s Lister

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Volunteer Every Nation Campus Batangas

2014 – 2017

Mentored high school (from Batangas National High School) and university (from Batangas State University) students on a weekly basis on leadership, integrity, and excellence.

Volunteered as pianist/keyboardist for music team.

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