Project Manager Engineer
Resume:
VLADIMIR D. YURCHENKO
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PETROLEUM ENGINEER with over 25 years of comprehensive and diversified
hands-on international experience in oil, natural gas and condensate
production and reservoir engineering. Special expertise includes reservoir
stimulation, production optimization, field and seismological data
interpretation, reservoir evaluation, international project management,
IOR/EOR technologies' study, research and development. Fluently tri-
lingual.
EXPERIENCE
2004 - Present Westem, L.L.C. Houston, TX
Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor. Led the plural EOR/IOR
conventional/unconventional projects, employing traditional (acidizing,
fracturing, CSS, various flooding programs, carbon dioxide injection) and
non-traditional (seismological, hydrophysics) methods as well. Optimized
production wells' mode by use of Fourier analysis and Monte Carlo
simulation. Performed fluid, SCAL, PVT and pressure transient analysis.
Evaluated probable well production rate during natural and/or stimulated-
flow production phases. Estimated oil reserves in proven and prospective
fields according to the SPE and SEC standards (volumetric, materials
balance, production decline curve methods) and carried out economic values
with ARIES. Conducted well testing data interpretation and decline curve
analysis for production forecast. Committed extensive well controls and
supports, and efficient field operations planning by Black-oil and
Compositional Simulations' means and Equation of State modeling for Novo-
Purpeysk and East-Yangtinsk oil fields operated by Russian Rosneft Company.
Participated in negotiations with Egyptian NAPESCO and GUPCO Companies
pertaining to implementation of EOR specific programs.
1999 - 2004 U. S. Oil and Gas Technologies, Inc. New York, NY
Project Manager. Managed group of multidisciplinary and
multicultural engineers on project with the Kazakh ANACO Company for
producing formation stimulation of Kyrykmyltyk oil field. Supervised oil
recovery enhancement project with Russian-Belorussian Slavneft Company,
which included studying of behavior and characteristics of Agansk and South-
Agansk reservoir systems in order to determine the course of oil recovery
operations and particular seismological services implementation.
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1998 - 1999 INTERCON Oil Field Supply, Inc. Westbury, NY
Senior Reservoir Engineer. Participated in improving oil production
project for Nigerian PanOcean Oil Production Company operating in Niger
Delta. Assessed current reservoir energy context. Developed production
forecasting models for Agbada reservoirs and produced the development plan.
1997 - 1998 WorldWide Chemicals. Great Neck, NY
Senior Production Engineer. Engineered technique preventing water
encroachment into the pay zone and liquid accumulation in gas condensate
wells. Gathered information on operating means and devices for multi-
flow rate optimization. Developed method and apparatus for withdrawal of
liquid phase from wellbores (U. S. Patent 6059040).
1995 - 1997 PetroEnergy International, L.L.C. New York, NY
Senior Reservoir Engineer. Evaluated hydrocarbon system phase
characteristic of the Giddings oil and gas field (Austin Chalk formation)
for Swift Company. Participated in downhole device design to enhance well
production. Customized devices to the particular producing well in
accordance with existing flow parameters and GOR. Created hydrocarbon
production increasing method that doubled oil production from the low-
producing well.
1992 - 1993 GASPROM, Research and Development Unit. Moscow, Russia.
Senior Research Engineer. Conducted researches to set up the minimum
flow rate to remove liquid phase from the bottomhole. Carried out
experiments to determine condensate losses under the gas drive conditions
for various gas condensate fields. Analyzed properties of fluid to predict
fluid behaviour and various physical effects, and investigated gas cycling
schemes. Worked on optimization of gas production via proper well
placement, production levels, and enhanced recovery techniques.
1989 - 1992 SOCAR Research and Development Division. Baku, Azerbaijan
Project Manager. Managed reservoir stimulation project employing
innovative achievements and instrumentation in EOR. Estimated prospect
cost and provided economic analysis based on the risk analysis methods.
Deduced formula to calculate period of time between two specific
consecutive technological operations from the same offshore platform.
Researched magnetic devices for multi-phase flow optimization and paraffin
control within tubing.
1987 - 1989 State Oil and Gas Production Company, Hydrocarbon Transport
and Storage System Development Unit. Baku, Azerbaijan.
Project Manager. Supervised several contracts with major production
companies. Created viscous-plastic system for pipeline cleanup and
increase pumping transmission efficiency. Managed project aimed at
prevention of hydrocarbon losses from storage tanks. Participated in State
Special Task Force assigned to incline well production and total recovery
from both Cenomanian and Valanginian deposits of Urengoy gas-condensate
field by the hydrophilization treatment method implementation that resulted
15% IRR increase.
1985 - 1987 State Oil and Gas Production Company, Hydrocarbon Recovery
Enhancement Unit. Baku, Azerbaijan.
Senior Reservoir Engineer. Conducted interpretations of onshore and
offshore oil practical data to forecast any possible alterations in
production ratio using Fourier analysis. Studied non-Newtonian (Bingham)
system behavior within various porous medium and pipeline. Participated in
secondary and tertiary (EOR) recovery projects. Implemented technology
based on the negative pressure effect in order to ?ncrease condensate
recovery from production stratums of Achak and Naip gas condensate fields
in Turkmenistan.
1982 - 1985 GASPROM, Research and Development Unit. Moscow, Russia.
Research Engineer. Analyzed technical and cost factors to plan
methods for maximum gas and condensate recovery from gas condensate fields.
Investigated feasibility of carbon dioxide and enriched gas injections for
the condensate recovery enhancement of the Orenburg gas-condensate
field. Studied phase transition of Yamal Peninsula gas fields' hydrocarbon
systems.
1981 - 1982 KASPMORNEFT (SOCAR), Research and Development Unit. Baku,
Azerbaijan. Reservoir Engineer. Studied well logs, analyzed cores and
cuttings from drilling wells. Interpreted data obtained by electrical and
radioactive well logging and other subsurface surveys. Evaluated probable
well production rate during natural or stimulated-flow production phases.
1979 - 1981 Neftyaniye Kamni Offshore Production Company.
Baku, Azerbaijan. Production Operator. Controlled pumping and
blending equipment to acidize or cement wells, and fracture permeable rock
formations. Provided directions to oil well service operator helper to
unload pipes, fittings, and chemicals. Performed pressure transient and
pressure build-up tests. Made preparations for measurements and workover
operations.
EDUCATION
1989 Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan. Ph. D. in
Petroleum Engineering.
1979 Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan. M. S. in
Petroleum Engineering.
SKIILS Eclipse, Computer Programming (C, Visual Basic), AutoCAD,
Microsoft Office, Various Computer Applications
LANGUAGES English (fluent), Russian (fluent), Azerbaijani/Turkish
(fluent), Ukrainian.
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