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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