Petroleum Engineer

ANDY LOPEZ

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Petroleum Engineer with 27 years of experience as a production engineer, reservoir engineer and sales representative.

Provide SEC reserves, full field development plans, annual capital budget and project economics

Forecast CAPEX, OPEX, well schedule and oil and gas production

Analyze oil and gas production surveillance to predict and improve production

Design hydraulic fractures, acid jobs and completions and associated well work programs

Experience with TETRAD, SSI Therms-S (reservoir simulation programs), Oil Field Manager, Dynamic Surveillance System (production analysis programs), Aries, PEEP (economics programs) Excel, Word, Power Point, and Lowis

EXPERIENCE

Consulting Feb 15 – Current

Run economic evaluations for development and acquisitions

Business Development Representative, Enova, Bakersfield, CA Oct 12 – Feb 15

Get new accounts and make stimulation recommendations

Provide consulting services

Senior Staff Reservoir Engineer, Berry Petroleum, North Midway Sunset, CA, March 11 – Sept 12

Recommended Pan Potter steam increase from 3,000 to 7,000 BSPD resulted in an incremental 450 BOPD increase

Recommended Fairfield Potter steam increase from 1,000 to 4,500 BSPD resulted in an incremental 250 BOPD and still increasing.

Recommended completion changes to 21Z Tulare and Pan Potter expected result is less than 20 days down time per well per year and increased production by 28% beyond old completion practices

Senior Production Engineer, Seneca Resources, North Midway Sunset, CA, July 08 – March 11

Recommended operating policy change resulted in an increase of ~750 BOPD (17%)

Made steam forecast resulted in an increase of steam from 12,500 BSPD to 20,500 BSPD

Recommended AFEs totaling 5.925 MMBO reserves and 1,200 BOPD

Technical Sales Manager, BJ Services Company, Bakersfield, CA, Nov. 06 – July 08

Maintain and get new accounts

Received new account worth $12MM/yr.

Region Engineer, BJ Services Company, Bakersfield, CA, Jan. 05 – Oct. 06

Design fractures, acid jobs, cement jobs and make Proposals

Senior Production Engineer, Macpherson Oil Company, Round Mountain Unit, CA, Jan. 04 – Aug. 04

Recommended development of the Pyramid Hills formation potential 15 MMBO reserves

Supervise/Monitor drilling program and installation of facilities

Senior Reservoir Engineer, Plains Exploration and Production, Mt Poso and Arroyo Grande, CA, Jun. 00 – Dec. 03

Recommended 196 wells and 43 Recompletions at Mount Poso Resulted in drilling 196 wells and 18 Recompletions for ~5,540 MBO

Hydraulically fractured 96 wells

Recommended to shut-in the Fireflood at Mount Poso, since the wells failure rate exceeded the incremental oil value that resulted in an immediate increase oil response

Recommended 41 producers and 15 steam injectors at Arroyo Grande that resulted in ~4,800 MBO

Recommended steam injection to decrease effective decline rate from 29% to 15%

Recommended slimhole steam injectors at Arroyo Grande that saved $45M/well

Recommended triple string injector at Arroyo Grande to increase steam flux that resulted in three times as much steam injection per well and decrease steam response time

Made three acquisition evaluations and assisted in various other acquisition evaluations

Provided economics, reserve estimates, surveillance, field analysis, depletion plans, and capital budget plans

Sr. Production/Sr. Reservoir Engineer, Texaco/SFER, Kern River, South Belridge, CNU, Shafter, Jan 96 – Jun. 00

Designed and recompleted 18 steamflood patterns which resulted in 753 MBO

Recommended and implemented steamflood profile improvement for 1,221 MBO

Recommended changes in steam targets that saved $845M in steam

Developed a plan for the water interdiction project

Provided a Vogel spreadsheet and Latent heat discussion to peers for steamflood injection rates

Developed well locations and economics for Shafter light oil

Recommended to stop dewatering of CNU gas cap. Made a pressure-content plot, P/Z Vs Q, and recognized the gas was trapped in the water

Recommended and initiated a Lower Tulare 1.25 acre pilot steamflood pattern for a probable 1.2MMBO increase in reserves

Added potentially 300 well locations to an existing waterflood at the King Ellis lease

Increased the number of yearly development wells from 12 to 29 at the King Ellis waterflood

Successful top bidder in the Arroyo Grande acquisition evaluation

Reservoir Engineer, Mobil, Sublett Co., WY, Feb. 95 - Dec. 1995

Analyzed, evaluated and optimized reservoir/zone/section/well gas field performance

Economic analysis and reserves evaluation showing diminishing returns and uneconomic decisions

Well normalization study of gas wells

Reservoir Engineer, Mobil, North Midway, CA, May 92 - Feb. 95

Developed and produced heavy oil reserves, manage capital and expenses for steamflood development, redrill, and surveillance

Forecast production/injection rates, capital, and expenses for business planning, and report the same for Ad Valorem taxes, Federal EOR tax credits, and reserve surveys

Analyzed, evaluated and optimized reservoir/zone/pattern/well steamflood performance

Recommended 11 well recompletions and increase reserves 1MMBO @ $1/BO

Stopped steam injection of an uneconomic lease (Bolivar)

Optimized steam injection of the Alberta/Shale leases and saved 4,000 BSPD

Provided Shale lease simulation studies showing oil slumping in water zone

Production Engineer, Mobil, Lost Hills, CA, Dec. 87 - May 92

Designed and optimized producer & injector completions, artificial lift, and basic well stimulations and workovers

Increased steam injectivity 4,000 BSPD and oil production 420 BOPD at Lost Hills

Implemented 3 Heavy oil steamfloods

Designed and developed Mobil’s first slimhole injectors and TOW’s

Well, pattern and field performance evaluations, with Production Analyst

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration, University of Phoenix, Bakersfield, CA, March 2000

Bachelor Science of Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 1987

TRAINING

OFM Fundamentals, Jul. 2012

CMG Stars simulation, May 2011

Six Sigma Black Belt, Nov. 2010, Six Sigma Online

Waterflooding: Performance, Predictions and Surveillance, Oct. 2010, William M. Cobb

Fundamentals of Supervision, Oct. 2003, Bakersfield College

Mangement and Reservoir Engineering of Watefloods, Nov. 2002, I. Ershaghi

Economic Evaluation, ~Feb. 2000, Franklin J. Stermole

Subsurface Heat Mangement, Nov. 1999, Suzanne Griston Castrup

Investment Science for Industry, Sept. 1999, Standford Univ., David G. Luenberger

Fundamentals of Steamflooding, Mar. 1999, P. J. Closmann

Exploration Economics, Risk Analysis and Prospect Evaluation, Jun. 1998, Jim Mackay

Steamflood Reservoir Management, Feb. 1997, K. C. Hong

Practical Aspects of Waterflooding, July 1996, Roy Engineer

Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation, Sep. 1994, Dr.J.J.Smolen

Advanced Oilfield Management Using PA, Jan. 1994, OGCI

Reservoir Simulation, Nov. 1993, OGCI, Dr. L. C. Young

Thermal Recovery for Geologists, Feb. 1993, Thomas C. Boberg

Gas Reservoir Engineering, Oct. 1991, H. C. “Slip” Slider

Hydraulic Fracturing, Jul. 1991, OGCI, C. R. Fast

Thermal Recovery Engineering, Mar. 1989, S. M. Farouq Ali

***References Available Upon Request***

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