Engineering Engineer

JOSE ALBERTO NAVIA

E: *******@*****.*** // P: +1-512-***-**** // A: 14145 Noel Rd. Apt. 304 Dallas Texas, 75254, USA. EXPERIENCE

RESERVOIR AND OIL RESERVES ESTIMATION ENGINEER JULY 2012 – PRESENT. DALLAS, TX, USA DEGOLYER AND MACNAUGHTON

Privately Held; 150-400 employees; Oil & Gas consulting industry.

- Evaluating, managing and reporting reserves for petroleum properties worldwide by using volumetric estimations, material balance calculations and historical production analysis. Extensive use of: PHDwin software for Engineering and Economics; @Risk software for Monte Carlo risk and scenario simulations.

- Analyzing subsurface and surface field data to obtain reservoir and well performance parameters.

- Evaluating conventional and unconventional Oil and Gas reservoirs, analyzing possible use of secondary recovery procedures (EOR) like water flood and pressure maintenance recovery methods for all types of reservoirs including heavy oil producing wells.

- Participating in the reserve booking process, e.g. evaluation, documentation, presentation, reporting and providing technical justification to ensure assigned projects are completed on time and within budget, in different location within the USA and Worldwide. PETROLEUM ENGINEER APRIL 2003 – JUNE 2012 (9 YEARS). AUSTIN, TX, USA ROYALTY CLEARINGHOUSE LLC

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Oil & Energy industry

- Analyzing production trends, scheduling LOEs and reporting reserves with PHD-Win (Decline curve analysis and integrated economics).

- Evaluating reserves for unconventional reservoirs such as the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas and the Fayetteville Gas Shale in Arkansas.

- Estimating the value of potential reserves estimating the costs to access these reserves; acquiring the property by a mineral lease.

- Analyzing market conditions, type wells used by region and drilling pre-permits by using Drilling Info, Lasser and IHS.

- Supervising reports from peer engineers and evaluating reservoir (fluid) properties and well performances. TEACHING ASSISTANT - MINERAL RESOURCES ECONOMICS AND EVALUATION. 2002 – MARCH 2003 (+1 YEAR) AUSTIN, TX, USA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

-Assist the professor in managing a class of 60+ students and ensure each student gets personal attention.

-Plan lessons for the students and prepare teaching modules for the head teacher's assistance.

-Set question papers, determine subject for project work and perform other task related to examinations. Conduct examinations and supervise the behavior of students.

-Ensure no incidences of malpractices occur.

-Communicate with students to understand their problems and difficulties. Support the students in dealing with their issues. EDUCATION

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

Post Graduate Diploma, Petroleum Reservoir Engineering 2011 – 2012

Grade: 4/5

Post graduate program comprising:

Reservoir fluid properties, production engineering, unconventional reservoir management and petroleum economics and project evaluation. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Masters, Energy and Mineral Resources

2001 – 2003

UNIVERSIDAD PRIVADA BOLIVIANA

BSc. Industrial and Production Engineering

1996 – 2001

LANGUAGES & SOFTWARE

Fluent English & Spanish // Microsoft Office software applications, OFM, PHDwin, Aries, Mbal, VBA for Applications, Lasser, Drilling Info, IHS. SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Economics / Cash Flow Analysis / Petroleum Engineering / Oil & Gas / Reservoir Engineering / Reservoir Simulation / Reserves Forecasting. Public Linkedin profile

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jose-alberto-navia/12/bb5/933

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