Engineer Engineering

Luiz C Amado

**** ****** **** *****, ***** Land -TX -77479, Phone: 832-***-****, acsial@r.postjobfree.com

US permanent Resident

CAREER SUMMARY AND BIO

Amado has over 20 years of oil & gas industry experience working with Shell, Petrobras, Ecopetrol, Nexen Petroleum, Schlumberger and ENI Petroleum. He started his career as a Senior Reservoir Engineer with Schlumberger, where he was involved in conducting reservoir engineering and simulation studies of onshore gas and gas-condensate fields in Mexico.

During his 10-year career with Shell, as a Senior Reservoir Engineer, Amado worked on several projects in UK, Brazil and USA. In UK, he was involved in reservoir engineering and simulation studies, and operations, in the Southern North Sea gas and gas-condensate fields. He was responsible for development of an integrated Leman field system model to carry out reservoir engineering tasks in support of operations, field monitoring and optimization. As part of the Leman field IAM study, he was involved in the compressor upgrade project and debottlenecking study for the integrated surface network. He was also responsible for reservoir engineering studies of Bijupira and Salema fields in Brazil. As a Senior Reservoir Engineer for Shell in Houston, he worked on deepwater reservoir engineering projects in GOM (Llano field), and at exploration areas in Brazil (Santos, Campos and Espirito Santo basins) and other areas in South America and South Caribbean.

As a Senior Reservoir Engineer for Petrobras America, Amado worked on reservoir engineering projects to evaluate prospect opportunities in Pliocene, Miocene and Lower Tertiary plays of GOM, and reservoir engineering studies for Hadrian project and Cottonwood Gas-Condensate field, both in deepwater GOM. He also worked as a Lead Reservoir Engineer for Ecopetrol America, providing reservoir-engineering support to evaluate opportunities in Pliocene, Miocene and Lower Tertiary plays of GOM and K2 field in GOM. He also worked as an Appraisal Reservoir Engineer for Nexen Petroleum, providing reservoir-engineering support to evaluate opportunities in GOM.

Amado is an expert user of commonly used petroleum engineering and reservoir simulation software tools, such as CMG’s IMAX, GEM and Winprop, Schlumberger’s Eclipse and Petrel RE, IPM software suite (GAP, PROSPER, MBAL, PVTP, RESOLVE, REVEAL), PVTSIM and VIP/ Nexus, and several economic evaluation software tools (ARIES, PEEP/ MERAK, Crystal Ball, @Risk).

Amado holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Federal Fluminense University, Brazil; a M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Campinas State University, Brazil; and a Ph.D. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Leoben, Austria. He is a long-standing member of the SPE, and has served on several SPE technical committees and conference boards. He is a co-instructor of a popular SPE course on ‘Optimizing Gas Fields using Integrated Asset Modeling (IAM) and Screening of Offshore Prospects. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Senior Reservoir Engineer for Deep Water Reservoirs (From Exploration, Appraisal, Development and Production).

Listed below the main reservoir engineering tasks and activities achieved:

Initial Field Development Plans

Reserves Calculations (SPE and SEC criteria)

Production Profiles

Rock and Fluid Properties

Analogue Searching and Study

Estimated Ultimate Recoveries per well and by field

Bid Rounds, Farm ins and Farm Outs

RE Work to Exploratory and Appraisal Wells

Development Planning and Economics, Volumes to Value

Deep Water Reservoir Engineering work for Field Development in the

Southern North Sea-UK, Brazil, Nigeria, South Caribbean, Colombia.

Uncertainty Analysis

Reservoir model construction and History Match

Field operations and monitoring

Well testing

Reservoir Characterization and Reservoir Simulation Studies for Onshore Gas in Mexico

Computer Programming: Fortran, C, C++

Extensive Knowledge of Reservoir Simulation packages: CMG, Eclipse (Petrel RE), IPM, Prosper, MBal, Resolve, PVTSIM Win prop and VIP/Nexus.

Well testing Software: Saphir (Kappa), Pansystem and Interpret.

Uncertainty Analysis: Enable and MEPO

Economical package: Aries, PEEP/MERAK, Cristal Ball, @Risk

Decline Curves Analysis: OFM

Nodal Analysis: Prosper

EDUCATION

PhD in Petroleum Engineering, University of Leoben, Austria, Dept of Reservoir

Engineering (8/1992-12/1995) - CNPq scholarship from Brazil and FOF scholarship from Austria Government, Research Assistant of Prof Zoltan Heinemann.

Thesis on 3D K-orthogonal grids and its application to complex reservoir architectures and horizontal wells.

Master in Petroleum Engineering, UNICAMP- Campinas State University, Brazil

(8/1988-2/1990) - Petrobras S.A. Scholarship.

Thesis on Triangular grids and its application in Reservoir simulation. Ranked in the fourth position among 1000 candidates who have registered for the Entry Exam.

Introduction course taken on basic/specialized training on Petroleum and Gas Engineering. Internship at Petrobras as Field Engineer at the Northern Offshore Basin, following up drilling and production off/onshore operations

Bachelor in Civil Engineering, UFF, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil,

(8/1980-12/1985), Major in Structural Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Reservoir Engineer (ENI Petroleum US, 2012-2015)

Senior Reservoir Engineer for the Deepwater, Shelf fields (operated and non-operated) for ENI in the Gulf of Mexico. Senior RE for supporting Alaska and unconventional assets operated by Quick silver - a joint venture with ENI.

2013 and 2015 ENI US Reserves certification. Support to reserves calculations and certification process done by the certification company Ryder Scott and D&M.

Construction of Petrel RE/Eclipse model for deepwater reservoirs and production forecast and reserves for Longhorn and K-2 fields.

Working on the following tasks: History Matching, Decline Curve Analysis (for Reserves Calculation), Well Testing Analysis, new wells and new opportunities, Water injection (pilot and full field waterflood).

Riser base gas lift optimization for the K-2 field.

Condensate injection as a flow assurance technique on Longhorn field for reduction of high water cut on flow lines.

Monitoring Production, Daily Operations and Reservoir Surveillance for the Shelf fields and Deepwater Fields (K-2 and Longhorn).

Regular visits to Corral platform (offshore GOM) to follow well clean ups and start ups of new wells. Flow after flow and build-ups. Estimation of permeability and skin.

Recompletion of wells and Production Optimization of Shelf fields such as Ship Shoal, West Cameron, Eugene Island, East Breaks, and many others situated on the shelf section of GOM.

Reservoir Engineer support to exploration and appraisal teams on farm in/out/bid opportunities in the GOM.

Appraisal Reservoir Engineer (Nexen Petroleum USA) (2011-2012)

Senior Appraisal Reservoir Engineer for the Appomatox Project, working on the following activities:

Sector modeling (1 Million cells) to model/reproduce deepwater Aeolian sands and its heterogeneities and to proper upscaling the main facies types: grain flow, wind ripples and interdunes.

Petrel/Eclipse model for this deepwater reservoirs and predict production forecast and reserves.

MDT mobility /permeability analysis using Kappa Saphir.

Senior Reservoir Engineer (Ecopetrol America USA) (2011) in Houston TX

Senior Reservoir Engineer for the Non-operated fields of Ecopetrol America in the Gulf of Mexico.

Senior Reservoir Engineer - Petrobras America Inc (Oct 2008-2011)

o In Houston Texas

Senior Reservoir Engineer in the Producing Fields Dept of Petrobras America in Houston

Providing RE work to evaluate prospect opportunities in the Pliocene, Miocene and Lower Tertiary Plays of Golf of Mexico.

Subsurface Coordinator for the Cottonwood Gas Condensate Field operated by Petobras America in the Gulf of Mexico/

Reservoir Engineer Coordinator for The Hadrian Project in Partnership with ExonMobil.

Modeling of Passive Tracers in the Hadrian South Field to track the flow among the lease blocks and define the best possivel unitization approach for the field.

Senior Reservoir Engineer - Shell International Exploration and Production (1998 - Oct 2008)

o Assignment in the USA, Houston Texas

Reservoir Engineer Focal Point for the Exploration Brazil Team in Houston- Providing RE work to Exploration Areas in Santos, Campos and Espirito Santo Basins. Well Proposals, Farm In - Farm Out. ANP Bid Rounds (7, 8 and 9 rounds).

Carry on V2V (Volume to Value) work for Shell in GOM assets, South Caribbean and South America as well as peer assisted reviews

Carry on Reservoir Engineering work for appraisal and lead evaluation plus prospect modeling to support Shell global exploration effort

Provide Reservoir Engineering Support for Prospect Evaluation for several bid rounds in Venezuela and South Caribbean.

Responsible for reservoir engineering studies for the IFO short term Bonga main reservoirs in Nigeria.

Responsible for modeling of the 670-BCD reservoir in the Bonga SW block in Nigeria.

Construct and maintain appropriate subsurface and surface models for reservoir management, project evaluation and other commercial purposes.

Assist on peer reviews when requested.

Reserves calculation / booking and sensitivity analysis for risk assessment.

Gas lift optimization modeling

Field Development Plan reviews

Llano Field (GOM) system optimization to defer production

Assignment in Brazil - Bijupira Salema Field

Responsible for reservoir engineering studies for Bijupira and Salema Fields in Brazil, as a member of Shell Brazil Subsurface team.

Assignment in the UK - Southern North Sea Gas Fields, Shell Gas Supply Group – Lowestoft, Suffolk, England

Responsible for reservoir engineering studies and operations in the Leman and Brigantine fields, as a member of the Leman and Brigantine Development Teams and the Leman wider Asset Team.

Contribute to the development of an integrated Leman System model, of which the Brigantine field would be tie-in.

Carry out all Leman and Brigantine reservoir engineering tasks in support of operations, field monitoring and optimization. - Heavily involved in the VAR 3 (assurance review) for the Brigantine Project.

Responsible for reserves, SFR evaluation and maturation in the Leman and Brigantine fields.

Provide reservoir engineering support to New Business Development (NBD) during the exploration phase of the Cleaver Bank High area prospects.

Carry out development planning of newly discovered fields as they are handed over from the

New Business Development (NBD) directorate.

Liaise with the commercial group in London on issues concerning transportation and gas sales agreements for Leman and Brigantine.

Leman Compressor Upgrade Project : Generate Rate x Cum profiles for the Rewheeling/New HP machine option.

Debottle Neck Study for the Leman Integrated Surface Network

Study of Back outs effects on the Leman Surface Network due to the production of New Fields into an existing pipeline.

Ullage/Capacity calculation in the Leman Surface network to evaluate new evacuation routes for new developments

Evacuation Route Study for NBD project : Cleaver Bank High. Selection of the Best Evacuation Route via existing assets.

Provide annual input to the EBP - Expro Business Plan - CAPEX/OPEX activities

Provide input to the Asset Reference Plan

Provide Input to Field Development Plan

Provide annual Input to ARPR (annual review production reserves)

Mature Field Redevelopment Project using new technology (CT/UDB/smart wells)

Contract Renegotiation with British Gas to change swing assumptions/Substitution multipiers

Carry out study to quantify excess Gas and Contract Type Change

Quantifying Liquid Load Wells and Condensate Gas Ratio for new development

Off-Spec Gas, Fuel Gas Consumption modeling

Well Proposals/Economics for the infill development wells on the Leman Asset

Involved on the De-sander equipment project economics for the sand producers wells

Involved on the Eductor Project for the Low/High Pressure wells on Leman Delta and Foxtrot Plataform

Senior Reservoir Engineer/Technology Transfer Coordinator - GRT - Geoquest Reservoir Technologies - Schlumberger (Denver-CO-USA) and Mexico - (1997-1998)

Perform Consulting work including 4 Reservoir Characterization Studies and 2 Reservoir Field Simulation studies for gas fields of Santa Rosalia, Cuervito, Primavera and Culebra.

Integrated Studies for Gas Reservoirs Onshore in North of Mexico.

Execute Business Interface between the Consultants and PEMEX on the Gas Fields Projects mentioned above.

Liaise with PEMEX Technical/Management Staff on all aspects of the Burgos Project facilitating the workflow/understanding of technical issues.

Experienced Reservoir Simulation Engineer using Eclipse and other major simulation packages.

LANGUAGES

Portuguese - Native Language

Spanish - Reading, Conversation and Writing: Good

Observation: 1 - Lived in Mexico for 2 years

English - Reading, Conversation and Writing: Fluent

German - Reading, Conversation and Writing: Intermediate

RESEARCH/ACADEMIA/TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Reservoir Engineer (Contract with FUNCAMP-Campinas) - Petrobras - Cenpes, Brazil (1991-1992)

Research activities at the reservoir division (DIGER) at Cenpes (Petrobras' Research Centre) including the modeling of a coupling simulation wellbore and reservoir to study steam injection.

UENF/LENEP (1996-1997), Macae, Brazil as Associate Professor for the Res Eng Department. Teaching and advising undergraduate and graduate students on Reservoir Engineering Topics and Thesis.

CSIRO - Australia (1995-1996),

Division of Petroleum Resources

Technical Consultant for the Genesis 2000 project.

Responsible for develop software for design and optimization of well trajectory through fractured reservoirs. The interface built with Math Lab, interfaced with IMEX, a reservoir simulator from CMG.

Instructor for SPE training courses (2014-2015): Optimizing Gas Fields using Integrated Asset Modeling (IAM) and introduction to Optimizing Shale Gas and Tight Oil Fields.

Instructor for SPE training course (2014-2015): Practical Techniques for Screening Deepwater Offshore Oil & Gas Exploration Prospects (2-Day Course)

SPE ACTIVITIES/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Member since 1989.

Chairperson and member of several Technical Committees and Conference Boards (described at the end of this resumee).

AWARD RECEIVED in 2005: Outstanding SPE Technical Editor for 2005 for his contributions on the SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation Journal as a Technical Reviewer.

Member of RESERVOIR ENGINEERING BOARD for the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Annual Meeting Committee for 2004 and 2005, 2006 and 2007 and 2008

Committee Member for the SPE- LACPEC 2009 (Latin America and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, to be held June 1-4 2009 in Cartagena Colombia.

AWARD RECEIVED in 2009: Outstanding SPE Technical Editor for 2009 for his contributions on the SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation Journal as a Technical Reviewer.

Other Awards

AWARD RECEIVED in 2008:

Recipient of an O-Visa - Alien with Extraordinary Ability in Science, by INS-USA..

Only given to aliens who have achieve a high status in his field of knowledge. (See definition at the USA Immigration home page).

Citations: In the Dec-2007 European region newsletter:

Seabed Logging – A Proven Tool for Offshore Exploration and Development by

D Ridyard.

The author recommends reading of Harvey, L.H., Skogly, O. P., Burke, T., and Amado, L.: ”Integrated prospect evaluation using electromagnetic, seismic, petrophysical basin and reservoir engineering

List of recent technical publications (2006-2013)

1- Integrated Prospect Evaluation Using Electromagnetic, Seismic, Petrophysical, Basin Modeling, and Reservoir Engineering Data, AAPG Houston 2006

2- Evaluation of Reservoir Modeling Techniques to Assess the Impact of Stratigraphic Architecture on Production Performance, APPG Houston 2006

3- Enabling Technology, An overview of Offshore Innovations to Unlock Difficult Plays - Talk given at 2009 EP Global Summit, Barcelona Spain, January 2009.

4- Enabling Technology in Deep Water Reservoirs - Poster session presented at Rio Offshore Conference in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Sept - 2008, IBP - Brazilian Petroleum Institute.

5- Enabling Technology, An Overview of Offshore Innovations in the Oil Industry, SPE Paper 120919 presented at LACPEC 2009 in Cartagena, Colombia, June 2009.

6- Author of the book: Reservoir Exploration and Appraisal by Elsevier Publishing Company. This book was released on May 2013 and has sold over 2000 copies.

7- EP Global Summit in Barcelona Spain - Paper Presented : Pushing the Limits for Deepwater Offshore Exploration and Production in the GOM

8- Panelist in the Discussion Panel about IOR in the INTSOK-Workshop 2010

9 – Honorary Delegate and Speaker @ the NGO (Next Generation of Oil and Gas) Summit in Cancun, Mexico. Aug 2011. Event sponsored by GDS International New York, USA

10- Honors: Luiz’s Biography was nominated to be featured in the Who is Who in America and Who is Who in the World 2011 edition.

More authored papers or citations (according to SPE Onepetro Search)

1994

A Finite Volume Approach With Triangular Grids in Reservoir Simulation

2010

An Efficient Algebraic Multigrid Solver Strategy for Adaptive Implicit Methods in Oil-Reservoir Simulation

2009

Enabling Technology: An Overview of Offshore Innovations in the Oil Industry

1997

A Semi-Analytical Model for the Simulation of Horizontal and Slanted Wells

2008

First use of Swell Technology in Campos Basin Proves Water Conformance Solution - Case History in Campos Basin-Brazil

2010

Simplified Modeling of Turbidite Channel Reservoirs

2007

Developing a Holistic Global Approach to Asset Management

2005

Nitrogen Injection in the Cantarell Complex: Results After Four Years of Operation

2008

Well-Included Flowbased Grid Generation for Heterogeneous Reservoirs

2004

Stability Maps for Continuous Gas-Lift Wells: A New Approach to Solving an Old Problem

2006

POROSITY PARTITION IN AKAL FIELD: From thin section petrography to the simulation grid.

1994

Interactive Generation of Irregular Simulation Grids and Its Practical Applications

2006

Simulation While Drilling: Utopia or Reality?

2009

An Iterative Algorithm for Generating Constrained Voronoi Grids

2008

Simplified Modeling of Turbidite Channel Reservoirs

2007

Electromagnetic Prospect Scanning-Seabed Logging Moves From Risk Reduction to Value Creation

1997

The Generation and Application of K-Orthogonal Grid Systems

1998

Modeling Heavily Faulted Reservoirs

2004

Scaling Parameters for Characterizing Gravity Drainage in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

SPE Technical Committees and Conference Boards

RESERVOIR ENGINEERING

Member

06-SEP-2006

09-NOV-2007

4D SEISMIC

Member

22-FEB-2006

01-SEP-2006

07 ATCE RESERVOIR ENGINEERING

Member

07-SEP-2006

09-NOV-2007

2008 ATCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Member

05-SEP-2007

01-SEP-2008

08 ATCE RESERVOIR ENGINEERING SUBCOMMITTEE

Chairperson

10-SEP-2007

01-SEP-2008

EDITORIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE SPEREE (FE)

Technical Editor

15-APR-2008

01-OCT-2012

2009 SPE LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN PETROLEUM ENGI

Member

29-AUG-2008

15-JUN-2009

JOINT WORKSHOP ON COMPLEX OFFSHORE RESERVOIRS

Member

29-APR-2008

29-OCT-2008

2009 ATCE RESERVOIR ENGINEERING SUBCOMMITTEE

Member

20-SEP-2008

20-SEP-2009

2010 ATCE FORMATION EVALUATION COMMITTEE

Member

01-DEC-2009

10-OCT-2010

2011 ATCE FORMATION EVALUATION COMMITTEE

Member

05-NOV-2010

11-NOV-2011

2012 ATCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chairperson

09-AUG-2011

30-NOV-2012

2012 ATCE FORMATION EVALUATION

Chairperson

09-AUG-2011

30-NOV-2012

2012 AND 2013 CHAIRPERSON FOR THE DEEPWATER CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM

IN NEW ORLEANS LA

2014 OTC – RESERVOIR EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT CHAIRPERSON

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