Reservoir Engineer Project Management

Spencer Dussouy

**********@*****.*** 504-***-****

New Orleans, LA, USA https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencer-dussouy-8b81b978

SUMMARY

With over 10 years of experience, I am a highly skilled Petroleum Engineer looking to contribute my expertise and on-the-job training to an oil and gas operator or EPC working in domestic locations. Specializing in reservoir engineering and production engineering, I have a proven track record of delivering technical and operational results at a fast pace. I thrive both as a team player and as an individual contributor, and I am dedicated to making a valuable impact in the industry. My passion for safety, strong understanding of the technical and project management aspects that can exist within high level project execution, and commitment to helping others succeed make me an outstanding addition to any organization.

EXPERIENCE

BOEM

May 2014 – present

Reservoir Engineer New Orleans, LA

As a Staff Reservoir Engineer, I work within a multidisciplinary team consisting of geologists, geophysicists, and engineers. We develop full field studies of public and private oil and gas prospects within the Gulf of Mexico region. I am the lead reservoir engineer in 5 separate fields in deep water Gulf of Mexico with greater than 90 MMBOE of remaining reserves. The development of these fields included but is not limited to:

Using well log, seismic, core data, geo-mechanical data, and production data to develop reservoir models and deterministic ranges for rock property variables. Analyze core data to calculate permeability by using statistical methods. Evaluate high frequency, high resolution shut-in data through the use of Saphir (Pressure Transient Analysis software or PTA) to calculate permeability, reservoir limit, reservoir boundaries, rate dependent skin, changing wellbore storage, interference from other wells, gas material balance correction, well model changing in time, horizontal and vertical anisotropy.

Calculate reservoir in place numbers by using the Volumetric Method. By using analog data in hundreds of reservoirs in a regional area, or PVT (Pressure Volume Temperature) data that was provided from the wells that penetrated the reservoir, I calculate in-place numbers for gas and oil reservoirs. I also developed a recovery factor excel sheet that uses fluid properties to calculate the reservoirs potential recovery factor.

Decline Curve Analysis (DCA) is another method I use to utilize reservoirs production data to forecast an EUR (Estimated Ultimate Recovery) for hundreds of reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico Region. The software I used was OFM, and it had the capabilities to use decline curve analysis for as small as individual wells in a reservoir, to a full field model with many wells to forecast a field’s potential reserves.

Develop and implement a probabilistic tool that allowed our section to have ranges for our in-place numbers and recoverable reserves for every field in the Gulf of Mexico. By using statistical analysis to calculated rock and fluid properties, a range for each parameter can be determined to calculate a P10, P50, and P90. Which then gave us a P10-P90 for OOIP, GIP, and recoverable oil and gas.

Reservoir modeling and simulation was one of my main tasks given to me at BOEM. While working with BOEM I gained proficiency in software such as CMG, Eclipse, Petrel RE, Petroleum Experts: Reveal, and Merlin. I am the center point for ALL engineers in the development of our knowledge of these software. Using them to simulate open flow and full field modeling including water injection, gas injection and also carbon sequestration.

Integrate field development and company’s business plans into reserves updates using CIDs.

Preform economic evaluations on many fields in the Gulf of Mexico, including 5 fields with 90+ MMBOE remaining reserves. Proficient in ARIES, which gives us a comprehensive evaluation of company’s assets.

I also use SQL and Access to produce queries for our data sets that have millions of data points. I am also a PowerBI user. I have created projects that include a regional distribution for similar aged sands in nearby fields. That project included rock properties to be able to build the most accurate reservoir models we can with the data we have. I have also built an activity model for each unit in our section to breakdown what has been done for supervisory purposes.

Modeled and Simulated Worst Case Discharges of public and private prospects across 100+ reservoirs involving; (modeled and simulated over 100+ reservoirs):

Use internal seismic data, analog data, field studies, and other in-house database information to verify worst case discharge (WCD) data submitted by an operator.

Construction of Reservoir Models:

oFirst step is is building the company’s model using their numbers that are submitted in the Worst Case Discharges (WCD) submittal. Simulations on the model are run to produce a WCD number within a certain percentage of their number.

oNext step to use our own analog data to build our reservoir model to simulate a blow out, and get our own WCD number.

PVT/Core Data/PTA

oPVT and Core data are used in many analog wells to accurately build our models.

oPTA is used (when available) to determine a permeability for reservoirs

Nodal Analysis

oA wellbore schematic and directional survey is provided for each WCD. Each model has its own Nodal that is used to build tubing curves to simulate the frictional losses and gravitational effects inside of the wellbore.

Reservoir Simulation for Predicting Future Production

oUsing Company CIDs to predict future production by experimenting with well spacing and lateral length type curves adjustments. Also looking at parent/child well production impacts, and well completion optimization.

PROJECTS

1.Acting Supervisor

Was selected to be my units Acting Supervisor as my Supervisor retired. Managed a multi-disciplinary team to achieve company goals, reported directly to the regional Supervisor, and put in a plan to achieve all of our Units fiscal year goals

2.Reservoir Simulation Software Coordinator

I was chosen to test and select our new reservoir simulation software. Throughout this process I tested CMG, Eclipse, Petrel RE, Kappa: Rubis, and Merlin. I built multiple models in each and

3.Methane Project

The Atlantic Methane Reservoir was a project designed by our regional director to estimate a methane gas reservoir in the Atlantic area that may be fed by a Methane Hydrate. The goal of the project was to determine a (MCF/ac*ft) recovery factor for the reservoir. We took a probabilistic approach by having ranges for each parameter, and by making multiple merlin models. This was a months-long process that started with hand calculating in-place numbers (OOIP), to eventually building a reservoir model for almost every scenario.

For these models we experimented with well spacing, well completion optimization, and flowback optimization to predict the best possible scenario to optimize production.

4.Mentor Training Program

In 2017, I was selected as a team member to create a Mentor Training Program. Our team put together a training program for newly hired engineers to prepare them for engineering work in the Reserve section. I built a WCD problem that the newly hired engineers would have to resolve. They had to build a model in Merlin and Avalon. I trained a few newly hired engineers and they are currently still working for us.

We also created mentor training videos. On this team, we built training videos for WCDs (building a model in CMG), NCIS, TIMs and anything else an engineer may cover while working for us. These videos were recorded and posted to the website.

We then put on a week-long Mentor Training class. We trained new employees the software that we use daily including CMG, Petrel, ARIES, TIMs, NCIS, Merlin, Avalon, etc.

5.Recruitment Team

I traveled to colleges including Colorado School of Mines, Texas A&M, University of Texas, and Louisiana State University throughout the year to recruit them to come work for BOEM.

TRAINING

1.Subsurface Consultants & Associates: The DJT Geoscience Certification Program “Geoscience Boot Camp”

a.3 month geoscience training program

b.One of 3 Engineers to ever take the course

2.PetroSkills: Applied Reservoir Engineering 2 week course,

3.PowerBI training

4.CMG: reservoir Simulation Training

5.Eclipse simulation training

6.SCA: Geomechanics

7.SLB Resource and Reserves

8.Gemini Solutions: Reservoir Simulation training,

9.PetroSkills: Reservoir Fluid Properties

10.SCA: Reservoir Characteristics of Clastic Reservoirs

11.SCA: Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping

12.SCA: Sequence Stratigraphy Training

13.Well Log Correlation training,

14.PRMS: Received multiple rounds of training on the classification of reservoirs and fields within the GOM, as Undiscovered Resources, Known Resources, Contingent Resources (Unproved Reserves) and Proved Reserves

15.Pressure and Over-Pressure in the subsurface and Pressure data for Exploration Success.

16.Decline Curve Analysis, Petro Skills

17.Pressure Transient Analysis, Kappa Saphir, taught by SCA

18. Reservoir Simulation Training, Kappa Rubis

19.Petroleum System Analysis training

20.Access training with Eric Kazanis

21.HTML coding training

22.Python coding training

23.Micro-detail

24.Leadership Training: Conflict Management

PREVIOUS WORK HISTORY

MWD Engineer, Pathfinder: Schlumberger- Lafayette, Louisiana May 2014-Oct 2014

Directly working with the Directional Driller to guide the bit through the pay zone

Extensive Well Log training

Have been fully immersed in the drilling process

Job entails being on the rig the entire drilling process

Reservoir Engineering Intern, Nexen Inc, USA- Houston, Texas May 2013- Aug 2013

First used my knowledge of the IPM 7.5 software to update the Gunnison Field IPM model

oUpdated production history to get a History Match

Created a reservoir model for the Gunnison Field using KAPPA: Ecrin v4.20 software

oBuilt a 3-D model of the Gunnison Field Amp_3 reservoir

oWas able to get a good History Match

oPerformed many simulations to find the best possible location for a new well

Worked with the KAPPA: Saphir software to do a Pressure Transient Analysis for the Amp_3 reservoir

o Got a good match with the high-frequency pressure data

oApplied the PTA to the reservoir model to improve the model

Production Engineering Intern, Nexen Inc USA- Houston, Texas May 2012- Aug 2012

Developed an understanding of Petroleum Experts: IPM 7.5 software, using this software I built:

o A reservoir model of the Tobago Subsea Well

o A well bore model for the Tobago Subsea Well

o A production flow-line model for the Tobago Subsea Well

Built a Visual Basic program for the production flow-line model

With these models, I was able to find out why the Tobago Well was under performing

Production Engineering Intern, BSEE- Houma-district, Louisiana May 2011- Jan 2012

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