Richard Ramones Aular
** ***** ** ********** ******* in worldwide projects. Drilling and Workover Manager. Leadership international and multicultural teams. Well Design Specialist and Advisor, Planning and Design Engineer. Specialist in well simulations, through Landmark Drilling Platform. Experience Launching Drilling Contracts SKILLS
EDUCATION
B.Sc. Petroleum Engineer
Universidad del Zulia,
Maracaibo-Venezuela
1989-1995
WORK EXPERIENCE
ACHIEVEMENTS
LANGUAGES
English
Spanish
Leadership
Teamwork
Culturality & Diversity
REPSOL 2007-Present
Senior Performance Drilling Engineer 2019- Present
Follow out Real Time Drilling Operations of wells located worldwide
Review Plan of Actions and recommend operational best practices. Review wells Lessons Learned and share those with all project teams.
Follow out drilling KPIs and identify ILT (Invisible Lost Time) to improve well performance and ensure no over budget expenditure
Detect any critical event and support to the Project Team to solve them.
Recommend drilling parameters at each to improve wells performance Drilling and Workover Manager (Libya) 2018- 2019
Lead and motivate a team of 20 people
Follow up of workover operations.
Drilling campaign readiness. Actions plan to mitigate operational problems while operations. Opportunities to reduce the cost per foot
Launched tenders for drilling campaign.
Drilling Engineering Head/Deputy Drilling Manager (Algeria) 2014- 2018
Lead and motivate a team of 16 people
Planning, design and execution twenty (20) development wells and five
(5) workovers wells in Kahlouche, Reggane and AZSE fields.
Follow up of operations and well costs to mitigate over expenditure above budget. Well architectures redesigned achieving big impact in cost savings. Operations carried out with three rigs Drilling Engineering Head/Deputy Drilling Manager (Iraq) 2013- 2014
Planning, design and execution of two exploratory wells in Kurdistan. Operations carried out with two rigs.
Wells drilled with foam, aerated mud and MPD (Managed Pressure Drilling) to mitigate mud losses because of fractured formations. Follow up of operations and well costs to mitigate budget over expenditure. Senior Drilling Engineer (Madrid) 2007- 2013
Senior drilling engineer, participating as Leader or Member of multidisciplinary teams in Projects Technical Evaluations, applying FEL methodology, through Technical Reviews, Peer Reviews and Peer Assists.
Senior drilling engineer assigned to Guinea Equatorial and Spain
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Cost reduction of 30% in
Algeria project due to wells
design optimization and
execution
Time reduction of 48% in
Kurdistan project because of
excellent wells execution
Richard Ramones Aular
WORK EXPERIENCE
CBM
2004-2007
HTHP wells with H2S and C02, crossing abnormal pressure zones, salt domes and low pressure formations
Projects conducted for a multidisciplinary team, formed by Geophysicists, Geologists, Reservoir, Production and Drilling Engineers.
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Advisor, Senior Drilling Engineer (México) 2004- 2007
Planning and design of twenty (20) onshore exploratory and thirty (30) offshore development wells.
ANOTHER PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-Present
Drilling Engineer 2004
EIS (Energy Solution Group), Point Fortin-Trinidad and Tobago Drilling Engineer 2003- 2004
A&M (Asesoria & Adiestramiento), Maracaibo-Venezuela Planning & Design Drilling Engineer 1998-2003
PDVSA, Lagunillas-Venezuela
Field Engineer 1996-1998
Maraven, Lagunillas-Venezuela
COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES
CONTACT
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richard-ramones
11/17 Leader Coach. EVA
07/16 Well Control (40h) Malaga Drilling School SL
04/16 Desarrollo de Equipos de Alto Rendimiento. EVA
02/12 High Pressure High Temperature Drilling (24h). Sigma Engineering Corp (Spain)
11/11 Deepwater Drilling Operations (40h) Next (Spain)
04/10 Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (8h) Centro Jovellanos (Spain)
02/09 Drill String Design &Optimization (40h) Petroskills (Spain)
11/01 PREDICT. Advance Abnormal Pressure Detection (40h) CIED/ Maturin (Venezuela)
05/01 Coiled Tubing Best Practices (40h) Chevron-BP. Texas (USA)
05/01 Casing Design (40h) Chevron-BP. Texas (USA)
05/01 Underbalanced Drilling Operations (40h) Chevron-BP. Texas (USA)
04/01 Drill String Design &Failures (40h) Chevron-BP. Texas (USA)
04/01 Horizontal & Extended Reach Drilling (40h) Chevron-BP. Texas (USA)
12/00 Drilling Techniques and Equipment (40h) CIED. Maracaibo (Venezuela)
02/00 Well Planning (160h) CIED. San Tome (Venezuela)
12/99 Downhole completion &Workover Operations (40h) Rike Services. New Orleans (USA)
12/98 Reentries Techniques (40h). CIED. Tamare (Venezuela)
11/97 Well Control and Blowout Prevention (40h) CIED. Lagunillas (Venezuela)
08/96 Integral Program of Drilling Engineering (932h) CIED. Maracaibo (Venezuela)