Nguyen Hai Minh

Contact

Cellphone: +971*********

E-mail : adntzr@r.postjobfree.com

Address

ExxonMobil Technology Center, 43rd floor, WTC, PO 303, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Profile

I am a broad-based technical professional with strong Petroleum Engineering background and extensive knowledge of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production. I have excellent theoretical, analytical and practical oil and gas industry as well as programming and computer skills. I have applied abundant types of artificial intelligence to evaluating complex life-cycle development schemes and pursuing ambitious exploration, appraisal, development and production strategies. I am highly accomplished of study workflows and the required integration of geoscience and engineering data to maximize economic asset value.

Key Skills

Proficient in a vast array of inter-personal and professional & software skills including:

Presentation

Reservoir management

Field development plan

Intersect, Eclipse & Petrel

Communication

Dynamic simulation

Well test design & analysis

tNavigator, CMG, Nexus

Leadership & management

Potential flow optimization

Gradient analysis

Prosper, Mbal, GAP

Team-player & individual

Well completion design

Fluid & core analysis

Resolve, IAM, Pipesim

Training & consulting

Pilot well roadmap

Python, C++, MatLab

@Risk, Crystal Ball

Artificial intelligence

Integrated field model

Deep Machine Learning

Saphir, Well test, Welflow

Education

2005 to present

Professional Workshop Attendance and Seminars

Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conferences (ADIPEC 2011- 2020).

Prudent Reservoir Management Best Practices & Overcoming Challenges 2011.

Petroleum Geologist Conference Exhibition - PGCE 2010.

International Petroleum Technical Conference - IPTC 2008 and 2009.

Society of Petroleum Engineering Conference, United Kingdom – 2007.

Resource and Recoverable Reserve Estimation by Probabilistic Method - 2006.

2003 to 2005

Master of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering.

School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

Comprehensive major: Reservoir Engineering and Well Test Engineering.

2000 to 2015

Certificates of Training Courses in Reservoir Engineering.

Intersect, Eclipse BlackOil, Eclipse Compositional, Eclipse Advance Topic.

Integrated Petroleum Expert, Prosper, Material Balance - Mbal and GAP.

Empower, EMwell, EMsee, Smart (ExxonMobil in-house applications).

Coring & core analysis (core cutting, routine core (RC) & special core analysis (SCAL).

Well design on reservoir coupling between NETool and simulation application.

Fluid Sampling, pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) laboratory, Fluid characterization.

1994 to 1999

Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Geology.

University of Mining and Geology (1999), Hanoi, Vietnam.

Comprehensive major: Oil and Gas Geology, Oil and Gas field.

1995 to 1999

Bachelor of Science in Informatics Technology.

University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam – in progress

Work Experience

Specialist Reservoir Engineer, ADNOC - ExxonMobil Technology Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Sep 2011 to Present

Jan 2020 to present: Integrated Asset Modelling, Artificial Intelligence - AI and applied machine learning.

Main tasks are:

To apply supervised machine learning techniques to both simulation and Integrated Asset Model (IAM).

To evaluate IAM covering reservoir – well – manifold – pipeline – pump – process - terminal for the whole system and equipment to define and resolve weak points.

To figure out bottlenecks, back pressure and shut down plan impacts in current assets.

To calculate economic efficiency based on coupling models for either shutdown or upgrading equipment consideration.

To build up IAM between subsurface reservoir simulation and surface network in RESOLVE software for all offshore fields both brand new (green) and developed (brown) fields.

To compare Pipesim surface model with constructed model from scratch in General Allocation Production - GAP by open server with AI supervised approach.

To identify main uncertainties influencing reservoir performance or surface equipment by studying fit-for-purpose models for sensitivity analysis; Request additional data acquisition to mitigate uncertainties.

To review novel technical service suppliers; Suggest advanced methodologies and algorithmic supports for real field application.

To speed up IAM model run efficiency and improve result accuracy.

To develop Python and C++ coding for well testing and development strategies.

To lead, design and participate in integrated subsurface and surface reviews, field development plans and reservoir management.

Achievements:

oSuccessfully constructed IAM in 3 months and solved all issues which were pending over 7 years.

oBuilt up AI open - server for surface equipment (about tens thousand single equipment elements) which reduced 3 to 6 - month manpower work to a day of computer run.

oDeveloped Python scripts to assist users to reduce 5-20 times working hours for well performance plotting.

oTen years of excellent performance and bonuses.

2018 – 2020: Reservoir management

Main tasks are:

To utilize reservoir management standards and guidelines to enhance net present value and hydrocarbon recovery with lowest CAPEX and OPEX.

To optimize production and injection rate at significant cost saving.

To prepare monthly technical oil rate for full field and voidage replacement ratio.

To co-operate and monitor technical oil production rate to achieve approved targets.

To manage water injection rate including monitoring injection loss and performance, and mitigating production impacts.

To create reservoir surveillance schedules and interpret collected data such as pressure buildup tests, pressure fall-off tests, production logging tools.

To guide and oversight best in class reservoir management tenets and state of art technologies for all reservoir hydrocarbon assets.

To prioritize drilling rig activities for maximized value across multi-reservoirs in monthly update.

To prepare well delivery processes; evaluate new location wells and layer placement; request wells data gathering.

To participate in scoping improved reservoir performance; evaluate and validate oil production feasibilities.

To recommend all advanced completion techniques for horizontal and multi-lateral wells.

To lead and participate in reservoir engineering studies including reservoir stimulation modeling of various Improved Oil Recovery - IOR processes.

To re-evaluate inactive strings and justify Plug & Abandonment - P&A or workover plan.

To advise management team on both technical and economic decisions; Mentor senior engineers for future leader roles.

Achievements:

oPlanned and ramped up one third higher oil production rate within a month to achieve very ambitious quota as of April and Aug 2020.

oInitiated re - balanced water injection system between developed and developing reservoirs that facilitates green field to join production earlier.

oFirst of its kind kick off of a new reservoir from zero to hundred thousand stock tank barrel per day within a year.

2014 – 2018: Full field development and optimization plan

Main tasks are:

To grow high offtake oil rate for the whole reservoir of many well types (mono-bore, trilateral and fishbone); combine multiple completions (open hole, perforated liner, inflow control device and inflow control valve) with swing logic and open-on-demand drilling schedules.

To investigate and develop strategies for higher oil production rate; set up criteria related to reservoir development and operational goals; recommend and validate simulation running efforts.

To initiate and design redevelopment strategy for the entire field from Five spots to Line drive systems by converting producer to injector and narrow well spacing gaps.

To exploit and create special case for field development plan featuring Dual Lateral Monobore conversion.

To invent hybrid case of Trilateral - Fishbone and Monobore conversion of Line drive well system.

To formulate reservoir development, data acquisition, strategic surveillance and monitor masterplans to ensure optimal development and depletion programs.

To build sector models and run prediction for well completion details designed for Inflow Control Devices and Inflow Control Valves, workover and horizontal sidetrack; and reduce uncertainties through sensitivity parameters.

To review water alternative gas approach in pilot area and supply Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)

Achievements:

oFirst of its kind redevelopment and doubling of oil production rate of a matured super giant field (brown field of 50 years production).

oSuccessfully developed unique hybrid case of trilateral, fishbone and monobore line drive system resulting to 2-3 times higher oil recovery.

oStandardized simulation workflows by swing logic applied for all reservoir models.

oAppreciation Letter by Management Board for success in oil production rate increase.

2011 – 2014: History matching and converting simulation models from commercial software to in-house application

Main tasks are:

To conduct history matching, transition and prediction for full field numerical reservoir simulation models.

To generate single-well, element and sector models by extracting some areas or cross sections from full field models for fit-for-purpose investigation.

To carry out field development optimization and sub - surface and surface constraints.

To design production and injection network for full field to maximize the contact between well and reservoir.

To assess reservoir development proposals by conducting development optimization studies using various numerical reservoir simulation models; Propose technical specifications for new requirements on wells and surface facilities.

To convert full field simulation models from Eclipse to ExxonMobil In-house software.

To revert full field models from in-house software to Schlumberger Intersect software for simulation engine comparison.

To provide consistent results of hundred-year history and prediction for the two above mentioned software based on AI application.

To participate in integrated reservoir characterization studies related to reservoir engineering, geological model, petrophysics, seismic and prepare relative permeability – capillary pressure (Kr-Pc) modeling based on rock-typing scheme and laboratory data.

To carry out fluid characterization studies and prepare back pressure volume and temperature - PVT and Equation of State (EoS).

To establish water alternative gas (WAG) injection in compositional model for EOR.

To mentor future leaders of ADNOC as an essential part of government initiative Emiratization.

Achievements:

oFinetuned and got the world first cluster of artificial islands built for initial oil production.

oDeveloped conversion code (Python, C++, Matlab and Excel Marco) for simulation model switch from in-house to commercial software (Intersect and tNavigator).

oDesigned the pilot Extended Maximum Reservoir Contact well (EMRC) to the length of 45,000 ft well trajectory which cut down drilling slots, drilling time and investment.

Senior Reservoir Engineer, PETRONAS – National Oil Company of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Main tasks are:

July 2007 – Aug 2011

To be focal point of development scenario studies in Development while Exploring – DWE concept such as floating production storage and offloading (FPSO), floating storage and offloading (FSO), or Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) etc.

To propose final development options and facility upgrade for de-bottleneck of surface equipment.

To create field development plan (FDP) for reservoir engineering in term of well counts and locations; to build production profile both oil and gas field production;

To ensure the gas daily contract quantity (DCQ) by integrated asset model.

To present dynamic simulation for the review of Petronas committee.

To establish and supervise field reservoir management.

To coordinate research on surface (development and production groups) and subsurface (geology, geo-physics and reservoir engineering).

To perform gas condensate full field simulation modeling for matching and prediction in Eclipse BlackOil module and compositional hydrocarbon method.

To supervise all pressure volume and temperature (PVT) fluid sample and Crude Assay for Laboratory tests and reports in both oil and gas fields.

To monitor and evaluate molecular dynamic test (MDT) for live fluid analysis (LFA), compositional fluid analysis (CFA), sampling and pressure gradient to determine fluid types.

To design, carry out and interpret Mini-Drill Stem Tests at rig sites.

To manage well test design including rig site implementation and pressure transient analysis.

To assist well completion in both design and execution phases.

To recommend bottom hole locations (BHL) for development and production wells.

To re-evaluate and present production profiles for both oil and gas fields for shareholders’ decisions.

Achievements:

oDiscovered Dafnah gas condensate field (Liquefied Natural Gas – LNG) in offshore Sarawak, Malaysia.

oIdentified issue of hydrocarbon type and proposed problem-solving for D30 oil field and Dana field (Liquefied Petroleum Gas - LPG) in Sarawak, block 305.

oRe-evaluated economic decision for cost-saving of all parties in the joint venture; mitigated the loss due to previous inaccurate fluid type recognition.

Reservoir Engineer, SONATRACH - National Oil Company of Algeria - Petro Vietnam Exploration and Production - PVEP-Alger branch, Hassi Messaoud, Algeria

June 2005 to June 2007

Main tasks are:

To perform reservoir simulation modeling in Eclipse BlackOil models.

To manage fluid sampling, Pressure Volume and Temperature - PVT, Routine Core Analysis - RCAL & Special Core Analysis - SCAL for Laboratory tests.

To define oil – water contact by multiple approaches; prepare drilling campaign in appraisal phase.

To supervise well test contracts and logistic equipment of rig sites.

To evaluate oil initial in place by probabilistic method.

To design appraisal well location to touch oil-water contact for drilling campaign.

Achievements:

oIdentified the exact oil - water contact to complete the appraisal phase for Bir Seba field 3 years earlier than normal practice.

oOutlined development plan (ODP) and concept of front - end engineering design (FEED).

Reservoir Engineer, Unocal Corporation – Union Oil Company of California (currently Chevron), Bangkok, Thailand

Main tasks are:

August 2003 to May 2005

To design Drill Stem Test and collect proper data for reservoir parameters.

To implement pressure transient analysis by using Well test 200 and Saphir software.

To define gas producers of bottom hole locations of fluvial channel sandstones.

To evaluate the reserve of Erawan dry gas field (LNG) in the Gulf of Thailand.

To investigate gas production system options to prolong the plateau as DCQ.

Achievements:

oProposed gas recovery based on pressure build-up of drill stem test analysis.

oIdentified exact bottom hole locations for drilling multiple slim hole wells which shortened drilling time and cost significantly.

Reservoir Geologist, American Technologies Incorporated Petroleum - ATIP, Hanoi, Vietnam

March 2000 to June 2003

Main tasks are:

To cooperate with operational and well site geologists.

To control mud log service contractors.

To create geological cross-section based on well log correlation and seismic.

To calculate hydrocarbon initial in place (HCIIP) by deterministic methods.

To recommend exploration well placement for drilling campaigns.

Achievements:

oDiscovered Yen Tu Prospect in Tonkin Gulf of Vietnam for further exploration. The forecast volume was 700 – 800 million barrels and 40 billion m3 of gas in place.

Notable Publications

1.Co-author: Society of Petroleum Engineering Publications, SPE-197567, 2019, Pushing the Limits of Depletion Optimization Towards a Hybrid Field Development Plan in a Complex Giant Offshore Carbonate Reservoir – Comprehensive Scoping of Technical and Economic Viability

2.Co-author: Society of Petroleum Engineering Publications, SPE-188642-MS, 2017, A New ICD/ICV Well Completion Design Optimizer and Well Management Logic for Full Field Reservoir Simulation with Multiple ICD/ICV wells

3.Co-author: Journal of Petroleum Technology - JPT- Oct - 2013, page 120-123: Developing Flank Areas in a Giant Carbonate Field with Horizontal-Well Placement

4.Co-author 2009: Society of Petroleum Engineering Publications, SPE 123430: Fluid Identification Challenges in the Near Critical Fluids: Case Studies in Malaysia; SPE presentation in Indonesia 2009

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