Reservoir engineer
Resume:
WILLIAM J. NIÑO C.
Current Residence / Adress: Houston, TX, United States
Status in US: Work permit, Visa L2S
Phone: +1-832-***-****
e-mail: *******.*.*.*@*****.***
LABORAL EXPERIENCE
Ecopetrol (August 2019 – Present)
Reservoir Engineer / Reserves Development (Colombia)
Waterflooding projects surveillance and design using Sahara Software (project creation, data load and waterflooding simulation) and OFM software. Analysis of projects results, through Real behavior vs. Original forecasted behavior according to the static/dynamic study.
Estimation of projects reserves.
Optimization opportunities in producers / injectors wells, candidates for reactivation and proposes for abandonment. Completion proposal designs for producer and injector wells.
Construction of annual corporate portfolio (oil, gas, water and water injection).
Active operation monitoring for Drilling and WorkOkver activities.
Review of Field Development Plans.
Mentoring to Reservoir Engineers in Reservoir Management and Reservoir Surveillance.
Team leader in a development team (2 reservoir engineers and 3 geologists)
Pan American Energy (PAE) (March 2014-July 2019)
Reservoir Engineer / Reserves Development (Argentina).
Design of waterflooding projects as well as monitoring of current waterflooding projects using Sahara Software (project creation, data load and waterflooding simulation). Analysis of projects results, through Real behavior vs. Original forecasted behavior according to the static/dynamic study. Estimation of projects reserves.
Proposal of new locations for primary wells (Targets of oil and gas wells), and secondary (waterflooding) wells.
Gas reserves estimations using analogy, material balance and volumetric methods.
Design and interpretation of Well Testing (PTA).
Preliminary PLT/TTL designs and interpretations for Water ShutOff.
Production monitoring (Oil-Gas-Water) and water injection monitoring.
Search for improvements opportunities in production / injection wells, candidates for reactivation and proposes for abandonment.
Active operation monitoring for Drilling and WorkOkver activities.
YPF (November 2009-February 2014)
Reservoir Engineer (Argentina).
Monitoring waterflooding projects applying Sahara Software (project creation, data load and waterflooding simulationyo). Analysis of projects results, through Real behavior vs. Original forecasted behavior according to the static/dynamic study. Adjustment of production and injection of the implemented projects according to results and optimizations provided. Estimation of projects reserves.
Revision of static models for secondary (waterflooding) and primary projects with geologists comparing real vs. estimated data. Updating models with new acquired data.
Programs design for workover well intervention (producers and injectors) and monitoring of drilling, workover and pulling operations.
Production Monitoring (Oil-Gas-Water) and analysis of extracting method applied to producers wells.
Search for improvements opportunities in production / injection wells, candidates for reactivation and proposes for abandonment (with subsurface/production specialists team). Facility needs forecasting purposes of surface mining equipment according to the corrective actions.
Design of maintenance plan in injector wells, plan of physical measurements (fluids transit logs, movement of control valves to nozzles, pressures gradients and well testing).
Supervision, interpretation and analysis of well testing (Ecrin – Saphir). Program desing for PVT sampling.
QA/QC for all data acquired, administration and loading in corresponding applications.
Forecast production in both primary and secondary production method, using OFM – Sahara applications. OFM database administration for the entire field.
Detection and definition of opportunities for improvement and expansion of primary and secondary projects implemented.
Compliance monitoring plan for reserves development.
Oil well produccion statistical analysis for the area (Well Type).
Production Plan Design corresponding to the Annual Action Plan.
Participation in Project Technical Review Process.
Halliburton (September 2007 – October 2009)
MWD-LWD Field Professional (Venezuela).
Directional drilling monitoring and logging while drilling operation. Delivery data and counseling in real time logging operation.
Tools, sensors and equipment preparation and monitoring for positive and negative pulses systems.
General data QC, logs and reports delivering to customer representative, using Insite software.
Provide effective solutions at any unexpected event for guaranteeing operations continuity.
Baker Hughes (October 2006 – September 2007)
MWD-LWD Specialist (Venezuela).
Field MWD-LWD engineer providing real time data and monitoring the tool's performance during drilling operations.
Use of Advantage software for drilling operations.
Paradigm - Emerson (November 2004 – July 2006)
Application Support G&G / Geophysicist Jr (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador & Venezuela).
Latin America technical support of applications and users guide in software related to visualization, interpretation and seismic modeling (VoxelGeo, SeisEarth, Reservoir Navigator, iMap), reservoir characterization and petrophysics (Stratimagic, Geolog).Users Mentoring, applications Maintenance and software licensing through Flexlm. Data management/loading (wells, seismic, horizons, faults, contours, logs and whole projects).
Installation and configuration of Paradigm Suite on UNIX (Solaris, Irix), Linux (RHEL) and Windows Operative System. Unix/Linux medium level.
Participation in reserve calculation and reservoir characterization projects. Data quality control, preliminary horizons and faults interpretation, petrophysic parameters calculation and volumetric OOIP and OGIP estimation.
Ypergas - Total (November 2002 – April 2004).
Reservoir Engineer Jr (Venezuela).
Design of work programs, coordination and supervision in well test operations (works carried out with PLT, MDT, P&T gauges and other WL & SL tools).
Well test interpretation using Saphir.
Reservoir simulation with Eclipse 100 (preparation of internal report about pre-existent model of the Field and working in the creation of a new model).
Development of Thesis: “Productivity evaluation in tight gas sands Yucal-Placer field, in Guárico State - Venezuela” (Score: 20 / 20).
Schlumberger (August - September 2002).
Short Internship (Venezuela).
Depurating and updating production data from PDVSA / Apure-Barinas using OFM (Oil Field Manager) Application.
TRAINING
November 2021: Reservoir Simulation - tNavigator. 3 days. RFD-Ecopetrol – Bogotá, Colombia.
December 2018: Advanced Well Testing. 1 week. Bauerberg-Kein – BsAs, Argentina.
June 2015: Petrel RE. 5 days. Schlumberger – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
January 2013: Merak – Peep Basic. 3 days. YPF – Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.
October 2011: Eclipse Black Oil Simulation. 1 week. Schlumberger – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
July 2011: Well Testing Interpretation – Saphir. 1 week. FDC – Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.
August 2010: Well Testing – Saphir. 1 week. DaPrat – Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.
August 2010: Sahara. 1 week. Interfaces – Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.
June 2010: Waterflooding. 1 week. IAPG – Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.
May 2010: OFM. 1 week. Duration: 1 week. YPF – Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.
August 2008: MWD Academy 1. 6 week. Halliburton Training Center – Macae, Brasil.
February 2007: MWD Academy 1 and 2. 16 weeks. BHI Training Center – Houston, USA.
August 2007: Offshore Survival - I.M.O. 1 week. Fire School de Venezuela. Cabimas – Venezuela.
November 2004: Customer Support Training. 8 weeks. Paradigm – Buenos Aires, Argentina.
EDUCATION
B. Sc. Petroleum Engineer. Central University of Venezuela. April 1998 - February 2004.
Efficiency Index: 1.00; Position in the grade: 02 / 31; Average: 14.05 / 20
SKILLS
Strong team-working and multi-tasking skills.
Good performance on decision making under stress conditions.
Basic level programming using Python.
Spanish mother tongue.
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