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P. Eng. Alejandro A. Bello

Curriculum Vitae

Permanent Address:

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A leader with 25 years of established experience specializing in optimizing D&C operations and implementing technology to secure operational performance. Successful created synergy and cooperation across disciplines through practical communication skills, resilience and strong leadership abilities, and first-rate project management in any work environment. I’m a motivated HSE promoter, committed to improving operational outcomes and company safety culture through a strategic application of relevant standards, employee training and education, and infrastructure improvement by pinpointing risk scenarios inherent in company processes. Career History

• JV HSE MANAGER Equinor/Shell Argentina 2022 – Present (secondee to JV with YPF Operations in Vaca Muerta). I am working as the HSE manager for the Bandurria Sur field located in the Neuquén Basin in northern Patagonia, Argentina, supervising HSE and Emissions and provide direction for safe Drilling, Completions, Fracking, Production facilities and Construction projects and operations. o Assessing the current state of existing safety programs and identifying methods of improvement. o Define educational and outreach tailored strategies to raise health and safety literacy in operation.

o Use computer systems and software suites to create valuable and comprehensive reports for management and record-keeping.

o Developing and using job hazard analysis (JHA) material. o Participating in emergency response plan development. o Oversight of hazardous waste management, handling, and containment practices. o Guarantor for emission management and stewardship of the operation. o Manage expectation of all internal and external stakeholders. o Project lookback and projects review with stakeholders. o Managed existing health and safety program in a team of HSE analyst to create a safe and risk- averse environment.

o Implemented standards, guidelines and best practices issued by industry regulators. o Conducted site inspections regularly to ensure ongoing adherence to applicable standards and regulations.

• VEN HSE LEADER AND JV DRILLING AND COMPLETIONS MANAGER Equinor Venezuela 2020 – 2022 (dual role due to low activity on the JV, for full JV activities see below. Implemented all processes, corporate requirements, and guiding principles related to HSE to seamlessly continue with the ongoing HSE and Human Rights programs alongside the Emergency Response (IMT) organization for training and education of the local organization. o Developed metrics and KPIs for HSE organization. o Defined procurement requirements and Contracting strategies for Safety and Security services. o Created country’s personnel and contractors WHE and SSU development training. o Defined WHE competence requirements.

o Managed a CTF and centralized center for drilling fluid and toxic waste. o Implemented Country crime dashboard statistics.

o Implemented tailored biosecurity and contingency measures against the COVID-19 pandemic.

• JV DRILLING AND COMPLETIONS MANAGER Equinor Venezuela 2017 – 2019 Page 2 of 4

Manage the Drilling, Completions and Well Services work to ensure the quality of well delivery under a very dynamic workload for a mature asset (over 600 heavy oil wells). Joint Venture with PDVSA

(National Oil Company) and Total Energies for developing a Heavy Oil asset in the Orinoco Belt. The operation encompasses six drilling rigs and 9 Completions/Services rigs (over 150 Engineers, field personnel and supporting staff).

o Develop metrics and KPIs for the drilling and completions organization. o Define Procurement and Contracting yearly strategies for all services. o Reduction of 25% drilling time compared with 2016. o The focal point for Drilling and Completions for Equinor in Venezuela. o Organized personnel training and development.

o Manage differed production numbers due to well reliability and workover-related deployment. o Manage a CTF and centralized center for drilling fluid and toxic waste.

• Assignment on the Bay du Nord project in Newfoundland, Canada to support the D&W project development team in the planning completions design and documentation and final project approval, assigned as Project Manager for the offshore seabed coral survey campaign 2019, with zero recordable incidents. Activities include; planning, preparation, HSE performance monitoring, risk assessment and daily operational monitoring. o Project delivered under budget and before the scheduled target.

• LEADER DRILLING AND WELL ENGINEERING Equinor Calgary 2016 – 2017 Coordinate and lead the Drilling and Completions Engineer’s work and ensure the quality of deliveries in the planning process. The main products drilled, completed or repaired wells delivered in compliance with the program, on schedule, at the agreed cost or lower. o Implement effective modifications and recommendations to engineering and field procedures, ensuring safe and optimized operations.

• LEADER COMPLETIONS ENGINEERING Equinor Calgary 2014 – 2016 SAGD completions leader in charge of up to 8 engineers and consultants to plan and execute completions programs. SAGD operations budget, quality control of completions designs and operations, ESP design and change-outs operations, initial completion for thermal circulation and production, yearly planning and execution of oil sands well abandonments campaigns. o Drove downturn around the operational time of ESP intervention from over ten days average to an average below of 5 days.

o Optimized ESP intervention cost and time accomplishing a 30% overall reduction. o Standardize well programs and other completions processes to facilitate well interventions. o Increase the overall quality of the completions programs by implementing a peer-review process and document checklist and equipment list.

o Successfully delivered the planning, program and execution of yearly wells abandonment operations.

o Improve interfaces with the asset and other stakeholders by improving communication and clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the completions team. o Successfully implemented the On-Call Engineer and pad assignments to ensure 365 days of support of intervention operations.

o Managed and executed successful ARO and winter completions programs. o Ensure execution compliance with local regulatory and corporate procedures. o Increase the overall quality of the DOPs (Detail Operational Procedures) by lock-down of the templates and standardized description of the operation. o Streamlined the ESP DIFA process to shorten report deliver times and reduce the non- productive backlog.

o Successfully qualified and implemented new technology for the Leismer project, GE ESP Pumps, PCP and Rotoflex.

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o Constant improvement of SAGD completions cost with the successful implementation of cost reduction initiatives, e.g. elimination of circulation phase on the wells, alternatives to hot wells logging, etc.

o Board of directors meeting participation in budget and procurement plan yearly approvals.

• LEADER FOR DRILLING AND COMPLETIONS ENGINEERING ASSET PROJECT DEV. Equinor Calgary 2013 – 2014

Drilling and Completions leader as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver complete lifecycle SAGD investment projects from concept to sanction. In charge of 4 engineers. o Successful in approval of Leismer Expansion project (Pad-6) from concept to sanction. Project hand-over for execution resulted in 30% below budget and the record for fastest well. o Successful approval of D&C Competency Area Review (CAR) documentation for Corner project from concept to sanction, performing QA/QC with the Chief Engineer, technology qualification, budget estimation and project risks assessment.

o End of Projects and continuous update presentation to JV Partners. o Ensure HSE Consideration into the well design and project planning. o Stewardship of corporate policies and local regulations for drilling and completions design and operation.

• SENIOR DRILLING AND COMPLETIONS ENGINEER Equinor Calgary 2011 – 2013 Responsible for planning and design work related to the D&C Leismer expansion in charge of 4 engineers. o Worked with other disciplines to develop the business case for the initial Leismer Expansion

(LAP2).

o Provided risk assessments for the planned operation. o Compiled programs and detailed procedures for installing the well equipment o Prepare Drilling Program for Pad-5 Drilling Project.

• DRILLING AND COMPLETIONS ENGINEER MEG Energy Corporation Calgary 2007 – 2011 Support SAGD operations on the Christina Lake Project, design of the wells and operation planning for the first commercial drilling and completions campaign. Supported the delineation and abandonment campaigns specialized in complex wells

o Design and executed 85 Horizontal SAGD well pairs with two simultaneous operations in Pads Drilling Rigs to completion and regulatory approval for production. o Well best performance of the field on less than seven days of drilling. o Execute Winter Delineation Drilling Program over 160 core wells with 11 Core Drilling Rigs in 4 months.

o Implement basis of design for the MEG SAGD wells. o Develop standardized Drilling and Completions program for SAGD and Delineation wells. o Design and executed ESP and gas lift completions and Well Intervention operations.

• DRILLING ENGINEER Schlumberger Calgary 2005 – 2007 Responsible for matters related to MWD/LWD/DD operations from planning, and execution of services including; technical sales, logistic, HSE, personnel, quality control and invoicing.

• BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Halliburton Calgary 2000 – 2005 Creating Business Plan, for sales and delivery of Technology, Training & Services. Managed several Drilling Engineering and Drilling Data consulting projects, exceed sales and operational objectives. Page 4 of 4

Key Skills and Competencies

• Management

o Management Systems

o Asset Development

o Personnel Management

o Emergency Response

o Risk Identification and Assessment

o Effective Communications

o Procurement Contract Negotiation and

Tendering

o Project Management

o Leadership

• Technical

o Well Control

o Casing Design

o Well Positioning

o Well Integrity

o Operational Optimization

o Wellbore abandonment and decommissioning

o Stimulations

o Landmark Drilling Eng. Suite

o Workovers

o Coil Tubing

• Fluent in English and Spanish.

Education

Universidad Rafael Urdaneta Maracaibo, Venezuela BS Computer Science 1993

Relevant Courses

Schlumberger Well Engineering

Pore Pressure Prediction

Horizontal and Multilateral Wells: Drilling, Completion and Stimulation – PetroSkills

Landmark Drilling Engineering Suit Tubular and

Casing Design Class with Stresscheck and WellCat.

High Artic Introduction to Snubbing

Completions and Workovers – PetroSkills

K&M Technology Group ERD Course – K & M

The DS-1 and Casing Failure Prevention – TH Hills

Advance Drilling Technology – Murchinson

Become a Leader – Internal Statoil Leadership

Program

Leading for Performance - Internal Statoil Leadership Program.

Electrical, Submersible Pumps – PetroSkills

First Line Supervisor Blowout Prevention – Enform Canada.

Second Line Supervisor Well Control (Test Well) – Enform Canada.

Coiled Tubing Well Servicing Blowout Prevention - Enform Canada.

TRG ICS 100 and 200 – The Response Group.

Incident Command System ICS-300 – Shell

Canada/ICS Institute

Operational Drilling & Completions Technology, Well Control – Murchinson

ISO 9001-2015 QMS Lead Auditor Certification -

DNV.

Human rights in practice – Impactt.

Risk Management RM100 – Equinor internal.

Synergi Basic – Equinor internal Incident Reporting Tool.

Awards

• Co-Chair for the SPE Well Integrity Workshop 2011-2013

• MEG Energy Performance Congratulation Letter 2011

• Top Sales Performance Halliburton 2003

• Employee of the Year Halliburton Venezuela 2001, 2002 Licensure & Affiliations

• APEGA – Certificate Professional Engineer M86674.

• Society of Petroleum Engineers, Active Member 3070823

• Canadian Heavy Oil Association – D&C Sub-Committee

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