Senior Petroleum Engineer Field Development & Operations

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VLADIMIR TIKHOV

Bio: Russian, male, **, married, 2 children Seniority: Petroleum - 19 yrs / Overall - 23 yrs SME: Field Development & Operations / Petroleum & Data Engineering / Science / Project Management Links: ********@****.** / WhatsApp - Comera - VK - Max - Mobile: +7-910******* Field Development / Petroleum Engineering / IOR / Well Testing, Completion, Well Interventions / PTA, PA & Nodal

/ Project & Account Management / Reservoir Surveillance / Production Optimization & Forecast / Field Ops & Superintendence / Various Lithology - Stratigraphy - Fluids / Onshore & Offshore Projects / Programming / Trainings 04/2024 – 03/2026 Field Petroleum Engineering Head / Well Intervention Superintendent – MAV / NVGS LLC., MENA. Geology, Reservoir and Production Engineering Department.

• Field Development Studies, Reservoir Surveillance & IOR Strategy, FDP Preparation & Review (sections DST & Well Testing Data Interpretations, Nodal Analysis & DCA, Well Performance Studies, Production Optimization, PVT/Fluid Characterization, Production Completion Design).

• Subsurface Team Lead: JV & Partners, NOC & INOC, 3rd parties &Contractors. HQ Level Communication.

• Programming and Automation for Petroleum Engineering and Routine Tasks, Data Management, QA/QC.

• Field Operations: Appraisal, Exploration & Production Testing / Perforations / DST / BH Sampling / Coiled Tubing / Stimulation / Cementing & Water Shut-off / Well Control & Integrity / CH & OH Wireline / Artificial Lifting / Workover / Fishing & Re-entry / Design & Programs.

• Pressure Transient & Production Analysis. Integration with petrophysical, geological, fluid, drilling, completion, and operational data. Comprehensive PTA for complex well / reservoir / fluids. X-disciplinary Leader.

• Production Optimization. Nodal (System) Analysis. VFP tables. Reservoir Troubleshooting.

• Production Forecast (traditional & modern DCA vs. probabilistic approaches). Monthly reports and Factor analysis as per local and worldwide standards.

• Department Budgeting, Cost Control, Profit & Loss, ROI, Bidding, Contracts & Project Management.

• New Assets M&A Consulting. MENA region. Green & Brownfields. 07/2021 – 03/2026 Technical Advisor / Key Account Manager – OiLSERV / OiLTECH Oilfield Services Ltd., Iraq. Technical, Sales & Marketing Depts.

• Focal point for Key Customers and internal teams with project management & business development support.

• Digital Solutions for Oilfield Services and Business Intelligence.

• Consulting Customers on services, technologies & product delivery in Well Testing & Intervention, Fluid Sampling, Slickline, CH & OH Wireline, Completions, Stimulation, Coiled Tubing, Integrated Services, EPF.

• Petroleum Consulting: IOR / PTA, PA / Hall, Chan, Conformance, Heterogeneity, SRT Plots / Stim candidates.

• Develop & maintain long-term strategic relationships with Key Customers / Ensure a timely manner delivery.

• Research Customers’ problems / Suggest effective and comprehensive solutions, and troubleshooting. 12/2019 – 07/2021 Lead Well Completion & Reservoir Surveillance Engineer – Salym Petroleum Development (JV Shell & GPN). Completion & Well Intervention Dept.

• Well Testing, Completion & Intervention Operations: Well Control & Integrity / Perforation / DST, Appraisal, Exploration & Production Testing / BH Sampling / Artificial Lifting / Stimulation / Water Shut-off / Wireline / Coiled Tubing / Workover / Fishing & Re-entry / Front End Engineering Design, Programs, Supervision.

• Advanced Well Completions Design (TAML1+) / New Technologies Trial Tests.

• Reservoir Surveillance & IOR: Design, Programs, Support, Supervision. Machine Learning Trial Tests for IOR.

• Consulting for PTA, PA, Nodal, Forecast, Optimization, Flowrates QA/QC.

• Water Injection Consulting: Hall/Chan/Conformance/Heterogeneity/SRT Plots, PLT, Acid Treatment, Squeeze.

• Project Management / Tendering / Proposals / Budgeting / Technical Support

• New Assets M&A consulting.

07/2017 – 12/2019 Rigless Supervisor / Reservoir Manager – JV Badra Project, Iraq. Geology & Reservoir Engineering Department.

• Field Development Studies, Reservoir Surveillance & IOR Strategy, FDP Preparation & Review (sections DST & Well Testing Data Interpretations, Nodal Analysis, DCA, Well Performance Studies, Production Optimization, PVT)

• Well Testing & Upper Completion: Appraisal, Exploration, Production wells. Design, programs, supervision.

• Reservoir Surveillance, Petroleum Geology: Wireline, SLK, Coiled Tubing. Design, programs, supervision.

• Pressure Transient Analysis. Integration with petrophysical, geological, fluid, drilling, completion, and operational data. Comprehensive PTA for complex well/reservoir/fluids. Unconventional (laminated carbonates).

• Production Analysis / Optimization / Forecast (traditional and modern DCA). Monthly reviews.

• Nodal Analysis. VFP tables. Flowrates QA/QC. Wells/patterns performance surveillance and troubleshooting. CAREER HISTORY

PROFILE

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• Well Interventions for IOR: Design, Planning, Support, Supervision. Work programs for Slickline, Wireline, Coiled Tubing, Perforations, BH Sampling, Water Shut-off (conventional / thru-tubing), and Workover.

• Acid Stimulation: Chemical / Mechanical Diverters, Retarded Acids, Thru-tubing Inflatable / Straddle Packers, Active Coiled Tubing, Acid Fracs. First job in Iraq with OpenPath Reach. Design, Execution, Supervision.

• Data Science, Software Design, Routine Tasks Automation: VBA, SQL, Python, R.

• Department Budgeting, Cost Control, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Bidding, Contracts.

• New Assets M&A consulting. MENA region. Green/Brownfields. 04/2015 – 06/2017 Field Senior Reservoir Engineer / Deputy Head of Field Petroleum Engineering – RUSPETRO. Reservoir & Production Engineering Department.

• Production Monitoring, Optimization & Forecast. Unconventional (shaly sands).

• Pressure & Rate Transient Analysis, Nodal Analysis, Flowrate metering, QA/QC, Reporting.

• Well Testing & Completion: Exploration & Production, Programs, Supervision.

• Data Acquisition, Database Development (VBA), Statistical Analysis.

• Workover Project Planning & Production Enhancement Programs (IOR strategy). Suspension / Abandonment.

• Wellsite Geology, Logging Programs, Fluid Sampling.

• Water Injection Management: Hall / Hearn Plots, SRT, PLT, Acid Treatment, Squeeze.

• Budgeting of Field Petroleum Engineering Dept., Project Management. 06/2013 – 04/2015 Well Testing Project Manager / Desk Engineer / Reservoir Engineer / Sales & Marketing – Weatherford. Testing & Production Services, Wireline Services.

• Project Management: Integrated Projects, Desk Engineering, Ops Support & Supervision, Improvement / Invoicing, Budgeting, Cost Control / Procurement, Logistics.

• Pressure & Rate Transient Analysis, QA/QC, Reports. Unconventional (shale, arctic).

• Well Test Design & Planning (SWT/DST/TCP/AL), Hazard Analysis & Risk Control, QHSE.

• Reservoir Monitoring & Management, Data Acquisition. Production Optimization & Sand Control.

• Wireline & Bottomhole Fluid Sampling, PVT.

• Business Development, Sales & Marketing / Training & Development 08/2010 – 06/2013 Senior Field Engineer / Testing Reservoir Engineer – Schlumberger. Testing Services.

• Worldwide Well Testing: Operations & Maintenance. HPHT / HQ / H2S / CO2 / Sand.

• Data Acquisition, Transient Analysis, QA/QC, Reporting.

• Well Test Planning & Design. Heat / Noise simulation, Hazard Analysis, JSA, QHSE.

• BH Sampling, PVT. Unconventional (heavy oil / shale / arctic / deep water). 09/2007 – 08/2010 Research Assistant / Testing Reservoir Engineer – LUKOIL, R&D Institute. Petroleum Geophysics & Well Testing Department.

• Pressure Transient Analysis, Well Test Design, Field Operations, and Reservoir Surveillance.

• Statistical Analysis for Well Data and Core Lab Data, Analytical & Numerical Model Matching. 07/2003 – 09/2007 Professor / Software Engineer / Head of Data Processing & Computing Centre 2019 – 2020 PGD, Well Engineering, Completion & Well Intervention (Wells100) – Shell Open University 2016 PGD, Petroleum Engineering – Modern Academy of Science and Technology. Development of oil and gas fields with hard-to-recover reserves. 2006 – 2010 PhD, Physical Sciences – Povolzhsky State University of Telecommunications and Informatics. EM waves scattering by absorbing spherical and spheroidal particles in optical and HF bands. 2004 – 2006 MSc, Technique & Technologies – Volgograd State University. Matter-radiation interaction. 1999 – 2004 BSc, Physics – VolSU. R&D in Digital Signal Processing.

• Acid Stimulation. Gubkin State University of Oil & Gas, Russia, Mar-20

• Introduction to Statistics / Python. Stanford, Distance Learning (DL) / DataCamp, DL, Oct-Nov-19

• Machine Learning and Data Analytics in Flow Assurance. SPE, DL, Dec-18

• Machine Learning. Stanford University - Coursera, DL, Oct-Nov-18

• Oilfield Development. SPE, Distance Learning, Feb-17 • Horizontal Wells Survey. SPE Workshop, Nov-16

• Quick Look Well Log Interpretation. Distance Learning, http://superpetrophysics.com, Nov-16

• Basics of Reservoir Simulation with the Eclipse. Øystein Pettersen. Lecture Notes, Sep-16

• Pipeline Systems Optimization. Heriot-Watt Approved Centre, Sep-15

• Advanced Pressure Transient Analysis. PanSystem software. Weatherford, Russia, Feb-15

• Lift Analysis and Optimization – WellFlo software. Weatherford, USA, Aug-14

• Surface Well Testing / Data Acquisition / PTA / Petroleum Technologies. Schlumberger, France, Oct-Dec-10

• Pressure Transient Analysis and the use of Saphir NL. Kappa Engineering, May-08 TRAININGS / WORKSHOPS / CERTIFICATIONS

EDUCATION

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• Kappa Engineering: Saphir, Topaze, Emeraude, Grenat / PETEX: Prosper, MBAL, PVTP, GAP

• SLB: Pipesim, OFM, Eclipse, VFPi, Petrel, Techlog / Landmark: WELLCAT, StressCheck

• Programming: VBA, Python, SQL, R, Octave, Object Pascal, PyCharm / AI: Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Alice

• MS Suite: Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, Outlook / ERP Systems / CRM, Salesforce PERSONAL QUALITIES Inquisitive Mind / Work Capacity / Leadership / Teamwork / Responsibility MEMBERSHIP SPE Professional Member - Since 2014 [4086277] LANGUAGES English [Fluent] / Russian [Native] / French [Basics] SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

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