Production & Completion Engineer, artificial lift, waterflooding, SWD.

ARGE MENDEZ

*** ** *** #*** ******** City, OK ***02, USA, 405-***-**** 405-***-****

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PETROLEUM ENGINEER

Progressive expertise in production operations and artificial lift, and experience in most aspects of drilling, completions, and stimulations. Excels in multicultural environments with experience spanning Middle East, Europe, Latin America, West Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Special skills in planning, design, and execution of artificial lift design and troubleshooting, drilling and completions, well intervention, waterflooding, fracs and stimulations, field production operations, and salt water disposal

SUMMARY:

• Providing relevant engineering experience with strong management and organizational skills.

• Overseeing and monitor daily production operations and reviewing producing well performance and oil water separation.

• Monitoring production volumes within an assigned geographic area and tracking production performance

• Designing, implementing and troubleshooting gas lift, beam pumping, sub pumping, plunger lift, and optimizing waterflooding and field performance.

• Carrying out planning, executing, and preparing procedures for drilling, completions, workovers, stimulations and fracs systems, production and injection logging, tracer surveys and sand control.

• Assembling cost estimates, measure project economics, prepare, submit and track AFE cost estimates, prepare AFE documentation, and monitor LOE.

• Permitting, and overseeing permit applications, reservoir surveillance, well work procedures, and technical reviews.

• Identifying new pays and improving production from active wells, return idle wells to production, repair damaged wells, or abandon wells.

• Developing and designing salt water disposal (formation water) systems, assuring that underground SWD proper well completion and injection procedures were in compliance with Country's in-law regulations.

Strong skills in Microsoft suite, and various production and reservoir database management applications systems such as DIMS, WELLVIEW, KPI, PETRA, OFM, CYGNET, RIO, POWER TOOL, ARIES, CMS, BENGAL, RODSTAR, PIPESIM, PIPEFLOW, RODDIAG, PEEP, IHS, PI/DWIGHTS, and SCADA. Easy to adapt to special technical software

WORK EXPERIENCE:

InterAmerican Energy - Oklahoma City Jan 2010 to Present

Engineer Consultant / Owner

• Consulted for Crown Energy on Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma field operations and development.

• Assembled procedures, materials needs, and economic justification for completions, re-completions, installation of artificial lift in new drills, remedial works/abandonment on marginal wells, and salt water disposal surveillance under regulations.

Devon Energy - Oklahoma City and Permian Basin, TX Mar 2004 – Nov 2009

Senior Operations Engineer

• Increased production by 3,000 BOEPD with 25 new vertical/horizontal drills, and 200 completions/recompletions/re-activations and fracs in carbonate reservoirs.

• Reduced operating costs 50% through recompletions, acid and frac treatments, and enhancement of injection facilities, transport and well re-completions.

• Dropped SWD costs by 60% with five system conversions, and redesign of injection and storage facilities in compliance with Texas Regulatory.

• Increased well productivity life by monitoring well performance, curve decline, wellbore hydraulics, operating costs, production issues, and surface equipment installation and maintenance.

• Achieved 35% output increase by recompleting wells, and implementing a waterflooding project.

• Sustained production goals through design, monitoring, and troubleshooting of 600 wells on bema pumping, ESP and Plunger Lift.

Transnational Energy Consulting Company - Oklahoma City Oct 2002 – Dec 2003

Petroleum Engineer Specialist

• Optimized Algeria’s Hassi Messaud operation by evaluating existing gas lift and metering systems.

• Introduced technical upgrades to boost production 25% and lower gas injection 30%.

Corporinoquia (Environmental and Regulatory Agency) Feb 1999 – Sep 2001

Colombia, South America

Director

• Implemented and enforced regulatory standards for oil and natural gas drilling, production, processing, distribution, and disposal of salt water and drilling fluids.

• Issued 1,500 licenses and permits for oil and gas drilling, and formation water disposal systems while protecting water conservation and natural resources.

Independent Consultant Jun 1992 – Dec 1998

Petroleum Engineer, Colombia, South America

• Coordinated drilling and seismic works, identifying oil rich areas currently producing about 4,000 BOPD.

• Advised on design and construction of refinery in order to process sour crude from Southern Colombia oil fields, and disposal of residual waters.

• Consulted private/public agencies in conceptual artificial lift design and completions practices, including salt water disposal systems and regulatory, providing support for secondary recovery operations.

Royal Dutch Shell – Holland and Colombia (SA) 1985 - 1991

Production and Reservoir Engineer

• In Holland increased production by 450 barrels per day and cut costs 20% in 15 months with infill drilling, fracs, re-completions, underground water disposal, and design and optimization of the artificial lift systems including intermittent and continuous gas lift, PCP, and conventional beam pumping.

• In Colombia, development drilling, re-completions, stimulations and ESP implementation in Cano Limon field resulted in 320,000 barrels per day production. Implemented the 2 millions barrels per day formation water treatment, cooling and disposal.

EDUCATION AND STATUS:

MS in Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA

BS in Petroleum Engineering, University de America, Bogotá, Colombia

Trained field personnel on gas lift and ESP systems. Technical paper on case study of ESP in Cano Limon Field (Colombia).

Bilingual English/Spanish. Basics of Arabic and French.

Licensed in Well Control Drilling Supervision.

US Permanent Resident.

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