Drilling Mechanics & Metallurgy Engineering

I am looking for new opportunities in the World Oil & Gas Business or associated companies, as a Managerial & Technical staff.•

• Managed and marketed drilling licences for fluids, cementing products to the service companies, 1.0 MM$/year of royalties.
• Improved of drilling operations by an integral approach of drilling mechanics and material toughness for BHA, DP, OCTG, BITS and tools.
• Improved a hematite densifier for a drilling fluid at PDVSA operations, by implementing a Product Development & Management Program (PDM). Consume of 10.000 Tn/year.
• Improved the productivity of wells by implement the technology of Under Balanced Drilling, UBD. Section manager of the SPE- UBD vs Designer Fluids Forum.
• Field evaluation of a 2 prototypes of a percussion bits and use of methodology for bits selection.
• Reduced the steel consumption from 1000 tn/well to 750 tn/well, by implemented a integral program , training, design manuals, computer programs and lab of tubular evaluation. Use of 200.000 Tn/year of OCTG.
• Evaluated, well ran and introduced to PDVSA the first time, the J55- ERW Tubular for wells Operations.
• Reduced 20 % cost of casing string by improving the selections of API Buttress & Premium connections for HPHT oil & gas wells.
• Designed and installed H2S & CO2 Lab and Field Autoclaves for the evaluation of sour service and CO2 materials, bimetallic tubing and gas line pipes. A joint project with Sumitomo Metal.
• Evaluated, promoted, and introduced to PDVSA, where appropriate, new materials & corrosion technologies for H2S, CO2, environments, and high collapse wells. ( C-100SS, 22 % Cr SS and HC-110).
• Evaluated and introduced to PDVSA 13% Cr, Carbon steel tubing and inhibitor selection and evaluation for wells and line pipes with CO2.
• Reduced at least a 20% of drilling pipe failures by the implementation of an integral methodology “ADIOS” (Attribute, Design, Inspection, Operation and Surrounding) in drilling 30 wells /year.
• Supported technically for evaluation and qualification of welding procedures of materials for the oil and gas industry. Carbon Steel and HSLA steels.
• University Professor of Welding Metallurgy Course for a Master Degree ( SMAW, TIG, MIG and SAW).
• Held a Cast Iron Welding Electrodes USA Patent, and a First recipient of the Clark B. Carpenter Research Award, CSM, USA.

• PhD in Metallurgical Engineering with a minor in Mineral Economics,
Colorado School of Mines, USA.
• MSc. in Metallurgical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA.
• BSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Nacional of Bogota, Colombia.

• Cast Iron Welding Electrodes. United state Patent, 4,726,854. Metal filler compositions based on manganese and nickel for the welding of cast iron.
• First recipient of the Clark B. Carpenter Research Award, Colorado School of Mines, USA.
• Engineering Honor Degree, at Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.
• English / Spanish (both fluent)
• Thirty (30) technical papers related with the different experience areas and published in AWS, WI, TJWS,NACE; SPE, AFST and Modern Casting
• Sixty(60) technical reports on the activities conducted in the Venezuelan oil industry
• Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
• Spanish translation of the first edition of the Design and Inspection of the Drilling String Standard, DS-1

• Management and general
Advanced management program for oil & gas company managers
PDVSA country vision; PDVSA corporate vision; Evaluating and managing projects
Managerial grid; Decision analysis; Projects management; Executive financial systems
Quality control assurance; The seven habits of highly effective people ; Psychology of intelligence analysis
• Technical
Drilling technology course; Drilling risk analysis; Drill stem design and inspection, DS-1
TRUE, Training to Reduce Unscheduled Events; Advance casing and tubing design school.
Modern well completion practices; Threaded connections and tubular products for special application; Basic Underbalanced Drilling, UBD, Course(Signa E.), Advanced Underbalanced Well Design,UBD, Course (Blade E.). SPE- Underbalanced Drilling vs Designer Fluids Forum (Session Manager)
• Assigned for nine months to a technical team of PDVSA Exploration & Production Headquarter to restructure the corporate drilling operations;
• Assigned for three months to Statoil-Norway, to participate in the drilling operation of a HPHT well at North Sea.
• Assigned for three months to operation areas for drilling of HPHT wells with H2S and CO2 at southern part of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela;
• Assigned to Sumitomo Research Center, Amagasaki, Japan, for H2S and CO2 testing methods for high alloys.
• Assigned to Total in France for a tubular and material selection of the gas field Yucal-Placer in Venezuela