Production - Reservoir Engineer

oil and gas multidisciplinary projects, process troubleshooting and evaluation, requiring innovative solutions and strong leadership to improve productivity, increase revenues and ultimately maximize recovery.

I have more than twenty nine years of hands-on field, technical, supervisory and management experience in the areas of production engineering (well performance, artificial lift, facilities and surface process engineering) and reservoir engineering (field development and EOR), upstream project management (field development, EOR, applied automation optimization projects) and technology strategic planning.

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, a M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering, a master degree in business management and graduate studies in financial management.
I have practical and theoretical knowledge in computer science and applied automation (including artificial intelligence and integrated applications for the oil and gas businesses), operations research and total quality management. My M.Sc. thesis resulted in the development of a gas lift diagnosis and optimization expert system combined with neural networks. I worked in the development of operational data bases for the Venezuelan oil industry (Centinela).

From 1980 to 1991 I worked in production optimization, well troubleshooting, also development of novel production methods such as slug flow gas lift for heavy crude oils, intermittent gas lift, chamber lift and plunger lift for low productivity mature reservoirs and combined mechanical and gas lift methods for high productivity wells.
During 1991 to 2000 I worked as reservoir leader, production technology project & technical services manager, reservoir production optimization manager and technology strategic planning.
From 2000 to 2001 I was the leader of corporate projects: Integrated Productivity Methodology and Petroleum Asset Management oriented to optimizing reservoir production & well productivity using best practices from key services companies from North Sea operations.
During 2001 and 2002 I led PDVSA Reservoir and Production Centers of Excellence which supported 2500 professionals from 24 Exploitation Units in 7 Districts 3MMBOD.
During 2003 and 2004 new phase of asset management implementation project. From 2005 to 2007 I worked in PDVSA strategic planning corporate planning division focused on the technology and integrated risk management strategies for the new business plan.
In May 2007 I retired from PDVSA and from July 2007 until September 2009 I worked in different positions within Halliburton’s Landmark and Project Management PSL: Production Operations Practice Manager, Project Manager for Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname Colombia and Ecuador.