Completion/Production Engineer
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Education: 5
Experience: 26 years
Relocation: Yes - Internationally
Career Objective
Senior petroleum engineer with well drilling, completion and production experience, focused on optimizing deliverability of oil and gas wells. Skilful in well performance analysis, remediation and optimization of well completion designs.
Professional Experience
GULF KEYSTONE, KURDISTAN REGION, IRAQ, DECEMBER 2013- PRESENT
LEAD PRODUCTION OPERATIONS
MAERSK OIL KAZAKHSTAN, APRIL – OCTOBER 2013
CONSULTING PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION /OPERATIONS FOR THE STARTUP OF A WATERFLOODING PROJECT.Production Optimization Duties
KUWAIT OIL COMPANY (KOC) JULY 2009- MARCH 2013
Completion/Production Engineer Specialist.
CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY (COP) 1998- 2009
Completion/Production Supervisor, (CAILLOU ISLAND FIELD, LOUISIANA), HOUSTON, TX 2007 –2009
Complete engineering and technical supervision for all phases of production operations in a 120-
well field, (Caillou Island Field).
• Designed a horizontal completion from an existing shut-in vertical well which resulted in a three fold increase in oil production.•
Senior Completion Engineer, PETROZUATA (COP- PDVSA), Venezuela 2001- 2007
Planning of work over and remedial operations; Sand control (Gravel packing and Slotted liner); well-site supervision for stimulation; clean out and water shut off operations; Remedial
and well service Operations in a horizontal and multilateral well project.
• Executed completion of more than 150 horizontal/multi lateral wells within the expected time but with more constrains than expected. The project achieved the target rate of 120,000 bopd of heavy oil production.
• Invented equipment to safely handle tubes thru the v-door at the rig site, improving safety performance and reducing rig time cost by about 5 %.
Completion Engineer, PETROZUATA (COP- PDVSA), 1998- 2001
Well Operations Group, Planning and executing completion installations.
• Participated as a key member of the well operations team in charge of starting drilling and completion of a world-class project utilizing long horizontal and multi-lateral wells.
CORELAB - MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA 1996-1998
Quality Control Engineer for Flow Test Data.
PETROAMAZONAS – QUITO, ECUADOR 1994-1996
Consulting Engineer
Reservoir description application.
JAIRO BALCACER PAGE TWO
CORELAB - BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 1987-1993
Supervisor Engineer
Special Core Analysis department
CHEVRON – CASTILLA FIELD, COLOMBIA (Internship) Nov. 1986 – Feb. 1987
OCCIDENTAL, PAYOA FIELD, COLOMBIA (Internship) Dec. 1985 – Feb. 1986
Eductation
Master of Petroleum Business Engineering
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Holland, 2008
Thesis: “Optimizing the life cycle value of a multilateral-well project by dealing with new technical approaches” (Application of risk analysis on business decision projects)
Petroleum Engineer (mandatory 5 years of course work and thesis)
Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bucaramanga, Colombia 1986
Thesis: "Analysis of Asphaltene and Paraffin Deposition in the Andalucía South Field)
Certification
Well Inflow Performance, Design and Analysis
Analysis, Prediction, and Optimization Using NODALTM Analysis;
Four Conversations of Highly Efficient People
Production Operations
Horizontals and Multilateral well - Analysis and Design
Modern completion practices
Horizontal and Multi lateral wells: Drilling and Completions
Casing design and StressCheck
WEM: Well performance and Nodal Analysis Modeling
@ Risk and Crystal Ball: Risk Analysis evaluation under uncertainties.
SNAP: well performance and gas lift analysis
DIMS and WellView: Drilling / Completion data management.
DSM: Data Storage Management
Additional Information
PUBLICATIONS
- Balcacer, Jairo, “Borehole Stability in Horizontal Wells”. COP Heavy Oil Network, Vol. 3, Issue 1, February 2005.
Balcacer, Jairo, Clancy, Tom, “Use of Fiber Optic Technique in Long Horizontal Wells”. SPE presentation, June 2001, Alberta, Canada.
- Balcacer, Jairo, “Removing Solids in Long Horizontal and Multilateral Wells”. Presented at a Horizontal and Multilateral Well Symposium, March 2002, Galveston, TX.
- Balcacer, Jairo, Clancy, Tom, “A Case History on the Use of Down-hole Sensors in a Field Producing from Long Horizontal/Multilateral wells”, SPE 77521.
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