Petroleum Engineer from Venezuela 30 Years Experienced

Reservoir Engineer Production Optimization Engineer EOR Engineer Reserves Engineer

PROFESSIONAL FIELD EXPERIENCE.
Permanent employee PDVSA since February 23, 1981 to December 31, 1999.
Drilling Operation Experience.
March 1981 to June 1983, Venezuela.
3 month of intensive training as Drilling Operation Supervisor.
Responsibilities:
Drilling Operation, Junior Supervisor of shallows wells, onshore operations.
Drilling Operations, Senior Supervisor of deeps wells, offshore operations (Maracaibo Lake).
Production Optimization Experience.
June 1983 to August 1988, Venezuela.
Intensive training “in place” (6 months) in Production Operations and Production Optimization: Wells Service Derricks (Swabbing Derricks), Pumping Units maintenance, Subsurface Pumps, Sucker Rods Pumping Wells Design and Mensurations, Gas Lift design, Production Facilities (Flow stations, pipelines, dehydration, etcetera.), Production Tests (Dynamometers, sonologs, etc.), Steam Injection Operations, Thermal Recovery and Production Optimization.
Responsibilities:
1.Senior Production Engineer, western coast Maracaibo Lake, fields: Mara, La Concepción, La Paz, Los Caballos, and Tiguaje. Fields producers of light and medium oil. Field Los Lanudos, gas producer.

2.Senior Production Engineer, western coast Maracaibo Lake, fields: Tía Juana, Lagunillas and Bachaquero. These there fields are producers of heavy oil, 10.5 API gravity average, under steam stimulation since decade 1960.

3.Responsible by the production of M-6 Steam Flooding Project in the Tia Juana Field.
Reservoir Engineering Experience.
Responsibilities:
•Reservoir Development Engineer, reservoir VLG-3729, field Ceuta, Maracaibo Lake.

•Reservoir Development Engineer, reservoirs: VLC0087, VLC0100, VLC0525, VLC0841, VLC0073, VLC0525, VLC0531, VLC0814, C-SUP VLC0881, Block III, Maracaibo Lake.

•Assigned to INTEVEP for completing intensive training program as Specialist in Reservoir and Production Technology.

•Secondary Recovery Engineer, water flooding and gas injection projects, reservoirs VLE-305 and VLE-326, Block V, Maracaibo Lake.

•Water Shut Off Project Leader, PDVSA Western Division.

•Enhanced Oil Recovery Engineer, PDVSA Western Division.

•Voluntary retire on December 31, 1999.

Temporal employee PDVSA since July 2004 to September 2006 (under contract).

Responsibilities:
PDVSA West Division, Reserves Manager.
End of contract: September 15, 2006.

Title: Petroleum Engineer graduated on December 12, 1980, Universidad Del Zulia, Maracaibo, Zulia Sate, Venezuela.

Title: Master in Petroleum Engineering, mention Reservoir Engineering, graduated on December 1988, Universidad Del Zulia, Maracaibo, Zulia Sate, Venezuela.

Specialized training: One year of intensive training in Research and Technological Development of Production and Reservoirs, INTEVEP(1) 1993, Los Teques, Miranda State, Venezuela.

EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING, RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.
1. Postgraduate Professor of UNEFA(2), since October 2006 so far.
UNEFA(2): University of Armed Force of the Republic Bolivarian of Venezuela.

Responsibilities:
• Lead of Research Department of Heavy and Extra Heavy Crude, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela (so far).
• Professor of the cathedras: Thermal Recovery, Heavy and Extra Heavy Crudes Production.
• Advisor of Graduate Works.

2. Postgraduate Professor of the cathedra: Heavy and Extra Heavy Crude Production, University of Zulia (LUZ), Maracaibo, Venezuela, since February 2011, so far.

3. Instructor for PDVSA of the courses: Reserves Calculations and Classification, Heavy Oil Production.