Petroleum Engineer

learn every day something who allows me grow up professionally and contribute with my knowledge to industry development

WORK EXPERIENCE

 Petroleum Engineer
Company: CORPORACION NATFRAC S.A.
June 2008 – Currently
- Conceptual Engineer for Air Injection Project in Chichimene Field.
- LAS Design and Optimization for Rio Zulia, Petrolea, Sardinata and Arauca Fields, using Wellflo software.
- Review of feasibility of gas condensate recovery for Sardinata field.
- Flow model adjustment for Extraheavy Oils considering Foamy Oil theory using Wellflo.
- Technical and Economical Evaluation of Lifting Cost reduction for Tibu Field.
- Properties Analysis of fluids and Capacities Evaluation for Petrolea and Sardinata Fields.

 Production Engineer
Company: ECOPETROL S.A.
February/2008 – June/2008
- Collection and treatment stations Supervision in Cantagallo Field.
- Development and Implementation of Clean Production Program for YR-CGO locations.
- CGO Water treatment plant Supervision.

 Petroleum Engineer
Company: DTH LTDA.
December/2007 – February/2008
- Development and interpretation of flow through porous media proofs for relative permeability analysis using software SENDRA.

 Petroleum Engineer
Company: EOS-DTH LTDA.
May/2007 – December/2007
- Gas Lift system evaluation and optimization of Cicuco field using nodal analysis with Wellflo
- Facilities diagnosis for Tibu Field using probabilistic analysis.
- Extra heavy collection system evaluation to feed the desasphalted plant in Chichimene Field, using software Pipephase

 Petroleum Engineer
Company: AIP LTDA.
December/2006
- Capacities evaluation for heavy oils

EDUCATION

Petroleum Engineer
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Academic average: 3.95
Bucaramanga, August – 2004
Project: Analysis and Implementation of Flow modeling coupled to geomechanical deformation for naturally fractured reservoirs.

Msc Hydrocarbon Engineering
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Currently developing my Research Project in Vertical Flow Modeling for
Extraheavy Oil considering Foamy Oil Behavior

NON FORMAL EDUCATION

 Lift Gas design
(Cicuco – 2007)
 Risk analysis under uncertainty
(Bucaramanga – 2007)
 Financial evaluation and risk analysis in investment projects of petroleum industry
(Bucaramanga – 2008)
 Surface Facilities
(Bucaramanga – 2007)
 Management, separation and treatment of production fluids
(UIS – 2007)
 Phases behavior applied to surface facilities
(Bucaramanga – 2008)
 Air Injection Based Processes for Improved Oil Recovery
(Bucaramanga, 2010)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

KNOWLEDGE AREAS
 Design and evaluation of surface facilities
 Evaluation and Analysis of process of fluid treatment
 Design and analysis of artificial lift systems
 Risk analysis under uncertainty
 Economic evaluation of projects

SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE
• WELLFLO, PIPEPHASE, PIPESIM, HYSYS, OFM, CRYSTAL BALL, MICROSOFT OFFICE, ECLIPSE, CMG, SURFER.



PUBLICATIONS

Optimization of Electrical Submersible pump artificial lift system for Extraheavy Oils through an analysis of bottom dilution scheme, CT&F Magazine, 2010.