alberto zabala, Offshore Drilling and Workover Engineering Manager

alberto zabala

Offshore Drilling and Workover Engineering Manager

PETROLEOS DE VENEZUELA SA - PDVSA

Location
Venezuela
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineer
Experience
33 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :33 years, 3 Months

Offshore Drilling and Workover Engineering Manager at PETROLEOS DE VENEZUELA SA - PDVSA
  • Venezuela
  • My current job since November 2014

Manage the offshore drilling and workover engineering team of PDVSA offshore. Well design, engineering, planning, time and cost estiamates and purchase for offshore drilling projects, including geopression estimates, casing desing, directional plan, bit and BHA selection, drilling parameters, hydraulics calculations, drilling fluid selection, casing running and cementing plans. Development and Exploration offshore wells drilling projects. Fields of North of Paria and the Gulf of Venezuela. My duties include the team formation sending them to necessary courses to their career development.

Offshore Drilling and Workover Engineering Supervisor at Petroleos de Venezuela SA - PDVSA
  • Venezuela
  • January 2008 to November 2014

Supervised offshore well drilling, completion or workover project planning, leading team of engineers of different roles in well drilling and completion desing, services companies technicals representatives and administration crew, reporting to the Drilling Engineering General Manager, in offshore exploration and development wells in fields on waters of the north of Paria at east and Gulf of Venezuela at west.

Drilling Operations Team Supervisor at Petroleos de Venezuela SA - PDVSA
  • Venezuela
  • October 2004 to January 2008

Supervised operationals well drilling, completion or workover project teams in until 3 rigs simultaneously, leading teams of driling, design, completion, geologists and reservoir engineers, companymen, services companies representatives and administration crew, reporting to the drilling superintendent, in HPHT deep wells of fields in the north of Monagas state.

Well Drilling Operations Engineer at Petroleos de Venezuela SA - PDVSA
  • Venezuela
  • September 1997 to October 2004

Engineering support of well drilling rig operations in HPHT deep wells of north of Monagas state fields. Planning and executing casing running and cementing, bit behavior evaluation, running completion, well head selection and instalation, directional drilling, well testing, solving operational problems of well control, loss circulation, stuck pipe, side track, fishing, follow time statistics, bill and costs control of rig and services companies, manage of software of directional drilling, casing design, BHA and bit selection, hydraulics simulators. Contract administration,

Rig supervisor, Company man at Lagoven (PDVSA company)
  • Venezuela
  • February 1991 to September 1997

Supervising rig operations complying with the program of drilling, completion or workover plan, even rigless jobs (coiled tubbing and snubbing) keeping standars of safety and environment care in fields of north Monagas state. Planning operations as well as coordinating the provision of services, equipment and materials on time, supervising operations of BHA design and assembly, bit evaluation, drilling parameters, logging, running casing and liners, cementing, drilling fluids properties, well control, string trip, rig up and rig down, well evaluation, completion, BOP asembly and test. Leading rig and services companies team.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineer
  • at UNET Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira
  • November 1991

Specialties & Skills

Team Coordination
Work Planning
Management
Completion
Drilling Engineering
ENGINEERING
MICROSOFT WORKS
SUPERVISORY SKILLS
LANGUAGES
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Drilling
TÉCNICAS DE SUPERVISIÓN
TEAMWORK

Languages

English
Intermediate
Spanish
Expert

Training and Certifications

well planning (Training)
Training Institute:
Landmark
Date Attended:
February 2000
Duration:
160 hours
Subsea Well control. Supervisory level (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
January 2008
Duration:
40 hours
plannign the drilling program (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
May 1997
Duration:
40 hours
sand control (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
June 1997
Duration:
40 hours
SUBSEA PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT (Training)
Training Institute:
CAMERON
Date Attended:
July 2012
Duration:
16 hours
MULTILATERAL DRILLING (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA INTEVEP
Date Attended:
April 2006
Duration:
16 hours
PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Training)
Training Institute:
CURSOS GERENCIALES
Date Attended:
November 2005
Duration:
16 hours
Geomechanics applied in well drilling design (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA INTEVEP
Date Attended:
April 2015
Duration:
40 hours
MARINE SAFETY IMO (Training)
Training Institute:
SAFAV
Date Attended:
February 2008
Duration:
88 hours
SEMINAR OF TUBULAR DESIGN AND TECHNICALS STANDARD (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA INTEVEP
Date Attended:
February 2015
Duration:
40 hours
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (Training)
Training Institute:
CURSOS GERENCIALES
Date Attended:
July 2005
Duration:
16 hours
advanced casing design (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
July 1997
Duration:
40 hours
Petroleum SuperSchool (oil engineering) (Training)
Training Institute:
Coloado School of Mines
Date Attended:
July 2004
Duration:
120 hours
TENARIS SEMINAR SELECTING OCTG MATERIALS (Training)
Training Institute:
TENARIS VENEZUELA
Date Attended:
September 2014
Duration:
24 hours
ROCKS MECHANICS INTRODUCTION (Training)
Training Institute:
ESP OIL VENEZUELA
Date Attended:
July 2006
Duration:
40 hours
UNDERBALANCE OPERATIONS (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
September 2006
Duration:
40 hours
artificial lift methods (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
July 1997
Duration:
40 hours
reservoir management (Training)
Training Institute:
thakur
Date Attended:
August 1997
Duration:
32 hours
ENGLISH LEVELS IV, V y VI (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
August 2000
Duration:
288 hours
TENARIS CASING DESIGN SEMINAR (Training)
Training Institute:
TENARIS VENEZUELA
Date Attended:
November 2011
Duration:
40 hours
DRILLING STRING (Training)
Training Institute:
CCA
Date Attended:
March 2005
Duration:
32 hours
well perforations (Training)
Training Institute:
pdvsa
Date Attended:
June 1997
Duration:
16 hours
supervising and managing in PDVSA (Training)
Training Institute:
PDVSA
Date Attended:
June 2015
Duration:
40 hours