Senior Project Leader/Team Lead
Schlumberger SPM
Total years of experience :33 years, 5 Months
I was encharge in the first quarter to replace for one week the Facilities Leader, after that I was assigned to have the scope of the Shaya 21 projects most important and then encharge to excecute those projects, complying with PAM requirements, finally I am assigned as the project leader to plan, execute, commission and hand the project to PAM and plan the 2018 projects
for the Aliance Casabe Project Ecopetrol- Schlumberger
During this time I have been working on the following main projects: Casabe and casabe south gas
handling, sand removal from stations 2, 3, 4 and 5 of casabe, instrumentation and process updating
of flow station 5 and Penas Blancas water flooding project.
Production team leader for Casabe Aliance Ecopetrol- Schlumberger
1. Optimize production from PCP pumps and from SRP.
2. Improve the sand handling in flow lines and in flow station.
3. Reduce the differed production for the field optimizing the design and evaluating new technology
for the lifting process and 4.avoiding pressurization in production headers.
5. Follow up the response of the producers and injector wells as part of reservoir surveillance.
6. Optimize the actualization of data in OFM and Decide.
7. Increase the water injection in the areas sub injected and follow up the water quality and
measurement per well.
8. Improve the fluid measurement in test separators.
9. Do the engineering for candidate selection for workover
10.Improve the communication between the different teams.
11. Capture the maximum production from the best 50 wells using Efield.
12. Support the reservoir group with field activities.
13. Evaluate and propose different technology to optimize the oil production.
14. Coordinate increase of fluid handling in the facilities of the field.
15. Follow up the projects to increase water injection volumes (freshwater wells, pumping capacity
and water injection manifolds)
16.Develop new projects such as: gas gathering, water filtration, reutilization of water associated to
the production, Casabe South developing project.
17. Station # 4 expansion basic engineering, hazop, and commissioning
18.Modifying the flow lines and header production system
19.Sand handling with PCP pumps and special devices and separation at surface.
20.Using selective water injection completion to have a better sweep efficiency
21.Reducing pressure in flow station
22.Team building with Ecopetrol and Alliance Engineers
23.Reducing the time to put on production new oil and water injection wells
24.Working as a team with the different group inside the IPM project.
25. Review well proposal jobs.
26. Reactivating abandoned wells
As part of the Casabe extension I work in determining the OPEX cost in conjunction with Ecopetrol
Representatives and establish a plan to reduce the cost in 21%.
Oil & Gas Development Planning Kern River Business( as contrated
Engineer for facility and reservoir supplied by Process Unlimitted)
• Reservoir Engineer for Water Impacted reserves in the Heavy oil field of Kern River.
• Participated in a feasibility study for selecting the best alternative to transport 1 Million BWPD
Conducted Value engineering, constructability analysis and project definition index for a treatment flow
station to dehydrate 40kbopd. Block 18 at Ecuador developed by Petrobras.
Prepared ABC cost course reduction applied for the Oil Industry.
• Performed Economic analysis to participate, doing the engineering of the Putumayo field in Colombia.
• Rig contract translation for Eni in San Tome Anzoátegui, Venezuela.
Establishing the activity based costing in the production Department in PDVSA, E&P, Caracas;
With the responsibility of implanting the new methodology ABC in the 23 exploitation units
• Work assignment through the reservoir engineering center and planning in Los Teques and Caracas:
With the responsibility of interacting and going into details in the knowledge of reservoirs with the experts
of the excellence center and with the technicians and specialists from Intevep and laboratory process and
utilized the software for planning analyzing the “Tierra Este Pesado” field in the western Division.
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In Apure coordinating activities such as: integrated studies, reservoir development, production,
infrastructure and budgetary control of a medium and light crude field for reservoirs with high water drive
lifted by electro-centrifugal pumps.
• In the North Coordinating similar activities in Apure for heavy, medium, light and condensate, reactivating
inactive wells, PU, GL and PC pumps and modifying the stages separation in one of the flow station.
Planning and budget leader of the North Exploitation Unit.
• Responsible of managing the budget of the north district by the administration and controlling the budget
of expenses and investments and also administrating its respective contracts.
Responsible of testing operationally the different methods of mixing for the Orimulsion manufacture and
participated in the design of the treatment plant and distillation of bitumen as a process engineer, then as
a supervisor I coordinated the operation of bitumen production, Orimulsion manufacture, its transport and
shipment in the Punta Cuchillos terminal and finally as an Orimulsion manager with the responsibility of
coordinating the following activities: integrated studies, reservoir development, production, infrastructure
and planning and budgetary control of the extra heavy crude, its treatment and the Orimulsion.
of petroleum engineering.
• With the responsibility of developing Conceptual and Basic Engineering of projects, studies
and capacity analysis of the flow station and dehydration and water plants on the Eastern Fields
of the Country.Developed and maintained strong working relationships with field operations personnel.
Production operations at the south of Monagas.
• Responsible of the production operations on the Temblador fields (gas lift), Jobo (rod pumping), their
respective flow stations for the stabilization and recollection of crude and the crude dehydration plant
EPJ-2 conformed by free water knock out, furnaces, coalescers, wash and storage tanks and treatment
system and treatment and injection of effluent waters.
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TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE -Project management in diferent projects of the Casabe alliance from visualization to the construction.
-Planning activities as preparaing the field development plan for the Casabe field.
-Secondary recovery in mature fields injecting water selectively and producing the oil from producers
using PCP pumps and SRP for lifting with sand problems and optimizing this process to get the best
return at Casabe field.
-Facilities oil and water treatment design and optimization, especially in free water know out, electrostatic
heater treaters and gun barrels.
-Field development planning for oil fields, creating value for the asset and avoiding, applying the
Ecopetrol project management steps; including opportunity identification, alternative selection, project
definition, execution and operation initiation.
• Reservoir Engineer for Water Impacted reserves for Kern River, to optimize the dewatering sand layers
impacted by water and proceed with the design to steam injection into the reservoir in patterns
arrangements and evaluate the economic feasibility of the proposal, considering the costs of steam and
investment in well work for producers and injectors wells, replacements and the facilities involved.
• Feasibility study for selecting the best alternative to transport 1 Million barrel per day of fresh water
produced from the interdiction wells to deliver this water for agricultural purposes using different types of
materials such as HDPE, CMCL concrete pipes and ductile iron pipe and define the surface facilities at
the Station 36 and a hypothetical new Station(primary and secondary tanks for oil dehidration, dissolve
air flotation unit and walnut filters for water treatment) to handle the additional fluids to be produced for
different cases of amount of interdiction water to be withdrawn in Bakersfield California.
•Value engineering, constructability analysis and project definition index for a treatment flow station to
dehydrate 40KBPD of oil coming from Bloc 18 at Ecuador developed by Petrobras
•Operational, technical and managerial experience in reservoir engineering for crude and gas production;
well optimization, artificial lift methods, flow and gather lines, flow stations, treatment crude and water
plants (dehydration and desalting), water and gas treatment, pipe lines and crude oil terminals; all this
combined with process engineering and administration experience for different types of crude oil.
•Coordinate the commissioning of the EPM-2, equipment procedure, manuals, operators training, control
room screen design for pre-heating with heat exchangers, dehydration and desalting of the diluted bitumen
with electrostatic dehydrators (residence time and charge considering BPD/electric grid area(sq feet),
heating of the diluted bitumen with furnace, removing the diluent in the distillation column(internal packing to
increase contact area), cooling of bitumen suctioning this bitumen from the destilation column using vertical
submersible centrifugal pump and diluent, reinjection of NAFTA to the bitumen with special reciprocating
pumps, cooling tower for water cooling, services(steam, air 70 psi, instrumental air, water treatment,
electrical control room and motors and fire fighting system, emergency electric generator).
•Optimization of Orimulsion process installing static and dynamic mixers and selecting chemical pumps.
•DTI review from operational point of view of the Morichal flow station (EPM-1) to increase the treating oil
capacity from 10MBPD to 40MBPD of bitumen as primary emulsion and EPM-2 to dehydrate and recover
diluent to obtain the bitumen to manufacture Orimulsion, using diluted bitumen.
•Basic Engineering for crude oil handling for the initial facility development (definition of storage capacity
of stability tanks and selection of pumps considering discharge pressure and oil viscosity and flow line
selection for oil wells) of the Furrial Field in the Monagas State Venezuela.
• Conceptual Engineering for incremental capacity in the treating oil for EPJ-2 in Monagas, Venezuela.
• Experience with centrifugal pumps to lift of 570 thousand barrel of fluid per day in Apure Field optimizing
the design and the operation to obtain 1014 days of useful life for the pumps in the Guafita field and 603
days for la Victoria field.
• Conceptual engineering to reduced amount of water production using the down hole oil and water
separation and the inverted cone using two centrifugal pumps.
• Well optimization and reopening of inactive wells, increasing the production in 25% for the Orocual field.
Also optimize the stage gas oil separation to reduce the gas compression needs in the same field.
• Perforate 5 horizontal wells and produced using PCP pumps to produce heavy oil in the Orocual field.
• Stimulate wells in Orocual field doing acid jobs and fracture job, helping to increase the oil production.
• Take data as bottom hole pressures and temperatures to optimize the oil recovery from the different fields
in the northern Business Unit.
• Increase the production of heavy oil wells using PCP pumps in the Orinoco heavy belt, installing surface
heaters, to heat the oil before entering the flow line and reducing the pressure of the annular space of the
different wells consuming the gas as combustion fuel.
• Optimize production of heavy oil field of Jobo in Morichal Injecting Steam in cyclic manner and optimizing
the diluents injection to reduce the well head pressures.
• Experience with rod pumping unit, Gas lift, PCP pumps and centrifugal pumps as gas lift methods for
different types of crude oils.
• Sand removal system selection for medium crude in the flow stations, considering hidrociclons, statics
desanders, different types of sand jetting inside the separators and electrostatic, water cleaning, sand
collection and sand traps.
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Wide operational knowledge of crude and gas production, lifting systems, crude separation,
dehydration and desalting, crude transport and shipment terminals and water treatment and
injection systems.
- Knowledge of heavy crude oils production and treatment, as distillation for diluents removal
and in all of the heating systems, and cooling as heat exchangers and furnace and others
Equipments typical in this kind of processes; also heavy oil transportation in pipelines.
- Orimulsion manufacturing process; including Bitumen treatment and the mixing process with
water and surfactants, then storage process, pumping, shipping and combustion of this fuel.
- Continuous Steam injection as Enhance oil recovery method for heavy oils, its dehydration
process and water treatment, to deliver it for agricultural purposes at Kern River field in
Bakersfield. Also practice the CDPEP Process to handle projects in Chevron Corporation.
-Secondary recovery in mature fields injecting water selectively and producing the oil from
producers using PCP pumps and SRP for lifting with sand problems and optimizing this
process to get the best return at Casabe field.
-Facilities oil and water treatment design and optimization, especially in free water know out,
electrostatic heater treaters and gun barrels.
-Field development planning for oil fields, creating value for the asset and avoiding, applying
the Ecopetrol project management steps; including opportunity identification, alternative
selection, project definition, execution and operation initiation.
-Analytical capacity, good ability to communicate and interpersonal relations
for the Aliance Casabe Project Ecopetrol- Schlumberger
During 2012 I made a proposal to develop the facilities of the Peñas Blancas field with the following
objective: Design and construct surface facilities to implement the Peñas Blancas secondary
recovery in 15 month in order to inject 14KBWPD at 4000 psi and handle the associated production
of (4KBOPD y 10KBFPD) for July 2013. The scope included:
1. Design and installation of electrical installations of 34.5KV from CBES to Peñas Blancas 6.8
Kms in length; substation and electrical grid to feed the wells and the facilities electrical sub
estation.
2. Design and installation of the water injection plant for 14KBWPD and 4000psig.
3. Gathering, and multiphase pumping station, to transport all the fluids(4KBOPD, 6KBWPD
and 450KSCFPD) to Casabe south treating station.
4. Treating flow station in Casabe south at 9 kms from the Penas Blancas field(general
separator, thermal electrostatic treater, 4.1Kbls oil storage tank and a water treating system
for 12 KBWPD.
5. Automatization and signal transmission for producer wells, injection manifolds and process
variable for the Penas Blancas flow station and the water injection plant.
This work was presented to the Technical Committee and to the Managerial committee, the
economic evaluation its being reviewed to approve the project.
Also I did the complete analysis to handle the incremental flow in the FDP 2013 - 2015,
recommending to use the dilution of lighter crude from Casabe south and Penas Blancas, which
implies less investment(3.5 MMUS$) and make more economical the Penas Blancas Project.
I was involved initially defining the new planning group in the alliance as part of the Casabe
extension contract. I have being involved in projects concerning the facilities of the Casabe field
Identify bottle neck in the gathering, treating and delivering oil, water and gas and water injection
system for the Casabe, Peña Blanca and Casabe South fields.
I coordinated the FDP 2010-2013 for Casabe, proposing the projects to handle the fluids flow rates
for Casabe and Casabe south and getting approvals of the different projects with the Ecopetrol
representatives, such as: new fresh water wells for the injection targets, water injection capacity, oil
treatment capacities and facilities for the Casabe south.
As part of the Casabe south development after installing the 8”pipe line from Casabe to condor
stations, I coordinated with the Olga experts from Schlumberger the analysis to understand the high
pressure in the line when tried to pump a multiphase flow. Due to venting of the gas the amount of
gas was too low (< 300 SCFPD/BLS). And the flow regime was the churn flow a very chaotic flow
regime.
For the FDP 2011 -2014, I coordinated all the project resumes and did two main studies: new
electrical substation needs considering the producing oil wells to be incorporated in the plan and the
injection manifold hooking up the injection wells in the plan and the automation required to have a
high covertures. Lastly I participated in the field visit of the location for the wells to be drilled in the
year 2012.
I have also worked in the option of station 5 water reinjection to avoid drilling new fresh water wells
that would last only 1 year due to the need to re inject all the water produce from Casabe by June
2013.
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