michiel bender,

michiel bender

PDO

Location
Netherlands
Education
High school or equivalent, Applied physics
Experience
24 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 9 Months

at PDO
  • Oman
  • January 2013 to January 2017

Waterflood Improvement focal point:
•Recovering production of underperforming Kharaib and Lower Shuaiba reservoirs.
•Resulted in improvement of 15 to 20 MMb of proven developed reserves against $1 to $5 per barrel costs.

Development Manager at Shell Malaysia E&P Miri
  • Malaysia
  • January 2011 to January 2013

lead for E6 field with horizontal wells in a thin oil rim in a carbonate reservoir located offshore Sarawak
•Maturing EoR projects in the Baram Delta area.

Commercial advisor at Shell Philippines EP
  • Philippines
  • January 2005 to January 2010

for relinquishing the Malampaya oil rim back to the government.
•Negotiated reserves redetermination and farm-in top up payment with/from JV partner.

Corporate planning:
•Compilation of yearly business plan.
•Economics lead: Compilation of economics of major investments ($1+ bln)

Senior Reservoir Engineer at AFPC (SHELL JV)
  • Syria
  • January 2002 to January 2005

7 oil fields producing around 80.000 b/d.
•Conducting full field studies to identify new indrill opportunities
•Running multiple PE tools to identify infill opportunities. Generated 25 well proposals.
•Coordinator of reserves reporting exercise for the whole company.

Reservoir Engineer at SHELL Argentina Buenos Aires
  • Argentina
  • January 1999 to January 2002

of development strategy for gas fields in Northern Argentina
•Execution of production tests in the environmental sensitive mountain jungle.

Reservoir Engineer at NAM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 1995 to January 1999

engineer writing FDP for offshore Carboniferous fields featuring low N/G complex geology.
•Brought D15-FA FDP to FID and K2-FA FDP to concept select.

at NAM Netherlands
  • January 1993 to January 1995

Wellsite petroleum engineer
•All the fun of the continuous operation of a drilling rig.

Education

High school or equivalent, Applied physics
  • at University of Delft
  • January 1992

Specialties & Skills

ENGINEERING
BUSINESS PLANS
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS
GOVERNMENT
INVESTMENTS
PRODUCTION
PROPOSAL WRITING
REPORTS

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