Paulinus  Okonkwo, PRINCIPAL PETROLEUM ENGINEER

Paulinus Okonkwo

PRINCIPAL PETROLEUM ENGINEER

Solutions

Location
Canada - Calgary
Experience
6 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :6 years, 9 Months

PRINCIPAL PETROLEUM ENGINEER at Solutions
  • Egypt
  • January 2018 to March 2022

Utilised GOHFER to carry out multistage Hydraulic Fracturing Design, Calibration, DFIT Analysis, History Matching, Pressure Matching & Production Analysis for wells in Duvernay, Montney, Berland River and Spirit River etc. in Canada unconventional and standardized the design for several reservoirs based on analyzing data and optimizing performance of horizontal and multi-frac wells, which resulted in reducing completion cost, by 20%.
•Carried out quality assurance/quality control and performed post-job analysis for acid and proppant fracturing treatments to determine the success of the job. Co-ordinated after-action reviews. Provided technical support to the rigless activities team and production operations
•Resolved the following issues: Frac hits and Stress shadows in the deployment of hydraulic fracturing designs in shale gas wells (Duvernay, Montney, Berland River and Spirit River etc.)
•Achieved 25% cost reduction and 20% improvement in production rate in the design of hydraulic fracturing by optimizing the Proppant density, Lateral length, well spacing, fracturing liquid, and proppant type etc.
•Co-ordinated/carried out high-end studies and delivered functional specifications for both lower and upper completion design which specifically handled Geomechanical rock strength
•Created well models and conducted a nodal analysis using Prosper, sensitized on the well lateral lengths, proppant density, tubing sizes and achieved 25% improvement in production rate.
•Carried out tubing stress analysis using Wellcat to assure lifecycle integrity of the new wells or workover wells
•Optimized drawdown to avoid proppant crushing and minimized sand production, leading to ultimate recovery
•Resolved the following production Engineering issues: liquid loading, gas hydrate formation, productivity decline and flow assurance which improved production by about 30%
•Co-odinated / led integrated Well, Reservoir and Facilities Asset Management Modelling efforts using various Petroleum software like Prosper, Mbal, GAP, Pipesim, etc.
•Designed hydraulic fracturing of new wells using Mfrac or Fracpro software and optimized the production
•Designed well tests and delivered well test analysis using Saphir (PTA)

PETROLEUM ENGINEER at Petroleum Development Oman
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2000 to January 2002

Yibal field operations

Specialties & Skills

Production Forecasting
Production Technology
Completion
Production Optimization
NODAL ANALYSIS
FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION
STRESS ANALYSIS
OPERATIONS
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
MANAGEMENT
FLOW ASSURANCE
MFRAC (DESIGN AND EVALUATION SIMULATOR)
PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

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English
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