IFM-Solutions January 2008 – Present
- Petroleum Engineering Consultancy work for the oil & gas industry
Business portfolio:
www.ifm-solutions.com section Our Clients and Track records
Petroleum Experts September 2004 – December 2007
Petroleum engineer / Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- Provide technical support to customers in the use of IPM (Integrated Production Modeling).
- Perform Workshops with customers to construct IPM models.
- Instructor of IPM training courses for clients in client’s premises around the world.
(Argentina, Malaysia, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Italia, United Kingdom, Croatia, Spain, Thailand, Kazakhstan) training more than 300 engineers in the use of IPM.
Chevron October 1998 – July 2003
Production engineer / El Trapial Field, Neuquén, Argentina
- Coordinate completion/pulling rig activities in El Trapial field with an annual budget of U$S 5 million.
- Design well completion and workovers. Background includes hydraulic fracture and acid well treatment.
- Design Artificial lift system, ESP’s, Gas lift and beam pump with cost control over an annual budget of U$S 4 million.
- Evaluation of artificial lifts performance and re-designs to increase production/maximize run life.
- Member of “El Trapial Work Team” a multidisciplinary team whose goals were to increase oil production in the short term and generate additional value to the company through the identification of new development alternatives.
- Successfully implemented an intelligent well completion (ICV) that helps us to allocate production, which results in improved reservoir management.
- Surveillance and monitoring of the field, which includes oil wells and water injection wells.
- Providing support part time (1 week per month) in the Austral basin, Santa Cruz, Argentina in production engineer activities.
COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
Geologic Consulting Jul. 1997 – Jul. 1998
Part-time job during university studies performing maps digitalization and logs correlation.
TOTAL FINAL ELF Apr. 1998
Student contest participation during university with a paper on “How to manage big amount of cutting in a platform”. I won a 3-day visit to an offshore platform in Rio Grande.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Msc in Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons (ISE) September 2003-Agust 2004
(Superior institute of Energy, Madrid Spain in agreement with Heriot-Watt University)
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE BUENOS AIRES (ITBA), Argentina 1994/1998
Petroleum Engineer
ENET Nº 2 – Neuquén, Argentina 1988/1993
Electronic Technician
TECHNICAL COURSES/Forums
- ChevronTexaco Reservoir Management Forum May 2002 San Ramon, California USA. Co-author of the paper “El Trapial Field – Surveillance and Monitoring practices” presented at the Forum.
- Chevron Artificial Lift Forum Apr. 2001 Houston, Texas USA
- SPE Artificial Lift Congress Apr. 2001 Houston, Texas USA
- Squeeze cementing course (BJ Services) Nov. 2000 Neuquen, Argentina
- Hydraulic Fracture (BJ Services) Sept. 2000 Neuquen, Argentina
- Horizontal & Multilateral Well Forum Short Course May 2000 San Ramon, California. USA
- Advance ESP operations course REDA Oct. 1999 Bartlesville, Oklahoma. USA
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Very good English, both oral and written.
- Fluent Spanish.
SPECIFIC SOFTWARE
- Petroleum Expertssuit (GAP, PROSPER, MBAL, PVTP, RESOLVE, REVEAL).
- Roadstar (Theta Enterprises)
- Dynamic Surveillance System (Landmark)
- Eclipse (Used during Msc project)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Basketball, Golf, Sailing, Scuba diving.
