Jose Giovanni Flautero
Calgary,Canada
Summary
Experienced Senior Reservoir Engineer with a proven track record in reservoir development and management, including modeling, planning, surveillance, and evaluation. Skilled in working with various oil and gas fields, both onshore and offshore, encompassing diverse reservoir types such as sandstones, carbonates, and tight reservoirs. Highly motivated team player with a strong blend of business acumen and technical skills. Proficient in leading multi-discipline teams to enhance field recovery, define and implement Field Development Plans, and participate in gated processes. Focal point for annual exercises like reserves booking and business plans definition. Contributed to integrated reservoir modeling projects. Specialties include EOR and IOR techniques, reservoir simulation, FDP design and implementation, thermal recovery methods (CSS, SAGD), and development strategies involving multi-stage fractured wells in unconventional reservoirs.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Leader
ARROW EXPLORATION CORP.
05.2022 - Current
- Directing the technical efforts to optimally manage the assets in Canada and Colombia, which account for about 5,000 BOE per day, in conventional and unconventional reservoirs
- Proved track record of optimum reservoir management resulting in increased reserves volumes and improved recovery factors compared to analogue and surrounding reservoirs
- Design depletion strategies for the heavy and light oil fields in Colombia and for the Montney gas fields in Canada
- Define field development plans (FDP) for all the company's properties and responsible for the short and long-term business plan definition and implementation
- Responsible for the annual and mid-year reserves exercise applying the PRMS and COGEN standards
- Partnered with stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment between development goals and end-user needs.
Subsurface Manager
SCIMITAR PRODUCTION ENERGY
01.2020 - 05.2022
- Directed Scimitar's subsurface team consisting of Reservoir Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists, and Petro-physicists developing several challenging naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs bearing heavy oil and injecting steam as recovery mechanism.
- Developed strategic plans to enhance business growth and profitability.
- Successfully implemented EOR strategies that maximized production and increased reserves
- Implemented gated processes to assure both technical and economic robustness for development strategies.
- Improved assets profitability by promoting and implementing surveillance, reservoir management, production-injection strategies, well placements, static and dynamic modeling, among others
- Assisting the company in the annual business and budget planning
Senior Reservoir Engineer
PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN
01.2014 - 07.2019
- Project Manager for a mature carbonate field under water flood
- Directed a multi-discipline team developing strategies to maximize recovery
- Added oil reserves to the project in excess of 20 million barrels and defined the hydrocarbon life cycle for remaining contingent resources
- Lead Development Reservoir Engineer for a Cluster team in the north directorate
- Acting Team Lead when required
- Lead the design and implementation of the 1- and 5-years cluster Business Plan
- Participated in clusters Opportunity Realization Gated Processes for the different fields in the asset including the Definition, Assess, Select, Define, Execute and Operate stages
- Focal point from the Development Planning team in the reserves' estimation, classification and booking exercise
- Interacted and liaised with Subject Matter Experts and Studies Team on the definition, study and execution of integrated technical reviews and reservoir modeling projects
- Coordinated and assured all the WRFM efforts toward extending the reservoir ‘s life for fields under water flood while maintaining production targets
- Acting as a technical authority to review and approve Pore Pressure Predictions and H2S for drilling of new wells and well interventions
- Assured quality reservoir deliverables for the projects in a timely manner, including material balance, well test, decline analysis, reservoir simulation, analytical modeling, etc
Reservoir Engineering Specialist
TATWEER PETROLEUM
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Project Leader in the implementation of an enhanced oil recovery pilot using the Light Oil Steam Flood method in a Carbonate reservoir
- Responsible for the project budget and safeguard of proper implementation
- Coordinated Peer Review gated processes and assured implemented recommendations
- Ensured alignment of partners and stakeholders during the project life cycle
- Determined new methodologies and Standard Operation Procedures for a new EOR methodology with no commercial worldwide implementation
- Evaluated development strategies for full field implementation
- Constructed and ran reservoir simulation sensitivity models for the thermal and water flood projects in the asset
- Monitored pilot wells for production, injection, temperature, and pressure behavior and evaluated results against simulated performance data
Senior Reservoir Engineer
KUWAIT OIL COMPANY
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Project Lead engineer responsible for the management and further development of two reservoirs in the North Directorate, a sandstone reservoir under depletion mechanism with production in excess of 130 mbopd and a carbonate reservoir under field development plan design
- Generated production type curves for new wells to be drilled
- Constructed sector reservoir simulation models to optimize well performance
- Coordinated Integrated Reservoir Modeling processes on a carbonate reservoir performed by the studies team
- Decided to leave due to inconvenience with my family visas
Senior Reservoir Engineer
PENN WEST PETROLEUM
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Reservoir Engineering Studies Team
- Unconventional Assets: Designed the development strategy for tight oil reservoirs, performed multiple simulation scenarios for multi-stage fractured horizontal wells, performed hydraulic fracture characterization, determined reserves, recovery factors, optimum number of fractures per well and well spacing
- Waterflood: Estimated injection targets for the water flood assets, calculated voidage replacement ratios and allocation factors
- Conducted material balance studies, coordinated PVT analyses, core analyses, SCAL studies, petrophysical calculations, log analysis, etc
- Heavy Oil Team - As a member of the heavy oil group, activities included: Constructed thermal reservoir simulation models, history matching, calibration and predictions
Reservoir Engineer
SHERRITT INTERNATIONAL
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Active team member for development of two offshore naturally fractured fields
- Created simulation models for naturally fractured reservoirs
- Worked closely with the G&G team to achieve an appropriated reservoir characterization including the fracture network modeling
- Performed WRM daily activities, identifying production performance optimizations, workover candidates' selection, etc
- Estimated reserves and evaluated development strategies
Reservoir Engineer
SCHLUMBERGER INFORMATION SOLUTIONS
01.2004 - 01.2007
- Supported Eclipse clients by creating thermal simulation models for CSS and SAGD implementations, sensitizing steam traps and including multi segmented well's concept
- Delivered integrated project management products coupling reservoir, wellbore, flowlines and facilities with significant time's savings
Reservoir and Production Engineer
LANDMARK - HALLIBURTON COMPANY
01.2001 - 01.2003
- Supported clients in drilling, production and reservoir applications including DIMS, VIP, Profile, DSS, TOWcs
Consultant
NEW ENTERPRISE CONSULTING
01.2000 - 12.2000
- Audited reservoir, production and geological data availability for the daily operation and new studies in all the PDVSA districts in Venezuela
Operations Analyst
HALLIBURTON COMPANY
01.1997 - 12.1999
- Designed optimum operation and production strategies complying with gas nomination and contracts by involving both the offshore field and the process plant, focusing them on Cost-benefit Analysis and keeping the equipment's integrity
- As a member of the optimization team, we achieved a 30 percent reduction in the operating costs of an offshore gas field in Colombia
Pre-commissioning Team Lead
DISTRAL S.A.
01.1996 - 12.1997
- Managed the pre-commissioning team of Miraflores Pump Station Project (Ocensa) Phase 2, consisting of 21 multidisciplinary skilled people
- Conducted piping and mechanical tests for all the equipment at the CPF of Cusiana (BP Project), phase 1, with maximum capacity of 650 mbopd
Production and Drilling Engineer
ASP ANALISIS Y SERVICIOS PETROLEROS
01.1994 - 12.1996
- Analyzed production data to be used in Ecopetrol's reservoir simulator
- Planned total resources needed and performing jobs for water wells workovers
Production and Drilling Engineer
BJ SERVICES
01.1992 - 12.1994
- Planned and executed activities involving coiled tubing and nitrogen
- Engineer in training for activities including cementing, packer's implementations, squeeze, gravel packers, extensive fracturing campaigns, etc
Education
Petroleum Engineer -
Universidad de America
12.1994
Skills
- Field Development Strategy
- Reservoir Management Strategies
- Resource Reserves Estimation
- Reservoir management
- Water Flood Management
- Thermal implementations
- Unconventional Reservoir Development
- Reservoir simulation
Professional
Professional Engineering APEGA accreditation - undergoing, SPE member
Training And Professional Development
- Thermal Recovery Methods
- Secondary and Tertiary recovery
- Unconventional Gas Exploitation
- Naturally Fractured reservoirs
- Fundamentals of Project Management
- Reservoir Optimization strategies
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- And more
Personal Information
Citizenship: Canadian/Colombian
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Technical Leader
ARROW EXPLORATION CORP.
05.2022 - Current
Subsurface Manager
SCIMITAR PRODUCTION ENERGY
01.2020 - 05.2022
Senior Reservoir Engineer
PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN
01.2014 - 07.2019
Reservoir Engineering Specialist
TATWEER PETROLEUM
01.2011 - 01.2014
Senior Reservoir Engineer
KUWAIT OIL COMPANY
01.2010 - 01.2011
Senior Reservoir Engineer
PENN WEST PETROLEUM
01.2008 - 01.2010
Reservoir Engineer
SHERRITT INTERNATIONAL
01.2007 - 01.2008
Reservoir Engineer
SCHLUMBERGER INFORMATION SOLUTIONS
01.2004 - 01.2007
Reservoir and Production Engineer
LANDMARK - HALLIBURTON COMPANY
01.2001 - 01.2003
Consultant
NEW ENTERPRISE CONSULTING
01.2000 - 12.2000
Operations Analyst
HALLIBURTON COMPANY
01.1997 - 12.1999
Pre-commissioning Team Lead
DISTRAL S.A.
01.1996 - 12.1997
Production and Drilling Engineer
ASP ANALISIS Y SERVICIOS PETROLEROS
01.1994 - 12.1996
Production and Drilling Engineer
BJ SERVICES
01.1992 - 12.1994
Petroleum Engineer -
Universidad de America
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