Practical Easy-To-Apply Intelligent Socio Technical Solutions To Enhance Productivity In Difficult To Produce Complex Assets
SOCIO TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS: TECHNOLOGIES + PROCESSES + COMPETENCIES
SOCIO TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS: TECHNOLOGIES + PROCESSES + COMPETENCIES
Practical Easy-To-Apply Intelligent Socio Technical Solutions To Enhance Productivity In Difficult To Produce Complex Assets
SOCIO TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS: TECHNOLOGIES + PROCESSES + COMPETENCIES
SOCIO TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS: TECHNOLOGIES + PROCESSES + COMPETENCIES
Bio of Jose Luis Ortiz Volcan - Consultant, Founder & CEO of OptimaWell
Born in Cumaná-Sucre State-Venezuela (in front of Caribbean Sea). 44 years of experience in production engineering , technical, operational and managerial roles. Production Technology manager for LAGOVEN (former Creole-Exxon) where Lake Maracaibo mature fields, Orinoco heavy oil assets and high pressure, high temperature deep reservoirs North of Monagas, were part of his experience. He was corporate production optimization technical manager and production center of
excellence manager, both positions in PDVSA Exploration and Production Venezuela (>3 MMBOD, >30000 Wells, all type of reservoirs and hydrocarbons, organizations from 25 to 1000 professionals). He worked in reservoir development and improved-enhanced oil recovery, Well Design and Diagnosis, Thermal Recovery steam injection CSS, PETC, Continuous, Intermittent and Slug Gas Lift, Optimization, artificial intelligence based optimization projects (SOLAG, SEDILAG, NetLAG), BADEP Project Manager (exploration and production data base for national oil industry), "ARAR" oriented to improving technical competences in key knowledge areas of oil and gas, integrated productivity teams, MIP (Integrated Productivity Methodology) and PAM (Petroleum Asset Management) oriented to optimizing reservoir production total cost and well productivity by developing key technical competences, transferring technology and best practices from North Sea operations (UK and Norway). At Halliburton, he was consultant and project manager with consulting services business development responsibilities in Venezuela, Trinidad Tobago and Suriname. In 2009 he founded his own independent consulting company OptimaWell. During 2011 and 2012 worked in heavy oil and well productivity projects in Colombia and Mexico. During 8-1/2 years worked in Kuwait as consultant for the biggest thermal EOR heavy oil development project and was consultant for 2 enhanced technical service agreements between Shell and Kuwait Oil Company to transfer best practices and technologies for enhanced oil recovery and production operations in heavy oil and conventional oil assets.
Chemical Engineer with M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering, Masters in Business/Financial Management and postgraduate studies in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Attended business programs in Columbia and Harvard universities. He has 82 papers and presentations and has taught in-house courses, seminars and workshops in oil industry during all his career. Lifetime member of Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE). Chair of SPE Caracas Petroleum Section from 2002 to 2007, in 2008 was awarded the SPE South American and Caribbean Regional Service Award. In summary: Mentor-Strategist-Leader-Builder-Coordinator-Facilitator
Chemical Engineer with M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering, Masters in Business/Financial Management and postgraduate studies in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Attended business programs in Columbia and Harvard universities. He has 82 papers and presentations and has taught in-house courses, seminars and workshops in oil industry during all his career. Lifetime member of Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE). Chair of SPE Caracas Petroleum Section from 2002 to 2007, in 2008 was awarded the SPE South American and Caribbean Regional Service Award. In summary: Mentor-Strategist-Leader-Builder-Coordinator-Facilitator
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