Practical Easy-To-Apply Intelligent Socio Technical Solutions To Enhance Productivity In Difficult To Produce Complex Assets
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
Bio of Jose Luis Ortiz Volcan - Consultant, Founder & CEO of OptimaWell
Born in Cumaná-Sucre State-Venezuela (in front of Caribbean Sea). >40 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 improved-enhanced oil recovery, Well Design, Diagnosis and Optimization, Steam Based Thermal Recovery Methods (CSS, Steamflood), Continuous, Intermittent and Slug Gas Lift, 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. From 1999 to 2007, led implementation of "MIP" (Integrated Productivity Methodology) and "PAM" (Petroleum Asset Management) transferring technologies and best practices from North Sea operations (UK and Norway). From 2007 to 2012, worked for Halliburton as consultant and project manager with consulting services and business development responsibilities in Venezuela, Trinidad Tobago and Suriname. In 2009 in Venezuela he founded OptimaWell an independent consulting company. During 2011 and 2012 worked in a heavy oil asset appraisal in Colombia, and subcontracted by Halliburton to lead the national well productivity project for the 12 production assets of PEMEX in Mexico. From 2012 to 2021, principal consultant for the first heavy oil thermal EOR development project in Kuwait, and from 2013 to 2021, 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. He was coleader of Center of Excellence for Heavy Oil in Kuwait Oil Company. Since 2021 is the CEO and founder of OptimaWell in the United States providing Integrated Asset Management as a Service.
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 46 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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