Fourth EAGE Workshop on Unconventional Resources
01-02 December 2022, Bogotá, Colombia
MEET THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Roberto De Mitri
Schlumberger
More than 25 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry acquired in several Assets operated worldwide by Eni E&P and Schlumberger. Petroleum Engineer degree from the University of Bologna (Italy) and Master in “Renewable Energy and Sustainability” from the University of Barcelona.
Started the career with Eni E&P where he covered several technical and managerial roles in Europe, West and North Africa, Central and Far East Asia. During this period had the privilege to work in Joint Ventures with some major oil Company like Chevron, Exxon, Total, BP, BG, Shell. Duty and responsibility cover the entire Asset Management cycle including Field Development, Operation and Production Management. In 2012 joined Schlumberger to develop Technical and Financial partnerships with Operators focused on challenging reserves development including brown fields, low perm and unconventional.
Successfully Start-up partnerships in Russia, Ecuador and México. In 2017 moved to Argentina to initiate the resource assessment later followed by the field development of Bandurria Sur (unconventional, Vaca Muerta) in a JV between YPF and Schlumberger. Board representative of few JVs, steering the development strategies, monitoring the execution and financial performance. Recently joined HQs as Global Asset & Production Management supporting Operators in Assets Management, Field Development and Production performance with increasing focus on emission footprint.
Dr. Yucel Akkutlu
Texas A&M University.
Is a Petroleum Engineering Professor and William Keeler faculty fellow at Texas A&M University. He is a holder of the John Edgar Holt ’27 Chair. He is a chemical engineer and received Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in reservoir engineering, thermodynamics, and petrophysics, and has chaired more than 30 graduate-level committees. His research focuses on the characterization and exploitation of unconventional oil and gas resources and on oilfield chemistry. He has written more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, six book chapters, and has four patents. He has received over $6 million in external research funding from sources such as the Department of Energy and the unconventional oil and gas industry. He received the Society of Petroleum Engineers InternationalLester C. Uren Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Technology of Petroleum Engineering, 2020. He was the executive editor of the SPE Journal from 2013-2016. He was a 2014-15 SPE distinguished lecturer. He has received the 2021 TAMU-College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award, 2017 TAMU-Association of Former Students teaching award, 2016 TAMU-Association of Former Students distinguished achievement award and 2015 AIME Rossiter W. Raymond memorial award. Akkutlu served in various SPE, EAGE, and NSERC (Canada) committees.
Dean Sergent
Director Center for Energy Solutions at MCEE.
University of Oklahoma.
Is a 35-year energy industry veteran and is the Executive Director of the Irani Center for Energy Solutions in the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy at the University of Oklahoma. With more than three decades of experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Sergent has a wealth of experience in the industry as a whole and focused expertise in the areas of data analytics and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he was involved in very early-stage shale development in the early 2000’s with Devon Energy in the Barnett Shale, and was part of a research team that partnered with the University of Oklahoma to better understand the producibility of shales. Mr. Sergent most recently founded North by Northwest, which focuses on the development of machine-learning techniques and analyses to rigorously quantify the risk and economic returns of wells to be drilled in the continental United States.
Rodrigo Hernández Ordóñez
CNH.
He is a Geophysical Engineer from the National University of Mexico (UNAM), where he later obtained a Masters degree of Science in the area of Structural Geology and Tectonics.
He carried out a research stay on the subject of Salina Tectonics at the The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
He worked for several years in the Subdivision of Mexican oil exploration, he was also a part of the National Center for Seismological Processing, and later evaluating exploration technologies in the Management and Technological Transfer Management.
After working for private initiative firms, in 2008 he joined the Secretariat of Energy where he was a part of various Councils and Committees within the Mexican government to regulate the hydrocarbon exploration and extraction sector. He actively participated in the elaboration and implementation of the 2013-2014 Energetic Reform, in which the Upstream sector was opened to the private investment in Mexico.
In April 2016, he was chosen by the President of Mexico to be a part of the list of candidates that was sent to the Senate to select a Commissioner of the National Hydrocarbons Commission.
Since May 2018, he has been the General Director of Exploration Dictums at the National Hydrocarbons Commission, and one of his main functions is to analyze and present exploration plans of oil operator in Mexico for its approval.
He is also a professor at UNAM, teaching courses in Reservoir Geology and Petroleum Geology and Geochemistry, for the Petroleum Engineering career.
Nelly Rubio
Ecopetrol.
Doctor of Science Civil Engineer who has worked on several projects for the Oil & Gasindustry in Research and Development (R&D) programs, consulting services, and others since2002. Experience on integrated and multidisciplinary projects in conventional and unconventional wells/reservoirs in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Suriname, Mexico, the continental United States and Alaska. Geomechanics expertise needed to tackle challenges on integrated and multidisciplinary projects for unconventional resources for drilling, landing, completion, and production optimization. Experience on integrated unconventional projects in Mexico, United States ofAmerica, and Colombia since 2011.
Since March 2018, she has been part of the technical team of Ecopetrol S.A. in charge of the geomechanical characterization of potential unconventional shale reservoirs in Colombia. These integrated evaluations are supporting mainly Drilling & Completions operations.
For six years (2010-2016), she worked for Schlumberger Consulting Services as a Senior Geomechanics in Houston-USA, Mexico City-Mexico, and Lima-Peru. During this time, part of the multidisciplinary team that supported internal and external clients in projects on very complex scenarios in deeepwater, tight sands, fractured carbonates, and unconventional Resources. From 2011 to 2013, led geomechanical studies on integrated projects in unconventional resources in Mexico to provide internal/external clients with geomechanical answers for drilling, landing, completion, and production optimization. From 2013 to 2015, she worked on geomechanical evaluations on integrated projects in unconventional resources in the United States of America to provide internal and external clients with geomechanical answers for input to drilling, landing, completion, and reservoir design.
For four years (2005-2008), she was a part of the Group of Technology and Petroleum Engineering at PUC-Rio, Brazil. During this time, she worked on research projects on Petroleum, Civil and Mining Engineering. From 2006 to 2008 as a technical leader for research and software development of Wellbore Stability Simulator that belongs to Petrobras/Brazil. Author and co-author of several published papers (2004-2022). Participated as expositor in more than thirty events as workshops, technical conferences, and courses (2011-2022). Schlumberger NEXT Instructor (2011-2015) in North America (USA and Mexico) and South America (Chile andArgentina).