Resume

• 2004

  Shell Upstream Americas - Deep Water

  USA

  - Led

  defined

  developed

  and deployed sand face completion technology in Shell Upstream Deepwater.\n- Served as the highest technical adviser & expert in sand control and sand management for Shell Upstream.\n- Provided technical reviews on Completion and Production Engineering to critical deepwater projects around the globe.\n- Represented Shell in external industry panels

  consortia and SPE events in sand control and sand management areas.\n- Conducted pioneering laboratory tests and delivered new physical insights of water injection in unconsolidated sand at matrix and fracturing conditions. (ARMA 15-411

  11-165

  10-360 and 10-359)\n- Developed experimental programs & numerical modeling to evaluate screen/wellbore deformation due to drawdown and depletion. (SPE 179018-MS

  ARMA 15-0301

  ARMA 08-262)

  Prod Eng & Sand Control Advisor - Shell Global Principal Technical Expert

  Houston

  Texas Area

  Shell Upstream Americas - Deep Water

  USA

• 2000

  Shell International E&P

  Bellaire Technology Center

  Houston

  - Led Shell Global SAND R&D team\n- Developed

  delivered

  and deployed Shell bean-up and maximum rate ramp-up operation guidelines for cased hole gravel pack & fracpack wells. (SPE 95870

  84497)\n- Delivered a new model of fracture containment due to layering (Young Modulus contrast) thru laboratory test for consolidated rock. (NARMS 04-620

  Pages 273-279

  and 289-296 in Rock Mechanics in National Interest

  Elsworth

  Tinucci & Heasley (eds)

  Swets & Zeitling Lisse

  2001)

  Senior Staff Engineer

  Shell International E&P

• 1995

  Shell International E&P

  Inc

  Energy Research Park - ERP9

  5000 Gulf Freeway

  Houston TX

  Conduct research in areas of sand face completions

  hydraulic fracturing

  well unloading and ramp-up operations

  and geomechanics for producers and injectors.

  Associate Professor

  University of Houston - Petroleum Engineering Department

  Bellaire Technolony Center

  - Designed and executed fracpacks in Shell deepwater projects in the Gulf of Mexico: Mars

  Ursa/Princess

  Europa

  & Brutus.\n- Maintained fracpack performances

  improved design and execution procedures

  and documented Shell fracpack best practices.\n- Conducted novel laboratory lab tests on effects of perforating and gravel packing in unconsolidated sand (SPE 38633) resulting in improvement of sand control completion design & execution practices.

  Staff Research Engineer

  Shell International E&P

  Inc

• 1990

  Bellaire Research Center

  Houston

  - Developed and deployed Shell fracpack design model & software

  field execution procedures

  and completion performance model. (SPE 26563 and 26564)\n- Designed and deployed 10 fracpacks in Shell Shelf (shallow water) to field trial and optimize sand control

  field execution (on-site layout & logistics)

  and fracturing fluids QC requirements

  and evaluate fracpack service tool functionality & performances.

  Senior Research Engineer

  Shell Development Company

  SPE Distinguished Member

  SPE

• 1985

  Shell Development Company

  Bellaire Research Center

  Houston

  - Developed hydraulic fracture model (SPE 18194) and integrated different components (fracturing fluids rheology

  temperature

  minifracs

  cost

  reservoir simulation

  and economic optimization) of hydraulic fracturing treatment into an integrated hydraulic fracture design software package.

  Research Engineer

  Shell Development Company

• 1980

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  PhD. Thesis: A Dislocation Method for Solving Three-Dimensional Crack and Inclusion Problems

  Civil Engineering - Solids & Fracture Mechanics

  ASCE

• 1977

  Master’s Degree

  MS Thesis: Determination of Elastic Thin Plate Vibrational Characteristics by the Boundary Element Method

  Civil Engineering - Structural Mechanics

  ASCE

• 1973

  English

  Spanish

  BS

  Civil Engineering & Material Science

• Sand Control

  Oil/Gas

  Product Optimization

  Petroleum Engineering

  Reservoir Management

  Field Development

  Completions

  Completion

  Upstream

  Onshore

  Offshore Drilling

  Production Technology

  Energy Industry

  Petrophysics

  Petroleum

  Drilling

  Well Testing

  Oilfield

  Reservoir Simulation

  Gas

  Wong

  George

  University of Houston - Petroleum Engineering Department