Carlos Miranda Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

- Technical Advisor for the Hess Bakken Subsurface team- Performed multiple projects for field development and reservoir performance to increase asset value- Lead incorporation o new technologies for reservoir simulation and data science applications to expedite engineering processes

Subsurface Technical Supervisor – Bakken Asset Team, Marathon Oil CorporationJuly 2016 to presentTechnical supervisor of a multidisciplinary team in charge of advanced studies and technical projects.- Created and implemented field development strategies based on reservoir simulation workflow that integrates complex fracture modeling and GPU based reservoir simulation. - Implemented slickwater treatments in the Hector area of Bakken based on reservoir simulation studies, resulting in 60% increase over the original type curve for the area, and became the standard completions treatment. - Provided technical support for budgeting, forecasting, and reserve/economic analysis for year-end reserve reporting on existing assets.- Spearheaded stochastic reservoir simulation project (Eclipse, MEPO) to frame type curves for the West Myrmidon and Hector fields of Marathon’s Bakken.- Conducted complex fracturing modeling and reservoir simulation studies to estimate points of diminishing return for fracturing treatment volumes (Kinetix-Intersect project) - Performed economic evaluation and implementation of well spacing studies for all Bakken assets. - Lead of data acquisition projects: PVT, DFIT’s, SCAL, microseimic, DTS and DAS and BH gauges permanent installations, for advanced reservoir modeling and geoengineering completions. - Performed advanced SCAL project to determine matrix and natural fractures permeabilities using CO2 and N2 for core cleaning and flooding tests. - Mentored less experienced engineers and technicians.

Houston, Usa

Conducted integrated engineering projects and reservoir simulation for unconventional reservoirs. - Developed new concepts to understand unconventional reservoir performance to maximize asset value. - Modeled Circle Ridge reservoir, Wyoming, an EOR project using dual displacement method in a dual porosity/dual perm reservoir with complex overthrust faults. - Conducted evaluation of production performance and development strategies for the East Knox area, Woodford shale. Developed a data acquisition plan to constrain the uncertainties on reservoir model. Performed advanced PVT analysis for compositional simulation of gas condensates shale play.- Chaired integrated reservoir engineering project, Bakken shale, for well spacing optimization and to frame reserves estimations. The project included shale characterization, microseismic monitoring and multiwell reservoir simulation to estimate optimum well spacing and EUR’s for the Bakken East Myrmidon area.- Evaluated the Pearsall shale production potential with numerical simulation and performed reserves estimations and economic analysis. - Performed production performance analysis and forecasting for horizontal wells in the Woodford shale using advanced Kappa URC software.- Provided mentoring and training to young engineers for unconventional reservoirs, and DFIT analysis.

Houston,Usa

Provided technical support for reservoir engineering and reservoir simulation for the Eagle Ford Integrated Project Team at Marathon Oil. - Estimated optimum well spacing and EUR’s with multiwell reservoir simulation for the Eagle Ford Shale, using Petrel and Eclipse workflows. Integration of shale characterization, microseismic monitoring and multiwell reservoir modeling.- Performed stochastic reservoir simulation for reserves estimations of Eagle Ford shale, Gonzales County- Conducted integrated reservoir engineering study to determine the optimum number of stages and recommendations for fracturing treatments, Eagle Ford, Karnes county. Project included: reservoir modeling, numerical simulation, rate transient analysis and hydraulic fracturing modeling.- Implemented engineering study to determine optimum artificial lift methods and guidelines for completions and operating conditions for different fluid regions in the Eagle Ford shale play.- Designed and analysed Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests for more than 20 wells in the Eagle Ford Shale

Houston, Usa

Provided technical advisory on reservoir engineering for unconventional reservoirs to Halliburton Consulting and Project Management division. Assigned as project leader and reservoir engineering expert for several local and international shale projects.

Duncan, Oklahoma

Extensive involvement in research and implementation of reservoir engineering applications for stimulation technologies.- Development and implementation of links between reservoir simulators and fracture simulators, for reservoir performance studies of unconventional reservoirs with multi fractured horizontal wells.- Development and application of modern After Closure Analysis techniques for the determination of formation permeability and reservoir pressure for unconventional and conventional reservoirs.- Research on dual porosity models (Shale Gas and CBM reservoirs) for After Closure Analysis for the determination of reservoir permeability and pore pressure.- Research and reservoir simulation of the injection of relative permeability modifiers for water conformance projects.

Egypt, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru

Several international assignments in Egypt, Brazil, Venezuela and Peru as Technical Advisor and field engineer for Production Enhancement and stimulation projects, on-shore and off-shore.

Postgraduate Degree, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

Bachelor'S Degree, Petroleum Engineering