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Houston, Tx, Us

Perth, Australia

Energy market, economic and geopolitics assessments supporting Woodside's independent corporate wide economic and business perspective. Market opportunity evaluation across the O&G value chain.Comparative competitive intelligence identification.Market landscape assessment, scenario analysis and early warning outlook.Key stakeholders board and executive committee.

Perth, Australia

Woodside and Operator committee representation of future supply and subsurface matters.Facilitate and negotiate the resolution of business and technical conflicts in alignment of future supply matters.Work closely with marketing, law and finance support to adapt to changing market demands.Establishing and maintaining good relations and alliance towards strategy with joint venture partners, serving as point of contact internally and externally.Government relations representation on technical issues involving legislative interpretation.

Perth, Western Australia

Corporate reserves coordinator managing reserves calculations, reporting and certification including hydrocarbon maturation plans and Board review.Compliance and Governance advisor for reservoir management function.

Perth, Western Australia

Coordination of subsurface technical work in pursuing other resource owners stranded offshore gas fields as tieback opportunities to North West Shelf LNG Plant. Successfully reached LOI stage.Utilising purpose built nodal pressure analysis tool to model production profiles.Statistical decision analysis including economics principles of business indicators for tariff purposes.Providing technical support to business unit on extended interest partners and joint venture support.

Perth, Western Australia

Reservoir management of the Vincent field, an offshore thin oil column consisting of heavy biodegraded oil with a gas cap and strong aquifer drive developed via horizontal multilateral wells. Reservoir management of the Enfield and Stybarrow fields, two offshore waterflood reservoirs with a high degree of compartmentalization and heavy biodegraded sour oil producing from variable quality sandstone reservoirs. Preemptive in creating technical reservoir souring (H2S) models. Waterflood design and management including injection optimization and chemical tracer analysis.Reservoir surveillance, and well test analysis to generate gas lift tubing performance curves.Produce actionable reservoir management plans to guide production optimization.Gas cap management via flaring restrictions, gas re-injection capabilities and potential blow down.Long-term production forecasting and budgeting coupled with probabilistic analysis.Field dynamic modeling using 3D dynamic simulation in Eclipse/Frontsim/Reveal for infield opportunity analysis and enhanced oil recovery options including history matching, reviewing subsurface inputs, providing business case proposals and communication of results.Chairing Producing To the Limit (PLT) reviews involving opportunity framing, risk management and value of information calculations for subsurface development.End of year reserves calculation, reporting and certification including hydrocarbon maturation plans.Implementing 4D seismic data for improved full field dynamic history match.Guest lecturer to MSc students at Curtin University on “Practical Aspects of Waterflood Reservoirs”Mentor to multiple junior and graduate reservoir engineers.Computer Skills: Schlumberger Petrel, Schlumberger Eclipse, Schlumberger OFM, PETEX Petroleum Suite (GAP, PROSPER, MBAL, PVTP), @Risk, Geolog, Pressure Explorer, R, Matlab, AspenONE HYSYS, Ryder Scott Software, MS Offic

Perth, Western Australia

Browse Petrophysics:Knowledge of integrated petrophysics including log analysis and tool response.Responsible for documenting the petrophysical inputs required for the Basis of Well Design and Data Acquisition Plan for Browse development (Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa).Responsible for designing and overseeing the Browse net overburden porous plate analysis to validate reservoir simulation inputs.

Perth, Western Australia

North Rankin Reservoir Engineer:Monthly production review, quarterly pressure analysis and yearly simulation update.Optimization of C5+ liquids as a function of current production, future reservoir pressure and the impact on ultimate recovery. To ensure validity of analysis, MBAL, GAP and Eclipse was used to cross check results.Gaea field static to dynamic modeling - grid scaling, PVT, relative permeability and tubing flow performance inputs to Eclipse.2010 Gaea/ Ishmael End of Year Reserves note to file.

Perth, Western Australia

NWS Forecasting and Business AnalystIntimate knowledge of DIME - a software package that models upstream as a nodal pressure system to maximize liquids production with meeting LNG demand. Statistical decision and uncertainty analysis.Economic principles and their direct implications on project business drivers.

North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

6 week secondment to remote indigenous community in North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.Supporting Gumatj Corporation to build long term sustainable profitability of their end-to-end timber unit.

Master Of Mining And Energy Law (Llmininge), Mining And Energy Law, Wam 78%

• Oil and Gas Agreements • Australian Oil and Gas Law • Corporate Governance for Resource Companies • Environmental Protection Law •.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical And Materials Engineering, 3.7

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Study Abroad Exchange Program for 2007.