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Hamburg, Germany

• Manage a 45-strong team providing subsurface support to the company’s global exploration, development, CCS and M&A projects
• Redesign the corporate technical function in a major transformation project
• Steer technical competency development as global Subsurface Functional Lead, supporting knowledge exchange, recruitment and talent development, including mentoring

Hamburg, Germany

• Build a new reservoir & production engineering team of 12 to effectively support global activities
• Directly manage specialist geomechanics projects in UAE, Russia and Mexico
• Provide technical assurance and advice to Exploration, Development and M&A projects

Stavanger Area, Norway

• Successfully deliver the subsurface scope of a ~1.5 billion Euro sub-sea oil development:
• Direct all subsurface facets in the project execution, close-out and field start-up phases: team management, interface across project, to partners and authorities
• Partner with the drilling team to deliver wells that beat productivity and budget goals
• Take the lead technical role in host commercial agreements, in a divestment project and in a 3rd party reserves audit. Chair the Maria Reservoir Committee (RC).Manage an urgent redevelopment project required to fix.
• Execute a major well intervention and drill two new fast-tracked subsea wells
• Mature further development concepts, that are in execution todayManage partner, host & authority stakeholders as Maria Asset Manager/MC Chair

The Hague Area, Netherlands

• Lead the “F17 Chalk” subsurface team in the discovery & appraisal of a new oilfield.
• Deliver full subsurface input to Development Concept stage
• Co-ordinate a multi-disciplinary sub-surface team delivering the static and dual-porosity dynamicmodel, uncertainty and risk management, SCAL program, artificial lift study and preliminarydevelopment well concepts.
• Reservoir engineering design and execution on 3 appraisal wells, including multi-stimulation, horizontal well, well tests and fluid sampling
• Design data gathering strategy for area exploration and appraisal of Chalk prospects

The Hague Area, Netherlands

• Manage operated NL & UK North Sea gas assets (P&Q-fields, K18, D12, Wingate), including exploration, development, production optimisation, M&A and commercial activities
• Implement production improvement opportunities (revive gas well with a frac, PLT campaign in horizontal wells, salt-scale treatments, ESP change-out, compressor re-wheel)
• Design and support an offshore oil discovery well test operation and follow-up PVT and SCAL analysis.
• Design and support an extended horizontal, multi-frac test of a tight gas field
• Supervise definition of a sub-sea, horizontal, multi-frac well infill project
• Build Integrated Production Models for short-/long-term and incremental forecasts (GAP, MBAL, PROSPER)

Tripoli

• Reservoir management (50 wells / 90,000 bopd), reservoir monitoring (well tests, logging), production support, drilling and work-over operations
• Project co-ordinator of As Sarah field re-development (10 wells and facilities upgrades)
• Simulation to define the infill drilling strategy, HM updates. Co-ordinate a major SCAL study
• Support an ESP pilot project, work-over campaign and exploration program
• Focal point for op unit business planning and reserves Reporting, incl. 3rd party (SEC) reserve audit

Buenos Aires

• Reservoir engineer for Wintershall Argentina's large non-operated portfolio.
• Simulation to justify testing and development of undeveloped oil rims
• Forecasting (Simulation and IPM) for non-operated projects, exploration and acquisition projects
• Production reporting, reserves, business planning

Kassel (Germany), The Hague (Netherlands), Emlichheim (Germany), Buenos Aires

• Simulation project of a Russian oil field (Kassel)
• Gas reservoir engineering and simulation project (Netherlands)
• IPM long-term gas forecasts of multiple fields and RFT study of gas cap / oil rim field (Argentina)
• E300 Simulation project of Emlichheim steam-flood (Germany)

Master'S Degree, Reservoir Evaluation And Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Geology/Earth Science, General

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