MALOU GUERRERO-LEE

• Creates solutions to increase oil production and mitigate decline through improved analytical and numerical forecasting methodologies and well and pattern designs; well repair, maintenance, and drilling recommendations; writing and formalizing field-wide injection strategies; understanding impact of rock compaction on well life and recovery process; proactive surveillance, and creative integrated reservoir studies in Belridge and Lost Hills Diatomite Waterflood
• Created a novel approach to determine water injection and production targets using dynamic well data in streamline modeling and simulation
• Led resource to reserves EOR projects, carrying them from framing to implementation phase seeking optimal solutions for greatest returns while complying with strict safety and environmental standards
• Led East Cat Canyon Subsurface Team in evaluating various thermal, solvent, and electrical heating production technologies
• Built analytical models that generated full-field forecasts using numerical results, evaluated oil viscosity- reducing strategies, and tested operating concepts for heavy oil application
• Created economic models used to evaluate recovery strategies, development alternatives, and project value, supporting decision-making
• Spearheaded yearly basis for booking and reserves audit activities, booking contingent resource volumes exceeding 100 MMBOE
• Designed and conducted well tests to determine most prudent source of water and water disposal sites in a new project, avoiding use of fresh water
• Implemented two-prong Dmin and statistical approach on competitor data to generate EUR’s and production functions to support company Monterey shale project forecasts
• Evaluated pressure transient and production tests to support Exploration Team’s effort to develop prospects
• Led Ventura Oil Field’s core reserves validation exercise for parent companies’ corporate and SEC reserves governance compliance, cleaning up books to eliminate stale reserves and assigning volumes to proper categories
• Created the full-field operating plan and monthly production and water injection targets for Ventura Oil Field with annual funding of $100 MM by building a design-to-capacity tool to reconcile subsurface and surface needs thereby moving oil volumes to Proved category
• Built a forecasting tool used to generate base and future production and injection volumes, integrating all field projects in forecasting and determining water injection adds or reductions in various waterflood reservoirs
• Mentors young engineers on principles of Reservoir Engineering and their projects as part of company knowledge transfer program
• Teaches in-house Reservoir Engineering course series and Oil Field Life Cycle class

• Prepared set-ups, supervised laboratory experiments, and gave lecture in General Physics, providing instruction to up 25 undergraduate students per class

• Developed more than 80 producers and 110 water injectors adding greater than 20 MMBOE of proved developed reserves and mitigating base decline in Lost Hills Oil Field, California
• Led Lost Hills Diatomite core reserves validation exercise for SEC and Chevron corporate reserves governance compliance, supplying reviewers with a complete set of audit trail
• Led Lost Hills teams through the Chevron Project Development and Execution Process (CPDEP) with project capital funding of $50-150 MM, while fulfilling Reservoir Engineering and Decision Dialog Process (DDP) model-building responsibilities
• Generated the business and operating plans for Lost Hills and Cymric Oil Fields, with focus on alignment between the business and asset development plans
• Mentored young engineers on principles of Reservoir Engineering, production and water injection forecasting, decision analysis, development planning, and reserves evaluation

• Built numerical reservoir model, wrote proposal, and presented for $40MM funding of two wells in Cougar and Brutus (Gulf of Mexico Deepwater) with combined proved reserves greater than 10 MMBOE
• Analyzed more than 25 pressure build-up and drawdown datasets from Boomvang and Brutus, using results for workover recommendations and material balance calculation
• Collaborated in planning full-life development of more than 30 stacked and compartmentalized reservoirs in Brutus given a limited number of well slots on the platform
• Prepared the first set of audit files for proved reserves totaling greater than 100 MMBOE in Brutus in accordance with SEC rules during a very difficult time in the company in 2003
• Recommended rightly to Exploration Team not to buy an offshore oilfield with actual production from two wells within 5% of forecast

• Built and calibrated 3-D streamline waterflood models of Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, Alaska and South El Morgan Oil Field, Egypt used for waterflood management and targeting new development
• Designed and implemented light gas injection surveillance program in Prudhoe Bay to determine miscible displacement efficiency
• Recommended drilling of more than 50 infill wells in waterflood area in Prudhoe Bay
• Created Excel-based waterflood injection optimization tool, increasing water allocation efficiency in Prudhoe Bay

• Invalidated Corey oil and gas relative permeability and capillary pressure functions for geothermal applications by inverse modeling using iTOUGH2, a pioneer endeavor

• Created a productivity index model for the Kuparuk Oil Field, Alaska used to schedule well shutins, resulting to optimized operation and increased well intervention efficiency

• Created production forecasts, wrote proposals, and presented for funding of more than 5 production wells to maintain steam supply to the 330-MW power plant in the Mak-Ban Geothermal Field
• Designed and implemented the first non-destructive test to measure scale thickness in steam pipelines in Mak-Ban
• Reviewed and approved daily enthalpy tests taken from production wells
• Analyzed production, pressure, and temperature logs as part of surveillance responsibilities, ensuring that cold injected water did not encroach into the production area

• Taught Natural Science to undergraduate Philosphy students

• Prepared for two subjects per semester, wrote and graded examinations, lectured on undergraduate level Electromagnetism, General Physics, and Natural Science, and conducted laboratory classes

• Built the Philippines’ first radio frequency YBCO superconducting quantum interference device that could measure magnetic fields up to 10E-12 T

Masters Thesis: Estimation of Relative Permeability from a Dynamic Boiling Experiment

• Graduate Assistantship - Recipient

Masters Thesis: Sustainable Development of Geothermal Energy in the Philippines

• Australian Agency for International Development - Full-ride Scholarship Recipient

Undergraduate Thesis: Observation of RF SQUID Behavior at 77K in YBa2Cu3Ox and Demonstration of Magnetometer Operation

• National Science and Technology Authority/Department of Science and Technology - Full-ride Scholarship Recipient