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Wilcy Zambrano

Summary

Petroleum professional with extensive experience in optimizing resource extraction and ensuring operational safety. Mainly focused on increasing the recovery factor and extending the lifetime of the mature fields. Excels at analyzing data and coming up with impactful insights to enhance decision-making.



Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Oil Production Engineer

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
05.2011 - 05.2022

Identify development opportunities:

  • Monitor daily drilling, completion, work-over and abandonment activities to ensure the agreed plan for the wells is being followed and highlight any deviations required.
  • Coordinate well intervention activities (completion, workover, well maintenance and abandonment) from planning, to execution, and post-job evaluation.
  • Prepare detailed well intervention programs and supervise jobs in the field. Programs include production logging, water saturation monitoring, production enhancement using stimulation techniques, recompletions, well integrity, leak detection, zonal isolation, water and sand control.
  • Monitor production performance, diagnose any anomalies and recommend the best engineering solutions to maintain and improve the productivity of wells.
  • Identifying improved-production opportunities in the wells, to ensure reliability and optimum well performance.
  • Participate in project technical review and review proposals to ensure efficient/economic operations.
  • Designing and implementing quality assurance, control measures and performing post-job analysis.
  • Create and maintain database for wells covering all operational job details, data acquired, well tests, pressure history, production data and optimization work performed.
  • Database management for reservoir historical interpretation and its statistical analysis.
  • Mentor junior engineers, fostering a supportive learning environment that cultivated their professional growth.

Contact: Jennyfer Cegarra

Cegarrajn@pdvsa.com


Supervisor

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
05.2010 - 05.2011

Leading the team of Reservoir Operations:

  • Increasing team productivity by implementing efficient workflows and setting clear expectations for team members.
  • Demonstrating commitment to the organization's core values, leading by example and fostering a culture of excellence.
  • Facilitating effective communication and collaborating with other departments to achieve organizational goals, fostering teamwork across various functions.
  • Maintaining database systems to track and analyze operational and production data.
  • Identifying and developing tools and techniques to innovate and improve the performance of Reservoir Operations department .

Contact: Maria Aguilar

Aguilarm@pdvsa.com

Reservoir Engineer

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
08.2009 - 05.2010

Reservoir evaluation:

  • Reservoir evaluation and energy characterization to identify development opportunities and recommend the best exploitation strategies.
  • Developing production schemes of the reservoir.
  • Participate in field development planning to optimize production.
  • Work with numerical models to develop projects to increase production.

Contact: Edgar Gonzalez

Gonzalezeis@pdvsa.com

Reservoir Monitoring Engineer

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
06.2005 - 08.2008

Reservoir Monitoring:

  • Monitor well's performance on daily basis, diagnose associated issues and recommend optimization opportunities to improve well productivity and maximize the field recovery factor.
  • Monitor daily drilling, completion, work-over and abandonment activities to ensure the agreed plan for the wells is being followed and highlight any deviations required.
  • Design and coordinate well procedures for completion, workover, well maintenance and abandonment.
  • Review and validate wells production data in order to keep the company's database updated and reliable, facilitating access to data and identifying changes in the well's production trend.

Contact: Edgar Gonzalez

Gonzalezeis@pdvsa.com


Education

Post Graduate Program - Data Scientists and Business Analytics

McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas At Austin
United States
08.2023

Master's Degree - Oil and Gas Exploration

Centro Superior De Formación Repsol And Heriot Watt University
Spain And Edinburgh
07.2009

Bachelor of Science - Petroleum Engineering

La Universidad Del Zulia (L.U.Z.)
Venezuela
10-2004

Skills

  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Well completions
  • Workover
  • Python
  • Synthesizing insights from data
  • Training and mentoring
  • Predictive analytics
  • Resource management
  • Documentation and reporting
  • Detail-oriented
  • Analytical problem solving
  • Team collaboration

Certification

Post Graduate Program in Data Science and Business Analytics, 09/01/08, 08/01/23

Affiliations

  • Society of Petroleum Engineer (S.P.E. International)

Personal Projects

Gain knowledge about Data Science to integrate within the oil industry workflow.

Achievements

Increase in production lifetime and recovery factor in Guafita Field


Through the production of a very thin oil sand that had not been considered as a producer before, reaching a high oil rate in the first wells, beating the forecast.

Timeline

Oil Production Engineer

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
05.2011 - 05.2022

Supervisor

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
05.2010 - 05.2011

Reservoir Engineer

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
08.2009 - 05.2010

Reservoir Monitoring Engineer

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
06.2005 - 08.2008
Post Graduate Program in Data Science and Business Analytics, 09/01/08, 08/01/23

Post Graduate Program - Data Scientists and Business Analytics

McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas At Austin

Master's Degree - Oil and Gas Exploration

Centro Superior De Formación Repsol And Heriot Watt University

Bachelor of Science - Petroleum Engineering

La Universidad Del Zulia (L.U.Z.)
Wilcy Zambrano