Operation & intervention engineer achievements

Joseph Z. Bracic, P. Eng.
Consultant/Advisor Petroleum/Completion/Production/Artificial Lift Engineer
Calgary, Alberta, Canada Mobile: 403-560-7112
Email: josephzb2004@yahoo.com Phone: 403-203-4722
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ACHIVEMENTS / SKILLS
As an Operation & Intervention Engineer with Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, AGOCO,
IPM/Schlumberger, Apex/BHP Billiton Petroleum, SGS/Petrofac Development and Hess Corporation included:
From the various forms of engineering analysis, plans and executes wellbore, infrastructure and facility related
optimization projects as warranted through work with the Operations Group and various technical staff (Facilities,
Geological, etc.).
In-depth understanding of production separation equipment, metering equipment, and allocation of production
data to balance with field meter data.
Plans and implements a general program in the field operations office that has responsibility for well operation
and interventions. This includes coordinating and preparing detailed work procedures and monitoring of field
execution for activities associated with well interventions.
Conducts Scale removal with coiled tubing. Designs and supervises milling and fishing jobs.
Launches field facility design and optimization from the wellhead to the custody transfer points for oil and gas
streams.
Carries out Organization of Change and Process Hazard Analysis.
Monitors and discusses the performance of installed production equipment (Xmas trees, chokes, SSSCV).
Focuses on processes which maximize production.
Performing stimulation technologies (for example, acidizing, fracturing, water shutoff) based on well an reservoir
diagnostics.
Designing Workovers and Well Remediation activities.
Installs and monitors Intelligent Completions.
Reviews field cost estimates and monthly accrual reporting.
Continuously reviews gathering systems to enhance production and lower operating costs. This includes sanding
of wells, scale deposition, poor injection or production profile conformance .
Conducts leak detection surveys and evaluation; and artificial lift system both in offshore and onshore locations.
Completes post well intervention to ensure continual improvement.
Stays accountable for wellbore interventions, ensuring maximum recovery for lowest cost by applying knowledge of
well completions, inflow performance, well simulations, nodal analysis and artificial lift.
Reviews candidate wells for P&A (Plug & Abandon).

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Identifies, develops, plans well operation; well testing; well intervention; subsea; plant operation or plant
modification targets and priorities to maximize production and/or injection.
Providing input to new and existing asset developments.
Delivers the primary interface between Facilities engineering, Operations, and Exploitation groups.
Develops an awareness and ability to identify, investigate, audit and control technical change (within limit of
discipline knowledge).
Plans, supervises and/or carries out a variety of rigless operations, testing and stimulation to ensure optimization of
oil/gas producing wells, water supply and water/gas injection wells.
Monitors oil/gas producing and water injection wells performance. Offers technical support to field operations in
the production of hydrocarbons and the efficient use of water and/or gas injection systems.
Strong field experiences in all areas of productions Operations, well surveillance activities,Surface facilities & water
production. Screens wells for candidate selection, proposed cleaning job.
Launches programs for rigless operations, perforation, kick-off operation, stimulation and well testing to be
carried out by service companies. Follows up and supervises all wireline work carried out by contractors.
Coordinates and supervise down-hole equipment testing and maintenance.
Reviews and appraises water injection clusters performance and discusses the long term injection test with
concerned engineers of other Departments.
Supervises trials of new surface and downhole equipment.
Develops a knowledge of cost control over all production engineering and allocated well engineering activities
including interventions, repairs and change outs, and use to monitor these activities.
Carries out Stimulation and Nitrogen Kick off Jobs.
Coordinates the development of operating, reporting and recording procedures for oil, gas and water
production/injection performance.
Carries out Slickline jobs: BHP & Temperature survey,gauge cutter, impression block, plug and WLRSSSV setting,
tubing end locator run and fishing jobs.
Acts as focal point for production Engineering related contracts (e.g. Rigless, wireline, well test and redressing),
where fields requirements and contract pre-qualification is conducted.
Implements volumes for acid stimulation, designs procedures (for conventional & retarded acids).

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Designs & supervises Water shut-offs using X-linked gels/CaCO3 chips placement/squeeze cementing/ thru-tubing
bridge plug.
Designs jobs with correspondence to service companies and supervisesthe jobs to isolate water producing interval
at different wells.
Performs post acid deliverability analysis.
Writes, reviews and supervises workover operations including single & dual completion retrieval as company site
representative.
Monitoring well performance and base production decline of assigned wells, by tracking daily rates and facilities
reports.
Knows the Company health, safety and environmental policy,procedures, regulations as they relate to his area of
responsibility, and ensures that they are effectively implemented in his domain.
Monitoring production well tests.
Generates and updates accurate well performance models and production optimization.
Identifies cost efficiencies and feasible well-work opportunities to increase production and reserves.
Endorses, plans and delivers the required surveillance program.
Leads/takes part in multidisciplinary well reviews.
Analyzes the information obtained to optimize daily production and decline options in liaison with the multi-
disciplinary subsurface team.
Maximizes the field total production by making the most of the available flow lines, surface facilities and well stock
and by identifying opportunities to optimize its usage.
Reviews completed work projects to enhance efficiency and success of future projects.
Follows up on contractor service performance and adherence to safe work practices.
Performs tubing and packer movement analysis and directs all inputs to the analysis.
Reviews existing working process to expose problems then apply engineering techniques to solve problems and
update processes.
Conducts production engineering from well borehole to production facility for developing and producing fields.

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Acquires well condition and performance data and maintain production database.
Initiates contract specifications, Statements of Work and Requests for Quotations as necessary to support work
projects of assignments.
Monitors, reports and regulates well performance.
Reviews the current production facilities and explores for optimization.
Instigates, plans and directs corrective action when well performance does not confirm to targets.
Plans and directs well shut downs and start-ups.
Designs well completion and well interventions.
Supervises, coordinates, plans, assigns, trains, and directs subordinate personnel.
Demonstrates ability to working effectively within teams to quickly identify key project risks & develop project
evaluation analyses for investment decisions.
Directs field work in connection with drilling and production operations.
Remaining flexible in the face-paced offshore and onshore programs while ensuring prudent production
technology credibility.
Directs, reviews, appraises, coordinates team in the preparation of petroleum engineering projects,studies, and
programs pertaining to oil field development, oil and gas production operations, reservoir performance monitoring,
oil and gas reserves estimation, field equipment, enhanced recovery methods, abandonment operations and other
related petroleum engineering work.
Oversees contracts and regulations; develops budgets pertaining to oil operations.
Experience in creating proposalsforinterventionsto increaseproduction such as work-overs,rig-less interventions,
acid jobs and hydraulic fracture treatments is required.
Commitment and appreciation for interactions with reservoir engineering and other disciplines.
Knowledge of well intervention techniques (setting plugs, hydraulic fracturing of producers and injectors, chemical
stimulations, side tracking from old wells, slick-line and electric-line cased hole logging).
Understanding of surface facility operation, reservoir fluid flow, established and emerging technology,
workovers, short-term production enhancement, and system de-bottlenecking.

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Investigates and diagnoses well problems and proposes action requirements.
Recommends workover for specific wells giving prognosis of each well and workover justification.
Proven experience in remedial well work solutions for horizontal wells in heterogeneous oil reservoirs with variable
geo-layer parameters: porosity, permeability, water saturation, thickness, etc.
Executes workovers performed with drilling rigs or large workover units.
Implements multiple operations to accurately and quickly generate detailed work procedures as needed in a
demanding environment.
Prepares a detailed workover and intervention procedures for gas, water and oil injection wells .
Knowledge of fishing operations,tubular recovery,recoveryofCT,fishing with CT,fishing with SL, and milling
operations.
Detailed knowledge of packer setting parameters, liners and PBRs, tie-back seal assemblies as well as in
perforating and gravel pack design and execution.
Plans, monitors, and reports status and forecasts for a large workover program.
Directs multiple components including well diagnostics, materials procurement, logistics, coordination with
multiple departments, and overall control of a workover program.
Leads developments to operational procedures and methods.
Supports operations including fracturing and acid stimulation, asphaltenes removal and inhibition treatments,
desalting treatments, various coiled tubing operations including fishing operations, producing well tests, BHP
(Bottom Hole Pressure) build-ups and drawdowns, and production logging.
Resolves well problems.
Monitoring the budget, planning and scheduling the activities conducted on the wells and forecast changes that
periodically occur that are required for corporate budget control.
Organizes and starts operational consultation/investigations to monitor well performance and program efficiency.
Directs Service Quality meetings with vendors.
Oversees special contractual agreements with service companies and tender documents for approval.
Monitors contract status during the term ofthe contract with a vendor and monitors cost and vendor performance.

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Designs programs to reduce operating expenses.
Performing stimulation technologies (acidizing, fracturing, water shutoff) based on well and reservoir diagnostics.
Optimizing completion and workover designs and operations.
Designing horizontal and multilateral wells.
Determining primary and remedialcementing procedures alongwith the design and installation of tubulars, packers,
subsurface control and surveillance equipment.
Evaluating and selecting appropriate equipment to attain recompletion objectives.
Designing through tubing/concentric workovers.
Preparing cost estimates & risk in terms of probability and potential remedies.
Advances the remedial treatments methods (mechanicaland chemical treatment) and selects the optimum method
e.g. matrix acidizing, acid wash, hydraulic fracturing, solvent treatments, re-perforations.
Optimizes production by conducting cost efficient workovers.
Designs workover procedures and execute daily workover operations.
Delivers input into the specification of recompletion, well testing and well intervention related equipment and
services in accordance with company procedures.
Coordinates all assigned rig activities,ensuring well-work activities are optimized, understood, planned, resourced
and within agreed time and budget for each project in accordance with the overall multidisciplinary project plan.
Coordinates all phases of recompletion and workover operations including onsite supervision of
stimulation/completion activities.
Applies diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices to major projects that have significant
impact on programs in varied areas and related field.
Directs special projects and performs post completion stimulation and production analysis.
Controls all aspects of water treatment, disposal, water shut-off, thermal fracturing during water injection, souring
prediction and prevention, produced water injection and scaling prediction.
Monitors well performance for signs of poor performance that can be remedied with well intervention work.
This includes sanding of wells, scale deposition, poor injection or production profile conformance.
Monitors active wells and leases to determine their economic status, regulatory compliance, and directs
improvements.

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If production well or injection well performance is suffering, and well intervention can improve the point-forward
value of the pattern, summarizes the economic justification in terms ofincreased rate and incremental well work
costs and submit for approval.
Reviews inactive wells for possible recompletion, testing, workovers, abandonment, and regulatory compliance.
Plans, organizes, controls and executes all activities required to effectively implement reservoir plans for all assets.
Performs engineering and economic analysis followed by designs, planning, AFE’s,and procedures as necessary in
a timely manner and budgetary planning support as required.
Organizes and leads annual field reviews to identify opportunities and projects that will create value for the
Company.
Identifies and executes rig workover opportunities to optimize or repair wells.
Directs all data acquisition projects (PLT, Production Tests, etc.) including planning, field execution, and data
interpretation.
Takes Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) responsibility for well operations. This means establishing and
maintaining exemplary HSE standards throughout your team (field and office-based).
Ensures all wells are planned and designed to meet all compliance criteria including regulatory requirements,
policies and best practices, including full consideration of HSE & Sustainability goals in all designs.
Coordinates the installation, maintenance, and operation of oil field equipment.
Expertise of well rate metering (separator, multiphase flow meters etc.) and oil & gas rate allocation (Avocet).
Implements Well Completions/Workovers/Servicing/Abandonments.
Expertise in preparation of intervention proposals and techniques to increase production (e.g. work-overs, rig-
less interventions, acid jobs and hydraulic fracture treatments).
Identification and evaluation of coiled tubing opportunities and support the progression of those through front end
loading processes to execution.
Directs well integrity issues and mitigates risk as per normal industry procedures.
Ensuring that optimum well performance, choke optimization and production targets are conducted in a safe
manner in accordance with HSE policy and good oilfield practice.
Coordinates workover, CTU, Wireline and recompletion operations.

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Plans the annual work program and budgets for Production Engineering and Reservoir.
Development Departments, and ensures the program is implemented within budget to meet schedules.
Directs gas well deliquification minimizing production issues including liquid loading.
Reviews the daily production/workover activities and identifies any well integrity related concerns.
Evaluates the relative effectiveness of Progressive Cavity Pumps versus Beam Pumps in directional wells.
Designs and installs high-volume electric submersible pumps,progressive cavitypumps,plunger-liftde-watering
systems and down-hole separation and water disposal systems for low productivity gas wells.
Determines the most efficient means to develop the field considering the viscosity of the crude oil, the gas-to-oil
ratio, the depth and type of formation, and the project economics.
Establishes team and individual performance goals and drives for delivery.
Extensive knowledge and understanding ofwell operational aspects including workover, well intervention (slick
wireline operations, logging, fishing, CTU operation), annulus controlling, corrosion and scale control, cement and
casing integrity, leak detection surveys and evaluation, artificial lift system etc. preferably in offshore location.
Analyzes, interprets, and optimizes the performance of individual wells.
Identifies wells for production and ultimate recovery of producing properties through optimum operational
procedures.
Applies knowledge of Rigless operations such as production logging, coil tubing, snubbing unit operations etc.
and conversant with slick line operations & flow control equipment.
Generates weekly/monthly production forecast & injection targets and well test priorities.
Organizes daily monitoring, evaluation, analysis of production/injection performance against potential
performance, maximize and optimize volumes.
Extensive experience in the planning, design and supervision ofwell servicing activities including but not limited
to work-over and abandonment, well testing, wellhead maintenance, as well as field operations covering snubbing and
hoists, wire-line, well stimulation/pumping (including use of coiled tubing), and artificial lift.
Prepares operating expense and capital expenditure budgets and to potentially lead the process.
Utilizes working knowledge of production engineering software tools to be used for daily optimisation or for
integration into reservoir models (Prosper/GAP).

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