Curriculum vitae reservoir engineer Sigve Hamilton Aspelund

1. Curriculum Vitae
Name: Sigve Hamilton Aspelund
Degree: M.Sc. Petroleum engineering with applied science programme – Sivilingeniør, Teknisk realfag
Adress: Reevegen 43, 4340 Bryne, Norway
Position: Petroleum, energy and science consultant
Aspelund Consulting Energy Offshore Development International National
Nationality: Norwegian
Date of birth: 29.01.1976
Language: Norwegian, English
Last updated: 06.10.2010
Contact details: Phone: +47 92 64 71 29, email: sigve.aspelund@lyse.net
Nettworks (iCV):http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspelundsigve (Dynamic CV)
Website: http://sigvehamiltonaspelund.wordpress.com/about/
• Entrepreneurship
• Market knowledge and business insight
• Clearly and distinctly oral presentation skills
• Dedicated to creating and maintaining both internal and external relationships
• Exceptional knowledge and interest in IT and disciplines within the oil exploration and production
industry
Expertise area: Optimize oil production. IT tools: Petroleum experts: Prosper and GAP.
Work experience:
08.2009- today: Petroleum, energy and science consultant at Aspelund Consulting Energy Offshore
Development International National
• Mathematics, physics and chemistry teacher consultant at Akademiet
• Administrative and drilling project for Frank`s international
• Advising expert consultation within norwegian drilling service market for Gerson Lehrman Group
• Security: Attended and held an security-presentation at the seminar: Bringing businesses from east and west
together by TransEuropean Centre at Rica Forum
08.2009- 12.2009: Consultant petroleum engineering teacher at Stavanger Offshore Tekniske Fagskole:
Teaching:
• Production technique 1 & 2
• Drilling technology
• Geology and formation evaluation
• Health, Safety and Environment for the oil industry
• Well control
• Drilling fluids
• Operating and control systems
• Mathematics
• Chemistry prosess
• Alternative energy
Consulting students at PetroChallenge Norway 2009 @ University of Stavanger
Managing event expedition to Weatherford oil field base in Forus
Leading students expeditions at oil museum in Stavanger and Ullrigg @ International Research Institute of
Stavanger
11.2008-07.2009: Production engineer consultant at OTG
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2. Production engineer consultant at StatoilHydro (Grane)
Responsible for:
• Production steering
• Well testing and analysis. Displaying results in OFM.
• Production analysis with Flow manager
• P&I plan
Analysis of market for Swath
03. 2007- 10.2008: Production/reservoir engineer: Enhanced oil production specialist at Talisman
Sub project leading: Subsurface within integrated operations (TENAS operation project)
Production supervising with PI process book designing and real time allocation programming with PI excel
Responsible for:
• Annual and monthly reports
• Well allocation including production analysis
• Well testing and well test analysis
• Weekly production & injection planning and morning meetings with the communication tool
GoToMeeting
• Real time production analysis with PI process book
• Production optimizing with Prosper and GAP
Planning well operations:
o Mechanical operations: Increased oil production from 600 Sm3
/d to 1200Sm3
/d in a well by
increase reservoir pressure by increasing water injection and changing the choke, stabilized 2
slugging wells by changing gas lift valves (Stabilized total production)
o PLT, Water shut of and perforations (Increased oil production from 100 Sm3
/d to 250 Sm3
/d).
• Production optimizing including field visits offshore at Petrojarl Varg and Varg A
• Organized a team building, presentations and a seminar
• Production forecasting
Attending all multidisciplinary team work: Representing for PTIL and partners, exploration, development ++
01.2006-02.2007: Reservoir engineer consultant: Increased oil recovery specialist at IOR Chemco
Analyzing of the world marked (High water cut reservoirs and sand producing reservoirs)
Consultant: Project within petrophysics and geology for Badger Explorer. Data collection and data base
development.
Representation at ONS
Reporting (Inteligel progress at IRIS) to Norwegian Research Council, Total, Statoil and Norsk Hydro
Screening of Espoir operated by Canadian Natural Recourses
05-11.06: Project petrophysics research: Optimisation of mSand (chemicals for sand consolidation) at
International Research Institute of Stavanger: Petrophystical measurements: PV, permeability, porosity
and RRFw
• Field manager: mGel reservoir stimulation for increased oil recovery at Gullfaks C including: Quality
assurance of treatment, photographing onsite and reporting
• Application to ONS innovation award (Was nominated to the award)
• Articles published at OTC (Offshore & Energy) and ONS (Scandinavian oil and gas magazine)
• Representation at IOR 2006 in Tulsa Oklahoma (SPE)
• PowerPoint designing for sales meetings and reporting
• Presentation for potential customers in Aberdeen
• Contact developing (Gained 15 business meetings in Aberdeen over a short period)
• Marked analyzing of the British shelf (High water cut sand reservoirs)
• Screening of projects including well log investigation and reservoir evaluation: Brage (Norsk Hydro),
Gullfaks (Statoil)
• Further information at following web site: forskning.no > Intelligent gelé skal redde oljefelt
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3. 02.2003-12.2005: Reservoir engineering consultant: Drilling management and geology at Geoservices
• Well monitoring: Pit volume control and gas control
• Maintaining sensors and repairing equipment
• Reporting of geology
• Geology: Catching samples, lithology analyze, cuttings and cavings description and calcimetry analysis
and core handling
• Logistics: Sending equipment and samples onshore.
• See projects last page
03.2002-09.2002: Reservoir engineer consultant: Special core analysis laboratory engineering at ResLab
Special Core Analysis:
Measurement of petrophysical data: Permeability, porosity and capillary pressure/resistivity curves
09.2001-02.2002: Reservoir engineer consultant: Geoscience/geomodeling at Roxar
Reservoir Modelling: System helpdesk (RMS 6.2)
Software error localization: Importing Eclipse grid files for inspection in RMS 7.0
Technical Qualifications:
2003: Post-qualifying education, Reservoir engineering - Rogaland University (HiS).
1999-2001: Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.) Petroleum Engineering - HiS.
Main discipline: Petroleum engineering with applied science programme.
1998-1999: Petroleum engineering (HiS) Candidatus Magisterii (B. Sc.) – Norwegian University of
Technology and Science (NTNU), HiS (petroleum engineering) and University of Bergen (UiB).
1998: Examen philosophicum - UiB.
1997-1998: Navy: Naval diving school and security guard
1995-1997: Elementary courses in mathematics and physics – NTNU
1992-1995: High School – Bryne gymnas (Student of confidence)
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4. Offshore experience:
Geoservices:
Norway Statoil Deep Sea Trym 34/10-4-2H 2003
Statoil Deep Sea Trym 24/10-M-3BH 2003
Total Scarabeo 6 25/5-C-1H 2003
Norske Shell Deep Sea Trym 6407/9-E-2H 2003
Statoil Transocean Searcher 15/9-E-3H
15-9-E-1H
2004
Statoil Snorre B 34/4-1-1H 2004
Statoil Tr. Searcher 15/9-E-4H
6506/12-Q-2H
2004
Statoil West Navigator 65/07-3-4 2004
Statoil Stena Don 6608/10-B-4BH 2004
Talisman Gyda 2/1-A16 AY1 2004
Statoil Borgland Dolphin 34/10-F-2 Y1H 2004
3-1/11-A11 2004
Talisman Gyda 2/1-A16 AY1/T2 2004
Eni Norge Ocean Vanguard 6406/1-3 2004
HPHT Statoil West Alpha 6506/11-P-3 H 2005
BP Vallhall IP 2/8-G-10 T3 2005
Statoil Snorre B 34/4-K-7 H 2005
Statoil Sleipner A 15/9-A-23 A 2005
BP Ula 7/12-A-5 B 2005
BP Vallhall 2/8-G-11-T4/TS 2005
BP Ula 7/12-a-05b-t2 2005
Statoil Sleipner A 15/9-A-19 2005
Statoil Sleipner A 15/9-A19T2 2005
Hydro TR. Leader 6605/8-1 2005
Comment: I have experienced both wildcats with a very fast drill rate and advanced production wells and been
lucky to work with many different reservoirs both sandstone and chalk.
IOR Checmo: Statoil Gullfaks: Water shut of treatment with emulsified polymers 2006
Talisman: Varg/Petrojarl Varg: Improved oil recovery methods: PLT & gaslift 2007/2008
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