Zoraida Margarita Ortega Lòpez has over 34 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, having worked for companies like Lagoven S.A., PDVSA, and SUSEINCA. She has a degree in chemical engineering and has held various roles involving contract management, procurement, budgeting, auditing, and more. Her experience includes planning and budgeting, negotiations and contract management, procurement engineering, and workover engineering. She is skilled in areas like business process improvement, contract management, and working in a fast-paced environment with high quality standards.

1. Zoraida Margarita Ortega Lòpez
Summary
Professional with a degree in Chemical Engineer, graduated from the Oklahoma University (1975-1980).
I have a successful career over 34 years’ experience in the Oil and Gas Industry Lagoven, S.A. PDVSA,
Petròleos de Venezuela (August 1981-December 2002) and SUSEINCA Oil Supply and Industry Services
(March 2003-July 2015), which has enabled me to work in different areas such as: Contract
Management, Procurement, Contracting and Negotiation, Oil opening, Joint Ventures, Planning and
Budgeting, Control, Auditing, Workover Engineer, Technical Administration. Additionally, leading
working groups for procedure manuals, review and monitoring of approvals for disbursements drill hole
(Investment budget) and rehabilitation (expenditure budget) also in the implementation of various
administrative procedures such as implementation of procedures according to. I have a high capacity for
teamwork, which has allowed me a good development along with technical equipment for the efficient
performance of the business plan of the organization I work for. My analysis capability has allowed me
to propose to the Company’s Board of Directors new projects or changes there to generating a better
performance at the organizational level and substantial savings for the organization. I worked as
Procurement engineering and my main responsibilities are to manage contractual agreements, national
and international for different services and works required for the procurement of services recurrent for
the daily operations of drilling and production as well as the monitoring and control approvals for
disbursements, budgeting of expenses and investments, preparation and review of budgets and
investment spending. Work with department’s stakeholders to maximize national content in contracting
processes and to facilitate selection of contractors on basis of safety, quality, service and price. Ensure
that all necessary approvals are obtained prior to any bid or commitment. Works with internal
customers and suppliers to establish Key. All these purchases are made under the laws and government
regulations, as well as the rules and procedures of PDVSA, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.
Being able to work in a fast paced environment focused on delivering solutions with the highest quality
standards, with strong skills in: Business process improvement for the Oil & Gas industry, broad
knowledge of Contract Management with excellent comprehension of established procurement and
contract laws, policies and procedures. Hard Worker, Self-motivated, able to work individual and team,
fast learner, wants to learn new things to increase knowledge and skills. Organized - Work under
Pressure - Punctual -Responsible - Efficient Dynamics – Innovative- Charismatic. Strong supervisory skills
and able to mentor and motivate team for high performance.
Goal: To Share knowledge, ethics, experiences and professionalism that could bring me more challenges
and opportunities to grow up.
Owner: Oil & Asian Parts 888, C.A. Constituted April 28, 2008. Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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Experience
Contracts Procurement Manager – Equipment & Instrumentation
Suseinca: Suministro y Servicios Industriales
March 2003 – July 2015 (12 years 4 months) Maracaibo, Venezuela
Responsible with the team to provide assistance and guidance in Strategic Contracting of Services. Pre-
contractual (development of technical specifications that are part of the bidding documents updating
equipment costs and conciliation with the available budget). Contract negotiations, development, and
execution. Coordinates all related activities to execute the contracts from developing contracting
strategies, bidding process, negotiations, execution, administration and claims management of
contracts.
*Procurement
Process and elaborate quotation inquiries for internal and external customers in the Oil & Gas sector.
Responsible for shipping and invoicing processes according to customer requirements to accomplish
delivery times, sales profitability and maintain customer satisfaction. Elaborate reports of monthly sales
products. Receive, review and place national and international purchase orders for several equipment of
automation, measurement and process control trough systems. Ensure the procurement process is
completed successfully by placing the purchase orders according to customer’s requirements and
technical specifics. Analyze costs, gross profit, operational profit and net benefit regarding the
procurement of materials and equipment to facilitate the evaluation of regional and national results.
Coordinates all related activities administration and claims procurement, con el fin de lograr la mejor
alternativa estratégica para cada material / servicio en su respectiva categoría.
*Shipping and Delivery
Coordinate shipping, delivering and warehouse storage of electric submergible pumps. Design
optimization plan for the receiving and shipping process to reduce products delivery time and overtime
costs for workers involved. Analyze existing problems in the receiving process to conduct studies of
reliability and performance of plant facilities and production systems. Develop maintenance standards,
schedules and programs for the machinery involved in the shipping and receiving process.
Negocios con Terceros (Business with Third)
Lagoven, S.A.- PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A.
October 1999 – December 2002 (3 years 2 months) Maracaibo, Venezuela
Responsible of Management, review and analysis of the contracts submitted by Leaders of companies
operating agreements also in charge to manage meetings for the presentation of proposals related to
the Operational agreement between operating companies and PDVSA.
Responsible for addressing and resolving the administrative aspects related to the operating agreements
under profit sharing scheme with international companies Chevron, Shell, Phillips, Tecpetrol, and CNPC.
Management approvals for disburse ments. Responsible to auditing the fields of the operators of the
West. Preparation of Technical Report.
Responsible for the team of three engineers of the Material Organization and Environment for the
execution, planning, review and comparison of pipes, materials and shown in the accounts against
physical teams in the field. Perform technical reports and relevant corrections.
Preparation and processing of tenders for the scrap material. Establish financial and administrative
controls.
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Responsible to direct and guide throughout the tendering process, budget formulation and control of
technological knowledge, by means of guidelines and strategies that allows the efficient administration
of the resources and the approval of the best practices to be used within the Exploration and Production
Division.
Also for establishing metrics and indicators that will allow to monitor and to evaluate the administration
and the effectiveness of the established strategies, in other to generate the highest added value to
PDVSA. To identify the negotiation and contracting strategies for the Alliances and Agreements in the
processes of Shared Productivity Effort.
Responsible for the preparation and review of the manual procedure for the Western Division.
Planning and Budget Organization
Lagoven, S.A.- PDVSA Petròleos de Venezuela, S.A.
November 1996-October 1999 (2 years 1 months) Maracaibo, Venezuela
Responsible with the team for elaboration and consolidating the Investment Budget and Expenditure
Division of Occident through advising financial and operational guidelines using the G1120 platform for
all operations departments.
Responsible with the team for consolidating the Investment Budget and Expenditure Division of
Occident through advising financial and operational guidelines using the G1120 platform for all
operations departments. Planning and Control of all projects, equipment and materials of different
nature (Project Engineering, Drilling and Workover, Computing and Systems, Central Workshops,
Organization of Petroleum Engineering, Finance, Administration, Human Resources, Legal, Prevention
and Loss Control, Water and Land Transportation, Medical Department, Division Management,
Instrumentation, Pipelines Organization, Maintenance and Construction etc.) for the Oil & Gas industry
western Division.
Responsible for the receipt and delivery of Investment Budget and Expenditure Division of Occident to
PDVSA, Exploration & Production, Caracas for review and approval.
Responsible for Monthly monitoring of deviations. Elaboration of Justifications
Determined cost per barrel preparing costs analysis through spreadsheets based on PDVSA.
Activities costs and the production of oil using G1120 platform.
Petroleum Engineer Organization-Negotiations and Contract Manager
Lagoven, S.A.- PDVSA Petròleos de Venezuela, S.A.
December 1987– October 1996 (9 years 2 months) Maracaibo, Venezuela
Recruitment Section
Responsible for the recruitment process from the development, documentation, Addendums, Change in
Scope, Extensions, control payments valuations, Letter of Settlement (contractual closing), control
valuations and claims payments.
Managed all contracts for drilling and workover of Lagoven S.A. Division of the West, which represent
85%. Contracts with a team of 5 engineers, 1 Administrators, 3 technicians, 1 intern.
Responsible for the procurement process for drilling rigs Ensco I, II and Construction and contracting of
Drill Ensco V, Santa Fe 87, Santa Fe 88, Clift, V-71 (Williams Brothers)(shallow wells of Lake Maracaibo),
TRITON II (Jack-Up Western Oceanic ), Contract own C-209 drill work and services.
Responsible contractual advice and assistance to all parties concerned with the agreement of the new
rates and processes resulting from legal changes in the structure of labor costs in Venezuela. Negotiated
unit price, rates according to operations, wait, bad weather, etc.
Contract In alignment with the objectives and policies of the oil industry.
Trained in processing contractual payments Interns valuations, and billings. Responsible for validation
and certification of payments Contractual valuations using the SAP platform. Recommend methods and
procedures for improvement opportunities.
Responsible for the submission of contracts to the respective Committees Contracting Multidisciplinary
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Committee of the Western Division and Board Caracas and PDVSA depending on the amount of the
contract, as well as contractual deviations.
Monthly reports with state contracts to Technical Manager. Engineer Trained financial evaluations,
contract negotiations, valuations payments, contract claims engineers.
Responsible of preparation of the pre-qualification tenders and contracts documentation, according to
the bidding law. Submit the Bidding package to the bidding Committee. Attend to the clarification
meetings with the contractors and the opening of bids. Arrange and coordinate technical evaluation of
bids. Review the delivery of notification letters of results. Responsible for negotiations and settlement of
contractual disputes or insurance claims. Elaborate the contracts and coordinates with the Legal
Department for signature.
Helping operators in all matters relating to compliance within the contract activity. Compliance shall
include adherence to the recruitment policies of PDVSA, Venezuela's laws for the recruitment process
and procedures of PDVSA.
Control and reports the number of processes carried out by the contracting department.
Help operators in all matters relating to compliance within the contract activity. Compliance shall include
adherence to the recruitment policies of PDVSA, Venezuela's laws for the recruitment process and
procedures of PDVSA.
Make sure that a database validated procurement procedures is maintained. The database also shall
maintain records of contracts awarded. Make sure a restraint system and reliable recovery of documents is
in place. Periodically checks the files that are maintained by Information Centers.
Price List Section
Managed all of Price Lists specialized well services companies f Lagoven S.A. Division of the West, which
represent 95%. Bills with a team of 5 engineers, 1 Administrators, 3 technicians, 1 interns.
Homologation and standardization of Price Lists specialized well services companies: Halliburton, Shell,
Schlumberger Dowell, Baker Hughes, Repsol, and Bp.
Responsible of economic analysis together with the finance organization for the review and adjustment
of the price lists as well as the increases and collective agreement decrees and government settings
resolutions, also in Charge to manage meetings for of Price Lists Increment. Responsible for the review
and analysis of the cost structure.
Responsible for the review, verification, certification and approval of bill payments using the SAP
Platform.
Responsible of helping clients in all matters related to compliance within the contract activity.
Compliance shall include adherence to the recruitment policies of PDVSA, Venezuela's laws for the
recruitment process and procedures of PDVSA.
Section approval for disbursements APD
Managed all of approval for disbursements (APD) Lagoven S.A. Division of the West, which represent
with a team of 4 engineers.
Tracking disbursement of charges in the various documents, opening APD (authorization for
disbursement), analysis, transfer charges, review the materials used in the well and compared with that
recorded in the budget, maintain control of disbursements as that they are made. Responsible for
Monthly monitoring of deviations. Elaboration of Justifications.
Petróleum Engineer Organization Workover Engineer
Lagoven, S.A.- PDVSA Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.
November 1984 – December 1987 (3 years 1 months) Maracaibo, Venezuela
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Search for repair wells prospectus, also prepare and execute workover for water, sand and cementing
control. Designed and perform stimulating jobs (sand oil squeeze).
Participating in calls morning for visits to the field. (Accountable for daily direction, execution and
performance of all workover activities. Empowered to make all routine operational decisions
in regards to workover operations.)
Creator of the Statistics Section for Drilling and Workover of the Division of Occident.
Responsible for the preparation and presentation of the Annual Report Drilling and Workover,
explaining any deviations presented in the drilling and rehabilitation works.
Technical Administration Organization
Lagoven, S.A.- PDVSA Petròleos de Venezuela, S.A.
August 1981– October 1984 (3 years 2 months) Maracaibo, Venezuela
Monitoring and Programming (courses, vacation, medical examination), application / selection of staff
(interns, jobs etc.), make the budget and control for conducting courses, purchase of office supplies -
equipment, reporting for management in spending the budget.
Accelerated training for all Lagoven, S.A Organizations of the Western Division.
Education
1975-1980
University Of Oklahoma, USA. -Chemical Engineer
Languages
-Spanish / English
Additional Training /Courses
- Business and its Environment: An Overview of Business and the Role of Finance in Business.
- Contracts X EDX USA 2016.
- Hospitality Management EDX USA 2016.
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People PDVSA.
- Well Completion Practices Modern School Halliburton Energy Institute.
- Windows Office IBM.
- PDVSA ABC Security.
- PDVSA Chemical Hazards.
- Behavior Based Safety PDVSA.
- PDVSA Personal Effectiveness.
- Introduction to Supervision PDVSA.
- Information Asset Protection PDVSA.
- Safety, Health and Environment PDVSA.
- Basic Protocol PDVSA Life.
- Windows 98 Office 2000 CENIBIT.
- Management Control and Value Creation PDVSA.
- Elements of Finance for Engineers Petroleum Research Institute University of Zulia.
SPORTS
- Karate
CHARITABLE CAUSES
Volunteer Experience & Causes
Causes Zoraida about:
-Children
-Economic Empowerment
-Environment
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-Poverty Alleviation
-Animals
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-Poverty Alleviation
-Animals
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