Ed Wanat

Experience

1. Reservoir Engineer

   ExxonMobil

   Aug 2005 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Reservoir Engineer, Light Oil Recovery, November 2012-present.• Current Project: Utilizing reservoir simulation to design surfactant flood pilot.• Project: Developed fluid characterization for condensate field involving large dataset by designing novel workflows and techniques to systematically analyze and tune the dataset.Business Impact: Reduced error in liquid dropout predictions ~85% and scatter by ~80% improving reservoir management strategies for improved liquid recovery.• Project: Lead EOR laboratory study of gas injection for large ME carbonate oil field.Business Impact: Identified optimal gas for use among choices of several HC gas blends and non-HC gases available for achieving maximum oil recovery.• Fields Worked: North Field, Upper Zakum, Hewitt.Reservoir Engineer, Unconventional Gas and Tight Oil, November 2007-November 2012.• Project: Led multi-disciplinary teams to prepare budgets, timelines, project reports for integrated geoscience and engineering core analysis data (SCAL, RQ, geomechanics) acquisition programs.Business Impact: Designed laboratory experiments that lead to reduced cost ($150k/well) and environmental impacts of fracing fluids in tight gas sands.• Project: Utilized subsurface and reservoir surveillance data to demonstrate optimal level of sand required for each stage.Business Impact: Identified a reduction of amount of sand used per well of ~15-20% in Fayetteville Shale without decrease in well performance.• Shale Gas Fields: Fayetteville, Haynesville, Barnett, Lower Saxony Basin (Germany).• Tight Gas Fields: Piceance, German Carboniferous, German Rotligendes, Hungary.Reservoir Engineer, Special Core Analysis, August 2005-November 2007.• Project: Led laboratory research projects to measure relative permeability curves, capillary pressure curves, electrical properties, and other SCAL data. History matched production and pressure drop data from coreflood experiments.

Education

• Iowa State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering

  1997 — 2000

• University of Minnesota

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Reservoir Simulation
• Reservoir Engineering
• Oil & Gas
• Reservoir Management
• Petroleum Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Engineering
• Reserves
• Petroleum
• Field Development
• Energy Industry
• Gas
• Geology
• Upstream
• Oil/Gas
• Petroleum Geology
• Energy