Erick Salinas

About Erick Salinas

Global New Energy Engineering Lead, Geothermal, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS).• Top performer O&G Project Manager executive. Led team of +100 members from 13 SLB business lines managing 3 offshore rigs through 3 client contracts to successfully drill and complete 8 oil wells of $USD120 M value.• 15 years extensive energy upstream industry experience in well engineering, designing drilling and completion of +80 wells successfully achieving world record times by deploying new technologies. • Expert trainer of 4 months world-class program for engineers from 7 countries taking over Drilling Contractor’s crew positions. Instructor of the main systems of the Drilling Rig.

Experience

1. Engineering Lead of Global New Energy

   SLB

   Oct 2018 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Designed Geothermal drilling projects for the U.S, Italy, Japan, Indonesia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, the U.K, Uganda, approved for execution or funding for detail engineering for a total of 46 wells for Ministry of Energy, utility and mining companies for a total of USD $483M as renewable energy initiatives.• Designed and executed a Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide campaign in the US as per the EPA Class VI Rule of USD $10.6 M for Project Tundra funded by the U.S. Department of Energy: CarbonSAFE initiative. The project is designed to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility in North Dakota.• Led the design of the first offshore drilling campaign in the Strait of Gibraltar with O&G technology to collect formation samples to develop a geomechanics model to build a tunnel to connect Europe and Africa.

Education

• Maastricht University

  Diploma in International Business

  2006 — 2006

• Tecnológico de Monterrey

  B.S. Industrial Engineering, Minor: Systems Engineering

  2004 — 2007

• The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2019 — 2021