Kazeem Akindele

Reservoir Engineer @ExxonMobil

St John’s, NL, CA

Hibernia & Hebron Field Reservoir Management Team• Area Reservoir Engineer for the Hibernia field, responsible for depletion planning, reservoir management, and surveillance of a mature waterflood system, including production monitoring, voidage replacement analysis, and optimization of waterflood performance• Led and contributed to reservoir surveillance, management, and engineering studies, incorporating waterflood voidage management and IOR-focused modeling, including WAG optimization for the Hebron field as part of the Value Driver Study and qualitative 4D seismic analysis to identify unswept volumes in Hibernia UBNA, informing well placement, target selection, and production uplift opportunities• Accountable for updating and history matching the field-scale reservoir model, incorporating new well data, production history, pressure surveillance, and dynamic reservoir behavior to maintain accurate forecasts and support development decisions• Led opportunity generation, screening, and maturing drill-well, infill drilling, and workover opportunities using integrated reservoir characterization, dynamic simulation, and performance forecasting• Led the Hebron Value Driver Study, integrating reservoir performance diagnostics, uncertainty assessment, and development optimization to quantify risks and upside to current and future asset performance, resulting in >20 MMBO EUR upside and >$500 million value-at-risk identified• Performed WAG optimization for Hebron field as part of the overall Hebron Value Driver study, and identified opportunities to increase production via WAG cycles optimization• Experience using Segmented well modelling (IX) for multilateral well modeling and Inflow Control device modeling• Delivered reservoir engineering input to drilling and workover programs, supporting horizontal and multilateral wells through integrated Well Delivery collaboration to optimize well design and execution

University of Ibadan

BSc, Petroleum Engineering

Australian Institute of Business

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

MSc, Petroleum Engineering