Omar Soto

About Omar Soto

Petroleum Engineer with more than 25 years of experience focus on Unconventional Shale reservoirs, well performance and modeling, well completion and production optimization including Artificial Lift well life cycle. My field of expertise on Petroleum Engineering is very diverse, I have worked for Bp in different assets and multidisciplinary teams for new properties acquisition and development, water flooding project, Artificial lift strategy set up and major surface facilities gas compression evaluation. My strengths are not limited to production engineering management, well surveillance, production forecasting and allocation, well intervention and opportunities for recompletion developments, horizontal wells refrac, frac hit mitigation and control, well perfrmance evaluation, horizontal well deliquification methods, well completions optimization techniques, economics, new technologies applications and knowledge transfer including training to new hires.

Experience

1. Sr Modeling and Production Optimization Eng - Pe Hub (Eagleford Shale)

   repsol

   May 2022 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Spearheaded production optimization projects, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs through strategic intervention campaigns. • Developed comprehensive reservoir management plans, utilizing advanced modeling techniques to maximize well potential and recovery rates. • Conducted detailed well performance evaluations, leading to significant improvements in artificial lift designs and production forecasting accuracy.

Education

• Universidad del Zulia

  Bachelor's degree, Petroleum Engineering

  1985 — 1992

• Baylor University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business/Managerial Economics

  2016 — 2019

• Universidad del Zulia

  Petroleum Engineering, Gas lift valves performance under continuos injection mode.

  1985 — 1992

• Universidad del Zulia

  Gas Process Engineering., Engineering

Skills

• Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (Qhse)
• Energy Industry
• Energy
• Natural Gas
• Oil & Gas Industry
• Pressure
• Onshore Operations
• Oil
• Reservoir Management
• Product Optimization
• Oilfield
• Oil/Gas
• Field Development
• Planning
• Oil
• Project Planning
• Petroleum Engineering
• Petroleum
• Supervisory Skills
• Oil & Gas
• Gas
• Engineering
• Modeling
• Pumps
• Reserves
• Offshore Drilling
• Training
• Workover
• Drilling
• Upstream
• Project Engineering
• Onshore
• Process Safety
• Completion