About me
I am a Chartered Petroleum Engineer (CEng, UK Engineering Council) and Fellow of the Energy Institute with twenty-five years of operator-side experience across Schlumberger, ENI, Total, Maersk Oil, BP, Petronas Carigali, Reliance Industries and Basra Energy Company Limited. I am currently the Completions & Workover Engineering Lead at Basra Energy Company Limited — the BP/CNPC joint venture operating the Rumaila Field in southern Iraq, one of the world’s largest producing oil fields at approximately 1.4 million barrels per day.
I am based in Madrid, Spain, with Italian citizenship and a global operational footprint across Venezuela, Indonesia, the UAE, Oman, Italy, Nigeria, Egypt, the United Kingdom, China, Malaysia, India and Iraq. I am trilingual in English, Italian and Spanish.
My technical identity sits at three intersections: HPHT completions and well testing, deepwater subsea completions (including 6th-generation drillship operations and alternate-path gravel-pack sand control) and workover engineering at scale — leading the Completions & Workover function at one of the world’s largest mature giant fields.
In May 2026 I completed The Professional Certificate in Data Analytics at Imperial College London — adding rigorous quantitative methods (supervised and unsupervised machine learning, mixed-integer linear programming, survival analysis) to my wells engineering toolkit. This site is the public surface of my professional credentials, niche specialisations and the advisory services offered through Mattey Energy Ltd.
Selected experience
- Workover programme management at scale — currently leading the Completions & Workover Engineering function at one of the world’s largest mature giant fields (2024 – present). Programme transformation delivering material year-on-year throughput uplift at constant rig count, with substantial recovery and CAPEX/OPEX savings outcomes.
- Deepwater HPHT campaign — KG-D6 (BP / Reliance Industries, Bay of Bengal). Delivered 24 deepwater wells in up to 2,000 m water depth, with alternate-path open-hole gravel-pack lower completions and 7″ × 5½″ upper completions.
- Culzean HPHT DST (Maersk Oil, North Sea UK). Prepared and supervised DSTs at 14,500 psi reservoir pressure / 380°F (193°C); managed £30M+ programme end-to-end from AFE through offshore execution.
- Pan-Malaysia Deepwater Wellhead Standardisation (Petronas, 2012 – 2019). Technical lead for a standardised deepwater subsea wellhead and casing-schedule contract adopted across five operators; managed Completions portfolio contracts ~US$135M.
For technical papers, see Publications.
Goals
I am building toward three concurrent positions: executive operational leadership in upstream wells (Wells Manager, Operations Manager), a recognised authority in the application of data analytics to wells engineering, and an independent advisory practice for HPHT design reviews, M&A technical due diligence, and engineering training.
I am preparing an application to the SPE Distinguished Lecturer Programme for the near future on the topic of HPHT Completions in different Field Environments, and analytics-driven completion and workover programme management.
Professional & personal interests
Beyond wells: structured problem decomposition (the same discipline whether the problem is a 14,500 psi DST or a poorly-posed optimisation), the operational economics of mature fields, and helping engineers earlier in their careers navigate the technical-to-management transition that I am currently working through myself. Outside work: Enjoy time with my family in Madrid, Gravel Cycling, reading, AI application to my line of work and the long-form study habits I am rebuilding through the Imperial certificate.