About
Twenty-five years across six tier-one operators, three technical specialisations, and one growing analytics practice.
Profile
I am a Completions and Workover engineer with twenty-five years of operator-side experience, currently leading a multinational team of fourteen engineers responsible for the planning and execution of completions for sixteen turn-key drilling rigs and workovers for thirteen workover rigs across the Rumaila Field in southern Iraq.
I work in two deliberate modes. In expert mode — completion design, workover strategy, problem diagnosis on the rig floor — twenty-five years of pattern-matching does most of the work in minutes. In student mode — currently the Imperial College Data Analytics certificate — I rebuild every module from the ground up: re-typing exercises into VS Code from screenshots, building presentations to consolidate what I have learned, and asking for line-by-line annotation when complex code refuses to click. I bring both modes to my work and to my collaborations.
Current role
Completions & Workover Engineering Lead — Basra Energy Company Limited BP / CNPC joint venture · Rumaila Field, Iraq · January 2024 – present
• Lead the 19-position completions and workover engineering function (3 expatriate senior workover/stimulation engineers, 3 local senior workover engineers, 13 local workover engineers — planning desk), responsible for the planning, design and preparation of all field completion and workover programmes.
Selected outcomes 2024–2025:
- +39% workover throughput: 180 workovers delivered in 2024, 250 delivered in 2025 with the same approximate rig count.
- +142,000 bbl/d incremental oil recovery attributable to the workover programme expansion.
- ~US$100M CAPEX/OPEX savings through introduction of 13Cr OCTG reutilisation policy and operational re-engineering.
- Rig-move time reduced from 3 days to 1 day through redesign of the field-wide workover fleet management approach.
- Reduction in non-productive time through elimination of redundant operations and equipment from the standard workover sequence.
Career to date
| Period | Operator | Role context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 – present | Basra Energy Company Ltd (BP/CNPC JV) | Completions & Workover Lead, Rumaila Field, Iraq |
| 2018 – 2023 | Reliance Industries Limited | Deepwater HPHT campaign — KG-D6, Bay of Bengal |
| 2017 – 2018 | Petronas Carigali | HPHT carbonate completions, Malaysia |
| 2014 – 2017 | Maersk Oil North Sea UK | HPHT completions and DST, including the Culzean development (14,500 psi / 380°F) |
| 2010 – 2014 | BP | Subsea and platform completions |
| 2008 – 2010 | Total | Completions design and operations |
| 2001 – 2008 | ENI / Schlumberger | Early career, Venezuela / U.A.E. / Oman / Italy / Nigeria / Egypt |
A full chronological CV is available in the CV section.
Education
- Professional Certificate in Data Analytics — Imperial College London (May 2026)
- MBA — IE Business School, Madrid (July 2009)
- M.Sc. Petroleum Engineering — Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2004)
- B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering — Universidad Central de Venezuela (June 2001)
Professional credentials
- Chartered Petroleum Engineer (CEng) — UK Engineering Council, Reg. No. 608108 (since 2013)
- Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI) — Reg. No. 45637 (since 2013)
- IWCF Level 4 Supervisor — Combined BOP Stack Surface/Subsea (valid since February 2026)
- SPE Member since 2004 (Member No. 3157452)
Languages & nationality
Italian citizen. Trilingual in English (advanced), Italian (mother tongue) and Spanish (mother tongue). Based in Madrid, Spain.
How I work — for collaborators and clients
I bring architecture to the conversation, not a blank brief. I validate every significant analytical or design output against operational ground truth before I trust it. I push back through precise specification rather than argument. I iterate deeply on work that matters and ship fast on everything else.
I am most useful where the technical complexity is genuine — HPHT, deepwater, mature-field workover at scale, M&A technical due diligence — and where the answer needs to survive contact with both a rig floor and a boardroom.