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 the completions and workover engineering function at Basra Energy Company Limited — accountable for the planning, design and preparation of every completion and workover programme delivered across the company’s drilling and workover rig fleet in the Rumaila Field, 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 — most recently the Imperial College Data Analytics certificate, completed in May 2026 — 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 completions and workover engineering function — a multinational team spanning expatriate and national senior engineers across workover, stimulation and planning-desk disciplines — responsible for the planning, design and preparation of all field completion and workover programmes.
• Own the technical authority for completion and workover programme design across the full active rig fleet, from concept through to rig-site execution readiness.
Selected programme outcomes 2024–2025 (qualitative summary):
- Material year-on-year workover throughput uplift, delivered with the same rig count.
- Substantial incremental oil-recovery contribution attributable to the workover programme expansion.
- Significant CAPEX/OPEX savings through introduction of a 13Cr OCTG reutilisation policy and operational re-engineering.
- Substantial reduction in standard rig-move duration 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.
Specific operational metrics are available under non-disclosure for prospective engagements where commercially appropriate. Please contact me to discuss.
Career to date
| Period | Operator | Role context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 – present | Basra Energy Company Limited (BP/CNPC JV) | Completions & Workover Engineering Lead — Rumaila Field, Iraq |
| 2019 – 2024 | BP (seconded to Reliance Industries Limited) | Senior Lead Completions Engineer — KG-D6 Deepwater HPHT, Bay of Bengal, India |
| 2012 – 2019 | Petronas Carigali | Subject Matter Expert — Completions, Workover & Wellheads, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 2011 – 2012 | BP | Senior HPHT Completion Engineer (Consultant), Sunbury, United Kingdom |
| 2010 – 2011 | Maersk Oil North Sea UK | Senior Completions & Well Testing Engineer — Culzean HPHT DST (14,500 psi / 380°F), Aberdeen |
| 2008 – 2010 | Total E&P UK | Senior Subsea & HPHT Completions Engineer, Aberdeen |
| 2006 – 2008 | Eni Group — PETROBEL | Completions Engineer, East Nile Delta offshore, Cairo, Egypt |
| 2005 – 2006 | Eni Group — NAOC | Drilling & Completion Engineer, Port Harcourt, Nigeria |
| 2004 – 2005 | ENI S.p.A. — Exploration & Production | Drilling & Completion Engineer, San Donato Milanese, Italy |
| 2002 – 2003 | Schlumberger Oilfield Services | Wireline Field Engineer, Indonesia / UAE / Oman |
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.