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 19-position completions and workover engineering function responsible for the planning and execution of completions for six 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 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.