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OPCOPCOilfield Production Consultants (OPC) Ltd.Oilfield Production Consultants (OPC) USA,
L.L.C.
Houston - London – Aberdeen - Doha
9001:2008 Registration No. 43049
OPC is a consultancy providing technical and operational support, and expertise to the
exploration and production business
Company History
Founded 1987
Offices:
London (1987)
Aberdeen (1997)
Houston (2002)
Doha (2006)
OPC’s Staff and Associates have worked in over
50 countries around the world, for all the
majors and large independents
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Turnover £ millions
Key OPC Personnel
Piers Johnson, OPC’s Managing Director in London, is a Petroleum Engineer with over 29 years of experience in the UK and international oil industry. He is a Chartered Engineer and a former Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) London Section.
Consultant ServicesMark Tizard (Operations Director), Kasia Stefaniuk, Shobha Sharma and Ada Branfield in London along with Alan Sleith and Stuart Hart in Aberdeen, Maribel Renteria in Houston and Scott MacRae (Manager – Middle East) and Jacqui Dabu in Doha have over 55 years’ combined experience in technical recruitment, consultant placements and contract management in the UK and international oil and gas industry.
Projects and StudiesJohn Wright (Technical Director) supported by Dr. Ram Nutakki, a Reservoir Engineer with over 25 years of broad-based experience in reservoir engineering, petrophysics, well test analysis and operations globally, Byron Johnson (Res. Eng.), Sarah Williams (Geoscience), James Blackman (Geologist) and Mike Eastgate (Petroleum Production Engineer)
Bill Roberts, OPC USA’s President in Houston, has over 31 years of worldwide broad-based experience in reservoir engineering, well test analysis and reservoir simulation and is supported by Jeff Hargrove, an all around Petroleum Reservoir Engineer.
TrainingJohn Austin is Manager of Training with 30 years of oil industry experience most recently as a petroleum economist.
OPC ORGANIGRAMOilfield Production Consultants (OPC) Ltd.
9Staff Members
+Consultants
PROJECTS & STUDIESBill Roberts
President OPC USA LLC
PROJECTS & STUDIESJohn Wright
Techincal D irector
Consultants6000 + Available
60 Working
14Staff Members
CONSULTANTSM ark Tizard
Operations D irector
5Staff Members
IT & OFFICE SERVICESAdrian Cahill
Office M anager
TRAININGJohn Austin
M anager
EXECUTIVE BOARD Managing Director Operations Director Technical Director President OPC USA LLC
Piers Johnson Mark Tizard John Wright Bill Roberts
28 Staff Members
Projects & Studies: Well testing / well test interpretation, reservoir surveillance on intelligent wells, integrated sub-surface studies, reserves and asset evaluations. KINGDOM, ECLIPSE & PETREL available in house.
Provides Consultants and staff: High calibre consultants from OPC's extensive technical resources. Search for and selection of permanent members of staff can be entertained
Training: well testing, reservoir engineering, reservoir management and characterization; off the shelf or client-tailored courses in all E & P disciplines
What does OPC do?
Retain clients
Look after and retain consultants
Retain in-house technical subsurface and production skills and to support the consultants with technical expertise
Provide the right people for the right job
Offer a choice to our clients – in-house or in their offices or on their sites
What does OPC do well?
Partial list of Clients
Agip/ENI
Amerada Hess
Aminex
Anadarko
BG Group
BHP Billiton
BP
Cairn Energy
Centrica
CNR
CanArgo
ConocoPhillips
Devon
ExxonMobil
Europa Oil & Gas
Gaz de France
IPC/Lundin
JKX Oil & Gas
Maersk Oil & Gas
Murphy Oil
Noble Energy
Northern Petroleum
Premier Oil
Mariner Energy
Perenco
Petro-Canada
Qatar Petroleum
RasGas
Repsol
RWE-Dea
Shell
Sibir Energy
SIEP
StatoilHydro
Texaco
Total
Talisman Energy
Tethys Petroleum Ltd.
Tullow Oil
Countries where we have worked
RussiaSaudi ArabiaSouth AfricaSpainSudanTajikistanTanzaniaThailandTunisiaTurkmenistanU.K.U.S.A.UkraineVenezuelaYemen
LibyaMalaysiaMaltaNamibiaNetherlandsNigeriaNorwayOmanPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalQatarRomania
DubaiEcuadorEgyptFranceGabonGeorgiaGermanyIndonesiaIranIrelandItalyJapanKazakhstanKoreaKuwait
AlbaniaAlgeriaAngolaArgentinaAustraliaAzerbaijanBoliviaBrazilBruneiChileChinaColombiaCongoDenmark
…..and others
Contract Positions Examples
Well Test Engineer 1 month Asia Operations Geologist 12 months Middle East Reservoir Engineer 9 months Aberdeen Technical Assistant 6 months Aberdeen Rigless Testing Engineer 1 year Africa Asset Manager Short term London Cost Engineer 5 day project London HSE Engineer 2 years UK / Asia Operations Manager 7 years FSU Development Geologist 2 weeks USA
Field development planning/reservoir management
Reservoir simulation studies
Material balance
Well test analysis, planning and supervision
Reservoir Surveillance with permanent DH gauges
Phase behaviour/equation of state modelling
Uncertainty analysis
Reserves estimation
Reservoir Engineering
Familiar with most commercial simulators
– Eclipse (in house)
– VIP (Landmark)
– CMG
– Merlin
– MoReS (Shell)
Upscaling from geological models
– Petrel (in house)
– IRAP RMS
– Stratamodel
Reservoir Simulation
Extensive experience with Petrel and IRAP RMS Building complex 3D structural reservoir models Mapping of formation tops and thickness and developing
well to well correlations Reservoir facies and petrophysical property modelling Facies (object) modelling for complex heterogeneous
reservoirs such as fluvial channel reservoirs Detailed reservoir volumetrics by zones and segments Well planning of deviated, horizontal and multilateral wells Creating reservoir models for use in dynamic reservoir
simulation Stochastic modelling Seismic interpretation Seismo-stratigraphic interpretation Exploration, development and appraisal interpretation
3D Geological Modeling andSeismic Interpretation
Extensive experience with ECLIPSE, and highly qualified staff
Black-oil simulation
Equation of state modelling
Compositional simulation
History matching and forecasts
Modelling of horizontal wells and fractured reservoirs
Modelling of hydrocarbon, CO2 miscible floods, and water and steam floods.
Modelling of gas condensate and tight gas reservoirs
Upscaling of complex 3D geological models for simulation
Conversions of data sets between simulators
Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir simulation of heterogeneous North Sea channel reservoir evaluating multiple geological realisations
Geological modelling / reservoir simulation deepwater GOM
Reservoir study of large shallow Russian heavy oilfield
Evaluation of gas storage project in North Sea
Reservoir simulation and evaluation of Middle Eastern gas fields
Reservoir simulation study of Indian oilfield
Evaluation of Algerian oil and gas fields
Reservoir simulation of Hungarian gas fields
Evaluation of Tunisian oil and gas fields
Update of reservoir simulation models of Libyan oilfields
Geological modelling and reservoir simulation of Nigerian oilfields
Reservoir engineering and AIM floatation for Russian assets
Recent Projects
Software (In-house)
FROM NEOTEC
WELLFLO & PIPEFLO (multiphase wellbore hydraulics and pipelines software)
FORGAS (Field wide gas production forecasting software)
FROM WELL TEST SOLUTIONS LTD (UK)
PIE - Well test interpretation software
FROM OTHER VENDORS
Eclipse & Petrel from Schlumberger, Kingdom suite from SMT
FROM PETROLEUM EXPERTS
MBAL – Material Balance software
Reserves Audits
OPC has undertaken reserves audits in respect of statutory and fiscal reporting, floatations and funding. OPC can report to SEC, SPE, Russian, Norwegian and other standards and is recognized as a Competent Person by the London Stock Exchange
Reserves Audit Examples:
Client confidential
Independent Petroleum Engineer (IPE) report to support development funding from a major European Bank
Client confidential
UK company with US assets : Competent Person’s Report for AIM flotation
Client confidential
UK company with assets in Kazakhstan : Competent Person’s Report in support of flotation or mezzanine financing
Training
Specialist technical courses offered include:
Well Test Analysis (Basic and Advanced),
Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir Surveillance
Petroleum Economics & Risk Analysis
Project Management
Integrated training packages for in-house teams– Covers all technical & commercial disciplines
– Coordinated work processes and information flows
– Encourages project teams to operate more effectively
Contacting OPC
Consultants Mark Tizard in London [email protected] Hart in Aberdeen [email protected] Schoen in Houston [email protected] MacRae in Qatar [email protected]
Projects and StudiesJohn Wright in London [email protected] Roberts in Houston [email protected]
TrainingJohn Austin in London [email protected] Roberts in Houston [email protected]
Telephone London: +44 (0) 20 7428 1111 FAX: +44 (0) 20 7428 1122 Aberdeen: +44 (0) 1224 329 111 FAX: +44 (0) 1224 329 112
Houston: +1 713 973 2151 FAX: +1 713 243 8754 Qatar: +974 495 4648 FAX: +974 495 4649
Websites www.opc.co.uk www.opc-usa.net