Daniel Emuchay

Experience

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  Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

  Mar 2008 - Feb 2009

  Process Control Engineer

  • Plant hazard monitoring reporting and elimination.• Process plant simulation (Using Hysis) trouble shooting and production programing • Process operations, control and process safety.• Supervision of plant maintenance jobs • Daily operational checks in the fluid catalytic cracking unit• Crude line up for cracking operations.

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  Integrated Petroleum Resources limited

  Jan 2010 - Feb 2014

  Petroleum Engineer

  •Well designing using PROSPER software to simulate and evaluate well performance which includes; Gas lift optimization design, Tubing Design, Well Design, Reservoir Pressure and flow rate Predictions. GAP linked with MBAL and PROSPER to predict production profile of oil and gas and future performance of an entire field in the a newly developed field .•Used MBAL (using Monte Carlo model in MBAL) to determine stock tack original initial in place (STOIIP) for a new field.• Analyze production trends & performance for reservoirs to know if the rate decline behavior follows exponential, Harmonic or Hyperbolic decline• Prediction of future performance biased on Decline Curve Analysis Show less

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  DHARMATTAN NIGERIA LIMITED

  Feb 2014 - Sept 2018

  Senior Production Technologist

  • Nodal Analysis and Well performance modeling.• Operational Petroleum Engineering & Decline curve analysis.• Gap Network constraint and De-Bottleneck simulation. • Gas lift optimization/Production management and validation of filed network in GAP• Remaining resource evaluation and Field Development plan Well reliability and optimization(WRO)• Well integrity management (Best practices to reactivate shut-in wells). • Carried out one dimensional simulation using MBAL.• Performed economic analysis using NPV & IRR as indices for profitability• Wells & Reservoir surveillance and management.• Well Diagnostic plots, injection and production Analysis.• Determination of lift table for reservoir simulation• Recommended optimal field management procedures • Choke sensitivities and production constraint on GAP models• Identification of new opportunities for Zone switch well side track.• Review of existing wells to ensure compliance with safety standards• Determined natural flow limits of wells on reservoirs basis• Artificial lift requirements, assessments and selection.• Perforation and sand control summary techniques• Analysis and recommendation for Major Rig work overs and Non-Rig Work over jobs for production gain • Predict future sand failure per reservoirs and access sand exclusion methods• New Drill and behind pipe opportunities,Development Well Planning. Reservoir Engineering. Well Modeling using Schedule in Eclipse Relative Permeability Modeling in Eclipse SCAL History matching i.e. Pressure and Saturation match Prediction Analysis  Dynamic modelling /Determine the Optimum placement of water injectors Model Calibration (inflow/outflow performance) and Lift Table Generation Show less

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  Oando Plc

  Oct 2018 - Sept 2022

  Senior Production Technologist

  •Manages a team that provides production technology support for the OML13, OML 56, OML 60-63 JV by proposing and reviewing well candidates that will contribute to the objectives of the organization.•Identify sick wells and determine solutions for production optimization & develop field study for to determine artificial lift designs.•Design and troubleshooting of ESP & Gas lift design for wells that require artificial lift.•Execution of several Rigless well intervention jobs in Ebendo, Qua- Iboe and NAOC JV field using slickline, Eline, coiled tubing, Nitrogen lifts, and pumping units.•Coordinate wellbore reviews/Well work complexity of workovers to ensure timely completion and selection of rated equipment to execute field activities.•Design non-regular and specialized jobs using special tools and techniques which can be used in with following units, acid stimulations and solvent soak, fishing, plug setting and retrieval, wireline, oriented perforations and coiled tubing operations.•Monitoring of well performance by carrying out surveillance for maximum overall field production while maintaining maximum well life.•Coordinate well integrity management with respect to well work control, annulus investigation, risk assessment, and the establishment and enforcement of well-operating envelopes.•Review of the Filed model IPM Model GAP Prosper for all JV assets.•Maintain well surveillance sheet with a view to ensure well integrity and assurance process is maintained and adhered.•Coordinate well bore utility review with other teams Geosciences, Reservoir and Drilling, and Facilities to proffer solutions for the restoration of shut-in wells back to production.•Supervised the water shut off opportunity of Ebendo well 1 improving the vertical lift of the well, this increased the production rate by 60%•Worked with an integrated team in planning of HPHT wells in the Obiafu, Ogboinbiri fields. This includes testing of such wells which were producing up to 100mmscf/d. Show less

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  Multisub Energy Limited

  Oct 2022 - now

  Senior Production Technologist and WRFM Coordinator

  • Prepared work scope for re-entry of Olure wells 1 and 2 wells, and engaged the turnkey contractor to ensure the well delivery process was seamless. Contracts and Project awards, Supervise models and simulations, Opportunities Identification in WRFM teams, Field Development Plans, Technical Committee, Business Case Presentations, Review of Investment Opportunities, Supervise Trainees • Engagement with the Regulators on the minimum work program for the Olure field presented the good work worth $32,000,000 procedure with timelines.• Resource volume estimation, classification, reporting, and assurance for the investors will enable them to see the value of the Olure project.• Engage with service companies for effective utilization of units in a cost-effective manner. • Rig inspection and acceptance for the Olure project while ensuring best practices are followed.• Prepared the project schedule and supervised the well re-entry process ensuring the right vendors were selected and the equipment during pre-mobilization of the project was deployed to ensure we got value.• Manage the Project from inception from planning to execution, managing vendors and ensure they deliver on schedule mobilization and demobilization.• Put in place the process for the purchase of long lead items, Tubing test and inspections wellhead tubing’s for the well completion.• Played an essential role by interfacing with and co-ordinating between Reservoir, Well, Surface Engineering and Production Operations. • Review the filed IPM model GAP Prosper for all JV assets. Show less