Fabio Ravanelli

Managing Director

Feb 2019 - July 2021: Lead Simulation Engineer Berri Field

Responsible for all reservoir simulation tasks for Berri Field

• Berri is one of the largest and oldest oil field in Saudi Arabia.
• Prepared reports, simulation models, supporting documentation and data for external valuation.

July 2017 - Feb 2019: Senior Simulation Engineer - Gas

Aramco Initial Public Offering (IPO)

• Prepared 22 gas simulation models (NAG) for external valuation.
• Prepared reports, simulation models, supporting documentation and data for external valuation.

Responsible for all gas reservoir simulation activities in the Carboniferous and Permian formations

• Managed 22 non-associated gas fields (Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian formations).
• Led interdisciplinary teams of 20 professionals. Performing fast peaced reservoir simulation studies. Led project initiation, planning, execution and closure, presentations to stakeholders, proponent and managers.

July 2014 - July 2017: Simulation Engineer - Gas

Responsible for all gas reservoir simulation activities in the Permian

• Responsible to manage all reservoir simulation studies in the Permian formation (8 fields).
• Led project documentation, presentations to managers and peer reviews.

Project champion of internal software development at Aramco

• Responsible for testing, training and deploying new reservoir simulation applications.
• Wrote over 10 thousand lines of code to automate PVT and SCAL table construction, data conversion, data retrieval and well planning.
• Project liaison of a Joint Industry Program. Introduced an advanced history matching technique into Aramco.
• Designed scripts to speed up data processing and reservoir simulation activities.

Performed special simulation studies and optimization

• Optimized the simulation run time of complex near critical fluid models by 80%.
• Conducted CO2, N2 and gas cycling studies.

In charge of all Satellite Gas Fields - early Permian Formation

• Responsible to manage all reservoir simulation studies in the early Permian formation (10 fields).
• Optimized the required number of wells to efficiently produce the assets.
• Increased NPV of the assets.

May 2013 - July 2014: Junior Simulation Engineer - Gas

Participated as core team member in 3 major gas simulation projects

• Subject matter expert in History Matching
• Championed history matching and prediction studies
• Performed quality control and assurance

May 2013 - Present: Knowledge Transfer and Mentoring

Led the Knowledge Sharing departmental initiative

• Organized monthly meetings attended by over 80 professionals.
• Modernized the meeting format to boost audience and interest in the initiative.

Mentoring

• Lectured a 2 weeks course at Aramco’s internal university (UPDC).
• Trained 15 young professionals.
• Training included:
• Introduction to reservoir simulation.
• History Matching.
• Field development optimization.
• Field performance prediction and uncertainty.

In charge of the departmental knowledge transfer program

• Organized biweekly meetings attended by over 80 professionals.
• Operational Excellence - Knowledge Management champion.
• Part of the Operational Excellence program identifying gaps, measuring KPI’s and implementing mitigation plans.

MSc Earth Sciences and Engineering

Scholarship: Kaust Fellowship (70 thousand dollars)

• Kaust Provost Award. Granted for exceptional students entering the university.
• Thesis: History Matching of 4D Seismic Data Attributes using the Ensemble Kalman Filter.
• GPA: 3.70 (A-).
• Advisor: Ibrahim Hoteit.

Software Engineer - Analyst

Responsible for creation and maintenance of test cases

• Implemented new accounting modules, developed graphical interfaces, migrated modules written in Delphi to C#.
• Wrote SQL queries.
• Performed software maintenance tasks.

BSc Physics: Ranked in the top 5% of the class.

Jan 2010 - Dec 2010: Intern at the Center of Biological Engineering

• Responsible for developing a software for automatic quality control of mammographic images

Jan 2008 - Dec 2009: Scholarship: National Council for the Science and Technological Development – CNPq

• Research project: Construct low cost physics experiments to aid classroom teaching

Jan 2007 - Dec 2010: Teaching assistant

• Teacher Assistant of the courses F 609 and F 709 lectured by professor Lunazzi, J.J.
• Performed presentations to public high school students

Language	Experience	Technology	Experience
C		Visual Studio
C++		Git
C#		SVN
Delphi		Bugzilla
F#		SLB Petrel
Matlab		SLB Eclipse
Python		GigaPOWERS
R		MS Scripting
SQL		Linux Scripting
VB		MS Office

• 2023 Patent US 10,670,753 Determining hydrocarbon production sweet spots
• 2020 Patent US 10,670,753 History matching of time-lapse crosswell data using ensemble kalman filtering.
• 2011 Kaust Provost Award. Granted for exceptional students.
• 2005 Brazilian Physics Olympiad. Silver Medal. Brazilian Society of Physics (SBF). National competition attended by 50 thousand students.
• 2004 Brazilian Physics Olympiad. Silver Medal. Brazilian Society of Physics (SBF). National competition attended by 50 thousand students.

Authored/Co-authored 10 published works in distinguished journals and conferences: SPE, IEEE and American Journal of Physics. Full list here (Google Scholar)