Oscar Castaneda

Current

Engineering and Operation Director at Enap Sipetrol Head Office, Chile

Past

Engineer & Production Operation Director at Enap Sipetrol S.A.
Operation Manager at Enap Sipetrol Egypt
Facilities Engineer at Enap Sipetrol Chile

Project Engineer at Mikropul

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Education

The Robert Gordon University
Universidad de Chile
Universidad de Santiago de Chile

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Connections

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Industry

Oil & Energy

Oscar Castaneda’s Summary

Facilities Engineer: Proposed development plans for Offshore and onshore oil & gas projects, considering the facilities plan based on the production forecast, their capital cost (CAPEX) and operative cost estimation (OPEX). Experience in the Conceptual & Basic Engineering and participate in the Detailed Engineering, facilities construction, installation and start up.

Oil & Gas Operation: Experience with the following up of the Oil & Gas operations, implementing re engineering plans in order to optimize the operation and reduce the operative cost (lifting cost). Represent the international consortium in the JV Company, working in all the Production Operation matters, budgets and annual plans, tenders, contracts, drilling and completion operation, facilities, construction, and installation, daily operation, etc. Participate on TCM and OCM with partners.

Project Engineer: Experience in oil & gas project management, Gantt Chart, cost estimation, defining the critical paths of the projects activities and elaborating plan to follow up them, material / services required and their respectively tenders process, elaborating reports for all the stakeholders. To work in different project teams with Geoscientist, Reservoir, Drilling and Planning Engineers under project management methodology to achieve the goals associated to the project, timing & cost control.

New Ventures: Attend data room related with oil and gas new ventures, analyzing the technical-economical information matters regarding Production Operation, proposing and recommended development plan.

Oscar Castaneda’s Specialties:

• Oil & Gas Facilities design, Conceptual and Basic Engineering, participate in the Detail Engineering, construction, installation and start up as Offshore as Onshore;
• Development Plan Design as for Offshore as Onshore blocks;
• Well Completion & Artificial Lift Systems;
• Project Management knowledge;
• Production Operation activities for field development;
• To set company operation in a new country;
• Bid Round for new blocks, evaluating their technical and economical feasibility;

Oscar Castaneda’s Experience

Engineering and Operation Director

Enap Sipetrol Head Office, Chile

(Oil & Energy industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Enap Sipetrol has several assets worldwide, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Egypt. Responsible for all the engineering and Production Operation activities in such assets. Moreover he is involved in all the studies and analysis in new ventures in different countries in South America, North Africa and Middle East.
Engineer & Production Operation Director

Enap Sipetrol S.A.

(Oil & Energy industry)

1997 — 2009 (12 years )
Operation Manager

Enap Sipetrol Egypt

(Oil & Energy industry)

November 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 5 months)

The North Bahariya Concession started producing on 1st September 2004, settling the Joint Venture (Norpetco) between the consortium and the EGPC (Egyptian Petroleum Company) for its operation. Mr. Castaneda was appointed as Operation Manager by the consortium. The responsibility is to define field development plan, implement it, follow up and control the field operation, its investment and operative cost. Approve expenditures and interact with the consortium companies in any technical matter and trough Technical committee meetings. Participate in tenders and services contracts.
Facilities Engineer

Enap Sipetrol Chile

(Oil & Energy industry)

January 1997 — October 2004 (7 years 10 months)

Working in Oil and Gas projects, offshore and onshore, defining engineering designs, development plans and their implementation under project management methodology. He worked in offshore projects in the phases of engineering design, construction and installation of offshore facilities, moreover participating in well completion and start up. He is involved in the evaluation of new ventures, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Tunez, Libya, Egypt, working with multidisciplinary teams and where he is responsible to analyze the current assets situation and plan their development plan, investments and operative costs.
Project Engineer

Mikropul

(Privately Held; Mining & Metals industry)

September 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 4 months)

Develops projects related with the Gas and particle material treatment in the mining area. Represents MIKROPUL Cyclones, Filters Bags and Gas Cleaning equipment; SIEGER’s detection and monitor equipment of dangerous gases.

Oscar Castaneda’s Education

The Robert Gordon University

MSc Oil & Gas Engineering , Engineering , 2001 — 2002
Universidad de Chile

Dp , Professional Development Program in Business Management , 2000 — 2000
Universidad de Santiago de Chile

BSc , Chemical Engineer , 1989 — 1994