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Dr. Luis F. Quintero
Dr. Luis F. Quintero has over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and has worked for PDVSA and Schlumberger in more than 18 countries. He started his career in 1984 as a wireline field engineer in India, and he went on to positions in petrophysics, reservoir engineering, business development, financial analysis, project management and production management, among other areas. While with SLB he was responsible for the 5-year reservoir optimization plan for the following countries in the Caspian and Central Europe areas: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland. In Romania and Azerbaijan this led to close to projects worth approx. 850 million US$ (NPV). His last assignment for Schlumberger was Production Enhancement Director for Indonesia’s state oil company, Pertamina.
In 2003 Dr. Quintero founded Oilfield Development Specialists, LLC (ODS), and worked in Greece, Romania and Ukraine. In 2005 he set base in the USA with a team of Geoscientists, Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineers, etc and completed evaluation of properties in Guatemala, Ukraine, Bahamas, California, Texas, Libya, among others. ODS members also have taught courses in Production Engineering and Production Planning.
Luis F. Quintero has a master’s degree and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University. As a graduate student, he won:
- • 1st Prize in the Canadian Society of Petroleum Engineers, graduate competition [1996]
- • 1st Prize in the SPE Gulf Coast Petroleum Engineering Master’s competition [1996]
- • 1st Prize in the SPE International Petroleum Engineering PhD competition [1997]
He is an active member of the Society of Petrophysics and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), where he has participated on the technological committee for seven years (longest serving member), has been co-chair in more than 20 Annual Symposium sessions, co-chaired the special Geomechanics conference and was vice president of finance and administration. Dr. Quintero is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, where he served as editor of Reservoir Engineering Journal, and of the Core Analysts Society.