David Oliva

OMV Head of Reserves and Resources | Oil & Gas Valuation | M&A Advisory

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

About

Senior Reservoir Engineer with 17 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry. Experienced and proficient in all aspects of reservoir engineering and Reservoir Management. Highly skilled in IT, Data Science, and software development. Currently based in Vienna, Austria, working for OMV as Head of Reserves & Resources. Prior international experience includes working as Senior Reservoir Engineer in operated oil fields in Thailand, Malaysia, Colombia and Algeria.

Experience

  • OMV (3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Head of Reserves & Resources
      Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

      Accountable for quality and compliance of OMV E&P reserves classification and quantification. Support the OMV E&P business to understand the broader implications of business decisions, in terms of reserves and financial impacts.

    • Senior Expert Reservoir Management - Global Production
      Nov 2022 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

      - Reservoir Management & Surveillance support for operated oil and gas fields globally - Production System Optimization - Waterflood Optimization with Streamline Surveillance Modeling, CPM, and other data-driven techniques - Value assurance for Reservoir Management Plan of new projects

  • Subsurface Manager at RKF - Association Sonatrach CEPSA
    Oct 2019 - Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Reservoir Engineer at Organisation Ourhoud
    Jul 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Reservoir Engineer at Coastal Energy Company
    Aug 2014 - Jul 2017 · 3 yrs

    - Reservoir Engineer in operated fields G5/43 (Thailand) and KBM (Malaysia) - Reservoir simulation and analysis - Operations coordination - Based on Bangkok from Nov 2015 to Oct 2016

  • Reservoir Engineer at CEPSA
    Sep 2009 - Aug 2014 · 5 yrs

    Reservoir Engineering for operated oil fields in Colombia: - Appraisal and Reservoir characterization of new discoveries - Transient well testing analysis. - Reservoir Simulation of Caracara field (20000 bopd). History Match and Prediction - Based on Bogota from January 2014 to September 2014