Marco Colombo

MBA, Senior Petroleum Engineer, Auditor

Sunbury-On-Thames, England, United Kingdom

About

Accomplished energy industry professional with 18 years of international experience spanning internal audit, petroleum engineering, and digital transformation. Recognized for delivering risk-based assurance, optimizing production, and leading cross-functional teams to implement innovative solutions that drive operational excellence and business value. • Internal Audit: Expert in risk-based assurance, providing actionable insights and advice to enhance risk management across BP’s global businesses. • Petroleum Engineering: Extensive experience in well modeling, ESP design, artificial lift optimization, integrated asset modeling, surveillance planning, and production data management. • Business Transformation: Skilled in business analysis, process modeling, and leveraging digital technologies to streamline operations and maximize business value.

Experience

  • bp (13 yrs 6 mos)
    • Internal Auditor
      Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Petroleum Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos

      SPA - Single point of accountability for all the surveillance jobs in the field, including the quarterly preparation of the surveillance program documentation (about 1000 wells) and the monitoring of the job statistics. Responsible for the design of intervention jobs (water shut off, ESP installation, integrity remediation) for about 100 wells in the giant Rumaila field (Iraq).

    • Business transformation specialist
      Apr 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible to identify and recommend enhancements to the business processes that are affected by the development of digital technologies.

  • Lead Petroleum Engineer at KPO
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Lead engineer in the reservoir and petroleum engineering department of KPO b.v. (Aksay, Kazakhstan), for both the integrated asset modelling (resp. for production optimisation, production forecasting) and the production data management (resp. for production data collection and reporting) teams.

  • Reservoir/Petroleum Engineer at Eni
    Sep 2007 - Jan 2012 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Main activities and responsibilities: Field and well automated surveillance by use of OVS (Merrick Systems) Production data (on Access and Oracle database) management and analysis by use of OFM Well performance analysis by use of Prosper Well test design and interpretation by use of Interpret and Saphir Integrated Asset Modeling (Reservoir+Network) by use of Petroleum Experts software (Resolve+Gap+Eclipse) and Schlumberger software (Avocet+Pipesim) Reservoir production optimization by use of Resopt option of Eclipse Reservoir Modeling by use of Eclipse and MBal simulation softwares

  • Research Fellow at Physics Dept., University of Milano-Bicocca
    Nov 2006 - Sep 2007 · 11 mos

    Scientific research in the field of gas-discharge physics, hydrocarbon reforming, microgeneration technology and gas chromatography