Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

About Dr. Roberto Aguilera

Dr. Roberto Aguilera is Professor and ConocoPhillips-NSERC-AERI Chair in Tight Gas Engineering at the University of Calgary, a principal in SERVIPETROL LTD., a director of Junex (Quebec, Canada) and Executive Editor of the SPE Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. He is a petroleum engineering graduate from the Universidad de America at Bogota, Colombia, and holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a member of the Petroleum Society of Canada, SPE, CSPG, AAPG, SPWLA, CWLS, APEGGA and ACIPET. He has worked for Texaco in Colombia and the U.S., H.K. van Poollen and Associates in the U.S., Intercol (Exxon) in Colombia, Cities Service in Argentina, and Soquip in Quebec, Canada.

A consultant since 1978, he has been involved in petroleum engineering studies in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Venezuela, the North Sea, Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Egypt, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Indonesia, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, Italy, Pakistan, Libya, Australia, Ecuador, New Zealand, Chile, Philippines, China, Japan, Yemen, Israel, Cuba, Bolivia, Vietnam, Albania, Jordan, Norway, Russia and Thailand.

He has presented short industry courses dealing with "Naturally Fractured Reservoirs", "Reservoir Engineering", "Horizontal Wells", and/or "Well Testing" in Canada, the U.S.A., Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Guatemala, Brazil, Egypt, India, Japan, Denmark, Italy, Syria, England, Iran, Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Libya, New Zealand, Greece, China, Turkey, Germany , Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cuba, Scotland, Saudi Arabia, France, Bolivia, Spain, The Netherlands, Hungary and Norway.

He was an AAPG lecturer on the subject of "Fractured Reservoir Analysis" from 1984 through 1996. He received the Outstanding Service Award (1994) and the Distinguished Service Medal (2006) from the Petroleum Society of CIM.  He was a Distinguished Author of the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (1993 and 1999) and an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on the subject of "Naturally Fractured Reservoirs" for the 2000-2001 season.

Dr. Aguilera has developed many techniques for evaluation of naturally fractured reservoirs that have been published in leading journals of the oil industry. He is author of the book Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (PennWell, 1980; 2nd Edition, 1995), co-author of The Technology of Artificial Lift Methods (Vol.4, PennWell, 1984) with Kermit Brown et al., co-author of Horizontal Wells (Gulf Publishing Co., 1991), and co-author of Determination of Oil and Gas Reserves (Petroleum Society Monograph No. 1, First Edition: 1994, Second Edition: 2004).

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