javier loaiza

Reservoir engineers are the heart of the oil industry. We drive business decisions through development planning and production forecasting. Maximizing revenue is accomplished largely through mathematical models of hydrocarbon production systems.

The Groningen field is the largest gas field in Europe. My main contributions were in the fields of system optimization and history matching. I created a variety of big data mining systems, and made use of optimization algorithms to simultaneously simplify the management of an enormous gas system (one giant gas field and two UGS’s) and help reduce our costs.

In this role I was in charge of planning, managing and executing intervention projects on live wells, I had overall control over those projects. I also determined their technical feasibility, created detailed activity plans and cost estimations, coordinated with internal and external stakeholders, supervised safe execution, and conducted staff performance reviews.

Studied the feasibility of using X-ray imaging systems for real time quality control of the manufacturing process of pharmaceutic pills.

Built a scaled-down version of an urban center in an aquarium with a wireless network, which used ultrasound instead of microwaves to carry information. My model was used to study the resilience against noise of different coding schemes currently used in mobile communication networks.

optical physics, digital image processing, laser physics

integrated optics, micro-fabrication technology

Nuclear physics