Reservoir engineer with over 15 years experience in oil and gas development and research. Principal areas of expertise include specialization in application and development of numerical simulators for fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs, pressure-transient analysis, improved/enhanced oil recovery, unconventional reservoirs and the integration of detailed reservoir studies. Conducted and supervised multiple projects in several Latin America countries.

Summary of Experience

Experienced in acquisition and divestiture ventures in Latin America.

Prepared reserve evaluations which were used to determine fair market value and substantiate bank loan values.

Evaluated drilling prospects and prepared business plans to meet corporate requirements.

Prepared development plan for conventional and non conventional reservoirs.

Managed and actively participated in the reservoir characterization and numerical simulation by using finite difference and streamline modeling techniques.

Designed, interpreted and supervised pressure transient tests for oil and gas fields.

Screening EOR processes in mature oil fields in Argentina and Peru.

Development planning of several exploration projects.

Actively participated in the recompletion and re-development plan of several fields in the Latin America region.

Analyzed fields, wells, drilling proposals, recompletions and workovers improving production and profitability.

Organizations

Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers Jun. 1992 to present.

Reservoir Simulation TIG moderator of SPE Argentina March 1999 to 2001.

Organization Committee Member of the First Symposium in Numerical Simulation in Argentina, 2001.

Organization Committee Member of the Second Meeting on Numerical Simulation in Argentina, 2002.

Technical Advisor for Repsol - YPF in Streamlines Project developed in Colorado School of Mines.

Research Assistant at Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies (MCERS).

Education

M.S. Petroleum Engineering; Colorado School of Mines, 2004 (Completed Course Requirements for the degree)

ESCUELA ARGENTINA DE NEGOCIOS; Neuquen, Argentina. MBA. December 2000

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN; Austin, TX, USA. YPF funded grant, Petroleum Engineering Special Education Program December 1994.

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE BUENOS AIRES; Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering December 1992.

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA; La Plata, Argentina. Hydraulic Engineering Dec.1990 , Civil Engineering Dec. 1990,`Building Engineering June 1989.

Publications

1. `Evaluacion de la Eficiencia Volumetrica de Barrido mediante Trazadores en un Proyecto Maduro de Recuperacion Secundaria del Yacimiento Chihuido de la Sierra Negra`, Claudio Fonseca, Carlos Somaruga, Nestor Barros, paper presented in 2005 II Jornadas sobre Recuperacion Secundaria y Asistida, Malargue, Mendoza, Argentina.
2. `Reservoir Study of the Largest Oil Field in Argentina - A Two Reservoir 2200 Well Simulation Model`, C. Fonseca, Tuba Firincioglu, Gustavo Fernandez, Chet Ozgen, Alejandro Albertoni, paper presented in 2004 SPE Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, USA.
3. `New Surfactant for Chemical Flood in High-Salinity Reservoir`, Alain Zaitoun/IFP; Claudio Fonseca/REPSOL-YPF; Paul Berger/Oil Chem Technologies; Brigitte Bazin and Nicole Monin/IFP. Paper presented in the 2003 SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, Houston, USA.
4. `Recognition of Compartmentalization and Reserve Growth Potential un a Structurally and Stratigraphically Complex Reservoir , Example from the Barrancas Norte Field, Cuyana Basin, Argentina`, Holtz, Mark, Yeh,Chang U.T. at Austin, Austin Texas and Fonseca, Claudio YPF S.A. Argentina. Abstract submitted to the 1997 SPE Annual Convention.
5. `Trapping Styles of Potrerillos Formation ( Ladinian - Carnian ) in the Barrancas Oil Filed, Mendoza`, Jalfin, G., Andrada, L., Bugarini, M., Fonseca, C., Frati, G., Lafourcade, P., Moreiras, E.. Paper presented in the Mendoza Reservoir Characterization Meeting, Nov. 96.
6. `Study of production of water because of coning in Well Epn-1012, El Porton Field`, P. M. Carrica, Diego Diaz, C. Fonseca y Edgardo Moreiras. Paper presented in Repsol - YPF Congress Madrid Spain.
7. 'Effect of Interference of Adjacent wells in the interpretation of Falloff Tests', C. Fonseca y Edgardo Moreiras. Paper presented in Repsol - YPF Congress Madrid Spain.

Academic Activities

1. 'Applied Reservoir Simulation' Course professor for Postgrade Petroleum Engineering Department, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires Argentina
2. `Fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation` Course professor for Undergraduate Petroleum Engineering Department, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires Argentina
3. `Transient Well Testing` Course professor for Undergraduate Petroleum Engineering Department, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires Argentina
4. `Transient Well Testing` Course professor for Postgraduate Petroleum Engineering Department, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires Argentina

Dr. R. Michael Lloyd is an independent consulting geologist from Houston, Texas. He was with Shell Oil Company for 20 years during which time he occupied positions of growing responsibility in research, exploration and development.

Since leaving Shell in 1977 Dr. Lloyd has undertaken exploration projects and prospect generation in most of the productive basins of North America. He has also participated in exploration projects and development studies in many of the important carbonate basins world-wide.

Dr. Lloyd is a recognized authority on the deposition, diagenesis, and porosity evolution of carbonate rocks and authored numerous publications on these subjects. As an independent consultant he has applied his knowledge of carbonate rocks in his own exploration, in exploration and production studies for major oil companies, and as an instructor in training courses for major and independent oil companies and the AAPG and SPE.  

It is with great sadness we report the passing of Mike Lloyd on 23 February 2011.  Mike was a long time colleague and mentor to us and we will miss his wit, wisdom, integrity, and scientific acumen.  In memoriam