Profile
Enriqu
e Morales, director of ISVA Oil and Gas Consultancy B.V., is a Stanford University and University of Tulsa graduate, wth experience in Exploration and Production and Gas and Power activities. His main roles and work locations are summarized as follows:
- Vice President Reserves Assurance and Reporting for Royal Dutch Shell plc (The Hague, Holland )
- Vice President Business Development Support & Value Assurance Reviews- Shell Gas and Power (The Hague , Holland )
- Vice president Gas and Power Business Forum- Shell Gas and Power ( London , England and The Hague , Holland )
- Vice President Latin America Business Development- Shell Gas and Power (London, England)
- Head of North West Shelf Gas Development- Woodside (Perth, Australia)
- Head of Reservoir Engineering/Deputy CPE- Al Furat Petroleum Company (Damascus, Syria)
- Head of West Netherlands Reservoir Engineering/Deputy CPE- NAM (Assen, Holland)
- Project Leader Integrated Petroleum Engineering Studies - Shell International (The Hague , Holland)
- Head of Short Term Planning and Economics - Maraven (Caracas, Venezuela)
- Senior Reservoir Engineer - Shell International (The Hague, Holland)
- Reservoir Engineer – Maraven (Caracas, Venezuela)
- Research Engineer – Chevron (Los Angeles, USA)
- Stanford University-Two Master degrees in Petroleum Engineering and Operations Research
- Reservoir Engineer- Shell de Venezuela
- Well Site petroleum Engineer – Shell de Venezuela (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
- University of Tulsa. Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering
Publications since 2011:
Undeveloped Reserves, Project Commercial Maturity and the five Year Time Limit. Room for Alternative Interpretations?, by E. Morales Presented at the Reserves Estimation, Integration and Best Practices session of the 75th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, held in London, UK, 12thJune, 2013
Probabilistic Aggregation and Project Definition: A missed Opportunity. By E. Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the SPEE Annual Meeting held in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, USA. June 9-11th, 2013
Probabilistic Reserves Addition within a Project, by Enrique Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 30 September–2 October 2013. SPE 166153
Interpretation of Recent SEC Reserves Reporting Guidance. By E. Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the Ryder Scott Reserves Conference, held in Houston, TX, USA. September 17th, 2014
Undeveloped Reserves and the Five-Year Time limit: Can Different Interpretations Co-Exist?, by Enrique Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, September 30th-October 2nd 2013. SPE 166185
Probabilistic Aggregation of Reserves: A Commercial Opportunity?, by E. Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the SPE Petroleum Reserves & Resources Estimation and its impact on Business Decisions Workshop held in Dubai, UAE, 21-22 October 2013.
Reserves and Resources Assessment Using Deterministic Procedures, by Y. Senturk and E. Morales. Presented at the SPE Petroleum Reserves & Resources Estimation and its impact on Business Decisions Workshop held in Dubai, UAE, 21-22 October 2013
Probabilistic Assessment of World Recoverable Shale Gas Resources, By Z. Dong, S. Holditch, D. McVay W. Ayers, J. Lee and E. Morales. Presented at the SPE/EAGE European Unconventional Conference and Exhibition held in Vienna, Austria, 25–27 February 2014. SPE 167768
Reserves and Resources Assessment using Deterministic Procedures, by Y. Senturk and Enrique Morales. Presented at the SPE Applied Technology Workshop, held in London, UK, 19-20 March, 2014
Lease Fuel, Fuel Gas or Fuel Consumed in Operations- Is it Reserves?, by Enrique Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the 2014 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27–29 October 2014. SPE 170612
Interpretation of Recent SEC Reserves Reporting Guidance, by Enrique Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the 2014 SPE Annual technical Conference and Exhibition held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27–29 October 2014. SPE 170616
Key Updates to the (2007) PRMS, by B. Seiller and E. Morales. Presented at the SPE Petroleum Reserves and Resources Estimation Workshop held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 18-19 April 2016
PRMS issues related to booking Reserves in LNG Projects, by Enrique Morales. Presented at the SPE Petroleum Reserves and Resources Estimation Workshop held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 18-19 April 2016.
The Importance of Assumptions in the Estimation, Classification and Categorization of Reserves and Resources, by E. Morales. Presented at 6th Tunisia Oil & Gas Summit, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, 29th September to 1st October 2016.
Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS) - 2018 Update of the SPE Standard, by B. Sellier and E. Morales. Presented at the SPE Petroleum Reserves and Resources Estimation workshop held in London, UK, 18-19 September, 2018
SEC and PRMS Proved Reserves: Why Differences Still Exist, by Enrique Morales, and W. John Lee. Presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference held in Houston, Texas, USA, 23-25 July 2018. URTeC 3003052
SEC and PRMS Proved Reserves: Why Differences Still Exist, by Enrique Morales and W. John Lee. Presented at the SPE Petroleum Reserves and Resources Estimation workshop held in London, UK, 18-19 September, 2018
SEC and PRMS Proved Reserves: Differences Due To Varying Interpretations of “Final Investment Decision”, by Enrique Morales and W. John Lee. Originally planned to be presented at the SPE EUROPEC to be held in Amsterdam, 8-11 June 2020. Due to COVID-19 paper was presented at the SPE virtual Europec, December 1st-3rd, 2020. SPE 200626
Analysis of Reasons for Differences in Proved Reserves Estimates with PRMS and SEC Regulations, by Enrique Morales and W.J. Lee. Presented (virtually) at the 2020 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Houston, Tx, USA, October 27th-29th, 2020. SPE-201583
Final Investment Decision and the Securities and Exchange Commission Interpretation, by E. Morales and W.J. Lee. Planned (pending on Corona Virus government restrictions) to be presented at the European Branch of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers in November 2021.
