Guk Engineering Canada Limited

Bio 

Dr. Viacheslav Guk specializes in field development design and evaluation, production enhancement, hydraulic fracture design and evaluation, pressure/rate transient analysis, and waterflooding. Dr. Guk has worked with IHS Reservoir Engineering, Ruspetro, Rosneft, and Petroceltic, and currently helps DeGolyer and MacNaughton as an independent consultant. Based on his studies Dr. Guk has published multiple technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, teaches short courses on production data analysis and well enhancements, and serves as a technical reviewer for SPE Journal.

Guk earned his bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics in 2005 and master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics with the focus on petroleum engineering in 2007 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2010, he was awarded a doctorate in the development and exploitation of oil and gas fields by the Russian Academy of Science. Both U.S. and Canadian educational authorities have assessed this qualification as earned doctorate. Dr. Guk is a licensed Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada. He is a native Russian speaker, fluent in English and Romanian, and knowledgeable in French.

Major Projects

Dr. Guk contributed to multiple field development projects worldwide. He particiaped in waterflood management of Priobskoye oil field and production enhancement and hydraulic fracturing optimization of Krasnoleniskoye field in Western Siberia, which both have low permeability.

Guk coordinated revision of FDP for Ain Tsila gas field in Algeria including well logs and pressure transient tests re-interpretation, static modelling, well placement, well design and hydraulic fracture design optimization, and sector simulation modelling. He participated in the evaluation of Galata field in Bulgaria as a potential gas storage. Guk produced conceptual field development plans for Ratawi reservoirs in Kuwait based on the production data analysis, geologic interpretation, well test interpretation and conceptual reservoir simulation.

Dr. Guk’s most recent projects include evaluation of field and reservoir performance, field development plans reviews and due diligence. He contributes to the evaluation of reservoir drive mechanisms, sweep and recovery efficiency based on well performance, well tests, well logs, pressure data, MDT, PLT, and other available data followed by development of actions on increasing hydrocarbon production, sweep and recovery. Dr. Guk also peer-reviews the robustness of the production forecasts, identifies reservoir-related and operations-related risks and proposes their mitigation, and reveals additional production enhancement and hydrocarbon recovery opportunities.

2008-2009 Waterflood Management
Priobskoye Field.
Improving sweep through the management of simultaneous dedicated waterflood completions.
Evaluated flood efficiency and optimized injectors performance.

2011-2013
Production Management in Krasnoleninskoye Field.
Tight oil reservoir and low-permeability gas condensate reservoir.

• Analyzed well performance with Nodal and RTA.
• Routinely calculated well production potentials and performance gaps.
• Developed enhancement actions including optimization of artificial lift and production tubing sizes.
• Coordinated schedule and implementation of actions with field operations team.
• Designed and supervised field pressure transient tests, downhole sampling and other surveillance jobs.
• Facilities modeling and optimization.
• Performed field production forecasting using material balance and type curves.
• Participated in hydraulic fracture design and analyzed post-frac production data to improve next jobs. Average dimensionless productivity index of 0.6 was achieved for vertical fractured wells.

2014-2015 Well Performance Analysis
Yaraktinskoye Field
Performed RTA and PTA to estimate production-based permeability, well productivity index, and pseudo skin factor for vertical and horizontal wells.
Compared the results to the stimulated well potential and horizontal well potential and provided recommendations to improve the well productivity.

2015-2016 Identification of Well Enhancement Opportunities
Multiple Oil Fields in West Kazakhstan.
Performed integrated study on selected fields to identify enhancement and stimulation opportunities.
Supported implementation in the field.
Evaluated the results and suggested improvements.

2016-2017 Gas Field Development Plan Revision
Ain Tsila Field.
Coordinated revision of FDP including:
– well logs and pressure transient tests re-interpretation
– static modelling
– well placement
– well design improvement
– hydraulic fracture design optimization
– sector simulation modelling.

2017 Training Program
Petroceltic Algeria.
Developed and delivered a training program in Petroleum Engineering for Petroceltic Algeria Engineers.

2014 Rate Transient Analysis Training
PGNiG Warsaw
Delivered a training in RTA and DFIT for PGNiG Engineers.

2013 Hydraulic Fracturing Training
Eni Corporate University, San Donato Milanese
Assisted Prof. Michael Economides in Hydraulic Fracturing Training for Eni Engineers.

2017 Evaluation of a Potential Gas Storage
Galata Field, Petroceltic International
Contributed to the modelling of gas production and injection cycles in the gas storage evaluation.

2014 Rate Transient Analysis Training Pau
Total, Pau
Assisted in RTA Training for Total Engineers

2015-2016 Trainings
Astana, Kazakhstan
Prepared and delivered multiple trainings for Kazmunaygaz Engineers on the following subjects:
– Well performance analysis
– Nodal analysis
– Production enhancement
– Hydraulic fracture design
– Hydraulic fracture evaluation

2017 Asset Valuation
Petroceltic, London.
Prepared technical evaluation of multiple fields.

2017 Training Workshops in Egypt
Petroceltic, Cairo
Organized and delivered workshops, reviews, and trainings in the domain of production and reservoir engineering for subsurface team in Egypt.

Conducted an analysis of steaming cycles for wells within a heavy oil field. Recommendations were given on how to improve production under cyclic steaming.

Performed an evaluation of the existing FDP for a gas condensate field in Kzakhstan. Analyzed production data and reviewed well tests. Generated independent production forecasts.

Reviewed PVT analysis, well test data and production data. Generated the independent production forecasts.

2022
Participated in Production Forecasts Due Diligence (Data Room) for Offshore Fields in UAE. Reviewed wells production potential, built well models, assessed feasibility of production forecasts, associated risks and possible mitigation actions

2022-2023
Evaluated production potential for the major reservoirs and constructed the enhanced production forecasts based on well and reservoir physics.

2018 Technical Assurance Review of Field Development Plan for Greater Burgan Oil Field.
Performed production data analysis and identified well producibility and production potential. Reviewed facilities capacity and integrated model. Identified risk and uncertainties in production forecast and proposed mitigation actions. Identified opportunities to enhance production

2019-2020 Conceptual FDP for tight Cretaceous Reservoirs within Multiple Fields
Reviewed well logs, production data and test data. Modelled and optimized hydraulic fracturing design. Produced conceptual field development plans for multiple Ratawi reservoirs.

2020-2024. Annual Reviews of Asset Action Plans.
Review of robustness and uncertainties in the annual updates of field development plans and associated production forecasts company-wide. A set of key performance indicators was developed and applied by reservoir to assess the robustness of production forecasts. Recommendations are given on improvement of development plans and production forecasts for each reservoir.

2021-2024. Multiple Studies on Identification of Additional Production and Recovery Potential for Various Fields.
Evaluation of reservoir drive mechanisms and recovery efficiency based on well performance, pressure data well tests, well logs, MDT, PLT, and other available data. Performing Nodal analysis and Material Balance evaluations. Development of actions to increase oil sweep and recovery factor through well recompletion or reactivation, new wells, well shutoffs and well enhancements.

Conducted a training on production enhancement for Kuwait Oil Company employees at DeGolyer and MacNaughton Office in Dallas.

Reviewing well files and production data. Performing bottomhole pressure calculations, RTA and Nodal analysis, calculating well production potential and developing actions required to close the performance gaps for Montney wells.

The study on the selected wells aimed to identify the reason why these wells do not produce and develop actions to revive them.
Historical well and reservoir performance and operations were reviewed, production data was analysed, and Nodal analysis models developed for every well under the study. The wells production potential was calculated, and well revival actions were designed.

2024 Development of FDP Guidelines

2025 Evaluation of Drilling Locations for a Complex-Geology Gas Field in Uzbekistan.
The field has a fluvial deltaic geology. Location and continuity of sand is highly uncertain. Flowing material balance was applied to evaluate the contacted gas volume per completion. Completions were aggregated into pools based on the synthetic reservoir pressure behaviour. Monte-Carlo approach was used to forecast the range of contacted volumes for planned well locations from the results of production data analysis of existing wells.