Gustavo Castro

Gustavo Castro 1725 32nd Street SW, Calgary, T3C 1N6, Alberta – Canada Contact No.: +1 - Email:-Linkedin Profile: /in/gustavo-castro-b23a2832 Senior Well Planner with over 18 years of experience in the Oil & Gas Industry. A strong range of expertise including: technical and reporting analysis, processes and operations tracking. Holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and Management. Focused on making meaningful impacts, I have built positive working relationships with clients, stakeholders at all levels, including client executives, partners and the wider Weatherford team. This combined with my sound decision-making skills, I have provided valuable strategic insights into directional drilling, well planning, BHA analysis and anticollision analysis. Education • Master in Business Administration and Management, European Business School (EUDE), 2019 -2020 • Bachelor of Electronic Engineering, San Marcos University, Peru,- Technical Skills • Directional Drilling Services • Drilling Engineering • Torque & Drag / Hydraulic / Vibration Software • Workflow Planning / Prioritization • • • Technical & Operational Management Oilfield Environments KPI Reporting and Analysis Microsoft Office (Proficient) Achievements • Extensive multinational experience across Latin America, Africa and Asia. • Participated in high profile projects with multi billion dollar budgets. • Implementation of critical anti-collision analysis in offshore wells in Peru, which became a technique used worldwide as part of Weatherford training courses. Key Skills • Self-starter with the ability to work in high-pressure and fast-paced environments and deliver actionable results quickly. • Possess strong knowledge of directional drilling services within the oil & gas industry. • Ability to build and maintain solid relationships with potential and existing clients. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to lead meetings and communicate professionally and positively. • Proficient English level Employment History Weatherford Canada Partnership – Canada (November 2024 – Present) Senior Well Planner & Drilling Engineer • Major clients: CNRL, Baytex, Imperial Oil Resources, Cenovus, Suncor. • Provide an engineering interface with the client. • Responsible for the effective design and implementation of well plans. • Perform engineering duties as required to provide directional drilling operations and clients with drilling plans, conceptual design, detail design and work programs for prospective oil and gas wells. • Support the Service Delivery and Sales process with technical expertise. • Involved with the design and planning for conventional and complex Wells (ERD, HP/HT, Multilaterals). • Perform anti-collision analysis. BHA analysis, including torque & drag, hydraulics, vibration and modeling. • Improve drilling efficiency based on offset and previous well analysis. • SAG-D projects. • Work with the geologist team on a daily basis to fulfill all their requirements. Weatherford International – Bahrain & Saudi Arabia (December 2015 – October 2024) Senior Well Planner – Application & Drilling Engineer • Major clients: Saudi Aramco, & Bapco Upstream. • Average budget: $2 billion (Budget reduction in comparison to previous years due to the global pandemic). • Approximately 500 wells drilled over 6 years. • Provide an engineering interface with the client • Responsible for the effective design and implementation of well plans • Perform engineering duties as required to provide directional drilling operations and clients with drilling plans, conceptual design, detail design and work programs for prospective oil and gas wells • Support the Service Delivery and Sales process with technical expertise • Involved with the design and planning for conventional and complex Wells (ERD, HP/HT, Multilaterals) • Perform anti-collision analysis. BHA analysis, including torque & drag, hydraulics, vibration and modeling. • Improve drilling efficiency based on offset and previous well analysis. • Participant in important projects with Ahmadi (formation) horizontal wells with geosteering navigation. Mauddud, Kharaib, Magwa Ostracod formations as deviated wells. Khuff formation (gas well), with a challenging depth (+/- 12000ft). • Support Saudi Arabia operations during peak seasons. • Work with the geologist team on a daily basis to fulfill all their requirements. Weatherford International – Pointe Noire, Congo & Port Gentil, Gabon (November 2013 – October 2015) Well Planner III • Major clients: ENI, Perenco, Maurel & Prom and Total, in Awa Paloukou, Boundi and Likouala fields. • Average budget: $80 billion. • Approximately 50 wells drilled over 2 years. • Daily review of well plans. • • • Generate the trajectory analysis and report of anti-collision issues during offshore drilling operations. Analysis of torque & drag, hydraulics and vibrations of suggested BHA. Daily meetings with clients in order to discuss and recommend the operational strategy to be implemented in the field. Weatherford del Peru – Lima, Peru (June 2009 – November 2013) Well Planner Engineer • Major clients: Pluspetrol, Petrobas, Perenco, BPZ, Savia Peru, Olympic, Sapet, Pacific Rubiales, Graña y Montero, Vetra and Talisman. • High profile project with Pluspetrol client in the Peruvian Amazon in Capahuari & Corrientes field campaign, analyzing well trajectories with corresponding torque & drag, hydraulics and vibration reporting. • Worked also with Petrobras client in the north of Peru in a high profile and fastpaced project, drilling over 250 wells in 2 years. • Challenging project with Perenco client due to collision slots in the middle of the jungle and the logistic for tools & personnel mob & demob and all the previous analysis in the area with hydraulics and formational studies, provided us great insights to achieve a successful drilling of wells pad in a row. • Worked also with Savia Peru client to drill various offshore wells, performing a very critical anti-collision analysis, which became worldwide technique used as part of Weatherford training courses. • Offshore operations with platform collision issues (BPZ client). Schlumberger Venezuela – Las Morochas, Venezuela (September 2007 – April 2009) MWD / LWD Field Engineer • Major clients: Petroperija, Tomoporo, Menegrande in East & West Venezuela and San Tome in East Venezuela with PDVSA company. • Work as a field engineer programming the drilling tools in town and in the field. • Participate in pre & post job meetings with the client. Responsible for delivering service quality. • Responsible for recording operational data and compiling complete relevant job. • Follow up failure reports with maintenance team. • Responsible for surveying, rig up and downhole surface tools and technical calibrations procedures. General Electric Healthcare – Lima, Peru (July 2004 – August 2007) Field Engineer Service • Responsible for preventive and corrective maintenance of biomedical equipment such as densitometers, CT Scan, X Rays and Magnetic Resonators. Courses & Certifications • Directional Drilling 1 & 2 • Drilling Engineering 1 • Drilling Hazard Mitigation • Drillstring Directional Drilling Design References To be provided upon request. • • • • Weatherford Drilling Software Schlumberger Drilling Tools & Software Pipeline and Specialty Services Borehole Environment