A team built on engineering, experience and execution.
Carbon Storage & Industrial Decarbonisation
Diego is a CCS and subsurface specialist with 20+ years of international experience delivering storage appraisal, regulatory compliance, and permit-ready CO₂ projects across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Australia, and North America.He has contributed to several flagship carbon storage developments including Northern Lights (Norway), Aramis and Porthos (Netherlands), Endurance (UK), Gorgon (Australia), Quest (Canada), Dong-Hae (South Korea), Prinos (Greece), and PTTEP Lang Lebah (Malaysia) and Arthit (Thailand).
His work has covered full storage development planning, Demonstration of Feasibility, risk-based Monitoring & Verification (MMV) design, and annual resource assessments.Diego has worked directly with regulators under the EU CCS Directive and Norwegian storage regulations and has contributed to ISO 27914 conformity reviews. In Australia, he serves on the Standards Australia committee for CCS quantification and verification (TS 5373).Formerly with Shell, Equinor and Halliburton Low Carbon Solutions, he now advises operators, governments and investors on technically robust and commercially defensible carbon storage and industrial decarbonisation strategies.
He is an SPE Distinguished Lecturer (2025–26) on CO₂ storage risk and business models.
Principal Process Optimization and Facility Management
20+ years of experience in Production Optimisation and Production Management in onshore and offshore facilities, Gas, heavy Oil, Water Injection, Steam Injection, H2S operations.
Skilled with modelling and data analytics with real-time monitoring systems.
Experienced practitioner in WRFM via daily production data analysis, medium- and long-term production forecast, troubleshooting and root cause analysis of facilities.
Petroleum, Leadership and Management with 20+ years of experience in Production Optimisation and Asset Management across onshore and offshore oil and gas operations, including Coal seam Gas.
Proven track record in improving production performance, operational efficiency, and reliability through data-driven decision-making.
Skilled in field operations, artificial lift, asset management, forecast, planning WRFM and brownfield optimisation.
Result-oriented Well Engineering Manager with 30+ years’ experience building high-performing teams and delivering cost-efficient, value-focused projects.
Skilled in strategic planning, design, and audit oversight for exploration and development activities across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, ensuring alignment with international standards and local constraints.
Strong ability to balance optimal versus practical outcomes. Multilingual (English, proficient Russian and Dutch) with a proven track record developing multicultural, junior, and local talent.
Oil and Gas
40 years in diverse roles focused on a wide range of O&G and some recent CCS value propositions worldwide.
All aspects of O&G field appraisals and developments covering entire lifecycle from discovery to abandonment.
Project Decision Executive.Staff and Skill-pool management.
Decision Quality Coach to leadership, Industry Mentor and Facilitator.
35+ years in diverse roles and global locations delivering value through improved and enhanced recovery.
Subject Matter Expert in Waterflooding and cEOR
Specialised in:
Development and Management of Hydrocarbon Resources for economic recovery.
Passionate Trainer/Coach in I/EOR processes (Waterflooding and Chemical EOR).
Equipment & Services
30+ years international oil & gas well construction equipment and services business including 9 years experience in developing corporate strategy and 3 years in leading global low carbon solutions corporate initiatives.
Derives actionable insights from engineering understanding, operational experience and business management skills.
Expertise includes technical due diligence, strategic planning and partnership with a demonstrated record of corporate strategy formulation, international operation startups and business turnarounds.
PhD, MBA, P.Geol.
40+ years Exploration and Production geosciences roles around the world with Oil & Gasdiscoveries in Central North Sea, Venezuela (2 giants), Western Canada and USA (Kansas).
Past and present Lecturer on structural geology and geochemistry for AAPG, IAS and CSPG as well as geology for engineers for SPE and CEGA
Specialized in:-Exploration and production in structurally complex areas-Multidisciplinary specialist integrating geology, geophysics, geochemistry and engineering.
Regional Play assessment, Thermal modelling and remote sensing advisor.
40+ yrs experience Upstream international Oil and Gas.exploration across the board from new ventures (Iraq, Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa) to assessment of remaining prospectivity in proven basins (North Sea, Brunei, Egypt, Oman), seismic interpretation, basin-scale thermal modeling, geochemistry, structural geology, geothermal and natural hydrogen.
39 years of petroleum geomechanics experience with proven track records in technical service, operation, R&D and academic, and internationally recognised all-rounded subject matter expert in CO2 geological storage containment/integrity, reservoir/completions integrity coupled geomechanics and wellbore-centric geomechanics.
Extensive experience with result-oriented project outcomes in Asia, Australia and Middle East, and managed/worked on projects in Africa, North and South America, Russia and Europe.
Deep passion in Sustainability for Future Generations and a prominent CCS Geomechanics expert. Served as a SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2024-25 Tour Season on Mitigation of CCS Geomechanical Risks.
Passionate course trainer for knowledge transfer and mentorship in competency development of younger generations in geomechanics.