Experience
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Arnout Mols
Reservoir Engineer
E-mail: arnout.mols@gmail.com
Majority of career spent at ExxonMobil, bringing extensive industry expertise and insights to the table.
Experience with major industry players:
- ExxonMobil
- Equinor
- Vår Energi / Point Resources
Quick Summary
- Pragmatic and results-driven reservoir engineer with significant international experience in the energy business.
- Specialized in reservoir management and reservoir simulation, combined with a high degree of geoscience knowledge and familiarity with drilling, completions and production facilities.
- Experienced in opportunity generation, field development planning and production optimization. Good interpersonal skills and familiar to work with different stakeholders.
- Enjoying to generate value for business and society by developing efficient large scale energy sources.
- Looking forward to contribute to the complex energie transition process, including CO2 storage.
Experience
Reservoir Engineer
2020 – Present | 4 yrs
Location: Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
ExxonMobil Production Company – Upstream Integrated Solutions – North West Shelf, Australia
- Responsible for reservoir engineering support and advice for the Gorgon LNG project in Australia
- Jansz and Gorgon field simulation modeling for corporate plan, reserves updates and compression project evaluation
Reservoir Engineer
2018 – 2020 | 2 yrs
Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Esso Norge AS – Joint Interest – North Sea, Norway
- Responsible for reservoir simulation modeling of the Breidablikk field for independent evaluation of the subsea field development and for negotiation of unitization between ExxonMobil, Equinor, ConnocoPhillips and Petoro
- Seconded to Vår Energi (JV between Point Resources and ENI) for 7 months to provide critical transitional support related to Joint Interest assets purchased from ExxonMobil
Reservoir Engineer
2011 – 2018 | 7 yrs
Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Esso Norge AS – Operated – North Sea, Norway
- Responsible for three Norwegian offshore oil and gas fields operated by ExxonMobil (Balder, Ringhorne, Sigyn)
- Seconded to Point Resources for one year (2018) to provide key transitional reservoir engineering and simulation support for operation and further development of the fields purchased from ExxonMobil
- Seconded to Statoil in Bergen during 20 months (2015-2017) for transfer of specialized knowledge and experience on sand injectite reservoirs needed to progress the Breidablikk project through the funding approval process
Reservoir Engineer
2005 – 2011 | 6 yrs
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
ExxonMobil Production Company – Qatar Subsurface Team – North Field Qatar
- Reservoir simulation studies related to production performance predictions and development optimizations of the Qatar North Field, which is the largest gas-condensate field in the world
- Wellbore stimulation study to maximize long-term well productivity with special attention to condensate banking issues
- Waste liquid injection modeling and evaluation for a helium extraction project
Reservoir Engineer
2003 – 2005 | 2 yrs
Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Esso Norge AS – Operated – North Sea, Norway
- Responsible for two Norwegian offshore fields operated by ExxonMobil (Balder, Sigyn)
- Extensive reservoir simulation work for Sigyn, including miscible gas and CO2 injection
- Balder full field simulation modeling
Reservoir Engineer
2001 – 2003 | 2 yrs
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
ExxonMobil International Limited – Operated – North Sea, Norway & UK
- Reservoir engineering support for three Norwegian offshore oil and gas fields (Balder, Jotun, Sigyn) and economic evaluation for UK near field wildcat opportunity
- Developed black oil and compositional reservoir simulation models for Sigyn
Reservoir Engineer
1995 – 2001 | 6 yrs
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Mobil Exploration & Producing US Inc (New Orleans – 5 yrs) & ExxonMobil Production Company (Houston – 1 yr) – Joint Interest – Gulf of Mexico & Texas onshore, USA
- Provided all engineering (including drilling, completions, facilities) and business support for 14 oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico and a gas field in South Texas, including a gas plant
- Evaluated 225+ field development opportunities
- Partner relations and influencing
Reservoir Engineer
1992 – 1995 | 3 yrs
Location: The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Mobil Producing Netherlands Inc – North Sea, The Netherlands
- Responsible for three gas fields in the Dutch offshore sector (two operated by Mobil)
- Reservoir and production engineering, including simulation, well test analysis, compression evaluation and gas sales and pipeline contract issues