Dr. Luigi Saputelli is a Reservoir Engineering Expert Advisor with 34 years of experience as reservoir, drilling and production engineer in PDVSA, ADNOC, Hess and Halliburton.
Saputelli is a researcher, lecturer, and active volunteer in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) where he served as JPT editor (2012-2020), Production and Operations Advisory Board since 2010, founding member of Real-time Optimization Interest Group and Petroleum Data-driven Analytics technical sections since 2003. He is the recipient of the 2015 SPE International Production and Operations Award.
He has published more than 100 industry papers, 6 patents and contributed over 5 books on digital oilfield, reservoir management and real-time production optimization. He holds a BSc in Electronic Engineer from Universidad Simon Bolivar (1990), with a MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College (1996), and a PhD in chemical engineering from University of Houston (2003). He serves as managing partner in Frontender, an upstream energy services firm in Houston, and Stoic Operating Company.