Vladimir Caicedo
Senior Geologist
Vladimir Caicedo joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2018 as a petroleum geoscience professional with considerable international experience. He has managed field development, production operations, and new ventures involving oil and gas assets for both onshore and offshore projects across the full exploration and asset life cycle. His expertise spans conventional and unconventional reservoirs in sedimentary basins worldwide. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry.
He graduated as a petroleum engineer from the Universidad America, Bogota, Colombia in 1995 and as a geologist from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1999. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Caicedo is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English and Indonesian.
Geographical Experience
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Gabon
- Guatemala
- Indonesia
- Kuwait
- Mexico
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Venezuela
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Reservoir geology
- Geomodeling
- Subsurface characterization
- Prospect evaluation
- Reserves and resources evaluation
- Field development planning
- Production optimization
- Field exploitation
Major Projects
Caicedo worked as an exploration geologist and technical team lead in frontier areas of Southeast Asia and was in charge of planning and implementing technically sound and cost-effective exploration and development work programs for South Sumatra’s assets in Indonesia. He was accountable for vendors’ contract management and technical and commercial quality control supervision. He collaborated with individuals and multidisciplinary teams of geoscientists and engineers, contributing in high-impact subsurface projects to enhance reservoir characterization, supporting development, production optimization, reserves estimation, and long-term field planning.
He is an expert in geoscience and engineering software for data interpretation, mapping, complex reservoir characterization and geocellular modeling, risk analysis, and reserves/resources assessment, conversant in both deterministic and stochastic methods of analysis. He has experience in building and calibrating three-dimensional Mechanical Earth Models for geomechanical assessments of various drilling scenarios.
