Alvaro Betancourt
Principal Engineer
Alvaro Betancourt joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2017. Prior to joining D&M, Betancourt worked as a reservoir and production engineer for Tecpetrol in Argentina and Ecuador. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry.
Betancourt earned a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering, summa cum laude, from the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador in 2012 and a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University in 2017. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He was elected a Vice President of D&M in 2025. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
Geographical Experience
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Bahrain
- Canada
- Ecuador
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Oman
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- United States
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Well performance and decline-curve analysis
- Production forecasting in conventional and unconventional reservoirs
- Rate and pressure transient analysis
- Economic evaluation and assessment
- Data analytics and scientific computing
- Geothermal resources evaluation
Major Projects
Betancourt has extensive experience performing reserves and resources evaluations in compliance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Petroleum Resource Management System (PRMS) across conventional and unconventional oil and gas fields in the United States (including the Alaska North Slope, California’s San Joaquin Basin and coastal region, Texas, New Mexico, and the southeastern United States) and internationally.
He has worked with interdisciplinary teams to perform technical assessments across conventional and unconventional plays, including completion optimization, reservoir modeling, well performance analysis and forecasting, and field development planning. He has also led reserves and resources evaluations encompassing low- and ultra-low-permeability reservoirs, secondary oil recovery operations (waterflood and steamflood), tertiary carbon-dioxide-enhanced oil recovery, and geothermal projects, applying reservoir engineering principles to resource characterization, production forecasting, and economic assessment.
