Lucas Viglione
Principal Engineer, Vice President
Lucas Viglione joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2015 and has conducted detailed investigations of oil and gas assets across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prior to D&M, Viglione worked for Chevron in Argentina beginning in 2006, holding a range of assignments including field production engineer and reservoir engineer. At Chevron, Viglione was responsible for field development planning, reserves evaluations, economic evaluations, and reservoir studies. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry.
Viglione graduated with honors from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA) in 2006, where he earned a degree in petroleum engineering and was awarded a merit scholarship from Chevron Argentina. In 2014, he earned an MBA from Universidad del CEMA. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE), and serves on the board of the SPEE Europe Chapter. His native language is Spanish, and he is fluent in English and Portuguese. He became a Vice President of D&M in 2020.
Geographical Experience
- Angola
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Equatorial Guinea
- Indonesia
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Perú
- Republic of Congo
- Saudi Arabia
- Tanzania
- Venezuela
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Reserves and resources evaluations
- Reservoir engineering
- Field development planning
- Economic modeling
- Unconventional resources
- Production engineering
Major Projects
From 2015 to 2022, while based in the Buenos Aires office, Viglione was responsible for evaluations throughout the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions. Since 2022, Viglione has been based in Madrid, where his primary focus includes investigations in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
His experience encompasses reserves and resources estimations covering conventional and unconventional reservoirs, due diligence evaluations, and participation in fair-market-value opinions. He has extensive expertise in the application of international reporting standards, specifically the guidelines of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS), and other regulatory frameworks such as Canadian National Instrument 51–101. His project history includes the preparation of Competent Person’s Reports and the application of economic models typical of the petroleum industry, including concessionary systems and production sharing contracts.
He has estimated oil and gas reserves using a comprehensive suite of standard engineering methods, such as volumetric calculations, material-balance methods, reservoir simulation, and production-performance analysis. From 2016 to 2022, Viglione served as the lead instructor for the Reserves and Resources course at the Petroleum Engineering School of the ITBA, a program sponsored by D&M. Additionally, he provides specialized training in reserves and resources evaluation to D&M clients.
