K. Kutsal Sertsoz
Advisor Program Analyst, Vice President

Kutsal Sertsoz joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2000 as a specialist in relational database management systems. He has over 25 years of experience in the industry. Prior to joining D&M, from 1998 to 2000 Sertsoz worked for Amercable, a specialty cable manufacturing plant, as a developer of cable design and economic analysis solutions. As a mechanical engineer, he worked at Istanbul Motor Piston Inc. from 1992 to 1994 specializing in CNC machines and programming industrial robots.

In 1990, Sertsoz graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University. In 1997, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. Sertsoz is fluent in Turkish and English. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Sertsoz became a Vice President of D&M in 2014.

Geographical Experience

• Algeria
• Brazil
• Canada
• Colombia
• Iraq
• Mexico
• Norway
• Romania
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Venezuela
• Vietnam

Topical Areas of Expertise

• Economic models
• Reporting and report generation
• Relational databases
• Software project management
• Programming
• Software development

Major Projects

Sertsoz is experienced in SQL programming and reporting using a variety of different reporting tools. He works with D&M’s engineers and economists using his data manipulation and analysis skills to develop solutions for improving the efficiency of data flow among different programs as well as databases and economic models.

Sertsoz has helped build economic analysis models for reserves evaluations of fields in various countries and has worked extensively on Russian models and reports. He developed a database solution for D&M’s international and domestic projects following the guidelines of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Petroleum Resources Management System, and the London Stock Exchange. He has worked extensively with PHDWin and economic and decline-curve software to handle North American, Canadian, and international databases and has developed applications to publish D&M reports out of PHDWin.

In 2012, D&M partnered with Kappa, a petroleum engineering software company, to collaborate in the development of Citrine, a field performance analysis software platform. Sertsoz is a member of the team designing and developing Citrine.