Vladimir Caicedo
Senior Geoscientist
Vladimir Caicedo joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2018 as a petroleum geoscience professional with over 20 years of international experience working throughout the full cycle of exploration. He has led development, operations, production, and new ventures for oil and gas assets, onshore/offshore projects, and conventional and unconventional reservoirs in sedimentary basins around the globe.
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. 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
- Peru
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Venezuela
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Reservoir geology
- Geomodeling
- Subsurface characterization
- Prospect 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 is an expert is geoscience and engineering software for data interpretation, mapping, reservoir characterization and geocellular modeling, risk analysis, and reserves/resources assessment, and extremely conversant in deterministic and stochastic methods of analysis. He is experienced in building and calibrating three-dimensional Mechanical Earth Models for geomechanical assessments of various drilling scenarios.
