Tenured PROFESSOR
Nicolás
SANTOS SANTOS
School of Petroleum Engineering
Director of the GIT Research Group
CONTACT
Information
nicolas@uis.edu.co
+57 (607) 634 4000
Ext. 1352
GENERAL
Biography
He currently holds the esteemed position of Director at the Research Group in Computed Tomography for Reservoir Characterization (GIT), which has been formally recognized by Minciencias in Category A. Over the past 6 years, he has successfully led a total of 43 projects, comprising 14 research projects and 29 extension projects in collaboration with the hydrocarbon industry. These projects have spanned various areas, including Reservoir Characterization, Increase of Recovery Factor, Petrophysical Analysis and Damage to Formation, Drilling, Production Engineering, and Characterization and Stratigraphic Correlation.
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Winner of 2 awards in the technical competition of the XVII Colombian Oil and Gas Congress – International Petroleum Conference And Exhibition 2017, in the areas of “Emerging Basins and Frontier Business” and “Mature Fields”. In the last 6 years, he has published 9 technical articles in indexed journals and 3 are in the process of publication. He has experience as an undergraduate and graduate university professor in the areas of Gas Processing Plants, Hydrocarbon Production, Petrophysical Analysis, Surface Facilities and Gas Engineering. He was Director of the School of Petroleum Engineering at UIS for more than 12 years.
education and
Qualifications
Director of the GIT Research Group
contact
Information
nicolas@uis.edu.co
+57 (607) 634 4000 Ext. 1352
AREAS OF
Expertise
Sustainable energy resources
Watershed analysis
Environmental impact studies
Calculation of the prospective hydrocarbon resource in Colombian basins
Analysis of sedimentary basins
Drilling of stratigraphic wells
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Integration and correlation of information from stratigraphic wells
Characterization of reservoir and seal rock quality
Quality certification of stratigraphic information and drilling Cores, through experimental analysis of petrophysics, XRD, biostratigraphy and petrography
Improved hydrocarbon recovery studies
Reservoir characterization
Emerging Technologies applied to the hydrocarbons and mining industry
Production optimization
office
Hours
Wednesday
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
UIS Central Campus, Edificio Jorge Bautista Vesga, oficina 423
