ENGINEERING · TECHNOLOGY · CAPABILITY
Technical consulting, technology management, and workforce development for better asset decisions and operating performance in Venezuela.
THE COMPLETE ASSET PERSPECTIVE
A field’s potential depends on more than its reservoir. Wells, facilities, power, data, economics, and people must work together.
We connect these disciplines to identify what limits performance, prioritize interventions, and guide investment. Applied training and knowledge transfer help your team turn those priorities into action and sustain improvements.
Explore our experienceOUR EXPERTISE
Consulting & technical trainingExpert advice, applied learning, and knowledge transfer across every subsurface–surface discipline.
Bring reservoir, well, facility, and economic evidence together to compare development scenarios and support investment decisions.
Use reservoir and well diagnostics to select technically justified interventions and recovery methods.
Assess facility condition, processing capacity, and operating constraints.
Assess gas availability, demand, and logistics for field power and other uses.
Assess data and technology needs before selecting tools or planning deployment.
Assess workforce competencies, define development priorities, and structure role-based training and mentoring.
OUR APPROACH
Start with your operating challenge. Explore when each methodology applies, how it works, and what you receive.
You need to establish facility condition, capacity, and rehabilitation needs before committing capital.
Findings on asset condition, recovery priorities, and a phased rehabilitation roadmap.
PFA · Production Facility Assessment
How it works
Critical systems and operating evidence.
Integrity risks and processing limits.
Interventions matched to asset needs.
Rehabilitation sequence and capital needs.
Well, reservoir, and facility opportunities compete for capital and need a common basis for comparison.
A prioritized opportunity portfolio combining technical confidence, risk, and economics.
POPMS · Production Opportunity Portfolio Management System
How it works
Opportunity types and engineering confidence.
Technical evidence, risk, and economics.
Capital allocation and execution governance.
Updated priorities and decision capability.
Assets affected by downtime, recurring failures, or bottlenecks require a coordinated recovery plan.
An asset-recovery and reliability plan covering interventions, maintenance, and execution readiness.
ARRP · Asset Recovery & Reliability Program
How it works
Recovery priorities and failure causes.
Field actions to remove bottlenecks.
Maintenance and operational readiness.
Stable performance and team capability.
You need evidence of workforce capability against role requirements, especially where competency gaps affect operating risk.
A competency-gap assessment, talent map, and individual development plans.
OCA · Operational Competency Assessment
How it works
Role-specific technical and behavioral competencies.
Assessment tools matched to each role.
Validated results and critical gaps.
Individual plans and a talent map.
Teams need to retain technical training and apply it consistently in daily work.
A learning-reinforcement plan combining practice, recall, coaching, and workplace application.
IRP · Improved Retention Protocol
How it works
Clear explanation and visual learning.
Active recall and targeted questions.
Spaced and varied practice.
Real tasks, coaching, and mentoring.
EXPERIENCE THAT INFORMS OUR WORK
Reservoir and development studies, selected facility assessments, and workforce development delivered in Venezuela.
Reservoir models, drilling targets, and completion studies for an extra-heavy oil asset.
Geological modeling and technical-economic evaluation of development and enhanced-recovery options.
Power reliability, process safety, and staged investment for a thermal production scheme.
Scope: Assessment of power generation, heating, separation, storage, metering, and transport for a thermal production scheme.
Recommendations delivered: Staged investment decisions supported by mass-and-energy-balance validation, generation redundancy, backup-fuel capability, and process-safety studies.
Safety systems, equipment rehabilitation, and corrosion control, sequenced around operating continuity.
Scope: Review of maintenance practices, power generation, safety systems, and export-infrastructure integrity.
Recommendations delivered: A phased rehabilitation plan prioritizing safety-system recertification, critical rotating-equipment overhauls, and corrosion control, sequenced around operating continuity.
HSE stabilization, infrastructure integrity, and sequenced recovery priorities across a field portfolio.
Scope: Diagnosis of processing constraints, damaged infrastructure, access conditions, and asset-integrity needs across a field portfolio.
Recommendations delivered: A sequenced plan covering HSE stabilization, tank-integrity testing, surface-facility development, asset-integrity management, and workforce investment.
Competency assessments, technical training, and critical-knowledge transfer across drilling, reservoirs, and production.
POES heritage.
The POES journey began in 2007. That technical foundation continues today within ENTRA Subsurface & Surface and the broader ENTRA Group.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Meet the leaders connecting engineering, talent development, and energy-business experience.
President, ENTRA Subsurface & SurfaceTechnical Director, ENTRA Group
More than 35 years in upstream operations, technology, field development, and business strategy, with experience across Venezuela and Latin America at PDVSA, BP, and Halliburton.
Ronald's career includes technical and commercial leadership roles at BP Venezuela and Halliburton, spanning joint ventures, technology management, country leadership, and regional consulting services.
As President of POES International, he led business development in Venezuela and co-led the reactivation of a major field and upgrader facility in the Orinoco Belt. His work at ENTRA includes technical and economic field evaluation and production-reactivation assessments.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a master's degree in Petroleum Geology from The University of Texas at Austin, where he also pursued postgraduate studies in artificial intelligence.
Director of Talent Development
& Technical Training
A petroleum engineer with more than 30 years in oil and gas, specializing in competency assessment, technical training, mentoring, and critical-knowledge transfer.
Nohemí's experience spans technical and operational roles, corporate competency-development initiatives at PDVSA, and knowledge transfer and competency assessment at Halliburton Landmark. She joined POES in 2013 to coordinate academic programs and develop training tailored to client needs.
Her work includes instructor and mentor development, preservation of critical technical knowledge, and professional leadership within the SPE Caracas Petroleum Section. She received an SPE International Regional Service Award in 2023.
She holds a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, revalidated at Universidad del Zulia, and a master's degree in Human Resources Management and Direction from Universidad María Cristina / EUDE in Spain.
Director of New Ventures,
ENTRA Subsurface & SurfaceChief Executive Officer, ENTRA Consulting
More than 20 years in energy transactions, regulatory structuring, and technology transfer. Former Western Hemisphere General Counsel at Weatherford, with experience at Halliburton.
Ricardo brings more than 20 years of international oil and gas business experience, including energy-services contracts, mergers and acquisitions, project structuring, and dispute resolution.
His career includes Weatherford International, Halliburton's law department, and leadership of the Venezuelan Patent and Trademark Office. He has developed advanced training for national oil companies and regulators and authored books and articles on international oil transactions and technology transfer.
He holds a law degree from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, an LLM in International Intellectual Property from Lund University, and an LLM in Intellectual Property and Information Law from the University of Houston Law Center.
PART OF ENTRA GROUP
ENTRA Subsurface & Surface connects technical evaluation and workforce development with ENTRA Group’s broader commercial, investment, and execution capabilities in Venezuela.
Market intelligence, industry insight, and investment screening.
Market entry, regulatory structuring, and compliance.
Technical evaluation, development planning, economics, and risk.
Transactions, access to capital, technology, and operational resources.
Field implementation, operations, maintenance, and workforce development.
THE GROUP ADVANTAGE
Supporting production recovery, infrastructure rehabilitation, stronger local services, and lasting technical capability.
OUR COMMITMENT
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