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He worked as Production Engineering Senior Advisor at Hess Corporation (2009-2012), Halliburton (2003-2009) where he acted as technical lead of various major projects such as Petrobras' Barracuda-Caratinga fields Real Time Operations project (2005-2006), PDVSA integrated modeling and field exploitation plans for Carito and Orocual fields (2006-2007). Dr. Saputelli later acted as Production Operations Regional Practice Manager and Field Development Global Practice Manager for Halliburton; also worked in PDVSA E&P (1990-2001) and acted as a well planning senior advisor, production technologist, reservoir modeling and simulation engineer. He has worked in various countries: Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, England, Scotland and USA. He is an industry recognized researcher, lecturer, SPE Liaison and member of various committees. He has published over 50 industry papers and has three patents on applied technologies for reservoir management, real time optimization and production operations.