Jean Carlos Campos Valverde

Jean Carlos Campos Valverde is an MSc student in Global Sustainability Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. He brings over eight years of professional experience as a reservoir engineer in Peru, where he led projects in reservoir characterisation, simulation, and gas/water injection for enhanced recovery. His current research explores the repurposing of oil and gas infrastructure for CO₂ transport and storage, integrating hydraulic modelling, corrosion assessment, and cost evaluation. His interests include reservoir management, CCUS, energy transition, and data analytics for sustainable solutions.

His current research focuses on the feasibility of repurposing existing oil and gas infrastructure for CO₂ transport and storage within the UK’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) strategy. The project integrates hydraulic modelling, corrosion assessment, and cost analysis to evaluate the technical and economic potential of re-using legacy pipelines as part of large-scale decarbonisation efforts.

Jean has over eight years of professional experience as a reservoir engineer at UNNA Energía in Peru, where he was responsible for the surveillance and optimisation of oil and gas fields across Blocks I, III, IV, and V. His expertise includes reservoir characterisation, simulation, well testing, and enhanced oil recovery projects involving water and gas injection. He has delivered production forecasts, annual reserves reporting, and economic evaluations for field development plans. He is proficient in industry-standard software such as Petrel, OFM, MBAL, Saphir, and Kappa, and has applied these tools to design and optimise recovery strategies.

Complementing his engineering experience, Jean has strengthened his data analytics skills through advanced training in Python, SQL, and Power BI, with additional exposure to machine learning applications for predictive modelling. This combination of technical and analytical capabilities allows him to bridge traditional reservoir engineering with emerging sustainability and decarbonisation challenges.

Throughout his career, Jean has contributed to technical conferences, including the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), with presentations on reservoir testing, hydraulic fracturing, and diagnostic fracture injection tests. He is an active member of SPE and the NetZero Society at Heriot-Watt University, reflecting his commitment to advancing knowledge and professional collaboration in energy transition pathways.

His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru, complemented by specialised training in reserves evaluation, petrophysics, and climate change with a focus on CCS.

Jean’s research interests lie at the intersection of reservoir engineering and low-carbon technologies, with emphasis on Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS), energy transition strategies, reservoir management, and data-driven approaches to decarbonisation. His long-term ambition is to apply his reservoir expertise and sustainability knowledge to advance scalable carbon storage solutions and support the global shift toward a net-zero future.

MSc student

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Low-Carbon Storage Technologies, Computational Modelling for CO₂ storage, and machine learning model applications in CCS projects.