Wim Swinkels
Wim Swinkels is an independent Reservoir Engineering Consultant,
providing project consultancy, quality assurance and reservoir
engineering training for major oil companies, governments,
engineering firms and other global customers.
Before he retired from Shell in 2012, Wim Swinkels held
positions as Senior Reserves Consultant for the Middle East and
Reservoir Engineering Discipline Lead. He is a seasoned Petroleum
Engineering professional, with global experience in Shell companies
and joint ventures (NAM, SSB, SCL, PDO, SKDBV). His technical
expertise is in reserves and resource management, reservoir
engineering quality assurance, and staff development, as well as
carbonate reservoirs, modelling and reservoir simulation. Wim
has a passion for training and is an excellent teacher who speaks
from a vast experience in many different geological environments
and reservoir settings. Wim is a contributing author of the 2011
industry "Guidelines for Application of the Petroleum
Resources Management System". He holds an MSc in applied
Mathematics from the University of Eindhoven in the
Netherlands.