Antonio Andrade
Petroleum Development Oman LLC(PDO)
Senior Real Time Operation Engineer

Antonio Andrade holds a MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Liverpool and a B.Eng. in Electronic Engineer from UNEFA. He has 16 years experience working in several world class innovative projects. Currently, he holds the position of Senior Real Time Operation Engineer at Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). Over the last 12 years, he has focused on the Oil and Gas upstream industry, with full spectrum in agile delivery of digitalisation projects in America, Europe and Asia. Along with a fantastic team, they built the first world-class automated (inflow/outflow) well modelling for PCP and ESP wells focused on free CAPEX optimisation, Beam Pump wells self-optimisation and displayed the potential of the AI & ML for the Oil and Gas industry.

Passionate in the area of Advance Analytics, specifically with artificial intelligence for real-time classification and regression to improve decision making with Open Source. He has co-author over 14 publised SPE papers and others recognized global workshops