Maria Angela Capello

Red Tree Consulting

Maria Angela Capello is senior partner at Red Tree Consulting, and is immersed in a myriad of virtual meetings, consulting in sustainability and reinvention paths for organizations and individuals in energy. Knighted as “Cavaliere” by the President of Italy, Capello was distinguished as an SPE Honorary Member, the highest individual SPE award. She is currently a SPE Distinguished Lecturer on “Bouncing Forward: What Works for Boosting Resilience in Individuals and Organizations,” and is chair of the Distinguished Service Award Committee, advisor of the diversity and inclusion GCS Committee, and past chair of the Business, Management and Leadership Committee.

Career development

Leadership and Culture in the Oil and Gas Industry

Cultural differences become increasingly important as professionals move from technical to management roles. Managing projects often means not leading just the specific technical aspects of the project, but also the people who are working on them.

December 7, 2020 • Maria Angela Capello • The Way Ahead
Field/project development

Field Development-2020

Field developers have shifted the usual approach to planning and operations to a “dare to try” approach, experimenting, piloting, and directly implementing from the start a digital transformation of their activities.

August 31, 2020 • Maria Angela Capello • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Career development

Critical Skills for a Successful Career (Part II)

This article is based on a panel session during the 2018 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in which industry leaders provided their insights on what skills make a difference in one’s career.

October 23, 2019 • Kamel Ben-Naceur • The Way Ahead
Technology

Field Development-2019

Field developers are making bold step-changes to form their optimization strategies on the crests of digital transformation, using massive data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing, and data-sharing strategies for oil and gas fields in all stages of development. This trend will only grow.

August 31, 2019 • Maria Angela Capello • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Data & Analytics

Workshop in Kuwait Lifts the Bar in Digital Transformation for Oil and Gas

To analyze the status of digital transformation strategies and the pace of implementation in the Middle East, an SPE Applied Technology Workshop brought together operating and service companies and consulting firms for a discussion.

July 31, 2019 • Jamal Al-Humoud • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Technology

Field Development Projects-2018

Recent advances in field development are not based on specific technical breakthroughs (although shale oil and gas and deep oil owe a lot to those) but on economic models and scenarios run at the very beginning, before any dollar is invested.

September 30, 2018 • Maria Angela Capello • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Field/project development

Field Development Projects-2017

The industry is evolving to a more factual approach to profitability, with emphasis in modeling the long-term scenarios with detail. And this applies for developments in both mature and new fields.

September 30, 2017 • Maria Angela Capello • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Field/project development

Field Development Projects-2016

Field-development projects need to include and consider not only a static or dynamic subsurface characterization but also the production-systems and facilities options, to trigger profitability and establish clear breakeven thresholds.

September 30, 2016 • Maria Angela Capello • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Technology

Field Development Projects-2015

As economic considerations become increasingly important and the price of oil commands decisions in relation to facilities adaptation to cater to new production schemes, it is important to know the new field development trends, grounded on integration and technology.

September 30, 2015 • Maria Angela Capello • Journal of Petroleum Technology