Mario Alberto Monteiro Cuña
Neuquén Capital,Q
Summary
Dynamic Chemical, Integrity, and Corrosion Engineer with extensive experience in the Oil and Gas industry, specializing in Chemical Strategy, Asset Integrity Management, and Corrosion Mitigation. Expertise in leading multidisciplinary teams and managing large-scale chemical treatment contracts while effectively defining CAPEX and OPEX budgets. Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining Corrosion Control Systems across complex subsurface and surface facilities, particularly within non-conventional assets such as Vaca Muerta. Strong knowledge of international standards (API, ASME, NACE) and local regulations, combined with a commitment to leveraging Lean Sigma methodologies and advanced software tools including SAP PM, PIPESIM, and KIPU for optimal results.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Chemical Account Manager
HALLIBURTON
01.2025 - Current
- Responsible for the Chemical Treatment, Laboratory, and Corrosion team, in charge of all chemical treatments from subsurface to surface in wells, gas, water, and oil processing plants, batteries, and compressors; responsible for fluid sales in specification.
- Monitored and controlled corrosion in surface and subsurface equipment.
- Defined dosages for Chemical Products such as bactericides, inhibitors, sequestrants, flocculants, demulsifiers, surfactants, coagulants, etc.
- Generated, tracked, and evaluated plans to mitigate facility corrosion.
- Calculated concentrations/costs, controlled, and monitored chemical treatments.
- Monitored bacteria, sulfides, sulfates, iron, hardness, dissolved gases, residuals, etc.
- Performed Chemical-Mechanical Cleaning of Oil Pipelines and Aqueducts.
- Generated corrosion, scale, and paraffin deposition maps.
- Managed contracts, specifications, and tenders for chemical product and laboratory provision, and cathodic protection.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained Cathodic Protection (CP) systems for tanks, pressure vessels, pipelines, and buried structures.
- Responsible for in-house laboratories conducting oil, water, and gas analysis.
- Analyzed well corrosion profiles and selected metallurgy.
- Responsible for inspection of chemical product and laboratory contracts.
- Defined, elaborated, and tracked Capex and Opex budgets for the sector.
- Key Project: Reduction of corrosion rates and increase in production in high-pressure CO2, high-GOR non-conventional wells using a dual-action thermostable chemical product (corrosion inhibitor/foamer) via capillary injection.
Technical Account Manager - Operational Excellence Leader
CLARIANT
01.2020 - 01.2025
- Responsible for Chemical Treatments for subsurface and surface assets in wells, gas, water, and oil processing plants, batteries, and compressors; responsible for fluid sales in specification.
- Conducted field tests and selection of demulsifiers, clarifiers, flocculants, inhibitors, sequestrants, and flow improvers for the hydrocarbon industry.
- Developed and implemented new technologies such as Flow Improvers, Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitors, Liberate, and Troscap.
- Developed and implemented projects using Lean Sigma (Clariant Excellence) methodologies.
- Led and managed all activities related to field operations, complying with general and specific company guidelines and legal provisions.
- Managed contract and service costs.
- Responsible for chemical treatment in the crude dehydration plant and saltwater injection plant.
- Followed up on the analytical monitoring and control plan for corrosion, mechanical cleaning of pipes, and scaling (BES).
- Responsible for friction reducer treatment for flowlines and landpipes.
- Prepared weekly, quarterly, and annual reports on analytical sampling, product dosing, and dosing equipment maintenance operations.
- Followed up on sales demand to Supply Chain and performed financial analysis (scope-sale-margin).
- Responsible for inspection of chemical product and laboratory contracts.
- Defined, elaborated, and tracked Capex and Opex budgets for the sector.
- Application Engineering, Training, External Clients, and Operations to support product applications.
- Developed sales strategies, defined commercial targets, followed up on billing and collections, and performed commercial estimations with SalesForce.
- Responsible for design/product/service changes, required field actions, procedures, and technical information.
- Responsible for the maintenance of operational manuals.
- Key Project: Reduction of equipment intervention rates due to paraffin deposition using hot water.
- Key Project: Reduction of BDP pressures, maximizing flow contribution based on chemical treatment established as a dual inhibitor for organic and inorganic scaling.
Head of Integrity Engineering, Corrosion, and Chemical Treatments
YPF / YSUR (Former Apache Corporation)
01.2014 - 01.2019
- Head of the Integrity and Corrosion Team for YPF Neuquén (while employed at YSUR).
- Responsible for the design and implementation of the Integrity and Corrosion Management system (Assets involved: 900 wells, 2100 km of pipelines, 80 production facilities, 260 tanks, and 160 pressure vessels).
- Coordinated and developed the Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) Program based on
- API 570/579, API 580/581
- Standards.
- Designed equipment and repairs according to International Standards:
- API 650/653, ASME B31.4, B31.3, B31.8, NACE RP/MR
- Elaborated technical documents required by Argentine government authorities (NAG-100 and Resolutions 120E, 785 and SERN 230, 004, 347).
- Elaborated and maintained cathodic protection systems for tanks, pressure vessels, pipelines, and buried structures.
- Repaired coating failures, performed failure analysis, and selected coatings and materials.
- Analyzed and updated risk matrices (HAZID, HAZOP).
- Elaborated the preventive and predictive maintenance program using SAP PM
- Elaborated and executed the Pre/Post Test plan on safety valves.
- Conducted internal pipeline inspections (MFL/US) and tank inspections (MFL and robotic methods).
- Continuous review of BES anti-scaling and BM corrosion treatment, taking into account Trend Analysis and Pulling history.
- Defined dosages for chemical products such as bactericides, inhibitors, sequestrants, flocculants, demulsifiers, surfactants, and coagulants.
- Generated, tracked, and evaluated plans to mitigate corrosion and facility integrity.
- Calculated concentrations/costs, controlled, and monitored chemical treatments.
- Monitored bacteria, sulfides, sulfates, iron, hardness, dissolved gases, residuals, etc.
- Performed Chemical-Mechanical Cleaning of Oil Pipelines and Aqueducts.
- Generated corrosion, scale, and paraffin deposition maps.
- Designed and analyzed pipeline diagnostics using
- PIPESIM, KIPUSoftware.
- Analyzed well corrosion profiles and selected metallurgy.
- Managed contracts, specifications, and tenders for chemical product and laboratory provision.
- Responsible for inspection of chemical product and laboratory contracts.
- Defined, elaborated, and tracked Capex and Opex budgets for the sector.
- Generated Work Orders using PM module (SAP)
- Key Project: Production increase of over 500% in non-conventional gas wells with high GOR and over 90% hydrocarbon content using capillary injection of a dual-action chemical product.
Corrosion, Integrity, Chemical Treatments, and Process Engineer
CAPSA (Compañía Asociación Petrolera S.A)
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Controlled and mitigated corrosion, managed produced water treatment, cathodic protection, material selection, chemical treatments, and anti-corrosion coatings.
- Generated failure reports and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Designed and maintained cathodic protection systems for tanks, pressure vessels, pipelines, and buried structures.
- Elaborated and executed non-destructive inspections on pressure equipment, tanks, pipelines, etc.
- Elaborated the preventive and predictive maintenance program using SAP PM
- Managed contracts, specifications, and tenders for chemical product provision, laboratory analysis, cathodic protection, and equipment inspection.
- Generated technical reports on chemical treatment evaluations and proposed new chemical treatments.
- Designed specifications for the chemical and mechanical cleaning of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon transport pipelines.
- Tracked corrosion mitigation strategies in oil and gas production facilities, cathodic protection, atmospheric corrosion, and coating selection and inspection.
- Responsible for the laboratory, monitoring bacteria, sulfides, sulfates, iron, hardness, dissolved gases, residuals, etc.
- Responsible for Chemical Treatments, Laboratories, and Corrosion covering subsurface and surface equipment, gas, water, and oil treatment in Plants, Batteries, and Compressors.
- Responsible for inspection of chemical product and laboratory contracts.
- Defined, elaborated, and tracked Capex and Opex budgets for the sector.
- Tertiary recovery project with nanopolymers: monitoring of physicochemical parameters of water and polymer quality, definition of chemical products to improve these parameters.
- Key Project: Reduction of pulling interventions in wells associated with downhole corrosion from 5 per year to 1 every two years, utilizing microencapsulated dual-action chemical products (Corrosion Inhibitor and Bactericide).
Corrosion and Integrity Engineering
YPF S.A
01.2009 - 01.2013
- Responsible for the activities of Opening, Inspection, Repair, Modification, and Alteration of Tanks (under
- API 653
- Standard) and Pressure Vessels (under
- API 510
- Standard).
- Coordinated and tracked Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) crews.
- Designed and maintained cathodic protection systems for tanks, pressure vessels, pipelines, and buried structures.
- Continuous review of BES anti-scaling and BM corrosion treatment, taking into account Trend Analysis and Pulling history.
- Monitored and controlled corrosion in surface and subsurface equipment.
- Defined dosages for chemical products.
- Generated, tracked, and evaluated plans to mitigate corrosion and facility integrity.
- Monitored bacteria, sulfides, sulfates, iron, hardness, dissolved gases, residuals, etc.
- Performed Chemical-Mechanical Cleaning of Oil Pipelines and Aqueducts.
- Implemented dosing in PTA (Water Treatment Plant), PTC (Crude Treatment Plant), and PIA (Saltwater Injection Plant).
- Conducted inspections by intelligent scraper.
- Key Project: Achievement of the installation program for Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) on the bottoms of 12 water and hydrocarbon storage tanks.
Oil, Water, and Gas Analyst
EPSILON S.R.L
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Controlled Physicochemical analysis of water for monitoring corrosion, scaling, and microbiological fouling in secondary recovery saltwater, purge, and fresh water injection systems.
- Controlled scaling and determined densities in producing wells. Controlled emulsions in batteries, PTCs, and wells.
- Selected and ranked different chemical products.
- Controlled complete analysis of oil, viscosity, density, paraffins, asphaltenes, etc. Controlled environmental analysis, heavy metals, BETEX, solids control analysis, production analysis, chemical product quality analysis, etc.
- Key Project: Rewrote all analysis techniques for oil, water, and gas, incorporating improvements, modern analysis methods, and adequate instrumentation.
- Key Project: Commissioning of the oil and water laboratory in Valle Hermoso, PAE.
Education
Master of Science - Maintenance, Reliability, and Integrity Engineering and Management
Universidad Austral
Buenos Aires, Argentina12-2019
Master of Science - Production Engineering
YPF-REPSOL
Buenos Aires, Argentina09-2009
Bachelor of Science - Lic. in Industrial Chemistry
Universidad Nacional De La Pampa
Santa Rosa, Argentina12-2007
High School Diploma - Bachiller
Instituto Privado Cristo Redentor
Winifreda, Argentina12-2001
Skills
- Core technical abilities
- Corrosion risk assessment
- Asset Integrity Management
- Cathodic Protection (Impressed Current & Galvanic)
- Optimization of chemical treatments
- Risk-Based Inspection (RBI)
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Predictive and Preventive Maintenance
- Lean Sigma Methodologies
- Software & Standards
- ERP/CMMS: SAP PM Module, JD Edwards
- Engineering: PIPESIM, KIPU, AutoCAD (Basic and Advanced), Project (Creation and Tracking, Advanced)
- Standards: API (510, 570/579, 580/581, 650/653), ASME (B313, B314, B318), NACE (RP/MR)
- Other: MS Office Suite (Spreadsheets, Database, Word Processor), GIS
Certification
- CP1 Cathodic Protection, certified by NACE International N36153 (2011).
- ISO 14001 (2015).
- Course on external casing and landpipe protection and material selection for corrosive environments (2013).
- Autocad Basic and Advanced, Project creation and tracking (2014).
Languages
Spanish: Native.
English: Intermediate B2-C1 (oral and written). Currently studying for IELTS.
PUBLICATIONS
Production of xilo-oligosaccharides by chemo-enzymatic treatment of agricultural by-products. Published in BioResources Journal, North Carolina State University, USA.
Timeline
Senior Chemical Account Manager
HALLIBURTON
01.2025 - Current
Technical Account Manager - Operational Excellence Leader
CLARIANT
01.2020 - 01.2025
Head of Integrity Engineering, Corrosion, and Chemical Treatments
YPF / YSUR (Former Apache Corporation)
01.2014 - 01.2019
Corrosion, Integrity, Chemical Treatments, and Process Engineer
CAPSA (Compañía Asociación Petrolera S.A)
01.2013 - 01.2014
Corrosion and Integrity Engineering
YPF S.A
01.2009 - 01.2013
Oil, Water, and Gas Analyst
EPSILON S.R.L
01.2008 - 01.2009
Master of Science - Maintenance, Reliability, and Integrity Engineering and Management
Universidad Austral
Master of Science - Production Engineering
YPF-REPSOL
Bachelor of Science - Lic. in Industrial Chemistry
Universidad Nacional De La Pampa
High School Diploma - Bachiller
Instituto Privado Cristo Redentor