MISSION VIEJO, CA, October 22, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Edward Alfonso Nieto with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Mr. Nieto celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Amassing more than 45 years of professional expertise within the oil and gas industry, Mr. Nieto was a respected industry professional who retired in 2014 as a senior petroleum engineer consultant for Venoco Inc. in Carpinteria, California. An expert in reservoir engineering, economics and petroleum production engineering, he enjoyed the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the world and collaborate with other geologists to develop and use cost-effective methods for recovery. Mr. Nieto's background includes expertise in project management, reserves assessment, and reservoir and production engineering. During this time, he conducted extensive offshore and onshore exploration and production, appraisal and development work, which was conducted in the California west coast, the West Texas Permian Basin, in parts of Oklahoma, overseas in the Middle East. North and West Africa, Latin American and the Far East regions.
To prepare for his career, Mr. Nieto studied in his home country of Columbia, attaining a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering at the University of America in .Bogota in 1967. He also attended numerous engineering and management schools, as well as seminars and workshops throughout Texas and Oklahoma and abroad in Singapore and Indonesia. Eminently qualified in his field, he is a registered petroleum engineer in Columbia. Beginning his career in Midland, Texas, with Texaco Inc. as a staff petroleum engineer between 1968 and 1974, Dr. Nieto later worked for such organizations as Arabian Gulf Oil Company, Butter Gas & Oil Company and Canadian Triton International. He also secured positions with CTIL as an engineering and operations manager and Korean National Oil Corporation as a senior petroleum engineer and operations advisor.
In 2014, Dr. Nieto published an autobiography, "Road to Freedom: My Life and Journey from a Third World Country" through Xlibris. He has also been responsible for contributing numerous professional publications as a technical writer. Aligned with several civic organizations. Mr. Nieto was notably affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce in Orange County, California.
Mr. Nieto has been aligned with several professional organizations, including the American Institute of Mining, the Colombian Engineering and Architecture Society, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers where he was named to the 25-Year Executive Club. He is also a sir knight of the Knights of Columbus. Over the years, Dr. Nieto has been recognized for his writing contributions with awards from various oil and gas organizations. He also received a significant number of testimonials issued by very distinguished persons in the oil and gas industry, including Presidents, Vice Presidents and Senior Managers in Operations & Engineering. All have praised Mr. Nieto as an adept manager with the highest reputation in his professional and personal life; his outstanding performance has been a credit to the organizations he served during his long career life. A celebrated Marquis listee, he has been cited in the third edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
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