Team

Meet the Porcupine team

50+ years of combined experience on six continents, from the wellsite to the boardroom. Our work spans the North Sea and onshore Western and Central Europe, the African continent, the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean, Asia, Australia, the USA and South America.

Cornelis van Wijk

Director and Principal Consultant of Porcupine, which he founded in 2017. MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Delft University of Technology, with 20+ years of experience in technical (reservoir engineering and production technology), development and leadership roles. He started in production engineering and well services operations in Germany, the Netherlands and Libya, then led integrated well and reservoir management teams on mature Danish North Sea oil fields and the development team for the next phase of the Al Shaheen field offshore Qatar. Recent work includes leading the maturation of the cross-border (Dutch–German) GEMS gas development, coordinating a portfolio of Dutch North Sea gas and CCS developments from opportunity definition to investment decision, and setting up a company-wide project maturation process.

Primary fields of expertise

Petroleum Engineering
Well and Reservoir Management
Production Engineering and Well Services
Well Interventions and Well Delivery
Field Development Planning
Stage-Gate Opportunity Maturation
Project Management and Assurance
CO₂ Storage (CCS)
Business Development and New Ventures
Joint-Venture and Partner Alignment
Permitting (Netherlands and Germany)
Integration and Leadership

Wouter Botermans

Petroleum Engineering Consultant and founder of B-PES (Botermans Petroleum Engineering Services, 2012). MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Delft University of Technology, with 30+ years of experience. He started in research and field engineering with Halliburton, then worked as production technologist with Shell, operational reservoir engineer with BP and lead reservoir engineer with TAQA on the Bergermeer gas storage. Since founding B-PES he has worked on petroleum engineering projects worldwide, from mature Dutch gas fields and North Sea oil fields to the Middle East, Western Australia and geothermal energy, with a down-to-earth focus on recovery and production optimisation and turning analysis into workable field programmes.

Primary fields of expertise

Reservoir Engineering
Production Technology
Well Services Engineering and Supervision
Recovery and Production Optimisation
Integrated Field Development
Well Testing and Production Logging
Gas Storage
Geothermal Energy
Economics and Opportunity Evaluation
Project Management
Training