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Laboratory expertise Post analysis -troubleshooting

Customer Focus
Ability to developed very strong networks with field engineers, providing them with support on a routine, day-to-day basis. Possesses extensive experience in job design, quality control and post-analysis, from job planning and lab testing, to blending and onsite job execution.

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Selected Achievements
o o Recognized as cementing expert worldwide Headed the development of the "mud technology allows erodibility" that removal of the Partially DehydratedGelled (PDG) mud during cementing operations for much improved mud removal and zone isolation during cement jobs Managed the development of the first simulator that industry cementing included the phenomenon of free-fall (Utubing) Has developed unsteady-state wellbore temperature simulators paper Wrote first industry the demonstrating that cement plugs tend to flow when placed on top of light weight muds. Designed industry guidelines Has performed and published extensive studies in gas migration after cementing Designed and introduced one of the most accepted gas migration lab test cells in the oil patch, and introduced the Scale-down method to test the gas migration capabilities of cement slurries Has worked with other companies in many joint industry projects including long term zone isolation, cementing of external casing packers, and sustained casing pressure solutions Headed an effort to develop a continuous circulatable hole monitoring method to help optimize mud displacement and zone isolation Introduced the concept of "job signatures" to monitor the progress of a cement job during the actual execution

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Has taught at many cementing schools for the industry and at the AmocoChevron training alliance. Post course evaluations have always been excellent Managed the development of many cementing products including cementing spacer systems, which generated several million of dollars or revenue for the company Has participated in product pricing, purchasing, usage and profit monitoring Past chairman of API Committee 10 on Standardization of Well Cements As Chairman of API Task Group on headed the cement rheology, development of cement rheology test methods and calculations for flow regime and pressure drop First chairman of API Task Group on cementing temperatures Chairman of API Work Group on temperature simulators Recipient of a Citation for Service from the API in 1987 Recipient of the highest API award in 2005: Certificate of Appreciation Chairman of SPE 1999 Forum on Cementing Across Harsh Environments Chairman of the API Task Group on centralizer selection and testing of solid and rigid centralizers. Since retirement from Amoco to date, president, Beirute Consulting, L.L.C.

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Other Areas of Expertise

Optimized cementing practices for liners, slim holes, highly deviated/horizontal holes, extended reach wells, multilaterals, HTHP situations, coiled tubing applications, cement plugs, squeeze cementing, deep water cementing, shallow gas situations, control of shallow water flows, gas migration after cementing cementing, lost circulation, across harsh environments (like CO2, salts, rubblelized zones), reverse circulation cementing, foam cementing, mud to cement technology.

Education
o e 1977 - Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Houston 1970 - BS Chemical Engineering, University of Costa Rica
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1969 - MS Chemical Engineering, University of Houston o 1965 - BS Chemistry, University of Costa Rica. Professiona' Affiliations o API Committee 10 o ISO WG-2 SPE

Robert M. Berute Ph.D. Cementng R&ated Technca Papers

o o Erodibility of Partially Dehydrated Gelled Drilling Fluid and Filter Cake, SPE 24571 Large Scale Experiments Show Proper Hole Conditioning: A Critical Requirement for Successful Cementing Operations, SPE 22774 Improve Primary Cementing by Continuous Monitoring of Circulatable Hole, SPE 26574 On-Site Diagnosis of Cement Job Problems: The Concept of Job Signatures, SPE 16649 and SPE Drilling Engineering, December 1988 Mechanics of the Displacement Process of Drilling Muds by Cement Slurries Using an Accurate Rheological Model, SPE 6801 Postanalysis of Abnormal Cementing Jobs With a Cementing Simulator, SPE 14201 and SPE Petroleum Engineering, August, 1987 The Phenomenon of Free-Fall During Primary Cementing, SPE 13045 Predicting Free-Fall During Primary Cementing, World Oil, November 1986 Flow Behavior of an Unset Cement Plug in Place, SPE 7589 Improved Method for Setting Successful Whipstock, SPE 11415 and JPT, November, 1984 Gas Flow in Cements, SPE 11207 an JPT, 1985 A Scale-Down Laboratory Test Procedure for Tailoring to Specific Well Conditions, the Selection of Cement Recipes to Control Formation Fluids Migration After Cementing, SPE 19522 and SPE Production Engineering, November, 1990

A Circulating and Shut-In Well Temperatures Profile Simulator, SPE 17591 and JPT September, 1991 Post Fracturing Temperature Recovery and its Implication for Stimulation Design, SPE
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Attenuation of Casing Cemented With Conventional and Expanding Cements Across Heavy Oil and Sandstone Formations, SPE 18027, and SPE Drilling Engineering, September, 1992 Factors Affecting Cementing Efficiency Across Heavy Oil and Other Unconsolidated Formations in Vertical and Inclined Holes, SPE 18026 The Use of Bubble Cement in Offshore Locations, Paper for Trinidad oil industry All Purpose Cement Mud Spacer, SPE 5691

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API Revises Procedures to Measure Cement Slurry Rheology, Oil and Gas Journal, September, 1986 True Expansive Characteristics of Commercially Available Expansive Cement Under Actual Well Conditions, SPE 6013 Expansive and Shrinkage Characteristics of Cements Under Actual Well Conditions, SPE 4091 and JPT, August, 1973 How to Use the Computer to Get Better Cement Jobs, Drilling-DCW, June 1975 An Evaluation of the Robertson-Stiff Model Describing Rheological Properties of Drilling Fluids and Cement Slurries, SPE Journal, April, 1977 Basic Cementing Series, Oil and Gas Journal, 1977

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Robert M. Beirute PhD. Cementng R&ated Patents

o Method of Cementing Wellbores Using High Temperature Cement Mud Spacer 4,276,182 - High Temperature Cement Mud Spacer o 4,819,726 - Method for Indicating the Position of a Cement Wiper Plug Prior to is Bottomhole Arrival 5,309.761 - Methods and Apparatus for Measuring the Erodibility of Drilling Fluid Deposits 5,494,107 - Reverse Cementing System and Method 5,711,375 - Well Stabilization Tools and Methods 5,823,273 - Well Stabilization Tools and Methods

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