SPE Romanian Section

Popescu Ioana is a chemical engineer. She graduated from the University of Bucharest and continued her studies at the University of Oil and Gas Ploiesti where she got her master's degree in Petro-chemistry. She now is working on her Ph.D. in Chemistry, Corrosion in Oil and Gas at the same university. With over eight years of experience in oil and gas and more precisely in drilling fluids, she has been involved in various technical events and programs approaching technical topics of her expertise. She also was trained in communication skills and is
also a trainer within her company.

Ioana Mitrea is a geological engineer. She graduated with a bachelor's in Petroleum Geology from the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, followed by a master's degree in Reservoir Engineering from the same University.
She is a reservoir geologist working with OMV Petrom since 2011, having experience across the onshore and offshore Romania basins, in multidisciplinary approach of project maturations, for development fields. With an insight into reservoir descriptions using 3D modeling, she is part of the Field Re-development Projects Department handling offshore projects.

Following graduation from the Oil & Gas University, Ploiesti, Romania, Felicia worked as a Production Engineer for more than 15 years in the oil fields of Petrom Timisoara, Western Romania. Moving to Bucharest, she continued working for OMV Petrom on different projects such as Water Injection Optimization & Production Enhancement by Contracting. During the past 8 years, Felicia has been promoting systematic Well Integrity Management in OMV Petrom focused on dual-barrier envelope evaluation of wells, management of well annular pressures, well integrity risk evaluation based on failure matrix, & supporting the digitalization of well integrity. Currently Felicia is working as the Senior Expert Well Integrity Engineer in the OMV Petrom Completion Engineering Department in Bucharest, Romania, delivering such projects as the implementation of the Well Integrity Management Software for 3500 wells (so far) with hundreds of wells being added annually.
She is active in SPE Romania, serving as several committees & presenting/organizing at events,
especially on the subject of Well Integrity.

Eliza Iordache is a Senior Research Analyst with the Commodity Insights division of S&P Global. Her role focuses on consolidating industry and market information into quarterly price updates and long-term forecasts, covering the production chemicals and diesel markets.
Before joining S&P Global, Eliza worked for Halliburton Energy Services Romania, as fluids engineer for the Hydraulic Fracturing division and as an operations planner for the Drilling Fluids division. Prior to that she worked in the supply chain sector of the automotive industry for Groupe Renault and Honeywell.
Eliza holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Transports Engineering from the Polytechnics University of Bucharest and has completed Master’s Studies in Project Management with the Romanian National School of Political and Administrative Studies.

Laura Precupanu is a senior expert in OMV Petrom's Capability Development Value Center in Romania.
Prior to her current position, she worked as a production technologist for 11 years, focusing on matrix stimulation and fracturing technologies. Laura has nearly 15 years of industry experience, including work in production and operations, as well as chemical engineering, numerical simulation, and smart field technologies.
She was the SPE Regional Director for Europe, with a tenure of 3 years. Between 2017–2020 she served as SPE Romanian Section secretary and then treasurer. She was the young professionals program officer and a member of the SPEI Completions Advisory Committee, with responsibility for online education, since 2018. Laura co-authored 3 SPE papers on formation damage and fracturing.
She has a strong believe in the sustainable future and development of the oil & gas industry through new technologies, knowledge sharing and multi-disciplinary collaboration.
Laura holds a bachelor’s degree with honors and a master’s degree, both in chemical engineering from Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Marius is a bilingual Petroleum Engineer holding a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti. He furthered his education as a recipient of the OMV Scholarship, earning a Master of Science in Drilling and Completion Engineering from Montan University Leoben.
He has extensive experience as an officer in the Student Chapter and Romanian Section and is currently serving as Program Support.
He presently works as a Drilling Performance Engineer at tde in Austria. In his daily tasks, he monitors drilling activities with a focus on key findings and customer satisfaction.
He is continuously working on his personal development and has completed five Erasmus+ mobility programs. His most recent hobby is riding a motorcycle.

Alexandru Badescu is a Subsurface Consultant currently working for different clients around the world. His goal is to bring value from any asset through smart decisions. Willing to explore and get an understanding of all the producing basins in the world. Former president of SEG Bucharest Chapter and Vice-President of SPE Leoben Chapter where he managed projects of over 30k dollars as a student while bringing international recognitions.

Currently serving as the Operations Manager at Geolog International B.V., overseeing GEOLOG operations in Eastern Europe & Eastern Mediterranean. He has successfully collaborated with major players, such as Chevron, EXXON, ENI, TOTAL, OMV-Petrom, and BSOG to deliver surface logging services at the high performance standards. Prior to this current role, he served as the Operations Coordinator in Tirana, Albania, and as a Field Service Supervisor in multiple countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Gained experience working in different regions, and acquired certifications in leadership excellence, incident investigation, well operations management, and more.