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Israel Castro Herrera

Associate Professor

Edif. “S” Bernardo Quintana, Cub. S3-10
56-22-30-17 ext.110
icastro@unam.mx


Academic Training

  • Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Professional Experience

  • Dynamic Characterization of Deposits
    • Design, supervision and analysis of pressure tests
    • Production Data Analysis
  • Research interests
    • Use of Big Data for the management of data measured with a fixed pressure-temperature probe, in Dynamic Reservoir Characterization studies.

Certifications and Memberships

  • Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
  • Certificate of occupational competence in the competence standard; registered in the national register of competence standards with key: EC0048

Outstanding Publications

  • Antonio Hernández-Espriú, Roberto Real-Rangel, Iván Cortés-Salazar, Israel Castro-Herrera, Gabriela Luna-Izazaga, Emilio Sánchez-León. Aquifer test interpretation using derivative analysis and diagnostic plots. 19th EGU General Assembly, EGU2017, proceedings from the conference held 23-28 April, 2017 in Vienna, Austria., p.11350.
  • Antonio Hernández-Espriú, Israel Castro-Herrera, Berenice Zapata-Norberto, Alberto Arias-Paz, Gabriela Luna-Izazaga, Gabriel Salinas-Calleros, Sergio Macías-Medrano, Alberto Villegas-Díaz. Channel-Aquifer width estimation from pumping test data: a simple approach using oil reservoir techniques, July 2016.
  • Heron Gachuz Muro(Pemex E&P) | Jose Luis Sanchez Bujanos (Pemex) | Israel Castro-Herrera (U Nacional Autónoma de México) | Jose Antonio Rodriguez Pimentel (Schlumberger). Quebrache Field: Evaluations to Date of this Natural CO2 Reservoir. SPE-142851-MS, 2011.