After getting her Honors BA and MEng from Cambridge University UK (2002), Valentina Gagliardi gained 10 years experience in Shell (The Netherlands), working as a well engineer on offshore and land facilities for several years and then progressing to the wells design work in the Assen office (onshore and offshore jack-up projects) and then in the Rijswijk office (international Shell projects).
In 2011, with an IMechE CEng and an MBA, she set up her own consultancy business.
As a consultant, she has been a Senior Well Engineer for Petroceltic, Shell, NRG, DNV, Zenith Energy and several other companies. Welltodrill di Valentina Gagliardi has delivered tens of well designs, asset evaluations, cost estimates and plug & abandon designs, as shown in the track record below.
Since 2011, Valentina Gagliardi and then Welltodrill di Valentina Gagliardi have been consulting on drilling and abandonment projects for several major and middle-sized oil & gas companies across Europe. The projects were in land Holland, the North Sea (Dutch and UK sectors), Italy (land and offshore), Africa (West, North and South) and Kazachstan; jack up, land and semisub.
A complete list of projects is given below.