Independent energy & AI consultancy

Engineering clarity for complex energy decisions.

Melo Energy helps service companies, technology providers, and engineering teams solve demanding oil and gas problems across integrated studies, AI, technical delivery, innovation, and capability building.

Specialist expertise. Flexible delivery. Clear accountability.

Based in the USA

Founder-led technical governance

Flexible delivery models

Global project experience

Built for delivery teams

Senior capability without adding permanent headcount.

Melo Energy can own a defined technical package, integrate with an existing team, provide an independent review, or strengthen a customer-facing delivery effort.

Service companies and primes

Specialist capacity for client commitments.

Bring senior engineering and delivery support into a proposal, workstream, recovery effort, or technical handover.

Technology providers

Connect product capability to operating reality.

Bridge product, engineering, sales, and customer teams around a credible use case and a delivery plan that can be operated.

Engineering and R&D teams

Add an independent technical challenge.

Review assumptions, models, workflows, and evidence before the team commits further time, capital, or reputation.

Consulting services

Choose the capability the assignment requires.

Every service is structured around a defined decision, transparent scope, accountable technical leadership, and practical handover.

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Engineering work package

Integrated asset studies & simulation

Connect reservoir, well, network, and facility behavior to evaluate production choices, constraints, and uncertainty on one technical basis.

Client receivesA defensible study, model, or recommendation that your delivery team can review, present, and hand over.
Scope and deliverables
02

Digital work package

AI & digital engineering delivery

Design, recover, or deliver supervised AI and engineering workflows with the technical controls required for oil and gas decisions.

Client receivesA practical digital workflow that combines domain judgment, traceable evidence, and a credible route to adoption.
Scope and deliverables
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Independent assurance

Technical review & second opinion

Challenge a model, forecast, proposal, workflow, or delivery plan before the team commits additional time, capital, or reputation.

Client receivesA concise independent view of what is sound, what needs correction, and what should happen next.
Scope and deliverables
04

Technical leadership

Embedded project & technical delivery

Add senior engineering and delivery leadership to a client team, proposal, recovery effort, or technically demanding workstream.

Client receivesAccountable senior leadership that aligns stakeholders, leads deliverables, and stays close to the technical detail.
Scope and deliverables
05

Product and customer value

Innovation, product strategy & customer success

Translate a technical concept or customer need into a credible scope, pilot, product decision, and path to sustained use.

Client receivesA technically grounded program that connects product, engineering, sales, and customer stakeholders around evidence.
Scope and deliverables
06

Capability transfer

Technical training & capability building

Use the team’s models, data, and operating questions to build simulation skill, QA discipline, and repeatable engineering practice.

Client receivesEngineers who can own, challenge, and extend the work after the engagement ends.
Scope and deliverables

Relevant evidence

Experience that transfers into the next assignment.

Selected evidence includes work delivered through Melo Energy and prior-role experience brought into the consultancy by its founder. Each example is labeled so the relationship is clear.

3AI initiatives for NOCs led through Melo Energy
800+Wells in a smart-field rate-estimation initiative
2 monthsTo recover a delayed predictive-maintenance pilot
US 11,933,162 BIssued patent in AI-driven numerical simulation
Virtual rate estimationAbu Dhabi

AI-driven rate estimation across 800+ wells

The work combined production-engineering logic, data workflows, and AI at field scale.

ZADCO, now part of ADNOCExperience brought into Melo Energy from a prior Halliburton role
Integrated capacity modelAbu Dhabi

Integrated production modeling for energy assurance

The model supported production forecasting and national energy-assurance decisions.

ADNOCExperience brought into Melo Energy from a prior Halliburton role
Predictive maintenanceBrazil

A delayed AI pilot recovered within two months

The pilot was completed within two months, followed by work on a five-year rollout proposal.

Industrial AI programExperience brought into Melo Energy from a prior C3 AI role
Enterprise technical strategyParis

Technical leadership for a $20MM+ GACV opportunity

The work connected executive sponsorship, technical requirements, and a defensible delivery case.

TotalEnergies and AspenTechExperience brought into Melo Energy from a prior AspenTech/Emerson role

Built to scale

One consultancy. A delivery structure that fits the assignment.

Melo Energy is designed around accountable technical leadership and a delivery structure that can adapt to the assignment. Scope, roles, resourcing, and quality controls are defined for the work at hand.

Accountable leadership

A named lead for every engagement.

Technical ownership, decision rights, interfaces, and acceptance criteria are explicit from the start.

Scope-aligned resourcing

Capacity follows the work.

Assignments can be delivered as a defined work package, integrated with client teams, or structured with additional approved contributors when the scope requires them.

Consistent standard

One method across every delivery model.

Assumptions, risks, reviews, outputs, and handover remain visible regardless of team size or contract structure.

Technical perspective

See how Melo Energy approaches the work.

Short articles explain the engineering controls behind integrated modeling, supervised AI, and first-of-kind delivery.

Applied AI

Where supervised AI belongs in upstream engineering

A practical control model for using current AI tools without outsourcing technical judgment.

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Integrated modeling

Treat the model as a decision system, not a file

Why model interfaces, assumptions, and operating constraints matter as much as the simulator itself.

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Innovation delivery

How an oil and gas pilot becomes an operating workflow built to last

A first-of-kind program succeeds when ownership, evidence, and adoption are designed from the start.

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Discuss the fit

Bring Melo Energy into the assignment where technical ownership matters.

Share the scope, expected role, timing, and delivery context. The inquiry can begin with a defined work package or a need for team-integrated consulting support.