SUMMARY:

• Interested in operating companies that will utilize my experience in unconventional, mature field and offshore operations. Petroleum Engineer with experience working the full oil & gas upstream value chain with large IOCs, independents, and service companies. Worked in offshore (deepwater and shelf), unconventional (shale & carbonate) and mature field environments.
• Also, worked internationally in teams with diverse cultures and backgrounds. Proven track record in developing and leading high performing teams to deliver our objectives and exceed expectations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Reservoir Engineer

Confidential, Houston TX

Responsibilities:

• Decommissioning offshore platforms - Gunnison, Boomvang and Nansen.
• Corporate Reserves - estimated reserves and forecasted production with PEEP and IHS Harmony.
• Forecasting reserves and production with IHS Harmony, RTA, DeclinePlus and WellTest
• EH Energy
• Field Development - evaluated reservoirs, production and selected new well locations.
• Optimized well and facility locations, planned well interventions, eliminated facility constraints and mitigated Flow Assurance issues.
• Estimated reserves for Glen Rose and Austin Chalk reservoirs and forecasted production with PHDWin.
• Husky Energy
• Developed Worst-Case Discharge (WCD) procedure.

Production & Facility Advisor

Confidential, Houston TX

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated mature and unconventional, domestic and international, oil & gas fields for acquisition and development.
• Field development including estimating reserves, forecasting production, optimizing well and facility locations, improving well productivity and eliminating facility constraints.
• Estimated NPV from drilling wells, well interventions and upgrading facilities and infrastructure.
• Led asset and project teams in all phases: conceptual, detailed design, construction, commissioning and start-up.
• Analyzed asset performance by modeling material balance (MBAL), facilities network (GAP) and economics (Aries).
• Analyzed well productivity using nodal analysis ( Confidential ), Confidential and pressure transient analysis (IHS Harmony).
• Identified opportunities for production enhancement and de-bottlenecking by choke modeling.
• Mitigated Flow Assurance issues including scale, hydrates, paraffin and asphaltenes.
• Improved well productivity by designing and implementing well interventions including perforating behind pipe pay, sand control, fines migration, matrix stimulation, water conformance and artificial lift.
• Designed and implemented real-time surveillance systems.

Sr Reservoir Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Planned field development including modeling reservoirs, optimizing design and location of wells, designing artificial lift systems ( Confidential ), simulating Worst Case Discharge (WCD) and modeling economics.
• Modeling: reservoir with Merlin Simulation, well productivity with Confidential, flowlines and risers with GAP and economics with PEEP.
• Mitigated Flow Assurance issues including scale, hydrates, paraffin and asphaltenes.
• Designed field development plans for the following six (6) DWGOM fields.

Asset Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Led ALNG Shareholders in selecting corporate values and Strategic Focus Areas (SFA) to achieve their ALNG vision, business objectives and drivers.
• Developed, implemented and executed the Assurance, Interface, Risk and MoC processes, systems and organization for the operating company, project management team and contractor teams.
• Led six Interface Engineers in identifying and working interfaces across the project work faces including Gas Supply, Pipeline, Plant and Operations.
• Led four Risk Management Coordinators in identifying and quantifying risk with risk owners to develop plans and actions for mitigation. Mitigated over 300 risks with a financial exposure of over $10 billion.
• Led Jack-St Malo DWGOM subsurface and well completion teams in selecting multilateral well construction technology. Led facilities teams in topsides process simplification to achieve size and weight restrictions.
• Led VRSH Commercial project team in implementing new heavy oil technology. Led team in Value Improving Practices - Technology Selection and Design to Capacity to optimize the heavy oil technology process.
• Led asset team in developing field strategy for Alaska White Hills asset including staging equipment and drilling four exploration wells on frozen pads.
• Led the Great White Joint Venture asset team in quantifying values for PetroVR economic model.
• Led Alaska Cook Inlet asset team in developing a $200MM enhanced recovery strategy including new wells, recompletions and upgrading facilities.
• Led Subsurface Technical Reviews on Colombia GACE II and SE Asia Gehem assets to validate subsurface interpretation and evaluation and to constructively challenge subsurface scope, team goals and subsurface plans.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Confidential Subsea Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Semisub in Mississippi Canyon in 6500 ft water depth in the Brown and Peach horizons reservoirs, forecasted reserves of 1,300 MMboe and production of 250 Mbopd, 200 MMmscfd and 125 Mbwpd. Production system included 14 (dry) production wells, 6 subsea producing wells and 10 subsea water injection wells. Production system processes and exports oil and gas via steel catenary risers connected to a 24-inch diameter oil and a 28-inch diameter gas transportation pipelines. Developed and implemented the Dropped Object ALARP Culture and Process to mitigate dropped object and lifting risks in design, manufacturing and installation. Identified interfaces and planned Simultaneous Operations (SIMOPS) of vessels and platform cranes in proximity during subsea installation.

Confidential

Reservoir Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Mad Dog DWGoM Field: SPAR with a dual-drilling rig in Green Canyon straddling the Sigsbee Escarpment in 6600 ft water depth. Forecasted reserves of 1200 MMboe and production of 200 Mbopd. Team modeled the sub-salt reservoir with poor seismic quality and inaccurate velocities and depth conversions. Led the leadership team in selecting and quantifying the business drivers. Worked with subsurface, well construction, subsea, topside and hull facilities teams to quantify values for the PEEP economic model. Mitigated Flow Assurance issues including scale, hydrates and asphaltenes. Learned and implemented Lean Project Management.
• Team proposed Air Injection for fractured carbonate oil reservoirs in the Cárdenas Mexico area to enhance oil production at a cost competitive with other production. Developed project to inject high temperature air into the oil reservoirs auto-igniting and producing significant heat and CO2 to enhance oil recovery. Screened fractured carbonate reservoirs for fracture and matrix permeability that would flood uniformly with gravity assistance and prevent injected gas from rapidly moving through the fracture system to the producing wells. Also, designed injection wells and estimated injection volumes.
• Forecasted reserves of 660 MMboe valued at $400MM NPV. Produced 200 Mbopd from a single, large FPSO with subsea production and injection wells. Analyzed reservoir extent, reserves, oil quality, production rates and gas management. Developed strategy for processing fluids for off-loading to tankers; disposing produced water in an environmentally acceptable manner; collecting and processing produced gas to meet the gas management plan and emissions targets and injecting water to support reservoir depletion plans.

Confidential

Drilling Engineer

Responsibilities:

• A shallow anticline traps gas in multiple stacked sandstone reservoirs and by the ″6 fault″ to the east and ″A4 fault″ to the west. Led team in developing the depletion plan for Fault blocks 1 and 2. Depletion plan included planning early wells to acquire process and interpret dynamic data to optimize the location and number of future wells.
• Captured and used lessons learned from previous abandoned well due to a leaking packer, lost circulation and bit in the sidetrack, lost circulation and abandoned second sidetrack and perforated the upper zone in the well without gas handling equipment. Led the team in designing a well to address the shallow gas zones, depleted zones and faults issues, implementing lessons learned and maximizing Well Development Cost ($/boe), Productivity ($mm/mboepd), Well cost, Reserves, Rate, Days/10,000’, Days/completion and NPT.
• Development drilling program consisted of drilling and supporting facilities infrastructure for wells over 5-7 years with a 1-year rig level load of 54 wells. Issues included easier well locations and a slow permitting process due to local perception that drilling degraded their quality of life. Led team in analyzing and improving their work process to increase well delivery from 54 to 57 wells per year and shortening the spud to first deliver by 8 days.
• Improved economics of drilling and completing Bromide wells. Arkoma Strategy expectation to sustain production while decreasing costs. Led team in eliminating non-value requirements, improving well productivity and capital efficiency in drilling the Kilpatrick wells. Results included eliminating the water string that saved $150,000 per well.

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented a stage-gate process to improve project economics by 3-7 PI Capital Project Profitability. Developed skills in leading multidiscipline teams in Decision Analysis and Value Engineering. Developed major capital projects strategies and optimized engineering and design and economics.
• Wellhead platform with three-phase separation exports wet gas and wet condensate separately using 14 inch 25km subsea export lines to TEMSAH platform for processing and exporting. Ahken achieved hydrate control using DEG imported from a piggyback line from TEMSAH and injected into the export streams. TEMSAH no longer had the pump capacity to transport the DEG. Selected the option to use a Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitor (KHI) versus adding a pump on TEMSAH. The KHI option of installing a KHI storage and solar powered injection unit on Ahken saved capital cost and was more environmentally friendly than DEG hydrate control.
• Tambar Project Development, North Sea - minimum facilities, unmanned wellhead platform (jacket/piles) comprising of 6 slot single well bays (2 producers, 1 water injection and 3 spare), facilities to receive a cantilevered jack-up rig and coil tubing operations, 4 slot production manifold/header, temporary pig-launching/receiving facilities and platform and well control systems. Platform drills wells using a self-contained jack up rig in cantilevered mode. Led the team in developing and selecting alternative concepts for the host facility based on minimum life cycle cost, project robustness and simultaneously producing and drilling and workover operations including coiled tubing and snubbing.

Confidential

Production Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Punta Pescador Exploration Investment, Venezuela - Asset Team exploring new country entry opportunities. Created type log from surrounding areas and forecasted production using data from adjacent wells. Calculated the NPV based on forecasted production and costs and tracked against the economic threshold.
• Work plan activities included assessing Plataforma Deltana capture alternatives and situation analysis (economic, market, technical and commercial) for supplying ALNG Train III, IV and Confidential from Trinidad and Venezuela.
• Team developed options to produce and transport gas from San Pedrito wells to a gas processing facility and then sell the gas and liquids in the Argentine and Northern Chile markets. Project team comprised of production, drilling, E&C, EH&S and marketing sub-teams. Modeled the reservoir, estimated reserves and deliverability and forecasted production. Interfaced with drilling team for San Pedrito X-2 well cost and production, E&C team for gas processing facility costs and marketing team for gas and liquid sales.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Reservoir Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interpreted well logs for reservoir characterization, determining pay zones and forecasting well production. Stratigraphically correlated well logs to depict structural and stratigraphic plays. Estimated and forecasted reserves and reservoir deliverability for fields supplying gas to the pipeline using material balance, pressure transient and Confidential . Negotiated reserves and deliverability with gas suppliers to reduce take or pay contractual obligations.