SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Petroleum Engineer with proven skills in management, development, reserve estimation, booking and reconciliation, and with demonstrated success in property acquisition and divestitures. A driven individual who thinks clearly and insists on quality and accuracy in all work products.
• More than 35 years of Petroleum Industry experience.
• 30 years specializing in reservoir engineering.
• Supervision experience with a staff of engineers, geologists, and technicians as part of multi - functional team.
• Successful acquisition and divestiture evaluations for Peregrine include areas of Texas, North Dakota, and Oklahoma, including Permian Basin (Clearfork, Spraberry, Wolfcamp, Cline, Strawn and, Atoka), and Williston Basin (Bakken) formations.
• Field development and planning experience in both unconventional areas and conventional reservoirs.
• Successful acquisitions with evaluations ranging from $7MM to $330MM in the last 4 years.
• Most recent divestiture yielded a 28% ROR over the four-year holding period.
• Multi-year success in SEC reserve reporting and bank loan re-determination.
• Reserves booking, defense and presentations for investors and corporate audit compliance.
• In-depth reserve estimation, risk and economics for exploration and development wells in fields throughout the Gulf Coast, Mid-continent, Rocky Mountains, and Gulf of Mexico.
• Successful design and creation of Aries databases for both reserve reporting and acquisition/divestitures.
• Background also includes drilling, completions, and operations.
• Experienced with regulatory filings and expert witness testimony.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - The Woodlands, TX

Senior Reservoir Engineer

Responsibilities:

Update, review and reconcile year-end and quarterly reserves and budget. Provide field analysis for both depletion drive and waterflood performance to maximize value for Central Basin Platform fields, TX. Provide Spotfire analysis of fields for quick study projects involving acid, perforations and waterflooding. Evaluate acquisition candidates and provide asset value analysis. Support operations for intermediary well repair and updates. Work in team environment to move projects forward to completion.

Confidential - Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

Classically trained reservoir engineering expert for start-up of company. Provided detailed knowledge of reserve estimation and economic justifications. Worked with a technical team of engineers, geologists, geophysicists and landmen to acquire substantial oil and gas properties in the Williston, Permian, and Anadarko Basins. Determined reserves and risk for projects and presented recommendations for acquisitions. Worked with staff to plan development, from drilling through hook-up, then evaluate lookback of actual wells drilled. Monitored production against budgeted numbers.

Strategically designed the company’s Aries database to have the flexibility to thoroughly assess the value of the company. Provided information to and defended reserves assignments for year-end evaluations with Cawley, Gillespie and Assoc. Presented final reserves valuations to investors and banking syndicate.

Initiated and documented procedures for annual reserves reviews, project lookbacks, AFE recommendations and budgeting schedules. Provided cash flows including product volumes, pricing, expenses and scheduling for company budgeting and planning. Delivered reserve assignments, expected variabilities, risk, and commercial information for use in economic evaluations of both development projects and acquisitions and divestitures. Collaborated with geology, land, and operations to in corporate the most accurate information in all above evaluations.

Hired, trained, and mentored 2 reservoir engineers and multiple interns in reservoir activities as described.

Confidential - Houston, TX

Reservoir Engineer and Team Leader

Responsibilities:

Provide reservoir engineering expertise by estimating reserves and flow rates to economically justify exploration and development projects, recommend and evaluate workovers and recompletions for wells, prioritize and establish work flow among team members of all disciplines, and provide depletion plans. Provide year end reserves and work with outside consultants to maximize reserve estimations. Provide data and presentations for divestiture resulting in $4.2B sale of company.

Confidential - Houston, Texas

Reservoir Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

Year-end SEC reporting and reconciliation for Gulf of Mexico (shelf and deepwater) and Denver Rocky Mountain Divisions, including detailed field studies to support SEC reserves positions, operating expense review, shrinkage and NGL estimation, and product pricing. Rocky Mountain fields included, Bakken in North Dakota, tight Mesa Verde gas production in the Unita Basin, LaBarge Platform wells, and coal dewatering in the San Juan Basin. Quarterly reserves reporting, quarterly and annual scorecard reviews of drilling activities, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, and coordination of activities with independent reserves consultants. Working closely with Division, especially Denver, on special projects including field studies associated with by-passed reserves and proved undeveloped reserves.

Project Reservoir Engineer, Offshore Division; Reserves estimates, rate predictions and economic evaluations of Offshore Gulf of Mexico deepwater and shelf exploration and development projects. Bottomhole pressure buildup analysis, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, workover and recompletion recommendations, yearend reserves estimates and capital budget forecasting.

Confidential - Houston, Texas

Business/Reservoir Engineer

Responsibilities:

Estimated reserves and future flow rates for new and existing oil and gas fields, predicted recovery and drive mechanisms, prepared development plans for new fields, used reservoir modeling techniques to predict reserves and economics of secondary recovery projects, recommended recompletions and workovers, evaluated acquisition and divestiture properties, negotiated gas contracts, provided expert witness testimony to state regulatory agencies, assisted in preparation of capital budgets, provided group training, served as team leader for north Louisiana redevelopment, worked closely with team members to justify company and partner operated expenditures where feasible; and recommended, supervisee and analyze bottomhole pressure work. Performed the above work for Company and outside operated properties in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Texas, and offshore Louisiana and Texas.