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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Supporting Oxy deepwater Gulf of Mexico drilling and completions team focused on delivering completion solutions for high angle development well concepts

Paris La Défense Cedex, Fr

Lead 9-person engineering and operations team to design and deliver high-rate, gas production wells employing subsea, open hole gravel pack completions; ensure compliance with company technical and HSE referential.Oversee well completion design, program development for MODU and Field Support Vessel activities including development of novel reversible oil-based gravel carrier fluid to combat reactive shales.

The Woodlands, Tx, Us

Led a team of 7 drilling, completion, and subsea engineers and specialists supporting 18-well, $1B Golfinho deepwater development project to deliver high-rate, gas production wells employing subsea open-hole gravel pack completions.Responsible for developing program schedule and budget, well design studies, operational planning, call for tender strategy, and well construction management system development to support project Final Investment Decision.

The Woodlands, Tx, Us

Lead completion engineer deepwater GOM and Mozambique LNG developments responsible for design, planning, and execution of completion, workover, and well decommissioning (P&A) operations.Completion engineer for Lucius development delivering ~$500MM completion campaign deploying two and three zone, cased hole frac packs, intelligent well completions; introducing new perforating surge techniques to Anadarko.Responsible for deepwater GOM planning and execution of well decommissioning operations on subsea and spar wells; realized MODU subsea well abandonment costs reduction by ~50%.Responsible for all aspects of completion design including tubing design, safety valve and fluid loss valve design and selection, sand control, perforating, and fluid systems.Responsible for developing budgetary and AFE cost estimates, regulatory filings, operations planning, program development, and execution support.Provide subsea production knowledge and expertise to APC D&C and production organizations

New York, Ny, Us

Supported operations start-up in Eagleford shale play; drilled one of Hess’ first laterals in play and appraisal well to recover whole core.

New York, Ny, Us

Designated leader for special project to design and implement common well delivery process across Global Drilling & Completion organization with objective to develop consistent workflows across offices and improve interface with various asset teams.Developed and implemented probabilistic cost estimating methodology and supporting documentation.Responsible for Wellview coding standards and Global Drilling & Completions performance metrics reporting.Responsible for GDC global reporting system utilizing WellView including implementation of new NPT reporting capabilities

New York, Ny, Us

Completion engineer for Hess assets in Equatorial Guinea including planning support in Houston and offshore support on location in E.G. delivering ~$100M in completion and workover projects.Ceiba subsea development - planning responsibilities for all aspects of operations including water injection well abandonment and recompletion as stacked, frac pack and stacked, selective cased hole frac pack intelligent oil production well.Okume complex TLP development - planning responsibilities for all aspects of operations for 2 TLP cased hole, frac packed, oil production wells using alternate path screen technology including production riser installation and 1 cased and perforated water injection well utilizing on-off intelligent well technology.

New York, Ny, Us

Global Drilling & Completions subsea engineer SME for subsea production systems, IWOCS, wellhead equipment, and related systems.Support project teams developing subsea production system specifications for various global projects during FEED stage.Responsible for equipment delivery, systems integration testing, offshore operations planning and support for GOM completion and workover projects including tree installation, upper completion / tubing hanger operations, and well access for brownfield tiebacks and interventions projects.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for project delivery from Systems Integration Testing through installation for over 25 completion and intervention projects in GOM including projects for ExxonMobil, Kerr-McGee, LLOG, Energy Resource Technology, and BP.Experienced with horizontal and vertical tree systems, subsea test tree landing strings, mono-bore and dual bore open water intervention / completion riser systems, IWOCS packages, ROV tooling, etc.Primary customer technical focal point for offshore operations; focused on performance improvement through lessons learned implementation, resulted in 50% critical path time reduction for tubing hanger operations over 1-year campaign.Key role in building preservation, maintenance, and refurbishment processes for Aftermarket business.