Christopher Bown, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Hockley, Texas, United States

• Recruited as a Well Control Engineer charged with developing blowout contingency plans, relief well designs, and onsite engineering support during a well control event.
• Recognized for raising customer satisfaction ratings by providing technical support on location to meet requirements.
• Maintain accuracy on reports and documentation of well site activities during a well control event and advise staff and various customers on equipment capabilities.
• Travel domestically and internationally to customer sites delivering well control support to onshore/offshore locations and comply with all relevant international and corporate environmental or safety regulations.
• Serve as a significant support with well control equipment setup, facilitating well control audits, and conducting on-job and in-classroom well control training sessions providing general education to staff while.

Houston, Texas Area

• Provided high-level engineering support to field operations to ensure high productivity outputs.
• Designed, engineered, and programmed 10 different remediation systems per month.
• Created solutions to reduce operating costs by 15% and cut troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance times by 10% by keeping management informed of serious problems.
• Served as an expert and support in overseeing soil and groundwater investigations. Designed, engineered, and programmed remediation systems.

Edson, Alberta

• Developed nodal analyses and IPR curves that aided in designing artificial lift systems and increased production.
• Generated accurate decline curves for individual wells to identify drops in production.
• Recognized for keeping production costs under budget by creating ambitious, realistic estimates and budget well-intervention techniques.
• Established and implemented best practices procedures in the field.
• Trained, mentored, and developed 40+ top-performing field personnel on well-optimization and improved daily production by 20%.
• Identified and optimized bottlenecks and deficiencies within facility processes and pipeline gathering systems

Edson, Alberta

• Substantially decreased production setbacks and slowdowns by providing practical solutions to day-to-day production problems.
• Expanded personal industry knowledge and expertise by shadowing Completion and Drilling Consultants.
• Spearheaded a customized training program for 25+ workers for automation and plunger lift optimization.
• Helped optimize and troubleshoot plunger lift, gas, lift and rod pump well operations by evaluating well integrity.
• Eliminated and avoided automation power failures in winter months by strategizing with the operations team.

Grand Junction, Colorado Area

• Recruited as a Project Manager charged with directing 1500+ oil and gas production enhancement projects along with service contractors for each site.
• Orchestrated a series of highly educational training programs for Production Engineers and field personnel to develop solid expertise in choosing appropriate wells for artificial lift systems.
• Reduced operating costs by 15%, while drastically enhancing production by forming operation and maintenance best practices of low-producing wells. Focused on staff and environmental safety.

Edson, Alberta

• Managed operations and well enhancement projects in northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
• Provided technical support to sales staff while building and maintaining positive relationships with customers.
• Conducted all operations with zero risk to myself, other personnel, or the environment.

Alberta, Canada

• Safely rigged-up and rigged-out drilling rigs and aided in the successful completion the of oil and gas wells.
• Operated tongs, elevators, manual slips, and spinning chains.
• Collected valuable samples to ensure smooth drilling operations and accurate logging of each well.

Bonnyville, Alberta

• Operated wireline units in remote locations and supervised helpers to safely rig-up and down equipment to perform different procedures as per customers’ needs.
• Conducted gamma ray, temperature, and cement bond logs to assess formations and cement integrity.
• Supervised wireline operations and successfully navigated drilling of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) injection wells.
• Perforated oil wells with tubing conveyed techniques.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Petroleum Engineering, 3.2

Activities and Societies: SPE member, University of Wyoming Chapter

Petroleum Engineering Technology, Drilling And Completions

Activities and Societies: SPE, ASET