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 keeping management informed of progress.

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