Travis Cochran Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

Operations Superintendent, leveraging nearly two decades of rig based, and drill site management experience to collaborate with DEEP Energy partners for high level execution of physics based drilling practices to streamline drilling operations across multiple operators, and various well designs.Highly proficient at analyzing drilling data and utilizing for.

Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia

Oversee day to day drilling operations, drilling for natural gas utilizing air, water based, and oil based drilling fluids while drilling extended reach horizontal wells in the Utica and Marcellus formations. Through principled leadership, I lead, coach, and develop rig managers and crews on operations, equipment, maintenance, and behavior based safety by.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) is the second-largest producer of natural gas and.
• Record surface well (Combs Ranch 7-33-70 B USA 3H well)
• Piloted the first ever “drill with casing” project for Chesapeake in the Powder River Basin area
• Helped pilot a DWOP (drill well on paper) program which reduced drilling days per well by increasing operational efficiency
• Drilled the first “one run” curve and lateral Sussex well for Chesapeake in the Powder River Basin
• Implemented first 24 hour rig move procedures in the area

Rockies

• Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC and its subsidiaries operate land based drilling rigs primarily in oil and natural gas producing regions of the continental United States, Alaska, and western and northern Canada.
• Successfully rigged up and staffed 3 rigs within the first 5 months as a superintendent.
• Lowered monthly rig costs by 40% on the Pinedale rigs.
• Managed the Cook Inlet, Alaska project.
• Helped facilitate better cohesion between the rigs and operational support groups (tech services, HSE, HR, etc.)
• Improved crew quality through crew/rig based recruiting, placement of new hires for best chance of success, knowing my people, training, and principled leadership.

• Patterson Rig 304 working for Devon Energy
• Successfully managed and improved the conditions and behaviors of Patterson rig 304 while working for Devon Energy.
• Improved our 560-point comprehensive rig inspection score from a 72% in February 2012 to an impressive 94% in October 2012.
• Through an intentional effort to coach and mentor my crews I was able to improve morale and create a better team environment allowing us to maintain a 0% incident rate.
• Near perfect crew retention in 2012.
• Created and implemented a “rig move” plan to partner with our customer by improving efficiency and reducing costly non-productive time during rig move potentially reducing our rig move cycle time by a safe, incident.

Houston, TX- Rockies Division

• Drilled S-curve type, high-pressure gas wells in the Pinedale Anticline on multi-hole pad arrangement’s for Ultra Petroleum. Managed day to day rig operations.
• Volunteered 2 years on Patterson’s “OSHA Challenge” committee.
• Helped create a safety culture that resulted in an incident free safety record on my crew for the 2 years as a driller.
• Zero turn over on my crew for the 2 years as a driller.
• Assisted in making Patterson 318 the most consistent performing rig allowing us to safely drill the most wells for Ultra Petroleum in 2011.
• Safely drilled the first sub 10 day well for Ultra Petroleum- 2011.

Education record

Education record

High School