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 positive improvements in performance, developing team members at all levels, creating a team culture, and executing operations with all rig based personnel fully understanding their critical roles in the operations.

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 setting expectations, following up, and providing honest feedback . Build strong customer relations between Patterson UTI and our customers. Headline large transition projects such as major rig component upgrades, rig reactivations, rig deactivations, etc.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) is the second-largest producer of natural gas and the 11th largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids in the U.S. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the company's operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional natural gas and oil assets onshore in the U.S.● 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● Successfully improved drilling times, rig move cycle times, and skid times while achieving zero LTI or Recordable incidents, zero reportable spills, and zero significant equipment damages

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.● Oversaw two new builds and worked through operational challenges that come from commissioning new drilling rigs; (Patterson 275, and 276) to work for Ultra Petroleum in the Pinedale Anticline.

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 free 75-80 hours. ● Reduced the rig down time by 93% from 3rd quarter of 2012 to 4th quarter of 2012 by implementing a routine maintenance program and mentoring crews on critical maintenance practices.

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.● Safely drilled the first sub 9 day well for Ultra Petroleum- 2011.● Achieved some of the highest penetration rates due to a good understanding of the strata changes and the most effective drilling parameters for each type of formation change.

Education record

Education record

High School