David Slack, P.Eng., Mba Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Calgary, Canada

Calgary, Canada

Calgary, Canada

Red Deer, Canada

Calgary

Managed winter well work program to maintain reliability and system capacity of service wells and associated systems. Identified and developed strategies to mitigate risks to business during operations and post-fire start-up. Optimized Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP’s), lift gas systems, and facilities. Maintained regulatory compliance on wells, pipelines, and regional ground water resources, including gathering reservoir data, completing pressure integrity tests, and modifying pipelines.• Eliminated failures by leading multi-disciplined RCA teams, including chronic ESP’s, Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), fibre-optic systems, and coiled tubing failures.• Managed remote winter well work project, which required planning, collaborating, and negotiating with teams involved throughout the project to meet schedule and budget.• Reduced risks to environment and equipment damage as Business Lead on pipeline overpressure protection project to implement recommendations from RCA. Led and participated in risk analysis, hazard, and operability study (HAZOP), and hazard review checklists.• Led the improvement of project efficiency by developing a tool for the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) production engineering team to schedule, track and manage projects.• Prepared and presented on service well technical problems at SAGD Producer Forum, and collaborated with partners at the ESP Run-Life Improvement Joint Industry Project (RLI JIP).

Brisbane, Australia

Artificial Lift Peer Group member that drove artificial lift strategy and failure database. Reviewed and approved service rig interventions, while advising or providing mentorship to production engineers on technologies. Interfaced between production and completion departments to optimize well interventions, technologies, and practices to maximize value to the business.• Business Lead on the project that developed the standard reciprocating rod pump surface equipment package that was forecasted for install on 20% of wells within 5 years. Developed Project Execution Plan (PEP), Project Assurance Plan (PAP), procurement strategy, and key deliverables.• Developed Spotfire Artificial Lift Failure Analysis tool requirements to analyze failure trends.• Increased success rate on Progressing Cavity Pumps (PCP’s) by analyzing and recommending new technical requirements for PCP undersized rotor sizing.• Eliminated non-essential artificial lift technologies and inventory outages by developing and implementing production technology prioritization plan and flush-by material forecasting strategies.• Reduced intervention costs by forming the Production Engineering Peer Group to knowledge share, provide technical support, mentor, and increase competencies of the production team engineers.

Calgary, Canada

Developed capital and volume budgets, long range plans, and base depletion plans. Identified, developed, and completed maintenance and optimization projects on plunger lift and beam pumps, which resulted in restored and maximized production while complying with regulations.• Maximized field value by optimizing plunger lift systems and beam pump systems to reduce wear and increase liquids production. Performed gas well acid stimulation that significantly increased production rate.• Managed, optimized, and presented on projects to reduce Coal Bed Methane (CBM) well swabbing frequency, increase gas rate by optimizing swab sizes, and repairing well failures.• Decreased operating costs by identifying and completing projects aimed at shutting in uneconomic wells and compressor stations, reducing swab frequency, challenging annual regulatory requirements, and developing a completion strategy to reduce water production on new wells.

Calgary, Canada

Developed annual volume and capital budgets. Decreased failures and increased field production on PCP, ESP, and beam pump systems by optimizing artificial lift designs and installing pump off controllers. Collaborated with teams to maintain regulatory compliance on facilities, pipelines, water floods, and wells, including well status, packer isolation tests, pressure surveys, and surface casing vent flow’s.• Reactivated a high pressure, high temperature, deep sour gas well that added significant production volume.• Increased oil production by leading projects that identified and implemented acid stimulation projects that removed scale damage.• Eliminated downhole failure costs and maximized run life by identifying and implementing corrosion inhibition program.• Improved safety and reduced costs as Business lead on pipeline and facility project.

Calgary, Canada

Managed well optimization, facility consolidations, and op-cost reduction projects. Developed operating budgets and volume forecasts.• Developed assets and increased oil and gas production by collaborating with multiple teams to drill, complete, and tie-in shallow gas wells and horizontal re-drills.

Kindersley, Canada

Troubleshoot, wrote programs, developed cost estimates, and coordinated services for maintenance and optimization on PCP’s, beam pump’s and flowing gas wells, while learning field operations.• Maximized production by preparing and executing beam pump optimization project.• Maintained Voidage Replacement Ratio (VRR) regulatory compliance with injection well cleanouts.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Industrial Systems Engineering