Derek Cooper Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Offshore horizontal and deviated well real-time completion optimization (using Landmark NETool), initial well startup & further drawdown program, and early surveillance. Supported offshore control room with oil, gas, and injection well start ups in real-time. Leveraged IPM (Integrated Production Modeling) nodal analysis modeling (PROSPER, GAP) to.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

- Managed Geology, Civil, Land, Reservoir, Regulatory, Drilling, Completions, Pipeline, Facilities, Production, Marketing, and Operations stakeholders in planning, execution, and delivery of well programs in Eagle Ford and Permian fields.- Lead key multi-functional workfronts to deliver programs including section development strategy, site placement.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• Supported Shenzi field as the single-point-of-contact Production Engineer. Provided daily operations support, surveillance, flow assurance mitigation, and production reporting/forecasting.
• Initialized and lead new multidisciplinary optimization effort to enhance Shenzi production capacity resulting in 20% increase in field rate, 3 MMBBO (6% of total field production) of accelerated production, and.
• Optimize well/flowline configuration, gas lift, and asphaltenes management using GAP, Prosper, and MBAL.
• Used GAP modeling to create business case for implementing Subsea Multiphase Pumping.
• Evaluated subsea rigless workover/intervention opportunities for stimulating Water Injection wells.
• Daily surveillance and operational support of BHPB’s first deepwater Water Injection project on the Shenzi field in the Gulf of Mexico to optimize injection.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• Supported operations for Mad Dog, Shenzi, Neptune, Firefox, and Double Mountain drilling campaigns as the well-site engineer on BHP’s two ultra-deepwater drilling rigs: C.R. Luigs and Development Driller I. Managed.
• Accumulated BOP and well control equipment information and submitted response packages per MMS/BOEMRE request during Drilling Moratorium. Collaborated with drilling contractor representatives and redrafted Standard.

■ Supported Chevron’s Piping & Valves Team with updating and modifying Chevron's Approved Valve Manufacturers List (AVML). Launched contact with global valve manufacturers and acquired valve qualification testing documentation and reports.■ Participated in valve-supplier facility audits; evaluated quality assurnace procedures, equipment tracking processes.

Aberdeen, Scotland, GB

■ Generated requisitions for pump selection for Valero Refining Company’s Port Authur Coker Unit Expansion II project. Analyzed pump curves, completed pump data sheets, and communicated pump design and selection with client.

Aberdeen, Scotland, GB

■ Enhanced efficiency and ease of refinery heat exchanger selection. Accumulated heat exchanger data and specifications, and aggregated a heat exchanger database.■ Compiled and maintained Material-Take-Off (MTO) data for concrete and steel quantities used for refinery construction submitted weekly to clients.■ Evaluated and selected monitoring devices and.