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Anchorage, Alaska, US

• Manage Chugach Energy Resources team, overseeing daily operations at the Beluga River Field, Analyzing long term gas supply forecasts, developing new long term gas supply opportunities, and managing renewable project.
• Manage all potential new gas supply project evaluation and progress solutions to secure critical gas supply for generation including LNG imports, potential new development at BRU, North Slope pipeline evaluation, and.
• Oversee daily operations of the Beluga River Field as a non-operated partner, monitoring daily field reports, production and planned upcoming work, collaborating and questioning the operator when needed
• Lead evaluation and development of BRU underground gas storage as well as evaluating other potential third-party gas storage opportunities.
• Develop integrated resources plan and manage updates and integration with decarbonization team on implementation and execution.

Houston, Texas, US

Senior Engineer managing company's Gulf Coast assets. Responsible for lowering LOE & Improving production. Reviewing Recomplete and artificial lift opportunities, Developing workover plans and procedures, & writing AFE's. Coordinate with a variety of groups including development team, land team, and field operations staff.

Houston, Texas, US

• Support the dissolution and sale of the company by overseeing all field operations related to production, facility, workover, and providing operational input to during divestment activities.
• Responsible for optimizing production for the asset.
• Coordinate field operations for facility, production, I&E, and workovers. Design procedures and oversee implementation of projects.
• Work with development team and engineering staff to identify and evaluate new acquisition opportunities.
• Improve production, data management, and reporting through optimization of current software packages.
• Champion and oversee HSE practices during all field activities.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Manage production, LOE, & Workover expenses for the entire South Texas asset & lead development planning.
• Supervising 6 direct reports including 4 engineers, a SCADA administrator, and a SCADA analyst.
• Responsible for managing and optimizing production on 1600 wells including approximately 600 Eagle ford wells.
• Lead a team of engineers, consultants, and IT professionals to implement a new production management and allocation software for the entire production and midstream assets to streamline reporting, improve efficiency.
• Work with engineers to improve production on producing wells and new wells supporting a 4 rig and 2 frac spread development program.
• Advise SCADA analysts on maintaining SCADA system and build outs for future integration and visualizations.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Oversee approximately 400 wells primarily in the oil rich areas of the field, working to identify opportunities to optimize production through artificial lift, work over opportunities for wells, and improve facility.
• Member of a task-force reporting directly to the Technical VP to determine best practices in development strategy and improve well performances by reviewing drilling locations and completion designs.
• Utilize decline curve, RTA, and other productivity analysis to improve production and EUR for the new wells within first 90 days.
• Work with field personnel to reduce facility costs by improving designs, identifying compression opportunities, and reducing gathering lines pressures.
• Optimize plunger lift and gas lift design.
• Identify wells to update or change artificial lift methods including rod pump installations, Optimize plunger lift, and gas lift design.

Calgary, AB, CA

• Tasked with managing company’s Eagle Ford asset. Oversaw approximately 80 wells, primarily in Graben part of field. Enhanced well performance, managed facility limitations, and identified workover opportunities.
• Helped improve gas-lift designs by utilizing knowledge of gas-lift optimization, reducing number of valves in older wells.
• Instituted change to organization’s thinking, utilizing orifice valves for bottom lifting point instead of flagged gas-lift valves, reducing flowing bottom hole pressure by several hundred psi.
• Identified long-term shut-in wells to workover, delivering approximate 600 BOPD uplift.
• Spearheaded implementing more aggressive pigging program, dropping pressure in gathering pipelines.
• Implemented comprehensive plunger-lift program, identifying wells, with other engineers, that benefitted from plunger-assisted gas-lift.

Calgary, AB, CA

• Worked as production engineer for company’s Piceance asset. Took care of approximately 500 South Piceance wells. Collaborated with diverse team of engineers and field personnel. Maintained production rates and reduced.
• Administered field chemical program and worked diligently, adjusting chemicals and decreasing expenses by expanding tools which identified wells being over treated and improving tools to take management of treating.
• Cooperated with chemical companies, addressing issues with high H2S in produced water of several wells while keeping costs low.
• Identified workover opportunities and enhanced artificial lift, arresting decline and beating estimated yearly production.
• Improved artificial lift, including gas-lift designs and plunger-lifted wells, maintaining well decline.

Houston, Texas, US

• Functioned in leadership role in integrated engineering team, accounting personnel, geoscientists, managers, and field operations personnel. Oversaw company’s Beluga River and North Cook Inlet gas fields. Principally.
• Employed new technology artificial-lift design for 2 production wells, generating initial concept, coordinating with vendors, leading company’s engineering groups, and managing entire project, including costs.
• Performed reserve calculations for both assets, using decline-curve analysis and pressure vs cumulative production methods.
• Drafted development plans for both fields and presented to BLM and State regulatory body, gaining approval.
• Delivered 2 new wells and 1 re-completion frac of another well with unique frac for sand control design, exceeding production expectations.
• Advanced artificial-lift designs for offshore gas wells, including Inverted Gas-lift System, improving performance by several million cubic feet/day.

Houston, Texas, US

• Aided production and reservoir engineers in office, and field supervisors. Provided solutions and procedures for challenging and complicated thru tubing well intervention issues in Kuparuk and Alpine fields on North.
• Designed and tested tractorable kickover tool for gas-lift valve change out on extended reach and horizontal wells, allowing company to drill longer-reach wells.
• Received company’s ‘Mark of Excellence’ award for subsidence work, determining remediation solutions, building tools to identify locations of potential issues, executing remediation work, and formulating abandonment.

Houston, Texas, US

• Rotated through 4-month engineering assignments in various groups including wells, production, and reservoir organizations.Wells Group
• Created procedures and plans for thru tubing intervention, utilizing e-line, tractors, slickline, and coil tubing, preserving production and reducing costs. Alpine Production Engineering Group
• Determined performance of horizontal, frac’ed oil wells, realizing flow rates of commingled sands based on nodal analysis and horizontal-well deliverability calculations.
• Evaluated waterflood patterns, resolving timing of injection and pressure response in producers.Reservoir Engineering Group
• Supported Kuparuk full-field model, inputting correct directional information for horizontal wells and evaluating accuracy based on history matches, boosting better matched decline-curve model.