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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Generated casing and well design for Exploration in the Louisiana Austin Chalk.Redesigned wells in Norway’s North Sea for the Field Life Extension project identifying improvements to reduce 25% of costs in the Norwegian sector unlocking assets that did not meet investment requirements; generating $1 Billion NPV over the next 10+ years.Exceeded well count delivery and delivered a cost reduction of 20% for South Texas by altering design, driving consistency of team performance, removing waste in the critical path, and scrutinizing invoicing.Scoped and achieved the most technically challenging wells for Equinor in South Texas and Ohio which included 20,000’ extended reach laterals and the deepest MD well in Karnes county, reaching temperatures of 375°F/190°C.

Houston, Texas

Successfully designed, planned and executed Austin Chalk wells without intermediate casing in trouble areas of the field saving $400,000 and further de-risking to save amounts on future wells.Successfully drilled wells through produced water disposal areas of North Dakota where previous attempts led to plug and abandonment of the wells.Generated exploration casing design for wells executed in the Powder River Basin.

North Dakota

Managed personnel to effectively implement completion program and meet all well objectives as the onsite supervisor over wireline operations.

Gulf Of Mexico

Performed rig engineer duties for the Melmar AC475 and Harrier MC118 exploration wells which included writing and editing daily operations plans, all onboard well calculations and verifications, generating casing and pipe tallies, and documenting lessons learned and after-action reviews.Performed real time buoyancy calculations for riserless sections, pipe stretch calculations, fluid compression calculations, and leak off test analysis. Edited and collaborated on the implementation and procedures for managed pressure drilling, and QA/QC of all documentation generated from the rig.Outfitted Ensco DS9 with a $400M MPD package in Singapore and performed acceptance testing in the Andaman sea, Thailand.

Houston

Generated PP/FG curves from pilot hole data set to de-risk and engineer the first 2 string well design which was executed Q1 2014 and became the standard well design for the field.Achieved the first long lateral (9000’+) for ConocoPhillips in the Niobrara.Cemented the first long lateral in the Niobrara when previous wells utilized swellable packers.Planned and executed salt water disposal pilot hole obtaining all required information for the asset team.

Us/Canada

Participated in rotational program where off time was supplemented in the classroom.Rotations Completed: Lobo (South Texas) as a night company man; Alaska (Kuparauk and Alpine); West Gas (Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada); Bakken (North Dakota); Barnett (Decatur, Texas); Eagle Ford (Kenedy, TX) as night company man.Implemented Baker Hughes SDL system for the first time in the US while rig engineer in Alaska.

Houston

Developed waste water usage program as alternate source of stimulation water.Drilled Carrizo water wells (+/- 6,000’ depth) as required for back-up water sources.Created procedures for the drilling and completion of water wells.

Houston, Texas, United States

Project analyzing offset wells in preparation of drilling the company's first deepwater exploration well in the Black Sea.

Houston, Texas, United States

Project pertaining to failure mitigation of gravel packing tools and operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

Caldwell, Texas, United States

Performed lab testing of crosslinked fracturing systems and worked as fracturing crew member.

Houston, Texas, United States

Performed testing of manganese tetroxide weighting agents to create a stable mud system to use in high pressure, high temperature applications.

Tomball, Texas, United States

Performed standard API testing on cement samples for verification of properties.