John David Willimon Email & Phone Number

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Formulate comprehensive drilling plans to meet project objectives.Ensure drilling plans comply with statutory and regulatory requirements, with respect to environmental, safety and health, emergency procedures and disaster recovery.Monitor day-to-day operations.Work closely with Drilling Superintendent to ensure that the plans are implemented.Evaluate new technology and its application to the project objectives.Provide conceptual ideas and cost estimates for strategic portfolio decisions.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Spring, Texas, United States

Midland, Texas, United States

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Perform Technical analysis of well program for customer proposals.Participate in applications engineering and bit selection.Prepare technical and commercial proposals for presentation to customers.Actively pursue and promote new or existing opportunities.Provide training for new field service technicians.Prepare technical reports for distribution to sales department or customers.Follow and promote the policies of VIES, Employee and EHS policies.Utilize correct PPE and required equipment per VIES policies.Sit on rigs during runs to insure optimum performance of VIES products.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Provide direction and supervision over drilling operations in Kingfisher and Major County (STACK).Write cost estimates and drilling procedures and ensure that the plans comply with statutory and regulatory requirements. Evaluate and implement new technology and its application to the project objectives. Review offset information to identify potential problems and areas for improvement.

Amarillo, Texas Area

Oversee all technical aspects in drilling and completions operations.Provide direction and supervision for operations and field development.Evaluate and implement current and new technological advances for drilling and completion operations.Plan, coordinate and develop engineering projects for drilling and completion team and assign duties to field operators to help monitor the completion and production of wells.Prepare budget estimates and financial strategies, managing deployment in future periods.

Project lead for developing vertical well program and reducing costs by working with land, geology and field superintendent to increase efficiency in operations.Designed drilling and completion procedures for horizontal and vertical wells in the Middle Bakken Shale, Duperow and Mission Canyon Formations.Built casing design and cement volume spreadsheets to ease the permitting procedures with the BLM and NDIC. Developed reporting infrastructure and cost recording to track progress of company’s operations.Managed drilling, workover, and completion operations in the field.

Analyze engineering designs for new projects with manufacturing vendors.Oversee operations and procedures in field to find ways to increase efficiency. Influence accounts to try innovative ways to keep employers safe while decreasing cost and mitigate equipment malfunctions.Designed 7,000 bbl above ground storage tank for water storage and improved cost effective replacement for frac tanks in the oil and gas operations for the Permian.Support customers with communication of current prices along with company’s product line and services.

Midland, Tx

Office Drilling and Completions Engineer, 11/13-PresentPlanned, developed and executed drilling and completion projects and oversaw all operations for Horizontal 2nd Bone Spring, Wolfcamp, Avalon and SWD wells in Eddy/Lea County, NM and Culberson/Ward County, TXSupervised H&P, Cactus and Key rigs and multiple stage fracs as a drill site manager and completions supervisor in the Permian/Delaware Basins Ran economics and developed AFE’s for drilling and completions operationsResponsible for writing technical procedures for complex structure of operations in torque and drag modeling, BHA design, casing design and standardized coil tubing guidelines for drill outs in extended reach laterals resulting in a 40% increase in plugs reached and a decrease in short tripping for 1-mile laterals by 75%.Conducted all regulatory matters with TRRC, NDIC, BLM and Forest Service to stay in compliance.

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

Managed H&P and Cactus rigs as a drill site manager in the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma and the Delaware Basin in New Mexico.Implemented drilling program given by engineer and supervised crew and contractors to make sure plan was being carried out safely and efficiently.Solved problems and communicated with highly experienced coworkers to make choices to better operations on location.Carry out blow out preventer maintenance and testing. Ensure rig service is conducted to manufacturer specifications. Conducted checklists over tool pusher’s daily maintenance and verified it was carried out correctly. Track materials on location, follow all regulatory laws, and gather data for analyzing and recording invoices correctly.Researched/developed/presented plan to manager and company executives on the procedures carried out in the field and possible changes to make drilling more efficient.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Lived on location and witnessed Cana Woodford horizontal drilling.• Worked alongside engineers, field foreman, drillers and derrick hands in the field.• Became familiar with the rotary drilling systems and all the jobs/procedures in drilling.• Reported the activities of the rigs every week.• Presented my results/conclusions to the drilling department and upper management.

Worked on a Frac crew out of Cushing, Oklahoma

Executive Master Of Business Administration - Emba Candidate, Energy

University of Oklahoma - Price College of Business EMBA

Bs, Petroleum Engineering