Laura Nicholas, Pe Email & Phone Number

Casper, Wyoming, United States

Casper, Wyoming Area

Casper, Wyoming Area

South Glenrock, Big Muddy, and South Cole Creek fields• Responsible for all production engineering duties including field work supervision, workovers, and well abandonments for three fields producing 190 bopd• Generate AFEs, write procedures, obtain bids, and evaluate economics for field workovers and maintenance • Submit regulatory sundries, permits, and reports to DEQ and WOGCC• Generate budget and economic scenarios for management• Develop/maintain Wyoming reserves in PHDWin, including working with external reserve auditors• Perform CO2 flood reservoir modeling and development as well as manage contract CO2 flood modeling• Provide economic analyses and recommendations for CO2 flood scenarios, new drills, re-entry wells, recompletions, and acquisitions

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Barnett Shale/Haynesville Shale• Performed economic analyses of development wells and special projects using ARIES• Completed acquisition and divestiture value analyses including PDP and undeveloped wells• Served as the planning engineer responsible for outlooking/reporting/analyzing capital spend and production• Prepared economic runs and metrics for a 2010 budget rescope when an additional rig was strategically allocated to the North Texas team• Led drill schedule meetings, bringing all interdisciplinary teams together to ensure efficient rig movement and a successful development program for a ~30 gross well program and preparing to ramp up to ~50 gross wells• Made P&A recommendations from a development group/reservoir engineering perspective on candidate wells• LEAN/Six Sigma certified Green Belt: Optimized drilling metrics reporting creating $50,000/year in savings by reducing process defects and waste.• Committee member responsible for advising on the development and release of an internally developed, well planning tool, successfully released to the Midcontinent Business Unit

Greater Denver Area

MS Chemical EngineeringMasters Thesis Topic: Gas Hydrate Flow AssurancePeer Reviewed Journal Publications:• Aman, Z. M.; Dieker, L. E.; Aspenes, G.; Sum, A. K.; Sloan, E. D.; Koh, C. A., “Influence of Model Oil with Surfactants and Amphiphilic Polymers on Cyclopentane Hydrate Adhesion Forces,” Energy & Fuels, 2010, 24 (10), 5441-5445.• Sjöblom, J.; Øvrevoll, B.; Jentoft, G.; Lesaint, C.; Palermo, T.; Sinquin, A.; Gateau, P.; Barré, L.; Subramanian, S.; Boxall, J.; Davies, S.; Dieker, L.; Greaves, D.; Lachance, J.; Rensing, P.; Miller, K.; Sloan, E. D., Koh, C. A., “Investigation of the Hydrate Plugging and Non-Plugging Properties of Oils,” Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 2010, 31 (8), 1100-1119.• Davies, S. R.; Boxall, J. A.; Dieker, L. E.; Sum, A. K.; Koh, C. A.; Sloan, E. D., “Predicting Hydrate Plug Formation in Oil-Dominated Flowlines,” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2010, 72(3-4), 302-309. [doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2010.03.031]• Aspenes, G.; Dieker, L. E.; Aman, Z. M.; Høiland, S.; Sum, A. K.; Koh, C. A.; Sloan, E. D., “Adhesion Force between Cyclopentane Hydrates and Solid Surface Materials,” Journal of Colloid and Interfacial Science, 2010, 343 (2), 529-536.• Dieker, L. E.; Aman, Z. M.; George, N. C.; Sum, A. K.; Sloan, E. D.; Koh, C. A., “Micromechanical Adhesion Force Measurements between Hydrate Particles in Crude Oils and their Modifications” Energy & Fuels, 2009, 23 (12), 5966-5971. • Nicholas, J. W.; Dieker, L. E.; Sloan, E. D.; Koh, C. A., "Assessing the feasibility of hydrate deposition on pipeline walls-Adhesion force measurements of clathrate hydrate particles on carbon steel" Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2009, 331 (2), 322-328.• Taylor, C. J.; Dieker, L. E.; Miller, K. T.; Koh, C. A.; Sloan, E. D., "Micromechanical adhesion force measurements between tetrahydrofuran hydrate particles" Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2007, 306 (2), 255-261.

Greater New Orleans Area

Shell Exploration and Development Company (SEPCo)• Verified long-term thermal performance of buried Gulf of Mexico subsea flowline systems by comparing field data to transient and steady state simulations using OLGA• Created a database of shut-ins for subsea Gulf of Mexico fields from 2000-2008 and provided offshore field focal points with an accurate estimate of typical frequency and duration of shut-ins• Traveled offshore to a Gulf of Mexico platform to document conditions of the topside umbilical line terminations• Completed Petrofac Water Survival/Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (5/2008)

Greater Denver Area

• Assessed oil and gas pipeline hydrate agglomeration concerns by performing hydrate interparticle adhesive force measurements• Prepared biannual presentations to the CSM Center for Hydrate Research’s consortium member company’s flow assurance specialty professionals• Trained and mentored new hires to the laboratory to ensure a safe and productive laboratory• CSM Student Employee of the Year nominee for 2007

Ms, Chemical Engineering

• Masters thesis research related to flow assurance in oil and gas flowlines • ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholarship Recipient

Bs, Chemical Engineering

• Cum Laude • Minor in McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs • Proctor and Gamble International Award to support study in Mongolia.