Michael Fields Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Property Tax Consultant that specializes in property tax valuation appeals across Texas. Working throughout all stages of the property tax process, from budgets to litigation.- Appeals Process: Data collection of the property. Building the appeals case by generating valuations using the 4 approaches to value in Texas (Cost, Income, Sales, Equity). I work to continually develop strategies to effectively advocate the lowest property tax valuation possible.- Arbitration Process: After the appeals process, when applicable, I continue to progress cases throughout the arbitration process. I work with the administration team to manage all aspects of the arbitration, including compliance, case preparation and presentation.- Litigation Process: In cases that require Litigation post the appeals process, I assist in data collection and case preparation with our leagal team prior to trial.- Tax Bill Collection: Collect and reconcile tax bills for clients to reduce bill payment struggles. Consolidation by assessor and districts allows for single bills and reduces client burden.

Houston, Texas Area

- Development Lead for Midland Basin operations with a focus on Howard County - Consistently met or exceeded budget production targets while adjusting for unplanned disruptions- Incorporated subsurface modeling to drive field development decisions- Completed multiple spacing tests to combat Parent-Child depletion and frac bashing- Team was successful in reducing completion costs by 40% with little impact to reserves

Midland, Texas

- Built and handled AFE’s for well work and abandonments - Managed LOE budget; Routinely bid out work and equipment to reduce field opex- Successfully reduced the field wide LOE $/bbl year over year by reducing well failures, optimizing chemical treatments and improving well uptime- Instituted SCADA to reduce well failure rate of BP’s from 2+ to <0.5- Increased ESP run times on new wells by 70%

Midland, Tx

- Monthly review of “Low Performers” and negative cash flow wells- Built AFE's and consulted working interest partners on high cost workover procedures - Operational representative for future Horizontal development- Designed OPEX Playbook for Unconventional Resource Manufacturing model- Recruiting Team Lead for Texas Tech Engineering

Midland, Tx

- Wolfcamp Reservoir Engineer. Working both Chevron owned and No-Op Joint Ventures. - Plan development for ~100 wells/yr in Upton, Midland, Ector and Glasscock counties. - Responsible for executing a business plan > $300MM. - Involved in both vertical and horizontal development in the Wolfcamp unconventional resource. - Lean Sigma: Team member responsible for reducing well cost. Savings of >$70MM per year.- Conducted multiple pilot projects for optimizing completion design and well spacing.

Midland, Tx

Drilled both vertical and horizontal wells. Experience in both shallow and deep Wolfcamp. Safety: Leader in safety. Very active in Pre Job Safety Meeting's.E-Colors: Incorporated colors discussions into every Pre-Tour safety meeting.Cost Reduction/Efficiency Improvements: Actively pursued ways to reduce costs and improve safe behaviors. Incoorporated process changes to eliminate rig crew safety exposure.Cost & Schedule: Consistently within 10% of cost and schedule & Maintain < 10% NPT.

Bakersfield, California Area

Reservoir Engineer for Cymric Tulare Asset Development Team. Planned all new wells in the Cymric heavy oil development.Project Management: Was the project team lead for 5 drilling campaigns in 2010. Actively managed a budget of $23MM. Worked with Earth Science, Facilities and D&C to progress each project from planning to execution. Handled communication with decision makers.Business Plan: Set Capital, Expense and Production targets for 2011-13 Business Plan.Project Controls: Created resource loaded project schedules using MS Project for each development package. Subsurface representative during a value stream mapping for streamlining the current flow of our business plan and budget process.Reserves: Developed P1-6 forecasts for Cymric and Mckittrick and transferred 717 MBO from our 2010 drilling program into P1D.

Cymric, Ca

Production Engineer for Cymric "1Y" DiatomiteCompletions: Designed initial well completions.Lean Sigma: Completed 2 Projects which increased revenue by over $25MM. Well Remediation Experience: Performed a field wide analysis that was essential in helping increase the workovers from ~15 jobs/yr to over 100 jobs. Designed the well program, worked with the DOGGR for permitting. Built the AFE and handled scheduling each job with the workover group. I increased the overall production to he field by 10% (2,500 BOPD improvement).Abandonments: Designed and Executed well abandonments.Business Plan: Managed and executed a Capital and OPEX budget of greater than $20MM. Created production targets for Workover programs.

Midway Sunset, Ca

Production Engineer for Midway Sunset Tech TeamLean Sigma: Completed a project which increased revenue by over $3MM.Well Remediation Experience: Identified multiple wells with damaged liner completions. Created workover programs to sidetrack damaged wells. Created a back-side cyclic steam program which increase well production by almost 50%.Heat Management: Handled annual Peer Heat Reviews to identify areas where we could reduce our steam volumes without impacting production.Operational Involvement: Held monthly reviews with Operations to identify gaps in production and find wells that were underperforming.Completions: I held weekly POP meetings in the field with representatives from our major contractors to ensure timely completion of new wells.