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Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Senior Operations Engineer at a startup company backed by Crestview Partners Private Equity
• Brought online an operationally challenging, $10mm horizontal waterflood pilot project in 16 months, from project conception to 100% operational.
• Operation lead for the company, performed cost estimates, AFE’s, engineering design, risk analysis, permitting, vendor selection, procurement, construction/operations management, wellsite supervision, and project.
• At project site during all critical phases of project ensuring operational success.

Houston, TX

• Part of a team tasked to acquire and operate a producing oilfield asset for an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technology company.
• Evaluated and screened on and off market acquisition targets suitable for deployment of microbial EOR.
• Performed operational due diligence in the acquisition of PetroHunt LLC’s Coke and Quitman fields in East Texas and post-acquisition was responsible for the daily production and operations of approximately 450 bopd.
• Planned and executed capital spending of $2.7mm for the microbial EOR technology deployment which included 3 new injectors, injection facilities, and installation of 10,000 ft of injection line.
• Responsible for all oil and gas regulatory compliance and permitting for the company. Filed RRC operator license, annual license renewals, operator bond, well status reports, injection well status reports, drilling.

Houston TX

• Facility Engineer in the Permian Basin. Projects included:
• Facility tie-ins for drilling packages, sizing new h-pumps for water injection system using nodal analysis, and cost estimates for a CO2 injection expansion.
• Compressor, VRU, and control building installation.
• Worked alongside Health Safety and Environment (HSE) and Risk Mitigation groups to approve an AFE to relocate aging facilities outside city limits.

Houston, TX

• Production Engineer in the Permian Basin: Clearfork, San Andres, Wolfcamp experience.
• Performed well surveillance and designed procedures for wellbore cleanouts, stimulations, opening additional pay, and lift revisions
• Reviewed all well failures, checked economics, and made recommendations to reduce failure frequency. Wrote procedures to repair casing integrity problems and worked closely with rig supervision.
• Strong knowledge of Rod pump and ESP artificial lift.
• Worked with reservoir engineer to schedule water/CO2 injection cycle switches and lead well reviews.
• Provided engineering support after the acquisition of a CO2 supply reservoir in Colorado.