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Houston, Texas, United States

• Actively manage 3 basins and 80,000 bbls/day across 5 gathering systems and 40,000 trucked bbls.
• Created and implemented new strategies to save $10 million in transportation costs by identifying unused/underutilized capacity, terminating transportation agreements and renegotiating downstream contracts.
• Reduced LOE $30,000/mo through collaboration with Operations on lower production systems. Optimized savings by analyzing operations costs vs. transportation costs.
• Identified and executed opportunity to use 3rd party entity to buy and sell crude, taking advantage of market share which resulted in $1 million increased profit.
• Identified opportunities to enhance the value of oil sale commitments and implemented a strategy to increase oil takeaway through higher realized sales prices, lower gathering, processing, and transportation costs, and.
• Automated manual tasks and process improvements to allow earlier production of daily information. Streamlined reporting to upper management by merging six reports into one easy-to-read, relevant info format.

Houston, Texas Area

• Led team with Contract Administration to launch crude oil deal ticket to ensure all trades are documented
• Calculated current and forward price differentials, market adjustments and transportation costs for corporate five year budget plan
• Identified two drilling promote deals and negotiated in conjunction with Business Development

Houston, Texas Area

• Analyzed and prepared crude oil production forecasts, pipeline expansions, refinery maintenance timetables, and supply/demand reports needed for Trading
• Initiated, evaluated, and negotiated electronic dispatch and ticketing process for Uinta Basin and managed roll out that reduced trucking ticketing errors from 20% to.05% and saved estimated $250,000 annually
• Reduced slop disposal by $250,000/ year by leading team composed of Operations, Contract Administration and Supply Chain employees
• Created more accurate U.S. Oil price index model for Marketing, Accounting, Credit, and Reserves reporting

Houston, Texas Area

• Formulated monthly nominations and capacity requirements utilizing production forecasts and market data
• Managed nominations and dispatched loads daily by tracking movements
• Maximized pricing by analyzing crude production forecasts, refinery maintenance timetables, and “pitched” strategies to traders
• Increased transportation efficiency while minimizing per barrel distribution costs
• Completed crude oil testing project to insure DOT compliance and attract new markets

Houston, Texas Area

• Monitored, tracked, and determined production from company owned and controlled receipt points
• Analyzed trends to determine gas availability and communicated sales opportunities to traders

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

• Nominated and confirmed gas flows on Columbia and Trunkline EBBs
• Performed hedging research and analysis