Steven Le Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Midland, Texas, United States

Production engineer supporting operations in New Mexico Delaware Basin.

Midland, Texas, United States

• Planned and oversaw 206 wells across multiple basins including Midland, Delaware, CBP, and South Texas (Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk) delivering an impressive 3.9+ million feet in total depth drilled. • Effectively oversaw and managed operations of multiple drilling rigs, maintaining a 24/7 on-call presence while successfully executing daily job responsibilities.• Completed pre-drill planning responsibilities that included AFE generation/cost estimations, ensuring regulatory compliance/readiness, directional planning + AC review, drilling prog creation, and pre-spud presentations.• Experienced with drilling a wide-variety of wells ranging from shallow-verticals to extended-reach horizonals; includes SWDs, MPD in narrow-margin wells with tight pore pressure and fracture gradient windows, monitor wells with downhole gauges, and coring.• Collaborated with several vendors and cross-functional teams such as land, regulatory, and geology to ensure seamless execution from start of well planning to end of well delivery.• Proposed several cost-saving initiatives such as shallow-setting intermediate casing in Midland Basin, slimming down from 8-1/2” to 7-7/8” laterals, dual-agitators and performance mud motors for optimizing directional performance, and casing floatation.• Reviewed daily reports; surveillance drilling parameters to communicate with on-site drilling supervisors to optimize on-bottom performance and troubleshoot issues.• Knowledgeable in drilling fluids and cement. Experience with both NAF/OBM and WBM mud systems in unconventional horizontal drilling.• Utilized industry-leading data analysis tools such as Corva and Spotfire to perform in-depth data analysis for troubleshooting and optimizing using data-trends; worked with multiple torque and drag and hydraulics modeling software such as EMWells Toolpro and K&M’s ERA programs.• Experienced in handling unexpected challenges like remedial cementing, sidetracking, fishing, and well control.

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

• Performed maintenance and care to the drilling rig and equipment which includes cut-and-slipping drill line, power washing the rig floor, keeping equipment lubricated, and assisting with motor oil and filter changes• Executed all duties needed to rig up, rig down, and drill as well as assisting motor and derrick hands with their duties• Complied with health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies and filled out daily safety observation cards

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

• Made recommendations for drilling operations (such as suggesting torque values for drill pipe connections and placement of tools) to improve quality and consistency• Analyzed monthly rig performance reports and KPIs to identify and resolve any operation issues• Communicated with operations counterparts regularly to discuss performance improvements• Improved tripping speed efficiency in cased-hole operations• Successfully implemented the 5S organizational system on 15+ rigs

Midland, Tx

• Created different combinations of mud to maintain desired fluid properties during many stages of drilling• Ran fluid and rock property tests on many different mud additives to ensure quality of products• Checked inventory and collected cuttings and mud samples on rig sites• Analyzed rock properties and clay chemistry of returned cuttings to test for shale reactivity• Followed safety procedures in the lab and on the rig