Steven Le Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.

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