1988 to Present (13 years and counting...) Houston, Texas
- Founded Drill Science Corporation to provide full service petroleum and geomechanical consulting to Oil and Gas Companies. www.DrillScience.com
- Have since served many top multi-national as well as large and small independants in achieving their sought after results. Companies served include:
Activa Resources, Aminex Oil & Gas, Apache Corporation, AFE Oil & Gas, British Petroleum, Choice Exploration, El Paso Exploration & Production, IP Petroleum, Kerr McGee, The McAlester Fuel Company, Mission Resources, Ness Energy Corporation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Pogo Producing Company, and Tech Power Controls.
- Continue to develop skills and computer programs to aid my design and operations of wellbore construction
- Frequent contributor on petroleum engineering forums.
- Author of petroleum engineering technical papers
- Technical Editor for the SPE Peer Review Committee
- Started online marketing of my services www.DrillScience.com
Petroleum Engineering and Project Management for Drilling, Completion, Production, Workover & Abandonment Projects.
Managerial:
Build intelligent teams, and implement synergistic team work and productivity enhancing leadership.
Project management of:
Onsite well construction teams.
Well construction engineering teams.
Contract administration of well construction teams.
Environmental compliance of well construction teams.
Logistics teams.
Regulatory teams.
Personal:
Petroleum Engineering.
Drilling Engineering in house and onsite supervision.
Completion Engineering in house and onsite supervision.
Production Engineering in house and onsite supervision.
Reservoir Engineering
Well Design based on drilling and reservoir geomechanics.
Cost estimation (AFE)
Performance controls
Annual Budget Development.
Working with GnG teams.
Researching and implementing new technologies.
Designing well construction design and operations software.
Contributing to Petroleum Engineering Discussion Groups.
Developing emerging technologies.
Supplementing core competencies with further study via professional technical papers and conferences.
Senior Drilling Engineer Cliffs Drilling Company
August 1992 - December 1998 (6 years 5 months) Houston, Texas
Turnkey Drill HTHP wells including Deepwater wildcats, Horizontal, International. Worked on the second round of offshore turnkey drilling projects awarded by PEMEX.
Drilling Engineer Triton Engineering Services
May 1990 - July 1992 (2 years 3 months) Houston, Texas
Design and implement turnkey drilling projects completing them within competive timeframe and cost budget. Drilled turnkey offshore wells for PEMEX that was the first offshore turnkey projects ever awarded to a US company. Projects included deepwater drilling and ultra deep HTHP dilling. Worked on drilling projects in Russia and deepwater drillship drilling in Southeast Asia and West Africa.
Drilling Engineering Intern Chevron
May 1989 - September 1989 (5 months) Houston, Texas
Worked offshore in deepwater Santa Barbara Channel. Supervised two rigs in Huntington Beach. Authored document on cost savings on operations operated from the Ventura, CA office.
Reservoir Engineering Intern Standard Alaska Production Company
May 1988 - September 1988 (5 months) Houston, Texas
Researched and analyzed well tests for the Kuparak field in the Artic of the North Slope.
Built a database of useful parameters derived from well test analysis.
Utilized self-created database of skin factors derived from calculations performed on well test data to high grade prospects for workovers resulting in increased future production.
Analyzed software needs of the reservoir and production group for a tool to accomplish needed tasks and presented findings to management for implementation.
"...Character and Integrity...Honest and Hardworking..."