Education:

B.S., Petroleum Engineering, University of Tulsa

Experience:

Petroleum engineer with 20 years of experience in operations, production, and drilling. Knowledgeable in light oil, deep, high-pressure reservoirs, and heavy oil, shallow, low-pressure reservoirs. Skilled in reservoir, production, and drilling projects. Experienced in reservoir management, completion techniques, stimulation, reserves estimation, field studies, AFEs and project economics, field development, artificial lift design and operation, and production log analysis. Proficient in various computer programs, including Microsoft Office, PA, DSS, PEEP, and FRACPRO.

As an operations manager with an independent oil company in California, managed field operations and field personnel. Reduced cost of operations significantly. Eliminated employee abuse of company property by enforcing company policies. Prioritized field projects to optimize field production. Reviewed and approved proposed AFEs and procedures for well work. Supervised and provided technical support to field operations. Planned and executed drilling and workover programs, increasing production by 50% by optimizing wellbore use. Reduced by 33% the cost of chemicals used in field operation by creating and implementing a maintenance program for equipment. Negotiated with service and equipment companies. Evaluated employee performance.

As a production engineer at the Elk-Hills Naval reserve, was responsible for new wells, well-work proposals, reservoir management, acid stimulation, production logging and analysis, pressure transient testing, artificial lift optimization, and reserve estimation. Improved waterflood efficiency by correcting injection profiles, running surveys, and using packers and chemicals. Proposed recompletions and stimulations of shut-in uneconomic wells based on production history and decline that produced the highest rate in the field. Initiated use of TCP guns in underbalanced perforating and eliminated skin damage seen in previous completions. Designed and implemented effective acid stimulation treatments and procedures by analyzing cores to characterize the formation and identifying proper acid additives and compatibility. Received a "Performance Plus Certificate" for work in maintaining production above assigned rates in assigned area of responsibility.

As a drilling engineer in California, was responsible for generating AFEs including all required well designs and economics to drill and completed over 75 wells. All completions required liner installation and open hole gravel packing. Also participated in drilling a deep exploratory well from a drillship offshore California, and two exploratory wells in New Mexico.

Affiliations:

Society of Petroleum Engineers