Education:

B.S., Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Experience:

Registered petroleum engineer with 17 years of broad experience, including a strong background in reservoir engineering in a wide variety of oil and gas fields. A demonstrated expert in designing and implementing exploitation strategies and depletion plans. Experienced in property economic evaluation; reserve estimation using material balance, decline curve analysis, and volumetrics; well testing design, implementation, and evaluation; nodal analysis, waterflood design and surveillance, CO₂ flood design, horizontal well design, workover and recompletion design and program analysis, well log analysis, special core analysis, electric submersible pump design and operations, analysis of well failures, and reducing operating costs. Geographic areas worked include the Rockies, Mid-Continent, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf coast, and the Permian Basin. Computer skills include ARIES, Perform, PanSystem, OilWat, GasWat, Eclipse, Microsoft Office, Lotus, Basic, and FORTRAN.

Was responsible for economically growing production and reserves while reducing lifting costs in a Powder River Basin field with multiple pays, multiple units, and 1,800 wells. Coordinated office staff and projects with the field engineer and operations personnel. Purchased a 40 MVA substation from the utility supplying power to the field. Ownership of the substation allowed taking power at a transmission voltage (69 kV). Developed a recompletion program involving six different under-exploited horizons.

As the lead engineer for a 1,100 well oil field in central Texas, was responsible for growing production and reserves while reducing lifting costs and cost to add reserves. Supervised two new hire production engineers and coordinated office staff and projects with the field operations. Production increased from 2,900 to 3,480 BOPD through the drilling of 25 horizontal wells with an average 85 MBO per well in reserve adds and 83 workovers with an average uplift of 7 BOPD.

As a southern Louisiana field engineer, operated 11 offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico and one onshore Texas field with gross production of 100 MMCFPD, 900 BOPD, and 3,600 BWPD. As a Gulf of Mexico reservoir engineer, was responsible for five operated and four non-operated fields plus one operated and one non-operated onshore field. Became the well test specialist for the company that led to two on-site international DSTs in addition to many domestic projects.

Affiliations:

Houston Producers Forum