Education:

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering; University of Houston

Experience:

Reservoir engineer with 30 years of experience with a major oil company including assignments in research, field engineering, and partnership operations. Extensive Nigerian experience. Highly experienced in technical evaluations, reserves reporting, budgeting, safety audits, and management presentations. Expert in writing code to develop and enhance reservoir engineering programs. Highly experienced in reservoir simulation studies on North Sea, west Africa, Russia, and domestic reservoirs for secondary recovery and unitization studies.

Represented company interest in Nigerian operations. Monitored budget expenditures. Representative at Tech. Committee meeting. Conducted safety and environmental audits. Performed a root cause analysis of a blowout and fire to improve safety procedures. Participated in team problem solving to eliminate foaming in CO2 Removal Unit in Nigerian Gas Plant. Performed inspection reporting and follow-up audits. Automated data entry of daily production data from 27 reservoirs by writing basic macro.

Member of multidisclipinary team responsible for the evaluation of Russian oil property. Completed data gathering, simulation model building and evaluation. Improved computer skills in manipulation of huge files associated with large simulation model.

Conducted reservoir studies using simulation models and wrote code to enhance existing programs and created new programs. Used both Fortran and Unix. Responsible for Single Cell, Compositional Material Balance program and Gas Production Forecasting program. Taught courses for field engineers. Became acquainted with theories such as fractal geostatistics and coherence theory in order to incorporate latest features in simulation models.

Affiliations:

Oklahoma Society of Professional Engineers