Petroleum Engineering and Operations Advisor

Experience

2019 – Present Digger Energy, LLC. Houston, TX
Owner/Petroleum Engineering and Operations Advisor
 Deliver full well lifecycle consulting and operational due diligence for customer assets to include planning, drilling, completions, production optimization, monitoring and surveillance, and management, land, regulatory, and EHS management, financial management, board communication, and investor relations
 Lead team to plan, remediate and redevelop oil fields located in austere environments
 Implemented production data management software and installation of IoT for field modernization
 Facilitated an aggressive rollup strategy for a client for assets in Utah and Texas
2016 – 2019 Iskandia Energy Operations, Inc. Houston, TX
Director of Operations 2016 – 2019
 Directed operations and personnel for conventional East and West Texas assets consisting of 400 wells
 Oversaw improvement projects involving disruptive technology trials
 Production lead that developed the vision, found solutions, and implemented field upgrades for remote monitoring, automation and data management
 Managed efforts for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects including waterflood pilot program with plans for full field expansion with a projected incremental volume of 3,000 BOPD
2013 – 2016 QRI International, LLC Chengdu, China / Houston, TX
Senior Analyst, Completions / Production Engineer (Chengdu, China) 2015 – 2016
 Subject Matter Expert on production and completion operations in Iraq for Chinese client; managed reservoir surveillance and water flood management, led the implementation of advanced completion designs, including inflow control devices, and implemented acidizing and production logging best practices
 Managed the Implementation of new technologies and methods, to include water shut-off techniques, cyclic production/injection, and pattern injection modifications
 Managed, taught, and mentored employees of Chinese National Oil Company in operational best practices and led the creation of field development and well intervention planning documents
 Oversaw the development of reservoir management best practices as Operations Deputy Lead over a multicultural, cross-functional, production operations team that resulted in the ability to maintain a 140K BOPD reservoir; identified and resolved issues that improved production, decreased GOR, and stabilized the water cut at 25%
Deputy Project Manager / Completions / Production Engineer/ Senior Analyst (Houston, TX) 2013 –2015
 Managed technical analysis on drilling, completion, production, and marketing for client assets in East Texas and Louisiana
 Provided operational expertise and new business evaluations for projects worldwide including the United States, Mexico, Kuwait, Iraq and China.
 Led the establishment of a foreign oil and gas operator new to the US oil industry, supplying commercial and operational expertise, capital efficiency, HSE and regulatory compliance, and operational process design and execution, so that the first well was drilling within six months
2011 – 2013 Marathon Oil Houston, TX
Advanced Completions Engineer / Lead Special Projects Engineer
 Managed completion for conventional and unconventional Oklahoma assets and Eagle Ford Shale
 Supervised field consultants onsite during fracture stimulation on vertical and extended reach laterals; designed and supervised simultaneous hydraulic fracture stimulations consisting of various treatment fluids; managed production logging operations
 Implemented new technologies including CobraMax DM, Halliburton’s Pinpoint multistage fracturing technique.
2010 – 2011 Encana Oil and Gas (USA) Inc. Denver, CO
Production Engineer
 Production lead over 300 wells for South Rockies Business Unit, which involved field supervision, artificial lift design and implementation, workovers, and production optimization and monitoring; utilized WellCore, Cygnet and ARIES systems
 Contributed as Chemical Program Lead for the North Piceance Production group
2005 – 2010 Southwestern Energy Company Houston, TX / Conway, AR
Lead Production Engineer (Houston, TX / Conway, AR) 2007 – 2010
 Managed production operations for 300+ horizontal shale gas wells; handled LOE budgeting, artificial lift design and implementation, workovers, and refracture design and implementation; served as Chemical Program Lead for the Fayetteville Shale Production group
 Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team in the initial development of the Fayetteville Shale gas field, which reached one BCFD within four years
 Led refracture execution team and implementation of new production logging program, allowing reservoir engineers to perform optimization and reestablishing initial production rates on a two-year-old well
Completions Engineer (Conway, AR) 2005 – 2007
 Provided field supervision and organized the logistics on 400-500 wells during the implementation and execution of multi-stage fracture stimulation on vertical and extended reach laterals
 Served as SME and guest speaker on completions and production engineering and fracture stimulation execution for the petroleum technologies department at University of Arkansas Community College