Richard Hopper - Petroleum Engineer at Merit Energy
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My favorite college memories are friendships with others in the petroleum engineering college, great professors, and late nights studying cramming for tests. I spent three years with BP as an Interventions Engineer and then Integrity Engineer. For one of those years, I was living in Durango, CO and the other two in Houston. I accepted a position as an Operations Engineer with Merit Energy in Dallas. I currently manage 500 wells in Oklahoma. I am developing projects to increase production, managing operating expenses, capital costs, forecasting production, reserve reporting. The SPE-GCS scholarship allowed me to focus on school work and networking with other students instead of having to work through school. My advice to students is to stick with the program. Although the oil field goes up and down, the industry is a great industry and the people we work with are great people.