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Senior Drilling Supervisor and Consultant
• On-site drilling and completion supervision of Horizontal Bakken and Three Forks Wells in Williston Basin, ND and in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming • Fresh Water, Invert Mud Systems and Completion Brines. Zero Discharge. Tribal and Private Lands. Very Experienced working on BLM Lands • Lead Supervisor on all rigs worked in North Dakota and Wyoming • Awarded Rig of the Year in 2014 for Patterson Drilling Company which utilized performance and safety data for Patterson’s North Dakota Rig Fleet • Worked closely with Tribal, NDIC, WOGCC and Federal Oil and Gas Commissions insuring all legal, permitting, engineering and well survey data followed permit descriptions • Set bar for drilling performance with industry record wells in both Dunn and McKinzie Counties, ND during 2014 • Drilled wells up to 23,000’ MD, 11,000’ extended-reach laterals and up to 40 stage completions. Worked closely, consulting with operator engineering staffs to optimize well designs directionally to insure minimal drilling or completion problems. Consulted and carried out SIMOPS during work, especially while fracking offset wells during drilling operations • Recommended and wrote procedures/standards for remedial operations, re-entries and cased-hole operations on abandoned wells by previous lease operators to office engineering staff. Carried out on-site supervision and direction of successful remedial operations on problem wells • Owner and CEO of Big Sky Equine, Plug Properties and Ozark Mountain Properties, LLC • Drilling, Workover and Completion Consultant in the Middle East • Lead On-Site Supervisor for Drilling, Workover and Completing Onshore deep HPHT Gas/Condensate directional wells in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, 20 ppg mudweights and 15000+ psi bottom hole pressure, 3000 hp drilling rigs. International crews in remote areas (currently working in the Middle East, since October 2015). Large hole sizes (up to 36”), heavy hookloads (up to 1.5M lbs casing weights). Oil and Water-based mud systems. 15K psi-rated BOP systems. • Superintendent and direct on-site supervision of the mobilization, construction and final commissioning of two new 3000 hp Drilling Rigs for KOC Deep Drilling Gas project in North Kuwait. Worked with international construction and fabrication crews. • Geothermal well drilling, fracking and completion design engineer, Operations advisor, FORGE Geothermal Project, Utah, work up engineering, well design. logistics and turnkey bids for Dominica Caribbean project. • Pad Drilling, S-curve wells, Extended-Reach Horizontal wells, HPHT, high H2S levels • Drilling and Workover Consultant in South Texas, Oil and HPHT Gas Wells. Austin Chalk, Eagleford, Vicksburg and Frio Formations • Drilling and Engineering Consultant on several infill drilling projects in the Permian Basin Southwest of Odessa, Tx • Valuations and Engineering Analysis of Oil and Gas Properties, Equipment, Frack and Foundry/Glass Sand Mine Sites in Kansas and Missouri • Valuations, Economic Analysis, Financing, Construction and Remediation Projects and Operations of Commercial Real Estate Projects in the Midwest, US • Drilled and Completed Horizontal, Directional and S-curve Oil and HPHT Gas Wells in South Texas • Drilled, Completed and Worked-Over Oil and Gas Wells Offshore Gulf of Mexico. Platform Rigs, Jackups and Semisub Rigs in water depths up to 3500’ • Oil and Gas Well Workover Operations in South Texas and Offshore. • Remedial operations in Oil and Gas Wells included squeeze jobs for leaking casing, squeezing off water-productive perforations, fishing parted sucker rod strings, tubing leaks, hydrostatic testing of tubing, replacing faulty rod pumps, changing out re-designed rod strings (wrote groundbreaking computer spreadsheet program to design rod strings for the quickly developing horizontal well technology for Sunoco back in 1989), replacing strings with rod guides and paraffin scrapers, pulling packers, tubing anchors and replacing completion strings, remedial acidizing wells. Roughly 1/3 of time with Oryx was spent working over wells • Plug and Abandonments of wells in East Texas Basin and South Louisiana • Frac Jobs Supervision South Texas • Re-entry Drilling horizontal wells out of older existing wellbores, Set whipstocks, utilized casing mills and slimhole BHA’s with production tubing and production rigs to drill horizontals up to 1200’ length • Gravel packing wells offshore • Underbalanced perforating, tieback frack strings • Cased-hole logging, Cement Bond Logging, Gamma Ray tie-in for perforating and setting bridge plugs and T/A packers, Caliper Logging • Slickline Swabbing Operations, sand bailing, fishing operations and wellbore cleanup • Safety Supervisor for all operations, worked extensively with Texas RRC and Offshore MMS Regulatory Agencies



Experience
Company: Big Sky Equine, LLC, MPD Inc, Oryx Energy Duration: Jan 01, 1989 to Present . 35 years 4 months Description:
• On-site drilling and completion supervision of Horizontal Bakken and Three Forks Wells in Williston Basin, ND and in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming • Fresh Water, Invert Mud Systems and Completion Brines. Zero Discharge. Tribal and Private Lands. Very Experienced working on BLM Lands • Lead Supervisor on all rigs worked in North Dakota and Wyoming • Awarded Rig of the Year in 2014 for Patterson Drilling Company which utilized performance and safety data for Patterson’s North Dakota Rig Fleet • Worked closely with Tribal, NDIC, WOGCC and Federal Oil and Gas Commissions insuring all legal, permitting, engineering and well survey data followed permit descriptions • Set bar for drilling performance with industry record wells in both Dunn and McKinzie Counties, ND during 2014 • Drilled wells up to 23,000’ MD, 11,000’ extended-reach laterals and up to 40 stage completions. Worked closely, consulting with operator engineering staffs to optimize well designs directionally to insure minimal drilling or completion problems. Consulted and carried out SIMOPS during work, especially while fracking offset wells during drilling operations • Recommended and wrote procedures/standards for remedial operations, re-entries and cased-hole operations on abandoned wells by previous lease operators to office engineering staff. Carried out on-site supervision and direction of successful remedial operations on problem wells • Owner and CEO of Big Sky Equine, Plug Properties and Ozark Mountain Properties, LLC • Drilling, Workover and Completion Consultant in the Middle East • Lead On-Site Supervisor for Drilling, Workover and Completing Onshore deep HPHT Gas/Condensate directional wells in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, 20 ppg mudweights and 15000+ psi bottom hole pressure, 3000 hp drilling rigs. International crews in remote areas (currently working in the Middle East, since October 2015). Large hole sizes (up to 36”), heavy hookloads (up to 1.5M lbs casing weights). Oil and Water-based mud systems. 15K psi-rated BOP systems. • Superintendent and direct on-site supervision of the mobilization, construction and final commissioning of two new 3000 hp Drilling Rigs for KOC Deep Drilling Gas project in North Kuwait. Worked with international construction and fabrication crews. • Geothermal well drilling, fracking and completion design engineer, Operations advisor, FORGE Geothermal Project, Utah, work up engineering, well design. logistics and turnkey bids for Dominica Caribbean project. • Pad Drilling, S-curve wells, Extended-Reach Horizontal wells, HPHT, high H2S levels • Drilling and Workover Consultant in South Texas, Oil and HPHT Gas Wells. Austin Chalk, Eagleford, Vicksburg and Frio Formations • Drilling and Engineering Consultant on several infill drilling projects in the Permian Basin Southwest of Odessa, Tx • Valuations and Engineering Analysis of Oil and Gas Properties, Equipment, Frack and Foundry/Glass Sand Mine Sites in Kansas and Missouri • Valuations, Economic Analysis, Financing, Construction and Remediation Projects and Operations of Commercial Real Estate Projects in the Midwest, US • Drilled and Completed Horizontal, Directional and S-curve Oil and HPHT Gas Wells in South Texas • Drilled, Completed and Worked-Over Oil and Gas Wells Offshore Gulf of Mexico. Platform Rigs, Jackups and Semisub Rigs in water depths up to 3500’ • Oil and Gas Well Workover Operations in South Texas and Offshore. • Remedial operations in Oil and Gas Wells included squeeze jobs for leaking casing, squeezing off water-productive perforations, fishing parted sucker rod strings, tubing leaks, hydrostatic testing of tubing, replacing faulty rod pumps, changing out re-designed rod strings (wrote groundbreaking computer spreadsheet program to design rod strings for the quickly developing horizontal well technology for Sunoco back in 1989), replacing strings with rod guides and paraffin scrapers, pulling packers, tubing anchors and replacing completion strings, remedial acidizing wells. Roughly 1/3 of time with Oryx was spent working over wells • Plug and Abandonments of wells in East Texas Basin and South Louisiana • Frac Jobs Supervision South Texas • Re-entry Drilling horizontal wells out of older existing wellbores, Set whipstocks, utilized casing mills and slimhole BHA’s with production tubing and production rigs to drill horizontals up to 1200’ length • Gravel packing wells offshore • Underbalanced perforating, tieback frack strings • Cased-hole logging, Cement Bond Logging, Gamma Ray tie-in for perforating and setting bridge plugs and T/A packers, Caliper Logging • Slickline Swabbing Operations, sand bailing, fishing operations and wellbore cleanup • Safety Supervisor for all operations, worked extensively with Texas RRC and Offshore MMS Regulatory Agencies
Position: Senior Drilling Supervisor and Consultant Description:
• On-site drilling and completion supervision of Horizontal Bakken and Three Forks Wells in Williston Basin, ND and in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming • Fresh Water, Invert Mud Systems and Completion Brines. Zero Discharge. Tribal and Private Lands. Very Experienced working on BLM Lands • Lead Supervisor on all rigs worked in North Dakota and Wyoming • Awarded Rig of the Year in 2014 for Patterson Drilling Company which utilized performance and safety data for Patterson’s North Dakota Rig Fleet • Worked closely with Tribal, NDIC, WOGCC and Federal Oil and Gas Commissions insuring all legal, permitting, engineering and well survey data followed permit descriptions • Set bar for drilling performance with industry record wells in both Dunn and McKinzie Counties, ND during 2014 • Drilled wells up to 23,000’ MD, 11,000’ extended-reach laterals and up to 40 stage completions. Worked closely, consulting with operator engineering staffs to optimize well designs directionally to insure minimal drilling or completion problems. Consulted and carried out SIMOPS during work, especially while fracking offset wells during drilling operations • Recommended and wrote procedures/standards for remedial operations, re-entries and cased-hole operations on abandoned wells by previous lease operators to office engineering staff. Carried out on-site supervision and direction of successful remedial operations on problem wells • Owner and CEO of Big Sky Equine, Plug Properties and Ozark Mountain Properties, LLC • Drilling, Workover and Completion Consultant in the Middle East • Lead On-Site Supervisor for Drilling, Workover and Completing Onshore deep HPHT Gas/Condensate directional wells in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, 20 ppg mudweights and 15000+ psi bottom hole pressure, 3000 hp drilling rigs. International crews in remote areas (currently working in the Middle East, since October 2015). Large hole sizes (up to 36”), heavy hookloads (up to 1.5M lbs casing weights). Oil and Water-based mud systems. 15K psi-rated BOP systems. • Superintendent and direct on-site supervision of the mobilization, construction and final commissioning of two new 3000 hp Drilling Rigs for KOC Deep Drilling Gas project in North Kuwait. Worked with international construction and fabrication crews. • Geothermal well drilling, fracking and completion design engineer, Operations advisor, FORGE Geothermal Project, Utah, work up engineering, well design. logistics and turnkey bids for Dominica Caribbean project. • Pad Drilling, S-curve wells, Extended-Reach Horizontal wells, HPHT, high H2S levels • Drilling and Workover Consultant in South Texas, Oil and HPHT Gas Wells. Austin Chalk, Eagleford, Vicksburg and Frio Formations • Drilling and Engineering Consultant on several infill drilling projects in the Permian Basin Southwest of Odessa, Tx • Valuations and Engineering Analysis of Oil and Gas Properties, Equipment, Frack and Foundry/Glass Sand Mine Sites in Kansas and Missouri • Valuations, Economic Analysis, Financing, Construction and Remediation Projects and Operations of Commercial Real Estate Projects in the Midwest, US • Drilled and Completed Horizontal, Directional and S-curve Oil and HPHT Gas Wells in South Texas • Drilled, Completed and Worked-Over Oil and Gas Wells Offshore Gulf of Mexico. Platform Rigs, Jackups and Semisub Rigs in water depths up to 3500’ • Oil and Gas Well Workover Operations in South Texas and Offshore. • Remedial operations in Oil and Gas Wells included squeeze jobs for leaking casing, squeezing off water-productive perforations, fishing parted sucker rod strings, tubing leaks, hydrostatic testing of tubing, replacing faulty rod pumps, changing out re-designed rod strings (wrote groundbreaking computer spreadsheet program to design rod strings for the quickly developing horizontal well technology for Sunoco back in 1989), replacing strings with rod guides and paraffin scrapers, pulling packers, tubing anchors and replacing completion strings, remedial acidizing wells. Roughly 1/3 of time with Oryx was spent working over wells • Plug and Abandonments of wells in East Texas Basin and South Louisiana • Frac Jobs Supervision South Texas • Re-entry Drilling horizontal wells out of older existing wellbores, Set whipstocks, utilized casing mills and slimhole BHA’s with production tubing and production rigs to drill horizontals up to 1200’ length • Gravel packing wells offshore • Underbalanced perforating, tieback frack strings • Cased-hole logging, Cement Bond Logging, Gamma Ray tie-in for perforating and setting bridge plugs and T/A packers, Caliper Logging • Slickline Swabbing Operations, sand bailing, fishing operations and wellbore cleanup • Safety Supervisor for all operations, worked extensively with Texas RRC and Offshore MMS Regulatory Agencies
Education
University: University of Texas Degree: MS Graduation Year: 1988 Area: Petroleum Engineering Start - End Year: 1985 - 1988 Notes:
Masters Degree Petroleum Engineering
University: University of Missouri-Rolla Degree: BS Graduation Year: 1985 Area: Geological Engineering Start - End Year: 1981 - 1985 Notes:
Bachelors Degree Geological Engineering with Petroleum Emphasis
Skills

Remote Operations; 

Wireline Operations; 

Drilling Services; 

Measurement While Drilling; 

Operation geology; 

Well testing; 

Crisis Management; 

Regulatory Compliance; 

Coiled Tubing Operation; 

English; 

Petroleum Engineer; 

Geothermal Drilling; 

HPHT Drilling; 

Horizontal Drilling; 

Arabic; 

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