Experience

Sabine Oil & Gas

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Staff Production Engineer

  • Aug 2016 - Present

• Senior Production Engineer

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2016

  Managed flowback operations for new Eagleford, Granite Wash, Haynesville, and Cotton Valley wells in the company. Facilities work including new well facility design and pipeline infrastructure in the Eagleford and East Texas wells. Responsible for compressor installs, optimization, and consolidation projects. Responsible for planning capital and expense workovers including new well tube ups, artificial lift installation and optimization (Gas Lift, ESP, Rod Pump, Plunger Lift, Jet Pump), recompletions, SWD well maintenance, wireline ops, and cleanout and fishing operations. Currently responsible for ~1500 wells in East Texas, all workovers, P&A’s, new well tube ups, and SWD conversions.



Wapiti Energy, LLC

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Engineer

  • Dec 2007 - Feb 2013

  Engineered and supervised Gas Lift, Rod Pump, and ESP installations and maintenance as well as recompletions, sand control, P&A's, regulatory activities, and acidizing. Implemented real time monitoring and alarms of all ESP systems. Onsite for perforating and logging of new recompletions. Managed all production and operations for South Texas, Wyoming, and Austin Chalk Properties. Completions Engineer for Wapiti’s deep high pressure Wilcox exploratory program in Newton County, TX. Engineered and supervised Gas Lift, Rod Pump, and ESP installations and maintenance as well as recompletions, sand control, P&A's, regulatory activities, and acidizing. Implemented real time monitoring and alarms of all ESP systems. Onsite for perforating and logging of new recompletions. Managed all production and operations for South Texas, Wyoming, and Austin Chalk Properties. Completions Engineer for Wapiti’s deep high pressure Wilcox exploratory program in Newton County, TX.



Shell

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Engineer

  • May 2005 - Dec 2007

  Production Engineer specializing in field surveillance, technical planning, economic analysis, and completions activities in South Texas deep tight gas wells. Implement gas well deliquification techniques including velocity strings, capillary foamer strings, well site compression, and plunger systems. Trained in and implemented the latest hydraulic fracturing, perforating, and coiled tubing techniques. Completed wells in the Vicksburg Formation to depths exceeding 14,000’, with pressures in excess of 12,000 psi. Experienced in monobore “tubingless” completion techniques to improve the economic viability of the completions. Served as technical advisor to a $350 million acquisition of the TOTAL E&P’s South Texas Assets. Worldwide technical and economic training and experience that included oil and gas fields in Malaysia, The Netherlands, Canada, and Germany.



BNSF Railway

• United States
• Freight and Package Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mechanical Engineering Intern

  • May 2004 - Aug 2004

  Specializing in new railroad track planning and existing maintenance in the Pacific NW division. Member of the derailment detachment accessing and taking steps to repair damage. Experience in mass urban transit in the Seattle-Tacoma area and rural freight logistics. Experience in field engineering of fatigue, fracture mechanics, and overall wear geometry, performed safety practice inspections with employees, and negotiated with outside contractors and union representation in both Canada and the USA.