Experience

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  Woodside Energy

  • Australia
  • Oil and Gas
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head of Reserves

    • Apr 2023 - Present

    Accountable for oversight of reserve and resource estimates for the company, spanning assets in Australia, US Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Deepwater Mexico, and offshore Senegal.

  • Practice Lead Appraisal Excellence

    • Jun 2022 - Present

    Responsible for technical effectiveness of subsurface characterization of opportunities in Appraisal and Exploration phases.

  • Practice Lead, Subsurface and Reserves

    • Sep 2022 - Apr 2023

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  BHP

  • Australia
  • Mining
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Practice Lead, Appraisal Excellence

    • Oct 2018 - Jun 2022

    Responsible for quality and consistency of technical work across Appraisal. I reach into Exploration to support dynamic characterization (recovery factor, well recovery, well rates, well counts, etc).

  • Head of Reservoir Engineering

    • Aug 2013 - Sep 2018

    Develop and maintain technical guidelines, assurance of all subsurface recommendations, technical training, and provision of Subject Matter Expertise, covering shale assets, global deepwater developments, and global production units. Engineering lead for UT Austinon-campus recruiting.

  • Senior Manager, Shale Studies

    • Nov 2012 - Aug 2013

    Lead integrated team responsible for developing methods to analyze and then optimize development plans for all shale assets through integrated technical analysis.

  • Senior Manager, Reservoir Engineering

    • Oct 2010 - Nov 2012

    Developed reserves guidelines for new business acquisition – shale assets in Eagle Ford, Permian, Haynesville, and Fayetteville. Developed summary of deployment of talent within organization that is the template used for other functions. Successful infill program in Pakistan and start-up of deepwater injection in Shenzi. Responsible for technical basis for corporate reserves assessments. Coordinated recruiting of reservoir engineers.

  • Global Development Sbsurface Engineering Manager

    • Jan 2007 - Oct 2010

    Lead subsurface teams responsible e for all subsurface engineering teams in projects throughout BHP, including LNG projects in Australia, gas development in Trinidad, and deepwater development projects in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Responsible for subsurface support of sanction and well construction for $1.5B net Macedon Development project in Australia in 2010, and $180MM net Angostura Gas Development Project in 2008. Successful start-up of multi-billion dollar Shenzi Development in 2009, which exceeded production expectations.

  • Petroleum Engineering Manager, Americas

    • Jul 2006 - Jan 2007

    Resourcing and interface between teams and functional resources. Responsible for Graduate development in Houston office.

  • Shenzi Subsurface Manager

    • Jan 2003 - Jul 2006

    Lead integrated team responsible for appraisal, development concept development, and subsurface team support for $1.9B net Shenzi project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Sited, drilled, and evaluated four deepwater appraisal wells and sidetracks. Planned and executed novel rich azimuth seismic survey. Lead subsurface team until sanction of project.

  • Advisor and Staff Reservoir Engineer

    • Jul 2000 - Jan 2003

    Worked deepwater GOM appraisal projects. Justified three appraisal wells in Neptune, and evaluated Cascade data and development concepts. Seconded onto BP team up to Atlantis sanction. Also, part of Mad Dog appraisal team.

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  ARCO Oil and Gas

  • Plano, Texas

  • Engineering Assignments

    • Sep 1992 - Jul 2000
    • Plano, Texas

    Group leader Gas EOR Processes: Responsible for team that contributed to evaluating and planning evaluated new satellite North Slope Alaska fields for miscible gas and waterflood development (200-500 MMSTB projects). Optimization and forecasting for the Kuparuk River field WAG EOR project in Alaska. Identified significant problems in an Kuparuk fullfield model and improved history match dramatically. Evaluated WAG miscible floods in Venezuela and Middle East. Developed and taught training portions of Miscible Gas school and reservoir architecture seminar in Utah. Team developed EOR Screening tool, provided subject matter expertise for three phase relative permeability and miscible gas EOR forecasting.As individual contributor: Developed surveillance technique for Kuparuk (N Slope Alaska) EOR project. Developed fullfield model for Kuparuk EOR project. Screened Mumbai High (India) field for EOR benefits. Contributor to integrated reservoir study of steamflood in the Midway Sunset field (California onshore heavy oil).Worked closely with geologist to build, history match, and analyze pattern element models. Recommended means to increase field efficiency. Evaluated redevelopment potential of the waterflood in the Bombay High field in India, this was a multi-billion dollar redevelopment. Evaluated horizontal well development options for the waterflood in the Long Beach Unit, California.

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  ARCO Alaska

  • Anchorage, Alaska Area

  • Engineer

    • Jan 1985 - Jul 1987
    • Anchorage, Alaska Area

    Onshore Prudhoe Bay reservoir and operations engineering