Gordon Plouffe, P.Eng
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Iron Bear Engineering Inc
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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President
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Sep 2021 - Present
D&C Engineering and Project Management D&C Engineering and Project Management
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Senior Engineer & Managing Partner
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Aug 2010 - Sep 2021
• Responsible for company D&C operations and project management. • Current Project Management includes Deep Basin, Spirit River Montney, Cardium, Viking, & Slave Point wells among many others.• Extensive Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) operational experience.• HPHT Deep Basin drilling expertise .• Variable pressure system and depletion drilling problem mitigation. • Data analytics and interpretation - Expert in capturing data inorder to find opportunities to improve operational efficiency and lowering cost & risk.
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Jupiter Resources Inc
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Drilling Manager
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Oct 2014 - Jan 2021
Safely executed +$100MM annual drilling budget in extremely challenging Deep Basin fields. Safely executed +$100MM annual drilling budget in extremely challenging Deep Basin fields.
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Encana Corporation
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Drilling Engineer
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Nov 2003 - Aug 2010
EnCana (Dallas) Lead Drilling Engineer • Coordinate drilling activities to safely achieve budget objectives • Supervise daily drilling operations in a Superintendent role• Source, apply and evaluate emerging drilling technologies• Benchmark and compare key costs and performance metrics• Review service and materials contracts to maximize value• Design and implement engineered well plan to include:Montney Gas, NE BC• 5000mMD Hz Mono-bore & Stack Packer Wells • Plugback to Horizontal Strat WellsDeep Bossier Gas, East Texas• HPHT Gas Wells, 6200m, 2280kg/m3 MW, +200oC Five casing strings• 60MMscf/d production wellsBarnett Shale Gas, North Texas+5000mMD Hz Mono-bore Hayesville Shale Gas, North Louisiana +6000mMD HPHT Hz wells, 1800kg/m3, +180oC2003 -2005EnCana-Ecuador Exploitation Engineer - Exploration/Joint Ventures • Reservoir engineering on stacked clastic oil pay wells• Designed multi-zone commingled ESP production assemblies• Monitored daily drilling, completions and construction activities• Prepared risked economic justification on exploration and development• Maintained an operational equilibrium between internal policy, an unpredictable government regulatory body and indigenous communities• Managed a 40% JV interest in a 100,000 BOPD oil field • Assembled and justified annual capital budgets in excess of $250MM• Effectively presented several project approval requests to the Executive Team • Prepared reserves inventory according to the S.E.C. standard
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Husky Energy
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Reservoir Engineer
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May 2001 - Nov 2003
• Property leader of hydrocarbon miscible flood and waterflood projects• Performed reservoir simulation of carbonate pinnacle-reef reservoir • Interpreted pressure transient analysis – Integrated results into remediation programs• Initiated, designed and economically justified EOR schemes in light oil reservoirs• Determined oil, gas and by-product reserves through decline and volumetric analysis• Multi-zone completion, workover and abandonment program design • Production engineering of heavy oil and shallow gas fields
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SLB
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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700 & Above Employee
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Completions Specialist
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Jul 1997 - Nov 1999
Schlumberger Training and Experience Accomplishments• Completion Specialist Training (Aug & Sept 1997) - Schlumberger Training Center, Shreveport, Louisiana• High Pressure Gas Work Term - Alice, Texas (April 1998)• Tubing Conveyed Perforation Specialist Training (May 1998) -France Training Center, Pau, France• Offshore Work Term - South East Asia Division, Gulf of Thailand (Aug & Sept 1998)Field Responsibilities• Supervised the safe operations of equipment and crew • Conducted a wide range of cased hole logs• Trained new engineering and operations staff• Processed log data• Designed completion methods and configurations • Perforated oil & gas wells via wireline and TCP• Performed workover and abandonment services
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Education
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University of Calgary
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Oil & Gas Engineering -
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Petroleum Engineering Technologist