Summary



Senior Petroleum Engineer, with a career focus in US onshore production and operations, with major and independent E and P operators. Proven people management skills acquired as a result of extensive field and office-based assignments. Strong engineering technical experience and industry training. Areas of particular experience are in production monitoring and enhancement in tight gas reservoirs with associated liquid loading issues. Well versed in new well completions, remedial workovers and behind pipe pay identification.

2008 to present Potoco, LLC Denver, CO
VP of Engineering responsible for completion and production engineering operations
45000 net acres in Scott/Logan Co., AR
Drilled 7 Hartford 4500 - 9500 wells, completed 5, 1 WOC, 1 TA
Investment group has decided to enlist Meagher and Associates to divest all company assets


Employment

2006 -  2008

Senior Production/Operations Engineer responsible for all production engineering and remedial operations across 40 wells in Oklahoma, 60 wells in Arkansas and 20 wells across onshore Louisiana and Texas gulf coast. Also worked Uinta Basin under Quantum s acquired equity position in Ute Energy.
Managed budget and lease operating expense issues.
Prepared procedures and AFE s for drilling, completion and remedial operations.
Experienced in state-of-the-art technologies, coiled tubing, snubbing, fracturing systems and methods, micro-emulsion chemistry.
Experienced in multiple artificial lift systems, beam pumps, PC pumps, ESP s, gas lift, plunger lift and Calliope Gas Recovery System.

2003 -  2006

Petroleum Engineering Advisor responsible for all new well completions and production engineering operations across Wind River Basin Cave Gulch and East Madden and Uinta Basin West Tavaputs, North Hill Creek and Cedar Rim.
Cave Gulch 6000 - 9500 Lance and 18000 Muddy/Fontier.
As Cave Gulch tested 10 - 20 acre pilot areas, utilized Schlumberger s Cased Hole Dynamics Tester to indentify pressure depletion across Lance intervals to maximize frac value and reduce frac costs. Process saved $300000 to $500000 in unnecessary frac costs per well.
Managed $75MM drilling and completion budget for 2006 in Uinta Basin.
Uinta Basin 4500 - 15500 Mesaverde/Wasatch stacked pay rigless completions.
Evaluated open hole logs and selected all pay potential while determining optimal frac stage designs 8 - 15 frac stages per well.
Enhanced production using various rotary wash tools on coiled tubing to clean perforations.
Improved West Tavaputs EUR s by 20 - 30% across field on new completions using micro-emulsion additives in all frac fluids.
Optimized production through application of plunger lift and capillary injection strings.
Reduced water handling LOE in West Tavaputs from $7.00/B to $2.00/B using a combination of SWD s, evaporation ponds and mobil truck-mounted evaporation tanks saving approximately $30000 per month.
BBC-operated Uinta Basin properties were producing 1200 Mcfd from 13 wells when projects started in 2003. BBC s current Uinta Basin production is 130 MMcfd from 100+ wells.

Completed Gopher 2005 Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing Course.

1996 -  2003

Production/Operations Engineer working San_Juan Basin, East Blanco Field 80 wells.
1400 - 4500 San_Jose or Nacimiento or Ojo Alamo sour or Pictured Cliffs
Provided well site drilling supervision on 12 wells during 2001 and 2002.

LOE costs were excessive due to double taxation and possessory interest tax levied by Jicarilla Apache Tribe yielding a 48% NRI. Recommended that we move the amine plant and all compression off the Reservation on to fee lands. This was done and saved around $200000 per year.
recommended we build 18 miles of pipeline to Williams bypassing current El Paso on Reservation connection. El Paso gas price paid 80% of El Paso Non-Bonded. This was done increasing gas price realized by 20%.
Instituted rigless completions and more efficient frac staging which improved overall well IP s by 10 - 20%.

Completed H2S certification course.
Operations Engineer working Delaware Basin, various fields.
10000 - 14000 Strawn and Morrow.
Identified 8 Strawn workover candidates. Focused on high cum oil wells making 2 - 5 Bopd and minimal gas. Post workover rates ranged from 30 - 150 Bopd with gas rates as high as 1.7 MMcfd.
Identified 3 Morrow recompletion candidates adding 3 MMcfd
Above workovers boosted Mallon s near term cash flow by 40 - 50%.

1988 -  1996

Self employed. Bought, sold and traded WI, RI, ORRI and minerals in Anadarko and Arkoma Basins in Oklahoma.

1985 -  1987

Production Engineer responsible for monitoring and maintenance of 25 wells in DJ Basin.

1984 -  1985

Drilling/Production/Completion Engineer responsible for 70 wells across DJ Basin.

1981 -  1984

Drilling/Production/Operations Engineer responsible for 75 wells across Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, California, Louisiana and Texas.

1979 -  1981

Production Engineer in Peoria field, DJ Basin. Large waterflood. Optimized injection/withdrawal ratios and modified injectivity profiles with selective water shutoff squeezes.
Production Engineer for Wattenburg 8000 tight J sand and Spindle 4500 Sussex/Shannon fields.

1975 -  1978

Education

Skills

Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Project WinGopher PowerTools Fekete Gas Piper Cygnet SCADA WellCore Peloton WellView



Miscellaneous

Worked 2 summers and 1 winter break during college as roustabout in West Delta Block 27, offshore Louisiana.