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BS – Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Penn State University, 1981
English, Intermediate Spanish, Basic French
PROFILE: Diverse, international, multidisciplinary technical and management background with primary focus on field development/exploitation, rig and subsurface operations, production surveillance and optimization, and cash flow management. Track record of continuous improvement in field exploitation through reserve adds, volume and cash flow increases, creative commercial terms, prudent technology applications, managing high performance teams, and cost structure reductions. Strong organizational, teambuilding, leadership, communication, negotiation, and cost control skills. Proven management experience with both office professionals and field personnel up to 105 employees.
o USA experience: California, Alaska, Rockies, & Gulf of Mexico/South Texas.
o International experience: S. America, SE Asia, Australia, Caspian Sea, North Sea, & W. Africa.
o Reserves, asset management, A&D, P&L stewardship, and corporate planning experience.
o Highly economic to marginal fields, new to mature fields, offshore, subsea, inland waters, & onshore.
o Balance of technology, design/planning, & operations experience including wellsite supervision.
o Primary production, artificial lift, waterflood, gas injection, and EOR experience.
o Strong economic background including project funding, full-field, acquisitions, and individual projects.
o Full-cycle experience: exploration, conceptual/FEED, exploitation/development through P&A.
EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW:
Vice-President, Operations/Engineering, CA/Rockies,Bakersfield, CA
Bonanza Creek. Mar/03 – present
Vice-President, Exploitation & Co-BU Leader, California, Los Angeles
Sr. Manager, Exploitation & Planning, Onshore California, Los Angeles
Plains E&P Co. Feb/00 – Feb/03
Manager, Rig/Production Operations, Amazon, Quito, Ecuador
Manager, Subsea Well Engineering & Design, Offshore Australia, Perth
Manager, Marketing & Bus. Development, Gulf of Mexico, Houston
Schlumberger. Dec/96 - Sept/99
Manager, Workover Operations, Gulf of Mexico, Lafayette, LA
Manager, Drilling & Workovers, California, Bakersfield, CA
Manager, Asset Development, Onshore China, Brea, CA
Advising Drilling Engineer, Onshore California, Bakersfield, CA
Senior Engineer, Worldwide Drilling/Workover Technology, Brea, CA
Unocal Corporation. April/91 – Nov/96
Senior Engineer, Production & Reservoir, Houston & Anchorage, AK
Senior Engineer, Reservoir Development, Alaska, Thousand Oaks, CA
Engineer, Drilling & Offshore Special Projects, California, Ventura, CA
Exxon/BPX. July/81 – Mar/91
Publications:
1) "Continuous Improvement in Drilling Operations" SPE/IADC #27458, 1995
2) "Extended Reach/Horizontal Drilling Technology" SPE/IADC #27463, 1995
3) "Utilizing Coiled Tubing in Mobile Bay" ICOTA #38243, 1997
4) "Horizontal Drilling & Completion Technology" Unocal Corp. Manual, 1992
5) "Coiled Tubing Technology" Unocal Corp. Manual, 1993
DETAILED EXPERIENCE:
VP – Operations & Engineering, Bonanza Creek Oil Company, Bakersfield, CA: 3/03 - present.
Member of Executive Management Team, Equity Owner, and VP – Operations & Engineering for an established, growing, and aggressive independent (NAV $53MM). "Hands-on" management and engineering required in support of 75 tight gas sand wells in Colorado and Wyoming, and 21 oil wells in the LA Basin. Responsible for all operations, exploitation, supervision of field personnel, and design/planning for all drilling, workover, fracture stimulations, pipeline replacements, compression studies/installations, and facility modification/upgrades. Stewarded production optimization and surveillance, capital expenditures and LOE. Performance management established record production levels and cost structure reductions resulting in maximized capital efficiency. Built Company O&E infrastructure from ground zero including engineering processes, databases, HSE manual, State reporting methodology/templates, field procedures, production monitoring, production surveillance, staffing, etc. Significant Investment Banker and Banking interface requirements.
VP – Exploitation/Co-Bus. Unit Leader, Plains E&P, Los Angeles, CA:
10/01 – 3/03.
VP and Co-Business Unit Leader responsible for the leadership, efficient management, and growth of the largest and greatest cash-flow business unit including 105 total employees and 22,000+ boepd. As Vice-President of Exploitation, primarily responsible for business unit value-creation via sound capital investments and cash flow management to yield year-over-year organic growth, and prudent exploitation activity via stewardship of $46-95 million annual capital budget, direction of six Asset Managers & Teams (32 technical professionals) responsible for 8 diverse assets. Coordination of annual Plan, reserves, strategic planning, drilling, workover, and production rig operations, and all subsurface-related engineering, G&G, and operations. Significant value added to O&E processes, planning, prudent risk taking, commercial issues, business awareness and accountability, and technical expectation standards. Increased production by over 20% on boepd basis and stewarded record increases in reserve additions. Numerous exploitation firsts introduced under my leadership including urban 3D seismic, detailed petrophysical analysis, and state of the art cased-hole logging techniques.
Sr. Manager, Exploitation & Planning, Plains E&P Co., Los Angeles, California: 2/00 – 10/01.
Charged with management of asset exploitation, supervision of 6 Asset Leaders and 32 technical professionals responsible for 8 diverse assets, coordination of annual Company Plan, and strategic planning. Managed all subsurface operations, engineering, G&G, and commercial issues [reservoir, production, G&G, and drilling] and exploitation planning activities regarding optimization of mature, onshore, crude oil field developments. Coordinated technical professional recruiting efforts. Scope: 22,000 boepd, 100-165 new drill wells per annum, and numerous remedial work and facility/volume expansion activities. Field developments include primary, waterflood, thermal (steamflood and fireflood), and gas injection projects with a heavy artificial lift component. Significant engineering, operational, and organizational improvements and value-added: production increased from 14,800 to 16,500 boepd and reserves increased from 219 to 232 mmboe. Greatly improved development of action plans, streamlined annual planning process, introduced injection tracers, reservoir simulation, and high angle well drilling into the exploitation plan, and made vast improvements to commercial terms including value-adding performance-incentive contracts.
Manager, Operations & Engineering, Schlumberger IPM, Quito, Ecuador:
1/99 – 9/99.
Managed outsourced YPF-Ecuador and Oxy-Ecuador drilling/completion, engineering, and production operations in the Amazon jungle, and business development/growth in Latin America. Managed a staff of 13 including project managers, engineers, and wellsite supervisors, and all alliance, commercial, business/financial, and operational issues. Significant business conducted in Spanish. Responsible for ongoing business development involving strategic relationship building and local Industry awareness.
Manager, Well Engineering/Design, Wapet/Schumberger IPM, Perth, Australia: 11/97 – 1/99.
Subsea Well Engineering/Design Manager for the $11MM WAPET (Chevron, Texaco, Mobil, & Shell consortium) Gorgon Field LNG Project subsea development FEED process. Managed an integrated (Operator and Service Company personnel) subsea well design team of seven multidisciplinary engineers and support personnel charged with all drilling, completion, well intervention, subsea design integration, petroleum engineering design, and target cost preparation for 28 extended reach, subsea development wells. Heavy design focus on optimization of subsea completions, completion efficiency, and interventions, and prudently integrating all reservoir development and project objectives. Involved extensive commercial negotiations, business model assessments, and full P&L/financial accountability.
Manager, Marketing/Bus. Development, Schlumberger, GOM, Houston, Texas:
12/96 – 11/97.
Marketing & Bus. Dev. Manager responsible for the direction/strategy of 12 Technical Sales Engineers spanning 3 Gulf Coast cities, marketing product lines, commercial issues, critical sales-field operations interface, and high-level client business development duties and relationship building. Development of worldwide product marketing brochures. Product Lines: deepwater well testing, tubing-conveyed perforating, intelligent completions, slickline gauges and equipment, and fluid testing.
Manager, Workover Engineering/Operations, Unocal, GOM, Lafayette, Louisiana: 12/95 – 12/96.
Built a new operations group from ground zero, and managed $35 million budget, staff of 12 (engineering, well site, and clerical personnel), HSE and regulatory compliance, and all third party commercial issues. Managed all remedial well work operations for 12-15 Gulf of Mexico Asset Teams including scheduling, prioritization, design, implementation, and field supervision. Activity spanned all offshore, inland waters, and onshore locations and in a wide variety of downhole environments/completions, often in deep, HPHT, hostile-environment wellbores. Required close interaction with asset managers on a daily basis.
Manager, Drilling, Unocal, California, Bakersfield, California:
1/95 – 7/95.
Managed all drilling, completion, and workover programs including 8000' tvd, high angle gas wells, 11,000' tvd, horizontal oil wells, 13,000' tvd exploration wells, and shallow infill drilling campaigns (45-60 wells/year). Drilling operations involved state-of-the-art drilling and completion technology including oil-based muds, PDC bits, steerable motors, etc., and required strict cost control and cost reductions due to marginal economics. Managed a staff of 12 (engineers, well site supervisors, and support personnel), capex of $12 million, commercial issues, and HSE and regulatory compliance. Heavy interaction with asset teams.
Advising Drilling Engineer, Unocal, California, Bakersfield, California:
1/94 – 1/95, 7/95 – 12/95.
Engineering and project management of drilling, completion, and workover programs including 8000' tvd, high angle gas wells, 11,000' tvd, horizontal oil wells, 13,000' tvd exploration wells, and shallow infill drilling campaigns (45-60 wells/year). Operations involved state-of-the-art drilling and completion technology, and required strict cost control due to marginal economics. Significant cost structure reductions achieved via performance management and well design. Heavy interaction with asset teams.
Manager, Asset Development, Unocal, China Projects, Brea, California:
6/93 – 1/94.
Managed an 18-member, multidisciplinary technical team responsible for performing joint reservoir development feasibility studies on interior China naturally fractured gas reservoirs in conjunction with a mirror image Chinese team via an alliance with the Chinese National Petroleum Company. Work scope included all reservoir, geological, geophysical, surface facilities, and drilling & completion evaluations, with primary focus on the prudent application of horizontal and extended-reach drilling technology.
Senior Operations Technology Engineer, Unocal Techno. Center, Brea, California: 4/91 – 6/93.
Provided drilling, completion, workover, and production engineering support to Unocal's worldwide operating units. Provided remote and/or on-site engineering and project management support for Unocal operations in Thailand, Indonesia, Caspian Sea, China, Senegal, Dutch North Sea, and numerous North America locations. Engineering support provided for a variety of complex drilling, completion, and production activities including ERD/horizontal development wells and offshore exploration wells, HTHP wellbore conditions, 3-D well paths, gas well velocity-string campaign, state-of-the-art drilling and completion technology, and internal, new technology developments. Recognized as Corporate expert in high angle drilling and completions and coiled tubing technology.
Sr. Production Engineer/Wellsite Supervisor, BPX, Prudhoe Bay Field, Alaska: 9/90 – 3/91.
Well Operations Supervisor/Production Engineer on a "7 and 7" field rotation responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising Prudhoe Bay field well interventions and service company personnel. Involved close teamwork with a multitude of office and field personnel to optimize production/well work.
Sr. Reservoir Engineer, BPX, Prudhoe Bay, Anchorage, Alaska:
11/88 – 9/90.
Group Leader for all reservoir surveillance, performance evaluation, and well work recommendations for the field's gravity drainage area which included 125 wells and nearly 200,000 bopd and associated gas in a highly gas constrained environment. Involved detailed reservoir and well surveillance, performance analysis and prediction, and remedial work recommendations to optimize field production. Broke completion paradigms with successful, life-of-well remedial work campaign.
Sr. Reservoir Engineer, Exxon, Alaska Interest Group, Houston, Texas:
7/86 – 10/88.
Lead reservoir operations/production engineer for all reservoir surveillance, diagnostics, performance evaluations, workover recommendations, and field development issues for the waterflood and EOR (miscible GI/WAG) areas of the Prudhoe Bay Field. Heavy Unit/government interface.
Sr. Reservoir Engineer, Exxon, Alaska Group, Thousand Oaks, California:
3/84 – 7/86
Lead Exxon reservoir development engineer for the Endicott and Lisburne Alaskan North Slope fields including project funding economic analysis, reservoir simulation, initial completion design, reservoir management and studies, data acquisition planning, waterflood design, and field development planning.
Drilling & Offshore Projects Engineer, Exxon, California, Ventura, California: 7/81 – 3/84.
Drilling engineer responsible for platform high angle drilling and completion program and onshore drilling with heavy emphasis on deep, abnormally pressured gas wells, and high angle oil wells. Engineered a deep, onshore exploration well (21,000'+). Coordinated a non-conventional, platform drilling rig demobilization, offshore mooring buoy recovery, and recovery of seafloor drilling and construction equipment with detailed planning to eliminate pipeline interference & production upsets.
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