23 years of petroleum engineering experience
• 21 years of reservoir engineering experience
• 9 years of Alaska Cook Inlet experience
• 5 years of Rocky Mountain (low permeability gas) experience
• 4 years of SE Asia / Australia experience
• 3 years of onshore Gulf of Mexico experience
• 2 years of drilling and completion experience
• 1 year of environmental engineering experience
EDUCATION
M.S., Petroleum Engineering, 1985
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
B.S., Petroleum Engineering, 1983
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 – Present, Petroleum Engineering Consultant, Petrotechnical Resources of Alaska (PRA), Anchorage, AK
• Reservoir engineering consultation on CINGSA’s Cannery Loop gas storage project
• Assisted in the preparation of the Storage Injection Order application, which was submitted to the AOGCC
• Testified before the AOGCC (on behalf of CINGSA) in regard to the Gas Storage Injection Order
• Provided reservoir engineering support for the Cannery Loop Gas Storage project before the RCA
• Performed a Grayling Gas Sand (GGS) study for Chevron, to identify shallow gas potential off of the Trading Bay Unit oil platforms
• Reservoir engineering consultation on Chevron’s Ivan River gas storage project
• Assisted in the preparation of the Storage Injection Order application to the AOGCC
• Prepared the Aquifer Exemption application which was submitted to the AOGCC
• Well test analyses of the Red #1 prospect using SAPHIR software.
2008 – 2010, Sr. Petroleum Engineering Advisor, Chevron, USA, Anchorage, AK
• Petroleum engineer in charge of Swanson River Unit (SRU)
• Petroleum engineer in charge of Chevron’s Happy Valley (HV) gas field
• Petroleum engineer in charge of Chevron’s interest in the Ninilchik Unit (NU) gas field
• Managed all three of Chevron’s Alaska gas storage reservoirs
• Two gas storage reservoirs at Swanson River Unit
• One gas storage reservoir at Pretty Creek Unit
• Responsible for production and reserve forecasting & booking for SRU, HV and NU fields
• Nodal analyses of the various gas wells (including gas storage wells) using WEM & PROSPER software
• Well test analyses using SAPHIR
2001 – 2008, Sr. Reservoir Engineer, Forest Oil Corporation, Anchorage, AK
• Lead reservoir engineer on Redoubt Shoal Development:
• Material balance and reserve calculations
• Economic modeling using ARIES and Excel spreadsheets
• Reservoir simulation using ECLIPSE and MERLIN
• Worked with geologists & geophysicists to plan development drilling program
• Reservoir engineering on West McArthur River Unit
• Reservoir engineering on West Foreland gas field
• Forest Oil’s point of contact for McArthur River Field and Trading Bay Field (Chevron operated)
• Forest’s point of contact for the Cosmopolitan Project (Conoco-Phillips operated)
• Responsible for Alaska Business Unit planning and budgeting
• Responsible for annual reserve forecasting for all Alaska properties (using ARIES)
• Volumetric and reserve distributions for exploration prospects (using ROSE & Associate software)
• Nodal analyses of both oil and gas wells using PERFORM software
• Petrophysical analysis using HDS software
• Well test analyses using SAPHIR and FAST WellTest software
• Served as Forest Oil’s Planning Chief in the Incident Command System
1997 – 2001, Senior Technical Professional (Reservoir Engineer), Halliburton Energy Services, Denver, CO
• Interfaced with operations, management, and corporate headquarters to provide performance reporting and analysis for an operating company with $3B in revenue.
• Modeled, analyzed, and reported variances to budgets for Alaska’s $600M+ of annual capital expenditures by designing and utilizing a shared Excel and Hyperion model.
• Conducted a broad range of analytical business studies that identified cost savings, operational trends, forecasted activity, and estimated merger and acquisition M&A impacts.
• Received four “Exceptional Contribution Awards” (ECA’s) for outstanding performance on projects which included support for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) information request related to a merger, the development a merger related $1B cost model, the execution of a 67 page budget book update, and the design and creation an audit database that tracts audit claims.
• Produced Alaska’s monthly financial and operational report to Corporate CEO and received compliments from Corporate.
1995 – 1997, Petroleum Engineering Consultant (Senior Reservoir Engineer), Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc. – Dallas, Texas
• Reservoir simulation of gas storage operations in a New York Oriskany reservoir using CMG’s IMEX300 software
• Reservoir simulation of gravity drainage in Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve No.1 using CMG’s IMEX300 software
• Fully compositional reservoir simulation study on an East Texas gas condensate reservoir using CMG’s GEM simulation software
• Project/field evaluations in China and Azerbaijan
• Well testing supervision & analyses, offshore India
• Reserve and revenue forecasting (numerous East & West Texas fields), using ARIES and OGRE software
• Material balance and volumetric calculations of gas and oil-in-place
• Volumetric planimetering using PLANIMETER and PLANPLUS
• Drafting, using AutoCAD
1993 – 1994, Environmental Engineer, U.S. Environmental Group, Inc. – Pompano Beach, Florida
• Performed phase I and phase II environmental site assessments
• Prepared and filed contamination assessment reports (CAR’s)
• Prepared initial remedial action (IRA) plans
• Prepared and filed state and county air pollution source applications
• Dispersion modeling of hazardous air pollutants
• Incidental wastewater engineering study at the Kennedy Space Center
1988 – 1992, District Reservoir Engineer, Halliburton Reservoir Services – Dallas, Texas
• Well test operations and analyses in the USA Gulf Coast region
• Development (programming) on HRS’s well test analysis software
• Well test and reservoir analysis throughout the Asia-Pacific region
• Resided in Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia
• Performed layered, bounded, fractured (naturally and hydraulically), water-drive, and geo-pressured reservoir analyses
• Extensive layered and bounded reservoir studies using ECL’s “WELTEST” software
• Well testing supervision and quality control
• Responsible for customer contacts and sales
1981, 1983 & 1985, Petroleum Engineering, Winslow Resources, Inc. – Golden, Colorado
• Supervision of drilling and completion operations in the D-J basin (CO & NE)
• Drill Stem Test supervision and analysis
• Cased and open-hole log interpretation
• Mineral rights acquisition (leasing land for exploration drilling)
