Experience

Oil Rig Night

Oilfield Working Experience - Not Retained

(Cudd Energy Services, Halliburton, Boots & Coots)

  • Over 30 years of engineering experience
  • Engineering Team Lead
  • Senior Project Engineer
  • Senior Technical Services Consultant
  • Business Development Sales
  • Corporate Engineer
  • Coiled Tubing Unit – 5M, 10M, 15M rating
  • Snubbing Work- equipment design and ops implementation, P&A, High Pressure.
  • Nitrogen Work- and modeling.
  • Coiled Tubing Drilling – Horizontal, Underbalanced, Supervisor.
  • Capillary Tubing Work – 8,800 psi
  • Hot tapping and Gate Valve Drilling – 6,500 psi, H2S environments
  • Offshore Pipeline intervention in +3,000 ft water depth GOM 22,641 ft in length using Snubbing unit and 4 in. DP. Lead engineer.
  • Sub-sea hot tapping using ROV – designed and implemented
  • Project manager/engineering for Deepwater services
  • Designed Subsea jacks for GOM multi-well P&A project.
  • Designed Well Control Dual Jet Cutter
  • Designed Well Control Athey Wagon.
  • Designed 15M H2S Gate Valve Drilling Units.
  • Designed 10M H2S Hot Tap Units and Saddles.
  • Perform engineering support for all facets of pressure control service lines including job modeling, mechanical design, and location engineer/supervisor.
  • 3 Patent co-inventions, 2 Patent primary inventor, 1 Patent pending,  5 published papers, member of API 16C - WIWC sub-committee, member of API RP5C7, former Director ICoTA, member of SPE, member of IADC, finalist in ASME mechanical engineering competition, Engineering Innovation Award OTC
  • Engineering sales
  • CT sizes: 0.25”, 0.38”, 1.25”, 1.50”, 1.75”, 2.00”, 2.38”, 2.88”
  • SHITP:  12,000 psi, and abnormal pressures > 10 ppg.
  • Max. running depth:  23,600 ft
  • Max. BHT:  +400 deg. F
  • H2S and CO2 environments
  • 3D design and FEA
  • Instruct Coiled Tubing courses abroad (Saudi Arabia) and numerous presentations in forums ranging from 10 – 250 people
  • Work experience in:  the domestic US including TX, OK, WY, LA, CA, and GOM

Education

BSME – University of Texas at Austin – May 1991

Licenses

Professional Engineer - Texas

Knowledge Base

SME in Snubbing, Well Control, Coiled Tubing, Nitrogen, and structural and tool design on land, offshore, and subsea. 

Patents

  • Dec 12, 2000,   Patent No. 6,158,516 – “Combined Drilling Apparatus and Method”, Co – inventor
  • May 20, 2003, Patent No. 6,564,868 B1 – “Cutting Tool and Method for Cutting Tubular Member”, Co – inventor
  • Feb 23, 2010, Patent No. RE 41,141 E – “Combined Drilling Apparatus and Method”, Re-issue, Co – inventor
  • Dec 6, 2011, Patent No. 8,069,874 B2 – “ System for Hot Tapping”, Inventor
  • Feb 2011, Patent Pending for “Slip-on Coupler for Non-Round or Round Pipe”,  Primary inventor
  • Oct 21, 2014 Patent No. 8,863,846 B2 - “Method and Apparatus to Perform Sub-Sea or Surface Jacking System”, Primary inventor

Achievements

  • May 2002, OTC, Hart’s E&P Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation – Hydraulic Rack Jack System
  • May 2006, OTC, Finalist in ASME IPTI - Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award – Subsea Hot Tap System, Cudd Pressure Control, Inc.

SPE papers

  • Oct 1997, SPE 38770, “Design and Implementation of a 22,600 ft Underbalanced Coiled Tubing Scale Cleanout in the Gomez Field, Pecos County, Texas”, Co-author, L.S. Adams
  • May 1999, SPE 54497,” Successful Underbalanced Drilling by Pumping Nitrogen Through Coiled Tubing and a Vane Motor in the Low Pressured Petit Lime Formation”, Co-author, Harvey E. Barney
  • Apr 2006, SPE 99749,” Dynamic FEA Models for Snubbing Buckling and Riserless Subsea Wireline Intervention”, Co-author, Kenneth R. Newman, Pierre Beynet

Journal Publications

  • JPT - 3 articles, co-author, prior to 2012
  • Hart’s E&P – 1 article, co-author, prior to 2012
  • World Oil – 1 article, co-author, prior to 2012

Other Notables

  • US Navy, Ehmi Maru Japanese Vessel Recovery – engineering design support
  • Saudi Aramco – CT class instructor, 1997, set up and developed lesson plans and presented 2 week basic Coiled tubing course to engineers and operations personnel (approx. 20 personnel)
  • Algeria, presentation. – Reentry in corkscrewed tubing. Hassi Messaoud, May 1997, Sonatrach was sponsor.
  • Denver – presentation, Coiled tubing Slant Drilling rig, Wyoming.   Denver Athletic Club.
  • Numerous Lunch and Learn presentations to customers such as Mitchel Energy, Marathon, El Paso, Coastal O&G, Total, Noble Energy,  PetroHawk.