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Drilling Engineer, DEVON, A variety of oil and gas and engineering projects.

START Date: 
June, 2012
END Date: 
April, 2016
  • Responsible for planning, costing, scheduling, operating, troubleshooting and supervising of the drilling of $2-$6+ million onshore vertical and horizontal oil and gas wells; Watched up to three rigs at a time in the Midland and Delaware Basin shales in over 10 counties; Well Control Certified
  • Developed individual operational procedures and designs, optimizing cost and technical parameters based on experience, available equipment, and engineered material
  • Performed regular safety checks, empowered contractors and field hands to stop the job, wrote safety specific job procedures, and performed root cause analysis to ensure safe operations on all my projects.
  • Verified that all procedures, rig-site systems, and the project’s structural and material design adhered to government regulations and company design guidelines.
  • Provided accurate and in-depth cost estimates, project schedules, as well as operational goals for field.
  • Successfully planned the cost of wells to within 5% of the AFE on average over a year
Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
2000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1000
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
500