Summary of Qualifications:
- Possess proven knowledge in well design and completion methods to maximize efficiencies and costs in basins throughout the United States.
- Fast adaptation and ability to work in new projects and team environments.
- Proven ability in managing projects through the drilling, completion, and production phases.
- Excellent ability in developing interpersonal relationships and team building.
- Quickly build strong working relations with field personnel and other project team members.
- Can resolve challenging issues to accomplish project objectives.
- Knowledgeable in current drilling and completion practices and methods.
Expereince & Accomplishments
- Extensive drilling and completion engineering.
- Managed drilling and completion operations for several small and medium sized operators in different basins throughout Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Louisiana.
- Extensive time working in the field as a drilling consultant as well as a completions/workover consultant.
- Working experience in all basins in Texas and multiple basins in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and North Slope Alaska as well as the inland waters of Texas and Louisiana.
Experience:
4/2020-Present JC2 Resources, LLC Uvalde, Texas
Owner/President
• Independent consultant providing drilling and completion supervision in south Texas, east Texas, Louisiana, and North Slope Alaska (winter of 2024) for various oil & gas operators.
• Provide project management and contract engineering for various oil & gas operators in Texas and Louisiana.
• Drilling supervisor for Grit Oil & Gas from 1/22 – 9/23 drilling horizontal San Miguel wells in Maverick & Dimmitt counties in south Texas. Drilled 12 total horizontal Eagleford wells in Dimmitt county from 2/25 – 7/25 for Grit.
• Have coordinated and supervised the drilling and completion operations on five San Miguel pads in Maverick county for Strand Energy since 11/23.
• Currently drilling two consecutive San Miguel pads for Strand Energy and Endeavor Natural Gas in Maverick county. Will coordinate and supervise the completion and hook up operations once drilling is concluded.
8/2019-4/2020 Rig Up Inc. Austin, Texas
Project Management Supervisor
• Supervising upstream projects within the project management group.
2/2010-8/2019 Energy First Engineering & Consulting, LLC San Antonio, Texas
Owner/President
• Providing contract engineering, project management, and consulting services for oil & gas operators throughout North America.
• Working in most active trends providing drilling, completion, facilities & reservoir services.
• Extensive drilling and completion experience in HTHP environments both vertical and horizontal
• Experienced in underbalanced drilling operations with nitrogen/crude oil and air/fluid systems as well as managed pressure operations.
• Experienced in Gulf Coast inland water drilling and completions operations as well as facilities installations.
• Sold the company to Rig Up, Inc. on 7-31-2019.
4/2006–1/2010 Acock Engineering San Antonio, Texas
Vice President
• Provided project management & engineering support/supervision for drilling, completion, & workover operations on vertical, directional, & horizontal wells onshore and offshore for various operators working throughout Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and the Gulf of Mexico & Inland waters. Trends worked include Frio, Yegua, Cotton Valley Consolidated., Bossier, Wilcox, Vicksburg, Edwards, Olmos, Glen Rose, Austin Chalk, Georgetown, Pearsall, Lobo/Roleta, San Miguel, Buda, Eagleford, Sligo, & Recklaw/Queen City.
• Responsible for generating AFE’s, soliciting & analyzing bids for services, preparing drilling/completion/workover procedures, and supervising all work and field personnel from the building of drill locations through the hook up and completion of the wells.
• Responsible for coordinating and supervising field consultants for various clients in Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Gulf Coast, and GOM.
9/2005-4/2006 Lewis Energy San Antonio, Texas
Senior Operations Engineer
• Provided supervision & engineering support for drilling operations with five rigs drilling in northern Webb & LaSalle Counties. Trends drilled included Olmos, Wilcox, Edwards, San Miguel, & Escondido. Drilling vertical, single lateral, & dual lateral horizontal wells within these trends.
• Provided supervision & engineering support for completion of wells in the Olmos, Wilcox, Edwards, San Miguel, & Escondido formations
• Worked with an exploration team in planning of wells to be drilled & completed, resolution of any problems encountered during operations, and identifying recompletion candidates.
• Generated drilling, completion & facility AFE’s for new drills, re-entries, & recompletions.
• Analyzed operations & costs for the entire exploration program in order to determine cost & time savings for future wells.
• Solicited & analyzed vendor bids for all relevant services pertaining to drilling & completion operations. This includes bids for all pumping, directional & rental services, and casing, wellhead, & production equipment procurement.
5/2005–9/2005 Acock Engineering Houston, Texas
Engineering/Wellsite Consultant
• Worked on a weekly rotation providing on site drilling & completion supervision for a customer drilling horizontal Georgetown & Glen Rose wells in the Maverick Basin in Maverick & Dimmitt counties in Texas.
• Provided drilling & completion engineering support for various clients when not performing well site duties.
2/2001–5/2005 EOG Resources Corpus Christi, Texas
Drilling Engineer
• Provided in-house supervision & engineering support for EOG for four to five rigs at a time drilling throughout South Texas. Trends worked included Wilcox, Lobo/Roleta, Frio, Vicksburg, Reklaw/Queen City, & Cretaceous (Olmos) drilling vertical, directional and horizontal wellbores.
• Generated drilling programs for wells to be drilled in various South Texas environments & areas.
• Worked side by side with the Geologists & Geophysicists in planning of wells to be drilled & in analyzing well situations during drilling operations.
• Responsible for generating AFE’s for wells to be drilled.
• Performed cost analysis of drilling program to reduce drilling costs.
• Bid out & analyzed vendor bids for drilling services.
• Spent 2 years providing well site supervision on a weekly rotation for drilling
operations on wells throughout South Texas with total depths ranging from 7,000’ – 18,500’.
5/1998–2/2001 Halliburton Energy Services Laredo, Texas
Operations Engineer
• Supervised & executed over 300 hydraulic fracturing jobs throughout South Texas.
• Designed stimulation/fracturing treatments to optimize formation properties.
• Designed & supervised numerous cementing treatments of various types.
• Analyzed stimulation/fracturing, cementing, & coil tubing treatments using real-time data & 3-D modeling programs.
• Generated formal proposals for stimulation, cementing, & coil tubing services.
• Responsible for engineering support for a new South Texas stimulation crew.
• Responsible for training new engineers in Cementing & Stimulation.
12/1997–5/1998 Union Pacific Resources Fort Worth, Texas
Drilling Engineer
• Worked with company drilling foremen & consultants providing well site supervision of drilling operations on multi-lateral, Austin Chalk wells in Southern Louisiana.
• Supervised drilling operations while under a high pressure mud cap.
• Assisted in designing and writing drilling programs.
• Supervised directional drilling operations on multi-lateral Austin Chalk wells.
Education:
Texas A&M University College Station, Texas
• B.S. in Petroleum Engineering awarded in December 1997