Resume CV Senior Production Facilities Engineer Experienced in Western Canada CA
Resume CV of Candidate 12434. Senior production and facilities engineer with over 10 years of experience in the WCSB. Areas of focus have included; Foothills Deep Gas, Plains Shallow Gas, and Plains Heavy Oil. Working in each of these areas has been able to build a strong foundation in production engineering/operations, facilities engineering/operations, completions engineering and workover operations. Consistently demonstrated exceptional communication and project management skills. Reliably develop and execute efficient capital and maintenance programs to maximize value extracted while focusing on operational cost reduction. Self-motivated and highly adaptable to standards and processes where they exist or eager to implement or improve processes where they are lacking or don’t exist, especially relating to safety, regulatory and environmental compliance.
Professional Experience
Major Energy Firm, Calgary Alberta 2005 – 2009
Production / Facilities Engineer, Bighorn South SBU
- Production and facilities engineer and project manager on the Berland (30 mmcfd), Edson/Carrot Creek (20 mmcfd) and Aurora/Ferrier (18mmcfd) unconventional gas, sour gas and conventional oil areas in the Canadian Foothills Gas Region, with capital programs in the $80-$110 MM annually.
- Involved in the planning, developing and budget preparation of 1, 2 and 5 year full field capital and maintenance strategies with multidisciplinary teams including G & G, development engineering, surface land, joint interest and operational staff. Worked with operations on facility optimization and maintenance programs including initiating operating cost reduction and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies.
- Worked closely on the design, scoping, estimating, AFE management and execution of these projects with EPC, construction, safety and operations groups. (including commissioning, HAZOP, management of change (MOC), shutdown key reviews and conducting extensive lookbacks)
- Worked closely with drilling and completions to improve well on-stream cycle times through concurrent operations (reducing flare and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction initiative)
- Worked closely with surface land to update area operating agreements (AOA’s), resolve ungulate restriction issues and ensure all D56 regulatory requirements have been met for facility and pipeline projects.
- Provided support to acquisitions and divestitures which included review and evaluation of wells, pipeline systems and facilities. Worked on the oil property sale and the gas property divestiture package.
- Coordinated bi-monthly area asset team meetings in the field including well reviews and facility optimization reviews, attended monthly field safety review meetings
- Responsible for new well production tracking, optimizing and making recommendations for well completions.
- Responsible for developing continued optimization strategies for gas well de-liquification including continuous installation of plungerlift, annular well control systems and wellsite booster compression.
- Worked with operations and Energy Efficiency Initiative group to install REM Slipstream Technology in the Ferrier 12-33 sour gas booster site (capture vented hydrocarbons, a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction initiative).
- Continuous redesign and improvement of wellsites and padsites towards developing standard print packages. Collaborated with operations to design a near zero emissions wellsite (a GHG emissions reduction initiative).
- Initiated, installed and commissioned approximately 11km of 6-inch Fibrespar composite pipe which realized a 10% savings in cost over steel and was 20% faster in installation.
- Successfully installed and commissioned the Leland 30 mmcfd grassroots booster compressor and flow splitter. This $10MM joint interest project was commissioned on time and realized 5 mmcfd of incremental gas production.
Completions Engineer, Gas SBU 2004 – 2005
- Primary completions lead engineer for the 2005 Shallow Gas infill capital program consisting of 560 new shallow gas wells. Well workover activity included identifying 150 re-fracs and 100 re-completions. Suffield gas had an overall capital budget of $110 MM.
- Responsible for designing and programming of 400 shallow gas wells for multiple zone completion and stimulation, worked with multidisciplinary team to develop and coordinate area budgets for completions and workover activity.
- Worked with business services on hiring of service rigs and completion services, cost estimate, AFE generation and taking well calls. Supervised two lead field completion consultants (up to eight total).
- Worked with multidisciplinary team to identify new well and workover candidates, supervised and mentored junior staff and summer interns on programming new well and workover candidates.
- Coordinated bi-weekly field meetings with completion consultants, operations, area construction coordinator and area safety coordinator to review completion and construction crew movement and to conduct a safety review.
- Implemented new frac and perforating strategy developed by team to help reduce per well cost while focusing on continuous load leveling throughout the year.
- Worked directly with other SBU’s (Brooks area SBU’s) to obtain and better utilize area frac services, including logging, perforating, tank storage and trucking services.
Production / Facilities Engineer, Gas SBU 2002 – 2004
- Primary SBU production / facilities engineer for new facility, facility modification, facility optimization, new pipeline installation, gas well de-liquification and gas gathering system optimization for the areas.
- Worked closely on the design, scoping, cost estimating, AFE management, accrual, project management and execution of several capital programs and operations projects with EPC, construction, safety and operations groups (including commissioning, HAZOP, and conducting extensive lookbacks).
- Successfully installed 3550hp Koomati grassroots booster station along with facility modification of the existing Koomati main station. This $7.3MM project increased capacity to 60 mmcf/d in the Koomati area.
- Siphon String/Tubing Pull program – $2MM well optimization initiative requiring the removal of 2 3/8 tubing from 125 shallow gas wells and the installation of 0.7” HDPE in 400 wells for gas well de-liquification.
- Successfully installed and commissioned an additional 4700hp of natural gas compression to the existing CD compressor station. This $2.6MM project had an overall net system gain of 3.5 mmcfd.
- CD Sales Compressor Station & CD Spine Project ($4.5MM project) – Successfully installed and commissioned a 2350hp grassroots compressor station capable of 50 mmcfd process and the installation of 2 miles of 16-inch mainline with 6 miles of 6-inch pipeline laterals tying in 4 gas production batteries.
Major Oil and Gas Firm, Calgary Alberta
Production Engineer, Gas Southeast BU 2001 – 2002
- Production engineer responsible for gas well de-liquification, gas gathering and facility system optimization.
- AB-11/B1-5 Siphon String Project – evaluated the effectiveness of siphon strings on low gas well producers, set up for 2002 siphon string project.
Production Engineer, Oil Southeast BU 1998 – 2001
- Production engineer responsible for oil well optimization and workover maintenance programs for the South Jenner, Dieppe, Deberg and Dakota conventional heavy oil fields (under active waterflood), which produced approximately 14,000 bopd.
- Worked directly with service rig consultants on developing workover programs, cost estimating, AFE generation and taking well calls.
- Worked with vendors to obtain contracts for service rig usage, purchasing rotary screw pumps, electric submersible pumps and surface drivers and motors.
- Evaluated and identified well optimization candidates for speed up and pump upsizing. Initial well completion design for artificial lift (ESP, PCP and beam pump), power optimization, waterflood management (through injector recompletions), cost estimating and project management.
- Successfully re-completed 13 oil wells over to water injection increasing overall field injection capacity to 31,000 m3/d in South Jenner.
- Successfully initiated the installation of primary three phase above ground and below ground power to the area. This 5.0 MW of additional power allowed for the conversion of all gas driven pumping systems into electrical systems. Worked with operations to convert 65 natural gas pump drivers over to electric. Worked with operations to convert 50 beam pumps over to progressive cavity pumps.
- Successfully installed the first two electric submersible pumps (ESP’s) in South Jenner for oil well production optimization purposes.
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1998
Software Skills:
Microsoft Office, PVR, PVR Wizard, PEEP, Accumap, PIPESIM, WEM, C-FER, FAST Piper and Virtuwell.
Certifications & Memberships:
- Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists of Alberta – Professional Engineer
- Emergency First Aid CPR Level A (expires Aug 2011),
- H2S Alive (expires Aug 2011), W.H.M.I.S. and TDG
- Member of the Petroleum Society of the CIM,
- Society of Petroleum Engineers, and Gas Processors Association of Canada
References Available Upon Request
