Unconventional Exploration/Developmental/Reserves Geologist
Unconventional Prospects:
1. Buckner Prospect, Haskell County, Texas
Permian Basin (Eastern Shelf), Willis Field, Strawn Tight Sand Formation Oil & Gas
2. STAR Prospect , Angelina County, Texas
East Texas Basin, Brookeland Field, Austin Chalk Formation Oil and Gas
3. James Limestone Prospect, Anderson and Henderson Counties, Texas
East Texas Basin, Fairway Field, Pearsall Formation Oil and Tight Gas
4. Geronimo Prospect, Guadalupe County, Texas
Eagle Ford Basin, Pearsall Formation Oil and Austin Chalk Formation Tight Gas
Unconventional Plays and Reservoirs:
1. Permian Basin Reservoirs: Cline, Wolfcamp, Wolfberry, Spraberry
2. Fort Worth Basin Reservoir: Barnett
3. East Texas/Northern Louisiana Reservoirs: Haynesville, Bossier
4. Peoples Republic of China Sichuan Basin
Personal Statement
• Current Client Work:
o For the Past 3 months I have been working as a Consultant for Blackwell Production as the Reserves Geologist, producing GIS Maps, Contour Maps, Production Estimations and Leasing Analysis for new leasing activity preparing to permit to drill.
o Since 2010, I have worked with Eikonal Energy, Inc. formerly known as Harding Energy Partners as a Developmental Geologist Prospecting, exploring, and developing unconventional wells in East Texas and Northern Louisiana with since 2010.
• Prior to that I contracted for four months as an Operations Geologist for Shell Exploration & Production Company in Houston, Texas drilling in the Permian Basin and targeting Wolfcamp Formations.
• Worked for six months as a prospect/explorations geologist in the Permian Basin for Blackwell Production, LLC. I wrote their prospectus to deliver to the investors, costed out every aspect of the well proposal to vendors. I assembled the AFE, Joint Venture Agreement, Calculated Reserves Estimations and decline curves to see production trends in the area, and then calculating the final economics of the well all the way to the Return On Investment that the investors needed to begin exploration on a new unconventional field on the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin.
• Prior to that six month contract with BG Group of Houston, Texas, managing Haynesville Shale and Marcellus Shale Assets.
• Daily duties include attending daily operations meetings, in charge of AFE's approvals with JV partner Exco Resources based on geological prognosis of the areas proposed, subsurface analysis of wells completed as well as offsets of OBO's based on past and current production curves.
Industry-Specific Application Experience
PETRA, PETREL, ArcMap, SES Geosteering, EXPRODAT Unconventional Reserves Analyst, SMT Kingdom, PHDWin, Decline Curve and PHDRMS Reserve and Performance Data Tracking Software, Landmark Geographix, NeuraLog, Drilling Info, Oil & Gas Info, Texas Railroad Commission Data Query, Deed Plotter, AutoCAD, MapInfo, ENVI remote sensing image processing, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite Applications.
Skills
Remote Sensing/3-D Photogrammetrist Advanced Database Management
Subsurface Analysis Skills Management of Drill Site Contractors
Advise Investment Banks for Oil & Gas Trading Advanced Geotechnical Skills
Remote Sensing Processing & Analysis Isopach and Structural Mapping Skills
Advanced Geological Applications Skills Advanced Cross-Section Creation and Analysis
Education
M.S. in Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, TX
Specializing in Sedimentology/Remote Sensing/GIS/Structural Geology, and Geochemistry
B.B.A. & M.B.A. in Marketing & Economics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Specializing in Business Analysis of Land Development Investments
Work History
Geo Squared Consulting Inc. April 2009 – Present
Unconventional Operations/E&P/Reserves & Economics Geologist
• Currently working as Prospect Reserves Geologist for Blackwell Drilling, LLC and Blackwell Production LLC out of Abilene, Texas. Generating reserves analysis and production potential on new prospects in the Permain Basin Eastern Shelf. I have worked with Blackwell over the past two years intermittently.
• Prior to worked as an Operations Geologist for Shell Exploration and Production Company in Houston, TX (Wodcreek Campus) managing and operating rigs in the Permian Basin. Duties include: establishing first look and location staking requests, through the AFE approval process, then to setting up drilling and well planning, mudlogging protocols, local and regional cross-sections and log analysis, building curve from KOP, planning landing point, geosteering lateral, and finally to handing the well over to completions.
• Unconventional Developmental Geologist Asset management of lower 48 assets for BG Group and Exco Resources of Houston, Texas, managing Haynesville Shale and Marcellus Shale Assets.
• Unconventional Exploration & Development Geologist drilling horizontal shale wells in East Texas and Haynesville Shale with Harding Company since 2010.
• Prior exploration and development working for Petrohawk in Haynesville Shale.
• Founded independent consulting firm primarily involved with GIS development and analysis, satellite to exploration and production, geophysical processing and interpretation, professional landmen, insurance companies, Federal Government Defense Contracts, and major retailers.
• Main focus has always been analysis of Well Log Data, Geochemical Data, Geophysical, and Remote sensing data combined with RADAR with geospatial database design and rollout.
• Daily activities include prospecting, evaluating, permitting, and calibrating well data (porosity, resistivity, and conductivity), and identifying possible pays from data collected and acquired.
• Analyzing all phases of oil and gas leases: negotiations, due diligence, traversing metes and bounds, and creation of lease maps to offset oil wells and georectified Tobin Maps. .
Aruba Petroleum September 2008 – October 2009
Operations Geologist
• Active exploration and production in Barnett Shale Formation, both horizontal and vertical drilling. Responsible for every aspect of active rigs in different stages of drill cycles.
• Daily duties include analyzing wireline logs (off-site and on-site), calling formation tops of offset and pilot hole logs, drawing stucture/isopach maps of lease areas acquired, writing pilot well prognoses, planing horizontal and production drilling, creation of borehole diagrams, managing field operations vendors (off-site and on-site), and coordinating all plans with regulatory/compliance, oil & gas tax, and land management staff.
• Technical aspects of job include analyzing subsurface, topographical, seismic, formation micro images, induction, and gamma ray data acquired for creating maps, cross-sections, and databases in Kingdom SMT EarthPak/2D & 3D Pak (SEG-Y & LAS ...
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