EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Texas A&M University 1980 - Bachelors of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Registered Professional Engineer - Texas # 64148
Continuing Education-Industry Schools: See below.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
1999 - Present Boots & Coots/IWC - Well Control Engineer; Director of Engineering
1989 - 1999 Avanti Turnkey Drilling / Avanti Consulting - Site Drlg Sup’vr; Sr. Engineer; VP Operations
1987 - 1989 Oxoco Energy Inc. / Terra Resources Inc. - Senior Drilling Engineer
1982 - 1987 Westland Oil Development Corp. - District Drilling Engineer
1980 - 1982 Otis Engineering (A Halliburton Company)- Field Operations Engineer
1978 - 1979 Loffland Brothers Drilling Co. - Roughneck Gulf of Mexico
HIGHLIGHTS OF WELL CONTROL EXPERIENCE:
2003 South Ramallah Iraq - Operations Engineer on 30 000 bpd oil well fires during Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
Galveston Bay Texas - Well Control Engineer on surface gas blowout & fire.
Los Angeles Ca. - Well Control Engineer on 1 500 bopd UGBO broached to surface.
2002 Crossville Tennessee - Well Control Engineer on 1 200 bpd oil well blowout & fire.
Vermillion Parish La - Well Control Engineer on underground blowout broached to surface.
Hellhole Bayou La - Well Control Engineer HTHP kick off bottom strip and kill.
2001 Rapides Parish La - Well Control Engineer on 25 mmcfgpd & 15 000 bfpd surface blowout.
Calcasieu Parish La - Well Control Engineer on underground blowout broached to surface.
Plaquemine Parish La - Well Control Engineer on underground blowout broached to surface.
Matagorda Co. Texas - Well Control Engineer on underground blowout of HTHP well.
2000 Hardin Co. Texas - Well Control Engineer on underground blowout.
Tuchola North Central Poland - Well Control Engineer on underground blowout.
Jefferson Co. Texas - Well Control Engineer on surface gas blowout.
Mustang Island A-59 Well Control Engineer HTHP kick off bottom strip and kill.
Hassi Messaoud Algeria - Well Control Engineer to develop work program for underground
blowout of gas into the Albian aquifer.
1999 Jefferson Co. Texas - Operations Engineer responsible for control of underground blowout.
Acadia Parish La - Operations Engineer responsible for control of underground blowout.
1993 Gulf of Mexico High Island Blk. A-556 - Directed control of underground blowout from liner top
leak with uncontrolled broached flow at mud line suspension assembly.
1986 Mentone Loving Co. Texas - Surface Blowout of Atoka / Morrow formation following TCP gun
pre-detonation and surface BOP equipment failure. Supported capping operations and provided
engineering supervision of subsurface intervention and wellbore recovery.
1985 Houston Co. Texas - Surface Blowout of Lower Cotton Valley HTHP test. Provided engineering
site support to relief well drilling to 19 500 ft and completion.
CONTINUING EDUCATION - INDUSTRY SCHOOLS:
Otis Engineering Co.; Prentice & Records Advanced Drilling School; Microbar Drilling Fluids School; Baroid Advanced Drilling
Fluids School; Hughes Tool Company - Rock Bit Design; Dowell Company - Cementing Technology; Schlumberger - Well
Logging Techniques; Prentice & Records - Advanced Drilling School; Smith International; Abroad Advanced Drilling Fluids
School; Well Control Certification - Operators Representative; Boots & Coots - Well Control Applications Subsurface
Intervention Advanced; Reactive Pills; Surface Intervention; Difficult Well Control Problems; Lockout / Tag out and Hazwopper
OSHA Confined Space Awareness; Hydrogen Sulfide Training; Hydrogen Sulfide Training . |