EDUCATION
University
of
Texas
at Austin,
Austin
,
Texas
B.S. in Petroleum Engineering
1989
Continuing Education
Gas Production
Optimization, Oil and Gas Consultants International (OGCI), Dr. H. Dale Beggs
Applied Openhole
Log Interpretation, OGCI, Dr. Douglas W. Hilchie
Production
Optimization Using NODAL Analysis, OGCI, Dr. H. Dale Beggs
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Registered
Professional Engineer, State of
Texas
No. 80166
Society of Petroleum Engineers
Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers
EXPERIENCE
CREST
Engineering Services, Inc.,
Tyler
,
Texas
6/2002 - present
Consulting
Petroleum Engineer
Independent
consultant specializing in petroleum reserve evaluation, prospect evaluation,
reservoir management and petroleum finance.
CREST also serves as an oil and gas operator in Texas
.
Reserve
Evaluation/Finance
¨
Evaluation of reserves on behalf of multiple
clients to secure bank financing and promote sale of oil and gas assets.
Served as liaison between
client and lenders on an ongoing basis.
¨
Evaluation of reserves on behalf of Whitney
National Bank to support energy lending.
Acquisition/Prospect
Evaluations
¨
Manage an evaluation process reviewing prospects on behalf of investors.
Program places approximately $10MM per year in 15 to 20 projects with
various operators.
¨
Lead data room engineer reviewing possible
acquisitions on behalf of investor clients.
Operations
¨
Interim
contract operation of assets on behalf of investors and lending
institutions.
CREST
Engineering Services, Inc / Pollard, Gore and
Harrison
9/1998
– 6/2002
Consulting Petroleum
Engineer
Serve
as the in-house engineer for Wells Fargo Bank, Houston, through an association
with Pollard, Gore and
Harrison
,
an
Austin
based petroleum consulting firm. During
my service, Wells Fargo grew to be the fourth largest energy bank.
Reserve
Evaluation / Banking
¨
Served as the in-house engineer in the
Houston
office responsible for reviewing reserves and determining collateral value
supporting approximately half of the reserve based loan portfolio.
¨
Worked with bank management to establish
lending guidelines and criteria.
¨
Responsible for maintaining relationships with
multiple banking clients and monitoring field / drilling activities.
Consulting
Services / Acquisitions
¨
Provided due diligence evaluation and was
instrumental in securing $100MM in financing in the acquisition of a
Dallas
based oil company.
¨
Evaluated prospects and acquisition
opportunities on behalf of several investor clients.
CREST
Engineering Services, Inc.
Austin
,
Texas
6/1996
– 9/1998
Consulting Petroleum
Engineer
Consulting
engineer providing petroleum evaluation services and environmental audits.
Environmental
Project Management
¨
Preformed environmental due diligence as part
of the acquisition of Franklin Federal Bancorp by Norwest in 1996.
Responsible for environmental audits on all of the banking locations, as
well as identifying significant environmental liabilities on major assets in the
FFB portfolio.
¨
Established relationships with several
Austin
and
San Antonio
banks to provide environmental services.
Petroleum
Engineering Services
¨
Provided reserve evaluations on several
estates and royalty portfolios.
Terra
Dynamics, Inc.
Austin
,
Texas
9/1993
– 6/1996
Consulting Petroleum
Engineer
Consulting
petroleum engineer with an environmental consulting company that supports Class
I industrial waste disposal wells located in industrial settings.
The firm also provided general environmental services such as groundwater
testing and audits.
Petroleum
Engineering / Class I wells
¨
Developed reservoir models in the
Texas
Gulf
Coast
and Panhandle which supported Class I well permit applications to both the Texas
Natural Resources Conservation Commission and the US Environmental Protection
Agency.
¨
Responsible for coordinating, contracting and
supervising annual mechanical integrity test and reporting results to the
appropriate agencies.
¨
Design and supervision of clean outs,
stimulations and workovers of Class I wells.
Reservoir
/ Groundwater Modeling
¨
Modeled shallow reservoirs for the design of
groundwater remediation projects.
¨
Modeled a 3500 acre Uranium leachate mining
operation in
South Texas
to support a mining application.
Environmental
Services
¨
Conducted Phase I audits on behalf of real
estate investors and lending institutions.
Tenneco
Gas Pipeline
Houston
,
Texas
12/1989 – 9/1993
Petroleum
Engineer
Supported
Tenneco Gas Pipeline in managing the supply and facilities associated with the
natural gas pipeline following the sale of Tenneco Oil Company.
Reservoir
Engineering
¨
Worked with individual operators in the
Gulf
Coast
region to monitor the deliverability of their fields connected to the pipeline.
Scheduled regular production test to manage take or pay levels.
¨
Evaluated major fields subject to take or pay
liabilities to support contract negotiations and made recommendations regarding
buying down those contracts.
¨
Preformed basin and field studies to support
strategic planning and design of pipeline facilities.
Operations
¨
One of two engineers responsible for the
operations of Bastian Bay Field in Vermilion Parish,
Louisiana
.
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