Expert Details
Engineering, Oil and Gas, Business Development
ID: 733623
Texas, USA
Expert began a career founding and leading a gas pipeline and processing joint venture that grew to employ 160 engineers, sales, and support staff and generate annual revenues exceeding $200 million, encompassing gas pipeline systems, processing/treating plants, and topside compression platforms onshore and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Expert subsequently led business development and operations, including P&L responsibility, for an oilfield waste management services company.
Since 1999, Expert has served as CEO and Lead Consulting Engineer of an oil and gas engineering and consulting firm, providing business development, project engineering, and site representative consulting services to major integrated oil companies, national oil companies, drilling contractors, and oilfield service providers worldwide. Expert's engagements have spanned onshore unconventional shale development, offshore drilling and production facilities (including FPSOs, semi-submersibles, TLPs, and jack-up rigs), pipeline and gas processing infrastructure, and enhanced oil recovery operations across the United States, Brazil, Angola, and Canada. Expert's consulting work has also included due diligence, risk assessment, and asset integrity management services for institutional investors and non-operating stakeholders in exploration and production projects.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1978 | Degree: BSME | Subject: Manufacturing Industrial Engineering | Institution: Southern Illinois University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1999 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: CEO / Lead Consulting Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Responsible for business development and management of consultants and services for new-build and brownfield offshore/onshore drilling and production facilities, support vessels, and pipeline projects, serving a broad client base of major E&P operators, drilling contractors, and oilfield service companies. Representative engagements include:• Aerospace/technology conglomerate's oil & gas division — Project Engineer Consultant — July 2015–July 2016. Developed new business utilizing client intellectual property and engineering services; analyzed E&P operations across conventional onshore, deepwater, and unconventional shale operations; advised management on resource planning and project execution; led technical sales efforts with major E&P, well/marine service, and EPC companies. • International technology services provider (Norway/Houston) — Business Development/Project Management Consultant. Created and implemented sales and marketing plans; conducted technical sales presentations; closed major contracts with large E&P companies; delivered asset integrity/reliability management technology solutions. • Institutional investment company (Eagleford/Bakken Shale assets) — Project Manager/Stakeholder Representative Consultant. Conducted pre- and post-capitalization due diligence on facilities investments, drilling/completion well plans, AFE reviews, and constructability reviews; monitored progress/cost reporting. • Angola drilling and production project (national oil company client) — Project Manager/Consultant. Managed brownfield modification of a jack-up drilling rig to support a topside process system; oversaw FEED, cost control, engineering/design, execution planning, and shipyard construction through offshore commissioning. • Coal bed methane development project (Western Kentucky) — Project Management Services. Managed lease acquisition, geological/coring analysis, drilling and completions, formation de-watering, gas processing/pipeline design and construction, facility commissioning, and asset sale. • Gulf of Mexico/Brazil topside facilities project — Project Engineer/Site Representative Consultant. Managed concept FEED, project planning/cost assessment, regulatory compliance review, pipeline hookup/tieback, and commissioning/startup procedures. • Newfoundland offshore drilling project (major integrated oil company client) — Project Engineer/Site Representative Consultant. Managed survey, planning, and installation of drilling system upgrades on a submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, including acceptance testing, commissioning, and HAZOP analysis. • Brazil FPSO project (major integrated oil company client) — Project Engineer/Site Representative Consultant. Served as contract mechanical integrity engineer; provided HAZOP risk assessment, corrosion/integrity management, and inspection support. • Gulf Coast semi-submersible/TLP production facility project (major integrated oil company client) — Project Engineer/Facilities Site Representative. Evaluated topside riser and inlet manifold tie-back modifications; oversaw design, fabrication, installation, QA/QC, and HAZOP risk analysis. • Brazil drilling/production support services project (national oil company client) — Project Manager Consultant. Analyzed and oversaw operations and contract fulfillment for drill rig and production facility support services. • Texas EOR field operations project (major integrated oil company client) — Project Engineering Consultant. Managed drill and workover unit upgrades; expanded scope to sales business development and operations consulting. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1992 to 1999 | Employer: Sandhills Industries Inc. | Title: Director of Business Development and Operations | Department: |
Responsibilities:Responsible for P&L of a service company collecting and disposing of NORM-contaminated drilling mud/fluids and other hazardous waste; oversaw property acquisition, facility design/construction, TNRCC permitting, sales, and operations through company divestiture. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1983 to 1992 | Employer: Bishop Pipeline Corp. (joint venture with Zapata Drilling) | Title: CEO/Director of New Business Development | Department: |
Responsibilities:Founded and managed a company employing 160 engineers, sales, and support staff, generating annual revenues exceeding $200 million. Core business included design, construction, operation, and ownership of gas pipeline systems, gas processing/treating plants, and topside process/compression platforms onshore, inland, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Managed a team of reservoir and drilling/completion engineers; purchased natural gas and provided completion financing services from over 140 independent and major E&P companies (including ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Chesapeake, Anadarko, and Hess); sold natural gas to over 400 industrial users nationwide. Recognized as among the first companies to transport and sell natural gas across state lines, capitalizing on early-1980s natural gas market deregulation. Company was sold to MG Industries in 1992. |
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Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Site representative consultant for non-operating or JV partners financial stakeholders of E&P projects and service companies. Due diligence assessments pre and post investment. Analysis of strategic planning/design, AFE analysis, management competency analysis, overall execution, progress reports, cost control, operations, oil and gas market and service contractor market assessments. Change analysis, implementation oversight, including work out solutions and management restructuring. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| • Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) • International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) • Natural Gas Processing and Gas Conditioning Association • Produced Water Association • Society of Gas Processing Engineers |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| • IADC WellCAP (W414) — Supervisory, Drilling/Workover/Completion, Coil Tubing, Snubbing, and Wireline Operations • IADC RigPass • ModuSpec Rig Survey Workshop — Mechanical and Dynamic Positioning, Drilling and Marine Systems • Schlumberger Open Hole Log Interpretation • API 580 — Pipeline Risk-Based Inspection • DOT 195/B31.4 — Pipeline Design, Construction, Operations and Maintenance • HUET (Helicopter Underwater Escape Training) / Fall Protection / SafeGulf / TWIC |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Expert was recognized by the Houston Chamber of Commerce as one of the top upcoming professional in the oil and gas Industry. |
Fields of Expertise
oil exploration, market assessment, shale oil, offshore operations, energy generation, pipeline, petroleum engineering, strategic market planning, gas marketing, business development, sales management, EPC Contracts, development drilling, Alaska natural gas pipeline, floating offshore structure design, fixed offshore structure, multiphase flow pipeline, overbalanced oil well drilling, balanced oil well drilling, natural gas pipeline, horizontal drilling technology, renewable resource, drilling mud, diesel standby electricity generation, chemical plant maintenance, metal nondestructive testing, electric utility electric power distribution, acid gas treatment, combined-cycle electric power generating system, fishing (drilling operation), chemical plant corrosion, oil well logging, shale-oil conversion, electric power utility, renewable energy system, oil well cement