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Education
Cypress Fairbanks
High School, 9/68 5/72
Texas A&M University, 6/72 5/76
 Bachelor of
Science Degree, Petroleum Engineering
Experience
September 1986
– Present
Bruington Engineering, Ltd.
President – San Antonio, Texas
Provide in house engineering and well site consulting services.
The services
provided include but are not limited to:
onsite supervision of drilling, completion and workover operations
 snubbing operations
pipeline and
facility installation
CO2 foam frac
jobs, acid jobs, and well testing
inspection
of outside operated properties
supervision
of gaugers
open-hole and
cased-hole logging
fishing MWD
tools using coiled tubing
Experienced
in the drilling and completion of wells in the Wilcox, Frio, Yegua,
Vicksburg, Austin Chalk, Edwards, Miocene, Hockley, Olmos and Catahoula
formations.
Well depths
ranging from 500 to 17,600 feet, bottom hole pressures exceeding
15,000 psi, bottom hole temperatures in excess of 400ºF and
CO2 concentrations exceeding 10%
Office services
have included:
preparation
of procedures, cost estimates, reserve and property evaluations
estate evaluations
expert legal
witness
pressure transient
analysis
filing of Railroad
Commission forms, casing designs, bid specifications and preparation
of drilling programs.
Supervised the
drilling and completion of more than 25 horizontal wells in South
Texas. Many of these wells were drilled while producing 125 barrels
of oil per hour with 400 500 psig backpressure.
Served as the
United Nations technical representative to the Oil and Natural Gas
Commission of India for the preparation of a feasibility study regarding
the drilling and completion of horizontal wells in unconsolidated
sandstone reservoirs
Supervised the
planning and drilling of short radius lateral wells in the Edwards
Limestone
Prepared tender
offers and analyzed responses for drilling of wells in Tunisia.
Prepared well
designs for 4500-meter wells in Bolivia.
January 1986
September 1986
Crossroads Petroleum Consultants,
Inc.
Vice President of Operations – San Antonio, Texas
Onsite supervision of drilling, completion and workover operations.
Prepared cost estimates, completion procedures, drilling programs
and property evaluations.
November 1979
January 1986
Bagnall & Barber, Inc. - consulting
natural gas and petroleum engineers
Petroleum Engineer – Victoria, Texas
Onsite supervision of drilling, completion and workover operations
on wells ranging in depth from 2,000 to 15,000 feet. Supervised
activities including daily workover, completion and drilling operations,
running and cementing of casing and liners, monitoring of pore pressures
and adjusting mud weights accordingly, drill string design, selection
of solids control equipment, logging and coring operations, perforating,
fishing, drill stem testing, gravel packing, 4 point potentials,
casing designs, stimulation jobs, diamond coring, and bit nozzle
selection. Office work included reserve and property evaluations,
calculation of absolute open flow potentials, Railroad Commission
completion forms, preparation of workover and drilling procedures,
preparation of cost estimates, supervision of up to 8 field personnel.
May 1976 November
1979
Getty Oil Company
Associate, Junior Petroleum Engineer and Petroleum Engineer –
Houston, Texas
Analyzed pressure buildup and drawdown tests, constructed P/Z versus
cumulative production curves. In charge of engineering and profitability
of over 60 oil and gas wells. Responsibilities included recompletion
procedures with economics, log calculations and payout calculations.
Wrote several drilling programs for wells ranging in depth from
10,000 to 14,000 feet. Made calculations to size reciprocating gas
compressors to fit specific conditions.
Professional Organizations
Society of Petroleum
Engineers, 1975 - present
American Association of Drilling Engineers - Dallas Chapter
San Antonio Petroleum Club - Vice President, 1999 - 2000, President
2000 - 2001
American Petroleum Institute
Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas (Number 55,514)
Balcones Section of Society of Petroleum Engineers
Second Vice
President 1997, 1998
Scholarship
Chairman 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000
Balcones Energy Library, Inc. - Member
North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce 2003 Small Business Leader
of the Year Award FInalist
The Alternative Board (TAB) 2000- 2006
Industry Training and Education
Cathodic Protection
and Corrosion Seminar - Getty Oil Company, 1976
Customer Mud School. IMCO Services, 1977
Drilling Seminar, Hughes Tool Company, 1977
Compressor Seminar, Cooper Industries, 1977
Open Hole Log Interpretation, Schlumberger, 1977
Blowout Prevention School, University of Oklahoma, 1977
Well Log Interpretation, Douglas W. Hilchie, 1977
Halliburton Services Customer School, 1977
Drilling Practices, Preston Moore, 1978
Directional Drilling and Fishing Tool Seminar, Wilson Industries,
1979
Enhanced Oil Recovery Seminar, Getty Oil Company, 1979
Technical Writing Seminar, Getty Oil Company, 1979
Workover and Completion School, Rike Services, 1979
M.M.S. Basic Well Control School, University of Houston at Victoria,
Petroleum Training Institute, 1983, 1989 and 1993
M.M.S. Refresher Well Control School, UHVC PTI, 1984, 1985, 1986,
1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1996
SOR Stimulation Seminar, Dowell Schlumberger, 1985
Core Analysis, Seismic and Logging Seminar, Western Atlas International,
1987
Smith International Horizontal Drilling Seminar, 1990
Developing Area Specific Waste Management Plans for Exploration
and Production Operations, API, 1993
Economical Fracture Optimization for 3-D Models, Integrated
Energy Services, Inc., 1995
Tubular Design Technology Training, 2003
H2S Certification
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