Team Leader Control

David Thompson

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Cypress, Texas 77429 USA

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS 281-***-**** (Home)

281-***-**** (Cell)

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LEADER/TEAM PLAYER

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER

COMMUNICATOR

QUALIFICATIONS

SELF-STARTER

RESPONSIBLE

Through extensive research, testing, enhanced operational methods,

ORGANIZED

and proven techniques, I possess the capability to fill multiple job

RESOURCEFUL

needs with wide-ranging skills. My astute abilities will not only

improve your company’s success rate in extinguishing and capping oil

CRUCIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE and gas well fires and blowouts but enhance your financial bottom line.

OIL WELL FIRES AND BLOWOUTS As part of an international leadership team, my group was

HIGH PRESSURE SNUBBING responsible for successfully extinguishing 128 of the more than 700 oil

HIGH PRESSURE COIL TUBING well fires in Kuwait during the Gulf War. My expertise in management

FREEZING and proven accurate job assessment led a team through difficult

HOT TAPPING conditions.

VALVE DRILLING

PROJECT MANAGEMENT An Effective communicator utilizing extensive experience and

CRITICAL W ELL ABANDONMENT training, I facilitate knowledge transfer in a challenging and engaging

manner interacting with team members, learners, corporate

GLOBAL OPERATIONS executives, and the public. I am a proficient instructor sharing real

world experiences of blowouts and other well control events to teach

prevention, process, and control.

AUSTRALIA

BOLIVIA

CHINA EMPLOYMENT

COLUMBIA Cudd Well Control, Inc., Houston, TX

EGYPT (OFFSHORE) (Division of Cudd Pressure Control, Inc.)

1999–2009

ITALY

Division Manager

KUWAIT

Designed and managed well control equipment at Houston facility

MOROCCO

Enhanced operational methods and techniques

NIGERIA

Developed, promoted, and facilitated safety programs

NORTH SEA Team Leader on 5 oil well fires blown up in Colombia

ADRIATIC SEA Team Leader on inland waters blowout in South Louisiana

RED SEA Team Leader on drilling rig gas fire beside major interstate in

TRINIDAD Louisiana

VENEZUELA Team Leader on drilling rig gas well blowout in South Texas

Team Leader on gas blowout jack -up rig offshore of Trinidad

UNITED STATES:

Team Leader on Geo-Thermal production well blowout in Australia

ALASKA

CALIFORNIA

HAWAII

Well Control Inc., Spring, TX

LOUISIANA

1997–1999

MISSISSIPPI Senior Well Control Specialist

TEXAS Team Leader on oil well blowout in Mississippi

UTAH Team Leader on platform gas well blowout recovery offshore of Egypt

COLORADO Assisted killing shallow well blowout jack-up rig in Bohau Bay, China

W YOMING Assisted in kill operation on shallow gas blowout semi-submersible in

ARKANSAS the North Sea

INDIANA Team Leader on production gas well blowout in Bolivia

Assisted on drilling rig oil well blowout (16,000) BPD in North

NEW MEXICO

Louisiana

GOM

EXPERIENCE (continued)

Boots & Coots, Inc., Houston, TX

1984–1997

Partner and Senior Well Control Specialist

Assisted Boots Hansen on 32% H2S gas well fire in Mississippi, capped while burning

Assisted Boots Hansen on Sub Sea well blowout offshore of Italy

Assisted Boots Hansen on production oil well blowout in North Texas

Assisted Coots Mathews on gas well blowout on jack -up rig offshore of Egypt

Assisted Boots Hansen on capping operations of large oil well blowout in South Louisiana

Team Leader on oil well blowout and supervised killing eleven other wells on multi-well platform offshore of

the Red Sea

Assisted Boots Hansen on gas well blowout on platform in Cook Inlet, Alaska

Assisted Boots Hansen on underground blowout on jack-up rig offshore of Pascagoula, Mississippi

Assisted Boots Hansen on oil well fire drilling rig in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

Team leader for kill operations on Geo-Thermal well in Hilo, Hawaii

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Team Leader on gas well blowout on 2 largest drilling rig in the world in Lysite, Wyoming

Team Leader on 25,000 BPD salt water blowout drilling rig in South Louisiana

Team Leader on production gas well blowout in Nigeria

Team Leader on gas well blowout drilling rig in Morocco

Team Leader in Kuwait responsible for extinguishing and capping numerous wells

Team Leader on gas well blowout offshore jack-up Texas using Dynamic kill

Team Leader on gas well blowout (250MCF per day) Elk Hills, California

Team Leader on gas well blowout (300 MCF, per day) supervised snubbing and well killing operations

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Best Hughes, Inc., Houston, TX 1981–1984

Snubbing, Coil Tubing, and Corporate Sales

Cameron Iron Works, Lake Charles, LA 1979–1981

Service Technician–Well head installation, BPV installation and removal and installation chokes

Amoco Production, Lake Charles, LA 1974–1979

Roustabout, Pumper, and Operator in gas plant

United States Army 1971–1973

Military Police (Honorable Discharge)

TRAINING

CPCI Interactive Training–Fire Prevention, First Aid and CPR, Blood Borne Pathogens, Personal Protective

Equipment (PPE), Stairway and Ladder Safety, Back Injury Protect ion, Hearing Conservation, Fall Protection, Walking

and Working Surfaces, DOT Drug Awareness, Lock Out/Tag Out, Respirators, Electrical Safety, Smith Defensive

Driving System, Hazmat, Right to Know, Rig Pass

Class Room Safety Training–First Aid/CPR, Blood Borne Pathogens, H2S, Crane Operating, Rigging, Forklift

Safety, Smith Defensive Driving System, Fall Protection, W alking and Working Surfaces, DOT Drug Awareness, Lock

Out/ Tag Out, Respirators, Electrical Safety, Right to Know, PPE, P.E.C. Orientation, Accident Investigation, Rig Pass

EDUCATION

McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

LaGrange High School, Lake Charles, LA

David Thompson

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