Engineer Project

GRACE, SHURSEN, MOORE & ASSOCIATES, INC.

A Professional Team of Registered Consulting Petroleum Engineers

Office at: 221 Grace Lane Mailing Address: PO Box 50790

Amarillo, Texas 79124 Amarillo, Texas 79105-0790

Telephone: 806-***-**** W ebsite: www.gsm-inc.com

Fax: 806-***-**** E-Mail: abpnsb@r.postjobfree.com

a Robert D. Grace Company

RESUME

RICHARD S. CARDEN

PERSONAL:

Date of Birth: September 27, 1954

Marital Status: Married - Six children

Registered: E.I.T. Montana State Board of

Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

EDUCATION

Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology,

Butte, Montana, BS Petroleum Engineering, 1977

Preston L. Moore's Drilling Practice School

University of SW Louisiana Well Control School

EXPERIENCE

1984 - Present

GSM. - Consulting Engineer. Provides well site consulting and engineering to drill and

complete wells in the Anadarko Basin, Permian Basin and Texas Panhandle. Provides

well design work for horizontal and directional wells, development wells, exploratory

wells and air drilled wells all over the world.

Teaches industry training courses for PetroSkills. The courses include Drilling Practices,

Advanced Well Control, Directional Horizontal and Multilateral Drilling, Underbalanced

and Air Drilling, and Basic Drilling Technology. Has been teaching industry seminars

since 1981.

Has worked on numerous blowouts flowing uncontrolled at the surface and blowing out

underground. Used snubbing and stripping operations to control underground blowouts.

Designed relief wells and provided wellsite consulting for the drilling of same for

blowouts in the Anadarko Basin, SE Texas and South America. Designed and

successfully implemented dynamic kill techniques.

Provided engineering, planning and wellsite consulting for the Grand Canyon Waterline

project. The well was designed to provide a water conduit for the National Park Service.

It was directionally drilled from the top of the canyon to an exit point in the canyon. The

exit was vertically 2800' deep with a horizontal displacement of 3800'. The well was the

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first of its kind in the world having an inclination over 70 using air and mist as a drilling

fluid in a 14 3/4" hole.

Planned and provided wellsite consulting for several DOE sponsored horizontal drilling

research projects in West Virginia and Kentucky. At the time, one well was the longest

air drilled horizontal well in the world with over 2000 feet of horizontal wellbore (i.e. 87

to 92 ). The well is also the first air drilled horizontal well that was both logged and

cored at 90 . Planned and provided wellsite consulting for numerous other horizontal

drilling projects all over the United States plus a horizontal drilling project in New

Zealand.

Provided engineering and wellsite consulting for an underbalanced drilling project in

Australia. Four wells were re-entered and drilled underbalanced to minimize formation

damage. Provided engineering and wellsite consulting for numerous other projects

including an H2S injection well and power company waste water injection well.

1983 - 1984

WELL PRODUCTION TESTING, INC. - Worked as a geothermal drilling consultant in

California, Nevada, and New Mexico. Experience included well site consulting and

engineering during the completion phase of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Hot

Dry Rock Project; geothermal well design for temperatures up to 700 F; and design of

geothermal well test equipment.

1979 - 1983

GRACE, SHURSEN, MOORE & ASSOCIATES, INC. - Position held was drilling

consultant on the following:

Los Alamos National Laboratory's Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Research Project. The

project involved the drilling of two holes to an average depth of 14,000 feet, with

temperatures above 600 F. Both holes were deviated to 35 and the second hole was

drilled directly above the first with a vertical separation of 1,200 feet. The wells were

drilled through sedimentary formations to 2,500 feet and granitic rock from 2,500 to total

depth.

Experience was gained in high temperature drilling, directional work, fishing and casing

design. Completed September, 1981.

While in the Oklahoma City office, responsibilities included well site consulting for

drilling and completions in the Anadarko Basin and the Panhandle Area of Texas;

designing drilling programs for 20,000'+ wells; casing design for deep, high pressure

wells; auditing of previously completed drilling and completion programs; well design for

a relief well to kill a blowout in the Anadarko Basin; and was involved with the

directional work associated with locating and killing the blowout. Taught drilling,

pressure control, directional drilling, and completion seminars in the United States,

Venezuela, Indonesia, Europe and India.

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1978 - 1979

MARATHON OIL COMPANY, Casper District - Drilling Engineer for extensive

exploratory and development drilling program in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska,

and California. Assignments included design and planning of drilling programs and as

field supervisor of deep drilling 10,000' to 18,000' efforts.

1977 - 1978

MARATHON OIL COMPANY - Production Engineer. Assignments included field and

office work associated with oil production, workovers and completions in the Big Horn

Basin. Production Engineer for an 8,000 BOPD field under secondary recovery.

1975 - 1976

Worked summers as roustabout and engineering intern for Marathon Oil Company in the

Big Horn Basin, Wyoming.

TECHNICAL PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:

"Sidetracking Experience in Hot Granitic Wellbores", Roland A Pettitt and Richard S.

Carden, Geothermal Resource Council, Transactions Vol. 5, October, 1981, pp. 267-70.

"Precision Directional Drilling of Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Production Well EE-3",

Richard S. Carden, John C. Rowley, and Catherine Helmick, presented at the Geothermal

Resource Council 1982 annual meeting, October 11-14, 1982.

"Unique Aspects of Drilling and Completing Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Wells", R. S.

Carden, R. W. Nicholson, R. A. Pettitt, and J. C. Rowley, Journal of Petroleum

Technology, May, 1985, pp. 821-834.

Authored an instruction manual for use in the Horizontal and Directional Drilling

Seminars.

"Grand Canyon Directional Drilling and Waterline Project", G. M. Lattimore, R. S.

Carden, and T. Fischer, SPE/IADC 16169.

"Computer Applications in the Planning and Drilling of a 2000-ft Horizontal Well in

Wayne County, West Virginia", W. K. Overbey, R. S. Carden, and J. B. Williams, SPE

16501.

Drilling a 2000-ft Horizontal Well in the Devonian Shale", A. B. Yost II, W. K. Overbey,

and R. S. Carden, presented at SPE Technical Conference & Exhibition, September

27-30, 1987.

"Equations Determine Maximum Horizontal Wellbore Length", R. S. Carden, Oil and

Gas Journal, Dec. 26, 1988, pp. 121-125.

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"Directional Drilling Experience with Air", R. S. Carden and A. B. Yost II, presented at

the ASME 1990 Energy-Sources Technology Conference and exhibition, January 14-17,

1990, New Orleans, Louisiana.

"Air Drilling and Multiple Hydraulic Fracturing of a 72 Slant Well in Devonian Shale",

A. B. Yost II, R. S. Carden, J. G. Muncey, W. E. Stover, and R. J. Scheper, SPE 21264,

presented at the SPE Eastern Regional Meeting, Columbus, OH, 1990.

"Horizontal Drilling with Air", R. S. Carden, ASME paper 91-PET-19, presented at the

14th annual ASME Energy-Sources Technology Conference and Exhibition (ETCE),

January 20-23, 1991 Houston

"Air Drilling Has Some Pluses for Horizontal Wells," Oil and Gas Journal, Apr. 8, 1991,

pp. 76-78.

Co-authored an instruction manual for use in the Air Drilling Seminar.

"Feasibility Study for the Drilling of a Horizontal Well in the West Panhandle Field," L.

L. Taylor, R. S. Carden, K. A. Selinger, SPE 27929, presented at the SPE Mid -continent

Gas Symposium, Amarillo, TX, 1994.

Co-authored Underbalanced Drilling Manual, published by the Gas Research Institute,

1997. GRI reference number GRI-97/0236.

Contributing author to Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Gulf Publishing, 2003

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