Drilling Fluids Engineer / Heavy Equipment Operator / Rig Hand

Matt Hough

Email: **************@*****.***

Phone: 403-***-****

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

- Drilling Fluids Engineer / Mud Man - 2004 to present. ( 10 Years )

- Assistant Driller / Derrick Hand - 1998 to 2004. ( 6 Years )

- Heavy Equipment Operator - Certified in Dozer and Excavator operation.

Areas / Fields Worked:

- Have worked on Drilling Rigs all over Western Canada as well as Texas,

Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico, drilling both directional and

horizontal Gas and Oil Wells.

- Have worked all over BC, AB, SK, MB, Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson, Fort

Liard, Grande Cache, Grande Prairie and Tumbler Ridge areas.

- Worked North up the Alaska Highway around Fort Nelson and up to Fort

Liard.

- Sent down to work for the Houston Division of Newpark Drilling Fluids

U.S.A, where I worked in the Permian Basin (Midland - Odessa, Texas.)

- I have drilled numerous wells in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana.

Drilling mostly Fayetteville Shale Gas wells for Chesapeake Oil. As well as

several other American Oil Company's

Marquis Drilling Fluids / Q-Max Solutions July 2009 - March

2013

- Employed as a Drilling Fluids Engineer / Mud Man. As a Consultant.

- Performed daily drilling fluids chemical checks and analysis on site,

with the drilling fluid that was currently being circulated and used to

drill the well with.

- Have learned over the year's how to deal with issues or any problems

as they come. Some situations like when drilling deep high temperature and

high pressure wells, I prefer to be on location so that you can properly

monitor the well as it is being drilled and therefore you're able to stay

on top of things better.

- Severe loss circulation, High R.O.P, high weighted fluids, sloughing

shale's, Mud Rings, Balled Bits,being stuck in the hole, spotting

lubricants, spotting acids, taking kicks, H2S Gas to Surface, are just a

few problem's that I have had to deal with on multiple occasions, while

being a Drilling Fluids Engineer.

Newpark Drilling Fluids / XL Drilling Fluids April 2004 -

Feb.2009.

- Employed as the Supervisor of Drayton Valley Tank Farm. Also worked

out in the Field and a Mud Man in between looking after the Tank Farm and

my rigs that I looked after out in the Field.

- Worked as a Supervisor for two years at Newpark's Tank Farm located

in Drayton Valley, Alberta. Blending and making New Oil Based Fluids for

both Drilling and Completions work as per Customer's requests.

- I received The Employee Award for Best Field Hand in the Canadian

Division of New Park Drilling Fluids a total of 5 times in the first 2

years of work

- Participated in and set up daily safety meetings, kept safety minutes

and was involved in safety drills at the Tank Farm Facility as well as on

rig site's.

- Looked after all of the the daily operations of taking orders,

calculating the required product needed for each blend.

- Once Product had been allowed to be mixed up. Then the fluid would be

tested again, before being loaded on to the Trucks, to ensure that the

fluid had the correct properties as per the customer's request.

- Took care of all logistics that were involved with the Tank Farm and

its Operations of business.

Jo-Max Drilling / Precision Drilling July 1998

- March 2004

- Started work on a drilling rig as a Lease Hand and worked in that

position for just over a 6 months period. Then got promoted to Rough Neck.

- I worked as a Motor-Man just over 2 years on Several Jo-Max Drilling Rigs

.Working as a Motor Hand requires you to be able to fix anything and

everything within minutes so that the rig does not have to stop drilling,

unless Necessary

- I grew up on a Farm in Sask. so I was used to having to work after school

and help out get bales with the Tractors to feed Cattle and also I ran all

the equipment that we used to do the Grain Farming side of things.

- I worked as a Derrick Hand / Assistant Driller on JoMax #2, for over 3.0

years and in that time we drilled around the Tumbler Ridge / Grande Prairie

area.

- All of the Jo-Max rigs were all large triples and varied in size from

4500 meters to 6700 meter rigs, so there was a lot of stuff that you had

to know how to do and also a lot of stuff that you were able to learned

by seeing it firsthand.

CERTIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

- Completed Newpark Drilling Fluids Engineering Mud School in June of

2004 and finished in the Top 7 people of the

class 64.

- Very good computer skills have spent time using Microsoft Excel and

Microsoft Office programs and numerous different spread sheets.

- Have been driving 200 - 1000kms per day as a Mud Engineer ( Mud Man )

for the past 9 years so very used to driving a lot. And working long hours.

- Have worked all over western Canada drilling directional and horizontal

wells with multiple legs in all of the formations/zones that is being

produced from.

- Also I have work

- Standard First Aid

- CPR Level A

- H2S Alive

- WHMIS

- TDG

- 2 year welding course

REFERENCES:

References supplied upon request.

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