Drilling & Completions Engineer/Supervisor
Resume:
Devin Brown, P.Eng. Drilling & Completion
Engineer
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Devin is a Drilling Engineer who completed a degree in Petroleum Systems Engineering from the University of Regina in
2010. Devin acquired drilling and completion rig experience while attending University. Prior to graduation he enrolled in
a 16 month co-operative education internship with Husky Energy that was spent with the Thermal Heavy Oil Operations
team and the Drilling East team working in the Lloydminster Heavy Oil and Gas District.
After graduation; Devin started working in Saudi Arabia as a field engineer drilling underbalanced gas wells in the Haradh
field. Since returning to Canada, he has worked primarily in Oil Sands including a winter field position with MEG, and
2.5 years with Nexen. Devin has also done short term work for Suncor in their deep gas team and worked on specialty
projects for Benchmark.
Devin enjoys a challenge and working in a high pressure environment. Devin has both field and office experience and is
currently seeking a field/office drilling, completion or abandonment engineering position where he would be able to apply
and increase his experience and engineering skills. Due to international and Canadian experience; Devin is competent
working with both metric and imperial/oilfield units.
EXPERIENCE
Sep 2012 – Feb 2015 Nexen Energy ULC – Calgary & Fort McMurray, AB (via Benchmark)
Oilsands Drilling Engineer
• SAGD/Delineation Field Engineer
• 2013/2014 Delineation Project Engineer
• Benchmarking, cost estimation & planning, reporting, well design
May 2012 – Aug 2012 Suncor Energy – Calgary, AB (via Benchmark)
Drilling Engineer
• Data mining/ tour review of historic wells in Kobes/Altares field
• Offset Well bit, casing, cement and well event analysis
• Time estimation based on offset data
Dec 2011 – Feb 2012 MEG Energy – Calgary & Fort McMurray, AB (via Benchmark)
Field/Office Drilling Engineer
• Observing and Wellview documentation of SAGD activities
• Benchmarking performance from pad to pad
• Preparation of End of Pad Reports
Oct 2011 – Dec 2011 Benchmark Engineering Inc. – Calgary, AB
Feb 2012 – May 2012 Drilling & Completions E.I.T.
• Well programming, Supervision of daily operations
• Cost estimates and planning
• Client relations
June 2010 – Oct 2011 Sperry Drilling Services (Halliburton) – Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Geobalance Applications Well Site Drilling Engineer
• Aramco CT-UBD project – Level 4 & 5 underbalance, multi-lateral deep gas re-entries
• Evaluation of realtime drilling data & making recommendations to company
representative
• Simulating & adjusting underbalanced drilling parameters to optimize drilling
performance
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Devin Brown, P.Eng. Drilling & Completion
Engineer
Jan 2009 – Sept 2009 Husky Energy – Calgary, AB
Drilling Engineering Internship Student
• Preparation of cost estimates, drilling stick diagrams, well licenses, etc
• Evaluation of new mud systems, experimental drilling procedures and cementing
techniques
• Member of Unconventional Drilling Team and Lost Circulation Mitigation Team
May 2008 – Jan 2009 Husky Energy – Calgary, AB
Thermal Reservoir Engineering Internship Student
• Evaluation and simulation of steam flood, CSS and SAGD data
• Evaluation and design of new SAGD startup procedures
• Reserves calculation and evaluation using volumentrics and decline curve analysis
industry
June 2006 – June 2008 Ensign Big Sky Drilling – Oxbow, SK
Floorhand, motorman, relief derrickman
• General rig work/maintenance, operating loader and boiler
• Instructing floorhands and promoting safe work practices
• Mixing mud products and working in the derrick while tripping
May 2005 – Sep 2005 Nabors Production Services – Lloydminster, AB
Floorhand, relief derrickman
• General rig work/maintenance,
• Driving/operating pump truck
• Running tongs & tallying pipe
EDUCATION & TICKETS
1 University of Regina – Regina, SK
1 Bachelors of Applied Science, Completion April 2010
2 Petroleum Systems Engineering
3 Gordon F. Kells High School – Carlyle, Sask
4 High School Diploma Graduation: June 2003
5 Honor Roll Student, Grade 7-12
2 P.Eng. (APEGA)
3 Enform 2nd Line BOP
4 Enform Safety Management & Regulatory Awareness for Wellsite Supervision
5 Enform Well Service Blow Out Prevention
6 Enform Coiled Tubing Well Servicing Blow Out Prevention
7 H2S Alive
8 St. John’s First Aid/CPR
9 WHMIS/TDG
10 Randy Smith Training Center – Stuck Pipe Prevention
11 NOV CTES – Cerberus Coil Tubing Modeling & Fatigue Simulation
12 Newpark Drilling Fluid Mud Schools (4)
13 MI Swaco Mud School
14 Weatherford Fishing School
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Devin Brown, P.Eng. Drilling & Completion
Engineer
15 Tesco Casing Drilling School
16 IHS Accumap, Halliburton Landmark/Insite, Peloton Rigview/Wellview, NOV Welldata, PASON
17 IADC WELLCAP (expired)
REFERENCES Available upon request
Appendix A
Detailed Experience:
Devin has spent the last two and a half years working in Nexen’s Oil Sands team as a drilling engineer. He started
working as a wellsite drilling engineer overseeing operations on two SAGD slant rigs; one located in Kinosis, the other in
Long Lake. During the winter; Devin was assigned to the Delineation program where he assisted wellsite supervisors
with daily reports, calculations and helped document & solve any major issues. Devin would return to the SAGD rigs
briefly before being brought into the office to plan the 2013/2014 winter delineation program. This project involved
drilling 181 core/strat/directional wells with 11 rigs across 5 different areas in 100 days. These wells had depths ranging
from, 230m (750 ft) up to 750m (2,500ft). It was deemed a huge success by all at Nexen, having set records for lowest
TRIF, Lowest NPT and fastest days/well; all while finishing under budget. After this, Devin was assigned to plan SAGD
infill wells in Long Lake.
In the spring of 2012; Suncor required additional manpower in their NEBC drilling team performing offset analysis and
data mining in the area adjacent to their Kobes/Altares blowout. This involved analyzing bit tour sheets, bit records,
cement/mud densities and casing string designs based on public data that could be attained through Accumap and
internal data from Wellview.
Benchmark has also utilized Devin in their office for special projects and busy times. He helped to drill, complete and
abandon a CO2 sequestration test well in central Alberta, plan slant wells, and cost estimation and engineering of a
client’s potential SAGD project. Devin also helped with the day-to-day drilling operations of a client’s wells in the Swan
Hills area.
Upon completion of Petroleum Systems Engineering degree from the University of Regina; Devin began working for
Sperry Drilling Services (Halliburton) in Saudi Arabia as a Geobalance Applications Well Site Drilling Engineer. He
worked in the Gwarh field on the Saudi Aramco underbalance coil tubing drilling (UB-CTD) project. This project
involved setting a whipstock in production casing/liner/tubing in a depleted gas well, milling a window and drilling
multiple horizontal legs attempting to intercept undrained layers of reservoir, while continuing to export produced gas
and condensate. Once the well was drilled it would be opened up and flow tested. Some key responsibilities involved
evaluation of drilling parameters, pressure deployment/undeployment of BHAs, preparation of daily reports & end of well
reports, as well as flow modeling, coil fatigue and lockup modeling.
During university Devin enrolled in a 16 month co-operative education internship with Husky Energy from May 2008 to
September 2009. The first 8 months of the internship were spent working with the Thermal Heavy Oil Operations team.
Primary duties involved evaluating performance of SAGD and CSS wells and steamflood patterns. Devin was also highly
involved with development plans for existing and future steam projects in the Lloydminster area. He worked with Sr. and
Jr. engineers to develop new SAGD startup procedures as well as reserves calculations and booking.
The last 8 months of the internship were spent with the Drilling East team working in the Lloydminster Heavy Oil and Gas
District. During this time, Husky had invested significant capital to evaluate new drilling technologies in order to lower
future drilling costs such as drilling with casing (DWC) and specialty mud systems such as aphrons and ultra-high low
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Devin Brown, P.Eng. Drilling & Completion
Engineer
shear rate viscosity (ULHSRV) mud. One of the most significant innovations was the development of Husky’s
hydrostatically controlled cement plug which was designed for cementing in the wormhole environments in heavy oil
reservoirs. This tool was designed by the unconventional drilling team and has increased the lost circulation cement plug
success rate from 20% to over 83% while severely reducing the cost.
Devin is the type of person who enjoys a challenge and working in a high pressure environment. His career goal is to
become an operations manager. He already has a diverse background and with experience including over 2.5 years of oil
sands drilling, 1.5 years as a UBD Well Site Drilling Engineer in Saudi Arabia for Halliburton, 8 months of internship at
Husky as a Drilling Engineer, 8 months of internship at Husky as a Thermal Reservoir Engineer, 2 years on drilling rigs
(Ensign- Big Sky Drilling) in south east Saskatchewan, and summer spent working service rigs (Nabors) around
Lloydminster. Devin’s experience includes knowledge of light oil heavy oil and gas drilling. Devin is motivated,
personable, hard working and has exhibited a talent for quickly mastering new technology and skills. He is honest and
receptive with professionals and non-professionals at all levels and will not hesitate to take on new challenges in order to
expand his experience base. Devin is currently seeking a field/office drilling, completion or abandonment engineering
position where he would be able to apply and increase his experience and engineering skills.
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