Software Engineer

Resume: Lee William Almasy *********@*****.*** 985-***-****

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Madisonville, LA 70447

Work Experience:

Petroleum Engineer (5/00 to the present, U.S. Department of Interior)

(@ Bureau Safety and Environment Enforcement, (BSEE), New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007 to present)

Gulf of Mexico, (GOM), offshore wells

* Examining operator's requests for well abandonment, these include reviewing geology,

well logs, remaining reserves, and simulation.

* Single well simulation - Worst Case Discharge (WCD) and Pressure Gradient (PG) analysis.

utilizing OLGA-ROCX and Merlin Reservoir Simulators.

* Determined company-wide proved producing reserves for Gulf Of Mexico operators.

* Requests to change wells’ completion zone. (including abandonment requests)

* Evaluating requests to down-hole commingle reservoirs.

* Decline curve analysis (DCA) using Peep DCA software, (individual wells and fieldwide),

Also I have created custom interactive DCA software (Java programming language)

Wyoming, federal onshore

(@ Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Casper, Wyoming, 2000 to 2007)

* ‘Paying Well’ reserves determination using decline curve analysis using PowerTools DCA

software, for federal units.

* special reservoir studies (CBM well spacing issues & well/cashflow economics)

* gas drainage area and well spacing determinations for tight gas reservoirs.

* created reservoir simulation software for determining pressure distribution during CBM

dewatering.

Reservoir Engineering Accomplishments:

* Created Decline Curve Analysis (DCA) DeclinePro software using the Java programming

language which features easy to use interactive graphics/economics.

* Created drainage radius software for tight gas sands gas wells (utilizing material balance

and EUR from DCA).

* Created finite-difference-element reservoir simulator software program using MS Visual

C++/MFC. Used in estimating pressure distributions in the Powder River Basin’s coal bed

methane development.

* Reservoir pressure-calculating software using Excel with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

embedded in it. This software permits a coal bed methane well’s water production and well

location to be easily copied and pasted into an Excel sheet and pressure distribution

calculated for wells in the Powder River Basin.

* Created software application for calculating the “z-factor” for real gases.

Excel/Visual Basic Application that sorts through a list of 100,000 gas wells and coal drill

hole data, determining the tops and bottoms of each of the major coal seams thus permitting

contour maps to be created by ArcGIS. The USGS in Denver is using this software to create

structural maps of the massive coal seams of the Powder River Basin.

* Created MS Access database for information regarding federal oil and gas leases.

* Exploring the uses of artificial neural networks in reservoir characterization.

* Created financial ‘cash flow’ models for evaluating the economics using the Visual Basic for

Applications computer language embedded in Excel regression program which creates an

equation which is used to calculate net present worth (NPV) of future natural gas wells (as a

function of gas prices, drilling costs and estimated gas reserves).

* Evaluated Pavillion and Muddy Ridge (Wyoming) gas fields’ proved producing reserves

using PowerTools’s DCA software for the Indian Tribes.

* Evaluated the economics for various gas well spacings (40 an 80 acres) for future

drilling/development Cooper Reservoir, and Jonah fields (Wyoming) for various

well spacing (40, 20, 10 and 5-acre). Used type curves derived from DCA

analysis of existing wells.

* Created study addressing CBM well spacing development issues – vertical aquifer leakage

(40, 80 or 160- acre) for the Atlantic Rim CBM area, Wyoming.

* Evaluate Unitization / plans of development in federal oil & gas units.

* Thousands of ‘paying well determinations’ (decline curve analyses/PowerTools)

for CBM and tight gas sands in federal units in Wyoming.

Computer Programmer/Analyst - (11/1996-9/1997) Responsible for creating code (University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Human Genetics)

‘C’ programmer and created ‘C’ computer code for a program called Mega1. Mega1 is a data extraction program which takes genetic data flat file and extracts and data to create a flat file which may be used as input data for genetic flow simulation models. (Google 'Mega2')

Gulf Oil Corp (1978-1982) Sr Enhanced Recovery Engineer - Evaluated potential enhanced recovery projects,

Education:

Bachelor of Science - Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

(Pennsylvania State University).

Master of Science in Information Science (University of Pittsburgh)

Post Baccalaureate Courses (90 + credits)

Numerical Simulation of Petroleum Reservoirs (University of Houston)

Total (undergraduate and graduate) credits -> 260 credits

Computer Languages

Visual C++/MFC, Fortran and Numerical Techniques, “C”, C++, Java, HTML, and Visual Basic, COBOL, SQL Pascal, Octave and SQL.

MS Access database design and MS Excel w/visual basic embedded.

Machine Learning Courses:

Advanced Data-Driven Analytics for Reservoir and Production Management of Shale Assets – Society of Petroleum Engineers - Digital Energy Conference 2015

Machine Learning – 10 week course (July 2013) Stanford University (via coursera.org) – Artificial Neural Networks, Linear Regression, Large Data Sets, Principal Component Analysis, Support Vector Machines., 2013

Pattern Discovery in Data Mining – 4 week course (March 2015) University of Illinois –Urbana-Champaign (via coursera.org)

Text Retrieval and Search Engines 4 week course (March 2015) University of Illinois –Urbana-Champaign (via coursera.org)

Industry Petroleum Short Courses:

Waterflood A-Z – 1 week course, PetroSkills, 2015

OLGA-ROCX, Multiflash PVT (Schlumberger) 1 week course, 2015

Merlin Reservoir Simulator - use of the Merlin black oil simulator. 2009

Pulsed Neutron Production Logging – PetroSkills, 2009

Basic 3D Geophysics – 1 week course, PetroSkills, 2010

Casing Design and Cementing – 1 week course, PetroSkills, 2013

Calculus – Ohio State (May 2013) – 16 week course (coursera.org), 2013

OLGA Well Dynamics (Schlumberger) 1 week course, 2014

LESA- petrophysics well log analysis (digitalformation.com) 1 week course, 2014

Reservoir Simulation Strategies – PetroSkills 1 week course, 2014

Petrel (Introduction) – Schlumberger, May 2014

PVT preparation for simulation – PetroSkills 1 week, 2014

Coalbed Methane Reservoir Analysis – (Questa Engineering, CO) – use of CBM simulators and CBM reservoir characterization.

Advanced Reservoir Modeling in Desorption-Controlled Reservoirs – (ARI) – CBM Reservoir Engineering.

Schlumberger Nodal Analysis

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