RESUME; James C. West

P. O. Box **** - *** Roosevelt Street - Seminole Oklahoma 74868

Phone # 405-***-**** & or # 661-***-****.

Email: acz49f@r.postjobfree.com or acz49f@r.postjobfree.com - Fax # 405-***-****.

STATES WORKED IN: Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Slope-Alaska & California.

EDUCATION Seminole State College, Seminole, Oklahoma. Drilling Fluids Engineering.1981.

East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma. Bachelors’ of Science in Marketing-Management.1981.

Seminole State College, Seminole, Oklahoma. Associate’s - Business Administration. 1979

Oklahoma University, Norman Oklahoma. 4 years in Architecture for a, difficult 6 Year Major.1979

Oklahoma University, Beta Theta Pi/1977. Seminole High School, Business/1975.

Graduated in May-1981, From: East Central University, Ada Oklahoma with a Bachelor’s of Science-Degree in Marketing/Management with studies in Architecture. An associate’s degree in Business and the completion in the program of, “Drilling Fluids Engineering” Had second highest score in that year’s class of 1981.

At East Central University, My Management Professor, asked me to do one paper for my entire semester for one grade on a one-time Marketing/Management paper? I choose it to be on how to start the sales, distribution and services of a drilling fluids full service company with a full line of retail products. “Drilling Fluids Engineering Services and Products”. I scored a 100% score on my business paper presentation and graduated from college the next day, May the 26th, 1981. I started MAMIMUM MUD SERVICE in Seminole, Oklahoma. I settled in Seminole Oklahoma and opened an office. At this time in the oil business it had been so good for investors and then, overnight news caused it to be the worst of times with the role of the price of oil. “Like Penn-Square Bank, OKC, OK”. Closing without notice, for Fraud, Securities Violation’s and many more charges, like Racketeering”, and many lost all they had. 1000’s of loans were never collected on? Now/Today in the oil business, it’s so very volatile not much is different from than back then, just much higher technology and being highly scrutinized by so many entities?

I STARTED MAXIMUM MUD SERVICE ONE DAY OUT OF COLLEGE. I drove to Enid Oklahoma to meet my brother that had the mud on “6-Pearson American Drilling Rigs that look just alike”, and it took us all day to check them. Then we drove to the Kansas border. We let out our two-full blooded, “Australian Blue Heelers-with Dingo, Wild Dog”. To stretch, do their thing and run in the flat very green-wheat fields in far, North, North-West/Oklahoma. I have those pictures of the dogs running in the winter wheat. While driving, we were counting all of drilling rigs drilling and planned out our new business name and as we ran the mud on the 6-Pearson American Drilling, Rigs, and worked, out of our; Chevy/Caprice-Classic, Sedan car, a true mud bucket car. It had a fuel economy -meter on the dash, showing if you were using “Minimum or Maximum Fuel Consumptions “The early day/Economy gauge”. It came to me, our name would be: “MAXIMUM MUD SERVICE”, AND IT WAS SO. I finished my hitch with Land in Enid, that week and headed to Seminole, Ok to start up an office and purchased several 4x4 Work Trucks. One was a red & white; K-5, 4x4, Chevy-Blazer-W/4 BBL-350 motor in it. And the other was blue Ford truck with a 351/400, 4BBL, motor both with installed dual exhaust pipes and rigged to work drilling mud. It was official with the paperwork and we were running MMS the summer of 1981.

COMPANIES & ENTITES I HAVE WORKED FOR. May/1981 through May 1st, 2017. British Petroleum, Arco, Mobile-Exxon, Conoco-Phillips, Primexx Operating Corporation, Devon Energy, Chesapeake Operating, Continental Resources, XTO Operating, EOG Operating, EnCanna Operating, Anadarko Oil, Marathon Oil, Chevron Oil, Antero, Seedco International, Vintage Oil and Gas, Occidental International, Antero Resources, Denbury Operating, NewTech Engineering, Cressent Consulting, Peak Energy, New Dominion LLC. Baroid/Halliburton Energy Services. MI-Schlumberger. Native Drilling Fluids. Many Small companies and contractors, unable to list them all? SOME CONTRACTORS: Patterson Drilling, Nabors Drilling, Unit Drilling, H&P Drilling, Doyon Drilling/North Slope Alaska, The OKC-Parker/Drilling Rigs. Dan D. Drilling, Crescent Consulting, Peak Energy, Cudd Well Services. Halliburton Energy Services, Cudd Well Services, MI-Swaco/Schlumberger Energy Services.

PERSONAL OBJECTIVE: Obtain a position in this very lucrative, but illusive oil and gas drilling fluids engineering market for existing and new entities that seek to exploit oil and gas reserves in the USA. I will do my part. I’m seeking to work in the Drilling Fluids Field and/or with my partner, or individually seeking to work 14’s/14’s, if possible and help each other on days when one is in a bind, over the phone or in person anytime and if it’s really needed, we can and will work together. There will be a need for this type of engineering duo, as one of us is best with “Polymers” and the other is best in “Oil base”, and he/we have worked all over the world, on and off shore, our two resumes cannot be matched ever again! We prefer, an onshore-USA hitch if possible. We do not care of the difficulty and or how hard it is? This is the most rewarding work is a one of kind of job situation. The reward is also a one of a kind if you’re into this type work, as we are whole heartedly and that it also brings top pay. We can be trusted to the most loyal situations and will work and work to help each other if and when needed if it’s all the time.

I WAS CONTRACTED FOR A LONG HITCH FOR, MR. PAUL MOORE, WITH LIONS RESOURCES-NAVSOTA TEXAS, IN THE “AUSTIN CHALK PLAY”, in South Texas but I was one of the first to be put on a rig just North of Lake Charles La. After running many small rigs in the central Oklahoma area, in 1992 we were going to south Louisiana that THIS WAS CONSIDERED DEEP WILDCAT HIGH-PSI GAS EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION: FOR, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, OKC, OK. WE WERE BREIFED, TO BE PREPARED FOR HIGH PRESSURE GAS AND WITH, EXTREEM VOLUMES IN THE; “AUSTIN CHALK PLAY” TO DEPTHS OF 22,500’ TMD’ IN MULTI-LATERIAL, EXTENDED REACH. THE FIRST OF IT’S KIND OF E&P! WE REACHED THE HIGH-PSI GAS PRIOR TO GETTING TO THE CURVE AT 15,800’ TVD. WE TOOK KICK’S BETWEEN 12-15,800’ TVD’S. BUT SOME CAME AT DEPTHS OF; 12,500’, 13,800’, 14,600’ AND THE TOP OF THE CURVE EST; 15,800 FEET DEEP. THIS HP-GAS PUSHED THE MUD OUT OF THE HOLE SO FAST. BACK THEN IT WAS NEW TO DRILL UNDERBALANCED, AND TO KNOW IT WAS COMING AND BEING PREPARED BUT NO ONE KNEW HOW MUCH WEIGHTED MUD IT WOULD TAKE AND WE LEARNED ON SITE. AFTER, SOME 220 BBLS OF MUD WERE GAINEDED, IT WAS COMING FAST, TO FAST TO BUILD THESE LARGE AMOUNTS BACK THEN WITH ONE ON SITE MUD PLANT? SO WE INSTALLED TWO 200 BBL, QUICK BUILDING MUD PLANTS AND HAD 2000 BBLS OF STORAGE AFTER THE FIRST TWO KICKS. WE HAD ALL OF THE LARGEST ON THESE MONSTER NABORS RIGS. IT SURFACED AND WAS TO BE FLAIRED, “INDUCED”? THE COMPANY MAN RAN IT THROUGH THE FLAIR LINE AND OUT TO THROUGH THE SPERATOR AND FLAIR. IT BLEW IN WITH 4,880 PSI ON DP, AND 8,800 PSI ON CASING AND WE STARTED BUILDING 16-19.5 PPG MUD WTH THE TWO MUD PLANTS AND IT TOOK ALL DAY OR TWO DAYS AND THEN SOME/MANY TIMES WE HAD TO BULL HEAD KILL, WITH 19.5 PPG MUD-WEIGTHS WITH-800 BBLS+ VOLUMES.

DRILLING with UP TO AND POSSIBLY MORE THAN THE MAXIMUM WIEIGHT OF 19.5 PPG to drill with and possibly kill with and/or bull head kill with almost on a daily basis. The average well targets were 22,500’ TMD’s, IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUSIANA: I Worked for Mr. Paul Moore, “Lions Resources” out of Navasota and College Station Texas. Contracted by; “Chesapeake Energy, out of OKC, OK”, We had to keep 2000 bbls of 14 to 18 ppg weighed mud on location at all times for this type problem and others like it. These mud bills back in the early 1990’s exceeded a $1,200,000 each well/or horizontal section with a liner ran in it. We often filled our 6X1000 sx bulk Barite tanks daily under 13,000’ feet to TMD’S. I worked on these wells until I was offered a job in Alaska for twice the pay.

MY BEST DUTY OF MY MUD CONSULTING CARRIER! North Slope Alaska in 1997+-. I Worked for Baroid/Halliburton Energy Services: My first hitch in Alaska was to work, “on and off-shore”-50 miles out on the ice! The first was a 21-day hitch that was very tough; plus 3 days’ travel each way totaling 26+- days after coming straight from South Louisiana. I came to the “Dead Horse” Camp with high written recommendations from Mr. Moore. I went through many schools each hitch for the first 4 months, I was put out on Rig Doyon # 141 my 2nd hitch for, Shared Services: BP-Arco & Doyon”! These three (3) companies were working together as one service company. (Sharing all equipment, supplies, etc). With/Doyon Drilling, (A Native Service Company. They purchased all of the very nice and very large Parker Drilling Rigs out of OKC, OK). Becoming; “Shared Services” and the Camp Providers - Baroid/Halliburton-Mud and Services/Sperry Sun BHA’s/All Extremely experienced drilling rig hands, roustabouts, pit watchers and all around camp hands for any necessary needs in the many -100 degrees below zero hitches sometimes -150 below zero with often phase 3 blizzards; (-60 below temps with 90+ MPH winds = 148 below zero). We worked through phase two (2) blizzards, in -80 blow and 60 MPH winds, but it was mandatory to shut down in a phase 3 blizzards. (This duty brought out the best of the best hands in the USA)! No job started without a prognosis/Program, safety, preparation meetings, for all and to each person to understand and know there work on the well for; BP-Arco=Shared Services, in Dead Horse Alaska! I Ran drilling fluids on all 4 sides of the North Slope Alaska, the hardest work in Alaska, where I had the opportunity to do work where other engineers could not succeed. (This was possible due to the mobility of my drilling rig and its efficiency). This rig was a like trouble shooter rig and went back to pads that other rigs failed on. I was put on the same pads they failed on, like pad # 13, that claimed 6 BHA’s, to losses to the hole in the King-Yak Shale at estimated 8,000’ TVD and 11,000 TMD’S+-, When we drilled under this bad shale, (The King-Yak Shale), with a 4-5CC WL, and a Low/No-Solids, high yield 100%, “Polymer” mud, it was problem free for my mud, because Baroid and BP-Arco and Shared Services”, allowed me to do my job with my present skills with bad shales in Oklahoma! (So BP-Built me a $250,000 mud lab on the pit level on rig, state of the art mud lab, and I used it, to my advantages, every waking minute of each 14 days of my hitch). BP’s top Supervisor came to my rig/pits and asked me personally what I was doing the others were not or could not get done. I said it is in the no-solids, polymer mud system and solids control, to the maximum. I said it’s in the mud reports/properties and that has always put me on top of the “Polymer Mud List’s” as one of the most successful engineers on the North Slope Alaska, for breaking all drilling records, by as much as 4/months in a relative drilling pad situation on a yearly contract.

THE; BP, Arco and Kerr McGee Engineers came to me and congratulated me on my successes and wanted my “Polymer-mud recipe’s”, well after well, starting on my 8th month on the North Slope, due me continuously breaking all the drilling records held for the past 30+- years. I did it also with no LTA’s and not Lost BHA’s on my watch. I/My rig Doyon # 141”, Old Parker 14, out of OKC, OK, had Finished 4 months ahead of all 19 drilling rigs on the North Slope for its allotted wells to drill. This put my rig out into virgin Ice, and Drilling on pads that were not totally ready to drill, but we drilled them, back to back like butter! (I was a 15-16-year hand in the lower 48 and I was out performing over 20 engineers with 30 years-tenured, drilling fluids experience that lived in Alaska). BP was willing to put me on their payrole and get my program exclusively, but I was loyal and stayed with Halliburton.

(BP, Arco, Kerr McGee, Halliburton and all the other shared operators in Alaska and Houston asked me personally what Am I doing the others are not, or what are they not doing? Along with these drilling records being shattered, I also completed, extracting a 5” X 660’ feet core below the Kingyak shale @ 60-70 degrees, @ 10,000 feet+-, “TMD’s”, just under the “Brittle King-Yak Shale Zone” that claimed 100’s of BHA’s in this unpredictable rock, in this area on this North Slope Alaska. While working with “Mr. Ben Broyles, the most Top- Senior Chemist-Drilling Fluids Engineer and Completion Technology Engineer for BP/Arco out of Plano Texas. NOTE: And we; Pulled a 660’ core and completed the first 3 years on the North Slope Alaska with No/NTA’s for Doyon Rig # 141 and Camp, of 60+- Men.

BP’s supervisors, met in this Baroid/Halliburton Remote Camp, Doyon Rig # 141, in Tarn-Alaska-As Far North-West as you can go onto the North Slope Alaska. There were many large Polar Bears in our areas. (Per the spotters, all around the rig). BP’s Superintendents, offered me the first job to go out and work in 5000’ of water, the deepest water yet by far for any rig in the Gulf of Mexico: Known today as the: The “Deep Water Horizon”, in the “Gulf”, that burned! Yes, the one that burned, I was the first mud engineer to be offered this mud work in 5000’ of water, by BP to anyone in the early 2000’s and it was to be kept a secret for as need to know basis for now? I told them I need some time, due to being raised on water, I had a great fear for it and did not take it lightly! See “MY MOST REWARDING WORK”,

Working the North Slope Alaska, and breaking all the drilling records for BP, Arco, Shared Services and Kerr McGee and others. Mr. Ben Broyles a Chemical Engineer and Drilling Fluids Engineer and I worked together to pull a 5” X 660’ core, (The longest on the Slope), that fully recovered 100% successful for BP/Arco’s pad, in the far NW-North Slope Alaska. I was commended and BP’s heads personally again? We received jackets was a first also: For the 3/year no LTA’s on this rig # 141 and camp of 60+- men. Doyon Rig and Camp # 141. I also received and have a letter of recommendation from: Baroid/Halliburton Energy Services. Out of Anchorage Alaska and Houston Texas for my success. (Please Request, for viewing).

WORKED MANY HORIZONTAL WELLS IN THE “BARNETT SHALE PLAY”. We started working the very start up wells of the “Barnett Shale Play”. Working for “Devon Energy-OKC-OK”, I had 6-8 drive-by drilling rigs running in the 250+ square mile area, in North Texas, running over 275 to 500 miles per day to run all 8 rigs, known as the Barnett Shale Play. “DEVON ENERGY, OKC, OK”, AND MANY SMALLER INDEPANDANTS YEARS.

MI-Swaco / Schlumberger.

I performed a perfect score, 100% from the Week-long on site school, required by: Schlumberger’s-MI-Swaco’s to work for: Occidental International – At: Elk Hills-California, out of Bakersfield Ca.

WORKED BARCUS/NATIVE DRILLING FLUIDS, ENID OKLAHOMA: Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer, built product lines, like some selective best products for our engineers to use for the best prices for our customers. Built customized MSDS books for hands and rigs. Worked rigs in all parts of the State. we had rigs running for Native Drilling Fluids, 24/7/365 working for Mr. Land West and Mr. Kevin Foxx. It was a great job, because I was doing what I love to do, “Running of Proper Drilling Fluids Materials”, using top engineering services and the best equipment possible to get the wells drilled the quickest, cleanest, while not compromising the quality of the holes pay zones drilled through.

REFERENCES: Upon Request.

Resume; James C. West – 05.01.2017

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