Project Manager Contract Engineer
Resume:
STAN ARABIE, P.E.
**********@*******.***
Professional Experience:
Consulting Engineer / Project Manager for various Oil & Gas Operators in LA & TX – 2001 to Present. 22 years of experience in drilling, completions, facilities, and production engineering for petroleum oil and gas land wells, inland-water wells, and offshore wells in both state and federal waters in Texas and Louisiana. Able to provide detailed professional engineered oil and gas well casing designs for new drills, workovers, and sidetracks. Able to provide directional well plans, casing designs, pore-pressure plots, and MASP calculations for the drilling of oil & gas wells utilizing the newest industry technologies used successfully today. Experienced in obtaining new drill, sidetrack/by-pass, and TA/P&A permits from US States and Federal Regulatory Agencies (BSEE & BOEM). Experienced in Control of Well issues for both cased-hole and open-hole oil and gas well blowouts (both surface blowouts and underground blowouts). Able to ensure that the well planning and PE certification of project wells are in accordance with the regulatory compliance rules and regulations of the area regulatory agencies involved in the permitting, the drilling, the completions, the production facilities design, and the production of well. Also able to ensure the permanent plugging and decommissioning of facilities/pipelines at the end of life of uneconomical wells.
Work Experience:
• Guardian Decommissioning from Dec-2022 to Present: o Working as a contract wells engineer / project manager in Houston Office ensuring that all project well abandonment procedure APM’s are submitted to the BSEE within compliance to perform well abandonments, pipeline decommissioning, and platform decommissioning. o Ensured that all P&A operations work executed by third-party contractors and service company vendors are performed safely and as per 30CFR Subpart Q of the BSEE Federal Regulations.
• Magellan E&P Holdings Inc from Jan 2020 to present: o Worked as a contract petroleum oil & gas facilities and production engineer for Magellan E&P Holdings Inc., Houston TX., Ensuring safe oil & gas production operations and platform facilities maintenance while overseeing all third-party vendor work involved on the MU 926 well/platform Offshore TX.
o Currently working with Magellan's legal counsel as an expert witness on a cased hole control of well incident insurance claim for a well blowout incident that began on 9-01-2020.
• Merit Energy from 01-2020 to 04-2020:
o Worked as a contract engineer for the drilling of two land wells in McAllen TX area with the Wisco Moran Drilling Co. Rig #16, utilizing Weatherford’s Secure Drill system for managed pressure drilling assistance.
• Pilot Water Solutions from 09-2019 to 12-2019:
o Worked as a contract engineer in drilling & completions on land rigs in Midland TX, overseeing the planning, drilling, & completions of saltwater disposal wells on land in West Texas.
• Couvillion Group from 09-2019 to 12- 2019:
o Worked as a contract engineer in Belle Chasse LA office gathering & analyzing all well data from the Taylor Energy MC 20 Platform wells to report findings on an expedited timeline to the US Coast Guard Unified Command for the Taylor Energy MC 20 Platform oil spill.
• Cantium LLC from 01-2019 to 08-2021:
o Worked as a contract engineer in Cantium’s Covington LA office and on wells in the field. o Ensured that proposed well designs and completions procedures were PE certified for constructing project wells to comply with the regulations and requirements, while overseeing that all work was done safely by contractors and third-party vendors used on project. o Technically ensured that all barriers for abandonment project wells were designed and permitted and that the abandonment project wells cement volumes met or exceeded the regulatory requirements.
• Cox Operating LLC from 01-2017 to 01-2019:
o Worked as a contract engineer Cox Operating New Orleans Office and out in the field on wells ensuring that all well abandonment procedures were within regulatory compliance to perform well abandonments and pipeline decommissioning.
o Supervised all work executed by third-party contractors and service company vendors.
• Yuma Energy (2016):
o Worked as a contract engineer in Houston TX office and in field overseeing the planning and drilling of a 15,000’ Lower Tuscaloosa sand test in Livingston Ph., LA utilizing Precision Land Rig #556.
• Coastal Drilling Turnkey (2016):
o Worked as a contract engineer in New Iberia LA office preparing drilling turnkey bids for South Louisiana drilling prospects and South Texas drilling turnkey prospects.
• Capital Operating Group LLC (2016):
o Worked as a contract engineer responsible for the preparation of well plans, procedures, and AFE's for the conversion of oil wells to helium gas wells in the DBK Field (Rocky Mountains 4 corners area). o Was responsible for well engineering and well operations on the drilling and workover rigs used. Safely managed operations executing the deepening, completing, & fracking of helium gas wells.
• Petroleum Engineers Inc from 08-2005 to 03-2016: o Worked as a contract engineer / project manager for various operators in the planning and permitting of new drills, sidetracks, completions, work overs, and well abandonments. o Worked in EPL/Energy XXI Oil & Gas Houston Office from July 2011 to October 2014 as a contract engineer designing well plans from the Energy XXI Geologist Prospects. Responsible for the writing of all proposed well plans for submittal to regulatory offices for permits. Ensured that well work was executed safely and successfully by third party contractors and service company vendors in accordance with all regulatory compliance safety rules and regulations. o Worked for Aspect Energy from 08-2005 to 2015 as a contract engineer / project manager planning & permitting new drills, re-entries, completions, re-completions, work overs and well abandonments on both land and inland waters in Texas & Louisiana.
• Stokes & Spiehler Engineering and Consulting Firm from 01-2002 to 08-2005: o Worked as a contract engineer on land, and inland water oil & gas prospects for various operators in TX and LA.
o Ensured that the design and execution of oil & gas wells drilling, completions, and production facilities design work were within regulatory compliance rules of the TX RRC and the LA DNR Department of Conservation agencies.
o Safely managed field operations of all third-party contractors and vendors. Smith International Inc.
Broussard LA
02/1995 - 01/2002
Drilling Engineer
• Assigned to Shell Oil Office in New Orleans LA and Muscat Oman providing drill bit optimization.
• Shell Oil office DWOP (drill well on paper) representative helping pick drill bits and design drilling BHA’s. Helmer Directional Drilling
Broussard LA
01/1994 - 02/1995
Directional Well Planning Engineer
• Designed directional well plans for various operators in the Louisiana OCS-G Region.
• Served as operations engineer in OCS-G operator’s office responsible for directional drilling operations. Dowell Schlumberger
Maurice LA
01/1993 - 01/1994
Field Engineer – Cementing, Acidizing, & Fracking Services
• Designed and executed OCS-G oil and gas well cementing and pumping services.
• Served as operations engineer responsible for pumping operations on OCS-G well locations for operators. Mud Motors, Inc.
Broussard LA
01/1989 - 01/1993
Design Engineer – PDM’s
• Designed and manufactured positive displacement drilling motors.
• Executed OCS-G rig site testing and performance analysis on mud motors. Education:
University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) Lafayette, LA bachelor’s degree 05/1990
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Driller
1980 -1985
Oil and Gas Driller on drilling rig working directly for Drilling Contractor Worked for Power Rig Drilling Company, Culver Drilling Co., Pelican Well Service, and Goldrus Drilling Co., in Louisiana & Texas both on land rigs and inland water barge rigs. Began collegiate studies in 1983 at the University of Southwestern Louisiana while working seven days on rig and seven days off rig schedule rotation. Job Related Training:
Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana (LA PE 43988) and Texas (TX PE 138883) 10/2019 Well Control Certificate IADC WELLSHARP - ID # 000*****-**/2021
• Surface and Subsurface Well Control, Drilling Supervisor Level – IADC WELLSHARP
• IWCF Well Control Certified
• Dowell Schlumberger Field Engineering Course, three-month cementing school, Kellyville, OK
• Smith Bits Factors Affecting Rate of Penetration Course, one-month drill bit school, Houston, TX
• Offshore Survival/ Helicopter Underwater Escape Training/ Fire Fighting/ First Aid
• Personnel Transfer Basket / Swing Rope
• Job Safety Analysis Training
• Incipient Fire Training (With Hands-On)
• H2S (Hydrogen Sulfide) Awareness
• Fall Protection End User with Rescue Planning Training
• Confined Space Entrant/Attendant Training
• Rigger Training
• Medic First Aid Basic v6.0
• First Aid & CPR (AMESHI-197)
• Marine Trash & Debris
• Lockout Tagout Training
Affiliations:
Society of Petroleum Engineers - Member
Additional Information:
• Software used:
• Casing Seat & Stress Check Computer Program (Landmark Casing Design Software).
• Compass (Landmark Directional Well Planning Software).
• AutoCAD (Autodesk drafting & solids modeling software).
• Microsoft Office (Word used in writing risk assessments addressing mitigation controls etc., Excel used in writing AFE/Cost Scoping/Scheduling Spreadsheets, Gantt Charts, & Stage Gates etc., Power Point used in writing presentations etc., and Access used for compiling databases etc.)
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