Engineer Drilling

J. Patrick Young

************@*****.***

Objective

Accomplished and dedicated energy professional with extensive management and operational experience of over 27+ years. Can work in the office or in the field from management, engineering to supervision. Fit any roll needed in operations.

Born: June 14,1968

Experience

Contract- Drilling Manager/operations South Texas (Dec. 2018-current)

Oversee all aspects of drilling and completions 11,500’ to 20,000’ 9.5ppg- 17.0 ppg water base/ oilbase gas wells for conventional and unconventional plays for independent operators All over the state of Texas. East, South North and west Texas experience.

Budgets, AFE’s, programs, permits for all phasing of planning and operations.

Oversea staking and building of locations as well as end of the well facilities and construction along with permitting.

Responsible for preparation of offset well research, fit for purpose casing design, directional plan, pore pressure plot, bit hydraulics, cement, and drilling fluid programs, drill rate forecast, as well as detailed drilling procedures, costs and AFEs to drill and test wells.

Organize Bid’s and establish fair market pricing, and recommend service providers for drilling and completing related service categories as well as contracts, MSA’s.

Engineer Drilling, Completions, Fracking, Workover,Plug and Abandon and Stimulation of wells.

Oversee Drilling, completion, workovers, P and A as well as stimulation and trouble shoot problem wells.

Drilling Superintendent/ Engineer KOC (Kuwait Oil Company) (2017-2018)

Responsible for direct daily operational activities for three rigs in the North Raudhatain field and 1 rig in the south Burgan field consisting of 1 HTHP well(+- 18,000 ft 18.0 ppg 340 deg.) and 2 rigs performing horizontal wells in the Ratawi shale (+- 10,000ft. 85 deg 4,000 ft heel to toe)

Continuously monitoring and analyzing all aspects of well construction process, facilitating clear communication with service providers, and by working as directed to ensure wells are drilled successfully, safely and economically

Manage well site supervisors of the daily well construction activities including drilling, running casing, cementing, performing LOT/FIT, well control, hydraulics optimization, cost tracking, reporting, and logistics

Responsible for preparation of offset well research, fit for purpose casing design, directional plan, pore pressure plot, bit, hydraulics, cement, and drilling fluid programs, drill rate forecast, as well as detailed drilling procedures, and AFEs to drill and test wells.

Organize Bid’s and establish fair market pricing, and recommend service providers for drilling related service categories

Engineer Plug and Abandon wells.

Contract Consultant of operations in Management, Superintendent, Engineering, and well-sight West Texas South Texas and New Mexico. (2016-2017).

Drilling Engineer, Completion Engineer, well-sight advisor, Field Superintendent ( floating advisor) with experience in H2S gas, water flows, ballooning, extended reach lateral and horizontal wells. Knowledge of formations in the Permian, Delaware Basins as well as Eagleford, Wilcox, Austin chalk and Haynesville shale.

Provide Comprehensive Drilling program, cement, bit, mud designs and trouble shooting along with execution of programs as well-sight advisor if needed.

3rd party review and execution of drilling programs, AFE, casing design, P&A procedures, Bid analysis and contract negotiations.

Global Offshore Drilling & Completions Manager of Offshore Drilling Center (2014- 2016)

Ecopetrol America

Ensured and Managed the production of, Implementation of, and adherence to relevant and required standards, policies and procedures to prepare Ecopetrol to become and operator in the Deepwater Offshore GOM.

Managed the Administration, Budget, HSE and hiring of all drilling staff, over saw departments in the United States as well as South America until economics parked the business unit.

Instituted the first well planning and drilling operations, provided leadership for the well engineering and operations team for HPHT wells +15,000ft,+ 350 bottom-hole temperature wells in South America ( Peru, Colombia, Brazil).

Managed / Superintendent of operations in environmentally sensitive and logistical challenged areas on land wells for Horizontal wells in South America.

Implemented a well delivery process, service of requirements, probabilistic AFE structure, global MSA structure, Basic of design, HSE, regulatory permitting, contract strategy in preparation for offshore drilling in Colombia as well as Deepwater GOM all within 1 year.

Country Manager / Superintendent for Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone / West Africa / Black Sea, Romania (2010-2014 Resident)

LUKOIL Overseas

While Resident in Takoradi, Ghana -Managed all aspects of the Drilling Project Management teams work. Managed the well planning and drilling operations and provide leadership for the well engineering and operations team.

Responsible for direct daily well engineering (Superintendent) activities and drilling operations and provide practical operations experience to the drilling team, prepare and maintain drilling project management schedule.

Review all key well engineering documents, including casing design, offset well reviews, well design documents, contracting strategy, logistics strategy and material requirement estimates.

Review key procurement documents, including tender scope of works, bid evaluations and award recommendations.

Assist with rig selection and contracting through inspection working with C and P and technical advice, manage design and operations risk assessments along with monitoring at early stage, site surveys, well site preparation, access routes and water supplies in relation to potential logistical problems.

Co-ordination of critical/emergency situations occurring during well operations. Invoice checking/coding in compliance with contract provisions. Ensure, though consultation with the HS&E Manager, that projects operate within corporate HS&E standards.

1 well drilled 20% under AFE in Sierra Leone +- 7,000 ft water depth with a 5th generation semi-submersible Rig with Logistical support for operations more than 700 nautical miles away with No incidents or accidents recorded. With office of operations in Ghana

2 wells drilled in Cote D'Ivoire ranging in water depth from 5,200 ft to +- 6,900 ft of water with a 5th generation semi-submersible under AFE with no incidents or accidents recorded under AFE by 15% maintaining office of operations in Ghana.

Prepared and set up contracts, Scope of Work, Logistics’, operational office, review and recommend well planning and winterizing of a moored Semi-submersible rig for 2,400 ft Deep Water operations in the Black Sea, Romania. Managed the dis-mantling of dual activity derrick to enable rig to be brought into the Black see as well as re-construct same once in the Black sea.

Finished project under AFE.

Drilling suspended due to lack of commercial wells being discovered.

Contract Senior Drilling Superintendent / Santos Basin/ Rio De Janerio, Brazil / Semi-Submersible / In-country (2007-2009)

Karoon Petroleum

Executed comprehensive drilling programs for 3 wells in range of 1,000 – 2100 ft. water depth wells for exploratory campaigns.

Responsible for preparation of offset well research, fit for purpose casing design, directional plan, pore pressure plot, bit, hydraulics, cement, and drilling fluid programs, drill rate forecast, as well as detailed drilling procedures, and AFEs to drill and test wells.

Organize Bid’s and establish fair market pricing, and recommend service providers for drilling related service categories and Plug and Abandon wells.

Prepare drilling time forecasts based on offset well research.

Manage well site supervisors of the daily well construction activities including drilling, running casing, cementing, performing LOT/FIT, well control, hydraulics optimization, cost tracking, reporting, and logistics

Manage procedures for drilling operations such as drilling hole sections, cementing, running casing and liners

Prepare post-well analyses analyzing and assessing costs associated with NPT and/or unanticipated drilling challenges

Review well work procedures and AFE packages; communicate with WI partners and coordinate work with field personnel

Track and analyze drilling and completion cost

Review P & A procedures and AFE packages: Review Engineer and run operations for both Sub-Sea P & A, along with offshore shelf P & A.

Senior Drilling Engineer / Drilling Supervisor Deepwater Gulf of Guinea / Equatorial Guinea West Africa / Bohia Bay / People republic of china,Cheng Dao Xi Field, Dongying China (2003-2009)

Noble Energy Inc.

Pride South Pacific Semi-submersible, Attwood Hunter Semi-submersible, - 2,300ft – 3,300 ft water depth.

Drilling multiple producing wells as water injection and gas producers, overseeing logging, side-tracking, coring and drilling horizontal heels +- 85 degrees and 1,000 ft. of horizontal drilling into the reservoir w/ drill-in-fluid mud system (ASENG PROJECT under AFE by 200MM)

Onsite Supervisor for deep water drilling and completions: running subsea tree and deploying IWOCS. Drilling reservoir w/ Drill-in-fluid and installing Expandable sand screens, slotted liners and gravel packing. displacing to brine fluids, packer fluids.

Write procedures / plan of the day for on-going operations such as drilling hole sections, cementing, running casing and liners

Bid, review, organize, establish fair market pricing, and recommend service providers for drilling related service categories and Plug and Abandon wells

Provide comprehensive drilling programs for 2,400 – 8,000 ft. water depth wells for exploratory and developmental drilling campaigns for both vertical and horizontal wells. Drilling horizontal heels +- 85 degrees with +- 1,000 ft. of displacement.

Gathering Seismic data and other offset drilling data to be used for collecting Geometrical Modeling for fit for purpose drilling horizontal wells and trending needed mud weights

Responsible for preparation of offset well research, fit for purpose casing design, directional plan, pore pressure plot, bit, hydraulics, cement, and drilling fluid programs, drill rate forecast, as well as detailed drilling procedures, and AFEs to drill and complete wells

Bid, review, organize, establish fair market pricing, and recommend service providers for drilling related service categories and Plug and Abandon wells in Eastern Mediterranean, West Africa, China and GOM

In house Drilling Superintendent (Jack-Up) in Dongying China Bohia Bay. Responsibilities- Managing and writing drilling programs/procedures for daily well construction activities including batch drilling surface hole, running and testing bop’s, running casing, cementing, performing LOT/FIT, well control, hydraulics optimization, cost tracking, reporting, and logistics

Scope of work: Six wells drilled from Platform. Three directional injector’s wells and three producing wells with horizontal sections using the K&M best drilling practices.

Horizontal sections ranging from 800ft. to 1,500 ft. drilling reservoir with Drill-in-fluid and installing slotted liners and gravel packing. Managing and writing of procedures for all displacing to brine fluids, packer fluids.

Contract Drilling Superintendent / Drilling Engineer / Drilling Supervisor Gulf Coast Region (GCR)

(1997 – 2003)

Provide comprehensive drilling programs as well as well-sight foreman for aggressive multi-rig South Louisiana,Texas offshore and land exploratory and developmental drilling campaigns for HPHT well +20,000 MD +18.0 ppg +- .08 psi/ft.

Responsible for preparation of offset well research, fit for purpose casing design, directional plan, bit, hydraulics, cement, and drilling fluid programs, drill rate forecast, general and detailed drilling procedures, and AFEs to drill and complete gas wells in at depths of 11,000’ – 28,000’ HTHP wells.

Superintendent of drilling operations, continuously monitoring and analyzing all aspects of well construction process, facilitating clear communication with service providers, and by working as directed to ensure wells are drilled successfully, safely and economically

Work as drilling superintendent during AGR Turnkey operations for Jack-up division from 3/08 to 09/08.

Prepare drilling time forecasts based on offset well research

Work onsite with well site supervisors to manage daily well construction activities including drilling, running casing, cementing, performing LOT/FIT, well control, hydraulics optimization, cost tracking, reporting, and logistics on all HPHT wells with bottom hole temp excess of 350 degrees.

Write procedures for drilling operations such as drilling hole sections, cementing, running casing and liners

Prepare post-well analyses analyzing and assessing costs associated with NPT and/or unanticipated drilling challenges

Prepare well work procedures and AFE packages for Waterflooding of multi-lateral offshore production platform using injection well, Boats, Polymers and utilizing footprint of production rig for equipment.

Prepare P & A procedures and AFE packages: Engineer and run operations for both Sub-Sea P & A, along with offshore shelf P & A.

De-commission platforms for re-use in G.O.M

MI-SWACO Business Development / Operations Manager / Senior Project Manager of Alaska / Sr. Project Engineer GOM / Sr. Mud Engineer GOM (1993 – 1997)

Responsible for personnel, operations and accounting for the specialty fluids division for MI-SWACO.

Wrote Mud programs for the drilling operators in the Cook-Inlet.

Worked Daily with Superintendents of Operators for Cook Inlet and Prudhoe Bay on logistics, recommended fluid types and oversaw drilling fluids and engineers while drilling.

Worked for several operators, recommending procedures for drilling in the G.O.M, AFE mud costs, recaps and oversaw daily operations in the drilling fluids on oil base, synthetic and water base mud systems. Worked in Deepwater, shelf, in-land barge and land in the SEUS region that consisted of HTHP wells in SEUS.

Lead mud Engineer for SEUS region in Deepwater, shelf, in-land barge and land operations.

Education

Louisiana Tech University – Bachelor of Science Department of Petroleum Engineering

Industry Training and Continuing Education

M-I SWACO L.L.C. – Mud Engineering School-1993

M-I SWACO L.L.C.- Sr. Engineer Advance training School-1996

Project Engineering School – 1996

Well Control School – WCS- Current till 2021

HUET/Boiest-cert. 2018

Advanced Mud School -1996

PEC (Petroleum Education Counsel) School-1999

Environmental Semeinars-2000

Two Day Leadership & safety Seminar-2019

Hazmat/Hazcom training-2003

ISO 9000/18000 Training – 2013 and 2015

Deepwater drilling School – 2010

Hughes Christensen- Hydraulics School – 2012

Halliburton cementing school-2014

K & M Technology- drilling design for extended reach wells- 2010 and 2014

Vetco Gray –GE Deepwater wellhead seminar 2010

AADE conference’s and seminar team leader

Permanent Address:

Houston Area

281-***-**** cell

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