Petroleum Engineer Reservoir Engineering

Russell (Rusty) Lee Smith

Houston, Texas *****

832-***-****, ************@***.***

www.linkedin.com/in/russell-smith-20200117

Petroleum Engineer with 20 Plus Years in the Industry

Petroleum Engineer, Project Manager, Well Stimulation Expert, Drilling Engineer, Gas Storage Engineer,

Reservoir Engineering, Completion Engineering, Well Design, Well Testing & Analysis, Project Oversight

Cost Reductions on Well Completions, Fluent Exotic Pipe Alloys, Well Design, Horizonal Well Stimulation Design

SMRI Conference Paper, Certified Well Control, Certified Disposal Design, Certified Schlumberger Design School

Oil well enhanced production methods:

fracturing, acidizing, chemical treatments, and cementing.

Leadership and supervisory skills:

Oversite of drilling operations, well workovers, well testing, and reverse unit drilling operations.

Oversite of industrial Class I hazardous waste wells on various plants in Texas (Arkema, BP, Holly Corp, Freeport LNG, Solutia).

Oversite of injection class II non-hazardous waste well operation for all of Trisun Energy Services LLC wells.

Oversite of industrial injection Class I hazardous waste well operation for BP, Arkema, Solutia, Holly Corp.

Oversite of industrial gas and oil storge facilities including cavern, conventional formation storage.

Creating well construction budgets for drilling and completion operations (AFE).

Fracturing and completions designs in horizontal wells for both South Texas and North Dakota shale formations using coil tubing and conventional wireline plug and perf methods.

Technical writing skills:

Completed compliance documentation for state regulators in Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, California, and wrote a paper that was presented at the SMRI conference in Lafayette, LA.

Complete a feasibility study for the projected formations for Trisun Energy Services LLC

Professional sales experience:

Present proposal to various clients for usage of new fluid and electronic technologies to increased production on a number of wells for clients such as Unit Corporation, Laredo Energy, 1776 Energy, Oasis Petroleum, and Worsham Steed Gas Storage.

Petroleum Industry Skills:

Reservoir Engineering

Stimulation Engineering and Design

Drilling Engineering and Well Design

Governmental Permitting

Software/Computer Skills:

MS Office Software, MS Project, Python/VB

Aries, Pansystems, Well LOG, Schlumberger Design Software, FracPro, Gopher, MFRAC

Professional Experience

RL Smith & Associates Petroleum Consulting Services LLC May 2020 – Current

Houston, TX

Consulting Engineer and Owner

Well oversite and training of personnel on the proper way to maintain and operate a disposal well for US Ecology. Develop HSE programs for Spectrum Oilfield Solutions and Diamond Reclaimation. Did contract work for Trisun Energy on their commercial disposals located in Texas. Data review and analysis of well performance for two well at US Ecology.

Trisun Energy Services, Houston, TX March 2018 – May 2020

Director of Engineering

Maintain Trisun’s three solid waste disposal wells this includes all Texas Rail Road Commission (P18, H5 testing, H10 reporting, W-3C and W-3X extension forms, pit permit, drilling permit, injection permit) and permits for three wells all located in Texas. I assist the day-to-day operation that include all technical aspects of acquiring additional permits, land, wells, and agreements. I also have the responsibility overseeing that all Environmental, Safety, and Health policies and regulations are maintained at each facility. Perform reservoir analysis for each of the wells to determine radius of investigation and estimate the life of each well. Perform economic evaluation of projects and future prospects. Oversee well operations and Texas Railroad Commission compliance at all three facilities.

RL Smith and Associates Petroleum Consulting Services LLC, Houston, TX

Aug 2015 – March 2018

Consulting Engineer and Owner

Performed stimulation fracturing consulting work for Newfield under Ely and Associates in Oklahoma. The work for Ely consisted of job oversite ensuring that the well was fractured according to design and if necessary, make changes to accommodate the downhole condition. Did contract work for Trisun Energy on three of their commercial disposals located in Texas. The work for Trisun consisted of stimulation, design, testing, and well over site of workover projects.

Baker Hughes Inc., Houston, TX July 2013 – Aug 2015

Application Engineer / Technical Support Sales Engineer

Expert in the development of horizontal well fracturing and cementing designs for clients in South Texas and North Dakota. In house engineering for all pumping service product lines, cementing and fracturing services in horizontal well wellbores, integrating coil tubing services with pumping services and supporting sales of water management services

Major Client Projects

Oasis Petroleum: technical support development of fracturing designs and cost proposals

Cabot Oil and Gas: direct oversight of well cementing designs and proposals

Laredo Energy: indirect oversight of cementing design and fracturing treatments

1776 Energy: assisted with the development of fracturing designs and sales

Unit Petroleum: development of vertical well and horizontal well fracturing designs

Lonquist & Co., LLC, Houston, TX Mar 2012 – July 2013

Petroleum Engineer/Independent Consultant

Provide expertise on a variety of petroleum engineering projects for the company, included hazardous waste disposal well design, well stimulation procedures and designs. Responsible for the design of cavern well leaching projects including updates and new well design. Wrote a paper on downhole pipe cutting that was presented at SMRI conference in Lafayette, LA by Lonquist.

Parsons Brinckerhoff (Formally Subsurface Group, Inc.), Houston, TX Apr 2005 – Mar 2012

Petroleum Engineer

Developed expertise in field oversights of Class I hazardous / non-hazardous disposal well projects, well design and testing, performing well tests and analysis using Pansystems software. Lead in well stimulation design for Williams and BP, new waste disposal wells design for Navajo Refining, and management of change for new well projects.

Major Client Projects:

KC Industries: Well petitions for a hazardous and non-hazardous well

Navajo Refining (Holly Corp.): Conversion of abandoned oil well to non-hazardous waste disposal well

Williams: Washington, La: Maintenance on deep high pressure conventional gas storage wells

Veolia: Well testing, stimulation, and mechanical integrity repairs on non-hazardous disposal wells

BP Texas City: Well testing and stimulation of wells both non-hazardous class I disposal wells

Conoco Phillips: Borger TX facility, well testing and recompletion of bedded salt gas storage wells

Education

Bachelor of Science, Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Undergraduate courses, Business Administration Accounting, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

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