Senoir Completion Engineer
Resume:
David Spitz
Yukon, OK
Mobile Phone 918-***-****
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STRENGTHS AND SKILLS
• Diverse engineering and consulting experience in the Permian Basin, Mid Continent, Rocky Mountain and Southern California areas
• Software: MS Office, FracPro, Arc GIS, Aries, Wellview
• 30 years in Completions, and Re-Completions
• 20 years Drilling: Horizontal, Conventional and Non-conventional
• 10 years in flowback
• 10 years experience of water management,
• Well control certified, H2S Training, Safeland training WORK HISTORY
Current Completion Consultant *Chisholm Oil and Gas* OK (Scoop/Stack area)
• Field Supervised all frac and clean out operations
• Responsible for all safety and spills on location.
• Managed water transfer and flowback operations
• Coordinated all wireline and coil tubing operations 2013- 2014 `Senior Completion Engineer* International Energy Corporation. * Tulsa, OK
• Managed all office staff associated with completion operations, exploration and regulatory.
• Responsible for all new completion design.
• New completions consisted of Mississippi verticals wells in Kay Co. and other conventional plays in Mid Continent area.
• Supervised junior level engineer
2012-2013 Senior Completion Engineer* Mustang Fuel Corporation. * Okla City, OK
• Coordinate all services involved with completion and production for this venture.
• Managed all field staff associated with completion operations.
• Reported directly to the President of the Company. Operations were mainly Mid Continent area.
2009-2012 Completion Engineer* Plymouth Exploration LLC. * Tulsa, OK
• Coordinate all services involved with completion and production for this venture.
• Operations for this company are in the Mid Continent area that consist mainly of horizontal Mississippi and Cleveland wells.
• Prepared AFE’s along with economic performance on each project.
• Exposed to various artificial lift method.
2004-2009 Engineering Manager* Amvest Osage/Constellation Energy Partners. * Tulsa, OK
• Supervised both Production and Drilling departments along with the support staff .
• Before being promoted to manager my duties were to Design, monitor and implement all drilling and completion work, which has averaged sixty wells per year in the Cherokee Basin.
• Responsible for the horizontal drilling and completion of very thin coal seam targets.
• Have prepared and installed certain stimulation and tracking programs to improve both new and old production. Installed chemical programs and changed lifting techniques to start lowering LOE 2003-2004 Contract Completions and Drilling Engineer* Piceance Basin, Permian Basin and Southern Utah area
• Spent six months as Stimulation Consultant for Encana in the Rifle Colorado area. Field coordinated the stimulation and completion of Mesaverde and coalbed methane wells in the Pieance Basin.
• At Devon office in Oklahoma City:
o Supervised up to five drilling rigs in the Permian Basin ranging from Morrow wells (12,500’) to Bone Springs wells (7800’)
o Prepared AFE’s, drilling prognosis and spud books for each well drilled. o In Southern Utah prepared AFE’s and drilling programs for an exploratory area that was developing the Navajo Sand. Was also the onsite consultant for both the drilling and completion aspect for this discovery
2001-2003 Drilling/ Completion/Production Engineer* Newfield Mid Continent. * Tulsa, OK
• Coordinated up to six drilling and four completion rigs during peak activity in Western Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle.
• Stabilized cost on both the drilling and completion side during a period of increasing rig rates.
• Supervised 130 wells on the production side throughout the mid continent area.
• Increased production from 23 to 29 mmcfd through workovers, payadds, compression, velocity strings, plunger lifts, installing downhole pumps and soap strings.
• Lowered lifting cost by 20% in supervised area by eliminating unprofitable methods of operations.
1997-2001 Drilling/ Completion Engineer * Williams Production Co. * Tulsa, OK
• Supervised the drilling and completion of over 120 wells ranging from Coalbed Methane to all conventional formations all in the San Juan Basin.
• Contributed to a team that increased coal seam production in 80 wells from 5 mcfd to 50 mcfd.
• Lowered overall completion cost by 10% without increasing cost of service.
• Gained experience in directional drilling, both in mud and air applications on mostly tight gas sands.
• Prepared AFE’s along with reservoir and economic forecast for all drilling projects that were undertaken.
• Was responsible for all aspects of permitting on both federal and private lands. 1990-1997 Completions Engineer Western/ BJ Services * Farmington, NM/ Tulsa, OK
• Duties involved being an in house alliance engineer with Williams Production Co., whose main production was the San Juan Basin.
• Was responsible for designing cement and fracturing jobs along with implementing a quality control program to enhance production while keeping cost low.
• Tracking production along with forecasting reserves using Aries and Power Tools were both required for comparing new frac designs.
• Achieved 15% increase in 1st year production compared to direct offsets Mesaverde wells along with a 10% decrease in completion cost.
1988-1990 Wireline Engineer * Halliburton Logging Services * Bakersfield, CA
• Handled all aspects of operating and selling cased hole services.
• Provided technical support in interpreting both cased and open hole logs. EDUCATION
1981-1986 B.S. Petroleum Engineering- University of Oklahoma AFFILIATIONS
1986- Current Society of Petroleum Engineers
American Association of Drilling Engineers
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