Engineer Project Manager

Patrick J. Whalen

**** ** ***** **., *****, OK **059

Phone: 405-***-**** e-mail: *******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Work history includes 10 years experience in the oil and gas industry; and 20 years experience in the construction industry, including geotechnical engineering, environmental remediation, mining and mine surveying. Practical application in geologic mapping and map drafting; experience as a drilling fluids engineer and mud logger on oil and gas drilling rigs; oil and gas production research and development work; analysis and interpretation of geologic (mud) logs, geophysical logs, chemical and geochemical data; technical report writing; surface geophysical surveys; open pit (surface) mine surveying; drafting with AutoCAD; ground water flow path modeling; studies in sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, ore microscopy and fluid inclusions from gold bearing quartz veins; geotechnical engineering experience with soils quality, and grade control. Registered professional geologist in Wyoming (PG-3477).

Work Experience:

• Recently completed work under contract as a professional geologist for the State of Wyoming’s DEQ/UIC program reviewing and recording existing Class V permits and new applications. Other duties include mapping static water levels and contaminant plumes using hydrology software. Primary duties include State-wide site inspections on a variety of underground injection control (UIC) wells from Class I hazardous waste injection wells to Class V coal bed methane injection wells, includes the monitoring of mechanical integrity and fall-off tests.

• Water Plant Superintendent for the City of Minco, OK. Renovated a 10 year old reverse osmosis treatment facility. Resolved engineering problems that prevented the use of a 275,000 gallon standpipe that had not been in service since the plant was built 10 years ago. Replumbed the distribution system to fill existing water towers with gravity flow to distribution – eliminating the need for pumps. Plumbed reject/backwash water from the R/O to the old distribution storage tank and retrofitted a distribution pump from the former storage tank for non-potable water sales making a profit from waste water that had formerly been routed to the sewage lagoons causing overflow and excess discharge. Awarded ‘Outstanding Water Treatment Plant 2011’ by ORWA.

• Electronics Technician for Weatherford, El Reno, OK. Oil and gas well hydrofracing experience - responsible for the successful operation, performance and maintenance of all electrical and electronic equipment used on oil and gas well ‘frac’ jobs in Oklahoma and Texas.

• Geologist for an environmental firm - duties included field (drilling supervision, soil sampling, slug and injection tests) and office work (isopach/contour mapping w/ cross sections of contaminant plumes, and calculated hydraulic conductivity) on UST remediation sites. Prepared and presented subsurface maps to State regulatory officials, supervised and coordinated remediation system installation.

• Mud Engineer with Halliburton/Baroid Drilling Fluids Division - maintained the chemistry and integrity of the drilling fluid on drilling rigs while drilling, also made recommendations and provided assistance when problems occurred during drilling. Other responsibilities included keeping a running account of products used up to final billing. Drilling fluid services (drive-by and 24 hour service) for a variety of operators using oil or water base drilling fluids on drilling rigs in vertical & horizontal oil/gas exploration wells in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Texas.

• Geophysical log analysis - monitored open hole logging operations for a wireline operator in Oklahoma and Texas that included dual induction, natural gamma, density and porosity logs. Evaluated openhole logs for Sw and created a spreadsheet capable of determining Rw from SP where catalog values for Rw were non-existent. I also worked as a geochemist for an industrial/oil field chemical supplier, where I developed chemical treatments for oil and gas well stimulation, CO2 and H2S gas removal at the wellhead and patented a CO2/H2S scrubber.

• Mud logger on oil & gas exploration drilling rigs in Oklahoma (Anadarko Basin) and Texas (Permian & Ft. Worth Basins) - collected, prepared, tested and described drilled cuttings; monitored and documented gas shows; prepared and presented mud logs in a daily report to the operator and company representatives.

• Geologic mapping – Contract work with a small independent oil and gas company for whom I digitized a small well field onto USGS topographic maps and used drill hole data (mud logs & geophysical logs) in conjunction with computer software to create structural contours and isopach maps on oil leases in south central Oklahoma.

• Geotechnical engineer for a foundation drilling company - produced bid take-offs for drilled piers on large commercial buildings from digital blueprints used in estimating the cost of drilling large diameter piers for commercial projects in Oklahoma City and Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I also designed spreadsheet models for estimating drilling jobs that greatly reduced the time and improved the accuracy of the estimates, and employed 3D modeling of the subsurface to show pier placement relative to the water table and bedrock.

• Hydrogeologist – Contract work performing water well rehabilitation projects using chemical and mechanical methods on large capacity irrigation wells for Braum’s Dairy Farm and municipal water wells for the Cities of Enid and Minco. I designed an innovative chemical treatment based on chemical analyses of ground water that increased the specific capacity of water wells while destroying bacteria and neutralizing pH from prior acid treatment. I also performed shallow subsurface geophysical surveys in ground water exploration using electrical resistivity and linear applications of SP (spontaneous potential) for groundwater exploration.

• Sales engineer/project manager, Layne-Western, Wichita, KS. Duties included marketing and managing projects for a variety of water well services including water well drilling, water well rehabilitation, water treatment systems, pump repair and replacement, environmental and geotechnical drilling and sampling, and surface geophysical surveys used in the exploration for ground water.

• Contract work as a field engineer and AutoCAD drafter. Performed cut & fill grade surveys, monitored soils quality and bulk distribution on a 5-mile long irrigation canal diverting water from the Greybull River near Cody, WY. Moved to Oklahoma and worked for a surveying company.

• Mine Engineer, Bentonite Corporation, Lovell, WY. Duties included supervising development drilling projects, designing and surveying new pits and volume calculations for completed pits, ore reserves calculations, geologic mapping and mine reclamation surveys. During my tenure as mine engineer, the plant quadrupled production from 1995 to 1997 – setting an industry record.

Teaching experience 1999 – 2009: Part-time work as adjunct professor of Physical Science at Oklahoma City Community College (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2009), Chemistry (fall 2005) at Redlands Community College and Earth Science (fall 2005 & 2009) at Oklahoma City Community College.

BS (1990) & MS (1995) degrees in Geology/Geochemistry

South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD.

References available upon request.

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