Petroleum Engineer

Ronn Brock, P.E.

SUMMARY:

An engineer who has worked in multiple assignments of increasing responsibility while working for two major oil companies and a service company in the Permian Basin and Mid-Continent areas in Texas and Eastern New Mexico oilfields and served with distinction with the Corps of Engineers when the industry was contracting. My extensive experience with the Corps of Engineers includes helping to restart the Iraqi oil industry after Enduring Freedom. I have extensive Field Operations Experience including workovers and completions. I also have experience in reservoir engineering, production engineering, and natural gas engineering and all areas of basic petroleum engineering. To complement my petroleum engineering training and experience I also have training and experience in water resources and environmental engineering,

EDUCATION:

M.Sc., Civil Engineering (Water Resources/ Environmental Engineering), Texas Tech University

B.Sc., Petroleum Engineering, Texas Tech University

SUMMARY OF EMPLOYMENT:

Ronn Brock, P.E. April 2008 – Present

• I am currently providing all phases of petroleum engineering support for an investment group developing a multi-pay field. This includes the drilling and cementing program, logging, completions, artificial lift, design of surface facilities, gas metering, and design of the gas gathering systems. I am also providing the reservoir engineering work of reserves estimation, and providing any project management services this investment group may need.

• Contracting with a consulting Engineering firm in Dallas performing property evaluation work.

• Before the Corps of Engineers civil service I worked for Gulf Oil / Chevron U.S.A. over 10 years and an acidizing and fracture treatment service company before that.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (retired from the Corps April, 2008)

Petroleum Engineer

Technical Expert and Deputy Project Manager with Task Force Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO)

working with Iraqi South Oil Company Nationals and numerous agencies and contractors

to restore Iraqi oil production. (April – July 2003)

Navigation Business Line Manager, 2005 – March 2008

Southwestern Division, Dallas, Texas (Water Resource Experience)

• Acting Deputy, Operations Division (April 2008 – February 2009)

• Responsible for Coordinating Navigation Issues for the Galveston, Little Rock, and Tulsa Districts.

• Coordinate dredging and other budgetary matters for the Gulf Intercoastal Water Way, Texas Coastal Ports, and the McClellan-Kerr Waterway.

• Additional responsibility as acting Deputy, Operations Division, May 2007-February

Hydraulic Engineer 2002-2005

Project Cooperative Agreement Coordinator – Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

• Responsible for the national stream gaging program, on average, a $14 M program. I coordinated the national program with all Corps districts and the servicing agencies – The US Geological Survey and the National Weather Service.

• Responsible for five hydrologic General Investigation funded programs and their coordination with the districts and laboratories performing these studies.

• Produced the annual US Army Corps report of Flood Damages Prevented Report to Congress.

• Responsible for coordinating the evaluation of the South Pacific Division Project Coordination Agreements in headquarters and the eventual approving of these by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.

• Presented the Corps’ capability in flood control and water monitoring to various groups including distinguished international visitors such as the future water minister of South Korea.

• Briefed top management on flooding outlooks and weather conditions during times of river flooding causes bay natural disasters such as hurricanes.

Reservoir Management Engineer 1999-2002

Southwestern Division, Dallas, Texas

• Coordinated flood control operations with the four districts in the division.

• Obtained deviations from the approved water control plans during times of flooding and other special operations.

• Responsible for annual reports to headquarters and for the annual budget cycles of water monitoring for the four districts with the cooperating agencies – US Geological Survey and the National Weather Service.

• Responsible for briefing management on flooding issues during times of emergencies.

• Chairman of the 2001-02 Texas Water Monitoring Congress.

• Coordinated the implementation of the Corps Water Management System with the four districts.

• Coordinated hydropower swapping within the division during times of drought to meet national hydropower commitments.

• Project Manager, Europe District, Wiesbaden, Germany

• Coordinated the budgetary requirements of local base construction needs with the long term planning process.

• Prepared Statement of Services for Summary Development Plans for a military housing community.

Reservoir Management Engineer 1991-1999

Galveston District, Galveston, Texas

• Co-managed the flood control reservoir protecting much of Northwestern and downtown Houston, Texas from flooding. During this time hundreds of millions of dollars of flood damage was prevented in Houston.

• Managed the Unix based water management system for the district.

• Prepared annual flood damage reports to the Southwestern Division.

• Co-prepared the annual water monitoring budget.

• Served as acting team leader

• Conducted the hydrologic study portion of a major flood control project investigation for a bayou in the City of Houston.

Project Manager 9/91-11/91

Hurricane Andrew recovery mission, Homestead, Florida.

• Served as a project manager for debris removal and waste management during the recovery mission.

• Negotiated indefinite delivery contracts and monitored contracts with numerous contractors.

• Active in negotiations with Homestead City officials and officials in the City of Miami for debris removal and structure modification.

Labrador Resources, Inc., Lubbock, Texas 1989-1990

Petroleum Engineer with John Walker, P.E., Consultant

• Worked with Mr. Walker while obtaining Masters Degree.

• Ensured Royalty Owner was correctly paid for gas production and liquids proceeds.

• Prepared property acquisition estimates for portions of the Panhandle East and West gas field northeast of Amarillo, Texas.

• Built and updated well histories database

Performed general petroleum engineering duties.

Chevron, Hobbs, New Mexico 1987-1989

Natural Gas Engineer

• Corrected 86 months of regulatory filings for the South Keystone Ellenberger Unit near Kermit, Texas protecting the monthly net revenue of $62,000 from regulatory curtailment. Investigated and reported the gas production/ injection system balance. Investigated all 730 gas sales meters and designed and recommended over ten check meters.

• Developed a computer assisted system to effectively track and organize the gas dedication work that arose from the district’s drilling and recompletion program.

• Developed a PC simulation of the New Mexico gas proration rules as they apply to the Indian Basin gas field near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

• Returned to school to obtain a Master’s degree

Gulf Oil Corporation 1984-1987

(Acquired by Chevron U.S.A. July 1985)

Field Engineer/Production Supervisor, Lamesa, Texas

• Planned and carried out numerous completions and workovers.

• Quality Control Monitoring of Stimulations program including testing of water used in treatments, propants used, and acid strength.

• Monitored sulphate scale squeeze program and modified acid stimulation program for sulphate scale conversion to increase rate of return to over 25 percent.

• Develop a paraffin control squeeze program which reduced the need for hot oiling for two Spraberry leases. Published results at the Texas Tech University Short Course.

Additional duties of production supervising were added:

• Supervised pumpers and roustabout crews.

• Utilized dynamometer readings of many of the wells to optimize pumping equipment by reducing gearbox loadings and rod string failures.

• Utilized dynamometer analysis to successfully optimize pumping equipment in higher volumes wells beyond the design capabilities of conventional API-RP-11L analysis.

• Effectively utilized this dynamometer analysis system to successfully replace a trouble ridden Kobe pumping system with a successful application of fiberglass rod strings for a rate of return of over 120%.

Reservoir Engineer, Gulf Oil Co., 1982 – 1984

Hobbs, New Mexico District

Determined the major hindrance to the successful zone sweep for the

• Duggan Slaughter Unit near Sundown, Texas was the poor quality of the injection water. Recommended and installed a newly produced water treatment system for the injection facilities on the unit to improve recovery.

• Developed the economic analysis for numerous recompletions and drilling proposals for the Western Texas Panhandle and Eastern New Mexico areas utilizing conventional reservoir analysis.

• Developed the water injection reporting system for the Hobbs Division to comply with the startup of the groundwater protection rules in Texas.

• A team member of a task force that developed a vital production data retrieval system used by Gulf Oil Corporation and later by Chevron U.S.A.

Gulf Oil Corporation, Odessa, Texas District. 1981–1982

Reservoir Engineer

• Monitored and refined the injection fracture pressures of the Goldsmith San-Andres Unit by a series of step rate testing.

• Adapted computer mapping routines for innovative uses to help identify areas of low sweep efficiency, areas needing stimulation, and areas that could be developed by further infill drilling. Worked closely with the remedial engineering group to develop a stimulation program for the Goldsmith Fields.

• Identified infill drilling locations in the Goldsmith San Andres Unit, developed the economics, and worked on the team evaluating the log and core analyses of these wells.

• Developed innovative reservoir engineering approaches to developing new sources of information from major drilling programs in this unit.

• Utilized core analyses to support deepening several of the 5600’ wells to the Tubb formation in a successful drilling program.

• Participated in early injection profile modifications utilizing polyacrylimide chemicals in selected injection wells.

The Western Company of North America 1978-1979

Technical Trainee, Perryton, Texas

• Entered training program to leading to becoming a district engineer.

• Trained on all the equipment utilized in acidizing and fracture stimulation and at all levels from equipment operator to treating supervisor.

• Completed technical training in acidizing and fracture treating.

• Returned to school to obtain a degree in petroleum engineering.

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