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RÉSUMÉ Vincent J. Connor

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QUALIFICATIONS

**** ** ******* **********, ********** of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 9007

1974 BS Engineering, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York 10996

KEY COMPETENCIES

• 25 years experience in the E&P industry, reservoir and production engineering.

• Extensive experience in SCADA systems, artificial lift, nodal, production logging and well testing.

• Specialist skills in computer assisted engineering including production and reservoir surveillance, economics, reserves reporting, estimation and characterization.

• Confident, capable problem solver and mentor.

• Outcome focused.

• Multilingual: English and Spanish.

WORK HISTORY

2007 – 2009

PIONEER NATURAL RESOURCES

SR. RESERVOIR ENGINEER

Responsible for worldwide reserves reporting (Phoenix) and economics (ARIES) and enterprise level reporting & quality control. Generated and analyzed enterprise cash flow sensitivities and pricing; developed diagnostics to identify and correct erroneous case inconsistencies on pricing, production, lease expenses, interest fractions, decline curve errors, capital recovery, leading to reduced cycle time and improved accuracy as the number of properties grew two-fold. Established new reporting for probable and possible reserves and resources in accordance with SEC and SPE guidelines. Established procedures for verification of lease operating expenses, cost of operations, and net working interest fractions.

2000 – 2007

EXXONMOBIL

SR. RESERVOIR ENGINEER

Reservoir engineer for US Production company. Advising, consulting, instructing & supporting over 450 engineers and 120 technicians both onshore and offshore. Expert in artificial lift techniques, NODAL® analysis, economics both domestic and worldwide (PEEP), well testing (SAPHIR), and production surveillance (OFM, DSS). Developed automated production surveillance programs. Skilled in the inventive use of GIS geographical information systems (ArcView, ArcInfo) for production optimization. Wrote economic models in support of various national PSA’s and capital recovery regimes.

1998 – 2000

HALLIBURTON (LANDMARK)

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

May 1998-May 2000: Landmark Graphics (Abu Dhabi) Div. of Halliburton providing production solutions, software & engineering services to customers (both multinationals and national oil companies) in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Excellent presentation and problem solving skills concentrating on production optimization and surveillance, reservoir simulation and production allocation. Delivered, installed, sold, and taught ARIES, WELLCAT, TOW-CS, VIP, and DSS

1995-1998

MOBIL

STAFF RESERVOIR ENGINEER

Reservoir Engineer. Provided high-level engineering designs, consultations & advice, practical technical solutions, and reservoir management for Mobil Nigeria, contributing to the offshore teams and worked on high visibility, high potential, fast-track projects particularly on well test design and sophisticated computer-aided well test analysis on offshore high-production-rate wells. Expert in production problem solving, optimization and production surveillance.

1988-1995

MOBIL

STAFF RESERVOIR ENGINEER

Reservoir and Production team leader for well data, design, and well database applications for Mobil E&P Technical Center. Chaired the PPDM-POSC production committee. Designed and built the billing model and the non-operated property cash & royalty recovery program, delivered under budget and led to substantial savings. On loan to ARAMCO as a team leader for a production engineering group of 12 analysts, engineers, and programmers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Responsible for the master well data and production allocation as well as reporting and analysis applications for the master well data base. Reduced the overall backlog of program development and maintenance for over 220 computer programs by 80% and was the only team lead to ever pass an audit.

1981-1995

MOBIL

RESERVOIR ENGINEER

Reservoir Engineer & Project Manager of Mobil's worldwide oil and gas reserves system. Developer of enhanced oil recovery models for domestic and foreign engineering applications. Excellent programming skills in procedural and scripting languages. Successfully incorporated the reserves and programs from the Superior Oil acquisition. Earlier, responsible for several fields in West Texas (drilling programs, field studies, lease evaluations, reservoir management, etc.) As staff engineer responsible for successful field development, field studies and well drilling programs. Added reserves and responsible for engineering business support systems and methods. These programs monitored enhanced oil recovery, injection, reserves and generated the profit plan, budget, and objectives. Designed and built procedures for drilling, gas processing, producing, and reservoir engineering.

1974-1981

US ARMY

CAPTAIN

Operations, executive officer, & platoon leader in a variety of environments under unusual conditions without supervision. Led large groups of workers over 7 years in combat units, leading a 42-man crew that installed strategic and tactical communications world-wide. Installed, operated, and maintained multi-channel radio communications and outside plant telephone systems world-wide.

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