Experience

PetroSkills: 2006 - Present
- Contract instructor for courses
  - Well Test Design and Analysis (WTA),
  - Gas Reservoir Management (GRM),
  - Gas Condensates and Volatile Oils: Phase Behavior, Modeling, and Reservoir Engineering (NCRF), and
  - Production Decline Curve Analysis (PD)
- Presented short courses worldwide
  - Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Thailand, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, UK, and the United States
Phoenix Reservoir Software, LLC: 2005 - Present
- Founded Phoenix Reservoir Software, LLC, to provide state-of-the-art software to the petroleum industry, specializing in applications for
  - low permeability gas,
  - unconventional gas, and
  - gas storage
- Software:
  - Designed and implemented PMTx, for production data matching and forecasting for gas wells in multilayer unconventional gas reservoirs
- Research and Development:
  - Invented and patented a method for estimating layer properties by analyzing production data from gas wells producing from multilayer unconventional gas reservoirs
- Customers and Clients:
  - Beijing Highyield Technology
  - BG Group
  - ExxonMobil
  - ExxonMobil BSC Hungary Ltd
  - FracTech
  - Geopark Argentina
  - Halliburton
  - Matador
  - P.E. Moseley
  - Petrobras
  - BHP Billiton Petroleum/Petrohawk
  - Schubarth, Inc.
  - Shell
  - Sinclair Petroleum Engineering
Phoenix Reservoir Engineering: 2004 - Present
- Founded Phoenix Reservoir Engineering to provide state-of-the-art consulting and training to the petroleum industry.
- Training:
  - Developed short course on pressure transient analysis
  - Developed short course on gas condensates and volatile oils
- Research:
  - Developed methodology and workflow for intensive quality-checking Constant Volume Depletion (CVD) tests for volatile oils and gas condensates
  - Developed method for estimating reservoir fluid composition from separator and stock tank field data
  - Developed correlations for estimating brine density and methane solubility in brines
- Consulting Clients:
  - Ankor Energy LLC
  - Anglo-Suisse
  - Carrizo Oil&Gas, Inc.
  - Dana Hupp
  - Denbury Resources
  - Featherstone Petrie DeSisto
  - Goldston Oil Corporation
  - Kerry Pollard
  - Matador Resources
  - McCain Engineering
  - MHA Petroleum Consultants
  - OGCI/PetroSkills
  - Phoenix Exploration Co.(no relation)
  - Quicksilver Resources, Inc.
  - Ray Powell
  - Schlumberger DCS/College Station
  - Schlumberger DCS/Pittsburgh
  - Schlumberger NExT
  - Schubarth, Inc.
  - Shell Exploration & Production Company (SEPCo)
  - Stonegate Production LLC
  - Texas Star Disposal Systems
  - Unbridled Energy
  - Unconventional Gas Resources
  - W. John Lee
Texas A&M University, Visiting Assistant Professor: 1992 - 2005
- Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in pressure transient analysis and gas reservoir engineering
Montana Tech, Visiting Assistant Professor: Fall Semester, 2002
- Taught reservoir simulation, pressure transient analysis, and petroleum thermodynamics
S. A. Holditch & Associates: 1990 - 1997; Schlumberger Data and Consulting Services: 1997 - 2004
- Consulting:
  - Analyzed pressure transient test data and/or production data for thousands of wells throughout the world
  - Conducted or contributed to dozens of reservoir simulation studies and integrated reservoir studies
  - Regions worked include most of the major oil producing provinces in the world, including offshore Gulf of Mexico, China, Indonesia, Tunisia, South Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Canada, South Texas, East Texas, California, the Rocky Mountains, the Mid-Continent, and the Appalachian Basin
- Training:
  - Developed notes for industry short courses in gas storage, reservoir simulation, well test analysis, and production data analysis
  - Presented short courses and workshops on pressure transient analysis, production data analysis, reservoir simulation, gas storage, and nodal analysis in Austria, China, Colombia, England, Peru, Scotland, the United States, and Venezuela
- Software:
  - Designed and developed PROMAT, a production data analysis software package
  - Designed and developed WELLTEST, a pressure transient test analysis software package
  - Designed and developed BHPRES, a surface-bottomhole pressure conversion utility
  - Designed and developed FLPROP, a fluid properties correlation utility
SoftSearch: 1985 - 1988; Dwights EnergyData: 1988 - 1990
- Participated in the development of EnPAK, a petroleum economics software package
- Designed and developed interactive production data analysis software for FieldPAK, a petroleum economics software package for the US Internal Revenue Service
- Designed and developed software to estimate oil in place and gas in place from volumetric data
- Designed and developed software to estimate gas in place from p/Z vs. cumulative production
- Designed and developed software for interactive analysis of production data using nonlinear least squares regression
- Developed a new algorithm for history matching production data
Abilene Christian University, Assistant Professor: 1983 - 1985
- Taught undergraduate courses in physical geology, historical geology, groundwater geology, introductory computer science, and freshman physics (calculus-based)

Education

Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, May 1984
M.S., Physics, University of Washington, December 1979
B.S., Physics, Abilene Christian University, May 1977

Professional Affiliations

Professional Engineer, Texas
Society of Petroleum Engineers (25 Year Member)
Member, American Physical Society
Member, American Chemical Society
Chairman, SPE Reprint Committee, 2001-03
Member, SPE Pressure Transient Testing Technical Committee, 1995-98

Publications

Author, coauthor, or editor, 5 books
Author or coauthor, 6 papers in peer-reviewed journals
Author or coauthor, 13 articles in trade publications
Author or coauthor, 34 papers presented at SPE meetings

Languages

English
Spanish
French
Computer Languages
- Microsoft Visual C++
- C
- FORTRAN
- Pascal
- Microsoft VBA