By far the largest investment to acquire oil and gas production is the cost of drilling the well or the purchase price of existing production.  All owners and operators make this investment.  The well is a necessary and expensive means to evaluate the subsurface for mobile oil and gas.

Unfortunately, much less to little investment is placed in evaluating the well because data acquisition and testing costs are “extras” that do always have an obvious value.  Also, after TD, there is always a foreseeable rush to avoid rig costs during the decision to set or casing or p&a the well or to make deadline to place a bid on an existing producing property.

I offer consulting services that will make the most of your data acquisition and testing investments so you get the data and test results you will need for the geologic formation you plan to drill, and if productive, the data and information you will need to development the property.

I enjoy the challenge of

• finding oil and gas production that is bypassed or overlooked because it looks or calculates wet,
• identifying the source and mechanism of individual well’s low fluid production or injection
• designing and predicting outcomes of storage and EOR pilot projects

I have experience in the Illinois, Permian, and Delaware Basins.  I am a registered professional engineer in Illinois, Texas, and New Mexico. I offer specialized short courses in the areas that I offer consulting services.  Additionally, I offer courses in fundamental and practical approaches to reservoir engineering and formation evaluation.

I am available to support litigation and provide expert witness testimony.