JOHN PAT BOYD, P.E.
dba Boyd Engineering
Box 568
Alva, Ok 73717
johnboydpe@boydengineering.com
Experience Summary:
- dba Boyd Engineering – owner, Consulting Drilling & Completion Rig Supervisor & Engineer ~ 23 years
- Boyd Consulting – Drilling, completion, work over consultant ~ 6 years
- Tenneco Oil Company – Drilling & completion engineer & rig supervisor ~ 2 years
- Various – construction, freight dock, cement/acid/frac operator, fishing tool warehouseman, rental/BOP helper, hot shot driver, BOP school assistant - 8 years
Geographic Areas as Company Man and/or Engineer: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, Alaska, deepwater GOM, Europe, Sub-Asia, Africa, SE Asia.
Location Types: Onshore, offshore floaters, inland waterways, Pacific islands, arctic ice road, arctic frozen ocean, arctic pads, mangrove swamps, deserts, mountains, shorelines including extreme environmental, political and/or cultural sensitivities.
Engineering Experience: Drilling, completion, work over, production, reservoir, geological, petro-physical, regulatory expert, environmental clean-ups, ground water, drilling waste, build-up analyses, well testing and water flood design and implementation.
Horizontal Background Recap:
- Mississippi Horizontals & SWD XContract Drilling Supervisor – SW Kansas & N Ok for Shell Ol.
- Woodford Contract Drilling & Completion Engr –Arkoma Woodfords & NW Oklahoma Mississippian.
- Haynesville Drilling Supervisor Toledo Bend Lake Shelby County, Tx & Sabine Parrish, La. for Forest Oil;
- Haynesville Shale east Texas drilling & completion engineering advisor for Berry Oil;
- Barnett Shale horizontal completions rig supervisor for ConocoPhillips, North Texas;
- Bakken Shale North Dakota horizontal drilling & completion engineer for Windsor, OKC, OK;
- GOM On-Site Managed Pressure drilling supervisor for Shell on Mars ERD to 33,000’ MD;
- NW Oklahoma Hunton Dewatering horizontal multi-laterals drilling & completion engineer and rig supervisor to 10,000’ for Special Energy, Stillwater, OK. Up to penta-laterals;
- Eastern Oklahoma Woodford and Coal Bed Methane horizontals drilling engineer & geo-steering advisor to 13,000’ for Devon Mid Continent, Oklahoma City;
- TX Panhandle Granite Wash contract Drilling & Completion Superintendent for Newfield MC, Tulsa;
- Eastern Oklahoma Woodford, Caney & Coal Bed Methane contract Drilling & Completion Manager/ Superintendent to 14,000’ for Newfield MC, Tulsa;
- North Slope drilling & completion rig supervisor of horizontal open hole multi-laterals to 20,000’ for BP, Alaska;
- Eastern Oklahoma (Arkoma) Woodford, Simpson and CBM drilling and completion engineer for BP Houston.
Drilling & Completion Well Experience as Company Man and/or Engineer:
- Depths from 300’ to 33,000’;
- Profiles: directional, extended reach, multilateral, horizontal, barefoot, open hole;
- Type of wells: oil, gas, SWD, SWS, H2S, CO2, HT-HP, natural, acid, frac, stim-frac;
- Methods : underbalanced, Managed Pressure Drilling, cable tools, snubbed, coil tubing;
- Drilling Fluids: gas, air (dust, foam, mist ) N2, OBM 19#, WBM, brines, silicates;
- Extensive closed loop mud systems.
Managerial and Oversight Experience:
- Oversight of 10 rig turnkey drilling program four state area of Midcontinent;
- Drilling Manager – 12 rig program Anadarko, Arkoma & Texas Panhandle;
- Drilling Manager – 5 rig programEast Texasto 13,500’.
Professional Degrees, Certifications and Affiliations:
- Bachelors of Science Petroleum Engineering -UniversityofOklahoma- May, 1980;
- BOP Jan 2012 Drlg, Completions, Work over, Snubbing , Wire Line & Coiled Tubing
- Registered Professional EngineerOklahoma#15906 - 1989;
- Society of Petroleum Engineers 25 Year Club
- Society of Petroleum Engineers PE Registration Examinations Committee - 4 years
- American Association of Drilling Engineers - OKC/Tulsa
- International Association of Drilling Contractors – Midcontinent
Clients – Basins – Formations – MD as Company Man or Engineer (listed historically):
- Shell Oil – N OK & SW Kansas drill & complete Mississippi horizontals & SWDs.
- PetroQuest - Arkoma Woodfords t/ 15,000’ MD – 9,000’ TVD. Drilling & Completions.
- Forest Oil – East Texas Haynesville Horizontals – 18,000’
- ASM O/G, Inc – Clairemont – West Texas – Penn Lime ESPs 6,200’.
- Berry Petroleum - East Texas – Bossier, CV – 13,500’;
- Cabot Oil - Anadarko Shelf – Morrow, Chester – 10,000’
- ConocoPhillips - North Texas – Barnett Shale – 13,000’
- Shell-GOM Deep – Mississippi Canyon ERD – 30,000’ MPD;
- Windsor - West Texas – Rankin Sprayberry – 12,000’ &
- Windsor - Williston, North Dakota - Bakken Shale – 14,000’;
- Winn/Blue Star - Navasota MidTex; Bossier – 23,000’;
- Nations Petroleum - West PapuaIndonesia– Wildcat 9,000’;
- Cooper Oil –Madura IslandIndonesia– Wildcat 12,000’;
- Brooks Range - Gwyder Bay west North Slope Alaska – Iveshak – 13,300’
- Special/Goober – Creek, Payne, Grant, Woods Ok – Hunton Dewatering – 12,000’
- BP America – Wamsutter Wyoming – Almond Gas 12,000’
- Devon Mid Continent – North McAlester - Coal Bed Methane – 6,000’;
- Devon Mid Continent – Pittsburg County, Ok – Woodford 9,000’;
- Devon Mid Continent – Latimer County, Ok – Spiro Sand – 13,000’;
- Devon Mid Continent – Texas Panhandle – Granite Wash & Atoka – 13,500’;
- Newfield Mid Continent – SE Oklahoma – Woodford Shale, Spiro Sands – 13,000’
- Newfield Mid Continent - TX & OK Anadarko – Granite Wash / Atoka 15,000’
- Total Petrofina - Hidalgo Cty, Tex, Frio Sands – 10>18,000’;
- BP Amoco – Arkoma SE Oklahoma – Bromide & Spiro Sands – 13,500’;
- BP Amoco – Arkoma SE Oklahoma – Red Oak Sand – 9,000’;
- BP Amoco - Horizontal & Multilateral Drilling Team – 15,000’ plans;
- Mewbourne Oil – Anadarko Shelf - Morrow/Chester - 12,000’;
- Mewbourne Oil – Texas Panhandle – Morrow / Chester – 13,000’
- Mewbourne Oil – SE New Mexico – Morrow Sands – 12,000’
- Mewbourne Oil – West Texas Garden City – Sprayberry Reef 10,000’;
- BP Alaska – Badami Easter North Slope – Badami Sands – 16,500’;
- BP Alaska – Shared Services Drilling – North Slope – Iveshak 20,000’;
- Mari Gas PK – Thar Desert Hindustan Pakistan – Sui & Pir Koh Limes – 13,000’;
- Questar E&P – TX & OK Anadarko – Hunton, Morrow, Granite Wash, 15,000’;
- Louis Dryfus – Hemphill Cty TX Panhandle – Upr Morrow 11,000’;
- Ensign Oil – Anadarko Shelf NW OK – Upr & Lwr Morrow / Chester
- Samson Oil – Webster Ph, LA – Cotton Valley 12,000’;
- Samson Oil – Lipscomb Cty, TX – Upr / lwr Morrow & Chester – 12,000’;
- Samson Oil – Latimer Cty, OK – Red Oak Sands - 9,000’;
- Sun Oil / Oryx – Latimer Cty, OK – Red Oak Sands – 9,000’;
- Sun Oil / Oryx – Roger Mills Cty, OK – Morrow Sand s- 16,000’;
- Vastar / Arco – Latimer / LeFlore Cty, OK – Spiro / Bromide / Arbuckle – 16,000’;
Clients – Basins – Formations – MD as Company Man or Engineer (continued):
- Marmik Oil – Anadarko Shelf NW OK, SW KS – Morrow Sands – 10,000’;
- Axem Resources – Anadarko NW OK – SW KS, NE NM – Morrow – 10,000’;
- GADSCO – Midcontinent – various – 16,000’;Dune Resources – Anadarko Shelf NW OK – Upr & Lwr Morrow – 12,000’;
- Pen Ocean – Delta State Nigeria – Delta Sands – 12,000’;
- OIL Energy – Anadarko Basin, Gulf Coast, NW LA, E Texas – 20,000’;
- Continental Resources – Anadarko Custer, Beckham OK – Hunton / Morrow 18,000’;
- Amarex – Anadarko Beckham, Custer, Roger Mills – Morrow -18,000’;
- DI Energy – Anadarko Custer, Caddo Cty OK – Morrow Springer - 18,000’;
- Trigg Drilling – Anadarko Basin, Caddo, Custer, Beckahm – Morrow – 18,000’;
- Tenneco Oil – TX & OK Anadarko Basin, Kansas, Nebraska - 22,000’
- Top Drilling – Central Oklahoma Uplift – Wilcox 8,800’
- Robinson Bro Drlg – ShoVelTum / Golden Trend Hunton, Woodford, Miss – 11,000;
- Rowan Drilling – Bechham Cty, Ok – Hunton, Morrow – 25,000;
- H&P Drilling – OK Anadarko Basin – Morrow, Springer 18,000’.
Skills, Software & Training
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- WCS Drilling, Completion, Work over, Snubbing, Wire line, Coiled Tubing BOP Card Exp Jan 2012;
- Sonic Fluid Level / Dyno / Pump-off machine – owner & operator;
- Well sight safety leadership instruction and implementation;
- Conducting Rig Team safety, proficiency and pre-spud well plan presentation;
- Pore pressure prediction, casing design & set point;
- Mud system, hydraulics optimization planning and surveillance;
- Drilling waste management, noise abatement and community impact;
- Bit selection, ROP / Days-to-Depth optimization;
- Rig Team structure, chain-of-command and communication planning;
- Digital Daily Drilling Reports and Daily Drilling Cost accuracy;
- Past BOP & Well Control from LSU, OU, Randy Smith Horizontal IWCF including snubbing, wire line, coiled tubing for completions and work overs;
- Clean-up, reclamation and regulatory relationships;
- Acid and frac design and surveillance;
- Managed Pressure Drilling design and field implementation;
- Underbalanced drilling design and field implementation;
- Snubbing and stripping tubulars - rig assist and stand alone;
- Coiled Tubing on drilling rigs;
- Stuck pipe prevention instruction and implementation;
- Lost circulation prevention and response instruction and implementation;
- Fishing pipe, wire line, objects in cased or open hole;
- OSHA, HAZWOP 40 hr & HAZCOM;
- Arctic environmental awareness training;
- Recycling of ground water used in drilling and completion;
- Professional log analyst;
- Frac design and implementation.