Experience

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
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 notes on pressure transient analysis
  - Presented short courses on pressure transient analysis, gas reservoir management, and tight gas reservoir development in Algeria, Argentina, Canada, England, Kuwait, Malaysia, Trinidad, Turkey, and the United States
Texas A & M University, Visiting Assistant Professor: 1992 - Present
- 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 physics

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
Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers
Member, Petroleum Society of CIM
Member, American Physical Society
Chairman, SPE Reprint Committee, 2001-03
Member, SPE Pressure Transient Testing Technical Committee, 1995-98

Publications

Editor, Gas Reservoir Engineering, SPE Reprint Series No. 52
Editor, Pressure Transient Testing, SPE Reprint Series No. 57
Coauthor, Pressure Transient Testing, SPE Textbook Series Vol. 9
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