Jim Myers, Master of Petroleum Engineering

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522 W Mermod #732

Carlsbad, NM 88220Jim Myers

[email protected] 806-549-8037

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Petroleum Engineer with extended experience in reservoir and petrophysicalengineering and geosciences. Team leader, communicator, coordinator and negotiatorsensitive to management, professional and clerical staff, and field personnel.

Uses reservoir description, engineering, simulation, etc., according to project needs,

budget, and company priorities. Works alone or with Resource Management Team(RMT) for accurate descriptions, evaluations, documents, forecasts, and economics.

Extensive analytical knowledge of and field experience with reservoir rockformations: Permian Basin, San Juan Basin, Uinta Basin, East & South TX, SouthLA, Midcontinent, and Gulf of Mexico. Common formations recently have been tightgas (tight shales, sandstones, and carbonates). Vuggy/fractured and oil-bearingcarbonates, and tripolitic chert oil reservoirs were more common before 2007.

Master of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston 1986: Reservoirdescription, simulation, & engineering, well testing, EOR. Simulation of waterfloods,miscible, chemical, and thermal EOR. Petrophysics, geostatistics, geology, andgeophysics.

Accomplishments Forecast production and set 2008 economic value of 4,000+ Texas oil and gas leases,

including 5 top-20 EOR Units, another 10 large Units, 1,000 stripper leases, andeverything in between. Negotiated settlements using confidential financial details.

Improved accuracy of 10-K Report reserves, production forecasts, and economic propertyvaluation in several South American fields, using log analysis, reservoir volumetrics,geology, Aries, and especially oil, gas, and water production histories.

Teamwork with RMT, used original PVT data, special core analysis (SCAL) andcompositional miscible reservoir simulation to re-characterize Eugene Island #99reservoir (Louisiana Gulf of Mexico) after 20 years of production. This was a volatile oil

reservoir under a secondary gas cap, previously thought to be oil ring under primary capof gas-condensate. Enabled greatly improved recovery of liquids.

Major petrophysical study of a $4 million rank wildcat exploration well to identifynumerous uphole zones with proven potential vital to its eventual economic salvage.

Experience:

Jan 2010-

Feb 2012

Suttles Logging, Inc., Midland, TX

Wellsite Geologist: duties same as below, TX & NM Permian Basin.Projects were mostly horizontal lateral wells for gas and oil in shale andtight SS/siltstone reservoirs, especially Delaware, Bone Springs, and Avalonformations.

Aug 2008-Jan 2010

EPRS Corporation (failed startup), Chief Engineer & Geoscientist:acquisition screening, economic valuation, AFEs: field development,drilling, EOR, workovers, recompletions, and stimulations. Petrophysics.

Jun 2007-Aug 2008

Thos. Y. Pickett & Co, Inc., Dallas, TX, 82-yr old consulting firm.

Petroleum Engineer: Economic evaluation of 4,000 TX Leases, withMICA, using operators confidential proprietary lease operating expenses(LOE), capital expenditures. Projections of the above, oil, gas, and waterproduction up to 10 years in the future. Successfully negotiated all finalAppraisals with operators and their Agents, including 5 $1B+ EOR Units.


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2004-2007:

Quality Logging, Midland, TX, 50-yr old Permian Basin geologiccompany.

Wellsite Geologist: Report to operator geologists and engineers on welloperations and problems, gather combustible gas data, analyze oil and gaswell geologic samples, construct online log. Assist with DST depths, casingpoints, directional drilling, lots of horizontal drilling, and wellsite safety,including long multi-well assignments lasting over 1 year. PASON &TOTCO real time drilling operations software, MS Office Excel, Word,Access, Outlook, PowerPoint. Wellsite Job Safety Analyses (JSAs).

1999-2004:

Selman & Associates, Midland, TX, 20-year old, wide-ranging geologicservices company.

Wellsite Geologist: Same duties as at Quality, fewer horizontal wells, morewellsite training. W.& S. TX, UT, WY, NW & SE NM. JSAs

1996-

2000:

Employment less relevant to Petroleum Engineering:Computer & Internet work, Taught High School Algebra, etc.

1993-1995:

Richison & Associates, Houston, TX, contractor to Ryder-Scott.Petroleum Reservoir Engineer: Calculate reserves, forecast production andevaluate present worth of oil & gas fields for 10K Reports to SEC, w/Aries.

1986-1993:

University of Houston, Houston, TX, Electrical Engineering Dept. WellLogging Group. ResearchAssistant, TeachingAssistant: Imagereconstruction for geologic CT scans of full cores, EOR Lab. ConstructShaly Sands lab. Geophysical programming. Geologic database assemblyfor African and South American Basins. Geostatistics. ReservoirSimulation. Parallel computing. Completed miscible reservoir simulationproject directed to well logging and testing. Analyze, process, and catalogSohios Divine Test Sites massive library of multiple-vendor well logs.

1985-

1986:

Welex, Houston, TX, one of the first 3 US wireline companies, now HLS.

Senior Training Instructor: Develop instructional materials & technicalpublications (below), and teach classes for Welex personnel.

1982-1985:

Columbia Gas Development Corp., Houston, TX, E&P arm of NewEngland gas pipeline and distribution utility.

Senior Reservoir Engineer: Volumetrics, reservoir simulation & materialbalance with PVT data, history matching, decline curve analysis, economicanalysis. SEC classification. Resource Management Teamwork &Leadership, merging geologic & geophysical input, special core analysis,well tests, well logs. Reservoir simulation to confirm reservoircharacterizations and optimize recovery. Gulf ofMexico, Williston Basin.

1979-

1982:

Damson Oil Corp., Houston, TX, was the 2nd-largest oil and gas acquisitioncompany in US, with huge packages including waterfloods, stripper wells,and everything in-between. Their business practices inspired me to migratetoward reservoir engineering and to become a more effective evaluator.

Petrophysical Engineer: Evaluate new and producing oil and gas wells,analyze well logs, cores and well tests. Classify reserves according to SECGuidelines. Evaluate logging service companies, design and take bids onlogging programs, field supervision, joint venture operations. Create andsupervise well and field file system to stop loss of vital data. Gulf ofMexico, Midcontinent, S. Louisiana, E. & S. Texas, Permian Basin.


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1976-

1979:

Gearhart Industries (now HLS) R&D Lab, Houston, TX:

Project Engineer: Retrofit calibration and design improvements to existingInduction logging tool; supervision of electronic and electromagnetic technicians,electronic, mechanical, and electromagnetic design new slimhole Dual Inductionlogging tool. Worked closely on log and core analysis to support geologists inMidcontinent and TX Gulf Coast.

1972-1976:

Schlumberger Well Logging, Hobbs, NM, Corpus Christi & Laredo, TX: SeniorField Engineer: Field crew and logging unit maintenance supervision; loggingtool maintenance, calibration, and operation; sidewall coring; wireline well testing;log analysis, presentation, and quality control. Consult and support geologists inPermian Basin, S. Texas & GulfCoast.

Education:

1986-93: Ph.D. candidate, Electrical Engineering Department, University ofHouston, Texas, GPA= 3.4 of 4.0. Ph.D. ABD (all but Dissertation: see detailsbelow).

I finished Certification (digital signal processing, advanced mathematics,

semiconductor processing, electronic design, image processing and reconstruction,electromagnetic modeling) in 1987 despite having been away from EE for 4 years.Then I jumped back into petroleum applications. I also studied groundwaterpollution control and air pollution control.

Dissertation Research with Advisor Dr. John Killough, onNumerical Simulation ofFiltrate Invasion Profiles Created While Drilling Wells, completed in 1993, usingMVIP, the Texaco-modified miscible version of JS Nolens Black Oil VIPprogram to address well testing and logging. Dissertation was finished andDefended. Dr. Killough approved my Defense, but the Dissertation Committee didnot. He is currently a Research Fellow of Landmark, a division of Halliburton.This project built upon my previous extensive reservoir simulation work, and wasnot understood by Committee.

1983-86: Master of Petroleum Engineering (1986), University of Houston,GPA= 3.7 of 4.0. Advanced Physical Geology with lab, Senior level geologyclass, followed by Graduate level Origin and Development of PetroleumReservoirs, designed and taught by Chapman Cronquist. EOR simulation(thermal, miscible, and chemical models) with Dr. Elmund Claridge and Black Oilsimulator VIP with Dr. Herb Weinstein. Gary Crawford taught us pressuretransient analysis (well testing) out of John Lees book. Petrophysical engineering(formation evaluation) and geostatistics with Dr. Wilmer A. Hoyer. Learnedgeophysical modeling and processing in Dr. G.H.F. Gardners Seismic Acoustics

Laboratory. Reservoir engineering and chemical tracers with Dr. Harry Deansaround 1990.

I was already working as a reservoir engineer when I started this program, so therelated curricula were very accessible and welcome to me, however challengingthe work.

I will happily forward my complete U. of H. transcript upon your request.

BS, Electrical Engineering, 1972, Texas Tech University GPA= 2.7 of 4.0.


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Professional:Passed Engineer in Training (EIT) and Principles and Practice (P&P) exams forregistration as Professional E.E. in Texas.

I have extensive experience with horizontal drilling for unconventional gas and oilrecovery in tight carbonates and sandstone/siltstones, and especially shale formations,such as Barnett, Woodford, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Marcellus, and Avalon/BoneSprings. I have good familiarity with waterflooding and miscible injection of CO2 for

enhanced oil recovery in Permian Basin fields. I have worked the small-medium sizedreservoirs of the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast and also the much larger accumulationsrequired to set offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

While in Houston, I regularly took advantage of the wealth of professional livinglegends residing or visiting there. I communicated regularly with my peers, professorsand mentors, including those already mentioned and members of the Reservoir StudyGroup Program Committee, Houston Chapter of SPE.

My professional foci included:

The Shaly Sands Problem (Drs. Wilmer Hoyer & Monroe Waxman) is evenmore important today than when its investigations began in the 1950s. Now we

routinely exploit very tight and/or shaly formations with horizontal drilling andstimulation. Shaly Sands analysis is a great potential tool for targeting the hugeinventory of tight sandstone/siltstones and shales for unconventional gas and oilrecovery.

Induction Logging (building on my tool design experience with GearhartsHouston R&D Lab), before and during introduction of the revolutionary newinduction conductivity systems which soon replaced the venerable Schlumberger6FF40 system of Dr. Tanguy

Emerging elements of geostatistics, geophysics, and petrophysical imaging tosupport evaluation, modeling, and simulation of vital reservoir processes.

Review of reservoir engineering applications of cased hole logs.Publications and Events:"Computation of Porosity and Shale Fractions from Nuclear Well Logs", 1984,presented at Clays in Well Logging Symposium, Clay Mineral Society, BatonRouge, LA, September 1984.

"Limitations of Induction Logging", 1985, withdrawn due to patent considerations,joint SPE/SEG conference, Houston, TX, January 1985.

Organized Forum on Reservoir Applications of Pulsed Neutron Logging,Moderator Aytekin Turk Timur, April, 1986, SPE Reservoir Study Group,Houstonian Hotel, Houston, TX.

"The Engineering-Geoscience Database Project Proposal", 1991, presented atNational Petroleum Laboratory's 3rd Reservoir Characterization Symposium,Tulsa, OK, October 1991. In retrospect, this was a futuristic anticipation ofmodern petroleum geoscience and engineering software and data structures, at atime these were primitive or nonexistent.

Professional Organizations:

Eta Kappa Nu (EE honors fraternity), Sigma Xi (National Science Fraternity),IEEE, SPE, Reservoir Study Group, SPWLA, Clay Minerals Society.

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