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702 Morton Street, Richmond, TX 77469 U.S.A. Voice 281-238-5252 Fax 281-238-5757 |
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RICHARD S. HENRY, Consultant B.S. Industrial Engineering |
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| Mr. Henry entered the petroleum industry in 1992, after five years in the fabricating industry. His new responsibilities included analyzing properties for acquisition/farm-in opportunities, calculating and reporting reserves for producing properties, and negotiating and maintaining crude and gas sale agreements for Texaco. His assignment changed in 1994, when he became responsible for finding economically attractive workover candidates in a mature heavy oil field offshore Trinidad. Here, the complexity of the field (1000± reservoirs, 750+ wells, 40 years of production) required innovative applications of the reservoir engineering fundamentals and advanced statistics for success. The transition to team based structures brought an opportunity to lead a multi-disciplinary, multi-national team in 1996 to assess the value of this heavy oil field. This challenge demanded the collection, analysis, organization and documentation of 40 years of diverse and conflicting engineering and geological data and interpretations to produce a coherent economic picture. Products included a consistent set of structure and sand maps for all reservoirs, 20 rig-years of new reserve type workovers, 5 rig years of infill drilling, quantified risk assessments of on-structure wildcat prospects, and a functioning reservoir management program. This performance lead to new assignments in Trinidad, Colombia and Venezuela analyzing large gas reservoirs and cold production of extra-heavy oil. Mr. Henry was sent to the Texaco research division’s Reservoir Management Program, where he was exposed to the industry’s latest and most effective technologies over an intensive six month internship reserved for only a handful of Texaco’s most promising engineers and geologists each year. By late 1998, Mr. Henry was working for Texaco’s New Orleans division. Here, he was asked to figure out "problem reservoirs" – reservoirs whose disappointing performance was not readily explainable – using advanced decline curve analysis, sophisticated material balance techniques, and reservoir simulation. Here, his experience was extended to include over-pressured gas condensates, thin oil rims and pinnacle reefs on the Texas, Louisiana and Alabama Gulf Coast, and in the Gulf of Mexico. After nearly two years in New Orleans, Mr. Henry left Texaco to join the consulting team at Gemini Solutions, Inc., where he continues to work on a variety of reservoir projects. |
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