1717 Avenue K #127 Jim Myers 806-712-2697

Lubbock, TX 79401-5015 jHawkTX@gmail.com

 Petroleum Engineer with extended experience in reservoir and petrophysical

engineering and geosciences. Team leader, communicator, coordinator and negotiator
sensitive 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 rock
formations: Permian Basin, San Juan Basin, Uinta Basin, East & South TX, South
LA, Midcontinent, and Gulf of Mexico. Most recently, the most common critical
formations were tight gas (tight shales, sandstones, and even tighter carbonates),
vuggy/fractured and oil-bearing carbonates, and tripolitic chert oil reservoirs.
 Master of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston 1986: Reservoir
description, engineering, well testing, EOR. Simulation of waterfloods, miscible,
chemical, and thermal EOR. Petrophysics, geostatistics, geology, and geophysics.
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, and
everything in between. Negotiated settlements using confidential financial details.
 Improved accuracy of 10-K Report reserves, production forecasts, and economic property
valuation 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) and
compositional miscible reservoir simulation to re-characterize Eugene Island #99
reservoir (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 cap
of gas-condensate. Enabled greatly improved recovery of liquids.
 Major petrophysical study of a $4 million rank wildcat exploration well to identify
numerous uphole zones with proven potential vital to its eventual economic salvage.
Experience:
Aug 2008- EPRS Corporation, engineering & geoscience consultant: acquisition
screening, economic valuation, AFE’s for field development, workovers,
recompletions, and stimulations. Petrophysical evaluations.
Jun 2007- Thos. Y. Pickett & Co, Inc., Dallas, TX, 82-yr old consulting firm.
Aug 2008 Petroleum Engineer: Economic evaluation of 4,000 TX Leases, with
MICA, using operators’ confidential proprietary lease operating expenses
(LOE), capital expenditures. Projections of the above, oil, gas, and water
production up to 10 years in the future. Successfully negotiated all final
Appraisals with operators and their Agents, including 5 $1B+ EOR Units.
2004- Quality Logging, Midland, TX, 50-yr old Permian Basin geologic company.
2007: Wellsite Geologist: Report to operator geologists and engineers on well
operations and problems, gather combustible gas data, analyze oil and gas
well geologic samples, construct online log. Assist with DST depths, casing
points, 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 (JSA’s).
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1999- Selman & Associates, Midland, TX, 20-year old, wide-ranging geologic
2004: services company.
Wellsite Geologist: Same duties as Quality, fewer horizontal wells, more
wellsite training. W.& S. TX, UT, WY, NW & SE NM. JSA’s
1996-2000: Computer & Internet work, Taught High School Algebra, etc.
1993- Richison & Associates, Houston, TX, contractor to Ryder-Scott.
1995: Petroleum Reservoir Engineer: Calculate reserves, forecast production and
evaluate present worth of oil & gas fields for 10K Reports to SEC, w/Aries.
1986- University of Houston, Houston, TX, Electrical Engineering Dept. Well
1993: Logging Group. Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant: Image
reconstruction for geologic CT scans of full cores, EOR Lab. Construct
Shaly Sands lab. Geophysical programming. Geologic database assembly
for African and South American Basins. Geostatistics. Reservoir
Simulation. Parallel computing. Completed miscible reservoir simulation
project directed to well logging and testing. Analyze, process, and catalog
Sohio’s Divine Test Site’s massive library of multiple-vendor well logs.
1985- Welex, Houston, TX, one of the first 3 US wireline companies, now HLS.
1986: Senior Training Instructor: Develop instructional materials & technical
publications (below), and teach classes for Welex personnel.
1982- Columbia Gas Development Corp., Houston, TX, E&P arm of New
1985: England gas pipeline and distribution utility.
Senior Reservoir Engineer: Volumetrics, reservoir simulation & material
balance with PVT data, history matching, decline curve analysis, economic
analysis. SEC classification. Resource Management Teamwork &
Leadership, merging geologic & geophysical input, special core analysis,
well tests, well logs. Reservoir simulation to confirm reservoir
characterizations and optimize recovery. Gulf of Mexico, Williston Basin.
1979- Damson Oil Corp., Houston, TX, was the 2nd-largest oil and gas acquisition
1982: company in US, with huge packages including waterfloods, stripper wells,
and everything in-between. Their business practices inspired me to migrate
toward 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 SEC
Guidelines. Evaluate logging service companies, design and take bids on
logging programs, field supervision, joint venture operations. Create and
supervise well and field file system to stop loss of vital data. Gulf of
Mexico, Midcontinent, S. Louisiana, E. & S. Texas, Permian Basin.
1976- Gearhart Industries (now HLS) R&D Lab, Houston, TX:
1979: Project Engineer: Retrofit calibration and design improvements to existing
Induction logging tool; supervision of electronic and electromagnetic
technicians, electronic, mechanical, and electromagnetic design new
slimhole Dual Induction logging tool. Worked closely on log and core
analysis to support geologists in Midcontinent and TX Gulf Coast.
1972- Schlumberger Well Logging, Hobbs, NM, Corpus Christi & Laredo, TX:
1976: Senior Field Engineer: Field crew and logging unit maintenance
supervision; logging tool maintenance, calibration, and operation; sidewall
coring; wireline well testing; log analysis, presentation, and quality control.
Consult and support geologists in Permian Basin, S. Texas & Gulf Coast.
(1996-2000) Employment less relevant to Petrophysical and Reservoir Engineering:

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Education:
1986-93: Ph.D. candidate, Electrical Engineering Department, University of
Houston, Texas, GPA= 3.4 of 4.0. Ph.D. ABD (all but Dissertation: see details below).
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 groundwater pollution control and air
pollution control.
Dissertation Research with Advisor Dr. John Killough, on Numerical Simulation of
Filtrate Invasion Profiles Created While Drilling Wells, completed in 1993, using MVIP,
the Texaco-modified miscible version of JS Nolen’s Black Oil VIP program to address
well testing and logging. Dissertation was finished and Defended. Dr. Killough
approved my Defense, but the Dissertation Committee did not. He is currently a
Research Fellow of Landmark, a division of Halliburton. This project built upon my
previous extensive reservoir simulation work, and was not 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 geology class, followed by
Graduate level Origin and Development of Petroleum Reservoirs, designed and taught by
Chapman Cronquist. EOR simulation (thermal, miscible, and chemical models) with Dr.
Elmund Claridge and Black Oil simulator VIP with Dr. Herb Weinstein. Gary Crawford
taught us pressure transient analysis (well testing) out of John Lee’s book. Petrophysical
engineering (formation evaluation) and geostatistics with Dr. Wilmer A. Hoyer. Learned
geophysical modeling and processing in Dr. G.H.F. Gardner’s Seismic Acoustics Lab.
Reservoir engineering and chemical tracers with Dr. Harry Deans around 1990.
Verifiable at www.uh.edu with my SS number and birth date.
I was already working as a reservoir engineer when I started this program, so the related
curricula were very accessible and welcome to me, however challenging the work.
BS, Electrical Engineering, 1972, Texas Tech University GPA= 2.7 of 4.0.
Publications and Events:
"Computation of Porosity and Shale Fractions from Nuclear Well Logs", 1984, presented
at Clays in Well Logging Symposium, Clay Mineral Society, Baton Rouge, 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 at National
Petroleum Laboratory's 3rd Reservoir Characterization Symposium, Tulsa, OK, October
1991. In retrospect, this was a futuristic anticipation of modern petroleum geoscience
and engineering software and data structures, at a time these were primitive or
nonexistent.
Professional:
Eta Kappa Nu (EE honors fraternity), Sigma Xi (National Science Fraternity), IEEE,
SPE, Reservoir Study Group, SPWLA, Clay Minerals Society. Passed Engineer in
Training (EIT) and Principles and Practice (P&P) exams for registration as Professional
E.E. in Texas.

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