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Personnel
Bill Donovan is the President of Automated Mudlogging Services. Resumes of
other officers and employees are available upon request.
WILLIAM STERLING DONOVAN
CAREER SUMMARY
Professional Petroleum Engineer and geologist with
over 25 years of well
rounded oil and gas experience. Experienced in all aspects of the exploration
cycle; including prospect generation, drilling, log evaluation, completing and
reservoir evaluation. Innovative and creative with a sensitivity to the
profitability of projects.
CURRENT EXPERIENCE
Donovan Brothers Incorporated, Littleton, CO
1989 to present
Petroleum Engineer
President and stockholder of a successful consulting company with two
areas of expertise: reservoir engineering and wellsite supervision. Increased
the company's gross revenue every year since its inception in 1984.
- Analyze fields, wells, drilling proposals, recompletions and workovers to
improve production and profitability. Reviewed logs, analyzed completions,
projected production, ran transient pressure tests and presented hearing
testimony for a client which led to the down spacing of the Wattenberg
"J" and increased the clients reserves by fourfold.
- Competent drilling engineer and completion supervisor. In past five years
have been the drilling and completion engineer on over 150 wells without a
major accident, fishing job or cost overrun. My MMS card is current.
- Prepare reserve evaluations to determine a fair market value, prepare
business plans, evaluate drilling proposals, determine estate tax
liabilities and meet corporate reporting requirements. Specialize in quickly
evaluating projects with less than 100 wells.
- Design completions, stimulation treatments and development plans. Designed
a fracture treatment for a client which resulted in a two fold production
increase for an additional ten percent cost.
- Operate wells for clients. Familiar with the day to day operation of wells
and managing support personnel. Doubled the production on a group of low
volume gas wells by adjusting the time cycle.
EDUCATION
M.S. Petroleum Engineering; Colorado School of Mines, 1979
At the Colorado School of Mines my thesis advisor was Dr. Hilchie and I
took many courses from Dr. Pickett. My core competency is in all forms of
formation evaluation including log evaluation, core analysis, mudlogging and
transient pressure analysis
B.S. Geology; University of Wisconsin, 1970
LICENSES and ORGANIZATIONS
New Mexico Registered Professional Engineer #8258
Colorado Registered Professional Engineer #26587
Technical Program Chairman, 1989 SPE Rocky Mountain Region/Low
Permeability Reservoirs Symposium
Member of the SPE, SWPLA, AAPG, RMAG and DWLS
PUBLICATIONS
"The Price Gramps Fields", Oil and Gas Fields of the Four
Corners, Four Corners Geological Society
"An Investigation of Spectral Gamma Ray Emissions and Cation
Exchange Capacity in the Muddy "J" Formation, Co-authored with Dr. D. W. Hilchie, SWPLA Log Analyst
"A Study of the Factors Influencing Well Productivity of the
"J" and Codell Reservoirs", SPE Rocky Mountain Region/Low
Permeability Reservoir Symposium
"Mudlogging Methods Calculate Coalbed Gas Content", Oil and Gas
Journal, 2/14/00, p64-67
PATENTS
Drilling Nipple Gas Trap, Patent Number 5,007,488
Compensated Gamma Ray Mudlog, Patent Number 5,165,275
LANGUAGES
Basic conversational Russian
PAST EXPERIENCE
IR ENERGY FINANCING CORPORATION, Englewood, CO
1983 to 1989
Executive Vice President
- Corporate officer with sole check and project authority to $1,000,000.
- Marketed, negotiated and sold oil and gas properties worth $17,000,000.
- Evaluated and invested in over 350 net wells.
RESOURCE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL, INC., Denver, CO
1983 to 1983
Reservoir Engineer
- Prepared reserve evaluations of oil and gas properties in major US
productive provinces
- Evaluated logs and well test data
- Presented data in hearings and lawsuits
- Ran commonly use reserve packages
DUGAN PRODUCTION CORPORATION, Farmington, NM
1976 to 1981
Drilling and Completion Engineer/Geologist
- Supervised drilling and completion operations on conventional oil and gas
wells, tight gas sand wells and coal bed methane wells.
- Witnessed logs and made casing point elections
- Developed prospects including coal bed methane prospects
CORE LABORATORIES, INC., Farmington, NM
1971 to 1975
Laboratory Supervisor/Mudlogger
- Managed the Farmington, NM core laboratory
- Ran conventional and special core analysis, including Boyles Law,
Dean-Stark, tar sand, oil shale, coal bed methane and whole core techniques.
- Mudlogged in the Canadian Arctic Islands, Mackenzie Delta, Montana,
Wyoming and Colorado
REFERENCES
Contact Automated Mudlogging Systems for references
Copyright 2004, © by Donovan
Brothers Inc., Page updated
08/11/2006
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