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Vice President of Engineering
Nationality:
American
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Education:
B.S. Petroleum Engineering
Montana Tech
Career Summary:
Brandon began his career with Mobil International Drilling Services where he worked as an onsite drilling engineer, responsible for torque and drag and fluid optimization on long horizontal wells. He also developed a probabilistic cost estimation technique which was implemented by the Mobil affiliate and was published as an SPE paper. After the ExxonMobil merger, he was responsible as lead engineer for well planning, design, and surveillance of several multi-well drilling programs in West Texas and Wyoming .
Brandon joined Pure Resources in 2001 where he worked as a drilling and completions engineer. At Pure, he was exposed to wide variety of complex directional and horizontal wells in West Texas, South Texas, and New Mexico . Everything from deep HPHT and UBD wells to low-budget shallow horizontal oil producers were common, which gave Brandon valuable hands-on design and operational experience. Several innovative well design concepts and development of fit-for-purpose equipment were highlights of his stint with Pure.
In 2003, Brandon joined the K&M team, and has worked onsite on many of our most difficult projects from the GOM, to California , to Trinidad and all over the North Sea . For the past couple years, he has been working on world-class ERD, deepwater, and HPHT projects for our clients around the world, including several record-breaking ER designs and successfully implemented projects under his belt. He is currently working major projects in Kazakhstan , GOM, and Norway .
Brandon and his wife Courtney reside in The Woodlands, Texas .
