About Me:
I am the owner and manager of Petroleum Super Tech Website, and have nine years experience in the Oil and Gas industry, as well as having grown up in a family of field hands and pipeliners. I have worked a wide range of responsibilities and departments including production, reserves, corporate, federal, and SEC reporting, AFE’s, drilling & completion, corporate budgeting, mapping, acquisition and divestiture reviews, and software development. I am employed as a Sr Engineering Tech with a large company based in Houston, Texas. I maintain multiple reserves databases, review acquisitions, help with corporate reporting, and other tasks as needed. I also do contract work building databases, conversions, database reviews and management, research, and a variety of other industry related tasks. I design databases, build templates, research data, LOE, pricing, and production analysis, etc.
I am proficient in a very wide range of O&G software and data sets, dealing with every state web site in existence, I’m an expert PHD user, and I was/am a Beta tester for PHDRMS for a year or two prior to its roll out to the general population. I am 80% self taught, hold a multitude of certificates of varying trainings including PHD Win, DrillingInfo, Microsoft Access, Excalibur Edge, and many others. I’m a member of SPE (Gulf Coast Section, of course) and Desk and Derrick Region IV.
Mission Statement:
If you Google “Petro Tech”, “Petroleum Technician”, or “Oil and Gas Tech” you get many hits on a variety of things. Companies that specialize in software and/or processes for the industry, placement agencies advertising for job seekers, links to the major organizations, and a few hits on course curriculums or training opportunities.
You find nothing, though, on what a Petro Tech REALLY is.
I’ve often wondered why that is, and have searched off and on through my own personal career for sources for answers, always coming up short. Several years ago I began to envision a central place for Techs to go to for knowledge, skill building, Q&A, and to build professional relationships to help them in their career goals. I’ve tried to bring that vision to life through this site.
There are resources in abundance for Engineers, O&G Accountants, Geologists, Geophysicists, Landmen, etc, but very few for the Techs of these disciplines. I plan to change that! Drill Techs, Geo Techs, Completions Techs, Land Techs, Production Techs, Reserves Techs, and all in between, there will be something here for everyone.
From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
“Tech – noun: technician”
“Technician – noun: 1) a specialist in the technical details of a subject or occupation; 2) one who has acquired the technique of an art or other area of specialization”
The first known use of the word technician was in 1833.
Disclaimer:
This site is an active work in progress, and will be forever evolving with the industry. I do not claim to know everything for I don’t, and I will try diligently to portray anything I publish to the site in a neutral fashion. I do reserve the right to my own opinion. I will cite sources responsibly, give credit where credit is due, and will not purposely or knowingly allow, though my own doings, or members and users of this site, any plagiarizing, misrepresentation, or misuse of data or thoughts not their own.
I will be utilizing links when possible to point you in the direction of applicable information, downloads, and data, versus recreating or copying. If, at any point and time you find a bad link, invalid data, or are the owner of source data and do not wish to be linked to, please contact me immediately for rectification.
I urge members and users of this site to consider any personal responsibilities you may have to your employer or other entities in regards to conflict of interest, codes of conduct, and proprietary information contracts you may be bound by. If ever in doubt, don’t do it.
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