Wiegand Inc.

IWCF Surface Subsea Drilling Supervisor, Wellsite Engineer,
International Bilingual Petroleum Engineer, and Drilling Engineer.

WORK HISTORY: 2008 – 2009 Designed and presented WEI’s newest course Deepwater Drilling Engineering in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June – July. InterActPMTI seconded to Sea Dragon – Egypt as Senior Offshore Drilling Superintendent, exploration directional well from TransOcean jackup rig # 103, Gulf of Suez near Zafarana, 2007 – 2008

EPI seconded to ConocoPhillips, as drilling supervisor on Precision land rig #403, Wyoming, USA, drilled to 11,800 ft TVD in 30 days & ran 4.5” casing. Good gas well.
2006 – 2007

Boots & Coots employee seconded to Respsol – Algeria as Well Control Engineer, Hassi Messaoud, Sahara Desert, Algeria, well control policy & hardware. Attended Murchison Drilling Schools and completed same, earning course certificate and well control certificate.

2006 – 2009

Haward Technology of Abu Dhabi, UAE, Middle East, contracted international petroleum engineering instructor for Arabic-speaking engineers of national E&P companies on advanced petroleum engineering subjects. “Drilling & Completion Fluids”, “Well Completions and Workovers” and “Modern Production Practices”, “Petroleum Exploration Risk Analysis, Decision Theory, and Economics”

2005 – 2006
SONANGOL, national oil company of Angola, West Africa, worked AS Deepwater Drilling Superintendent in Sonangol office, Luanda, Angola, and make trip to PACassa Offshore platform and Kissamama main barge for offshore field.

Knowledge Reservoir, worked on Repsol Argentina Project, Staff Drilling Engineer and Petroleum Geologist, new drilling and production technology, including casing drilling, DynaPumps, and fiberglass sucker rods. Geological report on San Jorge Basin, onshore & offshore maps, Southern Argentina.

Hamilton Engineering, worked for Forest Oil Co. as drilling supervisor on a H & P deep land rig near Pecos, West Texas, on a well control job, with a snubbing unit on top of a drilling rig, due to very high pressures.
Worked for Peregrine O & G, Houston, on Offshore OCS-G shallow-water Ship Shoals Block 84, as drilling supervisor drilling a new vertical hole to 13,000 ft on mat-supported Hercules 20 jackup rig.

EPI, worked for TXM – Hungary as Sr. Drilling Engineer and Supervisor. Designed Mako #6 to 6000 m as the “deepest” 2005 exploration gas well in Hungary. Spudded Pustaser Well #1 with Crosco Rig 403 on 7 Dec 2005.

K & M Technology, worked for PGP Exploration as platform day and night drilling supervisor on Platform Irene for ESP heavy-oil workover of directional oilwell, and ERD sidetrack horizontal well drilling on Platform Hidalgo . Complex completions with swell packers and Intelligent Well Completions with 7 control lines on 3-1/2” production tubing with gas lift. Heavy oil horizontal oilwells with sour production in OCS offshore California waters.
2004

TransJordan Exploration Operations and Drilling Superintendent, , drilled 2 deviated exploration holes from same surface casing, i.e., multilateral by geosteering using mud motor and Gamma ray directional tools, stuck pipe, lost circulation, drilling Phase II, openhole fm testing, run and set 7” casing, perforating, cased hole testing, swabbing, P&A. Admasco landrig #5 on East Bank of Dead Sea below sea level with Middle Eastern crews. Multinational personnel relations and logistics on the Dead Sea in Jordan, Middle East.
2002 – 2004

EPI, Pogo Producing company man, drilling 11,000 ft deviated land wells in the Lobo Trend, South Texas, with a H & P state-of-the-art computerized Flex III Rig in 16 days with 2 day rig moves. Phase I, II and III drilling, including lost circulation, higher gas units in transition zones, running and cementing casing, use of rotary steerable directional drilling assemblies, etc. , out of Zapata, Texas.

Shell SEPCO drilling foreman on Cognac Deepwater Platform, US GOM OCSG offshore Louisiana, simultaneous workovers on deepwater fixed production platform. Emergency operations after Ivan.

Petroleum Engineering Intl Company Man on jackrup rig TODCO 207, drilling Phase I and II on directional gas well offshore OCSG Lousiana. Company Man, jackup rig TODCO 251 offshore OCSG Louisiana, completion of oil & gas well with gaslift completion string, pressure tests, perf zone with e-wireline, run tubing, test well, jack down and away from completed well offshore.
2000 – 2002

Saudi Aramco drilling foreman on horizontal extended-reach geosteered oilwells, drilling through lost circulation zones with mudcaps, 22″ x 18″ Phase, 16″ x 13″ Phase, 12″ x 9″ Phase, 8″ x 7″ Phase, 6″ x 4″ Phase, horizontal oilwell completion with 4.5″ tubing with PBR and tie-back, 12,000 bbls per day crude with 0% water cut, geosteering in the middle of Arab D zone along dip, casing seat selection from ROP charts and samples, multi-stage cementing, open-hole packers, PJSMs, reamup tight spots, Totco slickline surveys, slickline completions with X-type plugs, flow well testing.

1999 Apache North Sea drilling engineer at Alba Gate, wrote Forties Echo Well 12- Side Track 1 (FES12ST1) Drilling Programme and Detailed Drilling Guidelines for re-entry and sidetrack to new Bottom Hole Location, planned workover using Galaxy 1 jackup rig. Pan European North Sea Survival Course., HUET, etc.

Drilling / Operations Superintendent, Trans Jordan Oil, Admasco Rig #5, Dead Sea Concession in Jordan, Wells Wadi Mujib # 2 and Ash Shaqiq # 1, geosteering directional wells in Cambrian highly-fractured sandstones and into the Dead Sea rift basement.

Daharan

POSITION: IWCF Surface Subsea Drilling Supervisor, IADC Company Man, Drilling Engineer, Completions Engineer, Drilling Superintendent, Drilling Manager, International Multilingual Instructor

NAME: Frederick W. Wiegand, Jr. ( Mr. Wiegand)
NATIONALITY: US Citizen
BASED: Texas, USA
AIRPORT: Austin, Texas

QUALIFICATIONS:

January 2010 — MS 700 VetcoGray subsea wellhead course, Houston, TX, deepwater well design

Pan European North Sea Survival 5 day Course in Aberdeen, 10-14 Nov 03, including OPITO-approved Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency, Breathing Systems, FireFighting, Re-Breather System for Helicopter Underwater Escape Training HUET, Norwegian legislation, First Aid, life vests, boats & rafts, Evacuation Procedures, METS, TEMPSC lifeboat procedures, and GMDSS and electronic beacons. Drilling supervisor medical certificate, valid 11-14 November 2004

many industry and college courses

April 2003 completed Phase I IWCF subsea drilling supervisor; May 2003, passed IWCF with 97% grade. July 2007, December 2007, February 2008 IADC certificates.

Well Control certificates valid from 1977 through 2010

Licensed PROFESSIONAL Engineer #35635, State of Texas, valid 2010

The University of Texas at Austin,
Master of Science DEGREE in Petroleum Engineering 1970 with Thesis on Rocks Mechanics

Bachelor of Science DEGREE in Geology 1969
Bachelor of Science DEGREE in Petroleum Engineering 1969

Thomas Jefferson High School, San Antonio, TX; graduated 1964 w/ honors

Company Man for Pogo Producing, H&P Flex III Rig 232 (computerized) supervising drilling operations of natural gas wells in the Lobo Trend, South Texas. 11,000 ft wells in 17 days. Tight hole problems, normal Phase I, II and III drilling, and coordination of supplies and vendors.

Company Man for Shell on Cognac Deepwater Production Platform, GOM Louisiana. Simultaneous operations. Emergency operations after Ivan storm. Drilling, workover and production responsibilities.

Company Man, jackup rig TODCO 207 offshore OCSG Louisiana, drilling new directional well, cementing 10-3/4″ casing, drilling 9.5″ hole.

Compny Man, jackup rig TODCO 251 offshore OCSG Louisiana, completion of oil & gas well with gaslift completion string, pressure tests, perf zone with e-wireline, run tubing, test well, jack down and away from completed well offshore.

Drilling Foreman & Liasonman, Saudi Aramco, horizontal extended-reach geosteered oilwells, drilling through lost circulation zones with mudcaps, 22″ x 18″ Phase, 16″ x 13″ Phase, 12″ x 9″ Phase, 8″ x 7″ Phase, 6″ x 4″ Phase, horizontal oilwell completion with 4.5″ tubing with PBR and tie-back, 12,000 bbls per day crude with 0% water cut, geosteering in the middle of Arab D zone along dip, casing seat selection from ROP charts and samples, multi-stage cementing, open-hole packers, PJSMs, reamup tight spots, Totco slickline surveys, slickline completions with X-type plugs, flow well testing. Materials requistioning and inventorying. Rig move with 6 cranes and 40 tandem-axle flat beds of 20,000 ft drilling rig in 3 days. Desert operations with satcom and Inet communications, including GPS. Use of Oracle daily reports and Word and Excel spreadsheets for engineering programs and inventories.

Drilling Engineer, Apache North Sea at Alba Gate, wrote Forties Echo Well 12-Side Track 1 (FES12ST1) Drilling Programme and Detailed Drilling Guidelines for re-entry and sidetrack to new Bottom Hole Location, planned workover using Galaxy 1 jackup rig. Pan European North Sea Survival Course. Sales trip to Venezuela. Drilling supervisor, land rig in South Texas, Phase I and Phase II drilling vertical hole of high-pressure natural gas well. Completed IWCF course and passed surface / subsea drilling supervisor exam in May.

Drilling Foreman, Yemen Hunt Oil Company, Al-Raja Field, desert of Central Yemen, supervised Nabors (Henley) Rig #1 while drilling Phase II the 12-1/4¨ hole and Phase III 8-1/2¨ vertical hole with mud motor through the Safer Salt formations to the Alif Sand. Briefly worked with completion rig, running 3-1/2 tubing for single completion on well that flowed 4,000 bopd with about 2 MMcfpd at 1800 FTP from about 10,000 ft. Made morning reports in Excel. Coordinated Beduin guards, Yemen military and Yemen sheiks for water hauling. Spoke in Arabic with multinational crews and service personnel. Also inventoried downhole tools and completion tools in Yemen Hunt warehouses. Had special ID tools made to my specs at the machine shops, and downhole tools repaired under my supervision.

Drilling Superintendent, Great Wall of China Drilling Co., Anaco, Vzla. Company Man, Consulting Engineer and Drilling Engineer, and Completions Engineer, vertical, directional and horizontal land and offshore oil & gas wells, South and West Texas, and GOM. Underbalanced drilling. Production while drilling. Slim hole drilling. Completions. Deep air drilling. Wrote drilling, completions and workover programs. Specialized downhole tools. Fish bone drilling.

Company Man for SINCOR, Orinoco Basin, South-Central Venezuela, drilling with a hydraulic rig, shallow, extended-reach horizontal development wells at ROPs of > 2000 fphr with LWD based on GR, advanced 3D computer datarecording while drilling, and completions. Simultaneous extended reach completions. Bilingual, multinational site management.

Alliance Coordinator, DKES, multilateral drilling and completions, highvolume, low-pressure deep S-shaped directional oil wells, Bogota, Colombia, in Yopal Field.

Drilling Engineer, desert land rigs, Khuff gas wells, Saudi Aramco, Ghawar Field, Saudi Aramco. Daily reports, bit studies, sidetracks, ROPenchancement, onsite modifications to the Khuff Deep Gas drilling programs. 7” completions.

Technical Manager of All Operations, Pan Ocean Oil Co., Lagos, Nigeria. Condensate well control. Production. Management. Managed all engineers in design of workovers and re-completions of 11,000 ft vertical wells in OgarafeeField, near Wari, Nigeria. Sand control, gravel packing, and completion wireline tools.

International Exploration Team Leader and Senior Drilling Engineer, design of drilling and completion programs of deep, high-pressure land exploration well, selection of contractors; startup of operations, Lagoven, Maturin, Venezuela. Drilling Supervisor, Qarun Petroleum, Western Desert of Egypt, vertical decimal overy well, EDC Rig 1. Helped decimal over the Qarun Oilfield.

Drilling Superintendent, Lake Maracaibo, floating and land rigs, WesternVenezuela, horizontal oilwell drilling and completions. Use of PH6 premium 2-3/8¨ tubing and slotted liners for horizontal completions.

Drilling Supervisor, simultaneous workovers, Chervon, offshoreplatforms, out of Lafayette, LA. Simultaneous completions on the main platform for 400,000 bopd.

Drilling Supervisor, worked on two jackup rigs in the Gulf of Suez for SUCO, and helped decimal over the Zafarana Offshore Oilfield. Tested decimal overy well with coil tubing on jackup rig. Drilling Supeervisor, worked on land rig on artificial island west of Sinai, multiple directionals wells from pad location.

Petroleum Engineer, onshore/offshore drilling & workovers, oil and gas wells, Pioneer Exploration, Houston. Rod-pumped wells, single and dual completions gas and oilwells, packer selection, sand control, plugback design, and Corpus Christi Bay gas well workover. Drilling Supervisor, directional drilling from artificial island in Gulf of Suez, PetroBel, Egypt.

Drilling Supervisor, Corpoven, deep high-pressure land drilling andcompletions
from multiple, high-pressure oil sands, Eastern Venezuela.

Drilling Superintendent, Corpoven, Anaco, land drilling andcompletions, deep high-pressure gas wells, multiple hydraulically-set production packers, Central Venezuela.

Drilling Supervisor and Senior Engineer, Meneven, Lake Maracaibo,jackups, Western Venezuela. Complex multiple completions from 3 zones with simultaneous production. Triple completions.

Drilling Supervisor, Kuwait Oil Co, Kuwait, onshore vertical H2Soilwell drilling. Rubber-sleeve coring, standard 3-1/2” completion with mechanical packer.

Drilling Supervisor, Occidental, various countries in South America, offshore semis & onshore, including Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina. Drilling from deepwater semisubmersibleDiamond Hunter, Fortaleza, Brazil. Drilling and completions of vertical wells.

Drilling Engineer, Aramco, design of drilling programs, wellsitesupervision, well testing, and completions in various fields on land rigs, Saudi Arabia, including Ghwar and Ramlah.

1976 -78 Senior Deepwater Drilling Engineer, Esso ExplorationInc., drillships, West Africa and South America, wrote drilling and completion programs for subsea wells, for DP drillships.

1975-76 Independent Producer, Luling Oilfield, pumping wells. Drilling, design and completions and workovers of pumping oilwells with both low and high GORs. Hydraulic fracturing of Austin Chalk and Buda Limestone shallow oilwells.

1974 -75 Applications Engineer: Hydril in Houston. Design of tubing, casing, liner, drillpipe strings by computer. Design of completions, including multiple completions using CS and PH6.Surface and subsea BOP and BOP stack design, including servos and hydraulics; servicing & sales. Apprentice machinist.

1973 -74 Reserve Engineer, State of Texas. Reserve study, Texasoil & gas production, municipal water well and pipeline design and construction. Administration of state contracts.

1972 -73 Petroleum Engineer for Gulf Oil Company out ofHouston, Houma, onshore & offshore engineering, Texas and Louisiana. Reserve engineering and reservoir engineering.

1971 Combat Engineer, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, South Vietnam. Officer In Charge of all water well drilling rigs and drilling activities in South Vietnam, 1971. Road construction, bridge construction, and military operations in combat zones.