David Crooks

10/10/2015
Pineville, LA

Position Desired

Chemical Engineering
Anywhere in the U.S.
Yes

Resume

Profile
Dedicated drilling fluids engineer with excellent management, technical, analytical and communication skills demonstrated by 11 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and 2 experience in the civil and environmental
engineering industry.

Skills
Project Planning Personnel Management
Project Management Fluid System Designs
Logistics Management MS Excel Programming
Financial Forecasting Customer Relations

Accomplishments
Project Management
Managed improvement projects required to improve chemical mixing plants and chemical warehouses in Southern Nigeria. Replaced old mixing pumps at 3 mixing plants. Supervised painting of the bulk plant silos and mixing tanks at three mixing plants. Supervised and managed the installation of pipelines and an additionalloading zone for bulk liquid and dry chemicals.Planned, managed and executed multi-million dollar drilling fluid operations in deep water, offshore shelf and land drilling operations.

Personnel Management
Have worked in multiple places around the world including West Africa and managed people from many different cultural and economical backgrounds.

Customer Interface
Meet with customers regularly both in the field and in the office to maintain clear communication about project
needs, potential or existing issues and future project planning.

Professional Experience
Project Engineer
July 2014 to Current
MI Overseas Ltd - Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
Planning and managing drilling fluids projects.
Developing cost estimates. Forecasting revenue.
Designing drilling fluids programs.
Managing field engineers.
Investigating any problems encountered and implementing solutions to prevent future occurrences.
Meeting with customers discuss planning, lessons learned and future projects.

Logistics Base Manager
June 2012 to June 2014
MI Nigeria Ltd - Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Nigeria Management of the M-I SWACO logistics operations in Onne, Nigeria.
Supervising all personnel including mud plant supervisors, warehouse supervisors, plant operators and inventory
personnel.
Responsbile for ensuring that QHSE standards and requirements are being met.
Organizing and managing special projects within the plants and warehouses.
Working with Project Engineers and customer account representatives to ensure products are delivered to
customers on time and to customer specifications.
Working with mud plant supervisors and there crews to make sure they have the needed support and direction to
deliver products and services to our customers.

Project Engineer, Mud Plant Manager
July 2010 to June 2012
MI Malaysia - Labuan, Malaysia
Deep Water Drilling operations Supervised and managed mud engineers to build and supply deep water drill
ships with drilling mud for drilling operations Testing mud systems to ensure compliance with customer
specifications Coordinated with supply boats to load and off load drilling mud and chemicals in and out of the
supply plant.
Writing deep water drilling mud programs for the clients Meeting with clients to discuss drilling operations and
determine the best course of action to complete the job successfully Coordinating with rig mud engineers to
supply their operations Liaising with customers and discussing Hydraulics modeling for both planning and
operational stages of the drilling programs.

Operations Manager, Engineering Manager, Project Engineer
January 2009 to July 2010
MI SWACO, LLC - Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Managed company start up operations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Southern New York state.
Managed field engineers (scheduling, technical support, administrative support)
Developed drilling fluid programs (chemical mixing programs)
Project Management
Attended customer meetings
Financial reports, forecasting and revenue forecasts
Sales and marketing

Project Engineer
May 2008 to December 2008
MI SWACO, LLC - Midland, Texas
In House Account Representative at ConocoPhillips Provide technical support on mud related issues Write mud
programs Provide operational support Offer new technology to solve problems efficiently and economically
Perform hydraulics modeling with MI SWACO Virtual Hydraulics software
Project Engineer
March 2007 to April 2008
MI SWACO, LLC - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Provide technical support on mud related issues Write mud programs Provide operational support Offer new
technology to solve problems efficiently and economically Perform hydraulics modeling with MI SWACO Virtual
Hydraulics software.

PROACT Engineer
June 2004 to March 2007
PROACT - Houston, Texas
Program for Accelerated Career Training) is a special program designed by MI SWACO to accelerate the
training of young engineers.
The program consisted of 2 ½ years of training both in the field and in the classroom.
Specific training and experience included onshore and offshore field work (mud engineer), classroom training,
maintenance shop training and in-office training.
Defensive Driving
September 2006 to November 2005
Basic Offshore Survival Training
September 2005 H2S Training-November 2005 Software Training Company Proprietary Software Hydraulics
Modeling Rig Site Reporting Rig Site Job Planning.

Engineering Project Manager
January 2002 to April 2004
Willis Engineering Inc - Alexandria, LA
Reviewing engineering drawings and specifications.
Acquiring project permits.
Managing engineering projects from preliminary phase to post construction phase.
Engineering calculations.
Environmental Project Manager
Performing Environmental Assessments in compliance with Title 47, Section 1.311 of the Code of Federal
Regulations for NEPA Checklist Reports-flood plain information, consulting with government agencies such as
US Fish and Wildlife, Historical Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to determine the environmental and
historical affects (if any) of cellular tower construction Performing in-house Wetland Research and obtaining
jurisdictional determinations from the US Army Corps of Engineers Wetland Permitting-providing the US Army
Corps of Engineers with the appropriate information and drawings needed to aid them in the permitting process
Performing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments Most Recent Specific Experience


Education and Training
Bachelor's Degree : Biological Engineering, Dec. 2001
Louisiana State University - LA.
Biological Engineering
May 2006
Basic Drilling Waste Management School
Basic Knowledge of Drilling Fluid Field Equipment
March 2005
Deep Water Drilling School
Training covering a drilling fluids engineer's responsibilities on a deep water drilling operation including: logistics,
fluid design, potential problems unique to deep wa...

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