👤 Personal Information
Full Namestephen whitaker
GenderMale
Locationcasper, wyoming (united states)
Birth Year—
💼 Professional Details
Job Titletechnical director
Industryoil & energy
Experience42 years
SummaryWorked in the upstream oil industry for over 40 years gaining experience with majors, independents, and by running my own oil company for 16 years. Have been exposed to many aspects of the industry including: prospect generation for conventional and unconventional plays and reservoirs, surface and subsurface geological mapping, stratigraphy, reservoir characterization, geophysics, petroleum engineering, wellsite geology, land acquisition, vertical and horizontal drilling, geosteering, business management, raising investor capital, prospect sales, employee supervision, operations, investor relations, oral and written communication. Additionally, owned and operated 24 oil wells in the Illinois Basin for 16 years. Have developed, helped design, and guided successful secondary and tertiary (EOR) recovery projects in mature fields including heading a multidisciplinary team whose efforts were paramount in creating and executing successful oilfield chemical floods.
🛠 Skills
geology
stratigraphy
geological mapping
geophysics
petroleum geology
petroleum
upstream
earth science
unconventional
reservoir management
oil and gas industry
drilling
characterization
mineral exploration
sedimentology
natural gas
energy industry
energy
oil/gas
seismology
structural geology
carbonates
reservoir engineering
sequence stratigraphy
gas
onshore
eor
oilfield
formation evaluation
oil and gas exploration
engineering
geosteering
management
petra
log analysis
petrophysics
reserves
geochemistry
logging
team leadership
geographix
basin modeling
petrel
directional drilling
arcgis
core analysis
reservoir simulation
3d seismic interpretation
well logging
public speaking