Mark Mercer

Experience

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  KENTING APOLLO DRILLING INC

  Oct 1977 - Mar 1980

  Derrickhand

  Coming off the farm/ranch, started as a roughneck, then motorman, then derrick man and then assistant driller. Responsible for the maintenance and operation of the drilling rig in accordance with all safety policies and procedures. Coordinated the rigging up and rigging down of all the equipment with the trucking crews, moving derrick, sub-structure, matting, draw-works, compound assembly, pump houses, mud tanks, boilers, water tanks, BOP’s, pipe, collars, racks, doghouse and camp structures. Responsible for maintaining the drilling fluids per the tower book, coordinating the mixing of the drilling mud/components, replacement of pump rods, heads, and liners (when washed out), de-sander and de-silter unit centrifuge operation, repair and maintenance, shale shaker maintenance, mud tank monitoring, pump house motors maintenance, boiler start-up and shutdown. Participated with on-site service companies in running casing, fishing tools on wireline or drill stem, pumping cement, open hole and cased logging, and drill stem testing. Show less

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  Corrpro Canada

  Apr 1980 - Jun 1984

  Senior Corrosion Technician / Projects Mgr.

  Conducted the coordination, installation and maintenance of impressed and sacrificial cathodic protection systems for major oil and gas producers. Performed the installation of anode beds, test stations, rectifiers, thermal electric generators, and solar units throughout British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Performed full system evaluations, remedial repairs and adjustments. Performed helicopter work in remote locations to conduct system designs and fit for service applications. Conducted close interval surveys for Interprovincial Pipeline (Enbridge) and TransCanada, walking across Canada. Was the corrosion inspector on the new 24” pipeline installation for Interprovincial Pipeline performing coating quality assessments on the pipe, yellow jacket coating integrity on all the road bores, after the procedure, and foreign line crossing test station installations. Show less

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  DC Corrosion

  Jun 1988 - May 1990

  Project Supervisor
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  Baker Petrolite Corporation

  May 1990 - Apr 1994

  Technical Service Representative

  Responsible for supporting the Canadian sales group in development of site specific emulsion breaker chemicals, water clarification applications, facility process improvements, corrosion inhibitor selection and application /monitoring recommendations, biocide treatments and monitoring, pipeline clean outs, scale dissolvers and inhibitor recommendations, paraffin and asphaltene treatment programs, well scale and corrosion squeeze treatments and well stimulation packages. Afforded support to over 15 field offices located throughout British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. Responsible for operating the GAMRY, Corrocean, Rohrback Cosasco, and potentiodyne corrosion monitoring equipment. Built a cold finger device for the lab for evaluating wax control chemistries and designed a multitude of corrosion lab test procedures for the recommendation of corrosion inhibitors in the field for pipeline, facilities, and down-hole well treatments. Developed in excess of thirty new emulsion breakers to fit in to the product line, treating light and heavy oil. Performed lab and field testing on new technologies coming out of Houston’s R&D groups. Constructed process diagrams and performed fluid mechanics calculations to establish correct application points for the chemical injection. Show less

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  Wascana Energy, Inc

  May 1994 - Sept 1997

  Corporate Corrosion Coordinator

  Responsible for managing and implementing the corporate corrosion mitigation practices of chemical treatment, cathodic protection, inspections and coatings recommendations throughout the organization, interfacing with four (4) field offices with corrosion control staff in each location. Managed over 600 impressed current cathodic protection systems/annual surveys, out of the Williston basin location, all production and process chemical applications, coatings recommendations and inspection, upfront facility design advice, pipeline risk assessments, pipeline intelligent pigging, pipeline digs and repairs, pipeline crossings, river crossings, CPET well logging, fabrication shop audits, and assisted in plant turn-around inspections. Participated in several committees for coatings selection, pressure vessel and tank inspections, well casing cathodic protection requirements/design, and chemical team alliances. Assisted in the development of the internal MS Access tracking system for scheduled maintenance of pressure safety relief devices, pressure equipment inspections, and management of the internal cathodic protection database. Show less

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  Corrpro Companies, Inc.

  Sept 1997 - Feb 1999

  Engineering Manager

  Design and installation of the cathodic protection equipment, pre and post data measurement collection for the Queen Mary and Soviet submarine in the Long Beach, CA harbor. Installation of the AC mitigation system for the US Navy’s jet fuel pipeline in proximity to Disneyland and the subsequent collection of the data and submittal of the report. Start up of the impressed current systems associated with the protection of the reinforcement steel and tie backs for the sea wall located in Marina del Rey, CA. Responsible for managing the field construction crews, the engineering/technical team, material sales division, warehouse and supply chain management, manpower, budget monitoring, interface with the client, and overall review of the deliverables. Show less

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  BJ Services Company

  Mar 1999 - Sept 2005

  Senior Account Manager

  Managed major production chemical treatment programs for Chevron, OXY and various other producers in oil, water and gas treatment as a process specialist. Responsible for the monitoring aspect to meet client expectations, coordinating technical teams on customer areas of concern, technical report writing, financial reporting, and forecasting monthly revenue. Designed the pipeline corrosion inhibition pigging programs, surface and down hole corrosion treatment programs, scale and corrosion inhibitor squeeze programs on wells, well stimulation programs, pipeline and facility biocide programs, oil dehydration and water clarification treatment programs, H2S and methanol gas treatment programs, pipeline risk assessment, and GPS data collection on critical pipelines. Performed the planning/scheduling of the chemical deliveries, scheduling of high pressure pumping units for the well treatments, all performance monitoring, daily customer interface, weekly and monthly customer technical and financial reporting/meetings, and customer well reviews. Show less

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  Schlumberger

  Nov 2005 - May 2012

  Area Manager

  Established a specialty chemical company to serve an alliance partner with SMITH International. Initiated the field testing and trial chemicals for corrosion inhibition, scale inhibition, biocide control for SRB’s and APB’s, H2S, water clarification and oil dehydration for seven producing locations with a combined production of 25K BOEPD and water flood of over 400K BWPD. Put in place a field lab to assess daily monitoring. Designed the corrosion inhibition program and monitoring for over 500 wells, assisting in the development of a database that contained all well pertinent data, work-over data, corrosion failures, mechanical specifics of each well, and the subsequent recommended chemical treatment dosage. Produced weekly engineering and financial reports for the customer and all technical recommendations and proposals. Attended monthly well review meetings with the customer. Developed the software programs for billings, audits, shipping manifests and supply chain management. Did the annual budget and supplied weekly updates and monthly revenue forecasts. Put in place corporate QHSE programs from SMITH, then MI and finally Schlumberger. Hired and trained sixteen employees. Had designed and built five treater trucks and two heavy over the road delivery units. Put in place the DOT program for all the qualifying vehicles and operators and participated in the CHP BIT inspections. Conducted all product orders from the main distribution point out of Louisiana and from a dozen outside vendors. Set up two offices in California and a small blending operation securing permits and putting in place all the safety protocols and ISO programs to meet the QA/QC corporate obligations. Grew revenue from $20K per month to $1MM per month at an average EBIT of 35%.. Show less

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  Williams

  Sept 2012 - now

  Staff Technical Specialist

  Internal Corrosion SME and Pigging SME with primary responsibility for all Transmission, Storage, and Deep-water assets and secondary support for the entire G&P enterprise. Play a primary role in the technical creation of the corrosion monitoring and mitigations for the corporate integrity management plans. Boots on the ground collaborator in the design of the monitoring and mitigation programs and the execution of them.