Laura Wellman, P.E., MBA

Experience

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  Schlumberger

  Jul 2007 - May 2009

  Cased Hole Field Engineer

  Crew supervisor and engineer for cases hole Wireline operations. Familiar with all cased hole Wireline operations including: Cement bond logging, production logging, perforating services, micro seismic, pumpdown and PerfFrac operations throughout Alberta and British Columbia.

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  ConocoPhillips

  May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Production Engineering Intern

  Summer intern for the Alpine field. Completed a project determining why injectivity is better when injecting seawater as opposed to fresh water. Also performed general production surveillance duties for a waterflood operation.

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  Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

  Jul 2011 - Nov 2019

  Completions engineer on the long term planning team. Responsible for capital forecasting for drilling and completions, AFE generation, vendor selection, stim center fracs and competitor intelligence. Also complete work on special projects including frac pump rate analysis and design of experiments. Familiar with plug and perf slickwater completions, coiled tubing, pumpdown and flowback operations in horizontal wells. Monitor CO2 flood performance, forecasting/reserves and setting WAG cycle targets. Designed a StreamSim simulation to better predict flow patterns. Worked on the sale of the asset by compiling data room information and putting together data required by the buyer. Familiar with the year end reserves process. Workover procedures and rig supervision. Wrote and supplied workover procedures for an 18-22 rig program and answered field calls to trouble shoot operations problems. Onsite field supervisor for 2 workover rigs for 3 months responsible for all types of work (P&A, remedial cementing, packer install, etc.) Base production engineer in the Natural Buttes field responsible for optimizing plunger lift systems, overseeing new well turn ons and workover operarions. Also responsible for monitoring and implementing the chemical program for the field and salt water disposal facilities with a focus on H2S issues. Designed facility and rod pumping systems for the Green River oil program.

  • Staff Reservoir Engineer

    Aug 2017 - Nov 2019

  • Senior Completions Engineer

    Oct 2014 - Jul 2017

  • EOR Reservoir Engineer

    Jan 2014 - Oct 2014

  • Well Operations Engineer

    Mar 2013 - Jan 2014

  • Production Engineer

    Jul 2011 - Mar 2013
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  EOG Resources

  Nov 2019 - now

  • Division Reservoir Engineering Manager

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Reservoir Engineering Advisor

    Nov 2019 - now