Mr. Gary Schneider
“Successfully designed, managed, engineered and safely drilled complex horizontal and lateral wellbore systems worldwide.”
With 40+ years of professional engineering experience, is a M.Sc. Petroleum. Engineering graduate, working in oilwell drilling operations. Drilling and completion projects have included deep, High-Temperature High Pressure (HTHP) exploration and development wells, directional wells, and horizontal wells in both conventional reservoirs and in unconventional shale plays in numerous basins throughout the world. Designed drilling and completion programs for extended-reach horizontal wells and multi-lateral wells with multi-stage fracture stimulations. Provided technical, managerial, implementation supervisory programs for various types of exploration and development wells in the U.S.: in Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Louisiana, Wyoming, and California; and internationally: in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Assignments have included Drilling Superintendent, Drilling Engineer, Completion Engineer, Operations Engineer, Chief Engineer, Drilling Manager, and Project Manager. Also, recently served as consultant Drilling Manager for Halliburton Project Management, responsible for managing all HPM onshore drilling operations in North America.
Consultant projects included horizontal wells in Volga-Ural basin of southern Russia; deep, HTHP exploration wells in the sub-Andean overthrust belts of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia; deep exploration wells in the Basque region of Spain; managed-pressure drilling operations and Sim-Ops operations for gas wells in various basins in the US Rockies; high temperature exploration wells in Nevada; HTHP horizontal gas wells in the Haynesville shale; 2-section and 3-section horizontal wells in the Williston basin; multi-rig operations in the Russian Arctic; and remote exploration wells in Australia, Kazakhstan, and Yemen. Engineering work included geomechanical modeling and wellbore stability studies and other engineering analyses; permitting; detailed well designs for complex wells; tendering and analyzing bid proposals; developing detailed drilling and completion programs; managing location and access road construction; planning logistics for remote operations; managing all phases of drilling/completion operations; implementing best drilling practices; supervising critical drilling/completion operations; and assessment of operations to optimize efficiency, safety, and economics.