Derek Cooper

Experience

1. Production Engineer

   BHP

   Oct 2018 — Present

   Offshore horizontal and deviated well real-time completion optimization (using Landmark NETool), initial well startup & further drawdown program, and early surveillance. Supported offshore control room with oil, gas, and injection well start ups in real-time. Leveraged IPM (Integrated Production Modeling) nodal analysis modeling (PROSPER, GAP) to understand potential well performance and calibrated well and network models for use as forecasting tools. Used IPM to evaluate production enhancement opportunities such as topsides process debottlenecking, inlet separator pressure reduction, gas lift optimization, drawdown optimization, intervention, and well configuration. Supported deepwater GOM non-operated business unit with JVP assets. Provided technical inputs to new deep water development planning across partnership. Reviewed technical details of drilling, completion, and production AFEs to identify potential for cost savings across partnership. On JVP brownfields, supported the operator with production optimization inputs using IPM (Integrated Production Modeling). Provided pre-development planning technical inputs for deep water GOM field in appraisal phase. Optimized detailed completion designs for producers, gas injectors, and water injectors in BOCD. Supported well phasing optimization to minimize initial ullage using Petrolem Experts RESOLVE linked to ECLIPSE simulator.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Japanese

  2004 — 2009

Skills

• Solid Works
• Deepwater Drilling Operations - Supervision, Engineering, and Logistics
• Adobe Photoshop
• Japanese Language: Speaking, Reading, and Writing
• C++ Programming
• Petroleum
• Microsoft Office
• Oil
• Oil