API Website www.apibakersfield.com October 2019 Topic: Gas Well Deliquificaon Presentation Description: Gas wells can become loaded with fluid and quit flowing. This fluid can be difficult to remove. We will discuss flowing tree design, pressure concepts, liquid loading, chokes, shut in problems, and water blocks. Completion topics include where to place the tubing tail or packer, and TCP versus wireline perforating. Troubleshooting gas wells can be tricky and it pays to have a good operator to experiment with low cost solutions before engineers run Nodal Analysis and place the well on lift. Some low-cost solutions include extended shut ins, batch or continuous soaping, siphon strings, swabbing and surface compression. Ray Clanton (LinkedIn) is the owner of Petroleum Engineering Services LLC. He has over 34 years of Production, reservoir, and drilling experience for Getty, Texaco, BLM, Bechtel, Aera Energy and most recently, California Resources Corporation at the Elk Hills Field, CA. Ray has worked on conventional and unconventional reservoirs including deep high temperature, high pressure (HPHT) wells, low pressure gas sands, heavy oil, and the Monterey shale. His experience includes fracturing, high rate gravel packing for sand control, artificial lift design, diatomite steamflooding, CO2 and water injection, and shale acidizing using fiber optics and diverters (2006 meritorious Award for engineering innovation). Ray is a registered Professional engineer in California and Wyoming. He holds a BS in Petroleum engineering from the University of Wyoming, and an MBA from Cal State Bakersfield. Ray is a lecturer in production engineering at Cal State Bakersfield and has guest lectured at USC School of Petroleum Engineering. General Meeng: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 Guest Speaker: Ray Clanton Owner Petroleum Engineering Services, LLC Technical Speaker: No Technical Session This Month Locaon: 1933 Prohibion Event Center 7900 Downing Avenue Bakersfield, CA 93308 Schedule: Social Hour: 6:00 PM Dinner: 6:45 PM Speaker: 7:45 PM Price: $30.00 w/RSVP and Online Pay $35.00 at the door Social Hour Sponsor: Jim Roberts Global Elastomeric Products Tech Session Sponsor: No Technical Session Super Prize Sponsor: Jim Roberts Global Elastomeric Products The SJV Chapter of API meets the third Tuesday of each month at the 1933 Prohibion Center. Ray Clanton Page 1 General Meeng Reservaons Please RSVP by 4:00 PM the Thursday prior to the meeng here: hps:// www.apibakersfield.com/pay-online/api-monthly-dinner-meeng/
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API Website www.apibakersfield.com October 2019
Topic: Gas Well Deliquification
Presentation Description: Gas wells can become loaded with fluid and quit flowing. This fluid can be difficult to remove. We will discuss flowing tree design, pressure concepts, liquid loading, chokes, shut in problems, and water blocks. Completion topics include where to place the tubing tail or packer, and TCP versus wireline perforating. Troubleshooting gas wells can be tricky and it pays to have a good operator to experiment with low cost solutions before engineers run Nodal
Analysis and place the well on lift. Some low-cost solutions include extended shut ins, batch or continuous soaping, siphon strings, swabbing and surface compression. Ray Clanton (LinkedIn) is the owner of Petroleum Engineering Services LLC. He has over 34 years of Production, reservoir, and drilling experience for Getty, Texaco, BLM, Bechtel, Aera Energy and most recently, California Resources Corporation at the Elk Hills Field, CA. Ray has worked on conventional and unconventional reservoirs including deep high temperature, high pressure (HPHT) wells, low pressure gas sands, heavy oil, and the Monterey shale. His experience includes fracturing, high rate gravel packing for sand control, artificial lift design, diatomite steamflooding, CO2 and water injection, and shale acidizing using fiber optics and diverters (2006 meritorious Award for engineering innovation). Ray is a registered Professional engineer in California and Wyoming. He holds a BS in Petroleum engineering from the University of Wyoming, and an MBA from Cal State Bakersfield. Ray is a lecturer in production engineering at Cal State Bakersfield and has guest lectured at USC School of Petroleum Engineering.
General Meeting:
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Guest Speaker:
Ray Clanton
Owner
Petroleum Engineering Services,
LLC
Technical Speaker:
No Technical Session This Month
Location:
1933 Prohibition Event Center
7900 Downing Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93308
Schedule:
Social Hour: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:45 PM
Speaker: 7:45 PM
Price:
$30.00 w/RSVP and Online Pay
$35.00 at the door
Social Hour Sponsor:
Jim Roberts
Global Elastomeric Products
Tech Session Sponsor:
No Technical Session
Super Prize Sponsor:
Jim Roberts
Global Elastomeric Products
The SJV Chapter of API meets the third Tuesday of each month at the 1933 Prohibition Center.
Ray Clanton
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General Meeting Reservations
Please RSVP by 4:00 PM the Thursday prior to the meeting here: https://
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General Meetings
General Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (January through October) at the 1933 Prohibition Room in Bakersfield, 7900 Downing Avenue. Social Session starts at 6:00 PM, Technical Session starts at 6:30 p.m., and the Dinner Session starts at 7:00 p.m.
Dinners are $30 for pre-paid RSVPs and $35 at the door. We may have very limited seating for those who do not RSVP. We ask that you RSVP by 5:00 PM on Thursday September 12, 2019 and prepay for your dinner on our website at:
Your payment is your RSVP. If you cannot prepay online, please contact David Budy for another prepay option. Those who pre-pay either way are eligible for the door prizes following the guest speaker’s presentation. In order to guarantee your seat and dinner choice (steak, chicken, salmon, or vegetarian) for the meeting,
please check the appropriate menu selection when you are on the payment page.
Honorary Lifetime Members may RSVP to: [email protected] with your choice of menu option.
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Super Prize Raffle:
September’s General Meeting has a SUPER Prize valued at over $200. It is sponsored by Jim Roberts of Global Elastomeric Products. Tickets can be purchased at the dinner
All the proceeds from the Super Raffle this month go towards our scholarship fund. Our super prize winner at the October meeting was Linda Corona who won the Yeti 45 cooler which was provided by Russell Thibodeaux of Key Energy Services
Technical Speaker Sponsor : No Technical Session This Month
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Oil Did It Once Again In 2019 Oil Can Do It 2019 Results Led by the team from Chevron, the oil Industry collected 340,228 pounds of food for the Golden Empire Gleaners this year. Your API Team finished in a solid fourth posi-tion. Thank you to all the participants and API members who contributed to the cause. The results are shown below. Chevron – 168,296 pounds California Resources Corp – 80,428 pounds Aera Energy – 52,167 pounds API affiliates– 39,337 pounds The API donated money from the monthly meeting super prize raffles in July, August, and September and coordinated donations from 26 participating companies.
Special thanks to our largest donors: Berry Petroleum Company Essendant Sturgeon Services International SageRider West Halliburton General Production Services JD Rush E & B Resources
Thanks to all the companies that contributed: Robert Heely Construction Ken Small Industries David Janes Company Farwest Corrosion Control Sentinel Peak Resources Seneca Resources Titan Services C&J Well Services Weatherford Artificial Lift MMI Ensign Drilling Ensign Rigs Total-Western Inc GWC Italia Diversified Project Services International PCL Construction Summit ESP MTS Solutions
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2019 Fall Fun Shoot Was Another Success For API
The SJV Chapter of API pulled off another very successful Fall Fun Shoot! We had 300 shooters show
up at Five Dogs Shooting Range on Friday, October 4, 2019 for annual event, which is billed as the
largest shoot in the county. The day started at 6:00 AM with breakfast burritos courtesy of Howard
Supply Company. After the flag salute, the shooters ascended to the top of the hill for an 8:00 AM
start to the shoot. The weather was perfect but the shooting was challenging, with the high score
coming in at 87. The first team came off the hill right around noon, and soon, others began filtering
in for lunch.
Lunch was a group effort with Global Elastomeric, Valley Power Systems, Pro Tools, Muth Pump,
API, and Total Western all contributing. Alan White of Miocene Engineering provided some authen-
tic jambalaya, while Don Taft of Valley Power Systems cooked forty-five racks of ribs. The Pro Tools
gang handled the deep pit beef and Muth Pumps cooked the beans. Roger Putnam of Total Western
brought dozens of cookies for dessert, and we had plenty of beer, after the guns were put away, cour-
tesy of Joe Harrison at Coastline equipment.
We had loads of raffle prizes topped off with two nice guns from Liberty Lift, lots of prizes from Jay
Haney at SageRider West, and the three super raffle prizes thanks to Robin’s Envirovac, Pro Tool,
and the API Chapter. California Waterfowl Association did a great job with their auction and raised
$2,600 for the scholarship fund. Everybody got a team photo through the sponsorship of Key Energy
and Nalco Champion. Thank you to these folks and all of the sponsors that you can see on the banner
in the photos below.
Shannon Cook was the high shooter among the ladies and we had a tie for the men with Cooper Ger-
ecke and Kevin Newlen both shooting 87. They each receive a great looking belt buckle from Weath-
erford.
The highest scoring team was the Total Western team of Robert Rice, Jeff Reed, Dirk O’Rear, Dale
Humlin, and Mike Moon. The first place handicap team was the Robin’s Envirovac team of Dwayne
Biseiou, Gerald Alexander, Robert Gillaspie, Logan Gillaspie, and Brian Navejas.
The great day ended with the raffle and people happily headed out about 2:00 PM. We want to acknowledge the work of all the volunteers and donors that make this event happen and the folks at Five Dogs that run it so smoothly. And of course we have to thank Jim Roberts for chairing this event and making sure that it turns out magnificently for the participants and the API Scholarship Fund. As he says, “We’re doing this for the kids.”
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Engineer, Development and Operational Planning (Bakersfield, CA)
Job Responsibilities
The Engineer, Development & Operational Planning will serve as an integral member of the Asset Management team with responsibilities including, but not limited to, the following:
• Maintain the division level development operational and financial models
• Facilitate coordination with asset teams to ensure the accuracy of development plans, operational schedules, and forecasts
• Interface with multiple stakeholders of the operational group to provide full life cycle analysis, from leasing to marketing
• Assist Strategic Planning team with annual operating plan and periodic updates; execute quarterly operations update process
• Assist with developing & executing asset model sensitivity analysis and present recommendations to stakeholders
• Facilitate the Division Whiteboard, Asset Assessment, and Project Approval discussions while making necessary updates
• Compile, review, edit, and offer feedback on Monthly Management meeting notes in support of the Division Director
• Provide insight into broader development plan to stakeholders in order to allow for operational alignment
Comply with Seneca’s EHSQ policies, standards and procedures and demonstrate active and reg-ular involvement in EHSQ programs
Job Qualifications
This position requires a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and at least two (2) years of related ex-perience.
Candidates with experience in a planning and/or financial role is a plus.
To view this posting in its entirety and submit a resume, please visit:
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Engineer, Production (Bakersfield, CA)
Job Responsibilities
The Engineer, Production will serve as an integral member of the Operations team with responsibili-ties including, but not limited to, the following:
• Recommending well intervention and P&A operations procedure details and supervising their exe-cution
• Coordinating D&C, workover, and P&A operations among the Regulatory, Engineering, and Field Operations groups
• Working with the Procurement group to provide cost analysis and coordinate bidding of services and equipment for D&C and workover programs
• Ensuring regulatory compliance with Long Term Idle Well management plan testing and reporting requirements
Comply with Seneca’s EHSQ policies, standards and procedures and demonstrate active and regular involvement in EHSQ programs.
Job Qualifications
• Successful candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and a minimum of two (2) years combined operations and production engineering experience in onshore operations.
Candidates with five (5) or more years of operations experience in California onshore thermal op-erations are highly desired.
To view this posting in its entirety and submit a resume, please visit:
careers-srcx.icims.com
The San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the API is here to support our industry and our members. We are
happy to post job openings and career opportunities for our members at no cost to the posting
company. If your company has opportunities that you would like for us to publicize, please send
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Corporate Sponsorships
As part of API’s mission to give back to our local community through college scholarships for those pursuing petroleum based degrees and other local educational programs, API has created a corporate sponsorship package that includes membership and tickets to our annual events. We want to thank Seneca Resources for being API’s second corporate sponsor and look forward to seeing their employees at our future events. There are several sponsor packages available for each business to decide what is best for them. We look forward to signing more up in the months to come. If you have any questions, please reach out to the API at [email protected]
