Cole Gillock P.E.
Experience
Mr. Gillock is a registered petroleum engineer who provides contract, engineering and field services to D. R. Payne & Associates, Inc. (“DRPA”) in situations where the Firm’s principals serve as an operating executive/fiduciary. Mr. Gillock has worked on a number of E&P Company matters as a contract consultant and part of DRPA’s professional service team.
Industry Experience
Campbell & Associates, Inc. – Production Engineer
March 2014 – Current
SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE
- Collaborated with production manager to evaluate, plan, and safely execute uphole recompletion operations and repair downhole equipment failures
- Determined performance characteristics of wells with echometer to establish inflow performance curves
- Reviewed LOEs and made cost reductions to optimize economics of current and future production
- Researched leasing and pooling information to track development and expenses for unconventional wells throughout the SCOOP and STACK
- Frequently testifies as expert engineer at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission
- Performed fair value analysis on numerous acquisition and divesture operations ranging from several hundred thousand to tens of millions of dollars
- Regularly estimates measure of value and performance for unconventional wells throughout the SCOOP and STACK
- Use rate transient and pressure transient analysis to determine reservoir properties
- Worked as consulting field supervisor and advisor with multiple lending groups for bankruptcies and receiverships
- Collaborated with legal counsel to develop material for numerous hearings in District and Federal Courts throughout the United States
- Analyzed cause of fault in personal injury cases related to drilling and completing operations in the Anadarko Basin
- Frequently supervises field operations including recompletion operations, remedial operations, and well plugging
- Performed least cost analysis to optimize artificial lift selection for rod lift, submersible pump, and plunger lift wells
- Lead supervisor for team overseeing operations on a ~13,000 acre secondary recovery unit
- Successfully developed and permitted through the OCC, DEQ, and PHMSA a previously defunct pipeline system in urban conditions that allowed the profitable sales of produced gas
- Designed and successfully implemented new processing facilities that improved economics for several large water volume oil and gas wells
- Generated reserve reports for various corporate clients and accounting firms
EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Registered Professional Petroleum Engineer – June 2020
M.S. Petroleum Engineering Coursework – May 2016
University of Oklahoma, Norman
Coursework: Well Testing, Secondary Recovery Techniques
B.S. Petroleum Engineering – December 2015
University of Oklahoma, Norman
B.S. Biochemistry – Aug 2012
University of Oklahoma, Norman
SPE Future Trailblazers Mentorship Program
Society of Petroleum Engineers