1. Victoria King
303-803-4152
vmartine6@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/vmking
Education:
Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO
Major: Petroleum Engineering (Graduation Date: December 2004)
University of Leoben, Leoben Austria
Study abroad program for petroleum engineering students. (Spring 2003)
Work Experience:
WPX October 2012 to June 2015
Completions Engineering Team Lead
Responsibilities Include:
Managed three engineers and two engineering techs for a five rig program that was planned to
increase to eight. Rig count has dropped from 5 to 1 during Q1 of 2015 and completions are currently
deferred.
o Well performance (one year cum production) is number 2 in the basin.
Lead the completion group in optimizing completions. Worked closely with geology and reservoir to
incorporate reservoir quality and well spacing.
o Performed multivariate, microsiesmic and tracer analysis and integrated frac modeling.
o Details are in publications mentioned below.
Oversaw technical aspects of operations and procedures for stimulations.
Wrote and implementing standard operating procedures and guidelines for stimulation and flowback.
Implemented post frac and D&C review
Created field rotation/questions related to frac, perforating, and flowback for new or young engineers
Williams/WPX March 2011 to October 2012
Completions Engineer- Williston Basin
Operational Responsibilities Include:
Only completion engineer for four rig program.
Design completion procedures for horizontal Bakken wells in the Williston Basin.
o Communicate daily with field consultants.
o Respond and address issues that arise during planning or execution of completions.
Stuck plugs, screenouts, issues with drill outs
Created customized completion and production reports in Open Wells.
Designed an automated quality check using Open Wells database and spotfire.
Designed interactive AFE template.
Williams May 2008 to March 2011
Completions Engineer-Piceance Basin
Operational Responsibilities Include:
Design completion procedures for Ryan Gulch, South Grand Valley, Grand Valley, and Parachute
fields.
o Interpret and analyze open and cased hole logs.
o Communicate daily with field consultants.
o Address issues that arise during planning or execution of completions.
o Perform quality control on daily and stimulation reports.
Monitor new well performance and remediate any concerns, such as braden head pressure or low initial
production.
2. Monitor completion AFE for field estimates versus actual costs.
Evaluated various completion job sizes in the Piceance Basin. Used various softwares available to
understand well performance including Spotfire, RPI (reciprocal productivity index), microseismic data,
GOHFER and Petra. The results lead to adjusting bottomhole locations and adjusting job sizes.
Additional work is being done to optimize job size and well spacing in a field that is not yet in
development mode.
Reviewed and analyzed microseismic data for all of William’s Piceance Basin projects. Documented
observations and conclusions of different job designs and microseismic results. Iused learning of past
jobs to better define objectives and deliverables for latest microseismic project in Ryan Gulch.
Designed completion procedures and planned field operations to optimism data collection and expense.
Implemented a sweep pump schedule as a result of studying the pressure events in the Rulison Field.
The modified pump schedule has shown promising results in minimizing pressure events, but after
additional analysis the total job size and proppant concentration has show to have a greater effect on
minimizing pressure events.
Participated on a technology team to study well interference and refine Williams’ drainage radius. The
team strategically picked 5 wells in South Grand Valley to shut in and look for interference. RPI was
incorporated into analysis. Results helped to confirm drainage ellipse dimensions
Wrote guidelines for using gas assist fracturing and implemented with completions team.
Wrote guidelines for DFIT (diagnostic fracture injection test) and implemented with completion team.
Procedure encompassed well preparation prior to DFIT, DFIT fluids/rates, reporting standard for service
company, internal reporting and quality control.
Energy Corporation of America Jan 2005 – May 2008
Drilling Engineer—Appalachian Basin
January 2006 to May 2008
Worked in the Appalachian Basin specifically in Southern West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Southern
Pennsylvania in the development-drilling program. (vertical well program)
Responsibilities include:
Prepared well stimulation design, performed on site supervision of fracs, and created reports.
o Average 1 well per week design and frac using crosslinked fracing, high quality foam fracing
and acid fracing
Prepare AFE for development drilling, including reserves and economic evaluation.
Worked on well planning and procedures including drilling rigs, drillstring design, casing and cementing
design and operations.
Drill site supervision and reporting.
Open hole logging interpretation and analysis, open to cased hole log correlation.
Perforating design and operations.
Petroleum Engineer
January 2005 to January 2006
Worked closely with the Development Drilling Team to evaluate reserves and economics for new well
AFE’s by utilizing OGRE, Arcview, internal databases and state agencies.
Conducted pipeline pressure study in Southern West Virginia to optimize the design of a new 8” steel
pipeline in Southern West Virginia.
Submitted the Well Work Permit Application to the state of West Virginia.
Analyzed the effects of well spacing by analyzing producing formations, production, and pressure
changes in the Appalachian Basin.
Evergreen Resources May 2004 – Oct 2004
Intern
May 2004 to October 2004
Worked on defining trends in the Raton Basin by geologic location and producing formation.
3. Set up and managed OFM database for a section of the Uintah Basin.
Computing Skills:
Petra, Open Wells, RPI, GOHFER, OGRE, Oil Field Manager, Arcview, Excel, Access, Spotfire, Transform
Professional Memberships:
Society of Petroleum Engineers (2002-current)
Publications:
King, V.M., and Wray, L., Completion Optimization Utilizing Multivariate Analysis in the Bakken and Three
Forks Formations (SPE 169534)
Barhaug, J., King, V.M., Harper, H., Schmidt, A., Southcott, A., and Steinke, L., Completion Optimization and
Validation in the Williston Basin through Integrated Datasets (SPE 170721-MS)
Barhaug, J., King, V.M., Harper, H., Schmidt, A., Southcott, A., and Steinke, L. 2014. Project Optimizes
Completion Design. The American Oil & Gas Reporter, December: 94-105
Barhaug, J., King, V.M., Harper, H., Schmidt, A., Southcott, A., and Steinke, L. 2015. Field Test Validates
Completion Design. The American Oil & Gas Reporter, January: 92-99