Abel Engineering

Competencies:

Corporate President - Founded ABEL Engineering/Well Control Co. in 1984 and operated same by providing well control services worldwide for firefighting, capping, relief well operations and high risk toxic gas handling projects.

Special Well Control and Engineering Projects Kuwait Oil Well Fires (Controlled 41 wells with one team in 71 days)

Created well control management systems and written over 150 Blowout Contingency Plans for worldwide operations.

Taught Drilling Practices for Preston L. Moore, Inc.

Taught Advanced Well Control seminars for Pemex, TOTAL, Mobil Oil, UNOCAL, EXPRO, NAM, etc.

Taught a special snubbing school for Mobil Oil Co. including the manual creation

Managed 5 rig drilling company for 2 years

Well control projects in India, Bangaldesh, Indonesia, Republic of China, Angola, Nigeria, Congo, Venezuela, Argentina, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Norway and Germany. Mr. Abel has been involved in complex well control operations worldwide in the past 20 years.

Rig Site Supervision - Deep high-pressure gas wells, Well Control, Relief Well drilling, Deep wells in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Also in Tunisia deep rank wildcat. Worked as drilling superintendent for Aramco in Saudi Arabia on H2S type wells in deep Kuff exploration program.

Publications - Thirty-four technical publications in trade journals mostly on specialized well control operations and project management for well control operations.

Technical Training:

Advanced Well Control and HAZOP
Computer Skills - Word processing, Data Bases, Spread Sheets, Project Management

Basics:

Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY 1967-1971
Engineering - Petroleum Engineer Specialist

Master of Business Administration Southern Methodist University 1971-1974

Passport:

USA no. 131954364 issued in Houston, 5Jun96 expires 4Jun06

Registered Professional Engineer - Texas (#40719) and Oklahoma (#14489)

Married with 2 sons (age 18 and 20). DOB: 17 June 1949

Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, IADC, Society of Professional Engineers.

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