Request Expert

Expert specializes in oil and gas, safety, pipelines, welding, construction, and litigation with over 35+ years of experience throughout the United States. Expert has a degree in petroleum engineering, as well as a law degree. Expert is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas and Wyoming, a Certified Safety Professional (C.S.P.) and several times trained as an OSHA 500-series instructor. He also runs his oil and gas production and drilling business. Expert is one of the few consultants and expert witnesses who is actively engaged in business and industry.

Petroleum engineering, well design, well planning, drilling, completions, workovers, well problems, fishing and trouble-shooting; reserves, costs and evaluation; project and logistics planning; documents and agreements; industry standards and practice; drilling contracts and operating agreements; disposal and injection; and onshore and offshore (includes international projects). Regulations and safety; construction, welding, and repairs; horizontal boring; manuals, training, and procedures. Regulations and standards, programs, audits, training, OSHA, DOT, MMS-BSEE, EPA, process safety and management of change; slips and falls; workplace safety; onshore and offshore (includes international applications). Forensic human factors, accident reconstruction and scientific accident analysis, errors and mistakes, usability testing and reports, signal detection, warnings, instructions, surveys, cognition, attention, memory, human-centered design, research, data analysis, signage, procedures, manuals, and product and system assessments.

Expert has 35+ years of experience in federal, state, and international courts; mediation and arbitration; and dispute resolution. He also has extensive experience developing visual materials and models that can be used in reports and court. Select instances of our previous work include testifying in the BP-Macondo litigation, working on the BP Texas City refinery case, and serving as a consultant for pipeline/well safety for the City of Mont Belvieu, Texas. Projects have covered a variety of topics such as plant and pipeline failures, drilling rig incidents, oilfield fatigue, well blowouts--along with reserve and cost issues, welding hazards, cranes, equipment design and use, and numerous oilfield toxic tort cases (e.g., drilling fluid asbestos cases and others) to give just some examples.