AADE Houston IETG Meeting

HWCG Holdings LLC and its operating affiliate HWCG LLC is comprised of 14 Operators who have pooled resources to develop a rapid and robust deepwater emergency response plan for their US Gulf of Mexico deepwater operations.

 

The presenter will review HWCG’s standardized response model, advancing and securing the technologies required to respond to challenging deepwater E&P projects and HWCG’s solutions to expanding regulatory requirements in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Craig Castille is currently Principal Consultant at cTc Offshore Consulting LLC and Managing Director of HWCG LLC.  He has ~40 years of industry experience working both domestic and international assignments.  Six years have been with HWCG as Managing Director, eight years with Stone Energy, twelve years with ENI Petroleum, twelve years with Freeport-McMoran where he received the President’s award 5 times, three years with Byrne Directional Drilling, and one year with CRC Mallard.  Craig has served as HWCG Chairman of the Board, past Chairman of OOC’s drilling technical subcommittee and other roles within OOC such as Joint Industry Task Force-post Macondo, Subsea BOP reliability JIP, and hurricane recovery task force.  Craig holds a Certificate of Management in Energy from Rice University and a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from University of Southwestern Louisiana. 

Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) is an independent company founded in 2010 to address the need for a deepwater well containment response capability in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, MWCC employs a mix of experienced engineers and crisis response specialists. MWCC’s 10 members are some world’s largest offshore deepwater operators and make up roughly 80% of drilling activity in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

 

The MWCC Containment System includes a variety of equipment specifically built to ensure comprehensive coverage of member wells, allowing the company to effectively respond to an array of well incidents across a wide range of well bore pressures, fluid temperatures, water depths and other technical variables. MWCC’s Containment System includes multiple capping stacks and a closed flowback system consisting of two Aframax tankers..

Matthew Goldsmith, as General Manager of Engineering, supports Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) in the design and execution of capital projects including the development of first-of-its-kind source control solutions.

 

Matthew has 20 years of experience in global offshore and marine operations. He previously served as senior offshore operations manager at Boa Marine Services, Inc. Here, he managed the operations team in project execution and tender management and was accountable for standardizing the safety controls system as well as deployment and installations procedures for the company. While in this role, Matthew contributed to debris removal and marine operations for the Deepwater Horizon incident. Prior to Boa, he led all vessel operations as vessel superintendent for Aker Marine Contractors where he oversaw the safe execution of several offshore installation projects. Matthew completed large scale offshore projects for Anadarko, BHP, BP, and Chevron. Through his work, Matthew has developed the technical skills for equipping vessels to support some of the world’s largest offshore operators.

 

Matthew earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He’s continued his education through executive education programs from Harvard Extension School and the Center for Creative Leadership.

 

Source Control and Emergency Response planning first requires the assumption that a blowout occurs. Field proven technology in the form of a pyrotechnically actuated shear/seal BOP (specifically the Kinetic Blowout Stopper or “K-BOS”) is now available to the industry. This ultra-reliable technology does not require regular maintenance and offers dramatically improved capability to secure the well, even under full flow and pressure and regardless of what tubulars or fluids may be across the BOP. In the case of emergency response planning with the K-BOS in the system, the assumed flow and duration of a LOWC event are drastically reduced. This technology blurs the traditional line between the left hand side and right hand side of the blowout “Bowtie” diagram and enables the industry to re-consider planning assumptions and to challenge associated acceptable impact and costs.

Reese Jones has been a member of Kinetic Pressure Control’s executive leadership team since August 2018. He served as Kinetic’s VP of Operations for 3 years and currently holds the responsibility of VP Business Development. Before joining the Kinetic Pressure Control team, Mr. Jones worked in various customer facing roles of increasing responsibility within Caterpillar Oil & Gas. He was responsible for marketing, distribution administration and customer service, direct sales for complex projects, and indirect marketing with major accounts. Mr. Jones grew up in Midland, TX, lived in Mexico and Brazil; and has traveled globally developing a broad set of experience, contacts, and relationships in key oil and gas geographies. He holds a BBA in Finance with honors from the University of Texas at Austin

The Norris CityCentre facility is located at the corner of intersection of IH-10 West and Beltway 8. The location features plenty of complimentary parking.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE – For your convenience, we encourage you to park in the garage that is attached to the Norris Centers location (enter the parking garage from Beltway 8). Take the “up” ramp in the middle of the parking garage. You will see signs with the Norris name and logo directing you to the correct floors to park.  Please note that a number of parking spaces are reserved for other tenants of the complex and have “reserved” signs identifying these spaces, so please avoid parking in these reserved spots.  There is plenty of parking on the roof!