BRANDY BUTLER
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+720 431 2519
PROFILE
Licensed Professional Geologist with experience in multiple US and International basins for oil, gas, tight oil, tight gas, and CBM utilizing both conventional and unconventional methods. Background includes reservoir studies, reserve and resource evaluations and support for acquisition and divestitures.
Areas worked: Powder River, DJ, Greater Green River, Piceance, Uintah, San Juan as well as experience in several other US basins, Australia, Europe, China and Mongolia.
EXPERTISE
Licensed PG #4068, Wyoming Board of Professional Geologists
Geologic Assessments Structural and stratigraphic, economic and hydrologic, facies interpretation, petrophysical analysis, reservoir characterization, development of 2D and 3D models
Reserves Evaluations historical reserves and determination of additional reserves based on drilling programs using PRMS, SEC, and International guidelines
Acquisition and Divestiture review of data room information for potential acquisition properties, preparation of data room materials for divestitures
Management Wellsite operations monitoring for directional pad drilling for 12 rig program
Reporting regulatory compliance
Database Management organization, clean up, database buildouts, software management and cost management, updates, new data imports, project exports
Technologies Petra, Geographix, Petrel, ESRI Arc-GIS, Microsoft Office Products, Google Earth Pro, state and federal regulatory websites
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Windy Mountain Energy, Rockies Region
2020 – Present, Owner and Consulting Geologist
HRM Resources III, Denver, CO
2019 – 2020, Petroleum Geologist
XRO/Crowheart Energy, LLC, Denver, CO
2018 – 2019, Petroleum Geologist
MHA Petroleum Consultants, Denver, CO
2012 – 2017, Consulting Geologist
Bonanza Creek Energy, Denver, CO
2011 – 2012, Contract Geologist
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Ellora Energy, Senior Geoscience Technician, Boulder, CO
Encana Oil and Gas, Senior Geoscience Technician, Denver, CO
Alberta Energy, Geoscience Technician, Denver, CO
McMurry Oil Company, Accountant, Casper, WY
LEADERSHIP AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Denver, CO
Current member of the Membership Committee
focused on organization, functions, and activities of the Mentorship Program since 2016, former Chair, as the Chair I created and organized the Mentorship Program that has ran for several years as well as creating and hosting a Career Fair in the Spring of 2018, former Co-Chair
PetroSkills, Tulsa, OK
Trip Leader, PetroSkills CBM Course, 3 day Field Trip, Powder River Basin, Author, Powder River Basin Field Tour Guidebook
Co-Author, The Use of 3D and 4D Seismic Technologies in Evaluating Reserves and Resources, Application of 3d Seismic and Microseismic to the SEC and PRMS Evaluations
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Geology, 2011, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado