Christopher Walters
Piedmont,OK
Summary
Hardworking and reliable with strong ability in safety and well control. Highly organized, proactive and punctual with team-oriented mentality.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Downhole Tool Supervisor
Thru Tubing Solutions
Elk City, OK
08.2020 - 04.2025
- Supplied and operated downhole motors efficiently to clean and maintain customer wells following Well Control guidelines.
- Toe Preps, Drillouts, Cleanouts with F5 and regular 3.33 motors
- Operated chemical units and chemical mixing systems
Wireline Operator
GR Energy Services
Delmont, PA
02.2019 - 04.2020
- Improved profit margins by streamlining operations and workflow and negotiating competitive vendor contracts.
- Removed and installed gun string and plug setting tool safely and efficiently.
- Equipment ran was Nine Energy Composite plugs, Baker Hughes Cast iron bridge plugs, 10k lubricator, Casing gage rings, and junk baskets for clean out operations.
- Drove flatback Peterbuilt 357 10spd. roughly 15k miles in mountain terrains in Northeast district.
Snubbing Supervisor
Ranger Energy Services LLC
Greeley, CO
01.2017 - 02.2019
- Operated and maintained a 10k single ram hybrid snubbing unit with 225k Long Lee slips.
- Drillouts at an average 26k feet, 2.875 7.90ppf ph6 work string, rebuilt and ran triplex fluid pumps, when snubbing slowed down filled in rig side.
- Bidirectional 55000 tongs used to make and break mud motors, ph6 p-110(2 3/8-2 7/8) 2 3/8 and 3 1/2 EUE(N-80, L-80)
- Fishing work strings, motors and wireline. I fished with Overshots attached with jars, basket grapples, spiral grapples. Taper mills, junk baskets, agitators.
- Assisted in nitrogen operations with 1.625 cold end pump that had a max 180,000 SCFH per hr, max psi 10k, pumped tubing displacement of brine and recharging perforations on dead wells: used in minimal jobs too help with lift on coil tubing and drillouts when over pulling string specs.
- Driving consisted of flat to mountain terrain (Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming) on a 357 Peterbuilt; weight and distance traveled ranges from 30,000lbs. to 120,000lbs with a rough estimate of 20,000 miles total.
Snubbing Operator
Cudd Energy Services
Fort Worth, TX
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Operated and maintained multiple NU Energy snubbing units(10k rig assist, 15k rig assist, 225k standalone)
- Most jobs consisted of drilling under-balance, fishing packers, jars, setting tools from wireline, pulling and replacing production tubing on old wells and drilling through 10,000 feet on concrete.
- All equipment was inspected and rebuilt in house aside from 1502 iron; Cameron BOPs, PTO pumps, snubbing jack operating system( jack legs, Husco Valves, tractor trailers) were all in our shop.
Snubbing Assistant
Great White Pressure Control
Elk City, OK
02.2014 - 01.2016
- 15k rig assist unit, type C cave-in slips, Cameron BOP's
- Aassisted in fishing operations, well completions( landing hangers, drillouts, production tubing installment, under-balanced drilling with spiral grapples and mud motors). Maintained a constant well control location whether replacing a valve to fishing at service.
- Ram to Ram operations ranged from 0psi to 5000psi.
- Identified operating issues with service rigs and troubleshooting problems to identify root causes, resolve faults and return to full functionality.
- Handled all delegated tasks, including learning pipe specs, unit specs, tools and how to go about operations as they changed on a daily basis .
Education
High School Diploma -
Right Of Passage
Watkins, CO0 2010
Skills
- Shut-in production
- Inspections management
- Maintenance and repair expertise
- Pump,tank flowback setup
- Relationship development
- Communications
- Well Control
- Problem resolution
Certification
- Class A license
- First Aid/CPR
- Safeland/Safegulf
- H2s
- OSHA 10
- Excel
- Microsoft Word
Education and Training
other
Timeline
Downhole Tool Supervisor
Thru Tubing Solutions
08.2020 - 04.2025
Wireline Operator
GR Energy Services
02.2019 - 04.2020
Snubbing Supervisor
Ranger Energy Services LLC
01.2017 - 02.2019
Snubbing Operator
Cudd Energy Services
01.2016 - 12.2016
Snubbing Assistant
Great White Pressure Control
02.2014 - 01.2016
High School Diploma -
Right Of Passage