Samuel Hunt
Gillette,WY
Summary
Seasoned Corporate Operations Quality Director with a proven track record at Brigade Energy Services, enhancing safety and operational efficiency. Spearheaded innovative projects, including AI implementation and safety management systems, demonstrating strong leadership and problem-solving skills. Proficient in Microsoft Excel and adept at fostering team collaboration, significantly improved asset management and deployment processes, ensuring consistent profitability and safety excellence.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Corporate Operations Quality Director
Brigade Energy Services
04.2022 - 01.2025
- Developed and implemented the introduction to KPA safety management systems
- Spearheaded the translation and migration of Brigade Energy's Policy and Doctrine Library to Spanish and made available to field personnel through KPA
- Helped with final approval process for EWTC Secure Well Program
- Spearheaded our Asset management team in developing an EAM schedule to be input into an EAM platform
- Trained the EAM program out to Operations and monitored its progress
- Developed a deployment process to dispatch assets to fulfill ExxonMobil/XTO/Denbury Resource rig request
- The process was the same for a North Dakota rig as it was for a South Texas rig. 22 rigs deployed
- Sought process improvements for employees, safety and profitability through implementing lean concepts that interlaced both HSE and operations
- Developed a budget and had initial meetings with IT department to implement the use of AI cameras on rig floor, mast and remote work sites
- Voting member on Brigade Energy Services Safety Council
Regional Manager Rockies North
Brigade Energy Services
03.2020 - 04.2022
- Travel to Districts throughout Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and North Dakota mentoring District Managers on running a profitable business
- Review P & L statements with District Managers
- Three of the four districts managed during the oil industries worse downturn still were able to turn a positive EBITDA during COVID 2020
- Develop performance improvement plans and implement training programs for Rocky Mountain districts to have consistent safety processes, culture, and programs throughout the region
- Serving as subject matter expert for Brigade Energy for the implementation of their JAG library, which consists of writing JAGS, reviewing JAGs, and doing final approval
- Voting member on Brigade Energy Services Safety Council
District Manager Northern Production
Brigade Energy Services
01.2019 - 03.2020
- Duties included running day-to-day operations, customer service, P & A bidding
- Conducting interviews and onboarding new employees
- Monitor P & L statements to continue a positive gross margin from month to month in the worst downturn in the oil and gas industry
- Meeting with vendors to get the best pricing for our operations
- Evaluated talent and scaled back operations in 2020 to run a profitable district
- Managed the integration of systems from Nine Energy Services to Brigade Energy Services
Operations Manager Northern Production
Nine Energy Services
01.2014 - 01.2019
- Duties included helping facilitate and promote safety at Northern Production
- Purchasing support equipment for well service rigs
- Handling daily industry decisions
- Conducting interviews with perspective new employees
- Helped draft business improvement plans for Northern Production
- Head of completion and 24-hour work
- Responsible for doing the bidding and price negotiations for 24-hour work
- Manage P & L statement and operations maintaining positive gross margins even during downturn in revenue and rig activity
- Spearheaded and participated in incident investigations using various RCA methods
- The team took the district from a 3.06 TRIR in 2014 to a 0 TRIR in 2020
- Gillette District operated for two years without a recordable incident
Crew Chief/Rig Supervisor
Northern Production Company
Gillette, USA
06.1998 - 12.2013
- Performed general maintenance of oil and gas wells throughout Gillette WY and Casper WY areas
- Worked in Rocks Springs, WY in Jonah field completing wells using snubbing unit
- Helped facilitate the start of operations for Northern Production out of Casper WY
- Duties included setting up charge accounts for local suppliers in the area
- Contacting new customers in the Casper and Riverton WY area
- Well site supervision for well operations
- Doing completions on upstart horizontal wells in the Douglas WY and Casper WY areas
- Helped assemble a commission second cementer unit for Northern Production to perform plugging operations for Northern Production turnkey plugging service
- Commissioned a full time 24 hr rigs for three customers
- Duties included watching over clean out operations, doing frac prep operations
- Help facilitate full-time 24-hour operations by setting up scheduling for hands and well site supervisors
C and H Well Service
Gillette, USA
12.1991 - 06.1998
- Worked on high pressure gas wells in Cave Gulch field west of Casper, WY for Exxon
- Jobs included snubbing tubing in the hole and cleaning out 'rat hole' under pressure
- Swabbing on wells to kick off flowing
- Worked on general maintenance of oil and gas wells throughout Powder River basin area
- Helped assemble and commission well service rig for drilling horizontal wells on existing well bores
- Duties included setting whip stocks and milling windows
Education
Well Servicing OGOR Course
IADC Wellsharp
Houston, TX02-2025
High School Diploma -
Instructors Certificate OGOP 120 -
Red Rocks Community College
Denver, COOGOP 110 course -
Red Rocks Community College
Denver, COManagers Course -
Brigade Energy Services
Houston, TXSkills
- Basic computer skills
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Google Sheets
- Google Docs
- Google Slides
References
References upon request
Timeline
Corporate Operations Quality Director
Brigade Energy Services
04.2022 - 01.2025
Regional Manager Rockies North
Brigade Energy Services
03.2020 - 04.2022
District Manager Northern Production
Brigade Energy Services
01.2019 - 03.2020
Operations Manager Northern Production
Nine Energy Services
01.2014 - 01.2019
Crew Chief/Rig Supervisor
Northern Production Company
06.1998 - 12.2013
C and H Well Service
12.1991 - 06.1998
Well Servicing OGOR Course
IADC Wellsharp
High School Diploma -
Instructors Certificate OGOP 120 -
Red Rocks Community College
OGOP 110 course -
Red Rocks Community College
Managers Course -
Brigade Energy Services