Daniel Blue
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About Daniel Blue
President/Owner
Executive with proven track record of product development, product launch and organization expertise for building technology.
Experience
Company:
Duncan Blue Consulting, LLC
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Currently, working with a client to develop, design, and implement a real-time data center to monitor and optimize drilling and production operations. Part of the services also involves the investigation of field equipment for both operational functions as well as the ability to communicate with various third-party vendors that will be utilized in the operation of the real-time operations center. Other experience has been helping develop and market new AI/ML camera system for accurate flow measurement, as well as consulting with a company, defining long term strategy for increased funding.
Position: President/Owner
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Currently, working with a client to develop, design, and implement a real-time data center to monitor and optimize drilling and production operations. Part of the services also involves the investigation of field equipment for both operational functions as well as the ability to communicate with various third-party vendors that will be utilized in the operation of the real-time operations center. Other experience has been helping develop and market new AI/ML camera system for accurate flow measurement, as well as consulting with a company, defining long term strategy for increased funding.
Company:
Halliburton
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Controlled entire portfolio of products and services for product line. Built technology group, developed and marketed new products, and established go-forward strategy for entire product line for next 10 years. Mentored every new manager brought into group for succession. Introduced entire portfolio of new products still in development that would triple offering of group. Assembled team of 25 people (operations, technology, business development).
• Identified and built portfolio of new products and services from direct contact with highest levels of customer base, enabling clients to meet technology and operational needs while multiplying revenue stream for company.
• Discovered technologies from outside of industry and built new services from that technology, meeting needs of clients.
• Pushed product line from last place in technology offering in industry, catapulting into 1st place among peers.
Position: Product Line Director
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Controlled entire portfolio of products and services for product line. Built technology group, developed and marketed new products, and established go-forward strategy for entire product line for next 10 years. Mentored every new manager brought into group for succession. Introduced entire portfolio of new products still in development that would triple offering of group. Assembled team of 25 people (operations, technology, business development).
• Identified and built portfolio of new products and services from direct contact with highest levels of customer base, enabling clients to meet technology and operational needs while multiplying revenue stream for company.
• Discovered technologies from outside of industry and built new services from that technology, meeting needs of clients.
• Pushed product line from last place in technology offering in industry, catapulting into 1st place among peers.
Position: Director, Strategic Business
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Brought in at critical time for Halliburton / Baker merger to manage mud logging group that was not to be spun off with divestiture. Had to create entire organization to survive for 2 years of split from Sperry.
• Maintained, while building team, market place position globally, expanding into new regions.
• Made decisions on evaluating market and financial conditions on contraction, eliminating certain assets and personnel.
Company:
Weatherford
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Brought in to develop strategic account plan for 5 key accounts globally for Secure Drilling Services.
• Established liaison with sales and operations, eliminating problems with key accounts.
• Developed communication protocol between clients and operations, avoiding problems on future jobs.
• Communicated future needs of clients with technology, helping company in delivering to clients expectations.
Position: Strategic Global Account Manager
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Brought in to develop strategic account plan for 5 key accounts globally for Secure Drilling Services.
• Established liaison with sales and operations, eliminating problems with key accounts.
• Developed communication protocol between clients and operations, avoiding problems on future jobs.
• Communicated future needs of clients with technology, helping company in delivering to clients expectations.
Company:
Baker Hughes
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Tasked to justify and build from ground up, company’s entry into Managed Pressure Drilling business, including complete market research, merger and acquisition investigation, technology justification, plus discovery of unique, game-changing systems. Put business plan in place to include technology staff, software staff, technical support, operations, finance, and support staff. Developed and led special projects, such as new deliverables for product lines, including distributed sensors along wired drill pipe, using geological indicators to optimize hydraulic fracturing placement, and being key member of firm’s automation team. Led the team in developing Machine Learning (ML) in drilling optimization service.
• Defined new space the company needed to invest in and built business plan, allowing company to make decisions on adopting that route.
• Vetted, fully, potential acquisition targets, negotiating buy-out.
Position: Senior Global Product Line Director, Service Solutions
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Tasked to justify and build from ground up, company’s entry into Managed Pressure Drilling business, including complete market research, merger and acquisition investigation, technology justification, plus discovery of unique, game-changing systems. Put business plan in place to include technology staff, software staff, technical support, operations, finance, and support staff. Developed and led special projects, such as new deliverables for product lines, including distributed sensors along wired drill pipe, using geological indicators to optimize hydraulic fracturing placement, and being key member of firm’s automation team. Led the team in developing Machine Learning (ML) in drilling optimization service.
• Defined new space the company needed to invest in and built business plan, allowing company to make decisions on adopting that route.
• Vetted, fully, potential acquisition targets, negotiating buy-out.
Position: Global Product Line Director
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Given overall responsibility for all Surface Systems for Mud Logging and MWD kit. Measured total available market vs. company share. Made responsible for short-term plan and 5-year plan with regards to direction and strategy. Represented organization in outside discussions and technical forums. Worked with wide latitude in making autonomous decisions.
• Managed continuing process of optimizing product lines, streamlining of product line, introduction of new products, maximizing gross margin of product line, and being liaison between sales, manufacturing, marketing, and customers on products and technology.
• Acquired technology using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Data Mining for trouble avoidance service.
• Optimized product line by eliminating products no longer profitable.
• Launched several new products into technology portfolio, increasing revenue $1M / year.
• Hired, supervised, and mentored new managers, aiding professional growth into organization.
Position: Project Manager
Duration: Nov 30, -0001 to Nov 30, -0001 .
Description:
Planned, coordinated, and implemented all phases of more complex projects defined as total system or primary project, including new technologies of substantial monetary value and with significant vendor and customer interface where ensured reliability, quality, and delivery time were key. Earned Presidential Award as member of international rollout of data collection system. Placed in charge of 5-project program; involved major process and management changes affecting worldwide key methodology of core business. Led team in development.
• Interfaced with both external and internal customers on technical and commercial issues, negotiating with sub-vendors.
• Developed new process for Baker Hughes Rig Count and interactive map for external visualization. (US Patent 8,204,692 B2).
• Key member of WEBBITS, electronic catalog of drill Bits, allowing for field sales direct access to portfolio and design, using Bid Data in mining over 1 million bit records for analysis and selection.
• Eliminated numerous reports by designing report engine for easy report building.
Education
University: University of Phoenix
Degree: Masters in Business Administration
Graduation Year: 2001
Area: Business Management
Start - End Year: 1999 - 2001
University:
University of Louisiana
Degree: Bachelors of Science
Graduation Year: 1975
Area: Business Administration
Start - End Year: 1971 - 1975
Notes:
After spending 3 years in Chemical Engineering, I switched over to Business, realizing most jobs end up with a business focus
Volunteer Experience
Experience: Scout Master Boy Scouts of America Duration: May 20, 1991 to May 20, 2024 . 33 years Description:The Scoutmaster is the adult responsible for working directly with the Scouts providing direction, coaching, and support. The Scoutmaster has three basic roles:
1. Providing the the junior leaders with the tools and skills so they can run the troop
2. Making sure the rules of the BSA and chartered partner are followed
3. Being a good mentor and positive role model
Awards & Recognitions
Award Name: Guest Editorialist March 2020 Journal of Petroleum Technology Award Year: 2020 Award URL: https://jpt.spe.org/oilfield-life-after-covid-19-crash
Description:
What will the landscape of this industry look like when the dust of the current price crash settles? The business will realign, as it always does. This may bring big changes to the future of technology development.
Award Name: Publication Advanced Mud Logging: Key to Safe and Efficient Well Delivery Award Year: 2019 Award URL: https://onepetro.org/OTCONF/proceedings-abstract/19OTC/3-19OTC/D032S058R003/181336
Description:
e high costs and high potential risks associated with drilling deepwater wells have prompted the development of an advanced computerized mud logging system. This paper highlights select technologies within the system and its application to three core areas of operation—circulating, making connections, and tripping—to provide early identification of fluid influxes and losses, thus helping ensure safe and efficient well delivery.
Award Name: Publication Effective Operational Collaboration Delivers Substantial Real-Time Service Quality Improvements Award Year: 2016 Award URL: https://onepetro.org/SPEDC/proceedings-abstract/16DC/1-16DC/D011S016R007/207785
Description:
Real-time solutions provide a critical decision support and collaboration platform that enable better decisions throughout the well construction and production lifecycle. Operators, drilling contractors, and service companies use these real-time capabilities to improve operations service quality, monitor efficiencies, understand formation geology, and enhance overall reservoir knowledge.
Award Name: Patent Monitoring and control systems for continuous circulating drilling operations Award Year: 2015 Award URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9057235B2/en
Description:
An apparatus for continuously flowing drilling fluid along a drill string includes a continuous circulation device having at least a first fluid path in fluid communication with a top drive and a second fluid path in communication with a diverter. The diverter is in selective fluid communication with a pipe stand associated with the drills string. The apparatus also includes at least one sensor that estimates at least one operating parameter associated with the continuous circulation device. A related method includes using a continuous circulation device as described to manipulate the drill string and controlling the continuous circulation device using at least one sensor configured to estimate at least one operating parameter associated with the continuous circulation device.
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Award Name: Patent Early kick detection in an oil and gas well Award Year: 2012 Award URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9109433B2/en
Description:
An apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for detecting a gas influx event in a borehole fluid during a drilling operation is disclosed. A measurement of an acoustic velocity of the borehole fluid is obtained at an acoustic sensor disposed in a borehole. A measurement of temperature of the borehole fluid is obtained at a temperature sensor disposed in the borehole. A process compares the measurement of the acoustic velocity of the borehole fluid to the measurement of the temperature of the borehole fluid to detect the gas influx event.
Award Name: Patent System, program product, and method for drilling rig activity accounting visualization Award Year: 2012 Award URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8204692B2/en
Description:
Betten known as the Baker Hughes Rig Count
A system to monitor drilling rig activity and to provide and manage drilling rig information, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system can include a communication network, a drilling rig information management server, a database accessible to the processor of the server, and drilling rig information management program product stored in the memory of the drilling rig information management server and including instructions that when executed by the processor of the drilling rig information management server cause the server to perform the operations of retrieving drilling rig location data from the database responsive to user selection of a geospatial location attribute, accessing digital mapping data to display a digital map associated with the user selected geospatial location attribute, and providing data to display indicia of a drilling rig location for at least one drilling rig overlaid upon and spatially oriented to at least portions of the digital map.
Award Name: Publication Reservoir Characterization from Gas Ratio Analysis Using New High Efficiency Gas Extraction System Award Year: 2009 Award URL: https://onepetro.org/IPTCONF/proceedings-abstract/09IPTC/All-09IPTC/IPTC-13594-MS/152400
Description:
Mud logging gas detection and chromatography have been traditionally used as indicators of hydrocarbon occurrence and wellsite safety. However, the application of mud logging gas as a reliable reservoir characterization tool had previously been hindered by its semi-quantitative nature, noticeably the inability to get repeatable responses in all environments so that the analysis can be used as a trusted analytical tool, regardless of gas trap operating conditions and surface environments.
Award Name: Patent Method and apparatus for estimating a fluid property Award Year: 2008 Award URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8379207B2/en
Description:
Apparatus and method for estimating a fluid property include an optic member having a material within the optic member responsive to the fluid property. A detector is operably associated with the optic member that detects a change in the material, the change being indicative of the fluid property.
Award Name: Publication KM Tools for the Next Generation: New Concepts in Rig Tracking and Visualization Award Year: 2008 Award URL: https://onepetro.org/SPEDEC/proceedings-abstract/08GCSDEC/All-08GCSDEC/SPE-118664-MS/145549
Description:
Rig counts are a critical business barometer for the drilling industry, suppliers, and the investment community. Rig count trends are governed by exploration and production spending, which is influenced by the current and future prices of oil and gas and reflects the true strength and stability of the industry. They also serve as the foremost indicator of demand for products and services used in drilling, completing, producing, and processing of hydrocarbons. Historically, there has been a primary source of rig counts within the industry. This system is the most accurate because it counts only wells actually drilling for oil and gas. However, as the industry has become increasingly more sophisticated, so has the need for new advancements in the rig count methodology.
Award Name: Publication DRILLING TECHNOLOGY: How mud logging has changed to accommodate deepwater drilling Award Year: 2001 Award URL: https://www.offshore-mag.com/drilling-completion/article/16758968/drilling-technology-how-mud-logging-has-changed-to-accommodate-deepwater-drilling
Description:
The emphasis on deepwater, high cost and high profile wells has put new demands on what was traditionally considered the mud-logging unit.
Skills
Commercialization;
Marketing;
Project management;
Business Development;
Well Data Management;
Formation Evaluation;
Remote Operations;
Drilling Services;
Measurement While Drilling;
Formation correlation;
Optimization;
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