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Eric Sonne, EIT +1 (832) 248 - 7571, Eric.Sonne@outlook.com

Summary of Qualifications

Three (3) years of upstream oil and gas industry engineering experience

Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering; Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering Eligible for Chemical/Mechanical/Petroleum Professional Engineer (PE) licensure in mid-2018

Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, honed through diverse professional experience and

higher educational involvement

Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen

Education

Master of Science, Oil & Gas (Petroleum) Engineering Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

September 2015 - August 2017

GPA: 3.8

Bachelor of Science, Ocean Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

August 2009 - May 2013

GPA: 3.2; Major GPA: 3.8

Professional Experience

Experience Summary

I'm a highly motivated Petroleum Engineering master’s student that has focused my career on three core values: integrity,

innovation, and efficiency. I pride myself in my technical ability in mechanical, petroleum, software, and structural

engineering, but take the most pride in my leadership aptitude. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering, and have 3

years of oil and gas industry engineering experience. My main involvements have included design, selection, and review of

offshore drilling and production equipment/components; offshore structural software program development in procedural

and object orientated (OO) FORTRAN and C# in a Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE); and performing

various types of finite element analysis (FEA) of mooring lines, flexibles, drilling risers, casing, production risers, and pipelines

using a wide range of structural analysis packages.

Engineering Intern June 2016 to

August 2016

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) – Offshore Engineering Department, Drilling Machinery – Houston,

Texas, USA

Offshore Engineering

• Contributed to a guide for the building and classing of mobile offshore well service units / vessels (MOUs/OSVs)

and systems including development of master equipment lists (MELs) of surface, subsea, and subsurface equipment

for well testing, stimulation, intervention, and containment operations.

• Collaborated in the design reviews of various high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) well control equipment

components (swivel joints, plug values, etc.) as well as taking part in HPHT proposal support.

• Received training in field drilling programs, well completions, and well testing. Additional training included the

review of designs for a wide range of drilling equipment/components including blowout preventer (BOP) control

systems, diverter control systems, hydraulic power units (HPUs), top drives, sprockets, gears, flanges, threaded

couplings, etc.

Graduate Software Engineer (Analysis Development Engineer) April 2014 to

August 2015

Wood Group – Advanced Engineering Department – Houston, Texas, USA

Software Engineering

• Assured the development of Wood Group’s premier offshore/subsea structural analysis software, Flexcom,

including feature implementation, robustness improvements, versioning, and fault corrections.

• Delivered outstanding technical support for modeling a variety of complex offshore structures including tendons,

drilling risers, landing strings, top-tensioned risers (TTRs), pipelines, piggy-back pipelines, jumpers, flow lines, free

standing hybrid risers (FSHRs), single line offset risers (SLORs), concentric offset risers (CORs), hybrid towers, mid-

water arches, steel catenary risers (SCRs), and steel lazy wave risers (SLWRs).

• Provided technical support to business development teams and was directly responsible for identifying, pursuing,

and closing several software sales opportunities.

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Staff Specialist (Subsea Engineer) June 2013 to

April 2014

Wood Group – Riser Engineering Group – Houston, Texas, USA

Subsea Engineering • Delivered analysis and design of a variety of ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico, deepwater West Africa, and shallow

water Newfoundland wells developing well specific operating guidelines/criteria (WSOG) for drilling, completion,

and workover configurations incorporating an integrated vessel, riser, and detailed well program approach.

• Furnished drilling riser operational analysis including riser/casing deployment, riser transit, conductor axial

capacity, operability, drift-off, weak-point, recoil, vortex-induced vibration (VIV) fatigue life, and wave fatigue life.

• Provided Analysis of monitored data retrieved from offshore structures and statistical evaluation/comparison with

theoretical software predictions.

• Delivered the evaluation of riser refurbishment of a dual-barrier high-pressure drilling riser for a number of

deepwater tension-leg platforms (TLPs).

• Ascertained operating limits for the disconnection operation of a turret moored floating production, storage and

offloading (FPSO) vessel in shallow water offshore Newfoundland.

• Designed a suitable riser configuration used for the connection of an offshore support vessel (OSV) to an in-line sled

(ILS) used to unstick a pig from a deepwater pipeline.

Subsea Engineering Intern May 2012 to

August 2012

Wood Group – Drilling & Wells Department – Houston, Texas, USA

Subsea Engineering • Delivered drilling riser operational analysis including riser/casing deployment, riser transit, operability, drift-off,

casing strength, weak-point, recoil, and wave fatigue life, incorporating an integrated vessel, riser, and detailed

well program approach.

• Developed a methodology for the evaluation for drilling riser recoil and drilling and intervention riser weak-

points that allowed for a competitive consulting advantage.

• Addressed client clarifications, and evaluated documents, and mooring model for large central processing

facility (CPF) for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in offshore Australia.

Engineering Technical Aide May 2011 to

August 2011

Technip USA – Offshore Engineering Department – Houston, Texas, USA

Offshore Engineering

• Provided project interface and delivered hull master equipment list (MEL) for a truss SPAR concept study.

• Determined operability limits for riser deployment for deepwater ocean mining project.

• Consolidated prospect and proposal information used in floater capability presentations.

Leadership & Activities • Society of Petroleum Engineers – Member (2015 - Present)

• Texas A&M University Involvement – Responsible for guiding/leading two (2) undergraduate student design teams in the

design of an ultra-deepwater driller riser, and deepwater production risers. (Spring 2014; Spring 2015)

• University of Houston Involvement – Responsible for riser design & software training for the University of Houston

Subsea Engineering Master’s Program (Fall 2013; Fall 2014)

• Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineers (SNAME)/ Marine Technology Society (MTS) – Texas Student

Chapter President (Fall 2012 - 2013) – Member (2011 - 2015)

Skills & Certifications • Engineer in Training (E.I.T.) – Texas Board of Professional Engineers – 2013 – No. 48889; Professional Engineers and

Geoscientists Newfoundland & Labrador (PEGNL) – 2016 – No. G4010.

• Software Knowledge:

Chemical/Petroleum Software: Aspen HYSYS, CMG, ECLIPSE, FLACS, Petrel, PVTSim, and WellView.

Computer-Aided Design: AutoCAD, Inventor, Pro/Engineer, and SolidWorks.

Computer Programming/Scripting: C, C++, C#, FORTRAN 2008 (Traditional/OO), Git, Maple, MathCAD, MATLAB, NI

LabVIEW, PhP, Python, PyCharm, TortoiseHG Mercurial, Visual Studio 2010/2013/2015/Community, Visual Basic (VB.NET)

(Excel IDE; VS IDE), VS Team Services Manager, and XML.

Finite Element Analysis: ANSYS, DeepRiser, Flexcom, GHS, MOSES, NASTRAN, OrcaFlex, PipeLay, and Shear7.

Office Packages: Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, and Word.