STEVE KELLY

Senior Engineer

skelly@stratallc.com

Steve has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Louisiana Tech University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Southern Methodist University. Over the past 32 years, Steve has developed extensive experience managing all phases of industrial hazardous and nonhazardous Class I injection well installations. He has typically been involved with a project from inception to completion and has actively managed all aspects of a project, including interaction with regulatory authorities through the permitting and no-migration petitioning processes. Many of Steve’s projects require the careful integration of oil and gas service companies with the unique work culture found in chemical and petrochemical plants. Besides new well construction, Steve has also worked on developing and implementing plans to troubleshoot and repair wells with either injectivity or mechanical integrity issues. Steve has also managed the installation of many solution mining and hydrocarbon storage cavern wells, and these projects have involved the management of multi-well installations.

Before managing well projects, Steve worked for more than 13 years with a major service company providing geophysical services to the oil and gas industry. He has worked in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan and Pennsylvania in increasingly responsible positions in the areas of engineering, marketing and management. This experience has allowed Steve to achieve a high degree of expertise analyzing and interpreting all types of geophysical data. The geographic diversity of Steve's background has given him experience with all types of geological environments and numerous well completion designs.

Steve’s special areas of competence include troubleshooting difficult well problems and implementing effective solutions. His project management skills and ability to communicate with field personnel have allowed him to successfully manage a number of high-profile projects simultaneously.

Education & Training

  • Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

  • Master of Business Administration; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Industry Experience

  • Oil and Gas

  • Underground Injection Control (All Well Classes: Injection, I & II; Solution Mining, III; and Storage, II)

Technical Experience

  • Project Management

  • Reservoir Parameter Determination

  • Pressure Transient Falloff Test Analysis

  • Injection Reservoir Pressure Buildup Modeling

  • Geological Interpretation & Mapping

  • Cased and Open Hole Log Interpretation

  • Cement Evaluation

  • Injectivity Assessment and Restoration

  • Permit Application Preparation (All UIC Well Classes)

  • No-Migration Petition Preparation

  • Injection Well Due Diligence

  • Injection Reservoir Core Analysis Program

  • Waste Stream Compatibility Testing (Formation & Materials of Construction)

  • Injection Well Engineering/Geological Feasibility Study

  • Expert Witness Support

  • Regulatory Compliance (All UIC Well Classes)

  • Injection Well Design (All UIC Well Classes and Materials of Construction)

  • Acid-Gas Injection Well Design

  • Sand Control Design

  • Well Annulus Monitoring System Design

  • Cavern Well Design

  • Well Installation – Drilling, Completion & Testing (All UIC Well Classes)

  • Well Interventions (All UIC Well Classes)

    • Workover

    • Snubbing

    • Coil Tubing

    • Wireline/Slickline

  • Mechanical Integrity Testing (All UIC Well Classes)

  • Plugging & Abandonment (All UIC Well Classes)