Barry Cresap, P.E.
Well Engineering Director | Well Engineering
Barry has over 20 years of oil and gas experience, primarily working as a principal drilling engineer and manager over a wide range of campaigns and rig types for both land and offshore. His engineering experience spans across both conventional and unconventional designs and operational practices including deepwater, shelf, and horizontal drilling.
He began his career with ENSCO and completed a 3-year “fast-track” superintendent program which entailed working rig-based positions from crane crew, drill crew, up tonight toolpusher on jack-ups in the Gulf of Mexico. He broadened his experience at Grey Wolf / Precision Drilling while executing turnkey contracts all along the US Gulf Coast.
He joined BHP in 2012 in the Eagle Ford as a Senior Drilling Engineer and moved up to Drilling Manager. He joined the offshore division in 2014 and executed a deepwater exploration well in Central GOM (4,200 feet WD) in 2017 to 32,000’MD. He moved internationally to Perth, Australia in 2019 - 2021 to plan a multi-lateral campaign (12,000 feet laterals) along Australia’s Northwest Shelf. He and his family have since returned back to the US. He left BHP in 2021 with the merger acquisition by Woodside. He joined Viking shortly thereafter and now resides with his family in Katy, TX.
Areas of Expertise:
Drilling Engineering and Operations
Casing Design
Failure Analysis
Torque & Drag
ERD / Horizontal Drilling
US Land & Shale
Continental Shelf
Deepwater
Education:
B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University (2002).
Phone: 281.870.8455
