Matthew Knight apostle1935@yahoo.com Independent Petroleum Drilling Consultant Home 304-775-1756 Air Drilling Specialist Cell 304-815-3221

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEOver fourteen years in the Petroleum Industry with a strong background in supervising and management in drilling operations in the Appalachian Basin. Extensive experience in Air drilling, Brine, Aeration & SOBM applications. Proficient in several reporting systems to include: Wellview, WellEZ, RIMBase and Microsoft office programs.

Operators: Gulfport Energy, Chesapeake Energy

Rig Types: Direct knowledge of RU/RD and Operations of the following land rigs IDECO 37, Patterson 300 series, Skytop Brewster, Flex 3 & 4 and Speedstar 185.

Locations Formation/Basin Types of Wells Drilling Experience Industry Training

Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania Arkansas Tennessee

Appalachian Basin Utica Marcellus Chattanooga Fayetteville

Horizontal Directional Vertical CH4 Tie-In Core

Air/Mist SOBM SIMOPS Aeration P&A Nitrogen Brine

Well Control H2S Safety Wellview Well EZ RimBase Microsoft Excel Power Point

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Newtech Global (US) 2015-PresentDrilling Consultant Well Site Supervision and Logistics Management in the operations of the upstream drilling industry.

Gulfport Energy (Ohio) 2013-2015Drilling Consultant (Days)

Oversaw daily drilling operations including SIMOPS on horizontal Utica Shale wells in Belmont and Harrison Counties in Eastern Ohio.

Managed ALL logistics to include: Waste and water manifest, review and post permitting with the DNR, kept location up to EPA and OSHA standards, completed daily cost and daily activity report for operator, handled procurement for casing tubulars on location and worked directly with the drilling engineer on improving the drilling program to maximize productivity.

Ensure that MAOP were not exceeded as it pertained to Air, Nitrogen and fluids ranging from 1000 to 10,000 psi. Manage maintenance on entire systems components.

Review historical documents to continuously improve system and make suggestion to engineering department.

Calculate wellbore/casing volumes prior to displacement of brine, SOBM, cement ect. Drilled to depths up to 20,000’/MD, Kop @ average 8,700i, build curve and hold 90⁰ to TD. Drilled 70% of curve/lateral wells with rotary steerable, 30% with ABH motors. Drilled from surface to KOP with mist or dust drilling, aeriation when needed, curve and lateral drilled

with OBM with weights from 11.5 to 17ppg depending on gas in wellbore. While working with Gulfport I spent 95% of my time on Nomac 310, working as a team we were able

to take spud to rig release from 45 days to an average of 20 days within six months. This was not an easy task with 100+ hours NPT average per well but, with good communication and a little push anything is possible.

Chesapeake Energy (Ohio) 2012-2013Drilling Consultant (Nights)

Directed daily drilling operations on horizontal developmental Utica shale wells in Carroll County, Ohio.

Ensure that MAWP were not exceeded as it pertained to air, Co2 and fluids ranging from 1000 to 10,000 psi. Manage maintenance on entire systems components.

Drilled to depths up to 14,500’/MD, KOP @ average 7,500’, build curve and hold 90⁰ to TD. Drilled the majority of curve/lateral wells with rotary steerable. Drilled from surface to KOP with mist or dust drilling, aeriation when needed, curve and lateral drilled

with OBM with weights from 10.0 to 10.4ppg depending on gas in wellbore. Consistently coming in $1 million plus under AFE was achieved on average per well.

Archerwell Underbalanced (WV, OH, PA, AR) 2009-2012 Air Drilling Consultant

Worked directly with the company man and driller in providing onsite supervision for the Operator/Contractor.

Responsible to oversee successful wellbore completion while monitoring an regulating air pack CFM for maximum ROP and hole cleaning, made any adjustments necessary to solids control equipment to minimize solidification material used for cutting haul off.

Trained onsite and provided air consultation for fishing and downhole problems/operations. Designed BHA and worked closely with operator offering possible time saving options not in drill

prog.

Drillers LLC (Tennessee) 2008-2009Driller/Relief Pusher

Worked closely with the directional driller, drilled to KOP depths up to 4,200’ with hammer bits and lateral lengths 3,300’ to 4,000’.

Drilled curve/lateral dust drilling with stab and steer using conventional ABH motors with insert bits. Responsible for rig/third party crews to maintain safe work environment, troubleshoot and fix

component failure. Built location prior to rig move.

SW Jack Drilling (West Virginia, Pennsylvania) 2006-2008Driller

Drilled horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale and successfully drilled and completed the first horizontal well in Susquehanna County for Turmoil Energy.

Responsible for maintaining safe and efficient work environment. Drilled CBM relief tie-in wells with magnetic sub for CNX, mist drilled with polymer typically

drilling with 3 laterals in the lower coal seam then setting a Whipstock, cutting a window in the casing and drilling 2-3 more laterals.

SW Jack Drilling (West Virginia) 2001-2006Roughneck/Derrickman

Duties performed but not limited to: Rig maintenance and preventative maintenance, rig up/rig down and operate mud pumps, air compressors, trash pumps, mist pump, fluid transfers ect.

1998-2001 Allison & Lohr Automatic Sprinkler LLC WV, OH

Drafting Field Engineer

■ Responsible for designing blueprints as well as revamping existing all staying within NFPA mandates. Performed hands on work in field as Supervisor for Sprinkler installations and updates.

■ Maintained monthly, quarterly and year end inventories, employee scheduling, notifying Fire Marshall, state and county officials as needed for FIT, Panic, Hydraulic and Hydrostatic testing.

Certifications

■ PetroEd Oilwell drilling (2010)

■ PetroEd Underbalanced Drilling (2010)

■ PetroEd Basic Principles of Petroleum (2010)

■ Wild Well Control IADC/WellCAP BOP certification supervisory level completion date: 1-22-2014, Expiration date: 1-22-2016.

Professional References

Dewayne Finney Sr. 972-571-3457 Drilling Superintendent

Anthony Miller 740-827-2065 Drilling Engineer

Stacey Tubbs 570-404-8397 Drilling Superintendent

Danny Lambert 806-729-3516 Drilling Consultant

Rocky Ray 214-205-3095 Bedrock Petroleum Consultants

Randy Nix 405-476-1639 Rig Manager

Clayton (Bo) Mcdaniels 570-971-8373 Drilling Consultant