Who Are we?

Turning Point E&P Consultants

Principal Engineer

John Huycke

Professional Engineer

BS in Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas

MS in Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas

Associate Engineer

James Huycke

BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tulsa

U Lateral Experience

Eight U lateral with production casing successfully cemented

U laterals in the Wolfcamp A, B and C

Engineering planning and operations support

Extensive torque and drag planning

Delaware Basin Experience

Seven years as a Belaware Basing drilling engineer

Lateral lengths from 1 to 3 miles

Pressures from 8.4 to 13.4 ppg

Experience overcoming trouble with salt, water flows, lost circulation, hole stability and narrow FG/PP windows

Drilling Services

U Lateral seminars

Torque and drag modeling

Engineering planning

Operaitons support

Testimonials

I have had the honor and pleasure of working with John for many years, both as a colleague as well as a manager. In that time, I was constantly impressed with not only John’s technical and business acuity but also his integrity and professionalism. I have had the pleasure of working with many exceptional engineers in my career and John is easily equal to the best I have encountered. His engineering skills are extensive and diverse, having been honed through a wide-ranging assortment of technical projects including extended reach horizontal wells, challenging sub-salt wells and large development programs. This robust background in highly technical projects has given John a strong understanding in detailed project management, risk assessment, project economics and factors that contribute to forward-looking project viability. John has exceptional leadership qualities and is very proficient at leading multi-disciplined teams due to his detail-oriented technical approach coupled with his broad operations experience. Being goal-oriented, John has a unique talent at being able to couple innovative technical solutions with practical and established design practices. In short, I have the highest regard for John Huycke’s ability to deliver successful results for any project he is associated with and heartily recommend his services.

Vic Estes

Former Anadarko Mozambique Drilling Engineering Manager

I worked with John for several years and he is the most technically sound drilling engineer I have worked with during my career. John’s knowledge and attention to detail, his engineering analysis, risk assessment, business-based decisions and his understanding of how the projects that he works on affect the economic outcome of a project is second to none. He was instrumental in getting our U lateral development projects off the ground with the feasibility planning, well planning and directing operations. I would trust John with any drilling project.

Nathan Anderson

Former Delaware Basin Asset Manager of PDC Energy

I have known John Huycke for over 5 years and can vouch for him having the highest personal and professional character of anyone in the Oil and Gas industry. He has gained my respect for his knowledge, intelligence and most of all his insight to solve complex problems while executing a very difficult drilling program. He was a big contributor in making PDC Energy so successful with our drilling programs which contributed to the Chevron merger. He has a balance of leadership, process improvement and business acumen skills and is everything you would want in an employee or contractor managing highly technical drilling projects. He is highly recommended by me.

David J. Lillo

Former SVP of Operations of PDC Energy

John did a tremendous job in our drilling operations at PDC with continual focus on improved efficiencies, safety and innovation. His work on U laterals was one of the more innovative projects in the company’s history. U laterals gave PDC the ability to capture tremendous value from several stranded single sections of quality leasehold in the Delaware Basin.

Bart Brookman

Former CEO of PDC Energy

Talk to us

Have any questions? We are available to support your U lateral planning efforts from overview seminars, lessons-learned presentations and detailed drilling planning. Contact us to discover how we can help.