Nicholas Martinez is a driller with over 9 years of experience in oilfield operations including drilling, completions, and underground mining. He has worked on rigs throughout Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona drilling conventional, long radius horizontal, and complex wells. Martinez is also experienced in rig moving and modifications with certifications in well control, safety, leadership, and software used in the industry.

1. Nicholas Martinez
2356 S. Rim Dr. Grand Junction, CO 81507
nicknum10@gmail.com
(970)-739-3523
Education:
 Dolores High School Graduate, 6 months college/no degree
Qualifications:
 9 years oilfield experience, 1 year underground mining experience
 Self-motivated team member with the ability to work in diverse multi-cultural
environment in adverse conditions
 Troubleshooting and maintenance skills
 Automated flex rigs, conventional compound rigs
 Strong safety awareness, zero tolerance attitude
 Oil base mud, water base mud, air/foam systems, air injected mud systems, brine
water systems
 Extensive amount of down-hole knowledge and understanding of BHA assemblies
Career Summary:
 JE Merritt (Jacobs Engineering) – 5/25/04 – 8/28/04 – roustabout, separator, pump jack
installation
 Patterson UTI Drilling – 2/6/05 – 12/12/08 – floors, motors, derricks, driller (2 years)
Rigs – 17,143,746,747,741,754,306 (177) – Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona
 Frontier Drilling – 12/20/08 – 1/13/09 – Driller – Rig 9
 King Coal Mine – 1/17/09 – 1/5/10 – Utility hand, Roof Bolter
 Patterson UTI Drilling – 1/10/10 – 9/15/13 – Driller – Rigs 303,308,326, Colorado
 Cathedral Energy Services – 9/15/13 – 11/23/14 – Trainee, Dir. Driller – Nabors M15,
Frontier 14 - Lack of Work
 Bakers Hughes – 12-1/13 – Present – Dir. Driller – Night & Lead Hand Experience – H&P,
Nabors, Precision rigs – North Dakota
Experience Summary:
 Conventional, Long radius horizontals, S curve, Re-entry, Sidetracks
 Bakken, Three Forks & Niobrara Laterals
 Well Architect & Baker Database, Winserve, Cathedral Syndicate
 EM tool, Mud Pulse tools, Bench tree, Repeaters
 Mud motors-fixed and adjustable, Power drives/Rotary Steerables
 Rig Moving, modification, construction, new build
 Whip-stocks, open and cased hole packers
 NOV EDS, Omron, Pason, Rig Watch, Rocket, Slider, Wildcat drilling systems
 Job certified rough terrain forklift, boom/man lift
 Varco, Tesco, Can Rig Top drives, Kelly drive, Power Swivels

2.  PDC, Roller cone bits, Air hammers
 Salt and killer shale formations, H2S environments
 Microsoft word, Power-point, Excel, Outlook
Certifications:
 First Aid, CPR, Blood born pathogens
 Wild well control (current)
 Fall protection
 Blade Stone PCS training
 Encosha, Rig Pass
 MSHA training
 H2S escape and rescue
 N2I Leadership
 Safety and fire awareness
 OSHA awareness class
Hobbies and Days off:
 Spend my time with my girlfriend and kids every chance I get.
 Snowboarding, fishing and anything to keep us active. I love to BBQ.
 Very interested in what’s happening at work while I am off to always be prepared for
anything.
Reference:
 Tommy Tuttle – Cathedral Dir. Coordinator – (307)-262-9744
 Randy Lantz – Cathedral DD – (307)-277-0592
 Ben Lantz – Cathedral DD – (970)-258-8961
 Tom Laney – Phoenix DD – (209)-327-2579
 James Moisan – Apache Corp Engineer – (605)-295-2493
 Curt Childers – EnCana Drilling Supervisor – (970)-250-6472
 Bruce Poulos –Patterson UTI Area Manager – (307)-259-3198
 Norman McCreary – EnCana Consultant – (406)-544-4859