
Stephen Rodney
Lease Operator
Keeping oilfield production running safe and steady
Lease operator with eleven years running oil and gas production leases in the Permian Basin, based in Midland. Keeps wells and surface facilities producing — monitoring and adjusting production, gauging tanks, maintaining equipment, and keeping the lease safe, compliant and flowing. Improved uptime on his leases by catching equipment problems early and tightening the maintenance routine. Operates and monitors wells, separators, tanks and pumps, records production, performs routine maintenance and troubleshooting, and follows strict safety and environmental procedures. Strong on both the hands-on field skill and the awareness to spot a problem before it stops production. Reliable, safety-focused and self-sufficient out on the lease. Looking for a lease-operator or production-operator role with an operator that values dependable field hands.
Permian Basin Oil & Gas - Midland, TX
Lease Operator
Improved the uptime on the leases by catching the equipment problems early and tightening maintenance.
Monitor and adjust the wells, the separators, tanks and pumps and gauge the tanks daily.
Record all the production data and carry out all the routine maintenance and the troubleshooting daily.
Follow all the strict safety and the environmental procedures on every single lease and task.
Work self-sufficiently across all the remote leases and respond to each of the call-outs promptly.
West Texas Energy Services - Midland, TX
Field / Production Technician
Gauged the tanks, monitored the wells and assisted the senior lease operators.
Learned the production equipment, troubleshooting and oilfield safety on the job.
Gained the operations certification and then moved into a lease-operator role.
West Texas Energy Services - Midland, TX
Roustabout / Floorhand
Learned the equipment, the safety and hard oilfield work on the job.
Built up the field grounding that lease operation is built on.
Then earned the move into a field production-technician role from there.
Midland High School
High School Diploma - General Studies
SafeLandUSA / Industry Training
Production Operations & Safety (SafeLandUSA) Certification - Oilfield Operations
Well Control & H2S Safety
SafeLandUSA (January 2016 to March 2016)
Artificial Lift & Pump Maintenance
PetroSkills (March 2021 to Present)
Improved uptime
Safe and self-sufficient
English
Native or Bilingual ProficiencySpanish
Professional Working ProficiencyProduction Operations & Safety
SafeLandUSA / Industry Training (April 2013 to Present)
PEC SafeLand & First Aid
PEC (April 2019 to Present)
- Well Operations
- Production Monitoring
- Tank Gauging
- Separators & Pumps
- Equipment Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Production Recording
- Oilfield Safety (H2S)
- Environmental Compliance
- Field Self-Sufficiency
- Reliability
- Safety Focus
- Problem Solving
- Self-Sufficiency
- Work Ethic