DOR ENGINEERING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Engineering Assistant / Office Manager
Dr. Julius Langlinais has over 40 years experience in the petroleum industry. He has worked as a Production Engineer, Reservoir Engineer and Drilling Engineer for Continental and Superior Oil Company, as well as teaching and research at LSU in Louisiana and the University of Tampa in Florida. He has solved problems in compression, gas lift, workovers, economics, reservoir performance, logging, drilling, pressure detection and water disposal. He is retired from LSU Craft and Hawkins Petroleum Engineering Department and holds the title of Emeritus Professor.
Julius has performed consulting work in drilling systems analysis, energy inventions and training for Superior, Tenneco, Petrobras (Brazil), US Bureau of Standards and INA-NAFTAPLIN (Yugoslavia), and worked as an expert witness/advisor for numerous companies in Louisiana in production and/or drilling operations. Dr. Langlinais is a Registered Professional Engineer (Petroleum) in Louisiana and is active in SPE. He has some 25 publications and papers to his credit.
Job Titles:
- Professional Engineer
- Registered Professional Engineer
A registered professional engineer, Jim Veazey has over 20 years of varied and extensive experience in the petroleum industry. A graduate of Louisiana State University in Petroleum Engineering, Jim holds memberships in the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. He is registered in both Texas and Louisiana.
Upon graduation from LSU, Jim joined Atlas Wireline and worked in Odessa and Laredo, Texas where he gained valuable experience in oil field operations. He returned to Baton Rouge to work with the Louisiana Office of Conservation. His five years at the Conservation Department provided special insight in the operations of this regulatory agency. He was responsible for overseeing well site closure and restoration projects throughout the state of Louisiana. Later, in the Inspection and Enforcement Section, he was responsible for statewide compliance issues. He managed complaints from landowners and developed competence in mediating and resolving issues between landowners and oil and gas operators. He is skilled in analyzing critical issues which may arise in oil and gas acquisitions and regulatory matters. Jim is proficient in conducting research at the Office of Conservation and working with the staff regarding rules and policies as well as facilitating communication between the Office and oil and gas operators.
Since 2001, Jim has been a managing partner providing services in reservoir engineering and other specialized areas of mineral management. He is proficient and experienced in estimating reserves in order to provide cash flow forecasts and/or oil and gas fair market value appraisals used in Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Canadian financial filings, FDIC reports, securing bank loans and estate successions. He currently oversees the minerals management of over 50,000 acres held by two different school boards and assists with special projects involving large private landowners. This work includes predicting reserve estimates as well as permitting, providing advice on leasing and scouting oil and gas activity. Jim also serves as a qualified expert witness for unitization hearings, depositions, and court trials involving reservoir engineering and general oil and gas regulations and practices. He is a guest lecturer in Petroleum Economics 3025 at Louisiana State University.
John Aldridge earned his Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1969. He worked for the Louisiana Office of Conservation for over 30 years, garnering a wide variety of experience, culminating in his appointment as the Director of the Engineering Division. As the Director, he was responsible overseeing areas such as permitting, enforcement and oilfield site restoration. Mr. Aldridge was further responsible for all aspects of oil and gas unitization hearings, including reviewing evidence and submitting recommendations to the Commissioner. His experience as the Director of Engineering and his central role in unitization hearings brings valuable insight to D-O-R Engineering.
Michael J. Veazey, Sr. (Mike) was born in 1944. He has two children and five grandchildren. He holds BS (1966) and MS (1968) degrees in Petroleum Engineering from LSU. While at LSU, he was elected to two Honorary Engineering Societies and one National Honorary Society. He has been an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers since 1964 and the Society of Evaluation Engineers since 1994. He has been a Registered Petroleum Engineer since 1972 and a Registered Environmental Engineer since 1994. Mike has worked in a broad spectrum of the Petroleum Industry. He began his career as a reservoir engineer for Chevron and has worked in various capacities for oil companies of all sizes. He was on the faculty of the LSU Petroleum Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor from 1978 to 1983. He has served as an Instructor in the LSU/IADC Well Control School, of which he was Director during his tenure at LSU. Mike maintains his affiliation with the Department serving from time to time as an Adjunct Professor, most recently in 2007 as an instructor in Fluid Mechanics. Mike's primary professional occupation since 1984 has been as a petroleum consultant specializing in reservoir engineering and mineral management.
In May 2009, Mike acquired an equity position in the established consulting firm, D-O-R Engineering, Inc. D-O-R is a full service petroleum consulting engineering firm that will complement the firm of Veazey and Associates, LLC, an oil and gas consulting firm located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which Mike has owned since 1978.