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Mark Ramsey serving as one of 535 United States Electoral College Members in December 2020.

Mark S. Ramsey, P.E.

Mark authored a peer-reviewed technical book, “Practical Wellbore Hydraulics and Hole Cleaning”, published in 2019 (see home page). Mark was named a Texas Tech College of Engineering “Distinguished Engineer” in 2016. He is a registered professional engineer with over 40 years of multi-disciplined research and drilling operations engineering experience, primarily in the oil and gas drilling industry. Mr. Ramsey was named a Charter Member of the Texas Tech Academy of Mechanical Engineers “for outstanding contributions to the profession” and earned the “Distinguished Instructor Award” from Exxon while employed there. He has traveled the world extensively, teaching and working on six continents.  He is known as an innovator and holds several U.S. and international patents. Mr. Ramsey holds a B.S.M.E. from Texas Tech University (with High Honors) and was elected by Texas Tech to serve on their Industrial Advisory Council. Mark Ramsey can be contacted directly at 281-787-5006 mobile.

Founder MARK S. RAMSEY is a registered professional engineer with over 30 years of multi-disciplined research and drilling operations engineering experience. He was a founding member of the Technical Advisory Board of Cabot Specialty Fluids. He has chaired technical sessions for the SPE, IADC, and OTC. He has served on the SPE drilling editorial review committee, on the Drilling Technical Advisory Group of the Gas Research Institute, and represented clients at meetings of the DEA and the DEA-Europe. He chaired the Horizontal and Directional Drilling subcommittee of the AADE in Houston. He was an invited guest speaker of the Japan National Oil Corporation at their International Symposium on Horizontal Drilling. 

Mr. Ramsey was named a Charter Member of the Texas Tech Academy of Mechanical Engineers (“for outstanding contributions to the profession”) and earned the “Distinguished Instructor Award” from Exxon, and field, office, and engineering personnel alike have the highest regard for his teaching & communication skills. He assisted Amoco in developing their successful Training to Reduce Unscheduled Events, and spin-off workshops now being conducted worldwide. His Value Improvement Planning (VIP) workshops have saved drilling and completion operations literally millions of dollars in costs.  

He is known as an innovator and holds over 30 U.S. and international patents. Mr. Ramsey is the author of several papers, trade journal articles, and formerly the monthly Imagineering column for the industry publication The Brief. He has investigated “intelligent completion” technologies for GPRI and BP. He was selected by Schlumberger to author the drilling module of their online “Oilfield Glossary“, and created Amoco’s first internal website for drillers. Mr. Ramsey holds a B.S.M.E. from Texas Tech University (with High Honors), who elected him to serve on their Industrial Advisory Council.

A detailed HTML resume is available upon request.

You may reach Mr. Ramsey directly at: 

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Experience & Accomplishment Highlights

  • INDUSTRY
  • Authored a peer reviewed book published by Elsevier under the guidance of the IADC Technical Publications Committee (TPC) on “Practical Wellbore Hydraulics and Hole Cleaning”.
  • Texas Tech University “Distinguished Engineer” (2016) — one of only about 100 living today.
  • Exxon (now ExxonMobil) “Distinguished Instructor Award” (1991) for “Consistent High Quality Instruction”
  • Charter Member of the Texas Tech Academy of Mechanical Engineers (1992)
  • Registered P.E. (in Texas) since 1992
  • Multiple Patents in the USA and other countries
  • Conducted DWOP/CWOP/P&AWOP and Training to Reduce Unscheduled Events (TRUE) Trainings worldwide
  • Taught various Drilling Engineering, Drilling Operations, and Well Control courses worldwide   
  • COMMUNITY
  • Various Volunteer roles in the Republican Party of Texas, including serving on its Executive Committee for eight years (including chairing several high profile state committees)
  • 2022 Candidate for the US Congress
  • 2020 United States Presidential Electoral College Member  
  • Writer for TexasGOPVote.com, www.RedState.com, The Heartland Institute, and others — oil and gas and other issues.
  • Mark was one of only two practicing engineers to be selected by the Texas Education Agency to write the TEKS (standards) for the high school course on engineering principles.
  • The Texas Sunset Commission invited Mark to author a review of the Texas Education Agency’s textbook selection process. Several of Mark’s recommendations led to language in proposed legislation.

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