Derek Lebsack
Senior Drilling & Operations Engineer
Upstream
United States
1. What is your profession? Or if you are retired, what was your profession?
Drilling Engineer
2. What are your areas of expertise?
Upstream: Drilling, Completions, Project Management, Supply Chain, Facility Management, Operations
Upstream Areas: Onshore, Offshore
3. Current Employer:
Viceroy Petroleum LP
4. Previous Employers:
Shell, W&T Offshore, Sabine Oil & Gas, Devon Energy, Chesapeake Energy
5. How did you end up in the Energy Industry?
I'm a third generation Petroleum Engineer, and also a third generation Drilling Engineer, so I guess you could say I didn't choose the O&G life, it chose me.
6. Why do you like working with Start-Ups?
As a currently practicing Drilling Engineer, it keeps me on the front lines of advancements that can benefit me and my employer.
Okay, now for some fun things about Derek…
7. What are three of your interests outside of work?
8. What are your top 3 accomplishments (personal or professional)? Don’t be shy! Give ‘em to us.
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Earning a full-ride academic scholarship to Texas A&M University
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Convincing my wife to marry me
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Accumulating the hard-earned drilling knowledge I have
9. If I were a superhero, my superpower would be .
Never needing to sleep
10. When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a when I grew up.
Engineer, never was going to be anything else.
11. If I weren't so damn good at what I do now, I'd probably be .
Broke
12. My favorite song is by .
"Loud & Heavy" by Cody Jinks
13. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd .
start ranching
14. The best piece of advice I've ever been given is .
You miss every shot you don't take
