Mr. Hunger is an Affiliate Director serving clients in the upstream sector of the oil & gas industry. Drew actively uses his broad background to provide unique solutions to complex problems. He has more than 35 years of technical experience, both onshore and offshore, with facility construction, operations, production, well intervention, midstream (NGL, CO2, pipeline, compression) and decommissioning. His experience spans working for a U.S. major, a U.K. major, a U.S. major independent, and a small service/production company.
Mr. Hunger has extensive experience decommissioning oil and gas wells. He removed his first offshore platform while with Amoco in 1993 to reuse it for a new development. He was the Gulf of Mexico P&A Manager and Decommissioning Manager at BP from 2002 through 2008. Then he was the Gulf of Mexico decommissioning manager at Apache Corporation from 2009 through 2013. During those periods, he and his teams plugged over 1,200 wells and reefed or removed over 250 platforms. The oil & gas wells included vertical, deviated, horizontal, H2S, HPHT, and subsea. He and his teams also managed the decommissioning of hurricane damaged wells and platforms including one platform that was completely burned out. Mr. Hunger regularly makes presentations to oil and gas industry participants regarding technical matters, industry practices, and his unique experience.