Rich Downey
General Manager CEO Turnwell Industries at ADNOC Drilling
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolRich Downey is a growth-focused petroleum engineer and energy executive with over three decades of technical and leadership experience, now leading Turnwell Industries as General Manager/CEO to accelerate unconventional oil and gas development in the UAE. He has a demonstrated track record driving operational performance and cost efficiency—most notably delivering a 41% drilling and completions cost improvement at WPX between 2018 and 2021—while managing multi-basin programs across Delaware, Williston, Anadarko, Powder River and Eagle Ford. His career spans senior roles at Devon, EOG and Schlumberger, blending hands-on completion and reservoir engineering with business development and JV formation expertise. He has repeatedly scaled drilling and completion campaigns (e.g., 120-well DrillCo and a 144-well Turnwell program) and aligns technology, AI-enabled design and smart drilling to unlock unconventional resources. Based in Oklahoma City, he pairs operational rigor with a global perspective shaped by international SLB assignments from China to the North Sea and Indonesia. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who translates complex engineering models into repeatable, capital-efficient field programs.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Petroleum Engineering, BS Petroleum Engineering at West Virginia University
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Github contributions (5)
mjreeder/project-tracker-angular-2
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:34 commits in 22 days
RichDowney/CSOldAssignments
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 14 days
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