BRANDON SCHULTE, P.E., PMP

Senior Project Manager

Brandon has a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wyoming. He has 10 years’ experience in the salt cavern and disposal well industry working as a mechanical integrity test (MIT) engineer, well workover and repair project manager and team lead, UIC permitting manager, and engineering manager. Brandon has lead a diverse array of disposal well and cavern permitting, engineering analysis and design projects. He specializes in project management, salt cavern well integrity evaluation, cavern and industrial waste well (UIC Class I Haz/Non Haz) permitting and petitioning, well workovers, repairs and abandonment, wellbore hydraulics, feasibility studies, and facility design. Brandon is a licensed professional engineer (KS, LA, MS, NM, TX, WY) and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). As an active member of the Solution Mining Research Institute, Brandon has presented papers at SMRI Technical Conferences on salt cavern MITs and salt cavern abandonment.

Education, Licenses & Certifications

  • Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

  • Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

  • Professional Engineer, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Industry Experience

  • Salt Cavern Storage – Hydrocarbon (LPG & NGL)

  • Salt Cavern Storage– Natural Gas & Hydrogen

  • Salt Cavern Solution-Mining and Brine Production

  • Hydrocarbon/Liquified Petroleum Gas Storage Operations

  • Underground Injection Control (UIC) Industrial Waste Disposal Wells

  • Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Permitting

Technical Experience

  • Project Management – Storage and Disposal Well Projects, Engineering, Procurement, Construction

  • Salt Cavern Mechanical Integrity Testing (MITs)

  • Salt Cavern Workovers – Maintenance and Repair

  • Salt Cavern Plug and Abandonment (P&A)

  • Salt Cavern Permitting (LDNR, RRC)

  • Well Integrity Evaluation

  • Wellbore Hydraulics

  • Well Design

  • Feasibility Studies

  • Underground Injection Control (UIC) Well MITs

  • UIC Well Class 1 Hazardous and Nonhazardous Well Permitting

  • EPA No Migration Petitions – Class 1 Hazardous Wells