Mr. Rick Cody is the Founder and President of E&P Dimensions® and has been involved in oil and gas multi-disciplined project team planning, operations, and management since 1982.  He is the developer of the Integrated Life Cycle Approach (ILCA^sm) and a Cross-Discipline Integration Analyst^sm and engineer since 1985 and provides a unique consultancy service that Designs Out
Trouble^sm from upstream E&P projects.
Mr. Cody developed these concepts based on the fact that the majority of Trouble that occurs in E&P projects:

• is preventable as it is predominately the direct result of the manner in which the data is dealt with throughout the Project’s Life Cycle and
• is evidenced by outsized overruns, steep Learning Curves, and/or the delayed onset or reduced rates of production.

To maximize a well / project’s ROI a the Multi-Disciplined Project Team (MDPT) should use ILCA’s cross-discipline integration steps during data mining and analysis, planning, & implementation to prevent unplanned events, extra costs, and/or production shortfalls.
E&P Dimensions has worked with E&P Independents, IOCs, and NOCs, in areas of the USA (Gulf Of Mexico area - on and offshore (barge, JU, floaters), Rocky Mountain area, and Alaska) along w/ extensive international experience working in Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa in climates ranging from desert to arctic.  International residencies include England, the Philippines, Indonesia, and India, w/ extended assignments in Mozambique, Turkey, Trinidad, and South Africa. 
Mr. Cody’s extensive cross-discipline project team integration background is based on his:

• training and experience as a Drilling and Completion engineer for land, Jack Up, & Deep Water ops using High Press/High Temp (HPHT), Horizontal, Extended Reach Drilling (ERD), & Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD), Under Balance Ops (UBO), and Multi-Lateral techniques,
• performing on past projects interpretation of core analysis and logs that predicted the need:
• to drill significantly overbalance compared to pore pressure due to tectonically stressed formations which was accomplished by MPD,
• to frac horizontal wells to overcome drilling formation damage in conjunction with thick oil and small pore throats in the presence of high water saturations and relative perm issues, and
• to drill the wellbore in a specific orientation to maximize frac growth and forestall the onset of Early Water Break Through, and
• co-authoring corroborating SPE papers that documented projects that used:
• an industry first 3D seismic process to generate pre-drill, site specific rock properties volumes for project life cycle well planning & real-time predictions (#74487) and
• a GOM DW first, one trip, perforate and frac pack completion off a Dynamically Position Drillship(#97147).
• his 1982 Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M supports his facilities integration work in addition to work on various Integrated Project Teams that designed platforms, SPARs, SS completions, and land based developments.

The listed service marks relate to analysis services including technology consultation in the field of oil and gas exploration and production. {Designs Out Trouble^sm, Integrated Life Cycle Approach^sm (ILCA^sm), Cross- Discipline Integration Analyst^sm; (CDIA^sm), Design Out Trouble Where & Before It Begins^sm, 3-Point Optimization Process^sm}.