CV Expert Drilling Fluids Engineer, staff engineer for Halliburton, Dowell and Baker Hughes

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Last Updated: Wednesday, April 15, 2009

I am an experienced drilling fluids engineer with 18 years experience, 2 years was office based with Petronas in Malaysia. I have worked both as a staff engineer for Halliburton, Dowell and Baker Hughes. I am currently working as a consultant.
I have experience with all types of drilling fluids, synthetic/oil based, water based and completion brines.
I have a good understanding of geomechanics with respect to wellbore stability.

I am looking for rotational work but would consider relocation if the conditions were suitable.

Employment within the oil industry:
Service Engineer, Dowell Schlumberger, 1980 – 1982, responsible for operation and maintenance of cementing equipment. Work locations Bolivia, Algeria and Kuwait.
Drilling Fluids Engineer, Baroid, 1991 – 1995, responsible for drilling fluid operations and maintenance at the following locations:
Germany – KCl/polymer water based mud, onshore, deviated wells.
Denmark - KCl/polymer water based mud, offshore, deviated wells.
Syria – Saturated salt/Polymer/ Haematite (+20 ppg) water based mud, onshore, vertical wells.
Ghana – Calcium Chloride brine, offshore work-over operations.
Oman – Calcium Carbonate/polymer water based mud and Ca/KCl brine, onshore, deviated wells.
Pakistan – Lignosulfonate water based mud, 18.5 ppg, onshore, deviated wells.
Oman – KCl/Polymer water based and solids free salt fluids, onshore, deviated wells.
Drilling Fluids Engineer, Dowell Schlumberger, 1996 (Jan to Sept).
U.K. Synthetic based mud (Ultidril) and Calcium Chloride/Calcium Bromide brine, offshore, deviated wells including one cork-screw profile well.
Drilling Fluids Engineer, Baroid, Oct 1996 – Oct 2004.
Algeria – Oil based mud and Calcium Chloride brine, onshore, vertical wells.
Qatar – water based PHPA mud, offshore, vertical wells.
Azerbaijan – Water based polymer mud, offshore, vertical wells.
Russia – Water based polymer mud, onshore, deviated wells, Komi Republic, Pechora.
Oman – Water based, high temp, polymer mud, onshore, vertical wells.
Russia - Water based polymer mud, onshore, horizontal wells, Komi Republic, Kharyaga (Artic Circle) and Siberia.
Kuwait – Water based polymer mud and Baroid 100 (oil-based) mud in deep (7000 m), high temp and pressure, vertical wells (+19.5 ppg).
Egypt – KCl polymer, saturated NaCl/KClsalt polymer and invert emulsion oil based fluids in deep water and shelf, offshore, vertical and deviated wells.


Consultant Mud Engineer, Oct 2004 to April 2005.
Egypt – KCl Polymer/Saturated Salt drill-in fluid, deep water and Invermul OBM offshore shelf, deviated wells.
Niger - KCl/PHPA/Glycol mud, onshore, vertical wells.
Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer, Petronas Carigali, April 2005 to Dec 2006.
Office based monitoring all offshore/onshore work in Malaysia and international drilling, completion and work-over operations.
KCl/Glycol fluids, Lime Polymer fluids for drilling carbonate reefs and synthetic based fluids (linear paraffin).
Monovalent brines for completion operations.
Monitor overseas wells in Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Vietnam.
Liase with mud company reps re introduction of new technology e.g. LCM products (LCP 2000 and Form-A-Squeeze) and use of Non-Invasive Fluids, namely FLC 2000 system in water and synthetic drilling fluids.
Arranged first overseas trial of MI’s Flo-Thru system for open hole completions in oil wells, previously only used in USA (California and Gulf of Mexico).
Monitored various sources for new drilling fluid technologies pertinent to Petronas.
Introduced use of centrifuges to all drilling operations and use of cuttings driers in all SBM operations.
Reviewed the construction and operation of a thermal adsorption unit for cuttings disposal in Turkmenistan.
Rig based work in: Turkmenistan, offshore, synthetic mud on deviated wells.
Ethiopia, land based, KCl/PHPA/Glycol water based fluid, vertical wells.
Malaysia, offshore, KCl/PHPA/Glycol water based fluids, deviated wells.
Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer, Baker Hughes, Jan. 2007 to Dec 2007.
Pakistan, land based KCl/PHPA/Polymer mud, KCl brine, deviated and vertical wells.
Thailand, operations co-ordinator for Amerada Hess, Thailand, water based fluids.
Kuwait, land ops, OBM (Carbo-Dril), 20.0 ppg, HTHP, deviated wells.
Deepwater Drilling Fluids Supervisor, Reliance Industries, India, Jan 2008 to Feb 2008.
Offshore supervisor overseeing deepwater operations and logistics.
Consultant Drilling Fluids Engineer, Halliburton, March 2008 to Date.
New Zealand, offshore, KCl/Polymer fluids, KCl brine, deviated wells.
Papua New Guinea, land based, air drilling, KCl/polymer fluids, KCl brine, horizontal wells.
Australia, offshore, deep-water, SBM, deviated wells for Chevron.

Education:
B.Sc. Honours. Class II Division II, Mining Engineering. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1977 –1980.
Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Chemistry with Science, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1984 – 1985.

Basic computer skills with Windows Word/Excel. Knowledge of mud engineering programs for reporting, Halliburton and Baker Hughes.

I am a fully qualified Chemistry/Science teacher for ages up to 18 years (Advanced Level) gaining a Post Graduate Certificate in Education in 1985 and completing my probationary year as a secondary school teacher in 1986.