Profile
Has a uniquely extensive and multi-skilled oilfield employment history, working worldwide in both field and office-based operations.
Experience encompasses Client Representative, Field Operations team leader and individual consultant positions, office based laboratory and administrative roles including sales engineer and coordinator.
Currently studying for a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.
Skills
Planning/Organisation:
• As operations team leader it was my job to ensure all preparation, planning and job execution were done to complete the job to the client specifications and as such I was the main point of contact between client and contractor in the field.
• In office and at rigsite pre-planning operations meetings, reviews, safety meetings, and liaising with different departments were a vital part of daily operations.
Leadership and Training:
• Lead Directional Driller and LWD (logging while drilling) Engineer in remote locations onshore in West Africa. Quick decisions needed to be made based on operational requirements, factoring in time constraints (costs), peoples abilities and HSE factors.
• Mentor and assessor to junior engineers and directional drillers.
• Undertaken formal Team Leadership training
• All HSE training and certificates (including offshore medical) completed for normal field operations.
• Worked as Client Representative on Site and Pipeline Inspection survey operations.
Communications:
• Experienced to working alone or with a team in remote locations to tight financial or time constraints.
• I consider myself to have excellent communications skills, written and oral.
• Sales, client liaison and endorsing company products, services and people have been a very important part of my work scope
• Daily communications to base coordinators and clients, HSE, technical support and sales.
• Direct Sales Experience – I was employed as a sales engineer for a small independent British diamond bit manufacturer with a unique market product.
Fields of expertise;
• I have directional drilling, geophysical and geotechnical survey, geological and well logging, wireline, coring and sample analysis experience.
Career Summary
Directional Driller /LWD Engineer
Baker Hughes Drilling Services
2010-2015
Directional Driller
Offshore/land based DD: 4 years experience in lead role with Baker Ultra steerable motors and Baker rotary steerable tools (AutoTrak) – Gabon, Mauritania, Canada, Tunisia
Projects – 2014 Lead Directional Driller – 6 well Diga Project for Perenco Oil and Gas, Gamba Field, Gabon.
Pre job – positional data QC, BHA and operational requirements, drilling bit selection.
On-site – make up BHA, well drilling management, projection ahead, H2S monitoring, high temp drilling practises, anti-collision monitoring and management. Vibration recognition and control. Sidetracking experience – open hole.
Post job – end of well reporting and recommendations. Bit grading and performance reports.
2004-2010 – LWD Engineer
Offshore/onshore operations in Europe, Africa and Scandinavia.
Running AutoTrak rotary steerable tools, nuclear LWD tools, Formation Pressure Testing and standard directional gamma LWD tools. Acquiring, presenting and interpreting real-time and memory geological and directional data.
Marine Geophysical Consultant / Company Representative
1992-2003
Marine geophysicist
Worldwide, shallow marine seismic surveys – acquisition of geophysical data from variable sonar sensors. Seabed geotechnical sampling programs.
Offshore and Onshore – Data QC, Interpretation and reporting of all data for following operation types: – debris clearance surveys, site surveys, cable route and pipeline pre-lay and annual inspections.
Sales Engineer
BritBits UK Ltd, Aberdeen
1998-99
Learning the company product line and unique manufacturing process – learning and assessing market opportunities, visiting new clients and follow up visits to existing customers, learning opposition products, keeping up with latest technology etc
1989-92 Halliburton Geodata MWD Engineer – Malaysia and Brunei
1988-89 Core Laboratories Core Analyst – Aberdeen and London
1985-86 Core Laboratories Mudlogger-Zaire
1984-85 Seismograph Services Ltd Geophysicist – Seismic Crew – Libya
1979-1980 RN Officer Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, UK
Certification
Basic Survival & Firefighting Course, Helicopter Escape Training
19 Dec. 2011, (valid 19 Dec 2015) – Survivex, Aberdeen
UK00A Medical (January 2014 – 2 years)
Gabon Perenco Medical (Sept 2013)
Safety Training History
Risk Impact Assessment
STOP training
H2S Training in Edmonton Canada/Abu Dhabi and Gabon
Comprehensive online HSE training completed
Fire fighting and First Aid training completed.
Other Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Geology
University College of Swansea (Coleg y pryfisgol Abertawe)
1981-1984
