Familiar Technologies: DRILLING FLUIDS EXPERIENCE
- Aerated Muds
- Light and heavy Completion Brines
- Lignosulfonate/Lignite
- Lime and Gypsum
- Potassium Carbonate Mud
- Potassium Chloride/SSPHPA/Glycol
- Potassium Nitrate
- Potassium Silicate
- Potassium Sulfate
- Potassium Sulfate/SSPHPA
- Polymer Systems
- Sodium Chloride
- Sodium Silicate
- WARP (Weighting Agent Reduction Particle)
- Weighted and Non-Weighted Invert Emulsion Muds
(Diesel & Synthetic Base)
Regions of the world you have worked:
- Alberta & British Columbia, Canada (Foothills of
the Rockies).
- Ecuador (Foothills of the Andes).
- Newfoundland (North Atlantic Ocean – Grand
Banks and on Terra Firma)
Resume: EDUCATION:
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education
- Degree in Education
- Major in Physical Geography / Geology
- Major in Psychology
Memorial University (Marine Institute)
- Basic Survival Training (Offshore)
Petroleum Industry Training Service, Nisqu, Alberta
- Advanced Mud School (M-I SWACO)
- Pre-employment Floorhand Tickets
- WHMIS, GELS, H2S Alive.
Additional Training
- Centrifuge maintenance
- Cuttings Reinjection
- Environment, Drilling Fluids Disposal and Waste
Management
- Flat Time Reduction
- Fluid Dynamics, Hydraulics & Well Integrity
- Performance Culture
- Shale Shaker performance & screen optimization
- Total Fluids Management
- Work Relationships & Team Building.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
2011 – 2004
Drilling Fluids Engineer (Consultant)
- M-I SWACO Inc.
2004-1997
Drilling Fluids Engineer (Employee/Consultant)
- Q’MAX Solutions Inc.
1997-1996
Assistant Derrickman (Offshore)
- Sedco-Forex
1995-1994
Roughneck/Mudwatcher (Offshore)
- Rowan Companies Inc.
HOLE PROFILES
- Experience drilling simple to complex, high
angle/multiply directional holes as deep as 10 222-m.
PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AND RESOLVED/MITIGATED
- Anhydrite
- Barite sag (high angle wells)
- Borehole Instability
- Carbonate contamination
- Cement contamination
- Coal seams
- Differential sticking
- Gas kicks
- High formation pressures & high mud temperatures
- Hole cleaning
- Hydrogen sulphide gas
- Lost circulation
- Sloughing shales
- Water inflows
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Ability to work alone and as a team member;
effective as both leader and collaborator.
- Highly motivated, honest, compassionate, outgoing,
diligent, and dedicated to exceeding customer and
employer expectations.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
- Experienced in conducting safety and regulatory
compliance inspections.
- Experienced in providing technical support for
drilling, workover, and completion fluids.
- Familiar with hardware/software for Mud Engineers
to write or complete mud
reports, managed wellsite inventories and accessed
technical information.
- Helped with the logistical requirements of
maintaining operations for 7, 14, 21 or 28 day
periods on projects onshore and offshore.
- Highly skilled in oil drilling and production, formulating
and maintaining drilling fluids.
- Kept jobs files current & neatly organized with mud
reports, delivery tickets,
mud program, price lists, contact information &
other
significant well information.
- Kept mud recaps updated, including an accurate
reporting of mud properties &
well conditions & procedures, as well as accurate
tracking of inventories & daily & cumulative mud
costs.
- Mud analysis conducted as per API standards.
- Provided routine & non-routine mud engineering.