Familiar Technologies: 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 Based)
Regions of the world you have worked: Canada – Foothills of the Rockies,
Canada – Offshore – North Atlantic
Equador – Foothills of Andes
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
- 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.
REFERENCES
Available upon request