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Houston, TX, US

Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

• P&L accountable for the execution, strategy and delivery of all integrated contracts across the region (focusing on Norway, UK and Continental Europe).
• Business Growth: Secured Wintershall-DEA and OMV contracts in 2023 to help grow Norway business 20% - including their first Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) well.
• Transformation: Restructured Norway Oilfield Services (OFS) business unit into a pure Integrated project management business model (both integrated and discrete single product line contracts) to increase customer.
• Price: Negotiated 12-15% of additional price during 2021 outside of the normal Equinor inflation indices.
• Leveraged excellent service delivery in the UK to double our integrated rig offerings with Shell and bp (80% market share).
• Secured Equinor Pre Plug and Abandonment (P&A) study of 1000 potential wells across Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Oilfield Services Project Manager in The Clair Alliance, a tripartite agreement with bp and Odfjell Drilling aimed to work together to transform platform drilling and completions activity at the bp-operated Clair field.
• Innovation: a new way of working commercially (novel documented Deemed Cost model with Long-Term Incentive bonuses based on incremental production gains.)
• Reduced Service Company Drilling personnel by 50% (and associated cost) through remote operations of Directional Driller, Mud Logger, MWD/LWD, and Mud Engineer (cross trained with cementers).
• Reduced project non-productive (down) time (NPT) to less than 1.5%. Focused on quality assurance, pre-planning and upfront engineering contingencies.
• 2021 Finalist for UK Offshore Energies (OGUK) Business Innovation - Large Enterprises Award.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Pivoted Gulf of Mexico business to focus on Deepwater opportunities and out of the unprofitable shelf market - 20% margin improvement. Key customers: Majors (bp, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell) and Mid-Cap (Enven.
• Strategic Vision & Execution: Identified Guyana as an integrated opportunity with limited LMP capacity in country. Actively engaged ExxonMobil to secure a 5 yr direct fluids award (outside of a tender). This was key to.
• Key areas: Gulf of Mexico (GOM); Alaska; East Coast Canada (Newfoundland) and Caribbean (focused on Guyana and Suriname).

Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

Merged Norwegian Drilling Fluids and Cementing product lines together in 2014/15. Segment Lead for Fluids and Cement in Equinor’s 2017 Contract the Best Supplier (CtBS) bid team and key architect of the Total Fluids Engineer (TFE), a cornerstone of Integrated Operations (IO) Level 3 de-manning.

Houston, Texas, United States

Strategic sales, marketing and technology bridge between the Global Drilling and Completion Fluids Product Line and the EARC Super Region Operations.

Kampala, Uganda

Full P&L ownership across 6 Well Construction product lines and a GHQ cost structure. Heavily involved with liaising with Ugandan Government Departments; organising in country strategies; real estate investment; immigration.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Operational development role with time split between Cape Town, South Africa and Kampala, Uganda.

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Leveraged my R&D knowledge in an operational environment to help solve and prevent Operators near well-bore formation damage.

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Lead scientist in the development of proprietary micro-emulsion technology to aid the remediation of reservoirs damaged by natural emulsions, fine particles or interaction with oil based drill-in fluids.

Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Geochemistry

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc (With Honors), Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences