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Nisku, Ab

♦ Oversee and direct oil exploration activities 24hrs a day throughout Alberta and Northern BC.♦ Manage 21 onsite employees and equipment ensuring constant and optimized production.♦ Supervise all rig activities on triple rigs including experienced with vertical, directional, horizontal and horizontal underbalanced drilling. ♦ Administer and strictly adhere to the company, Government, OHS, WCB and AEUB guidelines and regulations.♦ Improve operational efficiency, provide a… Show more ♦ Oversee and direct oil exploration activities 24hrs a day throughout Alberta and Northern BC.♦ Manage 21 onsite employees and equipment ensuring constant and optimized production.♦ Supervise all rig activities on triple rigs including experienced with vertical, directional, horizontal and horizontal underbalanced drilling. ♦ Administer and strictly adhere to the company, Government, OHS, WCB and AEUB guidelines and regulations.♦ Improve operational efficiency, provide a safer working environment.♦ Maintain extensive job and safety training resulting in increased employee productivity♦ Orchestrate a significant role in ensuring the integrity of multi-million-dollar oilfield equipment – averting downtime, maintaining visual aspects of oilfield site, promoting cleanliness and neatness and enhancing the safety of the crew.♦ Consistently increased production, which elicited positive feedback from oil companies as well as promoted business on future projects.♦ Collaborate closely with supervisors and senior management team Show less

Calgary, Ab

♦ Accountable for ensuring crew adheres to company policies, and the work is delivered safely, and efficiently, according to directions from Petroleum Engineers, Oil Field Consultants, and Geologist.♦ Accountable for maintaining full control of the rig at all times and ensure that proper procedures and policies are followed, according to various project sites drilling Wells.♦ Responsible for routine maintenance on the Rig.♦ Implemented operational & HSE policy and… Show more ♦ Accountable for ensuring crew adheres to company policies, and the work is delivered safely, and efficiently, according to directions from Petroleum Engineers, Oil Field Consultants, and Geologist.♦ Accountable for maintaining full control of the rig at all times and ensure that proper procedures and policies are followed, according to various project sites drilling Wells.♦ Responsible for routine maintenance on the Rig.♦ Implemented operational & HSE policy and procedures.♦ Installed, maintained and repaired all mechanical equipment on the rig.♦ Ensured that equipment failure was kept to a minimum and reviewed for preplanning.♦ Ensured planned maintenance was accurately completed and scheduled including replacement parts were kept to an optimal level.♦ Accountable for entries on permits, isolation tags, and logs.♦ Participated in company approved and recommended training.♦ Monitored hole condition by company policy, verify control equipment is operational and ready.♦ Prepared, tubular, handling gear and any equipment associated with forthcoming well operations. Show less

Calgary, Ab

♦ Monitored and maintained Well control characteristics; the rate of fluid circulation; and the preventative maintenance program while working as a Derrickhand.♦ Guided the pipe off the racking platform while tripping in and out of the hole as per direction from Geologist.♦ Obtained and implemented instructions from Driller and Rig Manager.♦ Accountable for rigging up the pump, pump lines, and accumulator lines properly.♦ Assisted in running a cementing casing, mainly… Show more ♦ Monitored and maintained Well control characteristics; the rate of fluid circulation; and the preventative maintenance program while working as a Derrickhand.♦ Guided the pipe off the racking platform while tripping in and out of the hole as per direction from Geologist.♦ Obtained and implemented instructions from Driller and Rig Manager.♦ Accountable for rigging up the pump, pump lines, and accumulator lines properly.♦ Assisted in running a cementing casing, mainly working at the casing stabbing board.♦ Monitored the mud pumps and mud pits during operations. ♦ Reported any unexplained pit level increase/decrease to the Driller.♦ Accurately checked and record drilling fluid weight, and a viscosity at regular intervals, and report any deviation from operational requirements to the Driller.♦ Maintained daily logs of drilling fluid properties as well as chemicals and mud material. ♦ Assisted in completing the mud chemicals and mud materials including completing the mud record section of the IADC report on a daily basis.♦ Assisted in the running and retrieval of Blow Out Preventer (BOP) and ancillary operations.♦ Ensured that DROPS inspections are conducted as per the rig’s DROPS inspection program.♦ Performed a time-out for Safety (TOFS) whenever an unplanned hazard or a change in the expected results is observed.♦ Provided manual labour as required to operate and maintain the rigs diesel and electric engines while working as Motor Man. ♦ Responsible for testing the machinery for operability and safety including cleaning and maintaining engines. Show less