Malcolm Smart Email & Phone Number

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Lead Directional Driller in the UK North Sea.

Worldwide

Lead Directional Driller with a broad range of experience, including deepwater, geothermal, land and offshore work. Recent contracts included work offshore UK North Sea and a large and challenging Geothermal project in Turkey.

Harrogate, United Kingdom

Established an online only business selling microcontrollers, sensors and accessories, primarily catering to the educational and hobbyist market. Customers include many schools and universities, but also large companies such as the BBC, Dyson, Facebook, Google and Caterpillar. In many of our products we became the main UK seller in our marketplace, and.

Various

Lead Directional driller on a highly successful deep-water drilling campaign offshore Angola, where the contract was renewed due to performance despite not being the lowest bidder. Wells were consistently drilled on plan and below budget. Technical aspects of the campaign included conductor jetting, under-reaming, whip-stock and open-hole kick-offs, and.

Various

Transitioned to Directional Driller position mostly on offshore and onshore projects in Gabon, as well as a fascinating 4-month period drilling horizontal wells in shale/tight sand formations in the Permian basin in West Texas.

Various

Lead MWD Supervisor on the Olowi project offshore Gabon, from initial startup through to final well completion 4 years later. This was a challenging contract, with near horizontal wells drilled to tight tolerances and a high level MWD service. Baker Hughes MWD did not have any presence in Gabon prior to this, and the high service quality led to other.

Kazakhstan

Lead MWD Supervisor on the Kashagan field development project in the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan. This is estimated to be the the 5th largest oilfield ever developed and was complicated by harsh winters and very shallow water. The project required difficult extended reach wells, with extremely high formation H2S and high pressures, as well as some wells.

Houston, TX

Member of the Engineering team fast tracking the development of the next generation wireline NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) tool. My main responsibility was characterizing and practical testing, but increasingly required involvement in ruggedizing and noise elimination. The tool was delivered on time and is highly regarded in the industry

Angola, Bangladesh

Responsible for establishing Baker Hughes wireline operations in Bangladesh. This was initially run as a remote operation from Singapore, requiring local technical and operational support, but rapidly evolved as operations expanded. This required recruitment of local staff, office and repair/maintenance workshop setup, and logistical movements of personnel.

Vietnam

Acted as Lead Engineer on a variety of projects in South East Asia, mostly in Vietnam and Burma, but with occasional jobs in Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia. South East Asia was a challenging region, with a dominant competitor, difficult logistics and many operations involving high temperature, hostile-environment wells. Despite the difficulties, the.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Initially joining a company with just 2 contracts in the UK offshore sector, this was a period of rapid expansion, growing to over 40 active contracts, and which contributed a very significant portion of worldwide revenue. Although partly due to the expansion of all operations in the North Sea, this was largely driven by an increase in market share. I.