Robert Bertrand Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer / Deepwater Drilling Fluids Consultant - Delivering High-Value Projects in Remote Onshore Locations & Offshore Deepwater Wells; Completion Fluids Filtration Support in deep water completions

Greater Alexandria, Louisiana

I set up Bertrand Group Fluids Consultants to provide service companies and oil & energy operators with fluids design, advice and well site supervision for land, deepwater, narrow margin, H2S and HPHT wells in the US, offshore GOM and internationally.• Reporting to numerous client representatives / drilling engineering teams and supervising drillings fluids teams, delivering optimised synthetic, water and oil-based mud systems to drill complex wells.• Advising operators and service companies on drilling and completions best practice, hydraulics modelling, solids control, inventory control and extended reach drilling.• Designing and delivering operator specific drilling fluids training for site based and engineering teams.

Houston, Texas Area

I was employed as a Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer & Global Technical Advisor and reported to the Global Technical Manager, working within an elite global technical team comprised of 6 Drilling Specialist, including Drilling Fluids, Well Bore Stability, Solids Control and Completions Experts, delivering advice and field support on Critical First Wells for international onshore and offshore wells.• Coached and mentored Fluid Engineers, concerning new fluid systems and techniques such as MPD and PMCD.• Coordinated logistics for fluid / chemical inventories and supervised field personnel. Key Projects:• Drilled and completed 29 wells onshore / offshore for operators, including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Total, HESS in the US, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Norway, Angola, Thailand, Malaysia, Ecuador & Guyana.• Directed field test of new synthetic based drilling fluid (BaroPure) for an ExxonMobil trial well in Alberta, Canada, and consequently drilled 3 wells without issues or incidents at higher drilling rates than ever experienced and a total of 3 days rig time was saved during field trial.

Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

I was employed as a Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer and reported to various Company Men / Drilling Supervisors (DSV), supervising teams of Fluids Specialist and Lab Technicians, formulating drilling fluids to specific specifications and maintained drilling fluids during drilling operations onboard of semi-submersibles, drillships and jack-ups involved with deepwater and HPHT projects.• Attending daily operations meetings with head of departments and also morning calls with onshore management.• Actively involved with daily and weekly HSE meetings. • Coordinated logistics, personnel and fluid / chemical inventories.• Monitored solids control equipment and personnel to ensure KPIs were continually met. • Supervised replacement of shaker screens, ditch magnets, centrifugal pumps reported anomalies to drilling team.• Oversaw testing and reporting of fluid properties to drilling team management.• Advised operator on streamlining drilling costs and enhancing performance of drilling fluids.Key Projects:• Successfully drilled and completed 50+ deepwater wells offshore Indonesia, Australia and GOM for operators, including BHP, Anadarko, Chevron, Statoil, LL&G, Apache Corporation, Citgo, Forest Oil, Odeco Oil & Gas, ENI, Hess, Marathon Oil Corp, Nexen, Texaco, Energy XXI, Kerr McGee and Murphy Oil. • Worked closely with many drilling contractors, including Ensco, Transocean, Diamond Drilling and Global Marine.• Advised and gained buy-in to modify the rheology of synthetic based mud for a narrow margin well offshore GOM, for Spinnaker, enabling client to drill to TD with no incidents or issues saving client cost of sidetrack.• Modified innovert synthetic based mud system for HESS to counteract cuttings build up in an extended reach well, being drilling under a sensitive Indonesian Coral Reef, enabling the 12 ¼“section to be drilled without incidents or delays, saving 4 drilling days compared to previous wells.

Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

I was employed as a Senior Drilling Fluids Engineer and reported to various company men, onboard of jack-ups, semisubmersibles and drillships, formulating drilling fluids to specific operator specifications.• Maintained drilling fluids during drilling operations• Coordinated logisitics for fluid and chemical inventory• Coordinated logistics for fluids personnell• Monitored and serviced solids control equipment • Coordinated logistics for shaker screens and other solids controll equipment• Tested and reported of fluid properties to operator• Advised operator on streamlining costs and enhancing performance of drilling fluids.