Experienced Drilling Engineer with a varied and value-adding skill set including:Multidisciplinary collaboration in single or multi-well Drilling Project design and execution.Front-end Engineering for oil & gas wells, involving technical interaction with Geologists, Geophysicists and other subsurface disciplines in order to formulate and optimize drilling and completion strategies.Advanced Directional Drilling Well Planning expertise utilizing various software packages, including Techdrill DSP-One, Innova Well Seeker Pro, Sysdrill & Landmark EDT among others. I own personal licenses for Innova WellSeeker Pro, Innova Engineering and Hawkeye 3D which facilitate independence with respect to well planning and engineering software.Wellbore placement and reservoir navigation optimization in close collaboration with Geosteerers, Geologists, Geophysicists & Reservoir Engineers etc.Directional Drilling Feasibility Analyses including, but not limited to;• Surface location suitability & selection.• Directional well plan optimization, inclusive of accessing multiple sub-surface objectives from constrained surface location site options.• Directional Drilling methodology selection.• Well planning from multiple-slot structures, inclusive of anticollision analyses.Drilling Program Generation, commencing from first-contact with sub-surface teams to Production handover and incorporating Casing, Drilling Fluids, Cementation & BHA selection and design.AFE generation. (including probabilistic analyses)Drilling Engineering design, execution and optimization in environments with rapidly changing Technical Work Programs.Adaptation to new technical circumstances with a minimum, or absence of, formal academic exposure and/or support.A proven aptitude and passion for mentoring young engineers.
Listed skills include Drilling Engineering, Drilling, Directional Drilling, Offshore Drilling, and 41 others.