William Richmond

Personal Information

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: 26/02/1955

Cell: 713-***-****

Email: acs5xw@r.postjobfree.com

Residence: Huffman, TX

Summary

Key skills and experience include: Planning for operations in East and West Africa, with emphasis on technical limit drilling and operations with a dual activity rig. Writing drilling instructions for dual activity derricks, maximising performance and technical limit operations. Wrote drilling instructions for surface BOP operations from a drill ship, emphasising performance and safety.

Project management with commissioning semi-submersibles, jack-ups and drill ships from the shipyard and preparing for drilling. Manage manpower and resources of the rig to achieve optimum performance while ensuring the well program is carried out in a safe, efficient and productive manner.

Promoting and ensuring the HSE policies and procedures are communicated to, understood and followed by personnel on the rig. Monitoring of on-board equipment and system, supervise testing and inspection of critical equipment and systems. Organizing and supervising the activities of the drilling, marine, mechanical and electrical departments and ensuring rig specific procedures are understood and observed by all personnel. Developing and submitting operating and maintenance budgets for approval. Mentoring, developing, motivating and training personnel, ensuring they are competent to work at the next job level. Managing the rig’s training program to ensure personnel are competent to perform their allocated duties.

Planning, organizing and supervising numerous simultaneous projects or operations as needed. Exploration drilling including HPHT, Deepwater DP, Deepwater SBOP (Surface BOP), remote location, batch drilling, dual derrick optimization. New Build rig acceptance testing and commissioning. Production drilling including subsea interface. Platform installation using jack-up

MODU’s.

Employment History

Jun 13 – 1 Aug 15 ConocoPhillips - Drilling Supt / Site Team Leader

Coordinated complex projects, supervised construction efforts, authored testing programs, and oversaw the commissioning and acceptance testing for multiple Dual Activity Drill Ships (12,000 ft capability). Worked collaboratively with team members and key partners to streamline processes and achieve operational objectives. Worked closely with MPD equipment manufacture, approve installation procedures, wrote commissioning procedures for systems and commission system during acceptance testing after delivery from shipyard.

Mar 07 – Jun 13 Ophir Energy – Senior Drilling Supervisor / Drilling Supt

Worked in various positions (as below) during this period.

Major Accomplishments - Worked in the office planning drilling campaigns in remote locations including Tanzania / Gabon / Equatorial Guinea. Develop plans for installation and operational procedure for using a surface BOP on a mid-water DP drillship. Develop an operations manual for drilling team. Lead the drilling team during operations while focusing on technical limit drilling and rig optimization to successfully drill the wells ahead of schedule and under budget. Worked with Schlumberger MPD systems during operations and installation.

Jun 11 – Nov 11 Senior Drilling Supervisor / Project Manager, Korea

Commissioning and acceptance testing on a new dual activity drill ship (DSM-1) with 10,000 ft water depth capacity.

Jul 08 – Jun 11 Senior Drilling Supervisor, Tanzania, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea

Working on a dynamically positioned 6th generation dual activity semi-submersible (Deepsea Stavanger) with 10,000 ft water depth capability in Tanzania, East Africa. Drilling HP/HT wells. Drilled the first deepwater offshore wells in Tanzania.

Prior to the Tanzania campaign, worked on a dynamically positioned drill ship (Deep Venture) with 4500 ft water depth capability in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Drilled wells using the first surface BOP on a drill ship to extend water depth capability.

Mar 07 – Jul 08 Night Drilling Supervisor, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea

Dynamically positioned drill ship (Deep Venture) with 4500 ft water depth capability in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea West Africa. Wrote plans for using a surface BOP on a drill ship.

Mar 05 – Jan 07 PREMIUM DRILLING, AUSTRALIA, USA

Operations Manager

Was Operations Manager for a K-Fels Mod V 400 ft capacity fully automated jack-up, based in Perth, Western Australia, from November 2006 to March 2007. Also responsible for the construction of 7 hi-tech jack-ups in Singapore. Was previously Operations Manager for a dynamically positioned drill ship with 4500 ft water depth capability, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jul 01 – Mar 05 TRANSOCEAN OFFSHORE

Worked in various positions (as below) during this period.

Dec 05 – Mar 06 Manager Performance & Drilling, India

Was the Rig Manager for Actinia moored semi-submersible, with 1800 ft capability.

Jul 04 – Dec 05 Offshore Installation Manager, Vietnam

Was the OIM on the Trident 6 Modec jack-up, 300 ft capability.

Jul 01 – Jul 04 Offshore Installation Manager, Brazil

Initially worked on the Deepwater Navigator deepwater dynamically positioned drill ship with 7500 ft capability, from July 2001 to April 2002. Then moved onto the Deepwater Expedition ultra deepwater dynamically positioned drill ship, with 10,000 ft capability.

Jan 00 – Jul 01 TRANSOCEAN SEDCO FOREX, SOUTH AFRICA

Offshore Installation Manager / Project Manager

Worked on the Omega, harsh environment moored semi-submersible, with 3000 ft capability upgrading rig for handover to owner while fulfilling an OIM position simultaneously.

Sep 98 – Jan 00 Offshore Installation Manager, Congo

Worked on the Sedneth 701, harsh environment moored semi-submersible, with 2100 ft capability, in both stand alone and tender assist operations.

Jan 94 – Sep 98 Offshore Installation Manager, Angola

Worked on the Trident 4, harsh environment jack-up with 300 ft capability.

Feb 92 – Jan 94 Performance Toolpusher, Nigeria

Worked on the Lutece and Searex 6 swamp barges.

Jul 90 – Feb 92 Driller, Congo

Worked on the Sedco I moored semi-submersible with 800 ft capability.

Jan 86 – Jul 90 Assistant Driller, Angola

Worked on the Trident 9 harsh environment jack-up with 400 ft capability.

Aug 84 – Jan 86 SEDCO, ANGOLA

Assistant Driller

Worked from Floorman to Assistant Driller on the Sedco 251, a harsh environment jack-up with 300 ft capability.

Jun 79 – Jul 84 SANTE FE DRILLING, USA

Assistant Driller

Worked from Floorman to Assistant Driller on land rigs 15, 12, 10 and 6.

Training Courses

IWCF Well Control. BOSIET/HUET. Incident Investigation. Ships Security Officer. Well Construction. Management of Major Emergencies. H2S Training & Survival. Incident Investigations. Fire Fighting Team Leaders Course. Stability I & II. Management I & II. Root Cause Investigations. Safety Representative Course. All Required Rig Site Training & OJT Courses from Roustabout to Barge Engineer, Floorman to OIM. Liberian Masters Unlimited License (Expired).

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