Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Name: Robert Wotherspoon

Nationality: British / Australian

Date of Birth: 17 January 1965

Address: ** ********* *******, *********, *** 3QA, UK

Telephone: +44-131-***-****

+44-778*-******

Email: ac8nh6@r.postjobfree.com

Languages: English / French / Basic Russian

Career Overview

After graduating from Strathclyde University’s Mining and Petroleum Department in 1988, I started working in the Oilfield with Schlumberger. Since then I have developed over 30 years of Drilling Supervisor, ERD Drilling Engineering, Directional Drilling, LWD and Surveying experience, including several management roles, in the North Sea, Europe, Middle East, FSU, Australasia and Africa.

I have moved into the Drilling Supervisor / Drill Site Manager role to further develop my career path and was employed by Chevron (TCO) Kazakhstan as a Drill Site Manager. Prior to this I held Drilling Supervisor positions for Addax in Nigeria and KPO in Kazakhstan. I have 7 years as a Drill Site Manager.

Since 2010 As well as working as a DSM I have done Ad Hoc consultant work for MerlinERD, typically 2-3 months per year. This is both rig based supervision and office Drilling Engineering for ERD projects. I have also taught ERD schools for Merlin ERD and K & M Technology. This has included, BP Baku, Shell Holland, Total (North Sea, West Africa and Indonesia) Edison in the Adriatic, Addax in Nigeria and COPC in China as well as 20 years drilling ERD wells Globally as a DD.

Career to Date

April 18- Present Senior ERD Advisor for Merlin ERD. Worked 2 hitches offshore Norway, 3 Offshore Qatar for Shell, 1 Offshore Australia, all on ERD Wells.

Nov 16 – April 18 Operations Manager for Cougar DS on Geothermal wells in Aydin, Turkey. Drilling in the mountains, hard rock drilling, highly deviated with huge dip angles and total losses once the producing fractures are encountered. Basic slotted liner completion, using CTU to initiate water production.

Jun 16 – Sep 16 Senior ERD Advisor, offshore Norway for Lundin on highly deviated ERD well. This including teaching ERD / Directional Drilling classes daily when offshore.

Dec 10 - Apr 16 Senior Drill Site Manager, land rig operations, for Chevron at Tengiz in Kazakhstan. Performing high pressure drilling, completions, workovers and CTU stimulation programs using CHCD (mudcap) techniques with an RCD, in a deep, carbonaceous reservoir with high H2S. Wells are vertical and deviated. Duties include HSE management, daily planning in a remote location, reporting with WellView, accounting for a daily cost of $650k and mentoring junior staff. This mentoring role also included teaching frequent classes to small groups of Kazakh trainees on Drilling engineering and Directional Drilling.

I am now spending more time as a Field Supervisor, over 4 operations, mentoring and developing a local workforce. When the rig operations are smooth I spend time in the operations office on long term planning and Drilling Engineering. I was part of a drilling tender team, which evaluated and awarded 21 PSL contracts, valued at over $2 Billion for 5 years.

Mar ’10 – Dec’ 10 Drilling Supervisor, land rig operations, for Addax Petroleum in Nigeria. Drilling, completing and DST on horizontal wells. Introduced STOP card system to rig. This role had me teaching an ERD class in Lagos, followed by ad hoc ERD training at the rig site.

Sept ’09 – Feb’10 Night Drilling Supervisor, land rig operations, for KPO in Kazakhstan. Drilling and completing deep, medium radius, horizontal wells in carbonaceous formations with high H2S.

July ’08 – Aug ‘09 Sperry Drilling Services - Kazakhstan

Consultant Senior Directional Driller & Coordinator

Standard DD Coordinator and Lead DD remits, including BHA design and optimisation, with Geo-Pilot RSS, Triple/Quad Combo LWD, Torque & Drag, vibration and parameter monitoring, Hydraulics, Platform anti-collision monitoring with Compass. Managing / forecasting all financial reports.

Oct ’06 – June ‘08 Sperry Drilling Services - Indonesia

Consultant Senior Directional Driller & Coordinator

Assigned to Total Balikpapan on the Peciko E offshore Platform, BPs operation in Kalimantan and Deepwater Indonesia / South China Sea.

In this role I taught DD classes to trainee Directional Drillers and Total Drilling Engineers.

Standard Lead DD / Coordinator duties, on 6km reach ERD wells, included BHA design and optimisation, introducing the Geo-Pilot RSS to Indonesia, Triple/Quad Combo LWD, Torque & Drag, vibration and parameter monitoring, Hydraulics, Platform anti-collision monitoring with Compass. Managing / forecasting all financial reports. Drilled HPHT and GeoThermal wells in Java. The GeoThermal wells were Kicked-Off using low cost jetting techniques.

Mar ‘06 – Oct ‘06 K & M Technology Group

Drilling Engineer & Lead ERD Advisor

In this position I prepared engineering studies to evaluate the risks involved in ERD Drilling. In particular the specialist requirements of Torque and Drag, casing design, hydraulics with special attention to ECDs at shallow TVDs, hole cleaning and client specific ERD schools. I was also present on the rig to monitor and supervise these issues ERD wells in the GOM, Alsaka, Wytch Farm and offshore Holland. I also taught 5 day ERD Drilling Engineering schools in Europe, Australia and the USA.

2004 – March 2006 Sperry-Sun Brunei

Country Manager

In this position I was responsible for all Sperry Sun operations in Brunei. This included overall financial accountability on a $35MM annual contract, as well as building and managing a new R & M facility for the Sperry Sun contract with Shell in Brunei for 5 rigs. This was a level 2 workshop, specifically to service the GeoPilot fleet. Most offshore wells were 6-8km reach ERD requiring detailed planning and execution and as such I was heavily involved in this engineering.

2003 – 2004 Sperry-Sun Gabon

Operations Coordinator

In this position I was responsible for all aspects of a tactical West African start up to win and operate Directional and LWD contract, mainly for Total Offshore. I was part of a West Africa team which tendered and won DD/LWD contracts from Angola to Equatorial Guinea. This starts from the initial tendering of the work, well design, engineering, programme writing, equipment logistics and personnel planning. The engineering includes, designing BHA characteristics, Torque and Drag and hydraulics. All critically important for the ERD nature of the 5km reach wells. I was also involved in ERD projects in Cameroun and Nkossa, offshore Congo with 9km reach wells. I supervised 4 Deepwater wells which were drilled in this time in Angola and Equatorial Guinea. At the same time I oversaw the R & M facility and implemented the HSE and Quality systems to maintain a successful level of service. After the well is complete, I invoiced the completed work with SAP and close out any Service Interrupts which occurred.

2001– 2003 Sperry-Sun Algeria

Operations Coordinator

In this position I was responsible for all aspects of Directional Drilling and LWD services in a very hard, abrasive reservoir for a National Oil Company and several IOCs including BP, Anadarko, Agip, Rhepsol, BHP and Burlington. During my time in Algeria the business was grown from 2 rigs to a maximum of 11 rigs all drilling horizontal wells in 2003. Most wells were designed for a 2-3km reach. As well as coping with a demanding customer in a difficult drilling environment, I was part of a team who succeeded in growing the business and developing a new 1200m R & M facility. This involved developing new High Speed motors for the newest generation of Diamond Impregnated bits as well as new motors for Short Radius re-entries. Since we supplied the bits for these contracts, we had to competitively tender the bit contract and financial success of the project was highly dependent on developing these bits and ensuring the most effective bit was used for the application. During this period I was part of a Sperry Team which managed a rig for the NOC. This included supplying all engineering and rig supervision. At this time, the fastest horizontal wells were drilled in Hassi Messaoud. When I arrived horizontal wells were averaging 120 days and when I left, the average was 68, but 2 of the Sperry Sun managed wells were below 55 days. I was also part of a dedicated team with BHP drilling a 3km reach with a sinusoidal wellpath. The well had to be carefully designed with regards to hole cleaning, tortuosity, buckling and Torque and Drag, since a completion with 5 ECPs was to be run. This entailed detailed planning for over a year and 12 weeks in Algeria at the time of drilling.

1998 -2001 Sperry-Sun Australia

Directional Drilling Coordinator

In my first year in Australia I worked in the field, primarily for

Woodside Energy LTD, drilling horizontal wells in the Timor Sea and on the Goodwyn A Platform. The 3 Goodwyn wells I was a DD on, were 7-9km ERD wells, with no rotary steerable system, with one of them setting the world record for offshore ERD drilling with a TD over 9km reach. I then moved into the Woodside Office, as the In House Sperry Sun coordinator. There I managed all well planning, logistics, engineering, HSE and personnel issues. At this point I became more involved with KPIs, Technical Limit Drilling, Drilling on Paper and many of the planning tools which most operators use today. At the end of the Goodwyn contract I started taking care of Sperry DD operations in Perth, running up to 7 rigs in Australia, PNG and New Zealand, for Apache, BHP, WAPET, Inpex, Japex and Santos. I also did upfront engineering work for an 11km reach ERD well in Sakhalin and visited the rig twice when they well was drilled.

1993 – 1997 Baker Hughes Inteq Oman

Directional Drilling Supervisor

With a Live – In position in Oman, I drilled primarily Medium Radius horizontal wells for PDO and Short Radius wells for Occidental. The work was varied ranging from shallow Jetted Kick Offs, to deep hard rock drilling. I was assigned for one year to one project, Saih Rawl, where PDO crossed the field with dual lateral water injectors at one TVD and then tri and dual lateral producers at a shallower TVD. This project was the first in Oman to successfully utilize multilaterals and was a great commercial success. In my time in Oman I drilled 366 wells, most of them horizontal ERD style wells. This was often done with a Kelly and a double rig, showing that long ERD wells don’t need the best hi-spec rigs, but careful planning and management. I also drilled several wells in Abu Dhabi with shallow Jetting techniques, the norm for Kicking Off. At the end of this project I worked on a Work Over / coiled tubing unit doing slim hole, short radius re-entries. This entailed fishing old completions, setting whipstocks then drilling the new well.

1990 – 1993 Teleco / Baker Hughes Inteq

MWD Engineer

I operated all services including full Nuclear LWD Services in

Europe and Africa, for Shell, PDO, Chevron, BP, Total and Agip. This entailed full petrophysical modeling of the LWD data and its presentation.

1989 – 1990 Eastman Christensen

Wellbore Surveyor

I operated gyros, multishots, singleshots, steering tools and the Ferranti Survey tool in the North Sea.

1988 – 1989 Anadrill Schlumburger

Data/MWD Engineer

This was my first job in the oilfield working with basic Directional and Gamma Ray MWD in the North Sea.

Training

Internal Merlin ERD Engineering school

K & M Technology ERD Engineering school.

Halliburton leadership and financial I

SAP OTC

Multilateral Systems and Applications.

Geo-Pilot Rotary Steerable System.

Insite for LWD

Dril-Quest, Directional planning software.

Planit, Engineering Software

Security DBS Bit Application

Hughes Christensen Bit Application

BHI Directional/Horizontal Drilling

EC-Trak Directional Drilling Survey Planning

Advanced Log Interpretation

Petroleum Geology and Basic Log Interpretation

Basic MWD and Survey

Oriented Coring

Basic Gyro

Basic Magnetic and Single Shot survey school

External IWCF, Supervisor Surface BOP, L4 (6 times-to Nov 2020)

Lean Six Sigma

Behavioral Based Safety

Risk Awareness and Analysis

Root Cause Analysis

WellPlan

Compass

OpenWells

StressCheck

Texas A & M Business Leadership and Accounting

K & M Technology ERD School

Shell Menang leadership training

SPE Geo-Mechanics and Borehole Stress Workshop

BP/Randy Smith Stuck Pipe Awareness

Negociation Skills

Risk Awareness

Defensive Driving (6 times)

Offshore survival certificate, HUET, Fire fighting Skills, First

Aid (all to Norwegian Level -Valid to Oct 2021)

OGUK Medical certificate (valid to Oct 2020)

MIST (valid to Sep 2017)

H2S awareness and SCBA training (valid to May 2018)

Permit To Work

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