Resume of
MICHAEL BARANIAK
Technical Advisor for Directional Drilling
Address:
Saddle Club South
Midland
Texas 79705
Mobile: +1 – 432-***-****
Private: +1 – 432-***-****
Office: +1 – 432-***-****
E-MAIL:
************@****.***
mailto:***************@*****.*********.********@Halliburton.com
Significant Career Accomplishments
Objective: To progress and widen my knowledge either as a District/Operations Manager / Tech Professional / Tech Advisor / Directional Drilling Manager/Coordinator
Work Experience
December 2001 - Present Directional Drilling
International, domestic and offshore directional drilling experience.
Worked in various drilling environments and areas such as North Sea
UK, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish Sectors. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Holland, Denmark, UK, France, Russia (Western Siberia), Argentina, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Indonesia and Permian Basin, Texas.
Exposed to various technologies and directional drilling techniques.
Experience open-hole sidetracking, re-entry, horizontals (medium, long radius) s-curves, build and holds, rotary assemblies, Sperry Sun AGS
and Geopilot RSS.
Familiar with numerous types of MWD Systems
Directional drilled with the assistance of the Sperry-Sun DGWD / DWD / LWD and wireline survey tools, Gyro and multi shot survey tools.
Worked for Bitec, Lukoil, Russneft, Sibneft, TNK, Rosneft, NAM Shell,
Elf Petroland, Krasnidar, PNG, Qatar oil and gas company, Aramco,
Maersk, Vermilion, Culshaw, TNK-BP, Vanyargoneft, Clyde,
ConocoPhillips, Shell, Wintershall and BP.
Basic Well planning skills using Compass, Insite and Wellplan
Supervised MWD/DD and customer service, and equipment mobilization.
Employment History
SPERRY DRILLING SERVICES
Mar 2013 – Present Principal Technical Advisor for Directional Drilling
Working in the Permian Basin, West Texas in conjunction with the
Business Development and Operational Teams in optimizing the drilling
applications for directional work with recommendations to NEW
Technologies, implementation and performance monitoring.
SPERRY DRILLING SERVICES
Feb 2012 – Mar 2013 Project Manager /DESC
In house Vietnam Project Manager for Bien Dong POC – Full START UP
operation and a first for Sperry in Vietnam. HPHT wells using Sperry
SOLAR tools. Penta-Combo with DrillDoc. Taking on responsibilities on
as a DD Manager/DD Coordinator in setting up the operation and
monitoring costs and generated Revenue.
SPERRY DRILLING SERVICES
Jul 2010 – Feb 2012 Horizontal Directional Driller Coordinator
In house DD coordinator in Jakarta for ConocoPhillips responsible for
equipment transfers / BHA Design and Optimization / BHA Modeling.
SPERRY DRILLING SERVICES
Jan 2007 – Jun 2010 Senior Horizontal Directional Driller
Offshore Directional Driller in Baku, Azerbaijan working for BP.
SPERRY DRILLING SERVICES
Jan 2007 – April 2007 Directional Driller Coordinator
Directional Drilling Coordinator for Sperry Drilling Services in
Azerbaijan for Azeri Drilling Company/First Drill and SOCAR.
SPERRY DRILLING SERVICES
Spring 2006 - Jan 2007 Directional Driller Coordinator
Directional Drilling Coordinator for Sperry Drilling Services in Norway for
Talisman Energy.
SPERRY DRILLING SERVICES
December 2001 - Spring 2006 Directional Driller
Directional Drilling for Sperry Drilling Services worldwide working
predominantly in Russia due to my knowledge of the Slavic languages.
SPERRY-SUN DRILLING SERVICES
December 2001 – September 1997 FE/MWD Engineer
Operated the FE/DGWD and DWD MWD system
Lead MWD Supervisor and Trainer for gamma, oriented gamma.
Operated SSDS Negative Pulse MWD System
Knowledge of negative pulse MWD applications.
ENSCO DRILLING CONTRACTORS
April 1996 – September 1997 AD, Derrick Hand
KENTING DRILLING CONTRACTORS
August 1990 – December 1995 Driller, AD, Derrick Hand
Worked drilling rigs for 7 years full time and part time from 1984 to 1995.
Full and complete knowledge of drilling rig operations.
Education
Secondary: St. Bernadette’s Roman Catholic School
Successful completion was achieved in the following subjects:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ENGLISH LITERATURE
MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS
GENERAL SCIENCE
GEOGRAPHY
FRENCH
UKRAINIAN
TECHNICAL DRAWING
PHOTOGRAPHY
Further College/Polytechnic Education
1980 – 1981 Certificate of further education in Engineering
1981 – 1983 Ordinary National Diploma in Technology
1983 – 1984 ASDC – Trent Polytechnic
Additional work related courses
1993 Petans – Firefighting course
1997 O.P.I.T.O. + Norwegian Sector
1998 Norwegian and Continental Shelf Offshore Survival Course
1998 Team Member 5 day Firefighting
1999 VVA1 – Holland Safety Course
1998 Various Sperry – Sun Drilling Services FE / MWD courses.
Radiation Safety, Formation Evaluation, Log Quality Analysis,
2006 GeoPilot 5 day Introductory Course in Singapore
2006 Security DBS – CUDA XR reamer course
2006 Red Back roller reamer course
2006 Offshore Survival course with Norwegian continental shelf sector
2006 Halliburton’s Performance coaching course including PPR
2006 Various Halliburton in house i-learn courses
2010 Offshore Medical - Expires 20-09-2012
2010 Offshore Refresher - Expires 14-10-2014
2014 Delivering Financial Performance Course – Balance Sheet
Professional and Personal Development
Familiar with Landmark Software - Compass and Well Plan including INSITE drilling programs and MaxBHA modeling software.
Well planning training
Fluent in English, Ukrainian with a good understanding of Polish and Russian and some Spanish.
Knowledge of computer applications
Defensive driving course and 4 x 4 off road
H2S Certificate
CPR / First Aid
Helicopter Underwater Escape Training
References available upon request