James Thomas Brittain

Bellville Texas

E-mail: acxqo3@r.postjobfree.com;

Texas Mobile -: +1-979-***-****

Home Phone +1-979-***-****

Skype – thomas.brittain50

Senior Drilling Manager with over 40 years of worldwide drilling experience overseeing land and some offshore drilling operations, moving rigs and people by land, sea, and river barges in remote locations. A career characterized by managing multicultural teams toward common defined goals. My objective is to join an aggressive, expanding oil company or drilling contractor where I will be able to apply my years of drilling experience along with my strong strategic thinking, planning and problem solving skills to achieve bottom line results while further developing my knowledge and abilities.

Skills

Management

Logistics

Safety

Maintenance

Supervision

Quality Control

Inventory

Purchasing

Receiving

Bilingual Reporting

Payroll

Locations

North America

South America

Middle East & Africa

Asia

Texas

Argentina

Kenya

Indonesia

Oklahoma

Colombia

Madagascar

Singapore

New Mexico

MEXICO

Ecuador

Guatemala

Somalia

Thailand

Kazakhstan

Venezuela

West Papua

Career Details

2014- 2016

Field Superintendent – Kazakhstan

Once I finished up in Mexico I approached Parker Drilling and was hired for their ongoing project in Kazakhstan.

I rotated 28 x 28 and was responsible for looking after two of Parker Drillings 3000 hp rigs drilling high angle horizontal wells in western Kazakhstan for KPO oil company.

One of my rigs drilled the deepest and quickest wells in KPO field. These high angle wells were prolific producers, therefore everyone involved in these wells had to be alert at all times.

Due to the oil turn down and the fact that two of the rigs operating in Kazakhstan were shut down I was laid off in June this year.

I have had the time to work on my home place, getting a lot of jobs done that I had on hold for a long time.

Now it is time to get back to work.

2013- 2014

Finished contract in Indonesia and moved back to our home place in Bellville, Texas.

After a few weeks at home I was offered a job as rig manager in Mexico looking after a 2000 horse power Friede and Goldman Jackup that had been partially rebuilt in Galveston, Texas. It was then moved and jacked down 50 miles off the coast of Cuid de Carmen Mexico, we have been since early this year finalizing all the remaining issues preparing for a new long term contract with Pemex.

So needless to say the partial refurbishment did not actually identify all the jobs to be done.

so presently we are still in the process of finalizing the repairs / refurbishment and will soon be ready to go to work. In saying this, I will be looking for a new project once this has finished up.

2010 – Dec.- 15, 2012 - Project Manager / Rig Manager – P.T. Dimas Utama Drilling Division ( Indonesia )

. After 12 years of working here in Indonesia (1998-2010 - Jakarta based) my contract finished and we returned to Texas.

I was consulting up in the Barnett shale close to Dallas, Texas for Devon energy when I received a call from Dimas Utama asking me to return to Indonesia and go to work for them. We made a deal, so myself and my wife returned to Indonesia after only a 6-7 month stay back at home in Texas.

. Shortly after our move back to Jakarta, Dimas Utama received a new 2000 horse power Chinese drilling rig into Indonesia Lamogan shore base outside of Surabaya.

.Then the preparations began.

. Inventory and inspect rig components, fabricate additional rig equipment, 200 man base camp, 30 man mini- camp along with water treatment / sewage treatment plants as well as incinerator for rubbish removal as well as assist warehouse staff in identifying and sorting out two years of spare parts into proper parts storage containers

. Inspect and source, modify our fleet of transport equipment, including trucks, cranes, forklifts and a fleet of light vehicles

. Prepare all tubular, hard banding, machining some of the down hole tools that were not properly prepared when arrival in Indonesia.

. Oversee the barges and tugs and all preparations prior to mobilization of the camps, transport equipment, catering and all relative drilling equipment to our clients jetty in Kasuri block located in the jungles of West Papua.

. Interview and advised Dimas Utama management on hiring all related rig drilling team members, HR, HSE, Procurement, Rig Superintendents, Drillers, Mechanic, Electricians. Local labor was contracted thru a third party labor supplier..

. Once rig arrived Papua we had to stage the equipment while waiting on location to be finalizes and we assisted the Client with our HD trucks in completion of the roads and first location.

. Once location was finalized we rigged up the rig and drilled a 4000 meter plus well, this well had many problems including total losses and also a side track was required. We successfully drilled and tested the first well with only one reportable injury. We carried a normal POB of over 160 men on site, with up to 190 POB while performing DST Operations .

. Once the Dimas Utama rig was up and operating, Dimas put together an IDS Consortium with the Kerui Group, a rig building company from China. We assisted Kerui to bring in a second 2000 HP rig and all related equipment and moved it to West Papua to join in the Kasuri Block drilling campaign.

. I was ask to be the acting Project Manager over the IDS group and have been working with both our companies to monitor and advise the consortium on the drilling, moving and maintenance of both of these 2000 horsepower rigs.

The second rig (IDS Consortium) has also finished its first successful well and is presently Drilling its second well.

Now Dimas Utama has decided to reorganize their operation utilizing all Indonesia crews and management.

So when my contract was up on the 15 of December 2012 it was not reinstated, therefore I am seeking the next challenge.

2002-2009

-Rig Manager-

P. T. Apexindo Pratama Duta Tbk

Budget preparation for BOD approval

Tender eight land rigs ranging from 750hp to 2000hp. Drilling conventional, HP-HT / Geothermal wells

Approve resumes, hire and train local labor

Monitor and implement new safety programs: Daily maintenance – Preventative Maintenance System

Tender and arrange remote land rig moves /barge assist moves

Monitor and arrange distribution for parts/supplies to remote locations

Field trips to each rig

Assist all departments in fulfilling and maintaining ISO 9001 accreditation

1998 – 2002 Drilling Superintendent /Acting Manager, O.D. & E. Drilling (Indonesia and Argentina)

Responsible for daily management and supervision of rig operations

Calculate and budget day to day activities

Market company services to oil company representatives

Tender company drilling rigs

Market and negotiate purchases and third party contractors

Design training schedules to increase productivity between expatriate and local employees

1996 – 1998 Senior Rig Superintendent, Nabors Drilling (Venezuela)

Directional and horizontal drilling with top drive

Schedule and train personnel in HSE best practice

Maintain productive working relations with clients and labor unions

1978 – 1995 Senior Rig Superintendent, Bawden / Noble Drilling, (Madagascar, Thailand, Indonesia, Guatemala, Somalia, Kenya, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma)

Liaison between company and clients during very remote operations

Manage 100 to 200 personnel on each remote location

Drill 13,000-18,000 feet

Manage rig moves, supervise road and location construction

I worked with many of the same people over this period and adapted to several different drilling and oil companies’ perspectives of the drilling business.

1970 – 1978 Driller & Toolpusher, Parker Drilling / Noble Drilling / Choya Drilling / Blocker Energy (Texas, Ecuador and Indonesia)

Manage rig moves

Supervise location construction

Report to office on daily operations

Manage drilling and personnel

Crew supervision

Education and Training

1974 Odessa College, (Drilling Technology)

1973 Berlitz School of Languages, (Spanish)

1969 Graduated High School

1973 – 2014 Well Control / H2S Training

2004 Red Cross, First Aid and CPR Training

1973 – 2016 Numerous awards in Safety and Performance from operators and drilling contractors

References

Jack Bailey < acxqo3@r.postjobfree.com > Drilling Superintendent KPO

Chaksana A. H. Said, Operational Director, Dimas Utama Drilling, +62-816-****-**

Ilyas Syaiful, Division Drilling Manager. PT Dimas Utama Drilling +62-813-****-****

Rini Anggraeni, H. R. Manager –PT Dimas Utama Drilling + 62-8111- 582-46

Bill Abel, President, Bell Engineering Inc., Houston, TX +1-713-*******, +1-713-***-****)

Larry Heidt, V.P. General Manager, Nabors Drilling Inc., Houston, TX, +1-281-*******)

Kenneth J. Depuis, EMDC Sr. Operations Supervisor, ExxonMobil, Houston TX +1-281-*******)

Steven Furry, Drilling Manager, Chevron Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia +62-811-******)

Thomas Jobin, Chevron Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia +62-811-******)

Allen Eddy, Procurement Manager, ExxonMobil Cepu Ltd., Jakarta, Indonesia +62-21-574****)

Terry Gott, C.O.O., PT Apexindo Pratama Duta Tbk., Jakarta, Indonesia +62-21-780****, +62-811-******)

Don Wood, West District Manager, PT Apexindo Pratama Duta Tbk., Jakarta, Indonesia +62-811-*******, +65 54766788)

Anthony Horvat, Operations Manager, PT DATI, Edmonton, Canada

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