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Mechanical Engineer, Oil & Gas Specialist

Location:
Katy, TX
Posted:
October 30, 2020

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MOHAMED KAFINA

Katy, TX ***** I 619-***-**** I adhe9y@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Rich and qualitative experience in onshore & offshore, planning, organizing, writing well completion & work over programs. Resourcing well materials for new eruptive and artificial lift wells. Setting up Slick-line and wire-line operations in close coordination with cross-functional groups. Expertise in planning and execution of well programs, preparing and reviewing well estimates, tool planning & pushing, resolution of completion & workover complexities for different formations and supporting well logging operations. Lead, train and develop rig engineers & operators; implement and enforce HSE regulations. Prepare and manage contracts for completion & work overs; manage and control process, cost & performance; maintain compliance with procedures & standards. Track record of working closely with technology cell, tool pushers, well engineers (wire line & well logging), geologists, operating contractors & production cell. Excels in closing and completion of work for all field activities. An inspiring and decisive team leader with excellent communication and interpersonal skills capable of working with international teams and driving performance to meet operational targets. Provide additional support as may be required during the project execution phase. Develop completion and work over databases for each field. Responsible for providing comprehensive and on-site support to completion operations in accordance to the company rules. Accountable for managing the delivery of the oil well completion projects on time and within the assigned budget along with handling the project risk and following-up the mitigation actions.

Skills

● Workflow Oversight

● Production Paperwork Completion

● Work Order Completion

● Workshop Oversight

● Working Knowledge Of Engineering

● Referrals and networking

Work History

Head of Completion & Well Intervention 09/2017 to Current Total Exploration & Production – Den Haag, The Netherlands

● Lead and coordinate well engineering and well intervention operations activities for Total Exploration & Production Netherlands.

● Optimize well interventions delivery in terms of planning, cost, fully achieving well productivity goals within high standards of safety and environment level.

● Responsible for re-completion for work overs, Plug and abandonment of old wells.

● All maintenance interventions on existing well (slick line, ELine, coiled tubing, snubbing including velocity string and capillary strings).

● Organize the department, evaluating workloads, ensure a good repartition between team members.

● Review, validate technical programs of work-over, light intervention and well abandonment.

● Close follow up of workover equipment stock to avoid any shortcoming during operations.

● Liaise with the Contract/procurement department for procurement - ensure QA/QC plan is applied.

● Follow the cost control of invoices covering work-over, light intervention contracts.

● Ensure availability of an updated local TEPNL well reference procedure – ''State of the Art''.

● Motivate the implementation and the use of adequate databases for the follow up of performance and operation analysis (Lessons Learnt register, DWD KPI, Contractors KPI, Benchmarking).

● Organize technical analysis of the well operation and produce End of Well Reports for heavy interventions in a timely manner.

● Ensure archiving is adequate and on time.

● Organize Operational monthly meetings and SQM annual meetings with Contractors, with the objective of carry on a mutually agreed HSE and Operational performances Improvement Action Plan.

● Follow up specific studies performed in Headquarters (RFS).

● Participate in well performance and well integrity meetings.

● Bring to the team applicable REX from other subsidiaries.

● Contribute to enhance the competences and know-how for work-over, heavy & light intervention.

● Propose adequate training for the collaborators and anticipate the needs. Key achievements:

● Successfully completed the velocity string installation campaign on wells L4PN1, 2, 3& 4 using a snubbing unit with the rig assistance.

● Production increment targeted were fully achieved.

● Successfully completed the work over on well K5B3 to change the tubing size & optimize the production.

● Completed successfully the fishing of the damaged old velocity string 2”7/8 & restore the well targeted production.

● Nominated & participated as a key member of BBS (Barrel boosting Squad).

● A 2 departments were created to improve the boe part of the Opex/boe ratio.

● Part of Drilling & Wells Department.

● Proposed, coordinated and selected new technical solutions to optimize the well operations performances by cleaning the salt in gas wells using the torque action debris breaker & mini ” coiled tubing which were used for the first time in Total group. Completion & Workover Superintendent 11/2015 to 09/2017 Total Exploration & Production – Port Harcourt, Nigeria

● Lead Completions & Workover operations onshore and offshore.

● Review and approve completion installation program and End of well report (EOWR).

● Provide additional support as may be required during OFON II project execution phase.

● Provide Completion Engineering expertise to Project Realization Process (value assurance), through peer reviews and technical challenge sessions.

● Responsible for equipment management and issuing orders.

● Develop completion and work over databases for each field.

● Responsible for providing comprehensive and on-site support to completion operations in accordance to company rules.

● Improve communication with Well performance and reservoir department during work over SOR meetings job and execution.

● Optimize design of completions starting from conceptual design and supervise installation of final design following Total E&P company rules.

● Prepare and continuously update the internal "Completion improvement plan and lesson learnt” file.

● Manage actively completions contracts and timely procurement completions materials.

● Work with Reservoir & Production Engineers, Geologists, Petro physicists, Drilling Engineers and Drilling Fluid specialists, to develop depletion, perforation and completion strategies for wells.

● Manage preparation of well completions Workover sub-assemblies in contractor's base.

● Give adequate technical directions and managerial support for in-progress operations on rig.

● Identify completion risk and risk management.

● Conduct look-backs and debriefing as appropriate.

● Perform technical audit for service companies.

● Manage X-mas Tree spare parts inventory and order equipment for safety stock. Key achievements:

● Played an outstanding role that led to savings of 20% of drilling budget by optimizing cost of personnel & equipment.

● Prepared & worked on OFON II Project.

● Completed 5 completions & 1 work over successfully.

● Coordinated site investigations, documented issues and escalated to executive teams as needed.

● Reduced workflow inconsistencies by recruiting and hiring capable staff members. Senior Completion & Material Engineer 07/2011 to 11/2015 Total Exploration & Production – Dubai, UAE

● Write programs for new eruptive wells discovered in basement formation and artificial lift wells taking into consideration material selection & specifications.

● Preparation of Standard Completion Instruction (SCI) for all basement and upper Biyad wells

(Oil producer, Water injector and Gas injector wells) taking into account Total group rules and safety procedures.

● Write Programs for Basement and upper Biyad completions with ESP and all rig- less operation, Slick-line and wire-line operations.

● Write programs for well test & clean up interventions.

● Prepare a cost control manual in terms of completion and work over operations.

● Perform periodic site visits to discuss technical issues & materials arrangement criteria to optimize job quality on site.

● Follow-up all completion and work-over equipment purchase order and issue purchase requisitions for planned completion and well services operations.

● Evaluate tenders offered by oil services companies as per TOTAL call for tender and submit technical evaluation report.

● Issue JRA (Job Risk assessment) for all completion & well services activities.

● Issue technical lesson learnt booklet based on technical incident occurred on site to improve operational performance.

● Write water wells programs and supervision on site, completion design with ESP equipment and fluid level controller sensors installed.

● Follow & Perform HSE (Health, Safety, Environment) monthly meeting with site team.

● Follow an action plan to reach HSE goals.

● Participate in periodic well performance meetings with all teams to enhance well completions.

● Support & train new well service supervisors & new cadet completion engineers.

● Work on a daily basis on a well view application to feed & record well data & operations reports.

● Perform periodic SQM (Service quality meeting) with all service companies to evaluate & improve jobs quality.

Key achievements:

● Successfully achieved savings of 5 Million USD in 2014 by segregating materials required & dead stock which was under the drilling department budget.

● Significantly contributed and achieved best statistics of down hole pump failures (0 %) in second quarter of 2014.

Completion & Workover Supervisor 06/2007 to 07/2011 Total Exploration & Production – East Shabwa

● Work on eruptive completion design with dedicated equipment as TRSCSSV self- equalizing, RMS adapter feed-thru production packer, Xmas Tree 3K and 5K FMC manufactured with remote actuated master valve.

● Supervise pulling ESP in depleted wells and rigless operations (PLT campaign, Thru Tubing Perforations, Memory Gauge installation and setting-downloading data with Metro log software, configured eruptive wells in ESP mode by setting Blanking Plug in Y-tool taken by-pass tubing).

● Supervise rig inspection and upgrading as per Moduspec and APAVE punch lists issued.

● Prepare lay out surface well testing equipment, ESP design including additional surface equipment as VSC, Jet Pump design and redressing.

● Prepare Standard Completion Instruction (SCI) for all basement and upper Biyad wells (Oil producer, Water injector and Gas injector wells) taking into account Total group rules and safety procedures.

● Prepare end of well reports and review.

● Coordinate activities and monitor technical performance of Service Contractors against agreed indicators, in particular for sub-surface related activities; measure quality and cost effectiveness of services and products delivered by Service Contractors.

● Follow-up for all completion and work-over equipment purchase order and issue purchase requisitions for planned completion, well services operations.

● Evaluate tenders offered by oil services companies as per Total call for tender and submit technical evaluation report.

● Write water wells programs and supervision on site, completion design with ESP equipment and fluid level controller sensors installed.

Key achievements

● Participate in design & building Supervision of a well services workshop which include a bucking unit, test bay and cold room for slick line tools storage. Drilling & Completion Material Supervisor 09/2005 to 06/2007 Total Exploration & Production – East Shabwa

● In charge of Drilling, completion and well services equipment replenishment.

● Follow up all equipment orders and coordination with Logistics.

● Supervise material men on site to optimize the drilling and completion stock.

● Organize equipment follow up criteria in the drilling department by periodic reporting to Drilling and Completion Superintendents.

● Control the Stock by following periodic updated drilling planning & match stock needed.

● Use SAP system for stock reordering.

Key achievements

● Establish Material stock follow up data base in accordance with each well completion design. Education

Diploma: BSc Of Mechanical Engineering, Science 07/1997 Engineering School/Sanaa University

High School Diploma 1992

Shaheen Scientific School - Kuwait

Certifications

IWCF – Level 4 /Well Intervention 02/2019

International Petroleum Center - Abu Dhabi, UAE

Chain of Command 10/2018

Total - DGEP, Pau - France

BOSIET 10/2018

STC-KNMR - Netherlands

BOP Total 12/2017

Total - DGEP, Pau - France

Discovering Maestro 07/2017

Total E&P - Online

GSES 09/2010

Total - DGEP, Pau - France

Being Successful in Completion 11/2007

Total - DGEP, Pau - France

Risk Awareness & Prevention 05/2007

Total- DGEP, Pau - France

Relevant Skills

Languages :

● Arabic: Mother tongue.

● English: Fluent in Speaking, Writing & Reading.

● French: Basic Knowledge.

Software :

● MS Office. Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint. OneNote, Access.

● Google Drive. Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms

● Spreadsheets. Excel, Google Drive, OpenOffice. Pivot tables, comparative analyses, link to database.

● Email. Mail merge, filters, folders, rules.

● PowerPoint.

● Social Media. Facebook, Twitter, giveaways, posts.

● Web. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, Content Management Systems (CMS), code libraries

● Graphical. Photoshop, Acrobat.

● Enterprise Systems. Enterprise Resource Planning (Oracle, SAP) Business Intelligence. Social Network

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-k-40285b16a



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