Drilling Safety
Resume:
Brian J. Dirk
Medicine Hat, Alberta
T1A 7W8, Canada.
Cell: 403-***-****
Email: ******@****.**
Profile: A Senior Drilling Consultant with over 40 years’ experience in the oilfield in all aspects of drilling, work over operations and well completions on all types of drilling rig including on offshore platforms and onshore land based rigs. Internationally experienced working with high pressures in deep wells and in severe environments including deserts, jungles, and in extremely low temperature of the very north. All certification is up to date and interested in finding challenging work possibly requiring relocation.
Skills:
1.Knowledge and understanding of all practical aspects of drilling, work over and well completion operations including running completion strings, packers, flow testing, wireline, re-completions, Horizontal Drilling Applications. submersible down-hole pumps, pump jacks, perforating, reading logs as well as air drilling and drilling fluid, directional, horizontal and multi-lateral applications
2.Extensive experience in Well site supervision, responsibility for Safety, Project Management and Cost Control on wells varying in depth 1000 – 7000 M.
3.Good man management and people skills from many years’ experience.
4.Good interpersonal skills with the ability to relate well at all levels of an organisation
5.Language skills include in-field working Arabic and working Farsi
6.Good computer skills as well familiar with DIMS and other reporting formats.
Condor Petroleum Inc. Sept 20 2014 - Present
Calgary, Alberta Canada - Drilling Superintendent
Drilling Advisor on well site location in Kazakhstan. Monitoring operation and improving as needed. Training of local supervisors and organizing services. Wells 2500m.
Kuwait energy MAR 2014- Aug 2014
Drilling supervisor, Deep high Temperature wells. 18,000 foot. Vertical wells. Contract with Lower monthly salary.
JKX Russia March 2013 to JUNE 2013
Field supervision, drilling, work overs, Stimulations. Using a Coiled tubing rig to squeeze acid and clean well bores re doing Old Russian wells. Cutting windows and side tracking and drilling horizontal into production zone.
Firecreek Resources - Calgary, Alberta 2011 – 2012
Provided contracted services including well site supervision, responsible for Safety, Project Management, and Cost Control – assignments including directional, horizontal multi-lateral applications.
Tullow Energy
Well site Supervision Uganda, Africa
Drilling and workover
Tullow sold out resources to Total. 2011/June – 2011/Oct.
Rudis Drlg Company 2009/July – March/2010
Kuwait Energy Group
Drilling Supervisor in the Ukraine drilling 4600 meter directional wells west of Kiev.
Duties on this Project included On the Job Safety Management, SNR drilling supervision, reporting to Head Office in Kiev.
Ensured the rig was following proper drilling procedures as per programs.
Career History:
Codeco Consulting Inc. Calgary, 2003 – July/2009
Drilling and Work-over Supervision in Alberta, Saskatchewan & British Columbia.
Responsibilities included Well site supervision and Safety Management, Ensured the rig was following proper drilling procedures as per programs. Managed cost control and analysis and reported to Calgary office.
Nor-Chief Consulting - Strathmore, Alberta July 2001 – April 2003
Senior Drilling Supervisor – Husky Energy
Responsibilities included Well site Supervision and Safety Management,
Made sure the rig was following proper drilling procedures as per Husky programs.
Managed cost control and analysis and reported to Calgary office.
Directional, horizontal multi-lateral applications.
Firecreek Resources - Calgary, Alberta 1999 – 2001
Provided contracted services including well site supervision, responsible for Safety, Project Management, and Cost Control – assignments including directional, horizontal multi-lateral applications.
- SNR Drilling Supervisor – Hamilton Resources
- SNR Drilling Supervisor – Apache Canada Ltd
- SNR Completion Supervisor – Spire Energy
- Drilling Supervisor - Nexen Petroleum
- Drilling Supervisor – Shell Canada Ltd.
Smedvig Technologies 1996 – 1999
Senior Drilling Supervisor – Santos
Wellsite supervision in Australia on land, drilling wells in the Cooper Basin 7000’ to 9000’ deep using an 850 Cooper rig.
Duties on this Project included On the Job Safety Management, SNR drilling supervision, reporting to Head Office in Brisbane using DIMS Software.
Worked for Gulf Canada on Land in Canada. Duties – Drilling Supervision, on the job Safety, H2S Awareness, Cost Control using an Excel Spreadsheet & reporting to head office. Depths varied from 1000 to 3000 meters.
Pajac Engineering – Calgary Alberta 1994 – 1996
Senior Drilling Supervisor
Responsible for Well Site Supervision & Safety Management which also involved keeping records using Excel Software, tracking costs, services and rig performance for various Oil Companies in Canada on land. Completion work included -
Worked abroad in the Ukraine for JKX out of England working over Old Russian oil wells.
Nimer petroleum on Sakhalin Island using a work over rig.
Gulf Canada Resources 1993 – 1994
Drilling Advisor
Supervise drilling operations in Russia’s Komi Arctic on four Russian drilling rigs and crews and the wells were 10 – 12,000’ deep.
Training Russian Drlg Supervisor’s western drilling standards and the use of western solids control equipment. We used Russian Drlg rigs
Dirks Oilfield Consulting 1984 – 1993
Own Company - Independent Consultant providing contracted services to a range of clients including –
Drilling supervision in Canada for Various Oil Companies on Oil & Gas wells ranging in Depth of 2500’ to 12,000’.
Contract work for Winterhawk Consulting
Completion work for
Royal Dutch Shell, Syria through Craddock Engineering.
Suco, Offshore Egypt on Maersk rigs running some completion strings on 6 hole jack-up rigs.
Mobile Oil of Libya 1982 – 1984
Senior Drilling & Workover Supervision
Wellsite supervision on land on 10,000’ to 12,000’ wells
Dolphin Titan - Offshore 1981 – 1982
Rig Manager - Offshore Spain & Brazil on Tender
Platform rigs. 8000’ to 10,000’ wells.
Amoco Canada 1979 – 1981
Drilling & Workover Supervision
Well-site supervision on high-pressure gas wells in Alberta.
Sedco, Reading & Bates – Iran 1975 – 1979
Driller & Toolpusher
Drilling wells in Southeast Iran on wells 12,000’ to 23,000’.
Renbar, Wardean & Kenting Drilling - Alberta Canada 1969 – 1975
Roughneck - Driller
Started in the oilfield as a floor hand and worked up to Driller in 1973 for Kenting Drilling.
References;
John Stockwell – Geologist
***********@*******.***
Phone – 403 703 - 9010
Udo Zeidler – Drlg Fluids Tech
**.**********@*****.***
phone – 403-***-****
Education and Training:
Standard Senior Education
Training courses attended
: A Senior Drilling Consultant with over 40 years’ experience in the oilfield in all aspects of drilling, work over operations and well completions on all types of drilling rig including on offshore platforms and onshore land based rigs. Internationally experienced working with high pressures in deep wells and in severe environments including deserts, jungles, and in extremely low temperature of the very north. Interested in finding challenging work possibly requiring relocation.
- Well cap (Well control, Supervisor level) (Century Energy) A14504 Australia 1997
- Drlg Fluids Technology (Reef Mud) Canada 1985
- Solids Control Seminar (Amoco) Canada 1981
- Murchison Drlg School Canada 1980
- Electrical Safety (Northern Rig Lites) Canada 1979
- Oil well Cementing (Halliburton) Canada 1979
- Loss control Training (Int. Safety Academy) Canada 1979
- Working Safety & Man Management (R&B Drlg) Malta 1978
- Grade XII Diploma (Correspondence) Canada 1977
- Well Control (Simulator) (Osco) Iran 1976
Other Qualifications:
- Defensive driving course - Canada 1980
- Computer Programming - Malta 1984
- St. Johns Ambulance First Aid & CPR - Canada 2015
Personal Details
Date of Birth: Sept 18 1953
Interests: Family, reading, keeping fit and watching sports.
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