Graham Boisvenue

Drilling Engineering Advisor

Graham Boisvenue

Phone: Mobile 403-***-****

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Work History

Occidental Petroleum – Muscat, Oman 2012 – 2020

Drilling Engineer Advisor

Project Management Skills

• Led a multidisciplinary technical team of individuals from various departments to successfully meet all the stated objectives of drilling wells in northern Oman in a safe and cost effective manner. Demonstrated drilling of horizontal, re-entry and directional well types in development and exploration environment. Demonstrated excellent communication skills with multi-national work force.

• Prepared and presented reviews of detailed designs of horizontal wells, focusing on directional design, casing/liner design, wellhead equipment design, borehole stability analysis, drilling fluids and cement selection to asset teams and contractors.

• Identified limiters to performance through the OXY Drilling Dynamics (ODD) process and eliminated them through a physics based engineering analysis. Demonstrated enhanced planning and databasing, using software to analysis and arrange data to create customizable spreadsheets (Spotfire, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenWells).

• Design, track and analyze KPI’s to improve drilling/completions operations and identify areas to enhance performance and reduce costs

• Prove in-depth drilling/completions performance analysis

• Assisting with and planning drilling and completions operations safely, cost effectively and in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements

• Use real time data analytics to help drive continuous improvement initiatives

• Engaged outside technical and professional consultants to deliver the program.

• Tendered, awarded and managed contracts for services required to achieve project success, including on boarding of new contractors and regular contractor performance meetings to maintain continuous performance improvement. Demonstrated experience with rig selection, location prep, drilling programs and material ordering and selection.

• Developed yearly budget for a multi rig drilling campaign that was incorporated into determining yearly department budget. Demonstrated long term planning and OPEX/CAPEX budgeting.

• Led internal design reviews and risk assessments for exploration and development wells.

• Mentored junior and mid-career engineers helping them to understand the engineering principles and how to apply them successfully.

• Provided cover for Drilling Engineering Supervisor and Superintendents during their absences.

• Team member for “management walk throughs” for HSE audits. Demonstrated HSE commitment

• Demonstrated success of these skills resulted in:

OXY Oman feet per day (FTD) increasing from 800’ in 2016 (start of ODD) to 920’ in 2019 across a fleet of 8 rigs.

Documented reduction in NPT from 11.2% in 2012 to 7.6% in 2019.

Personally devised and implemented a revised casing design to save $50,000 per well and reduce environmental and operational risks. Idea was implemented across 20-30 wells per year saving more than $1MM/year.

A technically skilled project manager and engineer with over 20 years of diverse experience in the North American and international oil and gas industry, specializing in low-cost environment drilling and completions. I am looking to continue my history of success in helping the company achieve greater success through my strong project development and delivery processes, technical proficiency, strong analytical thinking skills, creative approach to problem solving and ability to form cohesive teams.

Graham Boisvenue

Drilling Engineering Advisor

Pajak Engineering - Consultant to ConocoPhillips, Calgary, Canada 2011 – 2012 Senior Drilling Engineer

Project Management Skills

• Led a multidisciplinary technical team of individuals from various departments to successfully drill wells in an unconventional play in western Canada in a safe and cost effective manner while meeting the project’s objectives. Demonstrated Horizontal drilling in unconventional play.

• Engaged and coordinated with outside technical experts to implement and manage a managed pressure drilling (MPD) campaign.

• Acted in a professional manner to ensure all engineer designs met the require service life of the project including casing design, BHA design, bit program, and approved contractor supplied mud and cementing programs for exploration in tight gas sandstone reservoirs using LANDMARK software design package.

• Conducted Well Integrity reviews of older existing wells and developed plans to mitigate when required.

• Captured lessons learned and generating EOWR, then implementing findings into new programs.

• Supported rig site operations on a day to day basis and participated in engineering discussions as to how to solve operational issues. Demonstrated active member of planning matters.

• Demonstrated success of these skills resulted in:

Personally suggested and then implemented MPD to reduce wellbore instability, environmental impact and NPT. Resulted in a reduction of historical actual well costs of 3% per well.

Reducing long term environmental impact through designing and maintaining well integrity for life of well not just for lowest immediate cost.

Pajak Engineering – Consultant to Petro-Canada/ Suncor, Syria 2008 – 2011 Senior Drilling Engineer

Project Management Skills

• Led a multinational technical team of individuals from various departments to successfully drill wells in a low pressured, highly fractured carbonate reservoir for a gas exploration program. Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated drilling in high pressure/ temperature environment including mobile salts.

• Engaged technical and professional consultants to deliver the program in a highly challenging business environment. Syria was under strict USA sanctions. Demonstrates ability to operate in a challenging environment and still get the job done, also shows ability to plan for short and long range of drilling and completion activities.

• Supervised Syrian government staff (Drilling and Completions Engineers) and provided feed back on performance.

• Provided cover for Superintendent during their absence.

• Specified, selected and managed service contracts to achieve project success in a sanctions limiting environment.

• Demonstrated success of these skills resulted in:

Proposing and implementing new operational procedures to reduce risk and well costs, saving 30+days and $1million/well.

Optimizing bit design to more closely matching bit design to rock type. Saving over $200,000/ well in reduced bit usage.

Occidental Petroleum – Muscat, Oman 2007 – 2008

Senior Drilling Engineer

Project Management Skills

• Led a multinational technical team of individuals from various departments to successfully drill wells in low pressured steam flood development area.

• Managed a fasted pace work schedule to ensure continued work while involving other departments. Demonstrated ability to plan for short term work, well typically were 3-5 days.

• Maintained a high level of organization to keep program on track. Demonstrated excellent communication skills.

• Supported drilling operations on a day to day basis to overcome challenges that arose during the course of drilling. Incorporated these solutions into SOPs and SDPs. Demonstrated databasing, planning and being an active member of the drilling and planning team. Develop framework literature – e.g. drilling manuals, competency checklist and inspection forms.

• Provided cover for Drilling Engineering Supervisor and Superintendents during their absences.

• Demonstrated success of these skills resulted in:

Achieving no down time due to drilling location delays or supply disruptions even though typical well duration was less than 5 days.

Optimizing bit usage to reduce surface bit costs by over $150,000/year.

Updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Standard Drilling Practices (SDPs) while drilling in a fast paced environment. These documents contained lessons learned and best practices for inclusion into future programs. Graham Boisvenue

Drilling Engineering Advisor

Nexen Inc. – Masila, Yemen 2006 – 2007

Drilling Optimization Engineer – Contract position Project Management Skills

• Supported remote drilling site team to improve operational efficiency. Main team located in Calgary and remote team in Yemen.

• Organized all drilling relate equipment into company SAP system. Including min/max reorder quantities. Demonstrated material handling/planning and inventory software.

• Implemented a system for tracking past bit performance in order to document performance improvements. Demonstrated databasing and planning.

• Positively challenged others to be creative to providing solutions

• Recommended and developed directional strategies to reduce NPT. Demonstrated being an active member of the planning process to change directional profiles.

• Provide support to and work alongside of the Drilling and Completions Managers with daily operations, planning, and performance analysis

• Monitor cost performance and cycle times to improve program efficiencies

• Track daily costs, compare actual costs with expenditure proposals and recommend cost-effective changes

• Demonstrated success of these skills resulted in:

Optimized drilling parameters to increase drilling performance, reducing drilling time by 2 days saving over $50,000/well.

Reduced bit cost through deleting bit features that did not improve bit performance, total cost reductions amounted to over $35,000/well in one application.

Implemented new BHA designs to improve trip time. Recommendations and implementation resulted in a reduction of 12 hours NPT due to tight hole saving an average $12,000/well. Smith International- Smith Bits – Muscat, Oman 2003 – 2006 Advance Services Engineer/ Field Engineer

• Developed strategies to lower the drilling cost of client’s wells through improved product performance and integration with rig capabilities.

• Recommended and implemented design changes to drill bits to enhance their performance in specific applications.

• Documented performance increases and savings to client through improved product performance.

• Provided support to client well engineers including:

• Bit proposal generation

• Hydraulic calculations to optimize rig pumps

• Database up keep of current operations

• Failure report writing and follow up

• Supervised and provided mentorship of a locally hired EIT. Halliburton Energy - Sperry-Sun Drilling Services - Calgary, AB. & Oman 1999 – 2003 Lead Technical Professional

• Provided UBD Well support for PDO Well Engineers using Landmark software to generate:

• Torque and Drag

• BHA design and motor selection

• Hydraulics

• Published reports on Torque and Drag for Underbalanced wells, Engineering Analysis on Ander Gauge Agi- tator and UBD shared learnings

• UBD focal point

• Liaised between PDO UBD operations and Sperry-Sun field operations

• Informing other divisions of Halliburton on possible UBD opportunities within PDO

• Senior Well Planning

• Coordinating with Geologists and Drilling Engineers on planning upcoming wells and monitor current operations

• Offering technical assistance on all aspects of directional drilling, including torque and drag, hydraulics, well planning and motor selection.

• Providing mentorship and technical advice to Well Planning Engineers. Graham Boisvenue

Drilling Engineering Advisor

Shell Canada Limited – Calgary, AB. 1997 – 1999

Drilling Engineer

• Engineered well designs for unconventional on shore wells in the Williston Basin and North Central Alberta, including casing design, torque and drag calculation and drill string design.

• Developed budgets and was responsible for cost control on drilling projects.

• Completed drilling programs at a final cost of 20% below AFE through reduced problems, increased communication and performance improvements.

• Reduced problem cost on wells from 15%, historical, to <10% over the course of three drilling programs.

• Net savings of approximately $60k per well.

• Initiated a cost reduction study to reduce the overall cost of wells drilled in the Williston Basin and North Central Alberta.

• Contracted service companies and arranged schedules to meet the project’s completion date.

• Completed and filed accurate information with both the Saskatchewan and Alberta agencies. Saskatchewan Energy and Mines – Regina, SK. 1996 – 1997 Engineer – GeoData Branch

• Provided advice and guidance to coworkers, senior management and industry on how the horizontal drilling data should be interpreted and stored in the Well Information System (WIS).

• Reviewed and evaluated Saskatchewan technical horizontal well data submissions under the “Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations, 1985”.

• Determined the final well location compared to the original horizontal drilling application and license; performed a search of the drainage area and mineral rights of the new downhole location and issue a name change on the well.

Computalog Ltd. – Medicine Hat, AB. 1995 – 1996

Field Engineer – Openhole Wireline

• Worked in an extremely stressful environment while performing multi-tasked operations with no supervision.

• Supervised and trained crew members, including new field engineers, on all aspects of safety and on the operation of the logging unit.

• Maintained and operated a logging unit with a hybrid computer system working in a harsh environment

• Applied tool operation theories including, nuclear decay, natural occurring radiation and electrical induction theory.

• Recorded and interpreted data correctly to calculate formation properties including, water saturation, oil saturation, formation porosity, fluid resistivity.

• Maintained current knowledge of new technologies that could improve the products that were given to customers.

Canadian Fracmaster Ltd. – Estevan, SK. 1994 – 1995 Operator – Cement Pumper

• Maintained and safely operated a twin cement pumper to provide well cementing, stimulation and abandoning.

• Obtained a Class 1 driver’s licence to operate pumper. Formal Education

Texas A&M – PETE 639 – High Performance Drilling Design and Operational Practices 2017

• Distance learning through TA&M – taught by Fred Dupriest retired Chief Drilling Engineer for Exxon Mobil. Shell International Training Centre, Leeuwenhorst, Holland 1998

• Shell Well Engineering - Round 1

Degree, Bachelor of Applied Science 1994

University of Regina, Saskatchewan

• Specialized in Industrial Systems Engineering, a broad based educational program designed to give an understanding of traditional Mechanical, Chemical and Industrial engineering. Graham Boisvenue

Drilling Engineering Advisor

Well Control Certificate

WellSharp – IADC – International Association of Drilling Contractors 2019

• Drilling and Completions – Supervisor Level – expiry February, 2021 The InternationalWell Control Forum – Expired 2015

• IWCF – Surface BOP Stack Level 4 – expired

WellCap – IADC – International Association of Drilling Contractors 2013

• Supervisor Level – expired

Enform – Canadian Well Control Course 2011

• First Line Supervisors Blowout Prevention - expired

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