Sr Drilling Engineer

Career Summary

Professional experienced drilling engineer, handle all aspects of well design, several years of experience in drilling optimization and operations complemented by a strong foundation in the engineering analysis and design of drilling systems, project management, Extended Reach Drilling Experience, underbalanced drilling, On-site management of daily drilling operations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Global Drilling Engineering Advisor (Well Engineering & Optimization)

Weatherford International – Drilling Services July 2010-Present

• Helping the business units in day to day operations/ challenges.

• Pre-planning jobs mentoring and implementing drilling Hazard mitigation techniques for WFT integrated projects, minimizing the drilling AFE and achieving the well objective with the fasted and safest way.

• Helping in establish 24/7 RTC for WFT ABD, ECD safe envelope, well control, vibration mitigation etc…

• Day-to-day coordination of all well site activities on drilling rigs located all over the world.

• Helping in establish real time optimization center in Houston to remotely control drilling operations (drilling/ completion/ thru tubing).

• Taking part of the RSS team, helping to mitigate associated drilling problems for RSS and DD tools.

• Supporting business units around the world with the best in class optimization standards.

• Involved in a BHA analysis software establishing the project objectives, testing and controlling.

• Working out of preliminary to pre-engineering drilling studies, taking into account geology, reservoir, exploitation, logistics and construction constraints. Optimization of field development based on the implementation of new techniques :

Deep-offshore,

HTHP wells.

surface BOP,

long departures,

Multilateral,

Slim holes,

Splitter wells.

World Wide Drilling Optimizations Engineering Group-IO Oct 2008 – July 2010

Drilling Engineer - Oasis Certified Engineer ( BHA design and Drill bit)

Baker Hughes Incorporated,

The Woodlands Texas

Optimization analysis, recommendation and support of drilling systems, BHA design and bit design for different projects in several areas around the world.

• BHA modeling (Bending moment, stress analysis) and Bit performance analysis done using WellCAD, BHAsys PRO, hydraulic (Advantage and HCC) calculations, rock-strength analysis, mechanical specific energy analysis, depth-of-cut calculations, vibration and formation study.

• Working with the rig daily operation using the project management principles to make the work more efficient, Provides support to Well Site Engineers in their daily work and training process.

• Implement Oasis engineering analysis procedures and risk analysis, root cause analysis, knowledge capturing for projects assigned from different locations in the world.

• Formulating risk reduction strategies for upcoming wells from lessons learnt in previous drilling, with contributions to future engineering design.

• Responsible for presenting performance conclusions and recommendations for drilling systems to peers and clients.

• Training field engineers and clients on drilling systems running parameters and vibrations mitigation.

• Working to build global standards for application engineering using project management procedures.

• Implementing new products and technologies in Saudi Arabia operations by coordination with the HQ in Houston.

• Traveling to conduct drilling projects in: East Canada (Petro Canada offshore), Azerbaijan (BP offshore), UAE (ADCO), Williston Basin (Marathon, XTO) and Permian basin (USA, OXY).

Operations Engineer Jun 2004 – Oct 2008

Baker Hughes Incorporated,

Saudi Arabia

• Bit Performance Engineer on specialized rigs in Saudi Arabia Deep Gas drilling.

• Create proposals, sell and review Hughes Christensen products and services to local and international oil/gas operators (Saudi Aramco, Shell, Eni, Repsol, Sino Gas) and directional drilling companies (INTEQ, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Pathfinder etc.)

• Co-ordination of inventory moving in and out of the country based on supply and demand, and performing QA/QC on all inventory bits

• Consolidation and analysis of drill-bit records, and daily rig activity reports of bit run

• Evaluation and presentation of the bit run performance to co-workers and clients

• Pre-drill feasibility reporting - setting out offset well data and highlighting practices to improve efficiency

• On-site implementation - provide rig site training for drilling crew on effective anti vibration techniques etc.

• Identify the products and quantities for the bills of material.

• Preparing and presenting of offers for getting the contracts with customers after reviewing the biddings.

• Monthly Market Share analysis, performance updates, Reliability curves, using ROCKY 03 software.

• In house marketing specialist for Saudi Aramco Abqaiq workover operations.

EDUCATION

BSc. In Engineering 2004

Jordan University of Science and Technology Jordan

PMP Houston Texas 2009

Training and Certifications

• Oasis certified Engineer. 2010

• Advanced Drilling Hazard mitigation Certified 2011

• Total Quality Management. 2005

• Downhole data acquisition and directional drilling tool workshop. 2007

• Hole Opening Technology using concentric and eccentric hole openers. 2009

• Measurement While Drilling Operations. 2007

• Measurement While Drilling Wellbore Positioning. 2008

• Advantage® Engineering for Drilling Systems. 2008

• Tricone + Diamond Bit Technology. 2005

• Directional drilling course 2007

• Principles of Petroleum engineering 2006

• LEAD course University of Texas A&M 2006

• Practical Interpretation of Open Hole Logs 2006

• Oasis Process and Tools 2009

• Performance Drilling Academy 2009

• Drill bit advisor 2008

• Principles of Drilling fluids 2009

• Rotary steerable systems principles 2009

• Co-pilot vibration analysis training 2009

• Well cad training 2009

• LEAD 3 training (Project Management) 2009

• Project management (PMI) 2009

• Rotary closed system principles 2010

• RCLS operations and decoding 2010

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Memberships

• Society of Petroleum Engineers

• Association of Professional Engineers of Saudi Arabia.

Note:

Speak English and Arabic.

Permanent resident in US

Holding three driving licenses (Texas, Saudi Arabia and Jordanian)

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