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QUALIFICATIONS: Worked on land rigs, inland barges, jackups, platforms and semi's. Started out as a roustabout and continued to work my way up to Floorhand, Motorman, Derrickman, Driller, Mud Engineer, and currently a Drilling Supervisor/Co. Man. Most of the wells that I have worked on have been in HTHP regions such as Gueydan Louisiana and Matagorda Island offshore Texas. I have dealt with many loss circulation problems due to unconsolidated formations or depleted zones. I have also dealt with numerous well control problems especially while drilling underbalanced horizontal wells in the Austin Chalk in Central Louisiana and HTHP wells in the Tuscaloosa Trend in South Louisiana.
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
1981-1985 Winnfield Sr. High School, Winnfield, Louisiana
1985-1989 Military Schools; Anti-Terrorism, Heavy Weapons, Nuclear Security
1990 Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana
1992-1998 Rig based firefighting, H2S School, Mud School/CPR/PEC, Water Survival
1999 IFE (Integrated Fluid Engineering) curriculum included: Completion Fluids,
Drilling Fluids Economics/Product Optimization, Drilling Technologies and Systems, Project Planning, Solids Control, Centrifugal Pumps, Centrifuges, Swaco Level 1, Engineering Volumes and Waste Management and Treatment Services.
2000 Water Survival (refresher)
2002 IWCF – Randy Smith Houston Texas (International Well Control)
2004 WellCap Plus Pilot Course – Randy Smith Lafayette Louisiana
2005 Leadership Development EDN Houston Texas
2006 IAWC – Randy Smith Lafayette Louisiana (International Alliance for Well Control)
2007 H2S Training – Total Safety Egypt
2008 Well Control School – WWCI Houston, Texas. Drilling, Workover, CT & Prod.
Other Casing design & cementing, Hole Volumes and Capacities, Hydraulics, Pore Pressure analysis, centrifugal pumps, Directional Drilling, Stuck Pipe, Drill String Design, Diamond bits, Gas migration, Electrical Safety, First Aid, Heat Stress, Scaffold Safety, Hazard Communication, Machine Safeguarding, Blood borne Pathogens, Fire Extinguishers, Tool Safety, Ladder Safety, Hearing Conservation. Very familiar with Top Drive systems and applications, including Tesco, National, Varco and CanRig.
EMPLOYMENT
Presently Team Leader – Wild Well Control Inc. – Currently working in Gulf of Mexico supervising Marine Engineers, Wells Engineers, divers and other contract companies while performing platform recovery or removal. Projects include evaluating wells, killing wells, cementing wells as per MMS requirements for down platforms due to hurricanes.
2005-2008 Sr. Well Site Leader – BP; Wyoming and Egypt. Wyoming - worked on pad rig drilling up to 8 directional wells per pad. These are fast paced 7 – 14 day wells, problems including high gas and loss circulation in tight gas field. Responsibilities included filling in for Superintendent when needed, troubleshooting on other rigs to improve efficiency. Egypt - Worked in the Mediterranean Sea on a Semi, drilling HTHP wells in an H2S environment of the coast of Egypt.
2001-2005 Consultant Drilling Foreman – Stokes & Spiehler; worked for BP in South Louisiana in the HTHP Tuscaloosa Trend and Bayou Sale, working with rotary steerable directional equipment. These were deep wells 20,000' – 23,500' with bottom hole temperatures from 350 to 450 degrees. Bottom hole pressure was as high as 20,000 psi with concerns given to depleted formations above production zones.
1999-2001 Consultant Mud Engineer - Working for bp/Amoco in Matagorda Island offshore Texas and Tuscaloosa Trend on land in South Louisiana on HTHP wells.
1994-1999 Sr. Mud Engineer, MI Drilling Fluids, Lafayette, Louisiana
Worked offshore and on land for various companies (Mobil, Texaco, Murphy, BP/Amoco, Chesapeake and Samedan), worked with OBM, WBM, Synthetic & Completion fluids
1989-1994 Driller / Derrickman / Motorman / Floorhand, Quarles Drilling, Parker Drilling, Diamond Offshore, Noble Drilling, Zapata Offshore, Murco Drilling, and Power Rig.
1985-1989 United States Marine Corps, Served as a member of the Marine Security Force Company on a Naval Weapons Station.
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