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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Imaging Technician - Now
DocuServe Corporation, a Division of Divestco Inc., Calgary, Alberta
* Providing technical support for extracting and sorting the useful information from well's files: Pre-Drill (well prognoses, well design and programming, well panel, etc.); Drilling Operations (site survey reports, SHE, ops postmortem, etc); Formation Evaluation Logs (composite, canstrat and mud logs, petrologs, litho and petrophysics logs, etc); Geology (biostratigraphy, paleontology, geochemistry, litho descriptions, FIT reports, core descriptions, pressure, temperature, etc); Geophysics (velocity data, AVO studies, checkshot surveys etc.); Test Data (MDT, RFT, DST, reservoir engineering, fluids data, PVT, etc); Final Reports; etc.
Drilling-Completion Engineer - 1999 to 03
Drilling and Completion Department
National Company of Natural Gas "ROMGAZ", Medias, Romania
(A national company, whose main activity is natural gas drilling, production and underground storage - Romanian Foothills)
* Data Acquisition, Review and Analysis: Well Proposal, offset data (Final Well, Daily Drilling, IADC and Geolograph Reports, Mud and Bit Records, Wireline Logs, Field Operational Notes, Hole Section Summaries), maps, and government records;
* Potential Hazards and Drilling Problems Identification, Causes and Addressing Methods;
* Well Design:
o Precompletion and Completion Design: slimhole, openhole and perforated, monohole and multiple completion;
o Casing Design: casing sizes, grades, weights, connections, kick tolerance and setting points, calculations using API Bulletins;
o Rig Selection: derrick load, handling equipment, rotary table inside diameter;
o Cementing Requirements Identification: tops of cement slurries, particular requirements;
o Directional Design: target area, wellpath planning (J and S profiles), horizontal and multilateral wellbores, KOP, dogleg severity limits;
o Supporting Infrastructure Identification and Upgrading: field activities (surface location selection, surveying, roads, support bases), mapping and calculations;
o Possible Start Date Estimating: logistics, permits/approvals, rig availability, weather, etc;
* Well Programming:
o Preparing Drilling Program and Technical Justification: general information, well identification, objective, hazards and drilling problems, positioning, general and drilling notes, mud engineering and supervision, deviation, conductor, casings and liners, cementations, wellhead, BOP and testing, geological prognosis, wireline logging and petrophysics, mud logging, completion/testing, suspension/abandonment, equipment checklist, signatures;
o Time/Cost Estimating: time/depth curve, AFE;
o Well control, BOP program: H2S Safety, kicks control;
o Directional planning: BHA (configuration and spacing of the bit, drillcollars, stabilizers and roller reamers, downhole motors), string calculation, torque, directional measurement and surveying (MWD);
o Drill Bits Selection, Parameters and Hydraulics;
o Drilling Fluids Program: fluid types, recipes, volume calculations, solids control, environmental aspects;
o Casing Running Program: centralizers, accessories, scarificators, crossovers, necessaries operations before and after casing (circulations, surveying, wipertrip, mud conditioning) ;
o Cementing Program: slurry and spaces recipes, mud displacement, volumes and setting time calculations;
o Outline Rig Equipment Limitations: pumps, hook load, torque and drag;
o Formation Evaluation Program: electric logging, coring, mud logging;
o Drilling Problems – Avoidance Planning: wellbore stability (collapse, fracturing), pipe stocking, lost circulation;
* Providing solutions for different drilling technologies: underbalanced, balanced, reduced overbalanced and overbalanced;
* Preparing Anti - Collision Charts;
* Monitoring Well Status and make decisions regarding changes of initial drilling program;
* Comparing Final Configuration Versus Project Forecast;
* Performing Bidding and Environment Documentations;
* Suggesting Starting Flow Technologies;
* Elaborating Production Tests Documentations;
* Proposing Artificial Lift Techniques: beam pumping, electric or hydraulic submersible pumping, gas lift;
* Recommending Service or Workover Procedures;
* Supplying effective and timely communication with other departments to ensure optimization of projects;
* Providing technical support for field operations;
* Paying field visits to examine the performance of the company equipment and operations;
* Creating company's technical databook and other technical papers/specifications;
* Performing other duties as required;
* Built in Microsoft Excel an application which helps at quantities calculation for technical part of the studies, as well as the drilling cost estimate;
* Developed an application in Visual Basic, for calculation and graphical representation of gradients (pressure, frac and mud weight) chart for oil and gas wells;
* Created a useful web application for monitoring the drilling activities of the wells.
Drilling/Piping Engineer - 1997 to 99
Drilling and Completion / Designing, Development and Risk Studies Department
National Company "ROMGAZ", Medias, Romania
(A national company, whose main activity was natural gas drilling, production, underground storage, transport and distribution)
* Drilling Wells Planning;
* Estimating the immediate and long-term production capabilities of gas wells and their ultimate recoverable volumes of gas;
* Natural gas distribution networks and consumers installations projects;
* Natural gas transport networks projects;
* Developed an application in Visual Basic, for natural gas distribution networks dimensioning, for steel and plastic pipes.
Field Drilling Data Capture and Processing Engineer - 1995 to 97
Commercial Company "Drilling Wells" joint-stock company, Ploiesti, Romania
(Oil and Gas Wells Drilling Contractor)
* Drilling parameters analyzing and interpreting: depth, drilling rate, weight on bit, rotary speed, rotary torque, pump output, pomp pressure, mud density in and out, mud temperature in and out, tank level, gas readings;
* Informing the driller and drilling supervisor of any significant change;
* Detecting and warning of the presence of problems: kicks, H2S, washouts;
* Later investigations, based on the temp/depth records, of the problems such as: stuck pipe, kicks, losses;
* Helping drilling supervisor to make better decisions during drilling;
* Mounting the sensors, installing and maintain the system running: reboots, setups, trouble shootings;
* Taking, analyzing and recording samples of cutting, caving, mud and formation fluid shows;
* Collecting and reporting metals recovery from the magnets placed at the possum belly tank;
* Supervising, collecting and boxing cores;
* Producing reports;
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Computer Science - Applied Informatics and Programming - 2002
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Master of Science – Reservoir Engineering - 1996
Oil and Gas University of Ploiesti Romania
Bachelor of Science - Drilling and Production (Oil and Gas) - 1995
Oil and Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
MEMBERSHIP
Eligible for Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta
REFERENCES
References available upon request
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