Directional Drilling Supervisor

To obtain a directional drilling position within a growth oriented company; to utilize my experience, obtained over the last 14 years, to ensure a safe and productive work environment and to provide exceptional quality of service to the customer.

Directional Drilling Supervisor (Consultant) 2008 to Current
Halliburton/Sperry Drilling Services, (Oman) – (Saudi Arabia)
Current work PDO & RAK/Indago petroleum Oman/Aramco

Currently working for Saudi Aramco drilling Short & medium radius wells through all hole sizes utilizing both PDC & tricone bits, water & oil based mud systems, drilling conventional & horizontal wells including multilaterals.
Worked on land & offshore Oman drilling medium radius builds, horizontals, s-shape & directional wells
Performing all conventional aspects of Directional drilling, specifics include drilling with PDC bits, Time drilling for sidetracks, anti-collision monitoring, modifying well plans in the field & BHA selection & modeling.

Directional Drilling Supervisor / Relief Coordinator (Consultant) 2006 to 2008
Halliburton/Sperry Drilling Services, (Middle East region)
Dubai Petroleum (offshore Dubai)

Worked as relief coordinator based in customers office
Responsibilities included management of daily directional operations, well planning, BHA modeling, personnel & tool movements, client contact and office operations while helping to improve and control service quality.
Drilled directional wells both on land and offshore
Responsible for Directional Drilling jobs including; S-shape wells utilizing mud motors, involving sidetracks from cement plugs, whipstocks, casing sections and open hole sidetracks both rotary & oriented. Guiding well paths utilizing Directional Drilling programs, Torque & Drag and avoiding offset wells utilizing anti-collision software.
Drilled horizontal medium and short radius wells including multilaterals.
Drilled extended reach geo steered wells with Sperry rotary steerable (Geo-Pilot) system incorporating paleontology TVD indicator techniques

Directional Drilling Supervisor/Field Coordinator (Consultant)
Halliburton/Sperry Drilling Services (Yemen)

Worked for Oilsearch Ltd. on a drillship in the Gulf of Aden from the onset of the 2 well contract.
Responsibilities included Performance drilling & BHA modeling, LWD operations using Pressure While Drilling & setting up Real Time Operations to Huston via satellite
Responsible for all equipment and personnel on board, compiling daily operation reports and liaising with customer on logistic and operational issues.

B.S., Computer Engineering 1995
Sadar patel College, Bombay, India
St Mary’s Catholic High School (DUBAI) Oxford Board 1991
7 O’levels & 2 A’levels

• Offshore survival & basic sea survival, Abu Dhabi U.A.E
• H2S safety, Abu Dhabi U.A.E
• Defensive driving & desert driving, Muscat, Oman
• Basic Fire Fighting, Dubai U.A.E
• Basic medic First aid including CPR, Dubai U.A.E

Safety is my first concern; I always aspire to a safe working environment
I have the ability to handle stress, work in a multicultural environment and am very reliable.
My ability to conduct field operations as an LWD engineer and directional driller, in varied situations over the past 14 years, has developed in me the skills and knowledge to be able to effectively troubleshoot and liaise between customer and solution team.
10 years experience of measurements and logging while drilling
4 years experience as a directional drilling engineer performing all conventional aspects of the job including design, analysis and troubleshooting.
Providing technical support and operational expertise to the customers in a professional manner.