Directional Drilling Consultant

To safely apply technology and expertise so as to provide efficient and profitable drilling solutions.

2003 – Present Directional Drilling Consultant (Gabon, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina)
Schlumberger Drilling & Measurements (Anadrill) / Halliburton-SDS (Sperry Sun)
Clients: TOTAL Gabon, Addax Petroleum, PDVSA, Repsol-YPF, PEMEX

2002 – 2003 DD Manager (Venezuela)
Schlumberger Drilling & Measurements (Anadrill)
Principal Clients: PDVSA, LASMO, Ameriven, Petrozuata, Repsol-YPF
 Decreased DD Staffing costs by 10% without loss in Service Quality
 Eliminated recurrent Downhole Positive Displacement Motor failures
 Implemented and developed the Drilling Engineering Centre
 Integration and subsequent divestment of Reed Hycalog Drill Bits
 Management of PDVSA’s Deltana Project (Offshore Trinidad)

2001 – 2002 DD/MWD Coordinator (Venezuela)
Schlumberger Drilling & Measurements (Anadrill)
Clients: PDVSA, PRISA

1993 – 2001 Directional Driller (Trinidad, US, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico)
Schlumberger Drilling & Measurements (Anadrill)
Principal Clients: Petrotrin, Amoco, UPRC, Repsol-YPF, Total Austral, PEMEX, Petrobrás,
 Planned and executed PEMEX’s first horizontal well in GOM
 Spudded World-record Deep-water Well, Bacia de Campos, Brazil
 Designed & implemented Schlumberger Drilling Planning Centre in Macaé, Brazil
 Coordinated & executed Petrobras’ Coiled Tubing Drilling Project in Bahia, Brazil

M.Sc. Petroleum Engineering (1993, incomplete),
B.Sc. Analytical Chemistry (1991)
University of the West Indies, Trinidad, W. I.

Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French