Job Description

• Perform periodic evaluations for the Drilling Supervisors, Drilling Engineers and Drilling Technicians.
• Monitor drilling expenditures on a daily basis with the goal of drilling the most cost effective wells possible.
• Review equipment planning with Drilling Engineer, Drilling Supervisors and the Material & Logistics Coordinator to ensure timely equipment arrivals and to eliminate equipment overstocking.
• Coordinate with the Drilling Engineer, Material & Logistics Coordinator & Drilling supervisors the timely arrival of drilling equipment and services on wellsite.
• Ensure that wells are drilled and completed in a manner that meets the objectives of the Reservoir, Production, and Geological departments.
• Encourage and support HSE training and implementation of new procedures and guidelines. Attend the bi-weekly safety meeting in the field.
• Prepare monthly drilling operations reports
• Technical review of all drilling programs and final well reports.
• Perform wellsite inspections to ensure that safety programs are conducted and monitored by the drilling contractors in a manner consistent with HSE policies in conjunction with the Senior Drilling Supervisors’ site specific HSE plan.
• Ensure that well platforms are constructed to specifications, in a time and cost effective manner.
• Liases with subsurface geology and production teams on sub-surface activities
• Define phase activities (well design and drilling programme), including casing design, well trajectories development, BHA design (including drill stem hydraulics optimization and hole cleaning analysis).
• Execution phase suppport – Well operations monitoring, operations optimisation (inluding drill stem hydraulics optimisation, hole cleaning analysis, torque and drag analysis). Post well reviews capturing lessons for implementation on future/subsequent wells, among others.
• Supervising the day-to-day activities and monitoring of the rig drilling & completion operations.
• Budget preparation to obtain approval for funds for for-casted projects (Drilling Year Plan).
• Initiate Guidelines & Procedures for daily field operations.
• Responsibilities includes overseeing drilling operation, well engineering, design & planning, cost monitoring & budget, procuring services & equipment, Technical & Commercial evaluation of Tender’s. Supervise T & C tender evaluation & contracting procedures for JV Operations.
• Supervise Team of Drilling & Completion Engineer’s to deliver set target’s for the year.
• Use of Latest Rotary Steerable & LWD Technology on wells ranging 9000ft-11,000ft TVD with over 1000ft lateral pay.
• Complete both dual & single concentric well bores, slotted liners, open hole completions.
• Review daily reports and ensure that work is carried out as per program and safely.
• Visit rig once a month to ensure that crew adhere to HSE procedures.
• Ensure that well control equipment installation, maintenance and standard are the same across all rigs.
• Carried out audit of well control procedures and practices and ensure that equipment’s meet Company specifications.
• Involved in the design of wells and monitor the day-to-day drilling operations, involved in well control equipment standardization.