Drilling Fluids Advisor
Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.
We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.
The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.
We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.
Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?
JOB TITLE: Drilling Fluids Advisor
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE – contract position, residential status
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Complies with all company and regulatory Quality, HSE and IT standards and policies.
· Good understanding of the HSE requirements on location related to the personnel and the operations including himself. Ensure that all SNOC’s HSE regulation is followed to create a safe working environment.
· Takes proactive measures by creating/revising safety hazards by performing an appropriate Risk Analysis (i.e. HARC, JSA) before each job or task by matriculation. Hazard evaluation for SOBM usage will be separate from the actual drilling operational hazards.
· Good communication skills with both the rig and the office personnel. Able to work as team player.
· Purposed to demonstrate commitment to HSE Policy and participation to company safety awareness and initiative schemes - Performances: KPI, well design, NPT, improvement process - optimization and cost reduction of operations while maintaining a high level of safety and preventing any pollution or violation of company or national environmental policies.
· To ensure compliance of Fluids activities with operational and environmental standards while optimizing fluids related engineering and operations in order to facilitate well operations performance. Implementation of the fluid programs, co-ordinate activity between fluid service companies, vendors and operator to optimize performance.
· To be able to perform in both onshore and offshore working environment.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
· Monitor and maintain the drilling fluid properties in accordance with the Drilling and Mud Program.
· Conduct routine mud testing and reporting and advice of any related problems.
· Provide technical and commercial overview of the drilling fluid operation and make recommendations for improvements.
· Maintain the drilling fluid and ensure relevant personnel adhere to the safe handling procedures for chemicals and equipment.
· Ensure barite’s, salt and mud materials are maintained above the minimum levels.
· Ensuring that a complete recap is completed for each hole section with cost and lessons learnt through the end of the well.
· Responsible for verifying reporting, and inventory of products at the wellsite.
· Ability to periodically verify the inventory of lab test chemicals and equipment calibration with records.
· Ability to track drilling fluids samples collected and that all relevant drilling fluids tests are conducted as per API RPs at wellsite and/or independent laboratory.
· Ability to verify the delivery/credit tickets against wellsite inventory.
· Able to make recommendations related to the drilling fluids optimization for hole cleaning efficiency (i.e. flow rates, Low Shear Rate Viscosities, RPM, ROP, etc.)
· Knowledgeable on the properties and technical specification of the drilling mud (i.e. solids calculations, fluid chemistry, etc.) and its impact on drilling operation.
#LI-JN1