Experience

SAFER Exploration & Production Operations Company

• Yemen
• Oil and Gas
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Workover and Completion Manager

  • Feb 2015 - Present

  1. Currently working as Workover & Completion Manager in Yemen, Ensure that the requests of completion/workover contracts are correctly processed by the Production Operations support department in order to comply with time schedule, quality and technical conditions as defined in the program.2. Define and Approve the completions programs prepared by the workover and completion department manager, ensuring they fully meet the prognosis target, pursuing the best results in terms of safety, time schedule and cost effectiveness.3. Providing technical advice during pre-qualification and tender evaluation phases, in order to ensure that the selection of contractors and suppliers fully meet technical targets and company standards.4. Providing timely and accurate requisitions to the Operations support for all services and materials relevant to well operations.5. Managing day-to-day workover and completions operations, co-ordinating the activities of contractors with the Operations support department in order to guarantee that operations meet the company policies and standards.6. Ensuring operational progress follows the approved well programme and provides technical advice to the rig site on a daily basis, as required.7. Ensuring that operations comply with current legislation and company standards.8. Controlling operational costs and provides the technical approval for invoice payment. Verifies the consistency of the expenditure with AFEs.9. Instituting, monitoring and reviewing completions safety policies within the Safety Management System, in order to maximize effectiveness and safety ofthe operations.

• Senior Production Engineer

  • Feb 1999 - Jan 2015

  •Worked as Senior Production Engineer in Yemen. Responsible for the production engineering activities for high rate oil and gas production, injection wells in several fields and individual sandstone reservoirs. Monitor and evaluate production from several fields with greatly varying wellbore pressures and depths. Evaluate reservoir performance and monitor oil production from wells that typically gas out or trend to higher and GOR.•Responsible for problem well diagnostic work, writing workover programs, and preparing AFE packages including job cost estimates, workover procedures, required equipment & material lists, well histories, log sections, and related information. •Familiar with re-completions of producers to lower GOR by squeezing existing perforations with latex cement, drilling out, and re-completing in higher oil saturation intervals as indicated by RST logs.•Responsible to implement completions for new wells, providing and specifying equipment, materials, and personnel to drilling rigs to run the tubing and packer completions.•Supervised acid and naphtha stimulation jobs for production and injection wells. Gas injection wells experience injectivity decline due to asphaltene buildup. •Coiled tubing applications experience. Responsible for design and implementation of coiled tubing jobs.•Assist with operations management for two workover rigs and a rig mechanic’s shop.•Supervise wireline work to test tubing, set hydraulic packers, and install and retrieve plugs, flapper valves,and gas lift check valves.•Supervised and analyzed cased hole logging, including RST, TDT, CBL-VDL, etc. Supervised rig and rigless perforating and witnessing gun-depth correlation to open hole or CBL reference logs.•Routinely calculate displacement capacities for various jobs such as bullheading, cementing, and acidizing..etc.•Maintained a database of all production and gas injection wells.•Monitored warehouse inventories of completion and workover equipment.



YEMEN HUNT OIL COMPANY

• Production Foreman

  • Feb 2000 - Jan 2001

  • Supervised wireline operations, coiled tubing jobs, and managed general oil/gas well maintenance and service requirements.• Monitored oil production and gas injection operations for wells and facilities. Diagnosed and solved problems as they occurred. Supervised and carried out maintenance requirements.• Monitored gas and water injection rates and well injectivity. Determined if stimulation work might be required. Used Hall plots and other means to monitor well injectivity.• Supervised and monitored daily well tests. Performed well tests using field portable separator.• Supervised field hook ups and tie-ins, including instrumentation and flow-line construction and field services.• Monitored the inventory of field material and requirements in an economic way.• Performed flow line testing and casing integrity test.• Supervised personnel working in field production such as switchers, production technicians & laborers.• Prepared and presented safety topics for monthly safety meetings in both Arabic and English.