Yacine Bouabba

Senior District Engineer at BICO Drilling Tools, Inc.
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Houston, Texas, United States, US
Languages
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Experience

    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior District Engineer
      • Nov 2021 - Present

      . Support sales team with delivering technical presentations to potential and existing clients to promote BICO solutions . Provide technical training and customer support for new and existing products . Assist in training and technical development of our customers in the use of our products . Handle customer incident reports, investigation and establish remedial corrective action plans . Onboarding and Training of new Sales and Shop employees . Monitor compliance with Company Standard Operating Procedures to ensure quality standards are met . Maintain face-to-face customer relationships . Assist team to increase sales of new products and other products that require more technical expertise . Stay informed about industry trends, competitive activity and associated technology . Engages in problem-solving by performing root cause analysis, interpreting results and providing written recommendations to ensure products used by customer are performing at optimal levels Show less

    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Drilling Solutions Engineer III
      • Nov 2018 - Nov 2021

      • Co-ordinate field operations support for drilling tools product line.• Through constant customer contact maintain accurate monitoring of performance, activity, applications and competition.• Technically supervise integrated multi-product solutions to clients.• Analyze tool performance data and prepare and present customer presentations, performance summaries and outstanding run reports.• Oversee field analysis for failed tool investigation and coordinate with Sales and Service Quality Group to provide and present applicable incident report to the customer.• Coordination between Drilling Solutions, Product Line engineering and reliability group.• Provide BHA and Drill-String recommendations.• Manage field testing of new products and help implementation of design improvements.• Make recommendations to enhance existing products to drive reliability.• Implement procedures, best practices and follow knowledge management processes.• Integrate drilling dynamics data and surface data to optimize drilling tool performance.• Promote the technical image of NOV in the local area through membership of industry groups, technical papers and local publications.• Leadership in training and mentoring of new engineers. Show less

    • North Africa Drilling Solutions Engineering Supervisor
      • Nov 2016 - Nov 2018

      • Lead Drilling Solutions Engineering Group within North Africa.• Support projects in Drilling Tools and provide technical support, failure analysis, performance analysis and simulations for the entire suite of tools under Downhole product line.• Solutions Selling - In-Depth study of the applications for every client in the country and provide viable solutions to their drilling problems.• Liaise with Dubai & Houston based Engineering/Product Line Management for project support and product development.Key Achievements:• Successfully introduced NOV FluidHammerTM tool to the Algerian Market.• Published a couple of FluidHammer SPE papers. Show less

    • Regional Drilling Solutions Engineer
      • Mar 2015 - Oct 2016

      • Mentor and supervise Drilling Solutions Engineering group within Africa region; competencies management, projects management/supervision and technical support to the engineering team...etc...).• Manage and coordinate the field test bit program and drilling tool runs.• Assist in the drill bit design process for the assigned area.• Manage and coordinate the gathering of bit performance data.• Assist the sales force with detailed performance studies for optimization of drilling performance for critical or strategic applications. Perform/coordinate and interpret Rock Strength Analysis and generate technical outputs.• Assist in the assembly of case histories and outstanding run reports for internal and external use.• Promote the technical image of the company in the local area through membership in industry groups, technical papers and local publications.• Manage the region bit runs database while analyzing bit performances on regular bases.Provide rig site sales assistance and technical support when required.• Perform regular client visits and deliver technical internal and/or customer presentations.• Organize internal/external conference calls, meetings and technical discussions.Key Achievements:• Performance deal involving a PDC bit & drilling tools in deep offshore West Africa. Show less

    • Drilling solutions engineer II
      • Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

      • Advanced level sales operations, service quality, reliability and customer support for NOV drill bit & drilling tools product lines. • Evaluate and provide information on the performance of new products and technology. • Field Engineers supervision, sales technical support as well as drill bits & drilling tools product development.

    • Drilling solutions engineer
      • Sep 2012 - May 2014

      • Assist the sales force and customers with technical issues such as analysis of drilling and bit applications, bit performance data analysis and customer complaints. • Conduct failure investigation (drill bits and drilling tools: motors, jars, shock tools and agitators), customer presentations and liaise with client to ensure their requirements are fulfilled at all stages of operations. • Supervise trials and important runs in the rigsite • Assist in training of the new hired engineers • Promote the technical image of NOV ReedHycalog • Provide local technical guidance for the ToolRunTM database software • Coordinate the field engineers jobs Show less

    • Field engineer
      • Jun 2010 - Sep 2012

      • Supervise bit runs to ensure the best performance possible by optimizing running parameters and minimizing drilling vibration. • Pre-run preparation of material including offset studies, rock strength analysis, hydraulics calculations. • Execution of drilling strategies and liaison with rig personnel.

    • United Arab Emirates
    • Oil and Gas
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Mud logger
      • Jan 2009 - Jun 2010

      • Monitoring of drilling parameters, description of samples, determine formation tops, and coring point. • Generate mud logs. • Monitoring of drilling parameters, description of samples, determine formation tops, and coring point. • Generate mud logs.

    • Assistant Instructor
      • Dec 2007 - Jan 2009

      • Assist Sonatrach engineers in the one year Well Bore Integrity course organized by Boots & Coots. • Assist Sonatrach engineers in the one year Well Bore Integrity course organized by Boots & Coots.

Education

  • INELEC, Boumerdes University, Algeria
    Engineering degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    2002 - 2007

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