The drilling consultant provides onsite supervision of day-to-day drilling operations, ensuring the safety of all personnel on location while successfully executing the Operator’s drilling plan and reaching target depth as quickly and cost effectively as possible.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure operations are conducted in accordance with safety and environmental standards, government regulations and company policies and procedures.
- Manage day-to-day activities of rig contractor personnel and third party contractors.
- Maintain daily activity reports, cost tracking, vendor evaluations and other reports as required.
- Coordinate with engineering and purchasing departments to ensure necessary services/equipment are available when needed.
- Confer with supervisor and engineers and make recommendations to optimize field operations and ensure effective teamwork between office and field personnel.
- Responsible for all operations conducted on site or on staging areas for wellsite.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a drilling consultant
- 7+ years of experience in horizontal drilling
- Additional experience with under-balanced, over-pressured drilling
- Proficiency reporting with a variety of systems
- Strong dedication to safety
- Possession of current well control certificate
- Familiarity with OSHA and EPA Health & Safety Regulations
- A working knowledge of area regulations and compliance requirements