Ara Krikor, Senior Well Engineer

Ara Krikor

Senior Well Engineer

Schlumberger - United Arab Emirates

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Senior Well Engineer at Schlumberger - United Arab Emirates
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since March 2017

Schlumberger - Senior Well Engineer / Senior Performance Engineer and Remote Operation Integrity Center Manager from 2017 - until Today: based in Abu Dhabi covering Schlumberger projects in Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, UAE and India, the following summary concludes main work experiences as senior well / performance engineer:
• Recently assigned to Majnoon project in Iraq as Senior well engineer, the project is field development to drill complicated S-shape wells.
• Professional in flat time and drilling time analysis, I used to support the different drilling group projects in the Gulf using RigHour KPI bench marking software.
• Drive performance improvement initiative in the Gulf Drilling Integrity Center, mainly driving the process for After Action Reviews to drive Drilling performance and capture lessons learnt and best practices to achieve the best of best performance.
• Identify Invisible lost time and technology introduction.
• Knowledge sharing champion for LSTK project within different projects in eastern hemi-sphere.
• New technology introduction lead in the middle east and india, covering engineering and commercial benefit analysis, examples of new technologies which I led “ casing drilling in Iraq and Kuwait, drilling automation in all middle east, combating lost circulation with different initiatives”
• Managing remote operation monitoring team, to deliver daily reports which covers, KPI reports, T&D analysis, Drilling performance automation reports.
• Delivering drilling performance classes to SLB engineers in Middle east learning center in Abu Dhabi.

Senior Well Engineer at Schlumberger - United Arab Emirates
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since March 2017

Schlumberger - Senior Well Engineer / Senior Performance Engineer and Remote Operation Integrity Center Manager from 2017 - until Today: based in Abu Dhabi covering Schlumberger projects in Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, UAE and India, the following summary concludes main work experiences as senior well / performance engineer:
• Recently assigned to Majnoon project in Iraq as Senior well engineer, the project is field development to drill complicated S-shape wells.
• Professional in flat time and drilling time analysis, I used to support the different drilling group projects in the Gulf using RigHour KPI bench marking software.
• Drive performance improvement initiative in the Gulf Drilling Integrity Center, mainly driving the process for After Action Reviews to drive Drilling performance and capture lessons learnt and best practices to achieve the best of best performance.
• Identify Invisible lost time and technology introduction.
• Knowledge sharing champion for LSTK project within different projects in eastern hemi-sphere.
• New technology introduction lead in the middle east and india, covering engineering and commercial benefit analysis, examples of new technologies which I led “ casing drilling in Iraq and Kuwait, drilling automation in all middle east, combating lost circulation with different initiatives”
• Managing remote operation monitoring team, to deliver daily reports which covers, KPI reports, T&D analysis, Drilling performance automation reports.
• Delivering drilling performance classes to SLB engineers in Middle east learning center in Abu Dhabi.

Well Engineer at Schlumberger
  • Iraq - Basra
  • March 2011 to March 2016

1. AWSS / Night drilling supervisor:
• Supervision of drilling and well construction operations on 1500 / 2000 hp Rigs.
• Daily drilling operations reporting and logistic follow up.
• Preparation of drillers’ instructions.

2. Well Engineer / Drilling Engineer:
• Preparation of drilling and completion programs, procedures and instructions. 
• Preparing offset wells analysis and stick chart.
• Drilling performance analysis.
• Casing design with TDAS software and hand calculations.
• Hydraulics and Torque & Drag analysis / with DOX + TAD software.
• Preparation of EOWR, well acceptance and well handover documents.
• Real time drilling operations monitoring.
• Field supervision on critical operations (two stage cementing, liner hanger running and cementing …etc.)
• Coaching and mentoring for new hire employees and summer interns.
• Instructor for ROO fast track courses.
• Service quality incidents investigations and remedial work plan preparations.
• Preparations of learning curve.

Honors and achievements:
• Nominated as one of the best 2014 GFE projects in SLB - MEA for project subject “ Drilling optimization of the intermediate hole section in the Zubair field”
• Appreciation acknowledgement from SPE chapter of Baghdad University for participating in technical seminar targeting petroleum engineering students.
• Enhancement of production casing cementation bond for Zubair project.

Courses & Certificates:
• OFS-1 & Minimum QHSE Training /UAE- Abu Dhabi.
• Technical development program / Iraq-Basra, hands on training as roustabout, floor man, derrick man and assistant driller.
• IPM essentials /France-Melun.
• Directional drilling and measurement cross segment training /Iraq-Basra.
• Preventative well control and Well integrity/Iraq-Basra.
• Stuck pipe prevention / Iraq - Basra.
• Lean Level -2 /Iraq-Basra.
• IWCF / France - Melun.
• Drilling operations course / France-Melun.
• Drilling & Well Engineering / France-Melun.
• WCI Project management -ESI international / France-Melun.
• H2S - total safety / Iraq-Basra.
• Performance applied skills seminar / France - Melun.
• OFS-3 “Manage your people” / Malasyia - KL.
• SLB QHSE/Quest Certificates.
• SPE Chapter - University of Baghdad, appreciation acknowledgement.
• University of Baghdad - Petroleum engineering department, Certificate of Appreciation.

Sales Key Account Manager at ITKAN SIEMENS
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • March 2007 to March 2011

From 2007 to 2011 I was working for Al- Itkan which is a healthcare company and the sole agent of SIEMENS in Iraq, the assignments are summarized below:
• Mechanical Engineer, the main role was installation and troubleshooting for diesel generators and HVAC units.
• Sales account manager for MAQUET surgical workplaces and critical care systems.

Education

Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at University of Technology
  • August 2008

• M.Sc. In Mechanical Engineering – awarded in 2008 from University of Technology – Baghdad • B.SC in Mechanical Engineering – awarded in 2005 from University of Technology – Baghdad

Specialties & Skills

Supervising
Drilling
Drilling Engineering
Microsoft office
Drilling and well engineering softwares
Coaching and mentoring

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
Armenian
Native Speaker