Varun Sundaram Dhamodharan, Drilling Fluids Engineer

Varun Sundaram Dhamodharan

Drilling Fluids Engineer

Adnoc Offshore

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Renewable Energy
Experience
17 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months

Drilling Fluids Engineer at Adnoc Offshore
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since September 2018

Handling Drilling Fluids operations for ADNOC Sole Risk Projects (focussing on high Temperature Gas wells under sour environment)

Technical Professional at Halliburton Worldwide Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2014 to August 2018

Baroid -

at Al Hosn Gas
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2012 to January 2018

Onshore Fields: Shah, BAB, Ghurab,
Diyab, Hail Island
Offshore Fields: Nasr, Ghasha, Hair
Delma, Umm Lulu, Umm Shaif, Zakum
NaCl Polymer
system

Field Service Representative at Halliburton Worldwide Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2012 to July 2014

Worked for operators: ADMA, ADCO & Al Hosn Gas
* Building and maintaining drilling fluids/mud on rig site. Performing recaps, inventorying products and
costs, re-ordering and re-stocking needed materials and chemicals.
* Providing technical support and good level of communication with client on site.
* Running on daily basis, at well location, with the proper laboratory kits, all the tests for the drilling
fluid, according to the A.P.I. standards.
* Determining, recommending and coordinating the necessary treatments for fluid maintenance within
the design parameters.
* Providing the fluid hydraulics (rheological features, pressure drops etc.), daily variation of fluid
parameters, chemical consumption and costs recorded over the entire duration of the operations.
* Monitor mud consumption and respond to down hole mud losses in a timely manner.
* Have experience of working on specialized testing like PSD, GGT - H2S & CO2, Hach test and Iron
content test in field.
* Experience in handling well issues like: H2S up to 25% Gas wells (with AHG), Stuck Pipe -
differential & mechanical, HTH Pressure wells, Borehole instability in highly troublesome shale
(caving and sloughing), Well bore cleaning and hydraulic optimization, mud loss while drilling across
fractured formations and Total loss circulation.

Field Service Representative at Halliburton Offshore Services
  • India
  • August 2007 to April 2012

in HTHP operations with ONGC - KG basin Offshore project
(BHT: 400 F, MW up to 18ppg)
* Worked on land operations with operators: GSPC & NIKO Resources in different locations across
India.

Field Operations & Panel Engineer at Reliance Industries
  • India - Bharuch
  • November 2006 to August 2007

Electrical Maintenance Engineer in Gas Cracker (GCC) Plant

Graduate Engineer Trainee at Larsen & Toubro
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 2006 to November 2006

Design Engineer in R&D Department worked on Air Circuit Breakers (ACB)

Education

Master's degree, Renewable Energy
  • at Heriot-watt University Dubai
  • November 2022

Thesis project on Penetration of Electric Vehicles in UAE transportation Sector and performance validation of Lithium-ion batteries using MATLAB Simulink

Diploma, Petroleum Exploration
  • at Annamalai University
  • May 2009

PG Diploma in Petroleum Exploration

High school or equivalent, Drilling Fluids Technology
  • at Halliburton University, Halliburton Training Centre
  • January 2007

Baroid Mud School Training

Bachelor's degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
  • at University Of Kerala
  • May 2006

B Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

High school or equivalent, Senior School Certificate Examination
  • at Central Board of Secondary Education
  • May 2002

Grade 12 exams with Physics, Chemistry, Maths & Biology

Specialties & Skills

Petroleum Engineering
drilling fluids engineer
solids control
Plant Maintenance
Drilling Fluids
Solids Control Equipments
Fluids Hydraulics
MATLAB Simulink

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker
Malayalam
Intermediate

Memberships

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
  • Member
  • February 2022

Training and Certifications

Technical Professional Seminar (Block II) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Drilling Fluids Technology (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2007