… reports to the Drilling Manager. Represents the Company in all drilling related activities required to drill, evaluate and complete a well.
- Conduct morning calls and review morning reports from the drilling rigs with the Drilling Supervisor at the rig site and the Drilling Engineer. Ensure the operations are conducted in the best interest of the Company. Discusses future operations plans with the Drilling Supervisor and the Drilling Engineer in an effort to optimize and eliminate problems.
- Communicate effectively with the Drilling Supervisor and Drilling Engineer to ensure that all technical specifications of the Drilling Program and Drilling Manual are met.
- Encourage an atmosphere of teamwork among the drilling staff, rig site personnel, service providers and other disciplines.
- Conduct meetings through the term of the contracts, with service providers, to increase the efficiency of the service and help reduce or eliminate any potential problems.
- Provide technical trouble shooting when problems occur on the drilling rig.
- Perform periodic evaluations for the Drilling Supervisors, Drilling Engineers and Drilling Technicians.
- Monitor drilling expenditures on a daily basis with the goal of drilling the most cost effective wells possible.
- Review equipment planning with Drilling Engineer, Drilling Supervisors and the Material & Logistics Coordinator to ensure timely equipment arrivals and to eliminate equipment overstocking.
- Coordinate with the Drilling Engineer, Material & Logistics Coordinator & Drilling supervisors the timely arrival of drilling equipment and services on wellsite.
- Ensure that wells are drilled and completed in a manner that meets the objectives of the Reservoir, Production, and Geological departments.
- Encourage and support HSE training and implementation of new procedures and guidelines. Attend the bi-weekly safety meeting in the field.
- Prepare monthly drilling operations reports
- Technical review of all drilling programs and final well reports.
- Perform wellsite inspections to ensure that safety programs are conducted and monitored by the drilling contractors in a manner consistent with HSE policies in conjunction with the Senior Drilling Supervisors’ site specific HSE plan.
- Liaise with Construction personnel to ensure that well platforms are constructed to specifications, in a time and cost effective manner.
- Liases with subsurface geology and production teams