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Drilling Specialist

Company	Boots & Coots	Experience	11-15 years
Date	2009-11-16	Salary	Competitive
Category	Exploration and Production	Start date	To be agreed
Region	Africa North	Duration	To be agreed
Location	Algeria	Country	Algeria
Description of Drilling Specialist	Boots & Coots provides a suite of integrated pressure control and related services to onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and development companies primarily in North America, South America, North Africa, West Africa and the Middle East. Boots & Coots is searching for a talented Project Specialist-Drilling for a rotation position in Algeria. • Supports company project manager and country manager. • Provides guidance through knowledge of operations and practices in the oil and gas industry. • Provides training to clients about a wide range of drilling subjects such as well design, tubular design, wellbore stability, drilling hydraulics, mud selection, solids control, environmental considerations, bit selection, rig selection, drill string design and drilling optimization. • Assures drilling operations are consistent with overall strategy of client. • Evaluates, selects, and applies adaptations and modifications for drilling and well control operations utilizing knowledge of drilling metrics and drilling technology. • Maintains a consistent client-focused approach and active team approach philosophy. • Assesses potential opportunities and impacts and communicates such to all organizational levels. • Demonstrates strong basic communication and active listening skills. • Interfaces with functional and operational client personnel at several levels providing leadership and coaching to facilitate continuous HSE performance improvement. • Assists in development of procedures, and implementation of processes which have been established to ensure compliance and adherence with applicable standards, requirements, processes and best practices. • Activities may include inspections, audits, assessments, safety meetings, risk identification, risk analysis, risk assessments, incident reporting, incident investigation, environmental issues and compliance. • Participates as advisor to client HSE Engineers • Conducts audits, assists in development of audit protocols, manuals, checklist. • Demonstrates ability to effectively work in a multilingual and multicultural environment. • Identifies needed improvements in current practices and contributes to best practices. • Conducts training and drills as applicable. • Monitors and assesses on-going well conditions in order to implement plans to minimize risk of blowouts.
Skills required for Drilling Specialist	Requirements: • Strong working knowledge of HPHT drilling processes and procedures • 10+ years of experience in drilling and well control. • Bachelors degree in Petroleum or Mechanical Engineering • Project management experience is highly desirable. • Experience with all Microsoft Office products is a must. • Experience working in foreign countries/multi-cultural environment is needed. • Strong understanding of System Safety and Hazard/Risk Analysis Processes • Strong verbal and written skills • Bi-lingual English/French a plus, but not required • Travel up to 50% of the time • Valid Well Control Certification • The position is a full time position with benefits. Salary is commensurate with experience.
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