Geomechanics – Syntillica

Industry Experience

Example work: ADNOC, BP, Cepsa, Chevron, Dana Petroleum, Dong, E-On, Edison,ENI, Glencore, Maersk, Petronas, Shell, Total, Tullow Oil.

Industry Experience

Provide advice to the oil and gas sector and subsurface expertise to operators.
Worked in the UAE in several roles which includes; establishing a regional office and GCC focussed commercial agreements for a small U.K. based company, and as Director for New Technology (MEAP), Director for Unconventional Resources (MEAP), and as Integrated Completion Director for Baker Hughes.
Technical roles in Shell included Principal Geomechanics Expert, Senior Production Technologist and Subject Matter Expert in Sand Management and Geomechanics.
Experience in building and developing multidisciplinary teams and have led and managed technical development, support and research groups in BP (Sunbury), CSIRO (Melbourne) and Shell (Rijswijk) addressing state-of-the-art technical issues, through in-house technology & 3rd party collaborations.
Undertaken industry-funded consultancy and technology deployment drawing upon the Research and Development work in areas of Drilling Problems, Wellbore Stability, Sand Production, Reservoir Compaction, Inflow Performance, and Unconventional Resource developments.
PhD in Mechanics of Reservoir Compaction, BSc in Geology and Chemistry.

Example work: CNPC, ENH, ETAP, KOC, Petronas, GAP, Shell, Baker Hughes, BP, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, CSIRO, Rockfield.

Industry Experience

Fracture research supervision on structural characterisation of fractures and research on geomechanical characterization and stress sensitivity of fractures
Research on quantification of matrix and fracture properties of Carbonates for IOR/EOR
Technology development in Carbonate matrix/geobody modelling in the Petrel environment
Rock Physics research, experimentation design and supervision on shale sonic response on effect of stress path on shale porosity and velocity
PhD in Geomechanics/Geology, BSc in Geology, Post Graduate Certificate of Education.

Industry Experience

Geomechanics Engineer specialising in wellbore stability analysis, pore pressure prediction, sanding prediction, design & QC rock mechanics testing and project management. Experience includes operational and relative time pore pressure & hole stability monitoring and prediction.
Knowledge in Oil and Gas Law, Commercial Arbitration, European contract law, international law, corporate accountability and dispute resolution methods with extensive project management experience
Broad knowledge of the oil and gas industry from both a technical and a regulatory and legal perspective with expertise in a variety of exploration and production disciplines including exposure to drilling, production technology, petrophysics, reservoir engineering and geophysics.
Ability to analyse and interpret information, consolidate and summarise data from different sources, develop templates for data analysis and presentation, problem solve, define and deliver objectives.
LLM in International Commercial Law and Practice, BSc in Applied Geology/Chemistry

Example work: Lloyds Register, Helix RDS, Turner & Townsend, Schlumberger, RockMohr, and other companies

Software: Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), and various oil and gas industry software for analytical evaluation (e.g. Landmark – Drillworks, Lloyds Register -IP, Paradigm – Geolog)
ERP00036

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