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RICHARD
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Congratulations
to Richard I. Smith of BP who joins the ADS 100 CLUB, reserved
for drilling people who have achieved a perfect 100% score
in the “Principles & Procedures” in the IWCF
Well Control exam and earn a reward of £250 from Aberdeen
Drilling School.
Richard is BP Clair Wells Team Leader. He has been with
BP for 25 years this year, mainly working in the drilling
discipline in Aberdeen, with spells in London, Anchorage and
Stavanger.
The proud father of three children (the youngest, Juliet,
is pictured), Richard enjoys cycling (commuting) and playing
tennis, although he dislocated his knee cap on the Monday
night of the well control course playing tennis, so won't
be picking up a tennis racket for quite a few weeks now!
He reckons the £250 prize from ADS will likely be spent
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POSITIVE
THINKING IS HANS' SECRET TO SUCCESS |
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Congratulations
to Hans Nijssen who joins the ranks of those who have achieved
a perfect 100% score in the “Principles & Procedures”
in the IWCF Well Control exam and a reward of £250 from
Aberdeen Drilling School.
Hans (51) is a father of 5 children. As a mechanical engineer
(Bsc), he joined the Shell International 'trainee-driller'
programme in 1980 and, after obtaining the necessary
experience combined with the Shell certificates Round-1 and
2, decided to leave the company in 1986 and go his own
way as a consultant drilling supervisor.
His first DSV job was for PDO (Shell Oman) in 1988. Since
then he has worked for a wide variety of operators (Shell,
BP, Total, Gaz de France, Wintershall) in about 12 different
countries. At present he's working for Shell Libya as
Senior DSV on their first remote HPHT well in the Libyan desert
using the KCAD T-202 rig which was recently upgraded in Dubai.
An interesting aspect of this project is the fact that they
will be using the MPD (Managed Pressure Drilling) technique
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Hans sums up his attitude to life and work: "My job takes
me everywhere around the world where I would like to work.
Besides being an enthusiastic and positive thinking (rig)team
builder, I love the responsibilities that come with the function
of 'Day Rep'. The same enthusiasm I found with both of
my instructors at the Aberdeen Drilling Schools, Dave
Pollock and Blue Rapley. Thanks, guys, for your professional
support." The £250 reward will be donated to a
good cause. |
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“MANAGING
PRESSURE” IS GRAHAM’S SECRET FOR PERFECTION
IN
WELL CONTROL EXAM!
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Congratulations to Graham Boyce of Halliburton, who joins the
ADS “100 CLUB”, having achieved a rare 100% on his
IWCF Well Control “Principles & Procedures”
paper and earning himself a £250 reward.
After completing a degree in Geology, Graham started in the
oil industry in 1990 working as a Mudlogger based in the North
Sea. He worked in a variety of positions before taking an MSc
in Drilling Engineering at Robert Gordon University in 1998.
He is employed by Halliburton as a Technical Advisor for Underbalanced
and Managed Pressure Drilling. He is currently working in India,
responsible for Managed Pressure Drilling in a HPHT field in
the Bay of Bengal and Underbalanced Drilling in a fractured
carbonate field off the west coast of India.
Graham enjoys travel and in the last ten years has worked in
many different countries including Australia, Algeria, Mexico
and Thailand.
Married to Lynne with two sons, Josh and Dan, the Boyce family
home is in North Yorkshire, between the Dales and the Moors.
On days off work he enjoys DIY, working in the garden and walking
with the family.
And what about the £250 reward from Aberdeen Drilling
Schools? This will go on “a new bike for Josh and some
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DRINKS ARE ON JAMES AFTER WELL CONTROL ACHIEVEMENT! |
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Congratulations
to James Meeke who joins the ranks of those who have achieved
a perfect 100% score in the “Principles & Procedures”
in the IWCF Well Control exam and a reward of £250 from
Aberdeen Drilling School.
James is a Drilling Engineer with SPD, a provider of well engineering
services to the oil & gas industry, with headquarters in
Dubai, UAE and offices in Aberdeen and Doha, Qatar.
James graduated with a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from U.Q.
in Australia in 2001. He worked for service companies in the
Middle East and North Africa for 4 years before joining SPD.
For the past two years, James has been working for SPD as a
Drilling Engineer based in Dubai. This entails a variety of
drilling engineering and supervisory work. He is currently working
on an exploration project offshore Mozambique.
In the spare time that his job allows, James enjoys travelling,
reading and bushwalking.
When asked how he will use the £250 prize, James said
he intends to “Shout the guys in the office some drinks,
and see what’s left after that!” |
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JOY FOR SHELL WINNER IAN |
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CONGRATULATIONS
go to Ian Hammill, another £250 winner for gaining a 100%
score in the ‘Principles and Procedures’ paper of
the IWCF Well Control exam.
Ian is currently working as a Drilling Supervisor, for SNEPCo,
a Shell company operating in Deepwater Nigeria. He is assigned
to the Sedco 702. He has worked for Shell since graduation,
initially in The Netherlands and subsequently in the Gulf of
Mexico and North Sea before transferring to Nigeria in 2006.
Ian’s interests include preparing and competing in trials
cars, going to the gym and riding his bicycle.
When asked how he plans to use the £250, Ian said: “I
have recently moved house in Gloucestershire and will put the
prize towards some improvement work.” |
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DOUBLE
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Special congratulations go out to Stephen Brown of Noble Drilling
who is the first person to receive our £250 reward twice
for obtaining the perfect 100% score on his IWCF Well Control
“Principles & Procedures” paper on two consecutive
occasions! Stephen was first welcomed to the “ADS 100
CLUB” for this achievement in 2005 and he has recently
repeated the feat. Here Stephen tells ADS about his life and
work.
ADS: What’s your background?
SB: “I have worked for Noble for 10 years
and am now an Assistant Rig Manager on the jack-up Noble George
Sauvageau on contract to Altinex & Dong Energy in the Danish
sector of the North Sea. I’ve worked offshore since the
early eighties for several companies both on semi-submersible
& bottom-supported rigs - Jebsens Drilling, Lauritzen Offshore,
Ensco & Noble.”
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ADS:
What about your home life - any hobbies?
SB: “I try to stay reasonably fit (for
someone of my years - 56) so go to the gym when I can. I enjoy
the cinema & have a small boat in Cornwall that, this year,
requires a little investment (new engine) so the money from
ADS will come in handy there. I’m married with one daughter
who is at University.”
ADS: Any tips for IWCF Well Control candidates?
SB: “I hate to make suggestions regarding
exam technique as I guess everyone has their own system but
my approach (to the written papers) for what it's worth is to:
take the time allowed for the test; pass over any question I'm
not sure about and go back to it at the end (sometimes the direction
of the question becomes clearer on a second - or third - reading).
Double-check the arithmetic, especially on the Kill Sheet question.
Finally, have a little luck as there is usually at least one question
with (to me) two apparently plausible answers!” |
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P&P
PERFECTION IS MUSIC TO ALISTAIR‘S EARS! |
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Congratulations
to Alistair Sprott, who joins the ranks of the ADS “100
CLUB” having achieved 100% on his IWCF Well Control
“Principles & Procedures” paper and earned
himself a £250 reward.
Aberdeen-based Alistair came to drilling from a general
engineering background around 11 years ago, initially
joining Shell in Aberdeen, and following their Round 1
and 2 training programme for the 2 1/2 years. During this
time he worked on the Sedco 704 and Brent Alpha as trainee
DSV. On completion of his training he had a spell in the
office as the well design engineer for the Brent Alpha,
before going back offshore to the Brent Alpha as DSV for
a couple of years.
When the platform was mothballed mid-2002, Alistair transferred
to PDO in Oman, where he worked as DSV in Exploration
and HPHT development for the next four years. In July
2006 he returned to work in the UKCS, taking a position
with BP, working on the new Magnus extension project,
drilling new ERD wells from splitter conductors.
When on his time off, Alistair enjoys travelling, and
(closer to home) mountain biking in the forests around
Aberdeen. He is also currently learning to play the guitar,
and intends to use his £250 cheque from ADS to stock
up on some new guitar equipment! |
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£250
winner Alistair Sprott gets the bit between his teeth! |
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WALKER
RIDES TO WELL CONTROL SUCCESS! |
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David Walker has been working in the oil industry for
the past 18 years, starting as a roustabout for Kenting
Drilling Services on Wytch Farm Oilfield in Dorset.
After progressing to Driller, he ventured overseas to
spend some time in Africa, Bangladesh and the Middle
East. Since being overseas, he has moved from Driller
to Senior Toolpusher, working for various companies
along the way.
David has just secured a position with a brand new company
called Larchford Limited who have purchased a new cyber-based
hydraulic land rig to begin a long term drilling contract
onshore UK for Star Energy.
Aside from “spending too much time working”,
David lives in Hampshire with “gorgeous girlfriend
Hannah”, and spends his time doing motorcycle
track-days and generally enjoying what free time is
available to him.
David becomes the latest recruit to the ADS 100 CLUB,
membership of which is reserved exclusively for IWCF
Well Control candidates who score a perfect 100% on
the Principles & Procedures paper of the Well Control
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EXPLORING
OUR PLANET IS “TRUE REWARD” FOR P&P
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Congratulations to another new addition to the ADS
“100 CLUB”, Johan Jansen, who has received
£250 from ADS for a perfect 100% score on his
IWCF Well Control “Principles & Procedures”
paper!
Johan has been working as a Drilling Supervisor for
Shell for a number of years. He started off as an
Assistant Driller in the northern North Sea in 1987,
and since then has been lucky enough to travel to
various parts of the globe. He has worked on land
rigs in the desert of Oman, the “cloud forests”
in Northern Argentina and the rice paddies of Thailand.
These experiences alternated with offshore work in
Denmark, Namibia, Brunei and Norway.
Over the last couple of years, Johan has had the pleasure
of working on semisubs in the UK sector in the North
Sea again - back to where he started! He is, however,
quite happy to say that he will soon be leaving the
high-tech world of the North Sea to go “back
to basics” in Africa! Johan is looking forward
to working in the rainforests of Gabon for the next
few years - a new country to explore, not just in
a professional sense but also meet its people, and
enjoy its nature and wild life. According to Johan,
these are the “true rewards” of working
in countries that are off the beaten track. Wherever
he has worked he has always taken the opportunity
to travel the country – whether it be exploring
the mountains and deserts of Oman, camping on the
plains of Namibia, crossing the mountains of the Argentinian
Andes, or driving from Oman to Holland
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Johan
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WELL
CONTROL REWARD IS “PARFAIT” FOR LEIGH! |
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Leigh
Foster of BP is another recruit to the ADS “100
CLUB”, having achieved 100% on his IWCF Well Control
Principles & Procedures paper and winning himself
£250 from ADS.
Leigh has been in the oil business as drilling engineer/supervisor
since 1981, initially working for BP, then ARCO and,
since 2002, BP again. He has used ADS for his
Well Control refresher since about 1990 and says he
finds the course format “useful, enjoyable and
convenient”. He is currently working on
a semi-sub in the Caspian Sea, drilling template wells
on the Azeri field, and enjoying the practical challenges
of being “at the sharp end” again.
His previous work assignments have taken him from the
UK to the US, Africa, the Middle East and south-east
Asia. He developed his French language skills
on assignment in Algeria, and put them to good use recently
when he and his wife took on a property in southern
France. Leigh is a keen windsurfer, cyclist and
skier, and this location offers plenty of opportunities
to do all three. He has two (“large and
still growing!”) teenage sons.
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Leigh
plans to donate part of the £250 prize to the British
Heart Foundation, and to use the rest to take his family
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THE
ACCIDENTAL DRILLER! |
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Congratulations from Aberdeen Drilling School to Ron Wood,
a Drilling Supervisor with BP’s BKR Rhum Development
Team, whose perfect 100% score in the “Principles
& Procedures” paper of the IWCF Well Control
exam entitles him to a £250 reward - and membership
of the Drilling School’s exclusive “100 CLUB”!
Ron has kindly given ADS some highlights of a very interesting
life in the oilfield and how he got there:
Family:
Ron lives with the love of his life, Julie. Between the
two of them, they have six children - James (23), Alex
(20), Iysha (12), Calvin (15), Jordan (11) and Nathan
(13) – and a grandchild Spencer (2).
Route to the oilfield:
Born and raised in the Blackpool area, Ron left school
at 16 and started his working life as a dustman for Wyre
Borough council. This job lasted 3 months during the summer
of 1974. In Sept 1974 he joined ICI as an Apprentice Fitter,
training up to repair pumps and compressors, etc. He completed
his apprenticeship in 1978 and became a Mechanical Fitter.
Before leaving ICI in 1983 he worked as a Mechanical Design
Engineer, having gained his HNC in Mechanical Engineering.
Ron joined Shell International as a trainee driller quite
by accident! The job ad he read in the newspaper asked
for a Mechanical Engineer - not a Driller. However, the
application form stated “Trainee Driller”
so, after some thought, he decided to apply for the job
– he was, after all, “used to drilling holes
in steel!” During the first interview, the “Driller’s”
job and the possible travel involved sounded quite interesting
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He
started with NAM in Holland “roughnecking”,
then worked as an Assistant Driller with QGPC Offshore
in Qatar before becoming a Driller with PDO in Oman. Ron
came to the North Sea in January 1989 as a nightshift
Drilling Supervisor working on the Sedneth 701, West Stadrill
and finally the Tern platform. He was promoted to dayshift
supervisor within the year and worked for Shell on various
Semis, mainly on HPHT wells in CNS and then on platforms
from 1992 until 1995.He left Shell in 1995 to work as
a consultant Drilling Supervisor, consulted for Amerada
Hess and BP Exploration until BP offered him a staff position
in November 1998. Since joining BP Ron has worked on the
ETAP project, Miller platform, various Southern North
Sea projects, West of Shetlands, Angolan Deepwater Exploration
in Blocks 18 and 31 and the Devenick / Rhum HP/HT exploration
/ development projects. He will be returning to Angola
later this year (2005).
Interests: “Keeping Julie and the
kids happy”
Football (supports Blackpool Football Club)
Windsurfing (but only on holiday these days)
Avid collector of soul music records.
Dislikes:
Prejudice, racism and greed
“Being in the red!”
Memorable moments while working in the oilfield:
Trying to get a Kelly cock stabbed while the well was
blowing out up the drillstring in Oman
Tackled a kick on the North Cormorant after having only
been on the rig 20 minutes! A well started to flow while
running sandscreens and then had to strip in to bottom
to kill the well
Watched the Iranian Rostan platform burning in the Arabian
Gulf after it was bombed in about 1985/6 whilst working
offshore in Qatar
Played football for England against Scotland live on TV
while working in Qatar in 1986 (expatriate match)
Had his record collection confiscated at the Oman / Abu
Dhabi border when moving country. Managed to get them
back after some time
Passing his Shell Rounds 1 + 2 and, of course, also getting
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PETER
“RIDING HIGH” ON WELL CONTROL SUCCESS! |
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Congratulations to another new addition to the ADS “100
CLUB”, Peter Mayo of BP, who has received £250
from ADS for a perfect 100% score on his IWCF Well Control
“Principles & Procedures” paper. If that
wasn’t enough, Peter actually scored a straight
100% across all three parts of the IWCF exam!
Peter is currently Drilling Superintendent with BP for
the Magnus field. Magnus has a challenging programme
of extended reach drilling using conductor sharing wellheads
drilled from four new slots.
He started in the industry in 1983 with Shell in Holland
but soon moved to Aberdeen working on Shell's Dunlin platform
and the Stadrill. In 1988, he came onshore and worked
in new field developments and later in support of the
Brent south subsea development. He left Shell in
1994 and worked as a consultant in support of North Sea
and East Irish Sea projects. In 2001, he joined
BP supporting the West of Shetland drilling programmes.
Peter had thought he might find the IWCF examination difficult
because he was just doing the refresher course, but he
says “The past papers and guidance provided by Aberdeen
Drilling School really helped”. He reported
“a great sense of achievement” to get 100%
across all three tests.
His passion is for mountain biking “but only going
downhill or over jumps”. As for the £250
prize? Peter told ADS: “It would be nice to think
that the prize money would go to some new flash components
for the bike, but with four expensive kids to support,
I think it will go their way in some form or other!” |
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THOROUGHLY GOOD ACHIEVEMENT! |
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Congratulations
to another new addition to the ADS “100 CLUB”.
Mike Thorogood of BP has received £250 from ADS
for a perfect 100% score on his IWCF Well Control “Principles
& Procedures” paper. What makes Mike’s
achievement even more notable is the fact that this was
his first time to take the IWCF Well Control course and
exam!
Mike is a Drilling Engineer with BP at Wytch Farm in Dorset,
UK. His first experience of the oil industry was a holiday
job working as a Roustabout. This proved decisive in motivating
him to embark on a career in the industry. He joined BP
after finishing his studies and has been working there
for the past 20 months as a Drilling engineer, both offshore
and - currently - in the office.
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for the £250 ADS prize? Mike is not married and
says that “living the single life” will allow
him to spend the money on his car. A case of “Making
hay while the sun shines”, we suspect...?! |
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MASTERPIECE DISCOVERED AT ADS!
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Congratulations to Marco Vermeer, another addition to
the ADS “100 CLUB” gallery! Unlike his namesake,
the renowned 17th century Dutch painter, Marco’s
achievement on this occasion is “scientific”
rather than “artistic”, as he attained a perfect
100% score on his IWCF Well Control “Principles
& Procedures” paper in March, 2005.
Marco is a Drilling Supervisor, presently working for
Wintershall in the Libyan desert drilling exploration
and appraisal wells. He startedÊhis career in the
oil industry with Shell in 1982. After an extensive hands-on
training programme, he was posted to Brunei (Borneo) in
1985, where he and his family subsequently spent some
seven years. This was followed by six years in Oman and
one year in Aberdeen. During this period, Marco moved
up through the ranks from Assistant Driller to Senior
Well Engineer. In 1999 he left Shell and has since been
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FROM
ABERDEEN TO IRAN (VIA THE GREAT WALL)!
November 2004
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The latest member of the ADS “100” CLUB,
and winner of £250 for a perfect score in the
IWCF Principles & Procedures paper, is Ian Ross.
Ian is based in Tehran, Iran, as Operations Manager
for OMV Iran, a subsidiary of the Austrian energy company,
OMV AG.
OMV Iran are presently drilling the first well in an
oil exploration campaign onshore west Iran - between
the city of Ahwaz and the Iraq border - using a Chinese
drilling rig from Great Wall Drilling Company. Needless
to say, the project has many aspects which are challenging
and interesting!
Ian started in the oil industry in 1979 with the British
National Oil Corporation (BNOC – subsequently
Britoil), later worked as a consultant for companies
such as Enterprise Oil, Carless Exploration, Clyde Petroleum,
British Gas, and then spent many years working for Ultramar
and later LASMO in the UK, the Netherlands, Libya, and
Indonesia, before joining OMV.
Throughout his time in the oil industry, Ian has always
done his regular Well Control exam at Aberdeen Drilling
Schools. He enjoys his return visits to Aberdeen, taking
the opportunity to see old friends and enjoy the hospitality
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Ian
regards it as “an honour” to be able to join
the ADS “100” club and be awarded the prize
from Aberdeen Drilling Schools for his result in the Well
Control exam. The money has been shared between donations
to the recent BBC 2004 “Children In Need”
appeal; a local Iranian charity helping the survivors
of the Bam earthquake tragedy in eastern Iran; and a “moderate
celebration” after the Friday well control exam! |
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P&P
PERFECTION FOR BP BAKU BOYS |
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Congratulations to Tim Wrighton and Dave Fisher of BP
Baku who both achieved 100% in the IWCF Well Control “Principles
& Procedures” exam paper at the end of a recent
Well Control course run for BP in Baku by Aberdeen Drilling
School.
The perfect “P&P” scores have earned Tim
and Dave a £250 reward each (Aberdeen Drilling School
offers a “Reward” incentive for what is regarded
as the most difficult part of the IWCF testing). ADS “coughs
up” on average only half-a-dozen times a year (from
500+ candidates), so to have two in one week was highly
unusual – and a credit to the BP delegates’
knowledge and application.
Tim and Dave first met on Forties in the mid-90s where
they were both offshore Drilling Engineers, then Operations
Drilling Engineers in the office. In 1997 Tim moved to
work on the West of Shetland fields and Dave to ETAP.
Both are now in Baku.
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Tim
- a Senior Drilling Engineer on the Shah Deniz HP gas
field – has been married to Lynn (a Midwife) for
13 years. They have two children, son Ben and daughter
Alix, and their dog (Jess) completes the family.
When asked how he would spend the £250 prize-money,
Tim diplomatically advised that he would be “taking
professional advice” from his wife!
Aberdeen Drilling School’s Well Control Instructor
who taught the 5-day course, said he was “delighted”
to hear of two £250 winners on the same course.
ADS’s accountant was said to be “unavailable
for comment”! |
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GARDENING
AND GOOD FOOD IS REWARD FOR P&P PRIZEWINNER! |
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Congratulations
to Martin Grauland of Maersk Oil Qatar who joins the illustrious
ranks of the “ADS 100 CLUB”!
Martin successfully negotiated the IWCF Well Control Principles
& Procedures paper with a perfect 100% in April 2004
to earn himself a cash prize of £250 courtesy of
ADS.
A Rig Supervisor with Maersk Qatar, Martin’s home
base is Morigny-Champigny, France. He is planning to use
the £250 award to buy some plants for his garden
that he is presently re-doing, and to take his wife out
for a dinner at their local Michelin-star-rated restaurant. |
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Martin
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STENA
MAN WINS WELL CONTROL PRIZE |
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Congratulations
to David Walker of Stena Drilling who recently joined
the ranks of ADS’s exclusive “100 Club”,
having scored 100% on the Principles and Procedures
paper of the IWCF Well Control exam, and wins himself
a £250 reward from ADS for his achievement.
David has been working in the oil and gas industry for
ten years, all of which have been with Stena Drilling.
After completing his studies at Strathclyde University,
he joined Stena as a steward on the High Seas Driller.
Rapidly rising up the ranks, David currently works as
an Assistant Driller on the Stena Tay. Operating for
Shell, he has travelled with the rig through Brazil,
Trinidad, currently completing operations in Egypt and
heading onto Palermo for its first five-year inspection.
David is thirty years old and lives in the Aberdeen
area. In his spare time he enjoys various outdoor pursuits,
including wakeboarding, snowboarding and downhill mountain
biking. Travelling also takes up a huge proportion of
his time. As for the £250 prize? This is likely
to come in handy on his forthcoming travelling vacation
in Australia. |
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David
Walker of Stena Drilling |
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MINDING
YOUR P’s & P’s |
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John
Penhale, a Drilling Advisor with Amerada Hess, is the
latest addition to the "ADS 100 CLUB". John
recently scored a perfect 100% on the "Principles
and Procedures" paper of the IWCF Well Control
exam, receiving a personal cheque for £250 from
ADS to mark this achievement. Indeed, his overall score
for the three parts of the IWCF test was 298% out of
a possible 300%.
The £250 P&P "gauntlet" is thrown
down every week at ADS. Many candidates simply enjoy
the challenge and the added spice of "going for
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John
Penhale, Drilling Advisor,
Amerada Hess |
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RUSSIAN
WINTER - SHALL BE NO PROBLEM FOR P&P WINNER! |
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A
recent addition to the ranks of the “ADS 100 CLUB”
is Norbert Jamot, a Drilling Engineer with the operating
company Wintershall Noordzee B.V..
Norbert holds a Master of Petroleum Engineering from
the IFP in France. Immediately following his studies,
he joined Wintershall as a DE. Since then, he has spent
the last six years working for Wintershall in different
locations: three years in the field in Libya, Germany,
the Netherlands and Dubai. This was followed by a transfer
to the office in Libya and then back to the Netherlands
where he has been based for the last 3 years. |
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is currently on his way to a new posting in Moscow where
he will begin planning some new operations in West Siberia.
With the Russian winter approaching, we suggest that the
£250 prize money which Norbert received from ADS
for his Well Control achievement would be well spent on
a fur hat and thermals! |
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