Contributors
Andrew Acock, Solution Manager for Data & Consulting Services, Schlumberger Reservoir Completions, is based in Aberdeen, Scotland. He joined Schlumberger in 1984 as a fi eld engineer in Gabon, West Africa, and transferred to Aberdeen, where he spent several years in cementing engineer- ing operations offshore North Sea, Europe and Africa. As a New Orleans-based DESC* Design and Evaluation Services for Clients engineer, he worked with Shell Offshore Inc. teams to identify production enhance- ment opportunities, coordinate operations and evalu- ate treatments for Shell’s coiled tubing and matrix acidizing work. He also served as matrix engineering manager and solutions coordinator in Houston, Texas, USA, before assuming his current position in 2002. Andrew holds a BS degree in engineering science from University of Aberdeen in Scotland, a diploma in man- agement studies from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic in England, and an MS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ali Chareuf Afghoul is a petroleum engineer in charge of operational data gathering and well integrity for Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). He joined the company in 1977 as a junior drilling engineer concen- trating on drilling completion and workover on drilling rigs. In 1985, he transferred to production, where he was responsible for planning, preparing and executing well data-gathering programs, well testing and well programs providing reservoir management information and support to petroleum development and fi eld per- sonnel. Ali studied petroleum engineering at the Institut Franç ais du Petrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France, followed by a three-month practical course in the Algerian desert fi elds.
Joe Alexander is based at the Schlumberger technical hub in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he provides technical support for sand management solutions and works on increasing the sand-management business in the Middle East. After earning a bachelor of technology degree in mechanical engineering from Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, England, he began his career with Schlumberger Dowell as a fi eld engineer trainee in the Middle East. Before assuming his current position in 2004, Joe worked in fi eld operations, technical support, training and product development throughout the Middle East, Asia, the USA and UK, including his most recent assignment at the Beijing Geoscience Center in China.
Syed Ali, Research Consultant at ChevronTexaco Energy Technology Company in Houston, provides technical consultation, training and recommendations on rock-fl uid interaction, sandstone acidizing, forma- tion-damage control, fl uid chemistry, horizontal com- pletion, frac packing, high-rate water packing and formation mineralogy. He joined the industry in 1976 as a geologist and has worked for Gulf Research & Development Company in Houston; Sohio Petroleum Company in San Francisco, California, USA; Gulf Science & Technology Company in Pennsylvania, USA;
Gulf Oil Exploration & Production Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; and Chevron Production Company in New Orleans, where he served as supervi- sor of the Engineering Technology Laboratory and later as a technical advisor. A prolifi c author and industry expert in formation-damage control and sand- stone acidizing, Syed received BS and MS degrees from University of Karachi in Pakistan; an MS degree from Ohio State University in Columbus, USA; and a PhD degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA.
Sridhar Amaravadi, Schlumberger Coiled Tubing Services Manager for North Sea Well Services, works in Stavanger, Norway. His responsibilities include manag- ing operations in the UK, Ireland, Norway and Denmark. He joined Schlumberger in 1993 and has served as a fi eld engineer and water control specialist in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), and as a DESC engineer in production enhancement and candidate recognition in the GOM and Aberdeen, Scotland. He also served as district technical engineer for Aberdeen Well Services before assuming his current position in Norway. He has a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Pune in India, and an MS degree in petro- leum engineering from University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. The author of several papers, Sri was awarded the 1999 SPE Cedric Fergusson Medal for recognition of permanent contribution to the technical literature from an industry member less than 33 years of age.
Greg Andersen, Consulting Reservoir Engineer, Deep Water Developments, for Unocal Indonesia, is based in Sugar Land, Texas. The fi rst 15 years of his career with Unocal were spent in research at Brea, California, working on reservoir simulation of geothermal, heavy- oil and gas fi elds. For the next three years, he was a reservoir engineer on asset teams associated with
fi elds in onshore Louisiana and Alabama, USA. He took his current post in 1999 and works on Unocal’s Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Appraisal and Development team. Greg earned a BS degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, and MS and PhD degrees, also in chemistry, from the University of California in San Diego.
Kjell Bersås, Drilling Superintendent for Statoil in Bergen, Norway, is responsible for the planning and execution of subsea interventions, and completion and drilling operations with the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig in the Tampen area of the North Sea. Before joining Statoil as a staff engineer in Drilling and Well Technology and Well Completions, he worked for Phillips Petroleum, IPR Services, Smedvig Petroservices and SOS-Expro as a senior production engineer, petroleum engineer and well-test operator. At Statoil, he worked on the planning of subsea com- pletions on Gullfaks satellite fi elds and as drilling supervisor on the fl oater Deep Sea Trym prior to assuming his current post in 2003. Kjell holds an MS degree in petroleum engineering from Rogaland Regional University in Norway.
Curtis Blount is a well supervisor specializing in remedial well interventions and a worldwide coiled tubing technology advisor for ConocoPhillips Alaska. Previously, he worked as an ARCO well supervisor and as a completion engineer for Dresser Atlas. He has been active in coiled tubing research and applications for more than 18 years. His contributions include many tool developments and the initial implementation of coiled tubing drilling in Alaska. Curtis has coauthored more than 25 technical papers and 20 patents. He is active in SPE, ICoTA and API, and is currently serving on an API committee addressing blowout prevention equipment for remedial well work. He was also an SPE distinguished lecturer on coiled tubing drilling in 2002 and 2003.
Abderrahmane Boumali, New Technology Service Manager for Sonatrach in Algiers, Algeria, is responsi- ble for managing both design and implementation of stimulation jobs, preparing annual and monthly reports and forecasting for planning. Since 2000, he has been in charge of all stimulation, well selection, problem diagnosis, technical discussion with service companies and postevaluation in the Hassi Messaoud
fi eld in Algeria. He joined the company as a workover supervisor in 1988 after completing his BS degree in petroleum production engineering from the National Institute of Hydrocarbons in Boumerdes, Algeria. He also worked as a stimulation, fracturing and coiled tubing application supervisor and as stimulation design and evaluation engineer in Hassi Messaoud.
João Carlos Neves Calmeto joined Petrobras in 1989 and has worked in offshore well workover operations in the Campos basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 1991. He earned his BS degree in civil engineering from Viç osa Federal University in Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1988, and a specialist degree in petroleum engineering two years later from Bahia Federal University, Brazil.
Fokko Doornbosch, who is based in Stavanger, Norway, is a Schlumberger project engineer responsi- ble for coordinating, planning, designing and execut- ing OrientXact* tubing-conveyed oriented perforating programs in Norway. He is also involved with PURE* Perforating for Ultimate Reservoir Exploitation job designs in Norway. Using information gathered from more than 25 OrientXact jobs, he developed a design- training package. He joined Schlumberger in 2000 as a junior fi eld engineer in well testing and has worked in well-testing operations throughout Europe. Fokko has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the Hogeschool van Groningen, and an MS degree in petroleum engineering from Delft University of Technology, both in The Netherlands.
Helge Fimreite, Technical Advisor for Tubing Conveyed Perforating (TCP) and Well Testing in the Well Technology Department of Hydro, is based in Bergen, Norway. He has worked for Hydro since 1985 in offshore oil and gas production, production plan- ning, well testing, completion and TCP. Helge studied naval architecture and machinery at the Engineering High School in Bergen where he earned a BS degree.
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