Patrick is the Fluids Adviser for Geodynamics Ltd, Australia, and is responsible for delivering fit for purpose drilling and completion fluids solutions in extreme HTHP geothermal wells in the Cooper Basin. He possesses 24 years of O&G experience. He started his career with Schlumberger Cambridge Research, specifically studying rock and fluid interactions in the drilling process and has a number of patents and papers to his name. Thereafter he moved into drilling operations taking up a number of roles within service companies, ranging from field engineering to worldwide technical manager. In the past 5 years he has worked for two leading oil and gas operators in Australia in a number fluid advisory and wellsite supervisory roles. He joined Geodynamics in February 2009 in the challenge to develop Geothermal Energy as an alternate and realistic renewable energy source for future generations.

Raid Bu-Khamseen Graduated from King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals back in 1997 majored in Geology and joined Schlumberger Geco-Prakla as Field Geophysist working in 2-D and 3-D crews in different countries. In Nov 2000, Raid BuKhamseen joined Baker Hughes as a Field Engineer and worked in international assignments for 5 years in well intervention starting from open hole electrical logging to cased hole logging specially production logging and perforation. In Jan 2005, Raid BuKhamseen joined Lukoil Saudi Arabia Energy Limited as Chief Geologist in the exploration division and he currently holds the position of Head of Exploration.

Dr. Ramashish Rai is presently the executive director, head of IOGPT (a premiere production technology R & D center of ONGC). Prior to this, he was Dy Director General, Directorate General of Hydrocarbon, New Delhi (Govn. of India, regulatory body) till Oct’ 2008. He was Asset Manager Bassein & Satellite Offshore Asset, Mumbai ONGC till Dec’ 2007. From May 2003 to March 2007, he was Chief- New and Marginal Fields group of ONGC with responsibility for development of all discovered undeveloped fields

Having worked as drilling fluids engineer for about six years, Mr Asif Khan made the transition to well engineering and joined OMV (Pakistan) G.m.b.H. Presently, he is working as a senior drilling engineer and looking after HT drilling fluids, solids control equipment and waste management for the well sites. He is also actively involved in the application of new technology to drill HT wells in the tight gas reservoirs.

Mr Gu Chunwei was educated at the Beijing University of Petroleum. He started work as a drilling supervisor working with various wells in Bohai Bay and Nanhai West with BP. He was later promoted to a drilling superintendent and is current working in an HPHT well project.

Mr Wang Xianguang graduated from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a doctorate degree. Currently he is an engineer with the Drilling Fluid Research Institute, Research Institute of Petroleum Engineering in SINOPEC, Beijing.

Babs Oyeneyin is currently the Professor of Petroleum/Offshore Engineering at The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, UK and a 2009 Royal Society Enterprise Fellow. He possesses over 30 years of integrated professional experience spanning industry, consultancy, technology facilitation, research and development, academic teaching and professional training for the oil industry. As a consultant he has worked with projects in the UK, Norway, Libya, Japan and Nigeria.

Babs Oyeneyin’s expertise and interests are in the areas of HPHT applications, integrated project management, technology development/innovation, R&D, integrated well engineering [advanced drilling technique, well design, completion design, and pipeline transportation], oil/gas production optimisation, subsea/deepwater development and more. He has published extensively in these areas in international journals and proceedings with over 100 technical papers and reports to his credit.

Dr Inge Manfred Carlsen has over 30 years of international experience as an engineer and research manager in the petroleum industry. His main fields of interests are related to advanced well construction including studies on well integrity. He was a workshop leader for “Develop sustainable HPHT well integrity for the future in your HPHT projects” at the HPHT Wells Summit in 2008.

Dr Franz-Luitpold Kessler is a associate professor in Curtin University of Technology in Sarawak. He has 24 years of experience in the petroleum industry with experience accumulated in Brunei, Sarawak, Brazil, Perth, Stavanger, Cairo, Houston, Africa, Holland and more. He was involved in the HPHT wells in the Maharaja Lela field in Brunei and in Sarawak and has hands on experience tackling tricky technical questions such as permeability, permeability cut-off, and permeability distribution in HPHT wells.

All of R.J. Boocock’s experience has been “hands-on” within the oil and gas industry, specialising in field development, reservoir engineering, production operations, optimization and surveillance, drilling, completions, work-overs and contract negotiations. He has been heavily involved in training programs and produced manuals such as “Advanced Well Testing”, “Drilling and Geological Operations” and “Exploration Well Programmes”. He recently completed an assignment for GSPC doing well testing work in HPHT wells.

Mark is a senior fluids engineer with ten years of experience of running formate brines in HPHT drilling and completions operations. He has 21 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and gained practical experience as a drilling engineer. He possesses tremendous expertise in rig site management of potassium/cesium formate brines in HPHT drilling and completion operations in the north sea and worldwide.

Patrick Brenan is a HPHT Senior Drilling Engineer in Sonangol and General Manager of Optimal Well Engineering. He started his career as a graduate at BP in Aberdeen where he worked on a variety of platform and deepwater projects within the UKCS. He then moved to Cairo with BP to work on a range of deepwater and shelf HPHT exploration and appraisal wells in the Mediterranean. These wells were highly complex tight tolerance well designs which also made use of expandable casing and managed pressure drilling technologies. For the last 15 months he has been working for Sonangol on their first HPHT well and one of the first of its kind in Angola. The well will be utilizing managed pressure drilling technologies and is due to spud in 3Q 2010.

Alan Brumbaugh
Chief Drilling Engineer
GSPC

Fata Yunus
Well Construction Division, Head of Tunu-Tambora-Handil Department
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