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William Boyd, BEng (Hons), AMIMechE

William Boyd, BEng (Hons), AMIMechE

Arbroath,SCT

Summary

Seasoned professional in the petroleum industry, within both the operator and service sector, with over 24 years diversified experience in Operations Management, Key Account Management, Onshore & Offshore Well Intervention, Completion & Well Abandonment Engineering and Supervision activities. Management of offshore Drilling and Well Intervention operations and personnel. Successful in the design, planning, and execution across all Platforms, Semi-submersible, Jack-up and LWIV, operations including - Exploration, Appraisal, Completion, Well Intervention and Well Abandonment projects. International exposure gained with postings throughout Australasia, Europe, and UK Achieving compliance across all stages of delivery.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Well Operation Supervisor | Engineer

Axis Well Technology
Aberdeen, Scotland
10.2018 - Current

On behalf of Axis, assigned to Oil & Gas Clients as a client company representative, fulfilling roles as Well Operations Engineer, Wellsite Leader, Well Abandonment Supervisor.

  • Responsible for all Well Abandonment & Intervention activities, including:
  • Reinforcing health and safety working practices and promoting safe working culture.
  • Reviewing Drilling Abandonment well Programmes in detail and advising the Drilling Superintendent of any deficiencies and potential improvements to programmes to optimise operations and reduce costs.
  • Ensuring Drilling Programme, policies and instructions are efficiently directed and communicated to rig team.
  • Creating work instructions, capturing lessons learned, accurately completing 24-hour daily reports on OpenWells reporting system.
  • Holding pre-job meetings and toolbox talks, carrying out risk assessments, personnel, and equipment logistics.
  • Leading morning calls to town and Offshore Head of Department meetings.
  • Liaising with all department and service providers to the success of the wells.
  • Working in Clients main offices responsible for onshore team, planning, and preparation.
  • Preparing and completing Well Workover, Completion and Intervention Well Programs and Risk Assessments.
  • Ensuring service providers provided equipment in a timely manner.
  • Attending SITs, completing reports, witnessing equipment make-ups and load-outs.
  • Attending and contributing to CWOPs, AWOPs, HAZID & HAZOPS.

Senior Technical Representative

HALLIBURTON
Montrose, Angus
04.2006 - 10.2018
  • Started Halliburton as a Wireline assistant, working up to Supervisory level and then transferring to Completion Tool and working up to Completion Service Leader / Supervisor before transferring to an onshore role as Senior Technical Representative.
  • Understood business objectives and adapted sales services to achieve KPIs.
  • Prospected clients to increase new business leads and conversions.
  • Utilised various sales techniques to develop relationships with customers and drive sales.
  • Attended industry events to represent company activity and grow partner networks.
  • Responsible for coordinating both sales and job site service delivery, providing technical support to customers on specific products and their applications.
  • Responsible for coordinating Upper and Lower well completion systems, reviewing well programs, completing end of well reports, quoting and billing customers.
  • Liaising with third party vendors to procure correct equipment required to meet customer’s requirements.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

The Open University
Milton Keynes
10.2017 - 10.2023

Skills

  • Supervising and reporting on Well Abandonment Operations and procedures
  • Perforation, Wash and Cementing operations and calculations
  • Cement plug mixing, pumping and calculations
  • Supervising drilling and completion of well and ensuring activities are undertaken safely and, in cost-effective and timely manner
  • Upper Completion Installation Design, inclusive of running, Packers, Straddle Packers, ASV’s, Tubing Nipples, Sliding Sleeves, Chemical Injection, Gas Lift Mandrels, Safety Valves and associated tools and equipment, Tubing Hangers, Slickline Plugs
  • Sand Control Lower Completion Installations
  • Dual ESP Installations
  • Monobore completion installations
  • Interventions, Completion Pull and work-over procedures
  • Dual Gas lift completion installation
  • Concentric Gas Lift installation and Workover
  • Running Hydraulic and Mechanical Liner Hanger Systems in vertical and horizontal wells
  • HWO operations Completions workovers and interventions
  • Planning and Installation of TCP/DST and E-Line Perforating Systems
  • Offshore TCP and E-Line Correlation Procedures
  • Slickline and Wireline Operations during completion and work-over installation
  • Wireline Heavy Duty Fishing Operations
  • Surface Xmas Tree and associated actuators and valves change out and maintenance
  • Well Kill and associated calculations
  • Well Bore Clean-up operations, tools, and calculations
  • Coil Tubing operations, systems, and procedures
  • Multiple Zone Coil Tubing Acid stimulation
  • Well Test package and Well Test operation
  • Responsible for safe working conditions on rig site throughout all operations
  • Ensuring that all work instructions given and received verbally and in writing are fully understood and adhered to
  • Reinforcing Company and Client health and safety working practices and promoting safe working culture
  • Working closely with technical engineers to coordinate, plan and review well programmes

Certification

· SVQ Well Services: Mechanical Wireline Level 1

· SVQ Well Services: Mechanical Wireline Level 2

· QVA Award of Completions Operations


Training:

IWCF Drilling Well Control Surface level 4.

IWCF Well Intervention level 4. Completions, Wireline, Coil Tubing, and snubbing.

FOET, HUET, CA-EBS & EBS.

Offshore Medical Certificate.

MIST Certificate.


Timeline

Well Operation Supervisor | Engineer

Axis Well Technology
10.2018 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

The Open University
10.2017 - 10.2023

Senior Technical Representative

HALLIBURTON
04.2006 - 10.2018
William Boyd, BEng (Hons), AMIMechE