Drilling Superintendent

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)

Principal Accountabilities
HSE Awareness
Ensures safety and environmental performance of all drilling related operations through active Safety Leadership.
Drilling Operations / Engineering Activities
Plans and directs all drilling, well completion and workover operations and ensures that all operations have been thoroughly researched, engineered, programmed and implemented in a safe, efficient manner and in compliance with the prescribed requirements of the subsurface team.
Maintains Standards in all operations.
Directs the preparation of drilling, drilling fluid & cement programmes for drilling workover and exploration operations and the availability of the required materials.
Drives continuous improvement.
Keeps abreast of new development in drilling techniques and ensures that subordinates are provided with such information to improve work effectiveness and efficiency.
Technical Reports
Reviews and approves operational and engineering reports prepared by subordinates such as drilling, well completion, workover, flow test, drill stem test and similar technical summary reports.
Ensures accurate reporting of all drilling activities.
Advisory Role
Provides the technical advice for drilling contractors and consultants and the technical assessment of responses to tenders for drilling services and materials
Provides advice and recommend solutions for drilling problems of serious nature (e.g. logging failure, work & cement failure ...etc.).
Third Party Services
Provides overall supervision over the contracted services to ensure that all work is properly supervised and administered, includes ensuring that contacts with operating contractors and service companies are maintained at all levels and ensuring that contractors and service companies fully understand requirements and are capable of meeting them.
Technical Tenders
Responsible for preparations of tenders and evaluation of bids.
Budget Control
Ensures that drilling activities are completed within budget and schedule.
Controls expenditure and ensures that the variances between approved budget and actual Expenditure / invoices are properly allocated and justified.
Subsidiary Activities
Performs other related duties as assigned by the Drilling Manager such as: chairing the daily operations coordination meetings, ensuring the operations are at a minimum cost and consistent with safety and overall efficiency, recommending training, career development programs for subordinates.
Regular visits to field to audit rig
Participate in inventory control
Continuous Improvement
Evaluates activities against preestablished goals, and makes recommendations based on evaluations.
Stays abreast of current technology in the drilling activities