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BLAIR MANUEL
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EDITOR:
Rich Cook
Cover photo: One of the bronze hard hats given to the families of the men who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon
on Apr. 20.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE:
Jamt Alfonzo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CONTENTS
Janice Arabie, New Orleans, Louisiana
Bob Bailey, Houston, Texas
Gretchen Byers, Houston, Texas
Don Carvalho, Houston, Texas
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Tony Clarke, Houston, Texas
Mario Colmenares, Quito, Ecuador
Cheryl Cook, Florence, Kentucky
Michael Dettmarg, Celle, Germany
Mary Dimataris, Houston, Texas
Edward Doucet, Houston, Texas
Jerry Duncan, Florence, Kentucky
Joe Dupont, Cameron, Louisiana
Luis Flores, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ammon Foster, Riverton, Wyoming
Lindsay Fraser, Houston, Texas
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Ingo Glaser, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Salamat Gumarov, Atyrau,
Kazakhstan
Bob Gurren, Florence, Kentucky
Monty Hale, Houston, Texas
Amro Heikal, Cairo, Egypt
Kenny Helmer, Houston, Texas
Frances Hozdic, Houston, Texas
Dan Jefferson, Houston, Texas
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Jaime Martinez, Lagos, Nigeria
Gary Matula, Houston, Texas
Robert Mercer, Harvey, Louisiana
Krista Mery, Houston, Texas
Samuel Nielsen, Anchorage, Alaska
Kendra Nolan, Houston, Texas
Ben Paiuk, Houston, Texas
RD Parks, Cabinda, Angola
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Dustin Sersland, Greybull, Wyoming
Saskia Spoelstra, Heerhugowaard,
Netherlands
Haroon Tabani, Muscat, Oman
Anfissa Volkova, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Bruce Wade, Bangkok, Thailand
Paul Ward, Edinburgh, UK
Letha Wise, Houston, Texas
Vladimir Zotov, Moscow, Russia
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SCHLUMBERGER
INTEGRATION UPDATE
Jim Andrews, Schlumberger Integration Manager for M-I SWACO,
answers questions about the
current status of the integration.
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Don Presley, Houston, Texas
Kumar Ramtahal, Houston, Texas
UP CLOSE
M-I SWACO honors our two brave
coworkers who gave their lives on
the Deepwater Horizon.
Barbi Messier, Houston, Texas
John Murphy, Anchorage, Alaska
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Paul Clark, Regional Manager
MENA for Production Chemicals,
talks about the challenges and
successes across the world’s most
prolific oil producing region.
Jurgen Joman, Dubai, UAE
Graeme Laws, Aberdeen, UK
SPECIAL MEMORIAL FOR
GORDON JONES AND
BLAIR MANUEL
WORLD
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Alaska receives safety awards,
Bright Light Foundation helps
Gulf Coast, UK enjoys a day
of golf.
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CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT
CI class participation up 300%;
Minerals, ES and ST host CI
events; Finance CI event saves
3,000 hours.
TRADE SHOWS
OTC 2010 a success for
M-I SWACO, ES Expo leads the
way, Q2 show list.
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QHSE
M-I SWACO Angola earns two
stop cards, Do you know the
Product Integrity Guidelines?,
Germany learns fire safety.
AUTHORS AND PAPERS
32 articles and papers published.
40 TECH ROLL CALL
Eleven EPCON CFU units
delivered, MagnoStar tool
performs in Brazil, WARP breaks
ERD records, ATC cleans up
in Ghana.
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COVER FEATURE
M-I Egypt is focused on serving
their customers, both IOCs and
NOCs, while keeping the focus on
improving safety.
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CAREER DEVELOPMENT
AND TRAINING
Dubai hosts Finance training course, HDD Mining &
Waterwell conducts customer
schools, Deepwater and IFE
courses held; E-Campus FAQ.
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AWARDS AND
ANNIVERSARIES
424 employees are recognized
with service anniversary
awards.
To Our Employees, Customers and Suppliers
Remembrance and Honor
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t has been a sad three months for the M-I SWACO family. First, Troy Gamble, our Libya
country manager, lost his son to the conflict in Afghanistan, and on April 20, Gordon
Jones and Blair Manuel died in the tragic Deepwater Horizon incident.
I had the honor of speaking at the Deepwater Horizon memorial service on May 25 and
had the privilege of meeting and speaking to both men’s parents in their homes after
the explosion and fire. I would like to pay tribute to Blair’s parents, L.D. and Geneva; and
to Gordon’s parents, Keith and Eileen, for their grace and courage. It is obvious from the
character of each of these men, from their hard-working attitude to their devotion to their
own families, that their parents gave them so much.
Both these men loved the outdoors, playing golf or fishing. Both were rabid LSU fans and
could be counted on for spirited discussions about the school’s athletic strengths at the
drop of a hat. Both leave behind families to whom they were devoted, and children whom
they lived for. Blair leaves behind three grown daughters, Ashley, Jessica and Kelli, and a
fiancée, Melinda. Gordon leaves behind his wife, Michelle, their 2-year-old son, Stafford,
and the newborn Maxwell, who was born just three weeks after the accident.
It will be difficult for these families to go on without their fathers and husbands but
there is no doubt that they will have the love and support of everyone around them,
both at home and from the M-I SWACO family worldwide. And for Gordon’s children, in
particular, they will come to know through the love of their family that their father was
a wonderful man.
At times like these, we must remember that safety is our most important job. We work
in a dangerous industry. But it is also an industry that is focused on the health and safety
of every employee, from the people on the rigs to the employees that support them here at
North Course and in other facilities.
Nothing will bring back Gordon and Blair. We move forward and honor them by
examining our safety practices and committing to “getting home safely” every day;
whether that is your real home, a trailer on a rig site or a bunk on an offshore rig. We will
also commit ourselves again to making sure that those we work with aren’t hurt either
and we will work under safe conditions or we will stop the job. We honor their memory by
keeping ourselves, and everyone else, safe.
These men were brave and courageous. We make too much of people who get their
name in lights or on a score-board. We forget that some jobs require a “bit more inside”
than others; these exceptional men had that “little bit more inside.”
Our hearts and our prayers go out to the families of Gordon and Blair and all those who
perished aboard the Deepwater Horizon, as well as to Troy and his family, in this difficult
time. We believe in the faith that guided these men and we find comfort in that.
Rest in peace. We will never forget you, or the ones you loved.
Sincerely,
Chris Rivers
President & CEO
Chris Rivers, M-I SWACO President
and Chief Executive Officer, speaks
at the Transocean Memorial on
May 25.
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In Memoriam
Gordon Jones
Drilling Fluids Specialist IV
6/26/1981 – 4/20/2010
A
love of jokes and a distinctive laugh defined Gordon Jones, as did his thoughtfulness and willingness to help others. A native of Baton Rouge, LA, Gordon
was passionate about his young and growing family. A graduate of Louisiana
State University, where he met his wife, Michelle, Gordon earned a Bachelor of Arts in
Communication in 2003.
He was hired as M-I SWACO Sales Engineer in Houston in 2005 and transferred to
Harvey, LA, as Compliance Specialist II later that same year. Due to his work ethic and
knowledge, Gordon was promoted to Compliance Specialist III in 2006 and to Drilling
Fluids Specialist IV in 2007. He worked on- and offshore for several operators and con-
tractors where he earned numerous certifications including becoming IFE-certified and gained significant deepwater
experience working on more than 23 rigs as a drilling fluids engineer and compliance engineer.
On his résumé, under the heading Significant Wells, Gordon simply wrote, “Aren’t they all significant?”
Gordon had relieved another mud engineer on the Deepwater Horizon a few days early, helping out his exhausted
coworker and taking on extra work. Family and friends said this was characteristic of his giving nature.
But for Gordon, family always came first. Ten minutes before the explosion, he called to check on his wife and their
2-year-old son, Stafford. His last words to his wife were “I love you.” They were to celebrate their sixth anniversary on
Apr. 23. His wife, Michelle, gave birth to their second son, Maxwell, just three weeks after the explosion.
Gordon was a scratch golfer who was teaching his son Stafford to play the game, teaching him how to hold the club.
The week before he left for the rig, Gordon helped his son build a fort in their backyard. On May 3, Michelle and Stafford planted a live oak tree in Gordon’s memory in the backyard. Friends packed his memorial service and spoke of his sense of humor and love of making others laugh.
Gordon is survived by his wife, Michelle, his sons Stafford and Maxwell, his parents,
Eileen and Keith Jones, brother Christopher, sister Kathleen, grandparents, Arnott and
Edwina Jones.
Condolences can be offered on the M-I SWACO Deepwater Horizon site at http://www.
miswacodeepwaterhorizon.com/. Memorial donations may be made to the Baton Rouge
Area Foundation for the Gordon Jones Memorial Fund, 402 N. Fourth St., Baton Rouge, LA
70802, or www.braf.org.
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Blair Manuel
Senior Completion Fluids Specialist
8/3/1953 – 4/20/2010
A
man guided by what his friends called the four “f’s” — faith, family, friends
and fun, Blair Manuel was a man who lived life to the fullest, finding enjoyment in everything he did.
“Family was second only to his faith,” said Mark Derouen, Blair’s best friend and best
man-to-be at his upcoming wedding. “He was completely devoted to his three girls.”
Born in Eunice, LA, Blair never strayed far from his hometown roots. He attended
Eunice High School, playing offensive guard and defensive tackle for the football team.
He was president of the local Future Farmers of America and won an FFA award upon
graduation. After high school, he attended Louisiana State University in Eunice. His
leadership continued as he became a member of the St. Anthony’s Parish Council and president of the Eunice Jaycees.
Blair owned and managed a 2,800 acre farm for 18 years before joining the oilfield in 1989 where he worked his way
up from mechanic to IFE-certified Senior Completion Fluids Engineer with M-I SWACO, beginning his career with the
company in 2000.
Blair was a devout Catholic and loyal fan of the Louisiana State University Tigers. He held season tickets to their baseball and football teams. Derouen, who delivered the main address at Blair’s memorial service on May 7, said he was an
avid tailgater, arriving early before a game to barbeque with friends and celebrate the occasion.
As evidenced by the hundreds in attendance at his memorial service, Blair had many friends. An active hunter and
fisherman, and popular on the rig where he was known as “Papa Bear,” Blair had friends everywhere.
Blair was known by his coworkers as a hard worker and a willing leader on the rig,
and he often spent as much as a month at a time offshore where he was a leader and an
inspiration to younger rig crew members.
“He was at the top of his profession,” said Derouen.
Blair had been working at the biggest deepwater rig on earth, BP’s Thunder Horse
PDQ. That rig had shut down for repairs and Blair had volunteered to transfer to the
Deepwater Horizon.
Blair is survived by his three daughters, Kelli Taquino, Jessica Manchester and Ashley Manuel; his fiancée Melinda
Becnel; his parents, L.D. and Geneva Manuel; his sister Pam Fontenot; brothers Kris, Al and Jamie Manuel.
Condolences can be offered on the M-I SWACO Deepwater Horizon site at http://www.miswacodeepwaterhorizon.
com/. Donations may be made in Blair’s name to his favorite charity: St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
In Memoriam
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Schlumberger Integration Update
It has been just over four months since Schlumberger and Smith International jointly announced
their agreement to merge, a decision that includes M-I SWACO. Currently in the normal regulatory
period, the merger is expected to close in the latter part of the year. During this transition period,
the integration teams, comprised of equal representation from both sides, are working within each
company to ensure everything continues to move smoothly.
To help the M-I SWACO family better understand the
integration process and get a brief insight as to what is
happening throughout the months leading up to closing,
Momentum sat down with Jim Andrews, the Schlumberger
Integration Manager for M-I SWACO.
Momentum: What is your background with
Schlumberger and what is your role in the
integration process?
Jim Andrews:
My adventure with Schlumberger started in Apr. 1991 when
I was hired as a project manager for what was Dowell
Schlumberger at the time, responsible for managing the
placement of cementing units on offshore platforms. My
first assignment was in an Engineering and Manufacturing
Centre in St. Etienne, France—certainly not the toughest
location as an introduction to the oilfield. The next few
years, I remained in Engineering, moving first to Tulsa, OK,
to manage the equipment installation on the Hibernia
project, which is located offshore East Coast Canada, and
then down to our then new and rapidly growing campus in
Sugar Land, TX. Houston became home for the next few
years until 1997 when I moved into Operations, looking
after cementing in the Gulf of Mexico, based in New
Orleans, LA.
Two years later, Schlumberger decided it was time to
broaden my horizons, and my family and I moved to
Gatwick, UK, as the Head of Personnel for our seismic
company, Geco Prakla. Within a few weeks, we announced
our intention to merge and form a joint venture with
Western Geophysical and so my first experience of integrations and mergers began. This was a rapid learning curve
for me, but I was fortunate to be part of a team being led by
John Yearwood, so I was in safe hands.
Most recently I was back in London as the VP Global
Accounts looking after BP for Schlumberger. Oddly enough,
this role has a lot in common with the role of Integration
Manager. When you are looking after a major account such
as one of the major international oil companies, you are
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very much Schlumberger’s representative in that company,
but also their representative in Schlumberger.
As the Integration Manager for M-I SWACO, this latest
role is not dissimilar and I hope I can draw on some of the
previous 19 year as the Schlumberger representative in
M-I SWACO…or is it the M-I SWACO representative in
Schlumberger?
I am working alongside Roger Samways, Senior VP of
Sales and Marketing, who is the M-I SWACO Business
Integration team member. Roger spent 25 years with the
Dowell product line in Schlumberger. Roger’s experience
from both companies certainly helps us move the process
along as smoothly as possible.
Momentum: Could you briefly describe the
integration timeline?
J.A.:
The integration process is extremely structured and we are
probably about halfway through. The initial period from
March to June was data gathering and highlighting the
opportunities that will make the merger a success. June and
July are where we start finalizing the strategy and make
recommendations how best to structure the new organizations. In August, we will finalize the structure to meet a
September 1 deadline to be ready for close. Now, it may well
be that “close” happens either before or after September 1,
depending on when we receive regulatory approval. Either
way, we will compress or extend the timeline accordingly,
but as you can imagine, there is no shortage of things to
be done.
Momentum: How do you think the cultures of
M-I SWACO and Schlumberger will complement
each other?
J.A.:
To me this is one of the really exciting bits as I believe the
two cultures are extremely complementary. Both of our
management will work proactively with the respective
organizations are staffed with highly dedicated and
group president to realize the full potential of these
motivated people who work tirelessly to make us market
relationships.
leaders in our fields. A passion for technology and a hunger
Both Schlumberger and M-I SWACO were extremely
to learn and develop are very obviously present in both
busy before we announced the merger and I see this being
organizations, and the importance of Research and Engithe same post close. I think that for the vast majority of
neering (R&E) is a reputation we both have in the market.
people not much will feel very different after the merger
Finally, I believe that both of our companies care about
goes through.
people, both internally
During the first few months,
and externally. The
there will be a transition
focus on the client is
in the organization as
strong; supported by an
M-I SWACO moves from being
emphasis on the
“I believe the two cultures are extremely
a self-sufficient independent
well-being of all our
complimentary.
Both
of
our
organizations
organization to being part of
people. I find it very
the Schlumberger family.
interesting how many
are staffed with highly dedicated and
Schlumberger is already a
people have worked for
motivated people who work tirelessly to
large organization and with
all or most of their
this merger the headcount
career with M I SWACO,
make us market leaders in our fields.”
will rise to over 100,000. Any
and the same is true in
company of this size can only
Schlumberger. We must
be a success if it leverages
both be doing somefrom a professional and
thing right!
structured support organization.
I also hope that people rapidly experience the huge
What are some of your observations
number
of opportunities that are available within the
and impressions of M-I SWACO as you’ve entered into
Schlumberger family. An organization of more than 120
this process?
different nationalities, operating in over 90 countries offers
unlimited career opportunities.
When I hired on 19 years ago, I had simply no concept of
First and foremost the thing that has struck me is what a
what would unfold. I have developed, grown and experifriendly place it is. I am also very motivated by the genuine
enced so many things that I simply would never have been
excitement that most people seem to have towards this
exposed to if I had worked in almost any other organization.
merger. Rather than focusing on the past, the reaction is
I am genuinely excited seeing these opportunities unfold
much more about what could be possible in the future.
for M-I SWACO people too.
There is no question that people drive the success of an
organization and I have high expectations of what
M-I SWACO people can achieve within the Schlumberger
What do you see as the future of the
organization.
M-I SWACO brand: the colors, logo and uniforms?
Momentum:
J.A.:
Momentum:
Momentum:
What will the integration mean for the
employees of M-I SWACO?
J.A.:
The decision has been made that M-I SWACO will fit into
the Schlumberger structure as a standalone segment,
reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. There will be
numerous synergies between M-I SWACO and the Drilling
and Reservoir Production groups, and M-I SWACO
J.A.:
Actually this is the easiest question to answer. The
M-I SWACO brand—colors, logo and so on—has a fantastic
reputation in the marketplace and is of tremendous value;
any changes made to the branding will be minor. This
industry recognition will be preserved and I hope enhanced
by Schlumberger going forward. Having started my career
with Dowell Schlumberger, I know the value of having
orange equipment and so do our clients, so why change it?
Update
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World Momentum
Diligence, hard work earn Tim Sullivan the ConocoPhillips
Safety Ambassador award
By John Murphy, Project Engineering Manager, Alaska
S
employee’s suitability to work
ullivan’s QHSE
alone. If the employee does
leadership has led to
not meet the criteria, he is not
an atmosphere of
allowed to work alone until
focused safety perfortrained enough to pass the
mance on all the operacriteria. Since the implementions M-I SWACO works
tation of this doctrine
within the state of Alaska
M-I SWACO has not suffered
for ConocoPhillips. He
a single recordable injury.
works closely with CPAI
For a number of years,
QHSE and Drilling and
Sullivan
has also taken the
Wells Supervision to
proactive
step to develop an
ensure QHSE expectations
Alpine
resupply
ice road
are understood and
milepost that describes the ice
aligned, then engages
road route and hazards such
with all work groups in
ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. Drilling & Wells Manager, Mike Wheatall,
as
turns, dips, swales, sections
left, presents the award to QHSE Advisor Tim Sullivan, right.
developing and updating
of
poor
visibility, etc. This
local work instructions,
document is published and copies are handed out to all
JSAs, risk assessments and site-specific safety plans. Sullivan
vehicles traversing the resupply ice road.
also trains all personnel on safety requirements of
Sullivan’s proactive efforts extend well beyond his
M-I SWACO, OSHA, EPA and ADEC as well as ConocoPhillips
specific
area of responsibility and are truly aligned with
site-specific training.
ConocoPhillips’ Zero Incident Culture.
After several workers were injured while working tasks
alone, Sullivan proactively developed criteria to evaluate an
Alaska warehouse celebrates 10 years with no LTI
On Apr. 12, the Kenai, Alaska warehouse went 10 years
without a Loss Time Incident (LTI). Pictured from left
to right are Sam Nielsen, QHSE manager, Alaska;
Mike Kish, district facilities manager, Alaska; Randy
Johnson, ES supervisor; Bob Myles, warehouse supervisor; and Erin Brayer, regional manager, Alaska. The
group went down to Kenai and presented Randy and
Bob with an M-I SWACO jacket and some hats signifying their great accomplishment.
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M-I SWACO Ecuador builds a new school dining room
M
-I SWACO Ecuador took on a
Mundo Integral project in 2009
that would provide a local
school with a clean kitchen and dining
area for the children attending the
Enrique Castillo school in Francisco de
Orellana (Coca), Ecuador. The elementary
school has 190 girls and 208 boys.
Prior to the project, the food was
prepared in a small, rudimentary kitchen
with few good facilities. The dining room
had a dirt floor and the children ate at
rough hewn benches beneath the eaves of
the school building.
The entire M-I SWACO staff took part in
building a brand new dining room and
kitchen facility. Even the children pitched
in to help clean up the construction area.
The company invested just under $12,000
to construct the concrete block dining hall.
After the official ribbon cutting, and as
their way of thanking M-I SWACO, the
parents and school director invited the
construction team to join them for the
first lunch in the dining hall.
“The project was chosen because the
school is close to the Coca Operations Base
and will directly impact the people living
in the community near the base,” said
Ecuador Country Manager Mario ColmenThe M-I SWACO staff enjoys a celebratory lunch in
ares. “When we saw the bad conditions
the new dining room.
and installation that the children had, we
realized that we could do something to
improve their lives and education conditions.”
From left to right: Luis Vallejo,
Coca Base supervisor; Washington Cobo, driver; Domingo
Caicedo, mechanic; Joffre
Jaramillo, forklift operator;
Freguine Mendoza, painter;
Wilson Alvarado, electrician;
Crisanto Benavidez, welder.
Left: The children and
M-I SWACO workers celebrate
their accomplishment.
The old dining room area.
Mudslingers honored as Distinguished Club
For the first time since its inception, the Mudslingers
Toastmasters Club has achieved the honor of Distinguished
Club. Toastmasters International recognizes clubs that reach
specific goals during the year. These include officer training,
club growth and individual members reaching their own
Communicator and Leader goals. Kathy Leu, left, achieved
Competent Leader and Art Leuterman, right, earned his
Competent Communicator.
While honing their own communication and leadership skills,
the members of the M-I SWACO Mudslingers Toastmasters have
brought the club a long way in a few short years. But, to keep
getting better, Mudslingers has to keep growing. New members bring new talents and new ideas. They challenge
the status quo. Come to a meeting and check it out. See what’s in it for you.
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World Momentum
M-I Nigeria donates drilling fluids to Nigerian graduate
school program
By Jaime Martinez, ES Operation Manager, Nigeria
U
niversity of Ibadan is the first
university established in Nigeria
and the school’s Department of
Petroleum Engineering is also the first in
any of the Nigerian universities. Hence, it is
not surprising to see the engineers from this
department in virtually all the sectors of
Nigerian Petroleum Industry.
M-I Nigeria recognizes the long-term
value of Nigerian content to its growth as
an active player in the nation’s petroleum
industry. Currently over 90 percent of
M-I Nigeria Ltd fulltime employees are
Nigerians and a good number of the
The M-I Nigeria Ltd team included: Jaime Martinez, ES operation manager Nigeria;
Adedayo Ojo, technical service manager; Pelumi Ebire, business development manengineers employed by M-I Nigeria Ltd
ager; Adedapo Adesina, project engineer; Andrew Olusoji, project engineer.
are products of this great school.
It is in recognition of its duties to its community that
As part of the visit, Jaime Martinez gave a guest lecture
M-I Nigeria Ltd management recently made a donatitled ‘’Solids Control and Waste Management Principles’’ to
tion of different types of drilling fluids chemicals to the
the Petroleum Engineering students. The lecture introduced
Department of Petroleum Engineering. These chemithe students to the Nigerian Government’s plan to keep the
cals are required by the students to carry out different
environment friendly and the contribution of M-I SWACO to
types of laboratory analysis required for their graduate
achieve this drive.
program.
The lecture was well received with a lot of positive feedThe chemicals were officially handed over to departback from the students and lecturers. The visit ended with a
ment head, Dr. Sunday Isheinwa, on Friday, Mar. 5, 2009,
session of group photographs.
when a team of M-I Nigeria Ltd Project Engineers visited
the Institution.
Oman Operations QHSE Manager, Haroon Tabani, awarded a professional
development grant by American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
The grant has been given to Tabani by American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and will support him
financially as he studies to get the qualification for Certified Safety Professional (CSP). It also covers the cost of
his examination. CSP designation is a recognized qualification in the United States of
America for Safety Professionals.
Tabani also registered with Canadian Board of Certified Registered Safety
Professionals and has recently passed his UK NEBOSH (National Examination Board in
Occupational Safety and Health) International Diploma written examination. He also
holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio University and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from NED University, Karachi, Pakistan.
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M-I SWACO sponsors lunch for Dutch volleyball team in Washington, DC
A volleyball team from The Netherlands took part in the
Capitol Hill Classic volleyball tournament in Washington, DC,
Feb. 13–15. The team from Zaandam, The Netherlands, includes
Monica Spoelstra, daughter of M-I SWACO General Secretary,
Saskia Spoelstra. Assistant coach Saskia also made
the journey. The picture was taken at the National Mall in
exceptionally snowy conditions. M-I SWACO sponsored a lunch
for the team at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum
of Natural History.
From left to right: Danielle Man, Jirrin Schut, Monica Spoelstra, Yoni van
Zanten, Kimberley Baggers, Romy Sanches, Coach Ralph van der Horst,
Ilva Broekema, Bianca de Kock, Merel Koenderink, Saskia Spoelstra.
Graduating with honors
Dane B. Dupont graduated cum laude from McNeese State University with a bachelor
of science in civil engineering on May 15. Dane was a 2005 recipient of a Stanley Moore
and Willard Johnson Scholarship. He will be continuing his education at McNeese State
University in pursuit of a master’s in business administration while working with the
civil engineering firm, Lonnie G. Harper and Associates. Dane is the son of Joe and
Janice Dupont of Grand Lake, LA. Joe is a Labor Supervisor for M-I SWACO.
Louisiana fans celebrate New Orleans Saints Super Bowl win
After years of being the “AINTS,” the New Orleans Saints are the Super Bowl
Champions. The Saints had the support of their fans and believed in themselves to
upset the Indianapolis Colts in a 31-17 thrilling game. The Harvey, LA office showed off
their team spirit.
Tengizchevroil gave CHESM Award 2010 to M-I SWACO Kazakhstan
M-I SWACO Tengiz was awarded the 2010 Contractor Health Environment Safety
Management (CHESM) Award in acknowledgement of their excellent QHSE results.
In April, M-I SWACO went through the CHESM Audit and gained 99%.
“M-I SWACO has accomplished so very much since 1993 and we thank our
current and former colleagues for showed success,” said Aidyn Niyazgaliyev,
Western Kazakhstan ops manager. “This is a great result of combined efforts of all
M-I SWACO Tengiz Team. We want to keep up those efforts and sustain our focus on
key areas where our teamwork has provided great success in safety and operations. We recently celebrated one of the safest periods in M-I SWACO Tengiz opera- The award presented to M-I SWACO
Tengiz by Tengizchevroil.
tions history with the record of eight years without an LTI. This milestone is truly
momentous which we should all be proud of.”
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Bringing a Bright Light into lives interrupted
W
hen illness or injury strike, families are left
with mounting incidental bills that
insurance simply does not pay. From hotel
rooms in distant cities while taking treatment to
retrofitting a house to make it
wheelchair accessible, there are
numerous expenses that families
must manage on their own.
And when these disasters strike
the US Gulf Coast oilfield, a group
of volunteers is there to provide
comfort through friendship, prayers
and a substantial check to help
offset these extra expenses. That
foundation is the Bright Light Foundation, founded in 2003 to provide
financial assistance to families in
the oilfield who have experienced a
catastrophic illness.
Brandy Letchworth
In 2009, the Bright Light Foundation helped two M-I SWACO
employees including Brandy
Letchworth, an office assistant in
the Lafayette, LA office. In September 2008, Brandy noticed a small
lump on her forehead and when
she eventually visited her doctor
and subsequent tests, the lump was
diagnosed as malignant unclassified sarcoma. After surgery to
remove the tumor, Brandy was
sent to the MD Anderson hospital
in Houston, TX, for precautionary
radiation treatments.
“For seven weeks, I lived in Houston in a camper
that was loaned to me by a special family member,”
Brandy said. “It was so hard being away from my family, especially my husband and son (he was only two
at the time).”
The foundation is named for Tammy Bright, the first
recipient, who was dealing with complications from
diabetes. She passed away on May 15, 2006. Since that
first effort, the all-volunteer organization has provided
financial gifts to 31 recipients, giving
away over $1.5 million dollars. Average
annual fundraising has grown from
$100,000 in 2003 to over $500,000 in
2008.
“Our goal is to have a $1 million
event,” said Josh Billings, BLF president
and manager facilities and production
engineering for Repsol E&P USA.
Brandy was selected as a recipient in
2009 and the money she received paid
the bills incurred while in Houston and
gave her the ability to seek the treatment she needed.
“The Bright Light Foundation has
been Heaven sent to me. They are an
amazing group of individuals and I am
so blessed to be a part of this organization. They will never know how
much they have helped me and my
family. They are so much more than
an organization to me…they are like
family…they care. They pray for me;
they call; they visit; they just really are
a unique group of people. I will forever
be indebted to them.”
The Bright Light Foundation holds an
annual fundraising event each October. The event begins with a dinner on
Friday evening and a golf tournament
on Saturday. The 2010 event will be held on Oct. 1–2 at the
Hilton Americas Houston and the Cypresswood Golf Club.
For more information on how to participate in the event
and help raise money to help the families of Gulf Coast oilfield employees, go to www.bright-light-foundation.com.
“It was so hard being
away from my family,
especially my husband
and son (he was only
two at the time).”
EH Technology Meeting
Teams from around the Eastern Hemisphere gathered in
Dubai for a technology meeting Mar. 9–11. The focus was DS
segment oriented, but key personnel from both WP and ES
came to present key technologies from those segments that
have natural synergies with the DS business line. The
meeting was a great opportunity for each KTSM to get
more knowledge on the new technology.
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M-I SWACO UK enjoys a day on the links
M
-I SWACO UK celebrated their 21st annual
Customer Golf Day, a significant anniversary
often seen as a coming of age in the UK. The
21st anniversary of one’s birth is a time when one earns
the right to drink, vote or get married.
With this significance in mind, M-I SWACO UK
celebrated their coming of age on May 15 in customer
golf tournament held in the heartland of Scotland,
birthplace of the game.
Anniversaries seemed to be the order of the day with
one of the guests celebrating 20 years of M-I SWACO
golf days—MGA’s Dennis Hansen’s dedication to fun
days is legendary now, as is his handicap and classic
Golfers enjoy a beautiful day on the links.
“Crenshaw” swing. Gavin Clark, M-I SWACO UK business development manager, celebrated 50 years of
ronmental Solutions (ES) Operations EH, also added that
haranguing first his mother, then his teachers and
this year’s winner, Anderson Bissoon of BP, showed remarkfinally his long-suffering work colleagues at M-I SWACO.
able powers of concentration in amassing his winning
The day, which included some fantastic weather, was
score of 37 points considering the difficulty of the course,
arranged by a committee of dedicated background people
the strong wind and laughter of his playing partners, Kevin
made available by UK Manager John Scott, including Carrie
Hay, M-I SWACO field service coordinator, and Dale Moore
Murray, Lisa Stephen, Che Smith and Pat Clark, who all
(Nexen).
worked tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure everyone had
Further final scores were:
a memorable day.
2nd – Turlough O’Riordan, PetroCanada with 36 points
Before the prize-giving, John Scott thanked the staff and
3rd – Glenn Smith, British Gas (BG) with 35 points
the customers for their support during the difficult recent
4th – Dennis Hanson, MGA (34 points)
past, both on and off the golf course. Ian Jack, VP of Envi-
PEMEX drilling fluids managers attend New Technologies Conference
Five PEMEX drilling fluids managers of the several drilling districts in Mexico attended the New Technologies
Conference offered Apr. 19–22. The purpose of the conference and workshop was to thoroughly understand the
challenges faced by PEMEX and in turn show what M-I SWACO has to offer in terms of integrated cost-effective
solutions from our Drilling Solutions (DS), Environmental Solutions (ES) and Wellbore Productivity (WP) product
lines.
Third row, left to right: Hugo Martinez, PEMEX Marine Region fluids manager; Yomi Jewesimi, M-I SWACO ES senior
accounts manager; Hector Oliveira, translator; Alejandro
Marin, M-I SWACO application engineer ST; Nick Roberts, M-I SWACO SABU New Technologies manager; Marc
Francis, ES senior accounts manager. Second row, left to
right: Stan Alford, M-I SWACO Technical Services Houston;
Fred Growcock, M-I SWACO Technical Services Houston;
Salvador Huitron, PEMEX South Region fluids manager;
Elio Larez, M-I SWACO Ciudad del Carmen district manager;
Juan Climaco, PEMEX Mexico drilling fluids manager;
Roger Suter, M-I SWACO technical advisor ES; Alfonso Martinez, M-I SWACO MCA RTSM for DS. Front row, left to right:
Octavio Vera, M-I SWACO marine area coordinator; Horacio
Mendez, M-I SWACO VP Mexico and Central America MCA;
Fernando Sandoval, PEMEX North Region fluids manager;
Martin Mena, PEMEX marine area fluids coordinator;
Marco Ruiz, M-I SWACO MCA operations manager; Ingo
Glaser, M-I SWACO SABU VP Special Projects.
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World Momentum
Trinidadian cricket star signs autograph for Carvalho, Rivers
By Don Carvalho, Executive Account Manager, International Sales
A
round the middle of last year, I stopped in to
say hello to President and CEO Chris Rivers, and
during our conversation, he remembered that I
was from Trinidad and Tobago. He mentioned that he
was an avid fan of cricket, which is a very popular
Fellow Trinidadian Kumar Ramtahal joined Don Carvalho in
presenting the autographed cricket bat to Chris Rivers.
game in Trinidad and the West Indies, where it is
revered as much as World Cup football. Chris wondered
how he could ever have a cricket bat signed by the
world-famous World Record holder, Trinidadian star
batsman, Brian Lara. I went away thinking about how I
could fulfill this request.
A couple months later, I went down to Trinidad on a
business trip and while I was there, I saw a billboard at the
side of the road with Brian Lara’s face on it. I suddenly
remembered Chris’s bat.
I raced off to the nearest sport shop, purchased a bat and
drove to Brian’s house in
Port-of-Spain, on Lady Chancellor Hill, where he resides. I rang
the bell at the front gate and his
security guard came down.
“I am here to request kindly,”
I said, “if I may have this bat
signed by Brian for my boss?”
The security man went back
up the hill, while I stood there
pondering, “This could be a
bust! What are the possibilities
this guy could be here to grant
this request?”
The next thing I knew the
front gate was opening and
the guard summoned me to
drive in. Brian came out and
invited me in. We introduced ourselves and he took me to
the kitchen where he found a Sharpie pen, signed the bat
and sent his regards to Chris, saying “Anything for my
loyal fans.”
As I thanked him profusely, he shook my hand and
commented that as of recently, only two people have had
the opportunity to receive an autographed bat, U.S. President Barak Obama and Mr. Chris Rivers.
Salsa contest—eating, not dancing!
The Accounting and Finance group at North Course held a
salsa making contest on May 5. Entries of all salsas (red,
green, fruit or creamy) were judged together, with a limit of 3
entries per person. Chips and drinks were provided.
Salsa is the Spanish word for sauce and is the favorite
condiment in the United States, traditionally eaten on corn
chips. Salsas are typically hot, made with various types of
chilis and may have a tomato, green chili, fruit or cream base.
Recipes have been traced to the Aztec empire which dominated Central America during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
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Winners, shown with their prizes, were, left to right,
3rd place: Cindy Roberts for her Gallo Rico Salsa, 2nd
place: Betty Barta for her Fire Roasted Salsa, 1st prize
to Randi Jeannette for her Spicy Jalapeno Salsa.
Continuous Improvement
Finance Reconciliation CI event generates potential savings
of 3,000 work hours
A
Reconciliation CI Event, held on Feb. 25, was the first
of five CI events and 10 projects identified by the
Corporate Finance and Accounting group during a
CI Implementation Planning Meeting to generate ideas and
identify opportunities to improve the quality of service the
group provides globally.
The Reconciliation CI team consisted of 13 participants
from within the different finance and accounting departments. The main objective was to develop a new and consistent reconciliation process that would improve the quality
of information and reduce non-value added time. Utilizing
each member’s past experience and knowledge, the group
was able to improve its current reconciliation process and
standardize SOPs for this process. These improvements
allowed the participants to achieve their objectives, as well
as provide a cost savings to the company.
Once the new process is fully implemented, the group
estimates that there will be an annual savings of approximately 3,000 work hours among 24 employees, across five
departments.
Front row, left to right: Martina Chambliss, Lai Jin, Camille Hodrick.
Middle row, left to right: Sylvie Hoang, Ka Man Lee, Frances Hozdic,
Anh Tran. Back row, left to right: Betty Barta, Carrie Devine, Beth
Roberts, Cong Pham. Not pictured: Sue Cheng, David Bunch.
“The Reconciliation CI Event was a great start to 2010 for
the Corporate Finance and Accounting group,” said Frances
Hozdic, operations controller, “and we look forward to many
more opportunities for improvement as a result of CI in
the future.”
SABU Continuous Improvement Implementation Plan for 2010
By Jerry Duncan, Manager of Continuous Improvement
T
he GBU and Regional Management groups came
together in Rio de Janeiro to develop a GBU-wide Continuous Improvement (CI) Implementation Plan. Each
region developed an individual CI plan. The advantage of the
regions and support groups working together and sharing
their plans is that all have the same understanding of the
GBU approach to CI and many have the same issues that
they plan to work together at the GBU level to address.
Left, top: After each region and support group presented their 2010 CI
Plan, SABU Vice President John Oliver, left, commended the group and
provided his support. Chris Rivers, M-I SWACO CEO, right, also gave his
support to the group and challenged them to think outside the box
in their approach to business in 2010. Left, bottom: Carlos Bianconi,
manager of the South America ABC Region, facilitates the team to
group related improvement ideas.
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Continuous Improvement
Specialized Tools CI Event
By Graeme Laws, Business Development Director for New Technology Specialized Tools, Aberdeen
I
n March 2010, Wellbore Productivity (WP) Technical and Commercial Managers met in Aberdeen to
conduct a CI Event with the goal of rationalizing
and streamlining the Specialized Tools (ST) product
line. Since the acquisition of SPS in August 2006, the
Back row: Scott Tucker, Global Manufacturing manager; Larry
Marsh, business development manager ST, NABU; Paul Confield,
director Total Quality Management; Graeme Laws, ST business
development director (NT); Charlie Svoboda, director of WP
business development; Ian Clarke, manager ST, SABU. Front row:
James Linklater, engineering manager; Mark Temple, technical
director; Mark Bailey, WP director of operations, EH; Ken Simpkins, team leader and VP Completion Tools & Filtration; Lisa
Stephen, CI manager UK.
ST Product Line has contained several types of tools
from the SPS and Speedwell ranges that fulfill the
same function.
In addition, there has not been a systematic
approach to assessing the performance and financial
contribution of each type of tool to the overall business. One of the primary goals of this event was to
establish such a system. There had been previous
attempts to address these issues but this was the
first time that a formal CI methodology had been
employed.
The event took place over five days in the WP Training Centre at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, and was based
on the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Model. The
team included Lisa Stephen, UK CI manager, who did
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an excellent job of facilitating the event and keeping the
team focused and on track.
During the event, each of the relevant tools was
assessed, both technically and commercially, and placed
into one of the following three categories:
• Immediate Obsolescence
(immediate write-off and
scrapping of Assets and
Inventory)
• Controlled Obsolescence
(write-off and scrapping
of Assets and Inventory
according to an approved
phase-out plan)
• Keep for Further Review
(tools to be reassessed at
a future date)
An agreement was also
reached on the general structure of a system and method
for assessing the performance
and financial contribution of
each type of tool in the product line.
A detailed 35-point Action Plan, with an agreed-upon
timescale, was developed to ensure that all the decisions
made during the event would be carried forward and
implemented.
The week’s efforts were presented to an invited audience that included Event sponsor Pete Mackenzie, executive VP of Wellbore Productivity, and the results were well
received.
Everyone involved agreed that the event had been a
great success. This was attributed to the use of the CI
framework, the enthusiastic participation of all team
members and the excellent facilitation of the event. Much
was achieved but everyone also agreed that much was still
to be done.
“We agreed on a well thought-out course of action during this productive week. Now the hard work starts,” said
Mark Temple, ST technical director.
A follow-up review meeting is scheduled for September.
Additional information on this event is available on the
Specialized Tools—Technical Information Centre SharePoint^ Site.
^ SharePoint is a mark of the Microsoft Corp.
Aberdeen Puts Total Productive Maintenance into Action
By Paul Ward, Manager for Strategic Equipment Sourcing, Aberdeen
T
he UK Environmental Solutions (ES) operation in
Aberdeen recently held a CI event designed to start
the process of implementing Total Productive Maintenance or TPM. So what is TPM?
“TPM is an approach to maintaining our equipment,
products and plants, ensuring maximum availability, performance and efficiency in the most cost-effective way,” said
Paul Ward, strategic sourcing and CI manager. “TPM requires
a holistic, inclusive approach to maintenance with input and
ongoing involvement of design and engineering, maintenance technicians, field operatives and support resources.”
The event in Aberdeen focused on the Automatic Tank
Cleaning* (ATC*) unit and included involvement from each
of the disciplines described above. The event kicked off with
an overview of the CI process and TPM (including a simulation exercise), ensuring everyone had a uniform understanding of the process and goals for the week.
By the end of the week, the team had developed documented procedures, visual aids (numbering sequence
labelled on the unit, gauges with green/red display, problem tags for returned equipment), processes and tools for
capturing maintenance history, maintenance checklists
with photos in sequence of operation and many ideas for
improvement that would ease the task of maintaining the
ATC unit going forward.
While the initial focus was on the ATC unit, all of the principles apply to any other product and it is intended to deploy
this approach across all other product lines in the coming
weeks and months. A low-cost software package is currently
being reviewed that will enable tracking of maintenance
history by product, cost analysis and maintenance planning
and management.
The benefits the business will realize from a TPM
approach are:
• Maximum utilization of equipment and longer product
life, resulting in a reduction in the number of total assets
required in the fleet for the same level of service.
• Improved process performance—all breakdowns are
avoidable.
• Increased job satisfaction—maintenance tasks made
easier and quicker.
• Reduced overall cost of maintenance—prevention less
costly than cure.
• Increased customer satisfaction and perception.
In addition, QHSE Advisor Kimberley Armstrong cites the
following QHSE benefits realizable from this TPM approach:
• Maintenance operators are clear on what they need to
do and when.
• Operators will be more familiar with the equipment—
how to handle it and what they need to do.
• Should lead to reduction in NCRs, Customer Complaints,
Property Damage incidents.
• Safety information will be displayed on ATC, which
should reduce likelihood of injuries.
From left: Kimberley Armstrong, QHSE advisor; Marty Gibbs, ES
electrician; Frank Eriksen, technical manager ATC; John Robertson, EH
CI manager; Liam Docherty, ES mechanic; Lisa Stephen, CI manager
UK; Paul Ward, manager for strategic equipment sourcing and event
facilitator; Jerry Duncan, CI training manager; Alan Hendry, ES facilities manager. Part-time assistance also provided during the week by
(not pictured): Alex Farquhar, ES workshop manager; Scott Duncan, ES
offshore engineer; Ross Stephen, ATC product champion.
“The CI process enabled us to run a structured, well
facilitated, constructive event, which delivered a real sense
of achievement with all involved eager to implement the
agreed-upon plan,” said Alan Hendry, ES facilities manager
UK and team leader for the event. “The event allowed me to
pull together people from all levels who had involvement
with the machine we were assessing, from its designer
to its offshore operator. This allowed the designer to hear
‘from the horse’s mouth’ how the machine could be better
designed to allow maintenance to be carried out as easily as
possible and where future designs could incorporate TPM
best practice. Implementing a TPM system has made servicing quicker and simpler due to the highly visual methods
used to identify maintenance points, good and bad conditions, what is actually required and ease the completion of
inspection checklists which refer, pictorially, to the precise
inspection locations.”
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Continuous Improvement
White Belts train at Tulsa Screen manufacturing facility
A White Belt training class was held at the Tulsa
Screen manufacturing facility in Broken Arrow
the week of May 17. Instructors were Tony Clarke
and Dobie Lee. All attendees were successful in
achieving their CI White Belt Certification.
Pictured, from left to right, are: Felipe Liporace, Instructor Dobie Lee, Marcelo Amaral, Michael Nichols, Alex
Church, Derek Knoble, Riad Khan, Eric Abrahamse,
Bobby Adkins, Eva Moses, Linda Cross, Russell Riddle.
More White and Orange Belts added to the list
The Continuous Improvement (CI) department certified 193 White Belts and four Orange Belts so far in 2010. The
Orange Belts are: Paul Ward, CI manager; Monty Hale, supply chain analyst; Christi Nitse, supply chain analyst;
and Sandy King,
international technical sales specialist.
2010 is on track
to hold 31 White/
Orange/Black Belt
classes with more
than 400 participants, up more than
300 percent from
2009, which had
10 classes with 118
participants.
Sandy King, International Sales and Tech Services
specialist for Federal Wholesale, receives her Orange Belt Certification from Ron Gardner, Federal
Wholesale manager.
Accountant Jennifer Longworth, center, receives
her White Belt Certificate from Accounting Manager Lori Adkins, left, and President of SWECO
Dave Sorter, right.
First five-day White Belt class held for Nevada and Wyoming employees
The first five-day M-I SWACO White Belt certification class was held Mar. 8–12. Tony Clarke, manager of CI, and
Sandy King, international technical sales specialist, enthusiastically taught the course to ten White Belt candidates from the M-I SWACO Minerals group.
The White Belt candidates were from the Battle Mountain, Nevada, Riverton, Wyoming, and Greybull,
Wyoming operations. All ten of the White Belt candidates were certified during the final day of the course. Three
presentations were created in parallel with the training during the week and presented to management during
the final day of the class.
The candidates learned to acquire all of the fundamental information required for a CI Charter and that information was included in the presentations. The Minerals group already has six CI events scheduled throughout
2010, allowing the ten new White Belts to start reducing waste within M-I SWACO Minerals without delay. By
certifying ten White Belts, M-I SWACO Minerals has made another significant step toward achieving its long
range goal of becoming self-sufficient in CI.
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Getting F.I.T. in Global Minerals
By Bob Bailey, Vice President of Minerals
I
t’s not what you are thinking, it’s not exercise for
everyone, but rather that we have introduced a Facility
Inspection Tracking (F.I.T.) board. For years, Minerals has
aspired to always get the job done safely and to our customers’ expectations. Recently, however, the Mine and Safety
Health Administration (MSHA) has been making more
frequent inspections and raising fines for safety infringements. Not just with M-I SWACO, but across the minerals
and mine industry in general.
The F.I.T. system allows employees at all levels of operations to identify hazards, to resolve them and to close the
hazards out quickly and effectively. The board ensures
that all levels of the management teams participate in
the identifications and resolutions of hazards. The system is
very visual and works well to support the existing
M-I SWACO system of “IMPACT” for tracking hazards.
“This is great!” said Frosty Copenhaver, senior operations
manager of Gulf Coast Minerals. “All the guys are identifying hazards, but more importantly they are fixing them and
changing the culture so that the hazards don’t reappear.
This truly is engaging personnel to be part of the process
and work smarter and in a visual way. Continuous Improvement (CI) has really helped us to change the process and
eliminate the waste.”
Currently, the Amelia, LA, and Galveston, TX, operations
have been working together to document the process. They
now have a Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) of the
Top row, left to right: Lawrence Burdis, maintenance; Kenneth Taylor,
maintenance; Forrest Copenhaver, senior manager operations;
Gabriel Mustiful, material handler; Barry Batiste, operator; Larry Bell,
operator; Jerry Drumm, maintenance. Middle row, left to right: Remy
Ledet, plant manager; Joseph Marinella, maintenance; Bruce Rentrop,
maintenance; Adam Amador, operator; Daniel Hills, material handler;
Tamara Amador, secretary. Bottom row, left to right: Lance Richard,
operator; Wilton Rentrop, maintenance electrician; Terrance Hills,
material handler; Alvin Jones, operator.
process to roll out and train all personnel across Minerals.
Working with the CI department, they hope to have Minerals
F.I.T. during third quarter 2010. As of May 14, F.I.T. boards have
been rolled out in all Minerals plants, except Battle Mountain; their rollout is scheduled for week of June 14.
“It’s great to be part of the solution as we all play a part in
being safe,” said Karl Frank, material handler in Galveston.
“This F.I.T. board is easy to use and follow. It’s helped to
make my job safer and the process is easy to follow.”
Reducing DSOs
By Bob Gurren, Manager of Continuous Improvement
C
By improving information
an Environmental Soluflow to the office: initiate
tions (ES) get a better
the Log-it number prior to
Days Sales Outstanding
shipment and the use of the
(DSO) than 78 days? A Continuous Improvement event was
ONE-TRAX* software to view
held in Lafayette, LA Mar. 8–12 to
screen consumption. They
answer that question.
redefined responsibilities to
The team realized very early
the proper departments, elimithat in order to make a subnating timely reconciliations
stantial impact to the DSO, they
and avoiding the assigning,
The
US
Offshore
CI
team:
Roxane
Perrio,
Michelle
would need to improve their
changing and redoing of asset
Leblanc, Tiffany Young, Judy Bass, Ginette Trahan, Ben
Monthly Billing Cycle. But with
numbers.
Burley, David Harrison, Chris Lapoint, Michael Lanier,
the current processes and workImprovements were also
Karene Elefterion, Jason Duhon, Chad Polk, Travis
Thibeaux, David Albert, Opie Prados, Frank Butler, Bruce
loads it did not seem possible to
outlined to the quote process
invoice more than once a month. Butler, Holly McNaughton.
for easy pricing upload to SAM.
With a great team effort and five days of arguing,
After all of these process changes, and with the implediscussing, agreeing and disagreeing, a process was
mentation of e-Signature, the team was able to develop an
developed to achieve a 12-day DSO benefit. How did
“Invoice Strategy” (general and by customer) that moves
they do it?
from monthly to weekly/bi-weekly invoicing.
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Up Close
Managing production in the world’s most prolific oil producing region—
Production Technologies in the Middle East/North Africa Region
In each issue, Momentum sits down with one of the many experts within
the M-I SWACO organization for a candid look at their area of expertise and
how it impacts not only our company, but the industry as well.
UP CLOSE recently visited with Paul Clark, regional manager MENA for
Production Chemicals, to look at the challenges and the opportunities for
Production Chemicals in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
Paul Clark
Momentum:
Why is Production
Chemicals (PC) so important in this region?
Paul Clark:
The MENA region is one of
the world’s most prolific oil
producing regions. Around
20 years ago, most of the
Middle East oil wells were
producing predominantly
dry oil, and if a well began
to cut water it was simply
shut in and another well
was drilled. However, in
recent years the economics
of drilling/completion and
crude oil demand/pricing
have changed the operators’ perspective and wells
are produced for as long as
it is possible to profitably
extract the oil.
This has given rise to
an exponential increase
in water production and
clean-up or disposal issues;
we have also seen more
reliance on water flooding
for secondary recovery from
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existing oil wells. The presence of water-in-oil production systems brings with it
a whole gamut of problems
including corrosion, scale,
H2S, bacteria, etc.; and all
have the ability to severely
restrict production unless
they are effectively mitigated by proper selection
and application of Production Chemicals, therefore
in recent years we have
seen very strong growth in
specialty and commodity
chemical requirements in
the region.
Momentum:
What types of challenges
with regards to PC are
there in MENA?
P.C.:
The Middle East/North
Africa (MENA) market for
Production Chemicals is
hugely significant to
M-I SWACO. With oil
production at 32.3 million
barrels per day, the MENA
region produces almost 39
percent of the world’s daily
oil production. Spanning 20
countries (including India
and Pakistan, because of
their proximity to UAE),
there are many challenges
related to the geographic,
cultural and political diversity here. That’s before we
consider the technical challenges that exist. As you can
imagine, given the market
potential we have a very
competitive landscape.
However, M-I SWACO
has a very strong presence
and history in the majority of the region and this is
invaluable to PC as we seek
to grow the business significantly during the next
3-5 years. Here in the region,
as PC we have our Production Chemicals (PC) product
line (headed up by me) and
our Produced Water and
Sand Management (PWSM)
business, which is managed
by Jurgen Joman.
Momentum:
What are some of the
challenges with respect to
the geology of the region,
hydrates or H2S that you
have to manage?
P.C.:
Historically, our business in the Middle East
has been focused on two
main production chemical challenges, namely oil/
water separation, technically called demulsification,
and corrosion. However, in
recent years due to high
oil prices and increasing
demand, the operators
have been boosting their
production figures by
injecting aquifer or seawater and also drilling into
lower quality crude oil
accumulations. This has led
to the emergence of other
production chemistry and
flow assurance challenges
especially H2S, mineral scale
deposits and the need for
drag reducer agents (DRA)
to increase throughput of
transmission pipelines.
In North Africa, there
are some significant issues
with the wax contents
of many of the crude oils
produced, particularly in
Egypt, so there is a lot of
focus on wax inhibition
and pour point depressant
(PPD) applications there. In
some cases, the situation is
so severe that if chemical
injection ceased then the oil
simply would not be able to
flow through the pipelines.
The picture is pretty
much the same in India,
where there are some
large wax inhibitor/PPD
accounts.
Throughout the MENA
region, it is a fact that crude
oils that were once thought
to be uneconomic to produce because of flow assurance challenges are now
being developed and this is
mainly due to availability
of new mechanical and
chemical solutions—many
of these available from
M-I SWACO, so I see a bright
future ahead for our business in the MENA region.
Momentum:
What challenges are
specific to the various
countries within MENA?
P.C.:
I think one of the biggest
challenges for us in the
region relates to the complex political and security
situation that exists in
many of the 20 countries
that we deal with. I only
have to mention country
names like Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Libya and Syria, and
anyone will understand
what I mean.
Of course, there is also
the question of safety and
security for our employees
and this is a top priority for
us; however, we have many
years of experience of operating within “challenging”
countries so the risk is well
managed.
An additional challenge is
the need to operate via local
agents and joint ventures
in most of the countries
we operate in; the choice of
agent and our relationship
with them are key elements
in the development of our
business and our client
relationships. There is also
a predominance of national
oil companies (NOC) in
this marketplace and that
brings its own set of challenges, particularly with
respect to maintaining
technical input to recommendations and bidding
activity. For example, we
don’t see contract terms
longer than two to three
years here. Operators here
also like to see fixed price
contracts for full term,
which can be an issue in
the current climate.
Momentum:
Where, within the region,
do you see the greatest
growth?
P.C.:
During 2010 we will be
focusing on countries
where there is high potential and low revenue for
PC products, so our target
list includes Saudi Arabia,
Oman, India and Algeria.
These are pretty tough
areas to do business both
technically and commercially, but I think we have
the right products and the
best people available to
ensure we are successful.
In the longer term, we can
see a major opportunity for
us to support the planned
increase in production
from Iraq. They have clearly
stated that within the next
five years they want to
increase their daily output
from current level of ca.
2.5 mn bopd, to greater
than 12 mn bopd, which is
more than Saudi Arabia.
This may seem like a very
ambitious target, however
the Iraqi government has
enlisted the assistance of
many of the world’s super
major operators to assist
them and I am pretty sure
they can do it. So I expect a
lot of activity in Iraq in the
coming years.
Momentum:
What technology/
chemical solution do you
see as the next big thing
in the region?
P.C.:
Where there is water comingled with crude oil,
there is potential for major
flow assurance issues and
given that water production is on the rise in pretty
much every mature oilfield
in the region, there will
always be a need for production chemical solutions.
The MENA region is very
diverse in the quality and
maturity of its crude oil
production so it is difficult
to make any safe prediction as to what is over the
horizon, but I do have some
thoughts as to what may
emerge as major business
opportunities here in the
future.
For some operators, there
are issues with capacity of
transport pipelines—this
can be particularly acute
when there are no process
facilities for many kilometers and water has to be
shipped also. Here we will
see increased deployment
of Flow Improver/Drag
Reducer Additives (DRA). We
already supply the largest account for DRA in the
Middle East, have recently
retained this contract for
the next three years and
we know of several other
operators in the region who
are keen to trial our DRA
products.
The increases in water
production throughout
the region have increased
another significant oilfield
chemistry issue—scale
deposition. I would expect
much more interest in scale
inhibitors and dissolvers in
the region over the next few
years. To prepare for this, we
have arranged some training here in Dubai by our
EXKAL* team in May. Also,
I believe that there will be
some focus on environmental clean-up in certain areas
during the coming years
with focus on areas like
Libya, Iraq and Kuwait. This
is an area where we work
very well with our Environmental Solutions (ES) and
Production Waste Management (PWM) colleagues to
deliver some unique and
effective processes for major
oil/sand/water clean-up
operations.
Momentum:
Is the PC work in MENA
primarily chemicals or are
tools involved as well?
P.C.:
From my perspective, we
are primarily looking at
Production Chemicals.
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However, we are increasingly being asked to solve
problems that cannot be
solved with chemicals
alone. Globally, we have
many examples now where
we have teamed up with
our ES/PWM colleagues to
deliver a successful job to
our clients.
We are currently working
on a major project in North
Africa where the operator
needs to clean up some old
disposal pits in the desert
where there is the additional challenge of separating oil/sand/water and low
level radioactive (LSA) scale.
We have utilized our EXKAL
scale dissolver expertise
and technology to build
a process for successful
removal and separation of
the LSA material. I certainly
feel that in the future we
will become more involved
in these types of projects in
the MENA region as it sees
more involvement from
international oil companies
(IOC) and there is more
focus on environmental
impacts and reputation.
Momentum:
How do you convince operators, especially the NOCs,
to try new technologies?
the scenario can be significantly different especially
where the NOC has a high
level of internal technical
competence; what tends to
happen here is that NOCs
like to know everything
about how a product works,
even down to the basic
chemistry, which can be a
major issue. They also want
us to take all of the commercial risk (i.e., “no cure/
no pay” trials, etc.). We also
have to provide very good
case histories and technical reports to back up our
claims, but typically they
will want to run their own
tests first before approving
any trials. In general, we
can get the NOCs to agree
to trial new technologies
but it can take considerably
longer to get to the field
compared to international
operators. One thing is for
sure though, the NOCs are
not big fans of exclusive,
single source products; they
like competition and they
like to get value for money
—and as far as I am concerned they get that from
M-I SWACO.
Momentum:
Who makes up the PC team
in MENA?
P.C.:
P.C.:
It is well known that for
an industry that likes to be
portrayed as highly technical, our clients can be ultraconservative, something I
have heard being referred
to as “the race to be second,”
meaning that most of our
clients like to know about
new technologies but will
only agree to trial a new
product if it has already
been tried and tested elsewhere first. For the NOCs,
Our PC product line is managed by a fantastic team
here in Dubai and some
smaller teams throughout
the region. Here in Dubai,
we have our main office,
laboratories and warehouse
in the Jebel Ali Free Zone.
Based in Dubai, we have
Salah Ben Hamza, senior
business development
manager, in a business
development role for the
region and Ahmed Chaker,
22 Momentum
area operations manager,
who has specific business
responsibilities for Abu
Dhabi, Oman, India and
Algeria.
In Qatar, we have
Tawheed ElWadia, senior
account representative, who
is looking after our excellent business growth there;
and in Egypt we have Amr
Kader, drilling fluids engineer and his team who are
looking after our business
in Egypt and Libya.
During the next three
to five years we will be
focusing on new business
growth primarily in Saudi
Arabia, India, Oman and
Algeria. Therefore, we will
have to balance our ability
to support existing business
with our growth plans and
will have to invest in some
dedicated local resources
to ensure that our growth
plans are realized.
Most of our business
growth in the region
would not have been possible without the excellent technical support we
receive from Simon Hunter,
regional technical services
manager, and his technical
service team here in Dubai.
Simon has assembled an
excellent team of professionals who work very hard
to ensure that we select the
best products for submission to our clients.
Also as a product line, we
rely heavily on the great
support we get from all
of the country managers
in the region. These guys
are critical to our regional
success.
Momentum:
And how did you come into
the role? What is your history with M-I SWACO?
P.C.:
I am new to this position
having transferred to Dubai
in late September last year.
Previously I was looking
after the PT business development in Central Europe. I
joined M-I SWACO Production Chemicals as North Sea
sales manager in Aberdeen
in November 2003 having
previously worked with a
competitor company for
more than 13 years. At that
time it is fair to say that
M-I SWACO was still fairly
new to the Production
Chemicals business having acquired Dynea Oilfield
Chemicals in January 2003.
Even then I could see the
real potential for the PC
product line to be very
successful globally in this
highly specialized service
niche in the oil industry,
especially with the backing
and infrastructure of
M-I SWACO as a good
reputation, global, wellestablished oilfield service
company. I am pleased
to say that I was correct
in my assessment, as
the M-I SWACO Production Chemicals business
has grown very steadily
during the past six years
and most importantly has
maintained its business
growth over the past two
years despite the global
downturn in our industry.
We cannot be complacent
because we will always
have a highly technical and
very competitive business
landscape to deal with,
and we will always have
to exceed our customers’
expectations to maintain
our growth.
Trade Shows
Offshore Technology Conference 2010
The M-I SWACO exhibit at the 2010 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston in early May introduced
the new CD-500* HV Centrifuge and the Riser Displacement Cleaning Tool* (RDCT*) units. Also on
display were the MD-3* triple-deck shaker, the Well
Commander* tool,
the LPAC* manifold
with the AutoChoke* cutaway
model mounted on
the manifold and
both the full-size
and the remotecontrol consoles,
the CarbonTracker* Flare Line Gas Meter and the
DuraFlo* line of OEM and replacement screens.
Visitors to the stand showed quite a bit of interest in
all hands-on displays.
Also on display was a demonstration of the effectiveness of the SafeTherm*/IsoTherm* insulating packer
fluids and electronic presentations presenting information on other leading technologies from all four
Solution Segments.
Representatives of Gazprom Neft Shelf, Russia,
visited the Offshore Technology Conference
By Vladimir Zotov, Manager of Marketing Services, Russia
Vyacheslav Kretsoul, M-I SWACO senior account
manager (Russia), and Environmental Solutions
workers presented
technologies
applicable to
Prirazlomnoye
offshore oilfield to
two representatives
of Russia’s Gazprom
Neft Shelf, Yuri
Visiting Galveston, from left to right,
Skripilov and
are: Charles Wayte, director of internaVladimir Petrov.
tional sales; Jaime Martinez, Galveston
M-I SWACO
plant superintendent; Brad Johnson,
facilities in Galves- Amelia-Galveston plant manager;
Vladimir Petrov; Yuri Skripilov.
ton and Mud Plant
at Pelican Island
were also visited. The Gazprom representatives came to
OTC 2010 on special invitation of M-I SWACO.
Besides the M-I SWACO booth at the OTC Gazprom
Neft Shelf delegates were familiarized with the latest
M-I SWACO offshore technology solutions in the
Houston Technology Center.
Gazprom Neft Shelf (formerly Sevmorneftegaz) is
Gazprom’s 100% subsidiary set up in 2002 to develop
offshore oil and gas fields. Gazprom Neft Shelf holds the
subsurface license and is currently predeveloping the
Prirazlomnoye field located offshore the Pechora Sea
(discovered in 1989).
Since 2008 the company has been performing geological exploration in Gazprom’s license areas on the Yamal
Peninsula (Severo-Tambeyskoye, Zapadno-Tambeyskoye,
Malyginskoye and Tasiyskoye fields, as well as in the
Nilivoysky and Seyakhinsky areas) and in Yakutia
(Chayanda field).
M-I SWACO is Leading
the Way to more
customized events
On Apr. 22, M-I SWACO hosted
the annual Environmental
Solutions Expo 2010. The
Leading the Way to Pressure
M-I SWACO NABU EnvironControl.
mental Solutions Hub in
Houston hosted the event, which showcased over 20
technologies spotlighting the Solids Control, Oilfield
Screens, Pressure Control product lines as well as the
first joint-event for the recently acquired PRECISION Gas
Well Testing and Pipeline Services. Over 245 clients were
taken on a journey through the showcased technologies
to the destination of enhanced operational and environmental performance. A spicy Cajun crawfish boil was a
huge hit with a line through both warehouses. The
client attendance was up 67% from the 2009 event. A
huge thank you to those who helped make the event
such a great success!
Other Shows
Other recent shows during Q2 included:
• AADE Fluids Technical Conference, Houston, TX
• International HSE Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• IADC Well Control Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Petrobras Drilling Seminar, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
• SPE Bergen
• International Hanover Fair, Hanover, Germany
• Williston Basin, Petroleum Conference & Exposition,
Bismarck, ND
• GSN Mining Show, Reno, NV
• SPE International Conference on Scale and Corrosion,
Aberdeen, Scotland
• Gas Shale Summit, Houston, TX
• IOGCEC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
• Shell Wells Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland
Trade Shows
23
M-I Egypt
Building a new empire on
QHSE, new technology
E
gypt—land of the Pharaohs, the pyramids and the Sphinx. It boasts one of the oldest cultures in the world, with historical records dating back more than 5,000 years
to the first unified kingdom founded around 3150 BC by King Menes. Known for
their amazing feats of engineering, the Egyptians are an industrious people who built
the only surviving Wonders of the Ancient World as tombs and monuments to their gods.
They were the first civilization to perfect the mummification process and the first to study
astronomy and push the bounds of science. They were the first empire builders.
24 Momentum
Although conquered over the centuries by the Greeks,
M-I Egypt has invested a lot in infrastructure that would
Romans and later various European empires, the Egyptians
support deepwater drilling operations, such as training its
maintained their identity and today the architecture of the
engineers and giving them the exposure and experience
ancient Egyptians stands as a monument to their creativity
required. This allows them to provide the customer with
and drive.
experienced hands that start planning for each project well
M-I Egypt has begun to rebuild itself into one of the most
in advance.
promising regions in the world of oil and gas exploration
To help support these engineers on deepwater rigs, a
and production. Under the guidance of Egyptian-born
high tech regional lab is under construction in the AlexCountry Manager Hazem El Shafie, the Egyptian operations
andria Free Zone area to support Egypt and North Africa
of M-I SWACO are aiming to take service quality to the
Operations. The lab is located within the main M-I SWACO
next level.
warehouse premises in Alexandria, Egypt, about 140 mi
“We have to work as a team, where ‘team’ stands for
(225 km) from Cairo. The prime goal of the regional lab is
‘Together Everyone Achieves More’,” said Adel Wafi, QHSE
to improve the technical, environmental and economimanager. “We have
cal performance of
empowered our
the existing drilling,
employees to take
reservoir drill-in and
charge of their own
completion fluids as
QHSE responsibilities.
well as waste manOur ultimate goal is
agement services that
to ensure that all of
M-I SWACO offers to
our staff returns home
ensure proper quality
safely without being
assurance and qualinjured.”
ity control is carried
Several QHSE trainout. The lab facility
ing courses, including
will be used in cormandatory induction
rect application, and
orientation (MIO),
deployment of new
working at heights
technology is ensured
(WAH), confined space
by the Technical
The M-I Egypt office team in the Cairo offices.
entry, Hazard ObservaServices Group, which
tion Card (HOC) and journey management, have been held
also provides customer support and training.
to increase employee’s awareness and put them on the
M-I SWACO Specialized Tools has had a great start to
right track to improve their QHSE awareness and culture.
2010 with the opening of a new workshop facility in the
As a result, by the end of 2009, the number of HOC cards
Alexandria Free Zone and they have recruited the best
submitted in the last quarter in Egypt had tripled. It was
personnel to supply and support their clients’ needs from
apparent that the effort had succeeded.
the new facility.
“Management commitment is the key for our success,”
“At the same time, we were awarded the mechanisaid Wafi. “The QHSE moments at the beginning of each
cal wellbore clean-up contract and filtration contract for
meeting helps stress the QHSE importance as well as
Rashpetco, a joint venture between the Egyptian Natural
reinforce management commitment to follow through
Gas Holding Company and British Gas, for WDDM Phase
on QHSE.”
8 of their sub-sea campaign,” said El Shafie. “They will
Continuous improvement (CI) is also playing a major
take delivery of a 1,200 ft2 Twin Press diatomaceous earth
role in improving the performance and operations. People
(DE) filtration package that is required to fulfill our client’s
are now engaged in all the CI processes and Egypt has five
requirement. Rashpetco has also asked M-I SWACO SpecialWhite Belt certified employees. El Shafie is scheduled to go
ized Tools to supply our new technology for their workover
to the next Orange Belt training course.
program where we will supply the MagnoStar* tool to
“Our DSO and turn rates are heading in the right direcassist in the removal of cuttings debris during milling
tion,” he said. “We have conducted two CI events this year
operations while cutting windows.”
focusing on how to differentiate ourselves from others and
ST has also been closely involved with Pharaonic Petroto look at service quality versus service price. We have made
leum Company (BP) in the planning of its completion
great improvement toward cross training and trying to sell
program and with their expertise in wellbore clean-up serour four business lines services as one company.”
vices provided a mechanical wellbore clean-up system and
completion fluid filtration service that will meet the client’s
Left: The Great Sphinx of Egypt is the oldest known monumental
requirement through the next phase of its Mediterranean
statue and is believed to have been build around 2555 BC. Theories for
campaign.
the missing nose range from Sufi fanatics in the fifth century AD to
Napoleonic troops using it as target practice, among others.
Egypt
25
M-I Egypt has eight warehouses throughout the country
equipped with dry bulk storage and liquid mud mixing and
storage facilities. The locations were strategically chosen to
serve all customers in Egypt. M-I SWACO is the only mud
company in Egypt that operates a barite ore grinding mill,
which has been in operation since 1992.
The company operates three supply depots at Alexandria’s Abu Qir: one for BP, one for Shell and one storage facility for M-I SWACO. The depots have a storage capacity of
37,000 bbl of base oil, oil-base mud, Ultradril*, silicate and
brine. Sixty-four men work at the depots, running two shifts
day and night. The facilities are headed by Sayed Saad, who
has more than 35 years of experience in the oilfield. Saad
started with M-I SWACO in 1985 as a mud engineer and has
managed different locations for M-I throughout Egypt. He
has been the manager of the Abu Qir base since 2006.
Under his management, the culture of QHSE has taken off.
The facility is IMS certified (ISO 9001-2008, ISO 14001-2006
and OHSAS 18001-2007) and 12 of the workers are trained
for handling dangerous goods transport. Five are trained
for lab testing, and eight are trained and certified in first
aid. A fully trained fire crew is always on standby, and each
worker is given a full medical checkup annually.
The base boasts a full inventory management team that
manages not only the mud and tools supplies for customers
but computerized PPE lists that are tracked daily. The team
also tracks waste and creates a monthly report on the waste
produced, how it is stored and disposed of.
“We have good QHSE management,” said Saad. “HOC
cards are one of the main tools I depend on and we have a
good HOC card record. We constantly review the HOC cards
because it helps to solve small problems before they become
From left to right:
Mohamed Abdel Halim,
Halim Corp.; Haytham
El Gendy, M-I Egypt operations manager; Mario Solimano, BP Egypt
logistics manager; Hazem El Shafie, M-I Egypt
country manager; Adel
Wafi, M-I Egypt QHSE
manager; Ehab Abdel
Aziz, BP Egypt Abu Qir
base manager; Sayed
Saad, M-I Egypt Abu Qir
base manager.
Top: The M-I SWACO Specialized
Tools and Environmental Solutions warehouse in the Alexandria
Free Zone is set up to repair tools
like the RAZOR BACK* CCT* (Casing
Cleanup Tool), shown here. Bottom:
From left to right: Osama Nossier,
M-I Alexandria warehouse manager, and Raouf Mahdy, with over 36
years of service in the company as
the M-I Egypt administrative coordinator, stand on front of the QHSE
sign painted on the outside wall
of the M-I Alexandria warehouse
office building that will soon house
the new laboratory facilities.
26 Momentum
Sayed Saad, M-I Egypt Abu Qir base manager, right, receives an Appreciation Letter from Country Manager Hazem El Shafie, left, for “an excellent job done handling the biggest pump and dump operations
for BP in Egypt.” BP sent the letter to M-I Egypt for handling over 35,000 bbls for the deepwater pump
and dump on the rig Pride North America. Haytham El Gendy, operations manager, looks on in the
background.
bigger issues and
prove to BP our QHSE
commitment.”
Saad also does risk
assessments for every
operation in both Arabic
and English and makes
sure that all HSE documents are translated into
Arabic so that everyone
on base understands the
implications. Even the
reports from the HOC
cards are posted, and the
Left to right: Taher Badry, Shell A/Q base manager; Jeroen A. Hendriks, Shell logistics supervisor; Sayed Saad,
information serves as a
M-I A/Q base manager; Hassan Hosny, Shell A/Q HSE advisor; Steve Styles, Shell drilling fluids specialist; Wilco
motivational system that
Geldof, Shell senior well engineer and M-I Egypt contract holder; Hazem El Shafie, M-I Egypt country manager;
Mostafa Hamed, M-I Egypt project engineer; Haytham El Gendy, M-I Egypt operations manager; Adel Wafi,
encourages crews to folM-I Egypt QHSE senior manager; Islam Elian, M-I Egypt base supervisor; Mohamed Abdel Halim, M-I Egypt
low up and manage their
main transportation contractor; Fawzy Arafa, M-I Egypt senior mechanic; Ayman Attia, M-I Egypt labor.
own QHSE.
Shell is pleased with the work and likes having the same
And the culture of QHSE at the M-I SWACO Abu Qir
people involved in previous Shell campaigns working on
bases extends to the customers. Two to three times a week,
this campaign. Wilco Geldof, Shell senior well engineer, said
M-I SWACO crews sit down with BP and Shell crews and
it provides continuity and understanding of the drilling
base management for a half-hour training session to discuss
program challenges.
recent QHSE alerts and discuss key lessons. The sessions are
“Working with Shell has really been a very good experisimple and cover things like how to write HOC cards.
ence and presents an excellent example on working relaExtending the lessons of QHSE to the customer is taking
tionship with customers,” said El Shafie. “It’s a partnership.
hold in other parts of Egypt, too. A QHSE contractor meeting
Understanding and transparent comwas held recently with Shell, sponsored
munication has played a very good role
by M-I Egypt. M-I Egypt management
in sorting out any issue that could arise.
and project engineers gave presentaIt has always been based on a win/win
tions and led workshops on risk assessway of thinking.”
ment and general QHSE procedures.
Likewise, Petrobel has always been
“The workshop was very effective and
keen to try new technology that will
Shell has commended our efforts,” said
add value to their operations with new
El Shafie. “It added value to our relationtechnology like the latest Ultradril
ship with Shell because we included a
system. M-I Egypt just finished work on
lot of interactive sessions; it wasn’t just
Petrobel’s Denise campaign where three
death by PowerPoint^.”
consecutive successful exploratory
Shell has started a new HTHP camwells were drilled in the Mediterranean
paign with a 23,600 ft (7,200 m) well in
Sea and M-I Egypt received an appreciathe Mediterranean Sea with expected
tion letter.
bottom hole temperatures of 410° F
“Every well in the Mediterranean Sea
(210° C). The second well will exceed
is a new challenge, so we had to be pre26,200 ft (8,000 m) and have even
pared with our best weapons and one of
higher temperature expectations.
them is M-I SWACO systems, ” said Ste“Both wells present a big challenge
fano D’angelo, senior fluid and cementfor Shell HPHT wells,” said Moustafa
ing engineer expert coordinator ENI.
Hamed, project engineer. “This high
Petrobel is also busy in the Gulf of
temperature is very challenging in terms
Hazem El Shafie, Egypt country manager
Suez with two rigs running full time.
of getting information from downhole
Three land rigs are operating using lots
tools and extended logging program
of different fluids like the Versadril* system.
duration. We have introduced two of our successful new
“Petrobel faces unique challenges for each new well,” said
technology solutions to Shell, PressPro* RT and WARP*. Both
Khaled Fares, project engineer. “It is very challenging for us
solutions are being implemented for the first time in Egypt
and represents an opportunity for us to prove how we can
and MENA regions.”
“Working with Shell has
really been a very good
experience and presents
an excellent example of
working relationships
with customers. It’s a
partnership. It has always
been based on a win/win
way of thinking.”
Egypt
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add value to our customers. The area
is classified as high pressure zone that
requires mud weight to be changed four
times per well to maintain well stability
and integrity—9.3 lb/gal (1.11 sg), 16 lb/
gal (1.5 sg), 9.6 lb/gal (1.15 sg) and 7.5 lb/
gal (0.5 sg) mud.”
Qarun, a joint venture company
between Apache and the Egyptian
General Petroleum Company, is Right: Stefano
D’angelo, senior fluid
drilling exploraand cementing engition and develop- neer expert coordinament wells in the tor ENI, right, stands
outside Petrobel’s
Western Desert,
offices in Cairo with
the area to the
M-I Project Engineer
west of the Nile
Khaled Fares.
River, and has
been very busy
with six drilling rigs and six
workover rigs.
M-I Egypt collected shale samples from the 8 1⁄2
in interval from
all the formations drilled. The
samples were
sent to Houston
for shale reactivity and X-ray
diffraction to
determine the
exact mineralLeft: Beau Buisson, deputy drilling manager
ogy of the shale.
for Apache, with M-I Egypt Project Engineer
Khaled Fares, right, at the Qarun offices in
According to the
Cairo.
test results and
based on Houston’s fluid recommendations, a new fluid
approach was used in the next well with new mud weight
profile recommendations.
“After changing the mud system,” said Beau Buisson,
deputy drilling general manager Apache, “everything was
okay. M-I SWACO provided more than just technical engineering; they provided solutions to prevent problems. With
M-I SWACO, it is possible to do things that otherwise, we
could not.”
Spanish oil company Cepsa has drilled four exploratory
wells in cooperation with Total and is expecting to drill four
to five wells per year per rig. These are deep wells in the
Western Desert, presenting many technical challenges as
all exploratory wells do.
“We get a good response to problems like lost circulation,”
said Sabry Mansour, Cepsa drilling superintendent. “We
work closely with M-I SWACO and get good support.”
28 Momentum
Left to right: Randall Parks, Cepsa commercial manager; Yves Le Hello,
Cepsa operations manager; Sabry Mansour, Cepsa drilling superintendent, Mostafa Hamed, M-I Egypt project engineer.
Cepsa has started to see some higher temperatures and
mud losses in the loose sand but has been pleased with the
technical response from M-I SWACO.
“The strength and reputation of M-I SWACO throughout
the world, and its growing reputation in Egypt as a willing
partner has gained M-I Egypt many friends in the region,”
said Randall Parks, Cepsa commercial manager.
One of those friends, the Petro Dara/TransGlobe Company,
recently drilled its first horizontal well with no problems
and is looking at more challenging wells.
“It was a big challenge to drill a horizontal well in one of
the most troublesome areas at Gulf of Suez without a top
drive only Kelly,” said Farag Ismail, TransGlobe drilling
manager, “The mud system has played a major role drilling
this well successfully. We used water-base mud for the
buildup section, while the Versacore* minimal-water
system was utilized for the horizontal section. Using an
as production waste management, automatic tank cleaning,
M-I SWACO 519 HV high
volume, fully hydraulic centriCLEANCUT and capital sales in general. The best approach to
fuge saved a lot, minimizing
sell this technology, and all the new technology offered by
dilutions rate with base oil
the four product segments, is with a unified approach rather
while drilling with very
than as individual business units.
low weight 7.8 lb/gal
“We need to be seen by the operators in Egypt as a soluVersacore mud.
tion provider, from drilling to environmental solutions and
While DS and ST are leadwaste management through to production,” said Olson. “It
ing the way in Egypt, both
is a matter of educating our own project engineers, cross
Environmental Solutions (ES)
training them to sell us as one unified company. Drilling
and Production Technologies
Solutions (DS) has a relationship with the operator and can
(PT) are showing promise and
extend it to ES. We have to start with our own people.”
their efforts are focused on
Production technologies gained a good market share in
selling the newest technology
2009 in Egypt and have been awarded a big contract with
offerings from their respective
Qarun for pour point depressants (PPD).
business lines.
“We are now adding more resources to enhance our offer“New Technology within
ings and increased market share,” said Amr Abdel Kader,
the ES business lines is our
PT operations manager. “We are now making a study to
The Pyramid of Khafre.
focus,” said
build a blending facility in the Free Zone to
Brad Olson,
improve our costing structure to enhance
ES area manager, North Africa. “Most of
our competitiveness in the market.”
the solids control business in Egypt is a
With many challenges ahead, from
centrifuge and service engineer provided
bringing together the four product segat low bid with little emphasis on performents into a unified company seen by
mance. The biggest hurdle is educating
local and international operators in Egypt
customers to the benefits of new technolas a one-stop solution for all of the oil and
ogy. We have to prove the value of new
gas challenges, to establishing a culture
technology and the benefits it produces
of safety, M-I Egypt faces a long and often
in order to get the business.”
difficult road ahead. But like the ancient
Thanks to the experience ES has
Egyptians, the young team has a vision
through North Africa and the internaand a plan to build an operation that will
tional reputation for environmental
be a wonder of the M-I SWACO world.
solutions, the group is managing to gain
“It is a challenge,” said El Shafie, “but a
traction with both the IOCs and the NOCs
great opportunity. That’s the message.”
in Egypt. But, Olson said, there is a great
Brad Olson, ES area manager, North Africa
deal of potential yet to be addressed such
“We need to be seen by
the operators in Egypt as
a solution provider, from
drilling to environmental
solutions and waste
management through to
production.”
Left to right: Farag Ismail, TransGlobe drilling general manager; Jeff Edelman, TransGlobe production manager; Mohsen El Noby, PetroDara operations general manager;
Haytham El Gendy, M-I Egypt operations manager; Mostafa Nasser, M-I Egypt engineering manager.
Amr Abdel Kader, M-I Egypt production technologies operations manager.
Egypt
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1 The Montazah Palace, in
Alexandria, was built by
Abbas 2, the last khedive or
viceroy of Egypt, around 1900.
2 In Khan El Khalili, the main
souk, or market, vendors sell
anything from inexpensive
artifacts to expensive cloths.
3 The souk is a traditional
market where virtually
anything can be found for a
good price, if you’re good at
haggling.
4 The constant haze sits over
the hustle and bustle of Cairo.
5 Copies of Egyptian relics,
from King Tut’s mask to
canopic jars, line the shelves
of every vendor in the souks.
6 The Mediterranean Sea from
Alexandria.
7 An Egyptian camel trainer
offers rides to tourists at
the base of the Pyramid of
Khafre, the second largest
of the Ancient Egyptian
Pyramids of Giza.
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8 A Whirling Dervish spins
his heavy cloak above
his head. Dervishes are
mystical dancers who whirl
to rid themselves of earthly
distractions. They are
devout followers of Sufism, a
mystical sect of Islam.
9 A worker slices papyrus
stalks as part of the process
of making the first form of
paper, used by the Egyptians
as far back as 3000 BC.
10 The ornate ceiling inside the
Alabaster Mosque.
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11 The Mosque of Mohammad
Ali, also known as the
Alabaster Mosque, sits at
the top of the hill where
Cairo’s famous Citadel built
to protect the city from the
Crusaders.
12 The Nile River, in the middle
of Cairo, is lit by dinner cruise
barges and lights from the
city.
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QHSE
Product Integrity Guidelines—a roadmap to brand name
consistency
W
ith operations in every region of the world and
a wide portfolio of products, from downhole
tools and waste management equipment to
chemically-based drilling fluid products, supplied to industry, maintenance of brand integrity is an important matter
to M-I SWACO. Moreover, there are many cases where locally
supplied products can be effectively applied to the local market without having global relevance.
The challenge is to develop and market locally manufactured products to limited markets while clearly differentiating these products from the flagship, or branded, products.
To this end, a Global Product Integrity and Branding Policy
has been developed to clarify how the company chemical
product line is managed. The policy, along with supporting
documentation, including explanations of the background
and implications, is posted on the M-I SWACO intranet. It can
be reached by clicking on the “Global Policies and Information” link on the M-I SWACO Intranet Home page, then on
the “Product Integrity Guidelines” link.
“It is all about quality and integrity,” said Bharat Arora,
manager of Global Quality and Chemical Manufacturing.
“Our customers operate globally and expect competitive
cost, on time delivery, consistency and, in some instances,
local content. To meet their demands, M-I SWACO has
ongoing initiatives for exploring new sources of supply. The
Product Integrity Matrix (PIM) clearly explains the ‘rules’ and
there is no ambiguity.”
The policy, which incorporates the PIM, targets protection
of the integrity of the product line and the good reputation
of the M-I SWACO brand name through consistent supply of
quality products. The Product Integrity Matrix organizes the
product line into a series of tiers with associated definition
of product characteristics, approvals required for qualification and responsibilities of various parties. Proprietary, or
flagship, products, which have global availability, lie in the
highest tiers and are subject to corporate oversight while
lower tiers contain more local products, with restricted
market availability. For these, a greater degree of responsibility lies with local operations and provision is even made
for development of market-appropriate local product lines.
“The Product Integrity Matrix provides us with a way of
defining which products used by M-I SWACO have proprietary names and which do not,” said Lindsay Fraser,
manager of support services. “It allows us to ensure that
M-I SWACO branded chemicals are of a consistent quality no
matter where they are manufactured.”
The Product Integrity Matrix defines the five tiers of products used by M-I SWACO.
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Product Interity Guidelines from page 32
Fraser and Arora have taken on the role of shepherding
the process through and explaining it to the M-I SWACO
employees around the globe. They have been working with
personnel directly involved from all across the company’s
regional offices to sort through the myriad of chemical
products and help determine which products bear the full
M-I SWACO name, which have derivative names and which
are local products that M-I SWACO sells but does not support
as a company product. The project has been a collaborative
effort of Drilling Solutions (DS), Supply Chain, and Research
and Engineering.
Arora is currently working with Gary Neal, director of
QHSE, to develop a similar matrix for equipment and parts.
“It’s about maintaining complete transparency, as well,”
said Fraser. “We don’t want our customers getting substandard products. When they use Ultradril* fluids in one part
of the world, they expect the same product everywhere. We
have to maintain product integrity to ensure that what we
provide is consistent on a global level.”
Better safe than sorry…
By Michael Dettmarg, QHSE Manager, Germany
Taking that old saying to heart, M-I SWACO Germany
staff took part in an impressive fire fighting training
session on Mar. 30 in Celle, Germany.
“Many catastrophic fires start as small incipient fires,”
said Mr. Buhl, the certified trainer who provided the fire
fighting training. “If you know how to fight a fire, if you
are able to use a fire extinguisher, assess the risks when
a fire occurs and always keep yourself safe, you might be
able to avoid a disaster or even save lives just by using a
6 kg fire extinguisher.”
During the three hours each participant learned
theory and put the lessons into practice. After the
theoretical instruction, all attendees had to adapt that
theory into practice by fighting a real fire. This fire was
ignited by a simulator and surprisingly, it was not just
causing fire. It also had sensors collecting data during
the fire fighting process. The incorrect
use of an extinguisher or wrong way of
fire fighting and it kept burning.
“Gee, that’s quite difficult,” said one
participant.
“It’s not as easy as it looks,” said
another.
It takes skill, knowledge and training
to use an extinguisher and fight a fire.
That’s what everybody took home after
that session. Nevertheless, the most
important message was “prevention.”
“If you do everything to prevent a fire
there will be no need to fight it!”
Practice on a fire simulator provided real world experience,
skill and knowledge.
The M-I SWACO fire fighting group after a long day of learning to fight fires.
QHSE
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QHSE
Rocky Mountain District conducts Department of
Transportation Summit
By Ammon Foster, Rocky Mountain District QHSE Manager
O
n May 4–5, the Rocky Mountain District
conducted the 2010 M-I SWACO Rocky Mountain Department of Transportation (DOT)
Summit. The purpose of the summit was to bring
together M-I SWACO DOT-certified employees, managers, contract trucking companies, along with state and
federal DOT compliance officers to discuss updates to
DOT regulations.
Fourteen M-I SWACO employees from the Rockies,
along with 30 employees representing 11 contract
trucking companies, attended the summit. Two federal
DOT compliance officers and four Wyoming DOT
compliance officers attended and presented. Tom
Swanson of the Shell Transportation group also
attended and discussed the operator’s expectations of
DOT drivers.
The first day of the summit brought together all
attendees to discuss a variety of topics, including:
• Federal DOT newly implemented CSA 2010
• Federal DOT Hours of Service
• Federal DOT Roadside Inspection criteria
• Shell Transportation Requirements
Day two of the summit focused on in-house training
for M-I SWACO DOT employees and managers. Topics
discussed included:
• M-I SWACO DOT Documentation
• Inthinc DOT Driver Monitor Operations
Federal and Wyoming DOT compliance officers discussed updates to
DOT regulations.
Lawrence Bergeron, M-I SWACO DOT administrator based
in Lafayette, LA, provided quality DOT training to M-I SWACO
employees. Audi Paz de Lara, district distribution manager
Western Area, came in from Denver, CO, and provided
training in proper DOT paperwork and documentation.
This summit is the first of its kind and is being used as
a format to conduct other DOT summits throughout
M-I SWACO. It provided a relaxed atmosphere in which
employees, managers, contractors, customers and DOT
compliance officers could work together in providing
training and education.
The overall feedback from the summit was very positive.
One contract trucking company traveled 680 miles from
Winnemucca, NV, and commented it was worth the drive to
obtain the information.
M-I SWACO Angola earns two stop cards
In February, Crane Operator Bob Smith, aboard the Rowan Gorilla VII,
observed an ESS food container with the pin that secured the gate door half
loose. This could have potentially led to another Dropped Object onboard
the rig. Bob ensured that the gate was secured properly and the incident
was discussed in PTSM. Smith received the Stop Card Award for preventing
a possible Dropped Object.
Mambondo Lemba, M-I SWACO S.C. operator, observed smoking coming
from one of the shakers while he monitored his equipment in the shaker
house. He immediately called the driller and informed him about the incident and had the shaker shut off. An investigation revealed that the seized
bearing of shale shaker #10 was smoking. Lemba received his Stop Card
Award for preventing a possible fire.
Bob Smith; Mambondo Lemba not pictured.
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Nigeria earns three Catch of the Week awards from ExxonMobil
Soseipiriala Tamunokuro, Belema Fiberesima, Stephen Friday, Dix-Fiberesima
Soseipiriala Tamunokuro, Belema Fiberesima,
Stephen Friday and Dix-Fiberesima, all
M-I SWACO Solids Control hands onboard
the boat, Loving Tide. The hands informed
the supervisor on the rig to come to the
vessel and check the cuttings system. They
inspected the piping and the hammer union
on the cuttings line and observed the O ring
was missing on the hammer union. A Step
Back 5 x 5 was conducted and a new O ring
was installed.
For their support of ExxonMobil’s vision of
“No Body Gets Hurt, No Spills,” Tamuabkuro
Sosoei, Dix-Fiberesima, Steven Tammno,
Belema Fiberesima and David McNicoll won
the “Catch of the Week” for Apr. 11.
While performing maintenance on the ISO tank system, David McNicoll, Solids
Control international field specialist, noticed that the hard line for the ESD system had been pulled from its bracket by the shifting of the STBD AFT mooring
line. He notified the RSA and the line was inspected for air leaks and secured so
it wouldn’t accidently trip the ESD system and shut in the UBIT H platform.
For his support of ExxonMobil’s vision of “No Body Gets Hurt, No Spills,”
David McNicoll was awarded “Catch of the Week” for Feb. 7.
Larry Gomez observed oil-base mud (OBM) was
leaking from the BOP during milling operation and
immediately notified the driller and the Tool Pusher.
The driller had the pump and the milling operation
shut down and the leakage was contained within the
protected area.
For his observation and action, Larry was nominated
as Percy Johns’ “Environmental Catch of the Week”
Feb. 14.
QHSE
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QHSE
Kazakhstan QHSE Team saves more than $70,000 by
bringing training in-house
By Anfissa Volkova, Shipping & Receiving Clerk, Kazakhstan
T
he Kazakhstan QHSE team decided to manage
training processes and certifications on personnel safety knowledge assessment (SKA) for
all M-I SWACO employees in-house without relying
on third-party training centers. The idea to reduce
expenses on QHSE trainings for staff originated with
Gaukhar Kanapina, compliance engineer. Work started in mid-2009 and took six months to show results.
Arman Kuspayev, Caspian QHSE manager, started
the process by analyzing expenses spent on training
between 2007 and 2009 for M-I SWACO in Kazakhstan. The Republic of Kazakhstan legislation requires
M-I SWACO personnel to be trained in nine mandatory process safety, labor and environmental protection related courses. Each course is followed by an
examination and, upon successful completion, the
trainee is awarded a certificate from the Emergency
Situations Inspectorate Department. Almost since
the beginning of
the M-I SWACO
presence in
– Analyze the
Kazakhstan this
expenses spent on
training has been
training. Can it be
done via thirdparty training
brought in-house?
centers and
M-I SWACO spent
– Study the
a huge amount of
Kazakhstan legal
money.
regulations. Can
Kanapina
M-I SWACO train its
studied the
Kazakhstan legal
own personnel?
regulations and
found out that
– Form an
M-I SWACO can
internal M-I SWACO
train its personcommission to design
nel utilizing its
the nine programs and
own resources
without applying
exam questions.
to a third party.
Kanapina, QHSE
supervisors Kseniya Beloussova, Anuar Zhenussov
and Yerzhan Tugezbayev showed initiative and
formed an internal commission. Each member took
responsibility and worked out the nine mandatory
programs and exam questions. The program was
submitted to the Ministry of Emergency Situations
Step 1
Step 2
Top: Kseniya Beloussova, QHSE
supervisor, and Anuar Zhenussov,
QHSE coordinator. Above, left:
Gaukhar Kanapina, compliance
engineer. Above, right: Arman
Kuspayev, Caspian QHSE
manager. Bottom, left: Yerzhan
Tugezbayev, QHSE coordinator.
Step 3
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and, upon approval, M-I SWACO obtained the license to
conduct the trainings.
In February 2010, the team completed the first SKA examination of M-I SWACO Kazakhstan employees without
involving a third-party training center. As a result of starting the process and completing the first knowledge assessments, M-I SWACO Kazakhstan saved more than $70,000.
On the road to a healthier you
T
he past six years, the corporate campus has
held a QHSE Fair that highlights health, safety
and environmental aspects of our company
and vendors. This year, the seventh, was no different and focused on health.
The primary goal of the fair is to educate employees about the QHSE leadership of M-I SWACO, and
provide information to promote healthy, environmentally conscious and safe lifestyle choices.
Included were several training sessions on health
issues such as stress management and hearing
conservation. There was even a talk on local
hunting and fishing issue and regulations.
The fair included 34 various vendors, training
sessions, lunch and door prizes.
Also included was a competition for the product
segments to have a booth that encouraged interaction, was informative and exhibited a reduction in
risk to health, safety or environment. This year, the
WP group won the challenge.
Director of WP Business Development Charlie
Svoboda, far left, accepts the trophy from
QHSE Coordinator Marcie Williams, far right.
Behind them, left to right, from the WP team
are: Anita Byars, ST Tech Services engineer;
Tatiana Conn, chemist; Barbi Messier,
marketing communication specialist; Patrick
Tyczynski, environmental scientist; Brad
Wiggins, lab analyst. Team members not
pictured are: Ray Ravitz, business development manager OH; Ken Simpkins, VP WP;
Lucas Soileau, tech services engineer; Stella
Zepeda, computer application programmer;
Bill Foxenberg, corporate director of R&E.
QHSE
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Authors and Papers
Geehan, Thomas and
Zamora, Mario, “Automation of Well-Construction
Fluids Domain.” SPE 128903,
SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, New Orleans, February 2–4, 2010.
Sarber, J.G.; Reynolds, C.; and
Michel, C.M. (BPXA), Haag,
K. and Morris, R.A., “The
Use of Diutan Biopolymer in
Coiled Tubing Drilling Mud
Systems on the North Slope
of Alaska.” SPE 130584, SPE/
ICoTA Coiled Tubing and
Well Intervention Conference, The Woodlands, Texas,
March 23–24, 2010.
Ke, Mingjie and Foxenberg,
William, “Lubricity of Brine
Completion and Workover
Fluids.” SPE 130679, SPE/
ICoTA Coiled Tubing and
Well Intervention Conference, The Woodlands, Texas,
March 23–24, 2010.
Whyte, Iain and Coll, Brian,
“Ball-Activated Valve Saves
Operator Time And Money
During Hole Cleaning.”
World Oil, April 2010,
p. E-141.
Freeman, Michael A.; Guo,
Quan; Roy, Sanjit, “Beyond
Fahrenheit 451.” Oilfield
Technology, April 2010,
p. 69.
Byars, Anita and Cook, Rich,
“New tool allows better
displacements prior to riser
disconnect.” Hart’s E&P,
April 2010, p. 74.
38 Momentum
Newman, Katerina;
Lomond, Perry; Jones,
Brad and McCosh, Karen,
“Advances in Drilling Fluid
Preparation and Conditioning at Fluid Mixing Facilities.” AADE-10-DF-HO-48,
AADE Fluids Conference,
Houston, April 6–7, 2010.
Patel, Arvind D. and
Mettath, Sashikumar,
“Non-Asphaltic, Fluid-LossControl Agent for HighTemperature Applications
in Synthetic-Based Invert
Emulsion Drilling Fluids.”
AADE-10-DF-HO-46, AADE
Fluids Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
Growcock, Fred; Alba,
Andrea; Miller, Mike; Asko,
Arne and White, Kyle,
“Drilling Fluid Maintenance
during Continuous Wellbore Strengthening Treatment.” AADE-10-DF-HO-44,
AADE Fluids Conference,
Houston, April 6–7, 2010.
Scorsone, Jason T.; Dakin,
Eugene S. and Sanders,
Mark W., “Maximize Drilling Time by Minimizing
Circulation Losses.” AADE10-DF-HO-42, AADE Fluids
Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
Zamora, Mario and Growcock, Fred, “The Top 10
Myths, Misconceptions and
Mysteries in Rheology and
Hydraulics.” AADE-10-DFHO-40, AADE Fluids
Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
Fernandez, Jorge M. and
Young, Steve, “Environmentally Responsible WaterBased Drilling Fluid for
HTHP Applications.” AADE10-DF-HO-37, AADE Fluids
Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
Raja, Vidya and Chase,
George G. (University of
Akron); Jones, Bradley N.
and Geehan, Tom, “Continuum Model of a Shale
Shaker.” AADE-10-DF-HO-11,
AADE Fluids Conference,
Houston, April 6–7, 2010.
Growcock, F.B.; Smith, S.A.
and Freeman, M.A., “Separating Fact from Folklore
about Drilling Fluids.”
AADE-10-DF-HO-34, AADE
Fluids Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
McLean, A.; Wilde, A.;
Zamora, M. and Rafferty,
M. “The Top 10 Mud-Related
Concerns in Deepwater
Drilling Operations – Revisited After 10 Years.” AADE10-DF-HO-04, AADE Fluids
Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
Hodder, Mike and Cliffe,
Steve, Greenwell, Chris
(University of Durham),
Williams, Pete (Glyndŵr
University) and Coveney,
Peter (University College),
“Clay Swelling Inhibitors –
Computer Design and Validation.” AADE-10-DF-HO-32,
AADE Fluids Conference,
Houston, April 6–7, 2010.
Smith, Amber; Geehan,
Tom; McKee, Alan and
Zamora, Mario, “The True
Cost of Process Automation.” AADE-10-DF-HO-31,
AADE Fluids Conference,
Houston, April 6–7, 2010.
Bern, P.A. (BP); Zamora, M.;
Hemphill, A.T. (Halliburton);
Marshall, D. (Baker Hughes);
Beardmore, D. (ConocoPhillips); Omland, T.H. (Statoil);
and Morton, E.K. (Chevron) “Field Monitoring
of Weight-Material Sag.”
AADE-10-DF-HO-25, AADE
Fluids Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
Zhang, Joyce Hui; Harrison,
Clark and Foxenberg,
William, “Improve LowPermeability Gas Productivity with Unique Flow-Back
Chemistry.” AADE-10-DFHO-03, AADE Fluids
Conference, Houston,
April 6–7, 2010.
Scott, Paul (ConocoPhillips)
and Candler, John, “Size
Degradation of Shale Drill
Cuttings in Deepwater
Discharge Conditions from
Synthetic-Based Drilling
Fluids.” SPE 126253, SPE
International Conference
on Health, Safety and
Environment in Oil and
Gas Exploration and Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Cupelo, A., Marroquim, A.C.
(Shell), Filho, J. Franca and
Rabke, S.P., “Comparison
Between Acute and Chronic
Toxicities of Drilling Fluids
in Brazil: Is it Possible to
Determine a Correlation
Between Them?” 127186,
SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and
Environment in Oil and
Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Walker, Kirsty; Smulders,
Chantal (Shell); Schei,
Trond M. (ConocoPhillips);
Nistov, Aud (OLF); and
James, Reagan (ConocoPhillips), “Chemical Exposure
Scenarios for the Use and
Handling of Drilling Fluids
in the Oil and Gas Industry.” SPE 127020, SPE International Conference on
Health, Safety and
Environment in Oil and
Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Kraus, Leila A.S (Labtox);
Rabke, Stephen; Reynier,
Marcia V.; Cunha, Priscilla
M. and Euzébio, Viviane L.
(Labtox) and Fraça, Jose,
“Application of Biodegradation Testing in Brazil.” SPE
127014, SPE International
Conference on Health,
Safety and Environment in
Oil and Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Galvan, Joanne and Smith,
Chioma, “The Impact of
REACH on the E&P Industry:
A Service Company’s
Perspective.” SPE 126995,
SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and
Environment in Oil and
Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Wilkinson, Antony P.;
Walker, Kirsty; McEwen,
Greg; Woolsey, Gary and
Sanderson, Iain, “Improving Waste Injection Service Quality Through the
Development and Application of Technical Standards
and Competence-Based
Training.” SPE 126961, SPE
International Conference on
Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Rio
de Janeiro, April 12–14, 2010.
Burns, K. and Walker, K.,
“Alignment of Incident
Investigation Causes with
Proactive Hazard Reporting
Classifications.” SPE 126831,
SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and
Environment in Oil and
Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Roy, Meagan M.; Hunter,
Brian and Leuterman,
Arthur J.J., “Innovative
System Promotes Cost
Effective Identification of
Regulatory Requirements
for a Global Oilfield Service
Company.” SPE 126824, SPE
International Conference on
Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Rio
de Janeiro, April 12–14, 2010.
Walker, Kirsty; Throndsen,
Thor Inge (Statoil); Reeves,
Graham (BP); Hudson,
Patrick (Leiden University);
Croes, Suzanne (Shell); DahlHansen, Erik; Stadler, Randy
L. and Winters, Rick (ExxonMobil), “A Guide to Selecting Appropriate Tools to
Improve HSE Culture.” SPE
126862, SPE International
Conference on Health,
Safety and Environment in
Oil and Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Clements, Kayli; Veil, John
A. (Argonne National
Laboratory) and Leuterman,
Arthur J.J., “Global Practices
and Regulations for Land
Application and Disposal
of Drill Cuttings and Fluids.”
SPE 126565, SPE International Conference on
Health, Safety and
Environment in Oil and
Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
to Treat Drilling-Fluid Slops:
A Positive Environmental
and Economic Impact.”
SPE Drilling & Completion
(March 2010) 53. (Previously
presented as SPE 121742, SPE
International Symposium
on Oilfield Chemistry,
The Woodlands, Texas,
April 20–22, 2009)
Sherwood, Joe, “A simple
solution to rig drain debris.”
OTC 2010 Conference
Newspaper, May 3, p. 12.
Herigstad, Thor-Petter and
Whyte, Iain; Kleppa, Erling
(Petroleum Technology
Company AS Norway) and
Aas, Nina (Statoil), “Riser
Displacement Cleaning
Tools Helps Efficiently
Displace Drilling Fluid from
Marine Riser on Semi-Submersibles During Disconnects.” SPE 126436, SPE
International Conference
on Health, Safety and
Environment in Oil and
Gas Exploration and
Production, Rio de Janeiro,
April 12–14, 2010.
Dixit, Rahul and Patel,
Arvind, “Design and Development of a Novel Process
Authors and Papers
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Tech Roll Call
On time delivery of 11 EPCON CFU units in the Middle East
By Jurgen Joman, Regional Manager, Produced Water & Sand Management, MENA
O
f all the factors that influence a customer’s desire
on-time delivery of multiple unit delivery tasks and create
to remain loyal to a supplier, perhaps the greatest
daily visibility and measurement of the various factors that
of all is consistent on-time delivery of their orders.
were affecting the performance.
Throughout the supply chain, on-time delivery is vital to
As a result, the project team could make real-time adjustthe continuation of the manufacturing effort—should one
ments allowing for any predictable (or even unexpected)
domino in the system go down, the rest are sure to follow
delays in the entire engineering and manufacturing process,
in suit.
and in turn, produce
However, today it is
consistent and reliable
not enough to merely
delivery dates. During
know you are on time,
the process, we have
but it also is important
continuously optimized
to know just how much
the SharePoint^ project
you are on time. Indeed,
in such a manner that we
supplier performance
will be able to reuse it for
has never been more
future projects, ensuring
crucial to manufacturing
that we will be capable
success than it is today.
of running multiple projFactors such as outside
ects simultaneously with
processing, sourcing from
a relatively small group
sub-suppliers, extended
of people.
supply chains due to
This was a typical
globalization, unstable
example where two busisupply markets, as well
ness units joined forces
as a general supply risk,
to learn from each other’s
all conspire to impede onexpertise in optimizing
Final delivery with customer. From left to right: Neville Story, CEO United Entime delivery.
the project management
gineering Services; Maziar Khajavi, project manager Hirgan; Jurgen Joman,
regional manager PWSM; Farzad Ghasemi, managing director Hirgan; Hans
Handling 11 EPCON*
performance, which
Angman, general manager M-I EPCON Norway.
CFU units simultaneously
ultimately made our own
in four different delivperformance a source of
ery batches was the task of the relatively small Produced
pride rather than a source of excuses.
Water Management team in Dubai. To help ensure that the
All 11 units were delivered before the actual delivery time
project management team in the manufacturing chain, was
and witnessed by our customer at the manufacturing facildoing everything possible to produce on-time delivery, a
ity in Oman. The final delivery consisted of a 2x3 CFU 540
SharePoint^ project was developed in cooperation with the
EPCON CFU unit, with a capacity of 1,080 m3/hr (160,000
Project Delivery group from ES. The project was designed
bbl/d) that, thanks to its unique single lift split design, was
to easily and instantly process several layers of production
capable of being transported by road. With a bridge cleardata for the improvement of performance. The project also
ance of 6 in (15 cm) and the old Muscat town as its main
captured the different inputs from various sources: cusobstacles, we managed to transport the unit to the harbor
tomer, manufacturer, product line owner (M-I EPCON Norof discharge over a distance of approximately 9 mi (15 km)
way), sub-suppliers, third-party inspection and the end-user.
in about six hours where it was transported to its final
In a highly competitive marketplace, supply chain optimidestination.
zation is a key operating benchmark of being a truly
flexible and adaptive company. For this reason, this formed
^ SharePoint is a mark of the Microsoft Corp.
a key component for the project team to enhance its
40 Momentum
CYCLOTECH product and integration meeting held in
the Middle East
By Jurgen Joman, Regional Manager, Produced Water & Sand Management, MENA
A
three-day Cyclotech* training session was held in the
Middle East to introduce
the newly acquired technology and
ensure coverage of its entire product
portfolio in the region.
The training provided a general
overview of the Cyclotech product
portfolio, fundamental technical
The training participants.
information and possible applications
for the produced water and sand management product line.
A central focus of the training was the effort of product
know-how and to understand its potential in various applications throughout the M-I SWACO customer base—understanding applications, performance and the challenges
associated with integrating the products with the existing
technologies. The Cyclotech technology will bring new business
opportunities.
The product portfolio is highly
complementary to the M-I SWACO
EPCON* CFU technology and provides us a unique offering towards
our customers. The training was
attended by representatives of Production Chemicals, Produced Water
Management, Environmental Solutions and Sales from
Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The acquisition of Cyclotech will allow M-I SWACO to
deliver a more complete and holistic solution to meet the
customers’ needs in the produced water and sand streams
associated with oil and gas production worldwide.
The magnetic touch in Brazil
By Ian Clarke, Specialized Tools Manager, and Luis Flores, Wellbore Productivity Director, SABU
C
hevron Brazil required a clean-up BHA assembly to
scrape the packer setting depth and dress the production casing and marine riser in preparation for an
open hole gravel pack completion. The key objective was to
complete the operation as a single trip system while not
compromising the effectiveness of the wellbore clean-up
and displacement operation.
Neil Cerny, senior M-I SWACO project engineer for Chevron,
invited the Specialized Tools support team in Brazil to present the new technology ST product offering to the Chevron
Completions Department.
Up to this point, the wellbore clean-up operations for
Chevron Brazil had been completed as a dual-trip system
consisting of multiple PUP* combination tools, Well
Patroller*, Finger Basket*, Single Action By-Pass Sub*
and dual PUP Riser Brush* tools.
The presentation delivered by M-I SWACO Specialized
Tools Manager for SABU, Ian Clarke, was based around the
new technology offering, the MagnoStar* high strength,
high capacity ferrous debris extraction tool.
Following the presentation, a detailed proposal was
submitted to the Chevron Brazil team, eliminating the
requirement of multiple PUP combination tools by placing
a Razor Back* and a dual-configuration MagnoStar tool
into the revised BHA assembly. This anticipated new design
would allow for an estimated ferrous metal recovery exceeding 400 lb (181 kg).
The 9 5/8 in MagnoStar tools were used due to their large
debris collection capacity, which is made possible by the
45 fully-encapsulated high-capacity magnets. Crucial also
in their selection was their large fluid bypass, adjustable
according to specific flow path requirements.
During the very successful clean-up run that followed, the
two MagnoStar tools collected a combined 41 lb (19 kg) of
ferrous metal debris. The debris was generally small in size
with some larger slivers also present.
The operator was exceptionally pleased that the operation was completed as a single trip system, coupled with
the high ferrous debris retrieval compared to previous jobs.
Consequently, they requested these tools be run on any and
all future work of this nature.
“Please share this success with your organization,” said
Daniel Hunt, Chevron senior completions engineer. “Thank
you for all your efforts, hard work and sleepless nights to
resolve this one.”
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Tech Roll Call
MAGNOSTAR magnetic tool cleans up against the competition
T
The MagnoStar has been utilized
he Specialized Tools group
along with competitors’ magnet tools on
within the Wellbore Productivfour high profile wells in the Gulf of
ity segment has again proven
Mexico recently. When comparing the
to be a leader in the market with
amount of debris collected, a total of 16
cutting-edge research, development
MagnoStar tools were run in the four
and tool design. The MagnoStar*
jobs with a total ferrous debris recovery
magnetic tool is proving to be far
of 559.0 lbs (254 .1 kg), making the average
and above the best metallic debris
recovery per tool 34.9 lbs (15.9 kg).
removal tool on the market. The tool
In the same four wells, the competihas recently been used on clean-outs,
tors’ magnet tools recovered a total of
milling/drilling, packer retrieval and
222.1 lbs (101.0 kg), averaging 9.3 lbs
displacement runs in the Gulf
(4.2 kg) per tool. Competitor tools were
of Mexico.
located above, below and between
The MagnoStar tool is equipped
MagnoStar tools on the various trips.
with strong magnets specifically
In addition, the MagnoStar tools
designed for the tool. The magnets
were run on trips after competitive
are fixed into precisely engineered
The MAGNOSTAR tool.
magnet tools and in all cases, each
ribs and face each other, which
MagnoStar tool collected more debris than any of the
greatly increase the magnet’s surface area. In some
competitive magnets. This comparison clearly demoncases, this allows the debris to bridge between the
strates the MagnoStar tool’s dominance, recovering more
two surfaces and therefore, greatly enhances the
than three and a half times the amount of debris per tool.
volume of debris that is collected and removed from
By utilizing the MagnoStar tool to more effectively clean
the wellbore. Operators in the Gulf of Mexico are
out debris from the wellbore, operators should see greater
absolutely thrilled with this tool’s performance and
reliability and longevity in the smart completion packer
have been replacing competitor’s magnet tools after
systems as well as less non-productive time and costly
seeing the results.
remedial work.
AUTOMATIC TANK CLEANING system used in Ghana
By Norman Masson, Drilling Fluids specialist, and Peter Kennedy, Project Engineer, Rotational Sub-Sahara Africa
Have you ever had the pleasure of being a part of a “bucket brigade” when
cleaning mud pits? The hours of shoveling and lifting buckets filled with barite
and other solids, using a pressure washer.
Those days are over when using the M-I SWACO Automatic Tank Cleaning*
(ATC*) system, which was designed to minimize cleaning time, reduce manpower and eliminate confined space entry.
In February 2010, the Transocean Sedco 702 (DP Semi) prepared to move from
Ghana to Nigeria, and required cleaning to brine specification their mud tanks
The ATC unit sprays down the
and pits: four main tanks, four settling tanks, two slugging pits, two column
interior of a tank.
storage tanks (1,200 bbl), the degasser and the trip tank. The M-I SWACO tank
cleaning team consisted of two crews of four personnel (one supervisor, three engineers).
The port and starboard columns took us the longest to clean, due to the large surface areas involved (18 and
14 hours, respectively), and access was through an electrical equipment room. To ensure coverage of all areas of the
tanks/pits, five TCM (two each scan-jet 360˚ Wizzy Head* and three each cloud 180˚ Wizzy Head) were brought in.
The pit system was fairly easy to clean due to the bottoms being concaved and sloped. The rig crew was able
to focus on rig operations, while we cleaned the tanks. Portable tank cleaning machines (TCM) were mounted in
each tank, since there were no preposition flanges to mount the TCMs. Even though most of the crew had never
been offshore, it took them four days to clean all tanks, with zero confined space entry, and no NPT (one TCM
needed to be rebuilt, but a spare was used).
The rig crew said they had never seen the tanks so clean. It sure beat working on the bucket brigade.
42 Momentum
WARP technology breaks more ERD records
By Doug Oakley, Senior Business Line Manager, WARP Fluids
T
he ability of M-SWACO to deliver trouble-free drilling
solutions for extended reach drilling (ERD) has once
again been exemplified with two record-breaking
wells drilled offshore Canada and Denmark, demonstrating the company’s position as an industry leader for drilling
extended reach wells.
The 8 1⁄2 in section of well B-16 56 (OPA-2) was drilled
from the Hibernia platform offshore Newfoundland to a
measured depth of 33,208 ft (10,122 m). With a horizontal
departure of 26,171 ft (7,977 m), this section makes OPA-2 the
longest well drilled from the Hibernia platform. Remarkably, the 6,945 ft (2,117 m) long interval was drilled in just 17
and a half days that included seven and a half days of rig
torque was 35 kNm and after displacement to WARP
Paradril, the rotary torque was 27 kNm—a reduction of
23%, and pick-up weights were reduced by 5% and slack-off
weights increased by 3%. Wellbore stability was enhanced
due to the low rheology of the WARP Paradril system due
to swab pressures being reduced from 0.78 to 0.14 lb/gal
equivalent mud weight (EMW) and surge effects reduced
from 1.89 to 1.19 lb/gal EMW. A remarkable achievement for
the M-I SWACO and ExxonMobil Hibernia team.
Not to be outdone, M-I SWACO drilled the longest well in
Denmark this quarter on Maersk well HBB-9. This was the
first time Maersk has used WARP technology in Denmark
and the 15,895 ft (4,845 m) long 6 in section was drilled
to 31,140 ft (9,491 m)
horizontally. Once again,
there was good correlation between PWD and
Virtual Hydraulics
software to manage
downhole ECDs, and the
excellent friction factors
of the 11.2 lb/gal (1.3 sg)
WARP Versaclean* system were again demonstrated when the 4 in liner
was run to TD after some
sections of the hole had
been open for more than
three months.
No sag was experienced
on either of these wells
and a combination of
325# and 400# screens
handling full flow of 300
gal/min in combination
The true vertical depth (TVD) depth plotted against the horizontal displacement of the well.
with a CD-500* centrifuge
enabled LGS to be maintained below 6%.
repairs when the planned target was 76 days. Other records
With only three weeks to plan and mobilize materials for
included the longest 8 1/2 in bit run on Hibernia.
this section, M-I SWACO Project Engineers Mads Anderson
An 11.85 to 12.1 lb/gal ( 1.41 – 1.45 sg) low rheology WARP*
and Anders Hou pulled out all the stops to ensure the well
Paradril* system, with a 6 rpm value of three to four units,
was a success and drill the longest reservoir section comwas successfully employed and executed by Geoff Young,
pleted to date with WARP Technology.
the M-I SWACO Hibernia project engineer working closely
M-I SWACO remains at the forefront of ERD, combining
with ExxonMobil drilling engineers in St. John’s. Downhole
unique drilling fluid solutions such as WARP technology,
hydraulics simulations with the Virtual Hydraulics* softcoupled to Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Techniques and
ware correlated well with PWD measurements and the use
supported by field-proven software tools such as Virtual
of 400#XR screens with full flow of 555 gal/min maintained
1
Hydraulics and PressPro* RT.
low-gravity solids (LGS) to less than 8 /2 %.
The lower friction factors of WARP technology was once
again confirmed with tests both before and after displacement from a Paradril system to the WARP Paradril
system at the 9 5⁄8 in shoe. Before displacement the rotary
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Tech Roll Call
A history of Waste Injection operations in Azerbaijan,
continuing to show outstanding performance
By Salamat Gumarov, Waste Injection Sub-Surface Engineer
I
n late 2000, BP issued a tender for the supply of
Waste Injection systems for a four-platform
offshore project to develop the giant Azeri-ChiragGunashli oilfield, located offshore Baku, Azerbaijan.
Each platform would consist of topsides with templates capable of drilling 48 development wells. The
aim of the project was to increase production from
approximately 120,000 bbl/day to more than one
million bbl/day by early 2009 while complying with
strict environmental regulations on the discharge of
drilling effluents.
In 2001, AZERI M-I (a joint venture between
M-I SWACO and SOCAR—Azerbaijan’s national oil
Left to right: Salamat Gumarov, WI sub-surface engineer; Barry
Aitchison, West Azeri WI supervisor; Parviz Bairamov, WI senior
operator.
company) was awarded the contract to provide
engineering, manufacturing and commissioning of the
Waste Injection (WI) system for the Central Azeri
platform, and engineering services for the four-platform development to follow. Drawing on the experience of a UK-based engineering and design team,
combined with a strong field operations team, the
equipment packages were successfully installed and
transitioned into fully operational mode as the
injection well came on line. The solution encompassed
a wide range of disciplines, including but not
limited, to:
• Cuttings handling and slurrification equipment
packages design
• Structural, mechanical and electrical engineering
• Automation and control—Human Machine
Interface Systems
• Compliance with client and industry standards
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• Project management
• Geomechanical modeling and injection process monitoring and assurance
• Installations manning and operation
Months of work by the Aberdeen-based Engineering
group, local and regional management, peer reviews of
project design and operational procedures by M-I SWACO
WI experts finished with the commissioning of a pioneer
WI project in the Caspian Sea on the Central Azeri platform
in March 2006. In June of 2006, a WI system was commissioned on West Azeri platform. Since that time, WI became
waste management technology of choice. A year later, the
East Azeri platform joined the Caspian WI family. The latest,
WI equipment aboard the Central Azeri platform.
but not last, installment was on the DWG platform in
October 2008. Currently, M-I SWACO is operating WI
systems on four major drilling and production platforms.
The client’s recognition of service reliability and performance was shown during a retendering of WI services
when M-I SWACO fully retained WI positions, renewing the
contract for two years and two extension possibilities. This
is an important achievement. Total volume of 1.9 million
bbl has been injected in four platforms over four years with
zero total non-productive time (NPT). A technical paper
developed and published by the M-I SWACO sub-surface
team coauthored by John Greener and Seith Feyereisen of
BP (IADC/SPE 112602) and two performance reports on these
projects add more evidence of the outstanding performance
and the client’s recognition.
All of the above wouldn’t come true without people who
have been investing their energy, talent and knowledge
throughout many years, including but not limited to
Waste Injection operations from page 44
Lawrence McLeod, Edgardo Hernandez, George Park, Kevin
Simpson, Talgat Shokanov and lead engineers Duncan
McRae, Chris Hardy, Ike McPhee, James Beattie, Graeme
McAllister, Barry Aitchison, as well as the commitment and
support from the Azerbaijan/Kazakhstan management and
operation personnel. Also worth mentioning is the strong
group of local Azeri engineers that has grown up throughout the years of the project’s operation.
Based on this experience, strictly following operational
procedures and best practices, training and uplifting
employee’s qualifications, team-working and keeping
positive attitude, building on strong reputation and history,
the Azerbaijan WI team looks towards the future with
confidence and excitement.
A typical day for the WI team begins with toolbox
meeting, continues with taking handover from night shift.
Then it comes time for planning the job, analyzing drilling
look-aheads, communicating to drill floor, checking equipment, etc. Every job is planned and risks are evaluated prior
to performing via TRIC cards (risk identification cards).
Activities requiring Permit to Work (PTW) are performed
strictly following to PTW procedure.
Drilling time is the time when experience, fast reaction
and teamwork of WI personnel are examined. Drill cuttings
must be processed into slurry and injected with no interruption to ROP while satisfying slurry quality requirements.
In order to handle high ROPs, the WI team, prior to start of
drilling, plans the job, makes sure that all equipment is in
good condition, so no equipment fails during drilling and
divides the responsibilities between each team member.
Clear understanding and knowledge of operational and
maintenance procedures, knowledge of equipment, drilling
process and its outcomes on cuttings generation on surface,
strictly obeying QHSE requirements are the key factors for
successful work in this environment.
The WI team on West Azeri is responsible for operating
WI system, which consists of components such as slurrification system, high-pressure pump, a CleanCut* system,
vacuum unit and other auxiliary equipment pieces. All
these components are tied together into a coordinated
system. The responsibility of WI team onboard is to handle
the rig’s drilling waste: wastes suitable for injection
(cuttings, waste mud, oily drains, pit cleaning fluids, etc.)
—to be processed and injected and wastes not suitable for
injection (green cement returns, LCM, oversized particles)
—to be collected and placed in DCBs to be shipped onshore.
The technical paper and performance reports can be
found in WI business line site: http://gbu.web.miswaco.
com/wasteinjection/.
M-I SWACO wins Project Excellence
Award on strength of RHELIANT*
mud system
By Robert Mercer, Senior Engineering Manager,
US Offshore Region
PXP held their Gulf Coast Contractor’s Safety
Conference on Mar. 17 in Lafayette, LA. Bill Jones,
Marvin Gaspard and Mark Hightower attended the
conference. M-I SWACO was awarded the Project
Excellence Award for outstanding performance in
the Gulf Coast Region for 2009.
It was noted by Wayne McBride, PXP Gulf Coast
drilling manager, that because of the Rheliant* mud
system and the outstanding performance from
everyone involved in the Friesian Project, they were
successful in drilling this well to TD of 33,894 ft
(10,330 m) in 3,875 ft (1,181 m) of water. They also
recognized the outstanding effort by the hands that
worked the Lagrange land well in St. Martin Parish.
Mark Hightower, in-house project engineer, was
awarded the Project Excellence Award for the excellent work he does at PXP.
The Drilling Fluids specialists that worked the
Lagrange well were Lloyd Hollier, Melvin “Pete”
Peterson, Doug Fletcher, Cory Alexander and
Steve Fontenot.
The Drilling Fluids Specialists that worked the
Friesian well were Scott Talbot, David Cooley, Todd
Simmonds, Marcus Brassette and Chris Bynum.
The Compliance specialists that worked the
Friesian well were Stephen Wilbourn and Beau
Laviolette.
Corey Stark, project engineer based in New
Orleans, oversaw the day-to-day operations for the
Friesian well.
Left to right: Mark Hightower, M-I SWACO senior project
engineer; Bill Jones, M-I SWACO senior executive sales; Randy
Vines, PXP VP Drilling; Marvin Gaspard, M-I SWACO senior
executive sales.
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Tech Roll Call
Pressure Control introduced into Mexico in PEMEX MPD well
Left to right: Javiet Bermeo Torres, OPDS/SLB supervisor;
Paul Delahoussaye, M-I SWACO Technical Services engineer;
Thiago Pinheiro Da Silva, SLB engineer; Jair Cadena,
M-I SWACO field service coordinator.
As part of the new development of Pressure Control
Business Line, M-I SWACO completed its first MPD job
in Villahermosa, Mexico, with PEMEX working for
Schlumberger. Using the Low Pressure AutoChoke*
(LPAC)* console and the AutoChoke* units, new technologies for MPD, M-I SWACO has proven that its equipment has a high technology profile and occupies a very
small rigsite footprint.
The LPAC console and AutoChoke units are the first
pieces of equipment used in MPD applications in the
South America Business Units (SABU). This job was
assisted by Roger Suter, David Molley, Jamt Alfonzo,
Fabio Manotas, Jair Cadena, Cenobio Martinez, Daniel
Canul and Jorge Vazquez, who provided high-quality
support to Schlumberger IPM and PEMEX, and the result
was a very good acceptance of our new technology.
Training was conducted for M-I SWACO Mexico personnel on the LPAC console and the AutoChoke unit’s
installation and maintenance. This type of training
helped to break the barrier to understand the new technologies of Pressure Control in Mexico.
“Offering this type of support and jobs will open us to
new opportunities for Pressure Control Business Lines
in MPD applications,” said Jamt Nunez, Pressure Control
project manager, SABU.
IWA job success in Caspian
M-I SWACO currently provides fluids, filtration, solids control, waste management and specialized tools for an
operator in Azerbaijan. This project was evaluated as a good opportunity to implement Integrated Wellbore
Assurance (IWA) services from Wellbore Productivity for the purpose of streamlining the customer’s reservoir
drilling and completion operations. This would be the first time the IWA process was used by the customer in
that particular field.
An integrated completion and wellbore cleanup program was submitted for the well with clearly defined KPIs
set forth for the well, which included implementing ESS fluids strategy in the field for the first time, BHA design
enabling simultaneous scraping of packer setting depths, integrated data capture in end of well report and daily
filtration reporting.
A pit and vessel management plan was implemented to streamline the fluids movement, with all waste from
the displacement operation shipped to shore for disposal due to a waste injection pump failure.
The reservoir was drilled with a 10. 4 lb/gal (1.25 sg) Rheliant* M system, with a water-base solids-free pill
spotted in the open hole interval during the wellbore clean-out trip, utilizing an OH transition spacer. The casing was then cleaned up with standard cleaning pills and displaced to a 10.4 lb/gal KCl/NaCl/NaBr brine. The
ESS screens were run to bottom and expanded without issue. The water injectivity met expectations.
Ninety-six percent of all KPIs and objectives were met for the well, with all of the HSE targets met, and in
some cases, exceeded. The one objective not met was inconsistency in the fluid density when circulating that
led to three hours of NPT. Lessons learned were captured and recommendations were made to avoid this problem on future wells. The fluids and specialized tools services for the well came in 25% below the planned cost of
the completion.
46 Momentum
Observations on the resilience of Alpine DRILL BEADS in
Bakken Formation, North Dakota
By Kumar Ramtahal, Technical Service Engineer
V
ery often, the resilience of Alpine Specialty Chemicals Drill Beads* is questioned as they are used to
support the drilling efficiency of wells, in particular lateral wells that impose the weight of the drill string
against the formation.
The function of the Drill Beads when added to the
drilling fluid is to improve mechanical lubricity through
the improvement of rate of penetration and reduction of
torque and drag, as well as minimizing casing wear.
These spherical co-polymer beads of diameter under
1 mm (180μ – 950μ) provides a ball-bearing effect
between the drill string and casing or open hole. As the
drilling fluid or mud circulates, the Drill Beads adhere to
and surround the surface of the drill pipe and also embed
themselves in the formation or filter-cake providing
additional stand-off. They are periodically measured and
maintained in the mud system, generally at a concentration of 4 ppb. In some instances, they may be spotted in
an open-hole for logging operations or running casing at
higher concentrations of 6 to 10 ppb.
In North Dakota, operators have experienced tremendous cost savings utilizing the Alpine Drill Bead additive
and their Drill Beads Recovery Unit (BRU). The BRU separates the Drill Beads from the drill cuttings as they are
filtered off at the rig shakers and reintroduce them into the
active mud system to be pumped downhole again. These
cost savings were effected through increased operational
efficiency in drilling and sliding, fewer number of trips and
less days to TD.
Above: The spherical nature of the Alpine Drill Beads when recovered at the surface shakers. Having undergone a journey of approximately 8 mi (12.8 km), to and from a vertical depth of 2 mi (3.2
km) followed by a horizontal distance of another 2 mi (3.2 km) and
withstanding the harsh temperatures and pressures, they remain
solid and spherical, ready to smoothen out the next trip. Right: In
drilling operations in North Dakota, the vertical section is drilled
for approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) followed by a horizontal section
of similar magnitude within the Bakken formation. This section
consists of three beds: upper Shale, middle Dolomite and lower
Shale. The reservoir of oil is contained in the middle Dolomite layer
about 140 ft (42.6 m) thick. The cuttings shown were derived from
two layers of the Bakken formation: the middle and upper. Note the
difference in the rock structures of the middle Dolomite and upper
Shale.
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Career Development and Training
Dubai holds first ‘Finance for Non-Financial Personnel’ course
By Don Presley, Senior Training Advisor, Career Development & Training
T
he Business Unit Controllers and the Career Development and Training Department (CDT) have put
together the first M-I SWACO course related specifically to M-I SWACO financials. The first course, Finance for
Non-Financial Personnel, was conducted in Dubai on
Apr. 13–15. The three-day class was held in the Grand Millennium Hotel and was attended by 21 employees from
throughout the M-I SWACO Global operations. The course
was conducted by Nino Gullotti, financial controller Dubai,
and Yvonne Ng, senior administrative assistant Singapore.
During the three days of intense training, the attendees
received instructions in Balance Sheets, Statement of Earnings, Cash Flow, DSOs, Inventory Turn Rate, and Break Even
Analysis, as well as other financial operations. At the end of
the third day, all of the employees attending the course felt
that they had benefited a great deal from the course material that was presented.
Another course will be taught soon in the Eastern Hemisphere, and the first of these courses to be taught in the
Western Hemisphere was conducted in Brazil on May 27–29.
The courses will be instructed and led by a Controller or his
or her designee. This is an excellent course for any manager
Attendees: Abyroi Baktygali, Aidyn Niyazgaliyev, Alasdair Kennedy,
Andrew Moffat, Bjorn Sampson, David Hosie, Don Presley, Eric Veldhuijzen, Fahad Hamad Aldoseri, Givi Joseph, John Buchan, Ahmed
Adou Chaker, Manuel Nogueira, Mena Nasrallah, Mischa Oostendorp,
Nelson Alfonzo, Zia Haider Shah, Pauxides Martinez, Peter Joseph,
Sunny Ononogbu, Victor Onyechi, Nino Gullotti (instructor), Yvonne
Ng (instructor).
required to make financial decisions related to
M-I SWACO business.
If you are interested in taking this course or getting a
course together for your area of responsibility, please contact the Career Development and Training Department or
your Controller.
First Pressure Control basic training is held in Venezuela
As part of the new strategic approach to the development
of the Pressure Control business line in South America,
M-I SWACO has implemented the first basic training. Jamt
Alfonzo, project manager SABU Pressure Control, trained
ten employees of the Environmental Solutions (ES) line.
The three-day training provided a wide range of skills
involving both operational mechanisms as tools for trading
and for sales.
This type of training will promote new market opportunities for our organization in new technologies of Pressure
Control, and for the maintenance of those equipments.
Bottom row, left to right: Danilo Padrino, Juan Carlos
Villarroel and instructor Jamt Alfonzo. Top row, left to
right: Ernesto Alfonzo, Andrick Gonzalez, Tatiana Suárez,
Luis León, José Luis Gutiérrez. Rear, left to right: Luis
Hilarraza and Witt Almerida.
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Deepwater school held in Mumbai, India
A Deepwater school was held in Mumbai, India, Feb. 15–18 with 27 participants including Dinesh Lanjewar, N.K.
Velevaraj, Jalal Saeed, Vijay Rengarajan, Chintan Gohel, Daniel Parker, Sunil Sharma, Nidhu Sebastian, Satish Yewlekar,
Vijay Baskar, Santosh Panicker, Sufyan Deshmukh, Sachin Mahadeshwar, Vivek Mandal, Ratish Rajguru, Sumeet
Panchal, K. Lakshminarayan, Manoharan Govindasamy, K. Lenin, Mizanur Rahman, Rajesh Kumar, Mark Hollands, Bob
Kelly, Johannes De Beer, Chris Horabin, Paul Rodgers and Satish Mahajan. Instructors were Andrew Wilde, business
development director for Deepwater, and Bruce Wade, senior training engineer.
Russian IFE class
An IFE Project Planning and IFE Fluid Economics
class in Volgograd, Russia, was held Apr. 22–
May 4. Attending were, Denis Kumanin, Sergey
Marchenko, Yevgeniy Petrichev, Andrey Shardin,
Vadim Skipin, Vadim Semikin, Igor Chernousov,
Konstantin Ponitevsky, Pavel Muzafarov, Dmitriy
Voitenko. Also pictured are Kenny Helmer,
instructor, and Natalia Balandina, translator. Not
pictured is instructor Garth Farebrother.
Drilling Fluids seminar for Schlumberger IPM employees
At right is a picture of the participants of the Drilling
Fluids seminar conducted in Villahermosa, Mexico,
Feb. 23–25.
First row, left to right: Instructor Benjamin Paiuk, José Manuel
Gómez, Catalina Cavalieri, Claudia Peñuela, Yuly P. Marín, Julian
Bautista, Oscar Fermín, Leopoldo Martínez, Mexico Manager
Marco Ruiz. Second row, left to right: Didier Beltrán, Roberto
Carlos Aguilera, Roberto Mattos, Jorge Luis Erives, Villahermosa
District Manager Cesar Vera, RTSM Mexico Manager Alfonso
Martínez.
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Career Development and Training
Class Photos
E-Campus FAQ
1. What Username and Password do I use to log into
E-Campus?
• Your company network ID and password
– Username: JSmith
– Password: network password
2. How do I view my training records in E-Campus?
• Click the ‘My Learning’ tab
• Click ‘Transcript’ in the left menu
Customers and employees of M-I SWACO Peru attended
a Drilling Fluids seminar conducted by Benjamin Paiuk
in Talara, Peru, Mar. 22–26. Pictured are: David Li Vargas
Machuca, Percy Arturo Quinde Alamo, Ruperto Bejamín
León Alemán, Campos Condori Jorge A., Torres Aranda
Luis Armando, Hector Cuadros Olave, Filiberto Oriz
Imán, Erick Sirlupu Ruiz, J. Alonso López Cabrera, Miguel
Angel Llenque Torres, Ana Teresa Garrido Aguilera,
Fiorella Dennis Córdova Seminario, Mario Quevedi
Albuquerque, Manuel Walter Inga Jesus, Carlos Ramirez
Castañeda, Junior Panta Vitre, Rigoberto Coveñas
Coronado, Raul Rosales Zapata, Joe Nima Coloma, Jorge
Gutierrez Panduro, Ricardo Gilabert, Joe Julliano Gallo
Rivas, Aquino Aquino Felix, Victor Hugo Acosta Balcazar,
Eber Pedriel and Jose Chuyes.
3. How do I print a Certificate of Completion in
E-Campus?
Enter in the course title, ID or a keyword next to
Search and click Go. For example, Pumps.
• Click the ‘My Learning’ tab
• Click ‘Transcript’ in the left menu
• Select a date range
• Click ‘Print Certificate of Completion’ next to the
course title
4. What are Current Enrollments?
Current Enrollments are your current registrations. You can view all your current registrations by
simply clicking on Current Enrollments from your
E-Campus home page.
• You can cancel a registration/enrollment by
clicking ‘Drop’ next to the course title on your ‘My
Enrollments’ page.
Mohammed Dooply, left, the main instructor and
coordinator for the Schlumberger Cementing Class held
Mar. 30–31 at the Kellyville Training Center in Oklahoma stands with the class. Ben Paiuk is second from
the right.
5. Where can I find the employee and manager
guides for E-Campus?
• Visit the E-Campus Support Site located as follows:
– M-I SWACO Intranet
– Departments
– Career Development and Training
– E-Campus Support Site
HDD Mining & Waterwell conducts successful customer schools
The HDD Mining & Waterwell group recently conducted two successful customer mud schools for large and
mini rigs. This year over 90 students attended. This included customers from Italy, Russia, Australia and
Germany. The three-day school was broken into morning lectures and afternoons in the Training Lab where
participants gained hands-on experience with the various additives and systems used in HDD applications.
The group has also enjoyed an immediate benefit from the school by being awarded the fluid sales on several
large projects. In addition, pending orders for a couple Meerkat* shakers were received during the school.
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Awards and Anniversaries
Donnie VanVranken, engineering manager, Oklahoma City,
left, receives his 35-year award from Kelly Hall, senior district
manager, Southeast Region, right.
Amon “Mo” Lewis, project engineer, Tulsa, right receives his
5-year award from Donnie VanVranken, engineering manager, Oklahoma City, left.
From left to right: Lilly Staples, Tony Staples regional technical services manager, ES, Dominic Staples and Marc Tuminaro (RVP, Sub Sahara Africa).
Marc Turminaro, RVP Sub Sahara Africa, left, presents a
5-year service award to Lynn Felix, personal assistant and
training coordinator, ES.
On the left, Frank Mackin, senior technical services engineer
Eastern Canada, receives his 35-year award from Todd Reid,
operations manager Eastern Canada.
Executive Secretary Debbie Groh, center, receives her 40-year
anniversary award from Senior Operations Manager and
acting VP US Offshore Region, Bret Toups, left, and Senior Engineering Manager, US Offshore Region, Robert Mercer, right.
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MOMENTUM
Anniversaries
424 employees are recognized with service anniversary awards. With 45 years at M-I SWACO, Jay Alexius
is the senior member of the 424 employees receiving service awards in the second quarter of 2010. The remaining 423
employees and their years of service are:
40 years
Deborah M. Groh
Andre Pierre
35 years
Peter Bayard
Danny Boudreaux
Jeffrey Cooper
Sven Iversen
Stephen Lattanzi
Frank Mackin
Mohammed Monem
Charles D. Montgomery
Jules Nijst
Abdul Rachmat
Homer Smith Jr.
30 Years
William Bagley
Elwin Earwood
Charles Hudson
Michael Huval
Gamal Iskander
Horacio Mendez
Richard Morris
Mircle Phillips
Francesco Piermartiri
Stephen Pluemer
Forrest Purviance
Brian Shapira
Va Soeng
Keith Solley
Irene Song
George Stavropoulos
Vic Still
Barbara A. Williams
25 Years
Douglas Doescher
Sherif El Gammal
Charles Garrison
Kenneth Hicks
Blake Kersh III
Fabiano Miranda
Durwin Speidel
Joanne Yake
20 Years
David Bennett
Fabian Bonino
Luis Carazas
Francois Couffy
Alasdair Duncan
Jean Godelet
Randy Jones
Aslam Khan
Alf Kristoffersen
Remy Ledet Jr.
Alessandro Lupi
Lars Matras
John McArthur
Eric Moukengue
George Park
Philip Ridley
Arve Sanden
Graeme Smith
Annette Smotherman
Gerd Wandschneider
Lonnie Wood
Juan Zuniga
15 Years
Fredrick Armstrong Jr.
Arne Asko
Ingrid Brijlal
Blake Brockerville
Fernando Calliari
Jacqueline Cameron
Carlos Cardenas
Don Carvalho
Jeremy Chadwell
Lingo Chang
Victor Chigozie
Elton Doucet Jr.
James Dwyer
Wael Elessawy
Werner Hennig
Julio Herrera
Brian Kay
Michael King
Erik Lauritzen
Jessica Leblanc
Debora Ledington
Godspower Looh
Gabriel-Mihai Moise
Egil Ovretveit
Roald Schmidt
Diane Schwenke
Reinaldo Silveira
Danny Smith
Marc Tagher
Ceferino Vallejos
10 Years
Talal Achrafi
Mohamed Al Alwani
Lydia Aldana
Kenneth Allen
Benoit Allias
Maged Aly
Tamara Amador
Djamel Aram
Joao Araujo
Bharat Arora
Ramon Arteaga
Vladimir Astafyev
Juan Avila
Sjoerd Bakker
Joao Baptista
Bruno Bayle
John Becknell
Salah Ben Hamza
Ahmed Bin Diyab
Michael Boatner
Sergey Boldyrev
Marcus Brand
Lourenco Casimiro
Abel Castillo
Byron Church
Jean Cognaud
David Cooley
Matthew Cooley
Patricia Corredor
Marcus Couto
Elliott David
Raymon Davis
Johann De Beer
Kim Decuir
Enrique Delavega
Monica Derouen
Udoka Dike
© 2010 M-I l.l.c. All rights reserved.
* Mark of M-I l.l.c.
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Dwight Dozier
Luz Duran
Oystein Eck-Olsen
Ejor Ejire
Believe Ejor
Emmanuel Ejor
Philip Elliott
Dana Enda
Zakari Fellah
Michael Fitch
Stephen Fontenot
Arne Froyen
Aide Fuentes
Troy Gamble
Manuel Joaquin Garcia
Gabriel Gbaraedo
Maricela Gonzalez
James Goodson
Philip Herrera
Abayomi Jewesimi
Jose Jimenez
Zau Junior
Petros Karlsen
Nasir Khan
Allan Knudsen
Koradan Kutty
Joseph Lale
Chris Lapoint
Johnny Leblanc
Siang Lee
Herland Limpias
Eric Long
Cruz Lopez
Mark Louis
Robert Luke
Janeth Luzardo
Rodney Mabeus
Luis Martinez
Ramon Maurera
Mohammed Menaa
Miguel Mendez
Mark Mercer
Eduardo Mogollon
Olav Monstad
Alexander Morales
Fateh Mouzaoui
Thierry Neyroud
Aidyn Niyazgaliyev
Peter Ofulue
Noel Ogazi
Jude Ogbunugha
Karen Okabayashi
Angus Onyeka
Obande Orinya
Jan Orseth
Marcel Paquet
Tomas Paxe
Darryl Penton
Roxane Perrio
Charles Plaisance
Todd Plattsmier
Radek Podivinsky
Neil Pousson
Bethicia Prasek
Tom Rapp
Sutardi Retty
Sam Richardson
Daniel Rivera
Cynthia Roberts
Graham Robertson
Brian Rogers
Adinael Sanin
Lip Seah
Reginald Stanfield
Espen Teigland
Chouaib Touil
Terry Trahan
Gabriel Ubani
Adrian Vazquez
Ole Voll
Gary Woolsey
Kenyon Wright
Ernesto Zambrano
Mikhail Zhikharev
5 Years
Khalid Abd Allah
Glynda Addicks
Marvin Adendorff
Oi -Adou Adou
Dmitry Venerovich
Agishev
Zulfia Akhmadeeva
Abel Alaffita
Gina Alcan
John Alexander
Samir Alibalaev
Patrick Allred
Evelio Almeida
Seddik Ameur
Abdelhalim Arar
Demian Asensi
Mohamed Attia
Richard Bablitz
Jorge Barros
Victoriya Batyrshina
Tatiana Baybakova
Toufik Belbezzouh
Salim Berakta
Bjornar Berg
Erik Bjornstad
Givanildo Bonfim
Luke Bonin
Abdoulaye Boubacar
Ramdane Boucider
Rabah Boukhail
Abdelouahab Bourekoua
Joao Braz
Cristian Bucur
Daniel Butts
Fiona Cameron
William Cameron
David Campbell
Gregory Castle
Petr Chernukhin
Egidio Chilala
Fito Claisir
Ian Clarke
Jhony Clemente
Paulo Correa
Moira Corsie
Steven Cruickshank
Alexandro Da Cruz
Anderson Da Silva
Dan Damian
Tomel-Sebastian Damian
Dilaranjan Daniels
Francisco Da Silva
Paul Davies
John Davis
Josifabio De Medeiros
Bruno De Oliveira
Luiz De Oliveira
Joerg Deinert
Gerardo Del Angel
Roman Demchuk
Djamel Derradji
David Desmarais
Dean Dixon
Adelmo Dos Santos
Ivo Dos Santos
Derek Drever
Billel Eddalia
Bendjeriou El Mahdi
Walid Ferfari
Jorgiana Fernandes
Paulo Ferraz
Jose Fialho
Joaquim Filho
Orlando Filipe
Morten Fleischer
Michael Fleming
Harold Florez
Isi Fouemina
Nicholas C Frommeyer
Jose Fuentes
Marat Gainullin
Khemraj Ganesh
Byron Ganey
Sandra Geracitano
Omar Ghanem
John Godard Jr.
Cristiano Gomes
Juan Gonzalez
Eduardo Grimaldo
Roberto Gruneisen
Aracelys Guarepero
Oyvind Haaland
Colleen Hesson
Sylvie Hoang
Marius Holtan
Murray Hosking
Jon Hovda
Liviu Iancu
Barry Jackson
Ganesh Jadhav
Martin Johnson
Tayat Kaewpaitoon
Anette Kanzler
Martin Karad
Jason Keep
Aretta Ketron
Kari Klufterud
Sevinch Kuliyeva
Hacene Lahmari
Steven Lamb
William Lamb
Matthew Langlinais
William Lappas
Hamma Leboukh
Tatyana Leonova
Nikolay Loshadkin
Christian Mackereth
Mahdar Mahdar
Mark Mallarky
Scott Manson
Daniel McGrady
James McRae
Eugeny Melentyev
Osmario Mendes
Nathan Mery
Darlenne Meza
Milagre Miguga
Robert Miller
Sidney Montenegro
Alcinei Montes
LaTosha Moore
Helio Mora
Oleg Morgunov
Neil Morrlle
Maira Munoz
Andrey Nabok
Jan Naess
Jasmin Nathan
Alberto Ngombe
Isaias Nguelo
Manuel Nhianhia
Keith Normandin
David Nunez
Eric Olson
Diego Palazzo
Reg Patterson
Finn Paulsen
Linus Perix
Randal Peterson
Hanne Pettersen
Gregory Pike
Jasmin Probst
Adrian Pryor
Pedro Ramirez
Mike Rauscher
Dale Roberts
Andrew Robinson
Joel Rocha
Javier Rodriguez
Sergey Romanenko
Brandon Romero
Jess Romo
Marco Rossi
Gregory Rowe
Martinho Sacalomba
Tarek Sahraoui
Mohammed Saleh
Ferhat Sammari
John Samuell Jr.
Rosemberg Santana
Martinus Schoo
Susie Seah
Abdul Shaikhsurab
Andrey Shardin
Paulo Silva
Fiona Simpson
Sebastiaan Snip
Iego Soares
Yaroslav Sobol
Sergey Spiridonov
Naowarat Srisai
Pichai Sriwichai
Edward Stanton
Elaine Strath
Manuel Suarez
Natalya Sukhoverkhaya
Jacobus Swanepoel
Alexandre Tati
Joao Tchicuete
Bartolomeu Teresa
Mauricio Tessandori
Ravi Thampi
Alexander Tischenko
El Habib Touaoua
Raouf Touaref
Vittorio Tumiati
Maxwell Uranta
Mikhail Urmanov
Vladimir Usynin
Tanaz Varghese
Ricardo Vazquez
Adolfo Vallejo
Zhi Wang
Diwaku Wantuadi
Rickey Williams Jr.
Melodie Wood
Donald Wright Jr.
Alexander Yarovoy
Tarik Yataghene
Nicholas Yeomans
Roman Zazerkin
Cardorelle Zelia