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Team

Technical Staff:

Ken Fraser - Chairman

HND (Mechanical Engineering). 39 years in Drilling Operations as Driller, Supervisor, Superintendent and Manager. Author of textbook “Managing Drilling Operations”. Worked in UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, France, Spain, Portugal, Israel, USA, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, PRC, Philippines, Korea, Nigeria, Congo, UAE, Yemen, Turkey, Cuba, Angola, Czech Republic, Peru, Brunei, Trinidad, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Tunisia.

Iain Adams - Project Manager & Managing Director

B.Sc (Engineering). 31 years in Drilling Operations as Engineer, Supervisor, Superintendent and Manager. Worked in UK, USA, Holland, Spain, Denmark, Tunisia, Indonesia, Israel, Angola, Congo, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Russia, Ukraine and Romania.

Drilling Engineering Team:

Dave McPherson - Senior Drilling Engineer/ Drilling Supervisor

M.Sc (Offshore Engineering). 10 years in drilling operations with experience in drilling engineering and directional surveying. Office and wellsite engineer in the UK NS and West Africa and Senior Drilling Supervisor for deepwater West Africa. Senior Drilling Engineer/ Project Manager in Russia. Senior Drilling Engineer for UK land ERD well. Drilling Superintendent for HPHT UK appraisal well.

Andy Macleod - Senior Drilling Engineer/ Drilling Supervisor

B.Sc Mechanical Engineering. 10 years in drilling operations with service company experience and operator experience in the UKNS (platforms/ semis), Romania, Tunsia, deepwater West Africa and India. Drilling Supervisor experience in Romania and Ukraine.

Jonathan Starr – Drilling Engineer

B.Eng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering. 8 years in drilling operations with experience as office, wellsite and planning Engineer in UK, Angola, Tunisia, Romania, India, Congo, USA and Russia.

Marc Jamieson – Drilling Engineer

B.Eng (Hons) Mechanical Systems. 6 years as office based and wellsite Engineer in UK, Tunisia, India, Morocco, Hungary and Ukraine on semi submersible, drill ship, jack up and land rig operations. Day Drilling Supervisor in Ukraine on drilling and workover rigs.

Euan Shepherd – Drilling Engineer

B. Eng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering. 5 years as office and wellsite engineer planning offshore and land operations. Wellsite Engineer in Morocco, Bulgaria, India, North Sea and Romania.

Allan Fraser – Drilling Engineer

B.Sc (Hons) Industrial Design. 4 years as office and Wellsite Engineer planning on and offshore wells in the UK, India and Europe. Wellsite Engineer on platform and semisubmersible exploration and development wells (UK North Sea).

Femi Aina – Drilling Engineer

B.Eng (Hons) Mining Engineering & M.Sc Drilling and Well Engineering. 3 years as office and wellsite Engineer. Planning wells in the UK, Romania, Morocco, Italy, Spain. Wellsite engineer on land and offshore operations.

Chris Ross – Drilling Engineer

B.Sc Eng. 2 year as office based engineer involved in planning UK, Congo, Italy and Morocco. Wellsite Engineer on UK, and Morocco land operations and offshore Congo.

Ross McPhater – Drilling Engineer

B.Sc Civil Engineering and MSC Oil and Gas Engineering. 1 year as office based engineer involved with planning wells in Congo, Romania and The Netherlands. Land Rig experiance in Congo and Romania.

Alison Ogley – Technical Assistant

Aberdeen office based, involved in operational planning, procurement and contracts for UK and international operations. Alison is one of Norwell's sponsered Athletes - Link.

 

 

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