Ugochukwu Okeke
Coiled Tubing And Stimulation Expert
Dubai,04
Summary
Professional Summary
As a detail-oriented team player with strong organization skills, with ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy have worked in several different roles including:
Technical Service Delivery Manager - Am responsible for the delivery of the new technology development, project leadership, quality, flawless and timely delivery of customer projects. Client based projects, client liaison, pre-sales, and cross-functional development falls within the ambit of my responsibilities. I am key in suggesting improvements to products, processes and procedures to enable flawless customer delivery.
As Training Manager my primary goal is to develop and deliver a training program that allows us to strengthen those skills that each employee needs to improve. Have a development program that brings all employees to a higher level so they all have similar skills &knowledge. This helps reduce any weak links within the organization & improve company’s operational efficiency while completing work tasks.
Pressure Pumping operations lead with experience in coiled tubing, intervention engineering & operations management. Managing challenges with protocols & systems, enjoy fixing and creating newer efficient procedures that improve services and productivity. Deep technical expertise in production optimisation and acid stimulation. Extensive knowledge & experience of well services operation including deep-water intervention (CT) operations (Jack-Rayan Drill ship) Akpo field and (DDKG2 Semi Sub).
Worked in several capacities as lead engineer, technical professional & sales engineer (coiled tubing and stimulation ). My primary goal is to ensure operational and engineering support are provided to all coiled tubing operations and activities in a cost effective manner while maximizing our opportunities to supply goods and services.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Service Delivery Technical Manager
Baker Hughes Inc
Dubai, Dubai
10.2021 - Current
- Ensure service delivery operating job cycle processes are in existence and implemented
- Deep coiled tubing technical expertise and experince
- Responsible for the delivery of new technology development, project leadership, quality, flawless and timely delivery of customer projects
- Ensure the implementation of all operational HSE tools (ORA,STP etc) for safe to perform environment
- Strong project manager skills by identifing the project's goals, objectives, and scope and creates a project plan that outlines the tasks, timelines, and resources required to drive value proposition
- Build good customer relationship, via effective customer communication
- Delivering business growth through creating a life-cycle strategy that optimizes New Product Introduction, Advanced Technology development and Service and Productivity programs
- Ensuring flawless execution and on-time project delivery through effective planning
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers to understand the activity forecast, volume and complexity
- Ensuring all activities are carried out according to our non-negotiables and our cultural pillars
- Working closely with the Service Delivery Manager to understand activity forecast and verify appropriate resource mix to enable flawless execution and on-time delivery
- Ensuring transactional discipline and adoption of managing the job cycle process and content
- Assigning technical job planning and support resources to work with Service Delivery Fuel your passion
- Identifying any gaps in local capabilities and develop improvement plans to ensure compliance with global standards
- Executing on remote operations and/or multi-skilling strategy to drive service delivery productivity
Training Manager
Dubai, Pressure Pumping Baker Hughes
01.2019 - 10.2021
- Responsible for creating and implementing training programs and overseeing the development of coiled tubing careers
- Sets performance metrics, evaluates productivity, and helps employees create long-term career plans within an organization
- Develop, implement, and monitor training programs within an organization
- Supervise technical training for staff
- Conduct orientation sessions
- Prepare and implement training budget
- Evaluate needs of company and plan training programs accordingly
- Provide company employees with classroom training, demonstrations, on-the-job training, meetings, conferences, and workshops
- Manage staff of classroom facilitators
- Provide performance feedback
- Provide leadership development education
- Build solid cross-functional relationships
- Provide logistical support, course development, delivery, evaluation, process measurements, and cost management
- Assist with the development of training strategic plans.
Operations Manager
Pressure Pumping Baker Hughes International Assignee
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Ensure our service delivery operating job cycle processes are in existence and implemented
- Strong project manager skills by identifing the project's goals, objectives, and scope and creates a project plan that outlines the tasks, timelines, and resources required
- Ensure the implementation of all operational HSE tools (ORA,STP etc) for ensuring safe to perform environment
- Build good customer relationship, via effective customer communication
- Deep coiled tubing technical expertise and experince
- Understand, articulate, and capture customer cum market problems and then translate them into market requirements for product management
- Understand the aspects of a customer’s business which applies to our company’s product/services
- Create and utilize requirements documents and business plans, to launch plans for our products & services
- Identify and execute flawless when necessary business development relationships needed to make our product/ serevices an end to end delivery
- Generate business cases for product/services extensions and product/services enhancements
- Review revenue/ P&L on a monthly basis
- Suggest approaches to marketing and sales in order to drive business growth
- Drive business by developing consumer-right products that corresponds with company financial targets
- Responsible for generating market trends, consumer insights, growth opportunities, and idea generation cum product development
- Responsible for developing consumer and channel communication strategies for new product launch
- Responsible for producing business statistics among which are price points, product mix sales history, and competition for product introduction
- Responsible for cost optimization throughtout the manufacturing/operational base
Coiled Tubing Operations, Pumping Baker
02.2016 - 12.2017
- Hughes International Assignee India
- Plan and manage Country Fleet/Assets and be responsible for adequate distribution and allocation of the resources/assets
- Monitor and manage operational costs
- Make personnel decisions on hiring, compensation, promotions, discipline& termination of operational support staff in accordance with company policies
- Manage the day to day company or PSL operations
- Ensures that PSL’s products/services meet or exceed clients’ or customers’ expectation
- Ensures that Coiled Tubing PSL conducts the business in a safe operational manner
- Ensures compliance with safety and environmental rules and regulations
- Ensures strict adherence to company's policies and procedures
- Conduct employee performance reviews in a timely manner
- Attending staff meetings within the organization
- Continuously follow trends in the market place related to our company’s products and/or services
- Managing and ensuring that operations team meets company’s yearly set goals for Field Margins and CT revenue
- Ensure PSLs service delivery and margins are maintained quarterly and make presentations for the same.
Senior Projects Support Engineer
Baker Hughes
02.2014 - 01.2016
- Delivered operations in deep-water intervention (CT) operations (DDKG2 Drill ship) MA field by
- Providing expert and proactive engineering solutions for customers
- Prepare presentations and technical papers for bidding up sell
- Delivered operations in Cairn Rajasthern intervention (CT) operations (Onshore) Barmer field by
- Providing expert and proactive engineering solutions for customers
- Provide recommendations (technical) and advise to district management
- Sound knowledge of tele-coil, Mini-coil, down hole tools and application
- Mentor younger engineers in technical design, job execution and evaluation
- Profer proper techniques and applications for complex well interventions- (HP/HT, H2S Operations)
- Primary focal point for communication with respect to all technical issues relating to well intervention activities
- Ensure the proper technical documentation is recorded and forwarded to operations and or Engineering in the event of operational deviations
- Active participation in all HSE meeting is mandatory
- Ensure all non-conformance and corrective actions are closed out.
Senior Technical Professional
WI Halliburton Energy Services
02.2013 - 01.2014
- Provides Coiled Tubing, stimulation, pumping and nitrogen services well interventions job design, well support, and post job analysis to customers in designated area
- Develops and maintains personal relationships with the technical customer base
- Provides technical support on location as required by the customer
- Engineering lead responsible for job execution and overall performance
- Functions as a communications link between customer and the Solutions Team
- Knowledgeable and responsible for meeting all Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards, practices and guidelines pertaining to well intervention job
- Mentored young engineers on full awareness of new Coiled Tubing techniques and competitive technologies, products and techniques
- Pre job engineering and preparation of Design of Services for CT operations
- Prepare the well intervention report capturing lessons to improve future work
- Ensure compliance of such operations with codes of practice, safety and environmental protection, while optimizing lead time
- Provide support for on-going Well Service operations (Coiled Tubing and Surface well testing) for on time deliverability.
Field
Baker Hughes
09.2012 - 02.2013
- Spec IV PRP — Coiled Tubing & Stimulations Services, Incooperated
- Delivered operation in deep-water intervention (CT) operations (Jack-Rayan Drill ship) Akpo field by identifing equipment and personnel requirements to meet the needs of the operation
- Control for the CT inventory (Products and spare parts)
- Ensure QA/QC standards are met
- Show leadership at all times
- Tracking and logging of coiled tubing fatigue
- Sound understanding of lower and upper completions
- Ensure coil tubing units and other assemblies are in top shape
- Experienced in Coiled Tubing Cementation, Coiled Conveyed
- Logging& Perforation & other Services
- Experienced in well Intervention services: Acid stimulation, nitrogen or well lifting, well bore cleanout, Sand-Control, acid
- Soaking, Tubing Wash, Fishing and other coiled tubing services
- Experienced in through tubing Clean-Out on High Pressure Gas Wells.
Field Engineer/Technical Engineer
Weafri Well Services Company Limited
02.2008 - 08.2012
- Prepare the well intervention report capturing lessons to improve future work
- Ensure compliance of such operations with codes of practice, safety and environmental protection, while optimising lead time
- Ensure accurate volume calculations for nitrogen or diesel in CT operations
- Expert engineering knowledge of equipment and down-hole tools & threads
- Protection, all while optimising costs and lead times
- Experienced in through tubing Clean-Out on High Pressure Gas Wells.
Education
Bachelor - Petroleum Engineering
Federal University of Technology
Nigeria 05.2001 - 11.2006
Publications SPE- Snr Member, SPE-185372185372-MSMultistage Up-Dip Well (>94 Deg - undefined
Skills
List of ClientsSaudi Aramco, ONGC India,Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd, RIL Energy, HOEC, Total E&P, ExxonMobil, Sterling Global(SEEPCO), Shell, Addax, Chevron, Mart Energy, Seplat, Oando Energy, Pan Ocean Oil Corporation, ConoilSKILLS
Strong knowledge of Coiled Tubing and Stimulation applications
Deep knowledge in coiled tubing and acid stimulation designs
Knowledgeable in Matrix Acidizing Treatments (Stimulation)
Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, ensuring accountability
Working knowledge of CT Downhole tools and BHA for operations like Fishing, stimulation, Fill Removal (Milling), general high velocity jetting
Accomplishments
- Strong knowledge of PROSPER IPM Suit(9.2), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint, Corel Draw, Microsoft Access, Microsoft FrontPage and Publisher
- Tele Coil Training: Strong knowledge of Tele coil injection process, downhole redress and operation, Tele Plex set up and running
- Role Readiness Chamoion Training: Delivering Talents through deliberate learning & evaluation in 6 months period
- August 2013 Coiled Tubing 1 and 2 for Engineers – Halliburton
- Coiled Tubing Down hole Tools (BHA) School In house Training-BHI
- Competency &Training
- Conerstone Leadership Academy
- Coil Tubing Standard operating procedure
- Advanced Coiled Tubing For Engineers
- Coiled Tubing Design and Application 1- Dubai
- Coiled Tubing Design Software- Circa Advanced- Dubai
- Basic Hydraulics
- MOC Initiator Training
- Stimulation Methods & technologies- Advanced- Dubai
- Strong leadership and organizational skills
- Well intervention design and applications – Coiled Tubing operation, well Control, Nitrogen and Remedial Cementing Services
- General Field Operational Philosophies, Calculations, Equipment specifications, and Hydraulics
- Front Line Manager Training OTJ Training
- Coiled Tubing Job Design and Proposal
- Advanced Coiled Tubing Job Design and Proposal
- Advanced Coiled Acid Job Design and Proposal
- Sound knowlegde of API coiled tubing standards
- Production Optimisation Using Nodal Analysis
- Risk Management
Affiliations
Society of petroleum engineers
Timeline
Service Delivery Technical Manager
Baker Hughes Inc
10.2021 - Current
Training Manager
Dubai, Pressure Pumping Baker Hughes
01.2019 - 10.2021
Operations Manager
Pressure Pumping Baker Hughes International Assignee
01.2018 - 01.2019
Coiled Tubing Operations, Pumping Baker
02.2016 - 12.2017
Senior Projects Support Engineer
Baker Hughes
02.2014 - 01.2016
Senior Technical Professional
WI Halliburton Energy Services
02.2013 - 01.2014
Field
Baker Hughes
09.2012 - 02.2013
Field Engineer/Technical Engineer
Weafri Well Services Company Limited
02.2008 - 08.2012
Bachelor - Petroleum Engineering
Federal University of Technology
05.2001 - 11.2006