Muhammad Ali

Directional Driller with an experience of over 15 years.

• Lead hand Directional Driller for Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Halliburton on horizontals, laterals, multi-lateral wells, re-entry wells, open hole and cased hole side-tracks using motors and RSS tools. Exact tools both on off-shore and land rigs. Worked as an employee and a Consultant.
• To lead the jobs as required, picking up directional BHA, drilling ahead, keep updated the survey programs, well engineering on the rig-site, keeping an update on daily reports and KPI’s, trouble-shooting on the rig-site, key role in between the office and Company-Man, failure analysis and EOWR timely submissions.
• Helping less experienced Directional Drillers with picking up BHA’s, making sure correct make-up torque applied to tools, Shallow-Hole Procedures, DLS requirements, hitting targets with zero misses, steering the wells as per ARAMCO Chief geologists and Drilling Engineers.
• Keeping an eye on Ant-Collision scans on proximity wells, working sometimes on High Temperature and High-Pressure wells.

Graduated from University of Karachi in 2000. Holds Bachelor's degree in Commerce.