Faizal Ahamed

Support well planning and designing activities to ensure safe and efficient drilling operations. Perform engineering analyses, including hydraulics, wellbore stability, and MPD modeling. Develop and review drilling and MPD programs, procedures, and technical recommendations.

Wells Engineer – Drilling - Exxonmobile India private Limited

(2025-12-15)

• Support well planning and designing activities to ensure safe and efficient drilling operations.
• Perform engineering analyses, including hydraulics, wellbore stability, and MPD modeling.
• Develop and review drilling and MPD programs, procedures, and technical recommendations.
• Analyze field and offset data to optimize well designs and improve operational performance.
• Collaborate with drilling, subsurface, and service-provider teams to align engineering requirements and operational objectives.
• Identify and mitigate drilling risks through technical evaluations and modeling studies.
• Provide engineering support during well execution and assist in troubleshooting operational challenges.
• Prepare technical reports, simulations, and presentations for project stakeholders and management.

Senior Drilling Operations Engineer – Team Lead - Helmerich & Payne Technologies Private Limited

(2022-10-06 - 2025-12-06)

• Monitoring multiple rigs at once in real-time to identify performance optimization and risk mitigation opportunities Perform engineering analysis, provide updates, and run engineering simulations with DrillScan software under the supervision of the Lead Drilling Operations Engineer.
• By using torque and drag, hydraulics, vibration modal analysis, and ROP/MSE optimizer to provide recommendations to the client RTOC. Monitor drilling performance and escalate alerts pertaining to shocks & vibrations, MSE, Torque and Drag, and adherence to recommended operating procedures.
• Escalate issues and help a drilling engineer on how to solve their drilling related problems.
• Technical support in drilling engineering (BHA modelling, Torque, Drag, Buckling, Fatigue, Casing Wear, Dynamics, Drilling Bit performance, etc..) to clients.
• Prepare the pre/post and/or real-time well reports with support of the Lead Drilling Operations Engineer
• Preparong reports with observations, tracking performance, and recommendations.

Drilling Optimization Engineer (Consultant) - Halliburton Offshore Service Ltd, Mumbai - Mumbai

(2020-02-17 - 2022-10-05)

Project: ONGC – Western Offshore Basin – Drilling Optimization Project

• Maintaining data flow from Insite (Landmark) servers to Cassandra Data by ETL (Extract, Transform and Load).
• Prepare various drilling KPI's such as Tripping, Reaming, Circulation, Washing operations. Also, NPT and Auxiliary time per section and Bit Performance Analysis based on Formation and Slide vs Rotary drilling condition
• Analysis of real-time data from Rig Sense, MLU and M/LWD Units (WITS and WITSML data) in Analytics system using Visualization tools like Spotfire and PowerBI
• With help of Landmark's Open Wells reporting software, prepared Daily Morning Reports and End of Well Repots, which helps to keep track of Rig Performance and Well progress along with NPT track record.
• Analysis of Drilling Surface Parameters such as ROP, WOB, Torque, Hook-load, Standpipe Pressure and other available data.
• Analyze and provide suggestions for optimizing drilling performance parameters like Torque and Drag Analysis, Swab-Surge Report, Stuck pipe analysis, ECD Analysis, MSE etc. using Landmark Well Plan Software.
• Through use of Halliburton Landmark's Compass Software, assisted client in pre-planning of the well trajectory and optimize wellbore Trajectory.
• Designing casing for Both Eastern offshore and Western Offshore Wells Using Casing Seat Software.
• Preparing Daily Drilling Report, Section Report, EOW Report
• Real-time Monitoring and Analysis of drilling surface parameters. Interpret and provide timely update to clients on any drilling activity observations (kick, stuck pipe, held up and hole pack-off etc.) during both regular and critical drilling phases.
• Analyzing NPT and ILT for every well and reporting every Week and Preparing Daily Drilling Report, Weekly Report, EOW Report

Real time Data Analytics Engineer - Darp Moblize Pvt Ltd, Delhi - Delhi

(2018-02-02 - 2020-02-13)

• Monitoring real time drilling parameters, MWD/LWD Parameters, mud properties and gas Parameters.
• Ensuring data quality and data continuity
• Patching the data gaps and manipulating bad data.
• Make intervention for any abnormalities / deviation from well Plan.
• Preparing Daily Drilling report (Morning report) and sending to Drilling team and senior management
• Processing planning file from well view every 24hrs once
• Evaluating Rig performance, NPT Analysis and Handling client query

Real time Data Analytics Engineer - Petrolink

(2017-04-14 - 2017-09-15)

• Transferring Real Time Data Such as Surface data, MWD/LWD data and Mud logging data from different contractors (WFT, SLB, Sperry, OFI, NOV, Canrig. Etc) to Petrovault in WITS or WITSML form
• Ensuring the data quality, Converting WITS (Wellsite Information Transfer Specification) toWITSML (Wellsite Information specification Markup Language)
• processing the data in different applications like Power Collect, Power Switch and calc Engine to Visualize the data in real time displays.
• Creating Rig Metrix report which is Helpful for the clients to analyze the performance and to optimize the drilling operation.
• Interpretation of data, helps the client to identify the invisible lose and non-productive time

Floorman, Drilling and workover Rig, ONGC Project - Vishal Workover and Mud Engineering

(2015-04 - 2017-04)

• To assist driller on the rig floor. Safely install surface Wellhead, casing hangers, tubing hanger and X-Mas tree assembly at Well site.
• Maintain the inventory of the equipment in the rig site and Placing Packers to actuate Well bore and Performing Offline job (Like pressure testing and greasing job of X-Mas tree)
• Responsible for assisting in setting up and taking down of the drilling rig and equipment, handling, sorting, and moving drill tools, pipe, cement, and other materials.
• Make and break rotary connections using rig tongs, handles tubular goods, elevators, and Slips, and operatessemiautomated pipe-handling machines. Monitoring the flow conditions of the well through wellhead.
• Responsible for formulating drilling fluids with required blends.Trip sheets to be prepared for all trip in and trip out of the well

Bachelor of Technology - Petroleum Engineering - Anna University, Chennai (2015)