Kunaal Lande

About the Candidate

Kunaal Lande                                                                                      Mob+91- 9819990369

Email kunaljl@yahoo.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Resourceful Drilling & Completions professional with comprehensive technical & analytical knowledge and project management skills, acquired over a period of 15+ years by successfully carrying out well planning, Technical program writing, well site operations and procurement of services/materials for project. Deep understanding of defined Practices for both Greenfield and Brownfield projects and the latest international standards that assure integrity of build and construction quality.

Professional Experience

Consulting Drilling Engineer – Maren Energy, India (Jun -2020 – Sept 2021).

Key Performance

Offshore 04 wells IPM project in west coast  and 07 wells offshore project in Ravva field East coast of India, planning shallow water development wells with prognosed depth ranging from 2000m to 4200m and wellbore inclination exceeding 75 deg.

Prepared Technical Specifications and documents for tendering of Rigs, Cementing Services, Casing Running Tool Services, Directional Drilling Services, Wellbore Cleanup Tools, Cold Casing Cutter Services, Yard Management Services, H2S Safety System Services, Drilling Consultancy Services, Centralizers, Liner Crossover, PDC and Drag Drill bits.
Prepared complete FEED studies for development wells.
Roles and Responsibilities

Prepare detailed timeline of planned drilling and completions operations and accordingly prepare authorization for expenditure (AFE) for the project.
Liaise with vendors for utilizing their equipment/services
Liaise with service providers & client.
Prepare tender submission document.

Principal Drilling Engineer/ Project manager (Rajasthan Asset-OALP)   Cairn PTY, India.Oct 2019 – March 2020.

Key Performance

Onshore 27 well project in Barmer, India, planning of wells in heterogeneous reservoir environment with prognosed depth ranging from 1200m to 4900m Horizontal drift greater than 2800 m and wellbore angle exceeding 35 deg.

Prepared Technical Specifications and documents for tender of Rigs, Cementing Services, Casing Running Tool Services, Directional Drilling Services, Wellbore Cleanup Tools, Cold Casing Cutter Services, Yard Management Services, H2S Safety System Services, Drilling Consultancy Services, Centralizers, Liner Crossover, PDC and Drag Drill bits.
Prepared complete FEED studies for keeper and exploratory wells. Prepared Drilling and completions strategies.
Prepared detailed well engineering (casing seat, fluids program, DTL, Rig allocation schedule).
Manage and coordinate teams of Completions Engineers and Project Completion Dbase Administrators.
Roles and Responsibilities

Prepared detailed timeline of planned drilling and completions operations and accordingly prepare authorization for expenditure (AFE) for the project.
Review the procedures and programs submitted by service companies viz. BHA design, Bit Selection, Liner hanger & well head requirements, Nozzle size Selection, Well Hydraulics Report, Cementing Slurry Design reports, Centralizer Placement Design, Testing procedures, etc and provide recommendations for optimization.
Perform simulation in landmark modules to optimize hydraulics, BHA design, casing seat selection etc. and verify the service company simulation reports and recommend changes as per operational requirement.
Prepare the detailed drilling programs along with material load out, to prevent any NPT due to waiting of plan or material.
Track the existing running contracts duration for different services and accordingly move the cases for extension or fresh procurement as per operational requirement and feasibility study.
Propose the advance equipment’s for facilitating the operations, accordingly, seek budgetary quotes for the same from vendors, prepare and submit estimated project cost for approval to management as per company delegated power.
Prepare Pre-Qualification criteria, Scope of Work, Technical Specifications meeting API standards, Bid Evaluation Criteria, Special Terms and Condition of Contract, Price Bid Format for procurement of services and take approval from the Competent Authority (CPA) as per company policies. Respond to the technical pre/post bid queries and evaluate tender bid documents.
Manage and control the Project System Handover Database (SHMD).

Consultant Senior Drilling & Completions Engineer – Adani Offshore (Sep 2019 – Oct 2019).

Key Performance

Shallow water 2 well project in Mumbai high, India, planning of wells in heterogeneous reservoir environment.

Prepared Technical Specifications and documents for tender of Rigs, Cementing Services, Casing Running Tool Services, Directional Drilling Services, Wellbore Cleanup Tools, Cold Casing Cutter Services, Yard Management Services, H2S Safety System Services, Drilling Consultancy Services, Centralizers, Liner Crossover, PDC and Drag Drill bits.
Roles and Responsibilities

Prepared detailed timeline of planned operations.
Propose the advance equipment’s for facilitating the operations, accordingly, seek budgetary quotes for the same from vendors, prepare and submit estimated project cost for approval to management as per company delegated power.
Prepare Pre-Qualification criteria, Scope of Work, Technical Specifications meeting API standards, Bid Evaluation Criteria, Special Terms and Condition of Contract, Price Bid Format for procurement of services and take approval from the Competent Authority (CPA) as per company policies. Respond to the technical pre/post bid queries and evaluate tender bid documents.
Consultant Night Company Man Norwell, India (secondment to ONGC) (Jan2018 to Aug 2019)

Key Performance

Deepwater 9 well project in East coast, India, Supervisory role as night company man for drilling & completions of appraisal and development wells in water depths ranging from 550m to 1800m with prognosed target depths ranging from 2200m to 5200m.

Plan and supervise day to day drilling operations and issue standing instructions.
Develop detailed Mechanical Completions and System Handover and forecasts
Roles and Responsibilities

Assisted the company man in day-to-day operations.
Supervised drilling operations to ensure that drilling operations are carried out safely, environmentally conscious and cost-efficiently.
Provided overall supervision for offshore operations ensuring Implementation of industry best drilling practices.
Implemented necessary changes to improve drilling efficiency taking account of past Lessons learned.
Confirmed that all equipment, materials and consumables are stored and handled in an appropriate manner at the well-site.
Issued standing instructions to drillers and ensure the required minimum number of barriers are always maintained.
Ensured appropriate well control measures are taken during all phases of drilling and completion operations and that well control equipment is maintained in good working order and tested as per local or IADC guidelines.
Certify cementation jobs and confirmed barrier verification.
Ensured that correct Bits & Directional BHAs are run into the well and that the well trajectory remains within acceptable tolerances.
Ensured that BHA trips/Casing running operations are completed in an efficient and safe manner.
Ensured all required drills (H2S, BOP, Fire etc.) are performed regularly at the well- site;
Performed and Ensured that flow checks, FITs and LOTs are conducted as required by the drilling program.
Prepared & Supervised casing, liner hanger and tubing running operations and ensured they are executed as per the drilling program.
Worked closely with Geologist, Completions Engineers, Production Ops, Regulatory Analysts and Reservoir Engineers.
Monitored real time and post well costs.
Prepared look ahead and mobilize the personnel and equipment in time for orderly implementation of the program.
Ensures drilling reports and control systems are in place to monitor and report on performance on a day to day basis. Monitor drilling operations to ensure the performance within budget and improve the well engineering on future wells. Review closely all performance parameters such as ROP, NPT, WOC time, QA & QC. Monitor and control service contractor achievements / failure by making them an integral part of the project.
Identify technical concerns based on risk analysis and prepare contingency plans to mitigate identified risk in the program during planning while complying to standards, practices and regulations.
Mobilize equipment and services in a timely manner and coordinate the logistics and scheduling with offshore supply base and vessel as a support for drilling and work over operations.
Ensured work is done in accordance with company safety measures, industry standards and local regulations, to ensure safe drilling and completion practices.
Actively participated in the HSE management system as directed by the Drilling or Alliance Manager.
Successfully planned and overcome drill string stuck issues in wells.
Prepare Drilling Program for well and detail Drilling Procedure for each section of Well.
Prepare material load out list for upcoming operations and keep check on procured inventory using SAP.
Prepare End of Well report, section review and lesson learned at the end of each drilled well.
Prepare and update the Bit Record, analyze the performance of each bit and propose the optimize bit for upcoming wells.
Design well trajectory for proposed reservoir targets and simulate anti-collision with nearby wellbore in view of cluster well drilling campaign.
Run simulations on Halliburton Landmark Wellplan module for selecting suitable Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) design for drilling section without encountering any buckling issue, optimized hydraulics for efficient hole cleaning and torque and drag analysis.
Minutely monitor the trajectory of well, drilling parameters, background/connection/trip gaseous, trip sheet and mud parameters. Optimize the drilling parameters and mud weight accordingly.
Held daily operational meeting with Service Company personnel and issue the detailed daily drilling instruction to the Rig OIM and Crew.
Prepare Daily Progress Report in Halliburton Landmark OpenWell module, Daily Cost Sheet, Daily Drilling Curve reflecting NPT, Actual vs. Planned operation and cost comparison.
Prepare 15 days operation look-ahead for mobilizing services and material.
Ensure the availability of bulk, chemicals, drill water, Service Company and rig contractor’s equipment/material on rig for executing the upcoming operations without any NPT.
Check and validate job tickets of rig contractor and service companies based on operating, standby and NPT hours.

Consultant Senior Drilling Engineer – AGR Australia (secondment to PXP Morocco)         Apr14 – Nov17

Key Performance

Ultra-Deepwater 3 well project in West coast, Morocco, in water depths ranging between 1800m to 2100m with prognosed target depths ranging from 3500m to 6400m vertical exploratory wells.

Prepared Technical Specifications and documents for tender of Rigs, Cementing Services, Casing Running Tool Services, Directional Drilling Services, Wellbore Cleanup Tools, Yard Management Services, H2S Safety System Services, Drilling Consultancy Services, Centralizers, Liner Crossover, PDC and Drag Drill bits.
Prepared complete FEED studies for 2 exploratory & relief wells.
Prepared the detailed well engineering casing seat, fluids program, DTL and completions programs.
Monitor Contractor activities (Checksheet/Punchlist/MOC/ As-Built) within the SHMD.
Roles and Responsibilities

Carried out detailed well planning & engineering (FEED) for two Ultra Deepwater Wells (WD 1845 m +).
Conceptualized planning for relief well and potential third well.
Carried out offset well data analysis.
Prepared Drilling Rig operations planning & well cost estimates, Drilling Timelines & Budgets, AFE’s.
Prepared Drilling Programs carried out casing seat and casing design on Stress Check, Torque & drag analysis, Hydraulics, Liner hanger running programs in compliance with Company & Regulatory standards.
Prepared contracts, tenders, Scope of work, bid evaluations, recommendations to ensure competitive bids are obtained to meet best commercial and technical outcome.
Prepared project specific equipment requirements and specifications & Long lead materials ordering and tracking.
Directional design generation and evaluation (Compass/WellPlan).
Casing seat selection, casing wear analysis.
Design Drilling fluid and cementing programs.
Monitored & surveillance of Drilling operations are in compliance with the approved drilling program
Monitored to optimize daily Rig operations.
Prepared & executed DWOP and HAZARD analysis
Planned & monitored logistics of crew & equipment.
Prepared Daily reports viz: Daily Operations Report & Daily Progress Report.
Tracked schedules and monitor implementation to schedule.
Worked closely with service vendors to ensure plans are achievable safely & efficiently.

Drilling Engineer/Applications Engineer – Baker Hughes May 2011 – April 2014

Key Performance

Planning & designing of offshore (Jackups) wells for ONGC & British Gas (Panna Mukta Tapti), which consisted of 34 multilateral wells with high degree of collision probabilities.

Designed well profiles (Horizontal, multilateral wells) to optimize engineering and completion requirements.
Designed BHA as per the engineering requirement.
Prepared the detailed well engineering (T&D, Hydraulics, Vibrational Analysis).
Roles and Responsibilities

Prepared well design & Directional plans for Exploratory, Development wells.
Plan & design BHA.
Analyze the BHA for Sag & Magnetic interference.
Carry out Vibration analysis of drill string to mitigate vibrations, Stick slip.
Monitor Drilling, Completion and P&A operations are in compliance with the approved drilling program.
Carry out Anti-collision risk analysis.
Reviewed & analyze directional surveys & advise on corrective plan.
Carried out special technical studies/ Root cause Analysis of tool failures.
Provided technical support and troubleshooting during operation.
Advice on introducing new or approved alternative equipment.
Supported Drilling Operations Manager to develop technical requirements for drilling service tenders.
Technical support in Drilling as Subject Matter Expert.
Provided technical input for Measurement While Drilling (MWD), Directional Drilling (DD) and Operator personnel to ensure that the objectives of Optimization are carried out in a professional manner.
Ensured optimization data is properly and accurately collected and documented.
Log & track lessons learned including possible problems and communicate as necessary internally and to the customer.
Provided analysis for the Optimization disciplines of Geosteering, Drill string Integrity, Hydraulics Management and Wellbore Integrity.
Interpret data to assist in the planning and resolution of complications.
Made safe drilling recommendations to the customer during the course of the well
Monitored the execution of deliverables and support the Project Managers in technical matters.
Promote alignment between different vendors.
Worked with Project Manager and Interface Manager in order to solve contractual issues / change orders.
Carried out Casing design, Hydraulics calculations, Torque & Drag calculations, Bit selection etc.
Prepared Drilling programs, casing programs, cementing programs, P & A programs, Liner hanger running programs in Compliance with Company & Regulatory standards
Prepared project specific equipment requirements and specifications
Project Engineer – Managed Pressure Operations PTY (Singapore)           Jan2011 – May2011

Key Performance

Project engineer for planning and designing of MPD system and high pressure riser system for floaters and CBM well designing for feasibility study.

Roles and Responsibilities

MPD

Plan and engineer programs for MPD, Mudcap system for floaters.
Assisted the project manager in designing and engineering of MPD operations.
Identify and create loadout list according to project specific requirements.
Liaise with R&D team for development of High-pressure riser system.

Drilling Engineer – Reliance Industries Ltd                                                   Jul2006 – Jan2011

Key Performance

Deepwater 18 wells project in East coast, India (KG-D6, KG-V-D3, MN-D10), Wellsite Drilling Engineer for drilling of Exploratory, appraisal and development wells in water depths ranging from 550m to 2700m with prognosed target depths ranging from 2200m to 6400m and well deviation exceeding 35 deg. MPD system on floaters with concentric riser & Mud cap drilling.

Assist the company man in Planning and supervision of day to day drilling operations.
Prepared the detailed well engineering (casing seat, fluids program, DTL, Rig allocation schedule).
Roles and Responsibilities

Assisted the company man in day-to-day operations.
Prepared well design for Exploratory, Development wells with lower completions with Xmas tree installation.
Monitoring Drilling, Completion and P&A operations are in compliance with the approved drilling program.
Plan and engineer programs for MPD, Mudcap system for floaters (Rig Deepwater Frontier & Rig Actinia), re-entry, completion (lower completions) and side-tracking for provision of new production holes; directional slim hole wells; conventional sized high angle wells.
Prepared Drilling programs, casing programs, cementing programs, P & A programs, Liner hanger running programs in Compliance with Company & Regulatory standards.
Prepared & execution of DWOP & HAZARD analysis.
Prepared project specific equipment requirements and specifications
Plan & monitor logistics of crew & equipment.
Prepared Daily reports viz: Daily Operations Report & Daily Progress Report.
Prepared Drilling Rig operations planning & well cost estimates, Drilling Budgets & AFE’s.
Participated in special technical studies, teams and task forces as required toward meeting the objectives.
Carried out offset well data analysis.
Prepare Daily Progress Report in Halliburton Landmark OpenWell module, Daily Cost Sheet, Daily Drilling Curve reflecting NPT, Actual vs. Planned operation and cost comparison.
Prepare 15 days operation look-ahead for mobilizing services and material.
Ensure the availability of bulk, chemicals, drill water, Service Company and rig contractor’s equipment/material on rig for executing the upcoming operations without any NPT.
Strap casing/ liner/ tie-back liner joints and prepare casing tallies and accordingly perform cement displacement calculation.
Check and validate job tickets of rig contractor and service companies based on operating, standby and NPT hours.
Noteworthy Achievements

Project Engineer for the development of “Riser Gas Handling System”.
Handling 2 rig operations (5th Generation rigs) simultaneously.
Onsite Drilling Engg on rig with MPD system (Concentric riser system – Deepwater Frontier) and Mud cap Drilling (C Kirk Rhein Jr).
First batch well drilling in deepwater environment.
Lower completions with horizontal Xmas tree installation.
Training and Certifications

Helicopter Underwater Egress Test (HUET).
The International Well Control Forum (IWCF) in Subsea Supv BOP stack, Level-4.
LANDMARK by Halliburton: Compass, Wellplan and WellCat.
Well Architect/Well plan, BHA SYS PRO (BHA vibration Analysis), ADVANTAGE (Hydraulics).
Osprey/Open Wells reporting software.
Educational Qualification

University of Pune, India

Bachelor of Engineering – Petroleum Engineering.

Software Proficiencies

Landmark Modules- Compass, Casing Seat, Stress check, Well Plan, WellCat and OpenWell, Drill bench, Well Architect, BHA Sys Pro (Baker Hughes).

Date: Nov 2021

Place: India

Kunaal J Lande