Fluids Superintendent

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement drilling fluids programs and coordinate fluids, cementing, solids-control, and waste-management activities.
• Prepare scopes of work, support tenders and technical evaluations, assess vendors, and participate in technical negotiations.
• Monitor operational performance, costs, KPIs, non-productive time, inventories, deliveries, and wellsite consumption.
• Interpret test results and recommend solutions for losses, contamination, hole-cleaning issues, shale instability, stuck pipe, and other drilling challenges.
• Support cementing operations and supervise Liquid Mud Plant activities, laboratory testing, calibration, and operational optimization.
• Manage wellsite fluids personnel, communicate operational risks, mentor staff, and support continuous improvement and HSE performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Earth Sciences, or a related discipline; a three-year Earth Sciences diploma or equivalent may be considered.
• At least 12 years of industry experience in drilling fluids, solids control, and waste management, including UAE experience.
• At least two years in remote drilling locations involving H₂S risks and mud densities above 14 ppg.
• Strong experience with SOBM, HPWBM, tight-filtrate non-aqueous fluids, polymer-based WBM, completion fluids, and cementing.
• Experience managing total losses, stuck pipe, reaming, back reaming, hole instability, geomechanical stresses, and MPD drilling.
• International MPD and severe-to-total losses experience is preferred; direct SNOC experience is advantageous.

Technical Skills and Competencies

• Strong knowledge of drilling fluids chemistry, solids calculations, rheology, hydraulics, and hole-cleaning principles.
• Knowledge of cement slurry design, laboratory testing, cement additives, cementing operations, well control, loss circulation, and MPD.
• Experience with PPA or Sand Bed Testing, solids-control equipment, waste-management systems, and compliant disposal methods.
• Proficiency in MI-SWACO ONETRAX ECCP, VCCP hydraulic simulations, and OPTIBRIDGE is preferred.
• Ability to analyze OpenWells or equivalent reporting data, manage Liquid Mud Plant inventories, and use Microsoft Office.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, reporting, analytical, problem-solving, leadership, mentoring, and vendor-management capabilities.

Work Environment

• The role supports remote drilling locations and wellsite operations, including H₂S-risk environments and critical activities outside normal working hours.

HSE Responsibilities