Dennis Pidwerbesky
Address: 41 Elizabeth Park Blvd, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. T4L 2M3
Tel: Res (403) 782 7036 Cell (403) 340 9782
Email: Alternate
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
An accomplished and technically skilled professional with over 20 years’ domestic and international oil & gas industry experience including completions, work-overs, well servicing and night drilling. Demonstrates exemplary staff supervision and organisational management skills, which ensure a consistent quality focus is adopted throughout the project. Responds swiftly and professionally to changing business needs, challenging remote locations and industry developments. A versatile and adaptable individual who embraces each new challenge with enthusiasm and applies a pragmatic approach in order to add maximum value to any employer.
OBJECTIVE
Keen to secure a challenging and rewarding new role, which will utilise all existing expertise while providing scope for continuing professional development and fulfilment in the future. Fully flexible as to location.
KEY EXPERTISE & COMPETENCIES
- Completions & Work-Overs / - Vertical & Horizontal Wells / - Managing Service Rigs- ESP, PCP, SR pumps. / - Remedial Cementing / - Acid Stimulations
- Coil tubing operations / - H2S Wells up to 46% / - Hydraulic Fracturing (Vertical & Horizontal, Water & Oil Base fluids)
- Fishing
- Drill development & exploration wells
- Water & Oil base muds
- TCP Perforating / - 24 Hour Operations
- Big Bore Holes
- 3 Casing Designs / - Rig Acceptance
- Vertical, directional, horizontal
- Multiple International locations
Leadership: Adept in the supervision and performance monitoring of multi-national staff, ensuring personnel possesses adequate experience and competence to perform assigned duties.
Compliance: Ensures adherence to completion programmes, good oilfield practices and all H&S regulation; minimising risk and overseeing the appropriate inspection and certification of equipment.
Quality: Leads deployment in a cost-effective manner, recommending optimisation methods to improve operational performance and providing detailed scope of works as required for accurate tendering or contracting.
Management: Provides operational and technical expertise in support of daily operations, plans effectively for future operations, ensured required materials and services are available as required and that tasks are performed within agreed timescale.
Collaboration: Builds effective relationships with internal stakeholders, service companies and external partners; adapting swiftly to the individual demands of diverse international locations.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Aug 16 – Present Petroski Oilfield Consulting Alberta (Centrica Energy ) Completions & Work-Over Supervisor
· Working in Western Canada Sedimentary Basin on completions and work-overs in Oil & Gas wells and depths of 400 to 4,600m
· (H2S content up to 46%) Critical Sour
· Completions, work overs, abandonment’s and well servicing, horizontal hydraulic fracturing multiple stage (Montney)
· Coiled tubing operations
Sep 14 – Jan 15 Petrochad Mangara, Chad , Africa Completion Supervisor; NDSV
· Drill, test and complete oil wells 1,500 to 2,800m
Jul 14 – Aug 14 Talisman Energy Kurdistan Region, Iraq Relief Completion Supervisor
· Exploration, six zone completion and test, liquid’s rich gas well of 2,400 to 2,600m; H2S 2%
Jun 13 – Jun 14 Frontier International, Aberdeen (Cairn India), Barmer India Completions & Work-Over Supervisor
· Completions, workovers, well servicing on oil wells of depths 600 to 1,800m Low concentration H2S wells. Seal bore packers, with heater strings.
Jan 11 – Jun 13 Pajak Engineering Alberta (Barrick Energy) Completions & Work-Over Supervisor
· Working in Western Canada Sedimentary Basin on completions and work-overs in Oil & Gas wells and depths of 1,400 to 3,600m (H2S content up to 35%)
· Undertaking horizontal completions and work overs; horizontal hydraulic fracturing multiple stages water – oil base
· Coiled tubing operations
· High pressure exploration completion (Parex Resources Trinidad)
Feb 10 – Nov 10 Canadian Nexen Petroleum, Yemen Completions & Work-Over Supervisor
· Responsible for block 14 & 51, ESP work, remedial cementing, acid work, completions, testing and horizontal completions work-overs of depths of 6,000 to 11,000 feet
Jan 07 – Nov 09 Petro Canada, Suncor IBU Syrian Operations Completion Work-Over Night Drilling Supervisor
· Operating on exploration and development wells, 3 zones, 3 packer completions with Chrome 13 tubing high volume gas wells
· Overseeing well re-entries with side-tracks 2,600m – 3,000m
· Coil tubing operations and N2 lifting, testing, cementing, acid stimulation and fishing and logging while drilling / coring, side-tracks
· Drill exploration wells; big bore holes, lost circulation; 3 casing design wells
Sep 04 – Jan 07 Canadian Nexen Petroleum, Yemen Completion & Night Drilling Relief Day Supervisor
· Supervising air hammer drilling surface hole, two and three string casing designs, big bore holes including directional and horizontal wells. WBM
· Working on exploration wells to 11,500 feet and development wells of 6,000 to 7,000 feet deep, leading completions remedial cementing, acid stimulation, testing, ESP installations including Y tools and Twin seal packers
Nov 03 – Aug 04 Frontier Engineering & Consulting Ltd, Alberta Completions & Work-Over Supervisor
· Working on wells of up to 3,000m deep, overseeing hydraulic fracturing, sour wells, critical sour wells, remedial cementing and acid simulations in addition to testing and snubbing operations
Dec 98 – Nov 03 Kuwait Santa Fe Completions & Work-Over Supervisor
· Responsible for supervision of a work over rig operating on a 24 hr basis, completing and working over oil wells of depths of 2,000 to 11,000 feet
· Overseeing remedial cementing, acid stimulation, fishing, including coil tubing acid work in horizontal open hole.
· ESP and Sucker rod pump servicing
· Dual and single horizontal open hole work overs including inflatable packers and drill pipe conveyed logging
Jun 97 – Dec 98 Norex Petroleum (Canada) Yugraneft Corp (Russia) Base Manager / Rig Supervisor
Nov 95 – Jun 97 Majestic Oil Tools, Canada Tool Supervisor
Oct 94 – Nov 95 Barlon Engineering Completion Supervisor
Apr 92 – Oct 94 Canadian Fracmaster Ltd Russian Operations Rig Manager
Jun 90 – Apr 92 Trimat Well Servicing, Canada Rig Manager
Jun 82 – Jun 90 Roll’n Well Servicing, North Battleford Push Operator
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
- IWCF Supervisors Combined Surface & Subsea BOP Stack Certificate (exp. Mar 16) / - First Aid / CPR- Regulatory Awareness & Safety Management / - H2S Alive
- Detection and Control of Flammable Substances / - WHMIS
- BOP Well Service / - TDG
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
IT Skills: MS Windows, MS Word & Excel, Landmark DIMS, Open Wells, IDS, Basic Well-view
References: Available on request