Essentially, a Drilling Engineer is in charge of drilling the well to produce oil or gas. Drilling Engineers also develop, plan, cost and supervise operations necessary for drilling oil and gas wells. They are involved from the initial stages of designing the well, through to testing, completion and eventually, abandonment.
Drilling Engineers are typically involved in:
- estimating the value and accessibility cost of the reserve
- acquiring necessary property by lease
- conducting a geological survey
- designing a wellbore plan
- providing a layout of the type of equipment required to reach the depth of the well.
Drilling Engineers work in office and field environments including well sites, which can be on land, offshore or on mobile drilling units. They are employed either by the operating oil company, specialist drilling contractors or a service company.
Types of Drilling Engineers
- Completions Engineer
- Workover Engineer
- Well Abandonment Engineer
- Deepwater Drilling Engineer
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