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MOMENTUM
STEM Providing a global standard
for ES Equipment maintenance
EDITOR:
Rich Cook
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE:
Marcelo Amaral, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Diane Andrade, Aberdeen, UK
Caitlin Armstrong, Calgary,
Canada
Joe Bacho, Houston, TX
Nikki Botha, Cape Town, South
Africa
Beth Brewer, Denver, CO
Cheryl Cook, Florence, KY
Nestor Daboin, Mexico City,
Mexico
John Decaire, Houston, TX
Jeff Dierig, Florence, KY
Marc Eigner, Dubai, UAE
Stella Espinheiro, Karachi,
Pakistan
Tim Farrell, St. Johns, Canada
Rune Folkvord, Sandnes, Norway
Gary Fout, Houston, TX
Shawn French, Houston, TX
Dan Jefferson, Houston, TX
Renaud Joubert, Houston, TX
Ben Kimball, Singapore,
Singapore
Michal Klunder, Warsaw, Poland
Katie Larg, Calgary, Canada
Janet LeFavre-Hall, Houston, TX
Linda Lindenberg, Houston, TX
Filipe Liporace, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Alan MacLean, Houston, TX
Barbi Messier, Houston, TX
Joan Nunez, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Sylvester Nwadugbo, Lagos,
Nigeria
Steve Orr, Houston, TX
Ben Paiuk, Houston, TX
Colin Patterson, Aberdeen, UK
Bernard Pimentel, Singapore,
Singapore
Kenny Rait, Takoradi, Ghana
Ramy Rashad, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Denise Reeves, Houston, TX
Todd Reid, St. Johns, Canada
Trine Roald, Sandnes, Norway
Jeff Russo, Lafayette, LA
Carla Salomo, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Jaci Seram, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Dave Sorter, Florence, KY
Vic Still, Dubai, UAE
Gustavo Villarroel, Municipio
De Centro, Mexico
3 LETTER FROM THE
PRESIDENT
Joe Bacho introduces himself
as the new President of
M-I SWACO.
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Transocean memorializes
Deepwater Horizon, Still
together after all these years,
Oileld skills to serve others,
M-I SWACO celebrates 3 years
working with OGX, Aberdeen
PCG runs 10k, New ofces
in Ghana.
16 CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT
30 Black Belts, 85 Orange Belts
and 702 White Belts company-
wide, New belt recipients,
Demand Planning.
CONTENTS
MOMENTUM
Cover photo: The STEM program has helped the Scott, LA workshop organize its entire yard, enabling better
management of their entire inventory.
20 UP CLOSE
Tony Clarke and Eric Heath
talk about the ES maintenance
program STEM.
25 TRADE SHOWS AND
CONFERENCES
OTC, ENVIROTHERM NT wins
Harts E&P Award, 2Q and
3Q shows.

26 QHSE
Slop water problems?, First PWM
job in Brazil a success, Eastern
Canada reaches a new milestone
in safety, Pakistan reaches 10
years with no LTI.
32 TECH ROLL CALL
STEM success in LA and Latin
America, Specialized Tools
provides solutions in Brunei,
A bold step into Kenya with
solids control, Poland gaining
momentum.
43 AUTHORS AND PAPERS
41 papers written or presented in 2Q.
45 CAREER DEVELOPMENT
AND TRAINING
Brazil customer DFS, Spanish mud
school graduates 27, Houston
graduates 82 from Basic Mud
School in May and 21 in March,
VSAT classes held in Oklahoma
and Scotland.
48 AWARDS AND
ANNIVERSARIES
Fernando Lopez earns his 10 Year
Service Award, 500 employees reach
service anniversaries.

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A
llow me to introduce myself. My name is Joe Bacho and I am honored to assume
the role of President of M-I SWACO as Steve Orr is now serving as President of
the Schlumberger Drilling Group. In addition, M-I SWACO has now joined the
Drilling Group as a segment. I look forward to the opportunities that this alignment
presents M-I SWACO, and us as employees, as we establish Schlumberger as the number
one drilling service company.
I joined Magcobar in 1977 as a mud logger. I am a geologist by education and have
worked in the drilling uids segment, holding just about every eld service and
management position throughout the Rocky Mountain region. After a stint in the Global
Technical Service Group in Houston, I returned to the Rockies to run US Land across all
business lines. I moved back to Houston a few years later to serve as VP of Fluids for the
Western Hemisphere, then became Global Fluids VP. In 2006, I was asked to lead the North
American (NAM) team and held this role until May 1.
In this role, I was privileged to lead a highly motivated and skilled management
team, and its dedicated and hardworking employees. I am extremely proud of what
we accomplished together in the past six years during some very challenging market
conditions. I look forward to the opportunity to lead M-I SWACO and work with our skilled
and hardworking teams throughout the world.
As we face new challenges and changes ahead, let me assure you that our strategy,
direction and focus remains unchanged. The foundation of our strategy and what makes
M-I SWACO successful has always been our relentless customer-focused, solutions-
driven culture. Even now as we become an integral part of the Schlumberger Drilling
Group, this will not change and will be even more critical to our future success.
Our culture is supported by the quality of our products and service offerings. However,
products and services alone are not enough. To further support our customer-focused,
solutions-driven culture, we must continue to provide the industrys best trained,
qualied and motivated personnel along with cutting-edge technology that creates value
for our clients.
We have developed world-class infrastructure with a solid global footprint that enables
us to efciently deliver our products and services around the world. That infrastructure
will remain and grow. And nally, we must keep in mind our commitment to a QHSE
culture, where we are committed to do no harm to people or the environment.
TO OUR EMPLOYEES, CUSTOMERS AND SUPPLIERS
Joe Bacho
M-I SWACO President
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Continued on page 4
In the short term, we are focusing on objectives through Strengthening the Core.
First, it is critical that our core business at M-I SWACO is strong and healthy. A healthy
core business provides the funding, critical mass, and generates the organizational
support for investment that is key to our success.
Next, we will customize and adapt the core business geographically to
capitalize on emerging and evolving market opportunities such as global
shale development, deepwater and arctic exploration.
Third, we want to continue to expand the core business through vertical
and horizontal integration in business such as completions and production
services. We have signicant room to run in this market space, stand-alone
and in conjunction with a number of the Schlumberger segments.
And nally, we must continue to evolve M-I SWACO through innovative
and imaginative business models such as risk reward, pay for performance,
packaging of complementary services and partnerships with third parties.
This has always played a key role in our success in the past and will continue
going forward.
Our aspiration, along with all of Schlumberger, is to achieve revenue and
earnings growth rates greater than our competitors, or as I like to more simply
state it, Beat the Competition. We have the nancial strength, human capital,
infrastructure, technology and skill to execute this strategy; we just need to
seize the opportunities and do so!
I welcome the challenges that lay ahead for me personally and for M-I SWACO. I know
I have a strong management team behind me and a 16,000-strong workforce around the
world that believes in our strategy and works hard every day to Beat the Competition.

Joe Bacho
M-I SWACO President
Continued from page 3
Our strategy, direction
and focus remain
unchanged. The
foundation of our
strategy and what makes
M-I SWACO successful
has always been our
relentless customer-
focused, solutions-
driven culture.
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Transocean memorializes Deepwater Horizon fallen with new rig
O
n April 20, 2010, at 9:49 p.m., the Transocean
drilling rig Deepwater Horizon was struck by an
explosion, taking the lives
of eleven crew, including two
M-I SWACO employees, Gordon
Jones and Blair Manuel.
On April 20, 2012, at 9:49 p.m.
CDT, Transocean raised a commem-
orative ag over all of their rigs
and business locations throughout
the world. Flags ew until
10:00 a.m. CDT on April 22, the
approximate time at which the
Deepwater Horizon was lost to
the sea.
To further commemorate the
fallen crew, Transocean named their
newest rig in honor of these men.
The Transocean Honor is rigging up for operations offshore
Malongo, Cabinda Province, Angola. Aboard the TOI Honor,
a wreath-laying ceremony was
held to commemorate the lost
crew. Eleven ower wreaths, each
bearing the name of a Deepwater
Horizon crew member, were
released to the sea by a member
of the parent company of those
who perished.
As the wreaths were released,
attendees echoed sentiment
from Transocean and M-I SWACO
worldwide, saying, We remem-
ber and honor the Deepwater
Horizon crew and their families.
We will never forget.
Eduardo Manuel, left, and Ekanem Mbat, right, prepare
to release the wreath to honor their fallen M-I SWACO
brethren.
Honored were:
Jason Anderson, Toolpusher, by William Meldrum, Transocean
Dewey Revette, Driller, by Donald Mackay, Transocean
Dale Burkeen, Crane Operator, by Nikolajs Zaiceves, Transocean
Donald Clark, Assistant Driller, by Soeharto Wagiu, Transocean
Stephen Curtis, Assistant Driller, by Mladen Sarajlic,
Transocean
Wyatt Kemp, Derrickman, by Pedro Morais, Transocean
Karl Kleppinnger, Floorhand, by Joao Nunvo, Transocean
Shane Roshto, Floorhand, by Moises David, Transocean
Adam Weise, Floorhand, by Pedro Nbanza, Transocean
Gordon Jones, Drilling Fluid Specialist, by Eduardo Manuel,
M-I SWACO
Blair Manuel, Drilling Fluid Specialist, by Ekanem Mbat,
M-I SWACO
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Annual Denver Customer Appreciation Crawsh Boil
The 8th Annual Customer Appreciation Crawsh Boil
was held by M-I SWACO and Schlumberger in Denver,
CO, on Apr. 27. This event has become one of the annual
highlights of the Rocky Mountain oileld. Over 800
customers attended and 2,300 lb (1,043 kg) of crawsh,
175 lb (79 kg) of sausage and 400 steaks were con-
sumed. This years weather started out cloudy and
ended up being sunny with a high temperature of 66 F
(19 C). A wonderful time was had by all, and visiting
went well into the evening. Our customers are already
talking about next years Crawsh Boil. Until next year,
Laissez Les Bon Temp Rouler!
ES Regional Manager for the Western and Northeast areas, Mike
Huval, wearing the red hat, joined the Bluekrewe band and played
the washboard.
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Left and right: Arvind Patel
Left and right: Emanuel Stamatakis
Jim Friedheim Jim Friedheim and Emanuel
Stamatakis
I
n early 1987, Arvind Patel, Emanuel Stamatakis and
Jim Friedheim, stepped foot in the North Course lab for
the rst time, relocating their ofces into one location.
Twenty-ve years later, all three are still working together
in the lab. Between them, they have produced over 100
products, written or coauthored 123 technical papers and
produced 65 patents.
Although they have worked together in the lab for the
last 25 years, Emanuel has been with the company for 35
years, Arvind for 31 years and Jim for 28 years. Collectively,
that is a combined total of 94 years experience.
Nowadays, you dont see too many people reach-
ing the 25-year mark in the same lab, says Stamatakis,
recognizing the much higher turnover rate as lab person-
nel move within the Schlumberger organization or on to
other opportunities.
Emanuel, Arvind and Jim are proud of their 25-year mile-
stone together, and what they have been able to accom-
plish for M-I SWACO, both despite and because of changes
in technology and processes.
In those days, said Patel, we were not allowed to type
up our lab notes. We could only have our handwritten
notes. There was a great fear that the typed notes could fall
into the wrong hands and our hard work would be lost to
the competition.
In the beginning, the three were able to work on the proj-
ects and products that they wanted to. They were not
as constrained and were able to respond quickly to
the needs of the eld.
We have always been responsive to the eld,
said Friedheim.
In fact, one product was developed virtually in a
week in response to a need from the eld. Most of the
products the three developed took months of plan-
ning, trial-and-error, testing and retesting both in the
lab and the eld; some took much less time.
We developed the DEFOAM-X

low-toxicity
defoamer in what seemed like one afternoon, said
Friedheim. In reality, it took about a week. We got a
call from the eld on Monday and had the new prod-
uct approved and in the eld by the end of that week.
Back in those days, testing parameters were less
involved than they are today but the fact that so
many of the products created have stood the test of
time is testimony to the development process.
The biggest drivers throughout the years have
been to create products that had less impact on the
environment and do so while costing less and being
more efcient.
Creativity is the key to solving problems,
Stamatakis said.
One of the biggest differences between the early
days and today is how they went about doing much
of their research.
We did not have the internet easily available at
that time and therefore we spent more time in the
laboratory working on chemistry, said Patel. Now,
we spend more time on the computer, some time on
the internet instead of the laboratory. Of course, it
has both advantages and disadvantages. For example,
we use to spend more time in laboratory to do labora-
tory research; however, we used to spend lots of time
to do literature search in library. The availability of
internet search engines has made literature search
Still together after all these years
Continued on page 8
Through the years
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Products:
DRIL-KLEEN

: Surfactant for anti-bit balling

(patented, 1997)
DEFOAM-X

: Defoamer surfactant for water base mud

(1989)
FAZE-MUL: Amine-based reversible invert emulsier for
FAZEPRO

(patented, 2004)
FAZE-WET

: Phosphate ester oil-wetting agent for

FAZEPRO
KLA-KURE

: Amphoteric shale inhibitor (patented,1995)

VERSA HRP: Oil mud viscosier (patented, 1989)
KLA-GARD

: Environmentally safe shale inhibitor

(patented, 1999)
KLA-STOP

: Polyamine shale inhibitor (patented, 2005)

MEGAMUL: Amido-amine invert emulsier for
MEGADRILL system (2010)
MUL-HTP

: Amine-based invert emulsier for negative

alkalinity OBMs (patented, 1999)
NOVAMUL

: Amido-amine emulsier for NOVA syn-

thetic-based drilling uids (1993)
RHADIANT

system: ULTRA HTHP oil-base system (2011)

MUL XT: EMI-2184 Emulsier for ULTRA HTHP OBM
(2011)
Packer Fluid: ULTRA HTHP Insulating Packer Fluid for
TPAO in Turkey (2011)
ALPINE PA-10: New environmentally improved lubricant
designed for use in offshore drilling (2012)
Shale Gas Fluid: Developed a water-base drilling uid
for the Marcellus shale formations. New uid uses nano
particle for improved performance (2011)
EMI-1743: KLA-GARD powder product (2007)
ULTRADRIL

system: High-performance water-base mud

system (2005)
KLA-GARD: Environmentally safe shale inhibitor
BUBBLE BUSTER

: Defoamer
POLY PLUS RD

: Developed the POLY PLUS RD from

POLY PLUS

Papers:
Dixit, Rahul and Patel, Arvind, Design and Development
of a Novel Process to Treat Drilling-Fluid Slops: A Positive
Environmental and Economic Impact. SPE Drilling &
Completion (Mar. 2010) 53.
Mettath, Sashikumar; Patel, Arvind; Stamatakis, Emanuel,
and Young, Steve. Non-Asphaltic, Fluid-Loss-Control Agent
for High-Temperature Applications in Synthetic-Based
Invert Emulsion Drilling Fluids. AADE-11-NTCE-29, AADE
Fluids Conference, Houston, TX, Apr. 1214, 2011.
Patel, Arvind D. and Stamatakis, Emanuel. Design
of Highly Inhibitive Water-Based Drilling Fluid for
Environmentally Sensitive Land Drilling Applications.
Royal Society of Chemistry: Chemistry in the Oil Industry
XI: Regulation Meets Innovation Moving Forward.
Manchester, England, Nov. 24, 2009.
Patel, Arvind; Stamatakis, Emanuel; Young, Steve and
Friedheim, Jim. Advances in Inhibitive Water-Based
Drilling Fluids Can They Replace Oil-Based Muds? SPE
106476, SPE International Symposium on Oileld Chemistry,
Houston, TX, Feb. 28Mar 2, 2007.
Schlemmer, Robert; Patel, Arvind; Friedheim, Jim and
Young, Steve. Progression of Water-Based Fluids Based
on Amine Chemistry Can the Road Lead to True Oil Mud
Replacements? AADE-03-NTCE-36, AADE National Drilling
Technology Conference, Practical Solutions for Drilling
Challenges, Houston, TX, Apr. 13, 2003.
Arvind Patel, Jim Friedheim and Emanuel Stamatakis, still together
in the lab after 25 years.
Just a few products and papers from
Patel, Friedheim and Stamatakis
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Executive managers practice safe driving at
Q1 managers meeting
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teve Orr and the M-I SWACO executive staff
attended a four-day managers meeting in
Kellyville, OK, in Q1. Unlike most quarterly
managers meetings, the group did not gather to
focus on nancial reporting. Instead, they met
to discuss driving safety and to practice accident
avoidance techniques.
The rst day was a full-day management meet-
ing, said Alan MacLean, VP of QHSE, but unlike
normal meetings, there was no discussion of
nancials. Instead, we talked safety, particularly
driving safety, because that is one of our highest
risk activities.
The remaining three days focused on classroom
training, extended commentary drives and prac-
ticing emergency avoidance maneuvers on the
Kellyville track and skid pan. The executives each
drive the customized Ford F250 that is outtted with
a steerable rear axle. The instructor sits in the pas-
senger seat and controls the rear axle with a joystick. The
driver must counter-steer to keep the truck on the track.
The executives were also challenged in a special car
that could lock brakes on either the front or rear wheels,
simulating different driving emergencies. They learned
and practiced proper counter-maneuvering techniques.
On the drop-wheel simulator, they practiced proper han-
dling of a vehicle if a wheel drops off the road.
Even at 10 mph, said MacLean, a truck will spin if
you drop a wheel and jerk the steering wheel to pull
back onto the road. The proper technique is to take your
foot off the accelerator and slow the vehicle until you
stop. Then carefully and slowly pull back onto the road.
Each attendee was also required to drive, back and
park a medium-duty truck with a gooseneck trailer
attached. Many of the new M-I SWACO systems, includ-
ing the AQUALIBRIUM

water treatment system, are

mounted on trailers with this type of truck-bed mounted
swivel hitch.
The whole idea was to get the executives from around
the world committed to safety, especially driving safety,
and show the leadership commitment, said MacLean.
At the conclusion of the event, each member of the
executive staff signed two large, orange trafc cones
emblazoned with 2012 Executive Management Meeting,
Kellyville, OK. One cone will be put on display at the
North Course facility while the other cone will be sent to
locations throughout the world to be put on temporary
display. The cones will serve as reminders to drive safely
and that the entire executive management team is put-
ting its full support behind the initiative.
Left: VP ES Production Mike Tangedahl waits his turn to drive the customized
Ford F250. Other members of the executive staff wait with him. Right: All of the
members of the executive staff signed two trafc cones to demonstrate their
commitment to driving safety. One is on display at the North Course building.
The other is being sent around the world to be displayed at various ofces.
much easier and quicker and save lots of time. Which
is better? It depends upon how you use the time
you saved.
And creativity led them to develop numerous prod-
ucts that have solved a litany of oileld problems. But of
all of the hundreds of products they have created, they
are most proud of the development of the synthetic
family of uids, from the NOVA products to the recent
RHELIANT PLUS

uid. Second to the synthetics is the

development of the ULTRADRIL

water-base mud.
The ULTRADRIL water-base mud is still being used
today, Friedheim said. And still providing signicant
revenue for M-I SWACO.
While proud of their accomplishments, Emanuel,
Arvind and Jim agree they still have a lot of work to do
and many goals to achieve. Chief among their outstand-
ing goals are the development of a water-base mud that
is as good as an oil-base mud, a conductive oil-base mud,
and an oil-base mud that is truly breakable and then can
be reformed. The latter has applications on the environ-
mental side (ESAR), an oil-base mud that you could break,
clean up and then reform as a drilling uid very quickly
and effectively.
So while styles have changed and theyve seen many
colleagues come and go, Friedheim, Patel and Stamatakis
continue their work developing new and better products
to enable customers to drill faster, further, safer and with
less cost to the bottom line and to the environment.
Continued from page 6
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R
une Folkvord enjoys his time off from his
work aboard the Gullfaks C production and
drilling platform in the Norwegian North
Sea. When not on the rig, Folkvord enjoys the
beauty of Norway, skiing and camping. He joined
Anchor Drilling Fluids in 1983 as a drilling uids
engineer and while he hasnt changed compa-
nies, the companies have changed around him.
Time off from working on an offshore Norway rig
Im still in same company, he said, but dif-
ferent owners have changed the name on my
coverall several times until now as M-I SWACO, a
Schlumberger company. Before Gullfaks C, I worked
on different drilling/production platforms like semi-
submersibles, jack-ups and also once at a land rig on
Spitsbergen in Arctic.
(All photos by Rune Folkvord.)
Runes wife, Leena, walking across ice ows of a frozen lake.
Left: The maximum
sun height on the
shortest day of the
year in Norway. Photo
taken about 600 m
above sea level in
Ryfylke, close to
Stavanger, Norway.
Below: Rune Folkvord
camping out in a
snow cave.
M-I SWACO hosts golf tourney in Dubai
Recently, M-I SWACO hosted the inau-
gural golf challenge match between
Weatherford and M-I SWACO in Dubai.
The contest was in a match play format,
with six players from each side, result-
ing in the scores being level at the end.
However, Weatherford won the trophy
by way of a count back, from an indi-
vidual stableford contest played at the
same time.
A stableford round scores points
based on the number of strokes taken at
each hole, with the objective of earning
the highest score; more points are given
in relation to par.
A return match will be scheduled for
the fourth quarter and M-I SWACO plans
to win the trophy for the rst time.
The Weatherford team celebrates their win while the M-I SWACO team plots
their strategy for next time.
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rowing up in America, we have been given an
opportunity, a choice and a chance. With quality
infrastructure, healthcare and schools, it is no
wonder the U.S. has been one of the most sought after
countries to live in. This was increasingly evident to me
after two mission trips to Haiti in 2006. The rst was
to continue building an orphanage and the second
sprang from the greatest need that was ever present
in Haiticlean water.
Most water sources are from unclean surface water,
which is not the best source of drinking water. Seeing
the locals drink this dirty water weighed on me heavily
during that week, but fortunately an opportunity pre-
sented itself. While walking back from a church service
one afternoon, I saw a water-well drilling truck driving
through the local Haitian town and thought if a water-
well drilling truck could get to Haiti, then we can raise
the money to put a well in at the orphanage.
After leaving, raising the money was the easy part;
nding a water-well drilling company to drill the well
was the challenge. Another door was opened and the
incredible people at Living Water International (LWI)
Putting oileld skills to work for faith
By Shawn French, Business Development Manager, Houston, TX
Clean water
transforms.
According to sta-
tistics from LWI,
every 15 seconds
a child dies from
water-related
disease, 1.8 million
children die from diarrhea every year and 884 million
people in the world lack access to safe water. LWI does
not see this as a problem; they see an opportunity, a
chance to change communities (then nations) with
water and a word from God. They bring water to quench
the thirst and the soul.
This past February, I was able to join LWI and
Kingsland Baptist Church on one of their many well
drilling trips. This time we were able to go the beauti-
ful city of Las Tablas, El Salvador. Another community
changed with access to clean water. The amazing thing
about these trips is the change that takes place in me,
by the people I meet. Even with language barriers and
cultural issues, a bond is formed. The one thing that is
Houston mission team and El Salvador drilling team at well in
Las Tablas. Top row: Shawn French, M-I SWACO; Clay Lewis,
ExxonMobil; Jason Hall, Apache Corp; Jim Coleman, HMI; Omar
Garcia, Kingsland Baptist Church; Randy Beard; Carter Moore,
nephew of Stanley Moore. Bottom row: Lloyd Dunlap, BP; Kike,
Fernando, Jeremiah with LWI.
Lloyd Dunlap, BP, shows a child in village of Las Tablas how to pump
water from the well.
Taking a much needed break from the sun
inside an under-construction mud home.
(www.water.cc) in Houston were standing on the
other side. Eight months later, with the help of
LWI, a well was put in the ground in Perches, Haiti,
and is still providing clean drinking water for that
community.
Clean water means lives changed. A quote from
LWI states, Every $1 invested to water and sanitation
generates on average an $8 return in the form
of time saved, increased productivity and reduced
health costs.
true of my travelswhether to a water-well drilling site or
to a deepwater rig offshoreis that no matter where you
live, we all have basic needs. Physical and spiritual thirst
knows no limits. With organizations like Living Water
International, men, women and children all over the world
are beneting from people that will go the extra mile to
help, to offer water and a word.
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Top: Each employee received a jar of special
M&M candiessome in M-I SWACO orange,
others in Schlumberger blue and Smith green.
Above: The open work areas make it easy to
collaborate on projects and share experience
or ideas with coworkers. In the back are Erika
Scott, LAM accountant, and Delilah Dehoyos,
accounting clerk. Front are Tamara Laughery,
management accountant; Sandy Reyes, senior
accounting clerk; Ezra Carpenter, summer
intern; Rebecca Lee, a temp lling in for Lisa
Jan. Left: A month birthday celebration is held
for the entire staff in the 1200 Club. Anyone
who is celebrating a birthday is recognized
with their name on the whiteboard. The
celebrations facilitate community at the
Houston Financial Hub.
M-I SWACO Finance and IT groups move to new Schlumberger
Houston Financial Hub
B
eginning in early April, members of
the M-I SWACO Finance and Business
Systems (IT) groups moved from
the North Course ofces to a new build-
ing a few miles away at 1200 Enclave. The
new Schlumberger Houston Finance Hub
became the center of all things nancial
and technical for the legacy Schlumberger
companies, including Smith and M-I SWACO.
The Hub is designed with an open layout
to allow greater collaboration and to facilitate integra-
tion between the various nance team members. A year
and a half into the integration of Smith, M-I SWACO and
Schlumberger, both the nance and business systems
groups are still nding ways to work better together.
The workspace layout, said Andrea Shaffer, Houston
Financial Hub manager, was created to help our teams
work together in a more collaborative way. Each group
knows their own processes and we hope that this layout
will encourage a faster integration through cross commu-
nication and training.
All four oors also have numerous small meeting/
huddle rooms and gathering areas where teams can gather
to discuss challenges and nd solutions. One type of area
provides network plugins for up to six computers, each
with a puck device that allows that computer to control
the big-screen television at the end of the table. Whether
at their desks or in the meeting rooms, teams like the
M-I SWACO Business Systems group are better able to work
together on projects.
I only saw my team at our weekly meetings, as
they were always behind cube and ofce walls, said
Christopher Gilbert, M-I SWACO IT Program manager.
Now, I can easily see them and greet them every morning,
as I move through the ofce.
It started with a pilot group of 20 people who moved in
right before March month-end.
The bulk of the employees moved
in during the week of April 16th,
phasing in the groups by oor.
The Houston Financial Hub will
eventually seat 600 people but is
currently seating about half that.
Floors 3 and 4 each have space
for 180 people. On the sixth oor,
the former executive confer-
ence room has been converted
into a Hub Caf named the 1200 Club, which has several
large refrigerators, microwaves and kitchen facilities. Each
oor has two break room areas with a refrigerator and
microwave where employees and visitors can
get coffee, tea and water.
The 1200 Club on the sixth oor has about 24
tables for employees to enjoy lunch. Also in
the area is a foosball table, a ping pong table,
a pool table and a Wii game console on a big
screen TV. Several other televisions run news
and other programing throughout the day.
Just off the 1200 Club is a large training room
that will be used to run the Lean training programs
in the coming months, as well as other training.
The location of the Financial Hub, a few miles south of
the I-10 corridor in West Houston, outside of Beltway 8, was
chosen as a result of an analysis of employee ZIP codes.
When researching appropriate locations, the planners
analyzed ZIP codes of all of the employees who would be
moving to the location. From that data, they determined
the best area that would keep the commute reasonable for
most people.
In addition to a gym facility on site and the 1200 Club, the
building is across the street from Terry Hershey Park, a
popular green space with jogging trails and picnic areas.
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he VSAT Team was called upon to aid Capital Sales
in closing a multi-rig package deal. Through much
collaboration and teamwork, Bobby Farmer, NAL
screen sales manager, Jeff Russo, VSAT team leader, and
Chris Stagg, capital equipment sales, targeted Felderhoff
Brothers Drilling in an attempt to gain sales on a
broader scale and build on an already existing relation-
ship. The sequence of events leading up to our successes
with Felderhoff Brothers Drilling marks textbook
Teamwork 101 at its best.
Felderhoff Brothers Drilling has approximately 18
land rigs operating at this time spanning from New
Mexico through Odessa, TX, into Ft. Worth, TX. They are
currently building three additional new rigs. Felderhoff
rigs are equipped predominantly with competitor
shakers. Felderhoff advised they found it difcult to get
the attention they needed from the rig manufacturers
representatives and were looking to establish a better
working relationship with an organization that offered
continued service beyond the sale. Through the con-
tinued efforts of Chris Stagg, an opportunity presented
itself and M-I SWACO was ready to answer this call.
On May 23, 2011, Bobby Farmer and Chris Stagg met
with Felderhoff VP of Operations Danny Crow and
discussed the Warranty Program to which M-I SWACO
would extend competitive shaker basket warranties
additionally and up to ve years from the born on date.
The Warranty Program starts off with a full vibratory
systems analysis and test on the shakers; a VSAT report
outlines areas of concern and details shaker inadequa-
cies needing attention that would bring the shaker
back up to manufacturer specs. This is followed up with
an ofcial warranty inspection. During this phase the
inspector is ensuring that the shaker is up to par and the
playing eld is level in that our screens are being given
the best platform for which to perform optimally. Upon
completion of a successful warranty inspection, the
customer is signed up and the extended shaker basket
warranty begins immediately.
The benet to the customer is the extended warranty
program is at no charge as long as M-I SWACO screens
are being used. Periodic visual inspections where
competitive screens are observed to be in use void the
warranty immediately.
On May 26, 2011, Danny Crow asked for information
regarding advantages and benets of MONGOOSE

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shakers and how the VSAT Program ts into the pur-
chase of new shakers. Chris Stagg was able to answer
these questions both verbally and with literature.
This sparked enough interest and led to the NAL
VSAT Team unites with Capital Sales to make a big impact
By Jeff Russo, VSAT Team Leader
Screen Sales Group to build a shaker screen warranty/
maintenance proposal that Bobby hand-delivered to
Danny Crow, when Bobby hosted a presentation in
Abilene, TX, to approximately 30 members of Felderhoff
rig personnel, inclusive of the night Tool Pusher crews.
The presentation covered the warranty program as
well as shaker best practices. One week prior to this
presentation, Jeff Russo and Chris Stagg hosted a pre-
sentation in Abilene, TX, for Danny Crow, rig superin-
tendents and approximately 45 members of Felderhoff
rig personnel as well as the day Tool Pusher crews. This
presentation covered the VSAT Program and shaker best
practices, and Q&A was elded from the audience as
they inquired about M-I SWACO services and products.
As of late, Danny Crow asked the team to present
our warranty
program to OXY.
While we are cur-
rently working
with OXY, who is
forecasted to go
from 14 to 25 land
rigs up and run-
ning by the end
of 2011 and then
from 25 to 31 rigs
by April, could
award M-I SWACO
the lions share if
not all the screen
business. But a
meeting as this
only continues
to solidify our
company and our
brand in the industry and in the market.
We have conducted three VSAT inspections on
Felderhoff rigs and are in the process of signing all
of their rigs up in the warranty program as we go.
M-I SWACO has since sold 10 MONGOOSE shakers and
one mud cleaner, and should recognize signicant rev-
enue annually in screen sales in addition to the strong
six gures in equipment sales thus far.
Of the 10 shakers sold, this only encompasses four
rigs of the 21 Felderhoff rigs thus far. It is our intent to
continue to cultivate our relationship with Felderhoff by
offering nothing less than excellence and delivering the
attention theyve sought after for so long in competi-
tors, on an orange platter. Team work at its nest!
The NAL Screen Sales and VSAT
Group would like to introduce
and welcome our newest
addition, Storm McFarland,
to Technical Screen Sales who
will be working out of the
Houston ofce to offer support
as it relates to screen portions
of tenders and gain additional
screen business. Storm comes
from the screen sales division
and has shared many successes
in screen sales and putting the
customer needs rst. Storm
McFarland: 903-952-0590,
JMcFarland3@miswaco.slb.com
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M-I SWACO celebrates three years working with OGX in Brazil
During the OTC show in Houston, M-I SWACO President Steve
Orr met with Ricardo Juiniti, OGX executive manager, and
Reinaldo Belotti, OGX production ofcer, at the North Course
headquarters and presented them with plaques to commemo-
rate the achievement.
OGX operates eight rigsve offshore and three landand
is responsible for a signicant portion of M-I SWACO Brazils
revenue. In July, the rig count will grow to six offshore and
four land rigs.
M-I SWACO continues to have 100 percent of the OGX
business in Brazil and has developed a close relationship with
the Brazilian oil company
through dedication and hard
work. Eleven M-I SWACO
employees work inside the OGX
ofces on a daily basis, includ-
ing four project engineers, two
project coordinators, two uids
programmers, one WP project
engineer, one ES project engi-
neer and one technical support.
Reinaldo Belotti, right, with Steve Orr. Ricardo Juiniti, right, with Steve Orr.
Marcelo Amaral, left, with Steve Orr.
Aberdeen Process Control Group runs 10K together
Twelve members of the
M-I SWACO Process Control
Group completed the City
of Aberdeen 10K Road Race
in May. Inspired by PCG
Administrator Lynn Jamiesons
initial entry into the compe-
tition, the rest of the group
joined up and trained in the
weeks leading up to the race.
With very few of the group
having any past running expe-
rience they can be proud of
their effort, with Keith Walder
the fastest out of the group
with a time of 46 minutes
1 second.
Team Lineup: Back row, left to right are Neil Mcpherson, Gary McGinnes, Calvin Dodds, Colin
Patterson, Keith Walder, Steven Hosie, Richard McIntosh, Kevin Bowes, Kevin Buchan, Nimesh
Vora. Front row are Lynn Jamieson and Diana Lopez Lucas Andrade.
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2012 Schlumberger World Hockey Championships
By Katie Larg, DS Department Assistant, and Derek Clarke, IT Support Analyst
T
he M-I SWACO Mudslingers came out strong on
Thursday night crushing the Grande Prairie OFS
Team 21-5. The team hailed star forward Faron
Duthie as MVP after he scored over half of the teams
goals leading the group to an outstanding victory. They
were off to a great start despite the Cool Runnings
approach with
their coaching staff.
I dont get why
Faron is MVP, said
Assistant Coach
Fernando Navarro,
before being
reminded they
werent playing
soccer. He didnt
kick the ball once
and hardly dove.
After the game,
the Vancouver
Canucks came
looking for Faron
to help them in
the playoffs. After
much consid-
eration, Faron
decided to stick with the team that had the better goalie
and carried on with the tournament. The Mudslingers
only natural Defenseman, Mike McGinnis (who was a
major factor in Game #1) was called away from the rink,
and would miss the remainder of the tournament.
Battling against Red Deer Wireline on Friday after-
noon, the team knew that they would be in for a ght.
Star sniper Jay Safety First Whitecotton was unable to
play, as he was booked into QHSE training. When asked
for comment on his absence, Candace Clare just laughed,
mysteriously
fanning herself
with an envelope
of cash. Despite
this, the team
jumped out to
a 4-1 lead after
two periods,
buoyed by stellar
goaltending
from Mike Is
this game
STILL going?
MacPherson. Going into the third, self-appointed Team
Captain Reg Patterson took one-too-many penalties and
was sent out to the dressing room early. This sparked a
revolt as the team accused him of sneaking away to be
rst in line at the BBQ.
Red Deer Wireline took advantage of the Mudslingers
upset and
shifted the
momentum
with a huge
hit to Walter
Preece. Red Deer
jumped all over
the stunned
Mudslingers
to tie the game
and force it
into a shootout.
Goalie Mike
MacPherson
tried his hardest
to keep the team
in the game, but
found him-
self spending
far too much
time chirping at the referees instead of watching for
pucks. Deated after seeing their lead slip away, the
Mudslingers suffered a loss to their Red Deer rivals.
With only a few hours before the next game, the team
struggled to refuel and rebuild. Goalie Mike MacPherson
was unable to play in the Friday evening faceoff against
Smith D&R, but to everyones delight Reg was back after
his siesta and ready to contribute. Building on his expe-
rience from last year, returning Head Coach Peter Van
Camp remembered that hockey is that game with sticks
and a puck and found a backup goalie to give them a
ghting chance. The backup tried his best, but despite
being the best Korfball player Peter could nd, he was
unable to stop a puck. Trainer Nader Ghobrial com-
mented later that although they were outmatched in
this game, they still managed to get scored on less than
the GP OFS team from the rst game. The game ended as
it started, with the team uninterested, tired and slightly
inebriated. M-I SWACO had dropped another game, 7-2.
Luckily, the huge goal differential in game one allowed
them to take the division crown, which gave them a spot
in the seminals.
The Mudslingers showed up to the rink on Saturday
From left to right: Troy Riggins, Kevin Brown, Rich Kilbride, Chris Leonard, Reg Patterson,
Reid Nesbitt, Jay Whitecotton, Todd Cross, Dave Bezushko, Faron Duthie, Sunny Manget,
Jason Lock, Walter Preece. Front: Mike MacPherson.
Continued on page 15
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NGA Geomarket moves into new digs in Accra, Ghana
The NGA Geomarket moved into new ofces in Ghanas capital city, Accra. Ghana, Ivory Coast & Remotes Regional
Manager Francois Couffy, Ghana Country Manager Kenny Rait, NGA Financial Controller Tunde Awotunde, NGA
ES Business Manager Yomi Jewisimi and NGA PT Business Manager Santosh Gopi moved into the new building in
March. NGA DS and WP Business Managers joined the operations in June.
We really needed this facility as we expand and grow our business here in Ghana, said Rait.
A small, serene garden surrounds the new ofces.
morning ready for a rematch with Red Deer Wireline
knowing they only had one game left to redeem them-
selves. In typical fashion, Defenseman Sunny Mangat
arrived with 42 seconds to go before warm-up, but was
still the rst man out on the ice. SportChek reports that
they completely sold out of Big Boy Pants on Friday night
and it showed in this match. The fast-paced game kept
the crowd on the edge of their seats and the team on the
edge of the bench, although to be fair, for Reid Nesbitt this
was the only way his feet could reach the oor. Red Deer
Wireline complained to ofcials that they were distracted
by Kevin Brown winking at them, but it fell on deaf ears.
Afterwards, Kevin was noted making the call me gesture
at the refs, who blushed, giggled and whispered in the
corner before giving the Mudslingers a free goal and a 5-3
win. This win, combined with Thursday nights incredible
victory, sent the team to the Gold Medal Game against
Extreme Engineering on Saturday night. Knowing that
the upcoming game was for all the glory, the team knew
theyd have to prepare.
The nal game against Extreme Engineering was a
battle from the opening faceoff. With the title for Most
Hungover Team rmly under their belts, the Mudslingers
went about actually trying to win the tournament. Head
Coach Peter Van Camp was notably absent, choosing
instead to carry on with his dinner reservations
at Subway.
I never expected us to win any games, said Van Camp,
and I had a 2 for 1 coupon that I didnt want to waste.
Assistant Coach Reza Danesh Beheshti tried his hard-
est to help lift the spirits of the team in place of Peter. His
chants of What? IM a coach? were echoed by the crowd
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Number 10 doing the dive for the goal is Kevin Brown and number 18 is
Reg Patterson!
in an obvious show of support. The Extreme Engineering
goalie was brilliant, ashing the leather, robbing the
stunned Mudslingers and gaining thunderous cheers
from the crowd. Superstar goalie Mike MacPherson tried
his best to rebound, but got things mixed up by wearing
leather and ashing the crowd, gaining himself a ticket
and a future court date. Extreme Engineering managed
to hold on to their lead and pull out a 4-1 win, taking the
Gold. Mudslingers veteran and most optimistic player
Dave Bezushko still thinks M-I SWACO played their best.
They had a great goalie, he said. It was a good game,
but it sucked watching them give the big trophy to the
other team. It probably didnt help that Reza got the equip-
ment mixed up and gave us all golf clubs to play with.
In the end, the Mudslingers go home with the silver and
an upgrade from last years standings.
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Continuous Improvement
CI Belts
White Belts
WB Mexico, from left to right, seated Diana Luz Durand,
Anglica Mendoza, Miriam Ramn, Flora Salgado (instructor),
Sandra Hernndez, Mara de los ngeles Gonzlez, Nelly
Torres. Row 2 Martn Herrera (instructor), Alfonso Martnez,
Luis Gmez, Andrs Acevedo, Ral Romero, Rafael Abarca, Eric
Mendoza, Julin Silva, Jorge Garca, Ivan Mar. Row 3 Luis
Vasquez Collado, Hctor Baldazo, Carlos Garca, Jos Vazquez,
Ernesto Jimnez, Pauxides Martnez, Hctor Flores.
WB Florence, from left to right Eric Hand, Mohamed Kandil,
Tony Rose, Chesley Thomas, Adam Vance, Chris Barker
(instructor), Len Prokopchak, Mike Pierce, Barry Simpson,
Carrie Lai, Armel Moukoula, Kevin Walsh, Cathleen Yanco,
Richard Hawk, Cheryl Cook (instructor).
WB Aberdeen Gordon Ross, Ian Matheson, Roger Berntsen,
Willie Heron, Justin Green, Jenna Tallis, Stan Morgan, Sarah
Malone, Fiona Colquhoun, Paul Young, Kat Spriggs, Lisa
Stephen (instructor), Mike Rousseau (instructor).
WB Dubai Arseniy Iyevlev, Hope Ovie-Thompson, Ahmed
Younes, Nashat Hamed, Tawheed Elwadia, Hani Bakkar,
Sitaram Shirodkar, Ali Iqbal, Geejo Raghavan, Ahmed Khatar,
Ashutosh Patani, Jerry Duncan (instructor), Mark Hughes
(instructor), Max Yeh (instructor).
Currently, there are 30 Black Belts, 85 Orange Belts and 702 White Belts.
During the past quarter, four White Belt Classes were held with 58 people being trained. Classes were
held in Mexico, Aberdeen, Florence, KY and Dubai. An Orange Belt class was held in Edinburgh with ve
people trained.
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CI Belts continued from page 16
Orange Belt Edinburgh participants: Ian Roger, Lisa Stephen
(instructor), Marianne Slater, Carla Vera, Gary Hewitt,
Anastasia Vilarskaya, Paul Ward (instructor).
Mike Rousseau is presented his Orange Belt Certication.
Pictured are Alan McLean VP QHSE, Mike Rousseau Senior
Operations Mgr. Minerals QHSE, Bob Bailey VP Global
Minerals, Kathryn Friar VP Product Delivery, Frosty
Copenhaver Regional Operations Managed Minerals.
Dave Sorter discusses details of polishing butt weld joints. From right
to left are Selva Prakash, assistant plant manager; G Gurusamy,
director of operations; Rick Ball, global manufacturing engineer; Dave
Sorter, president SWECO; the polishing vendor.
Orange Belts
Everyone is smiling about SWECO India
By Dave Sorter, SWECO President
O
ver the years we have
struggled with grow-
ing SWECO India at a
double digit rate. Continuous
Improvement has been slow to
take hold and HSE standards
did not match that of our other
locations.
But several things happened
that have changed everything
at our India facility. First, we
hired Rick Ball to be our Global
Manufacturing Engineer.
Second, Rick spent many
hours training the employ-
ees at SWECO India and soon
adopted them as his fam-
ily. He demanded all QHSE rules be followed and made
Continuous Improvement a way of life. Third, we hired
G. Gurusamy as Director of Operations and he has taken
over right where Rick
left off. The future
of SWECO India is
brighter than ever.
During my recent
visit to SWECO India
I witnessed all the
changes; the progress
made has been tre-
mendous. The HSE and
CI improvements were
remarkable. But the
thing that struck me
the most was some-
thing I have never seen
before at the factory:
Everyone was smiling.
Why? Because everyone realized that the company actu-
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FORECAST 2.0
D
emand Planning is the process of forecasting
our business needs in terms of materials and
resources that are necessary to satisfy our cur-
rent and future customer requirements. It is about more
than just a forecast of these requirements, however. It
is also about the process of planning our procurement
and necessary resources for the medium and long term
to satisfy the forecasted requirements, resulting in the
following benets to our business:
stable and reduced product lead times
increased product availability
increased customer service levels and satisfaction
product cost reduction
increased inventory turns
reduced total logistics cost
reduced total cost to the business
The major business process steps were agreed by the
area representatives and a detailed process map was
developed. This process map was crucial to the next key
step of evaluating and selecting an appropriate Demand
Planning supporting tool. An Oracle-based tool was
identied as having the potential to support our busi-
ness process in late 2011, and after some trials in January
of this year, the tool was selected. The project was then
proposed and approved by senior management and
the implementation project commenced in February. A
core team was created consisting of Mark Stoller, Paul
Ward, Marc Eigner and Chuck Berta to develop the new
application in a collaborative way by asking operations
for their input.
Pilot Testing FORECAST 2.0
The initial implementation of the new Demand
Planning tool, FORECAST 2.0, is being piloted in two
locationsNorth Gulf Coast (NAM) and Germany (EAF).
Pilot testing consists of three main phases, the rst
of which took place in the NGC region, Lafayette, LA,
in May with representatives from Germany actively
participating. Pilot testing is a very involved process,
where the tool is congured to our requirements and
M-I SWACO data is used to develop the process and con-
rm the tool conguration and process steps.
The rst stage of pilot testing was concerned with the
forecast collection and consolidation as well as some
initial correlation to business nancials. It is vitally
important that this tool is simple to use for the people
who will be inputting a forecast and for anyone review-
ing the consolidated forecast to be able to drill to the
more detailed input levels.
Operational feedback was captured during Pilot 1.
For the last 12 months or so, the process has been
supported by a spreadsheet-based toolalbeit with
some sophisticated macros and additional program-
ming added. It was important to begin our process
this way, in order to understand the business process
rst, rather than implement an IT solution with no
predeveloped process. It has long been recognized,
however, that the spreadsheet-based supporting tool
has been too limiting for our business needs.
The Way Forward
A Continuous Improvement (CI) event was held in
September 2011 with operational participants repre-
senting ve of our six business areas involved. The
goal of the event was to understand how each of the
areas was managing their Demand Planning process
and try to determine a common approach and process
that could subsequently be supported by an appropri-
ate Demand Planning tool.
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The rst pilot phase was a resounding success as exhib-
ited by some very positive feedback from the people that
will be actively using this tool going forward:
The tool is easy to use. It is exible and provides the
opportunity to use various worksheets for alternative
views of the forecast data. Henning Soeker, project
engineer, Germany.
The Demand Planning tool will make the process more
efcient for Project Engineers. Jody Richards, project
engineer, NGC.
This tool automates what we are doing today in Excel
and makes the process much easier. Holly McNaughton,
project engineering support manager, NGC.
It is so user-friendly and has the capability to correlate
the forecast to business nancials. I also believe this tool
will help with increasing our forecast accuracy. Audi Paz
De Lara, Demand Planning NAM.
Next Steps
There are two further pilot testing phases with the
next one planned for July. This second phase of pilot test-
ing will be more focused on the inventory management
aspects of the processtaking what is called the Gross
Forecast, which has been collected from the eld forecast
entered and then netting it off against current inventory
and orders to generate a Net Need Forecast. Supply Chain
and Manufacturing will use the net need forecast to help
plan their supply in the medium and long term.
The nal pilot phase will be concerned with the whole
process from forecast entry and consolidation, nancial
correlation and forecast approval, through to netted
demand, projected inventory and supply plans being
developed for the medium and long term to support our
business needs and customer requirements.
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The full rollout of FORECAST 2.0, the Demand Planning
support tool, will begin later this year after the initial
pilot locations are live and fully functioning. The rollout
will be phased across the areas starting later this year
with each area developing a specic training and imple-
mentation plan.
It is expected to be live worldwide within the next
12 months.
Regular articles and webcasts will be delivered to ensure
everyone is updated with the project progress and to
provide the opportunity for feedback and input.
This is a very exciting project with signicant future
benets to the M-I SWACO segment, operations, supply
chain and ultimately ensuring Customer Focused,
Solutions Driven approach. We, as the core team, continue
to look forward with great enthusiasm closely working
with Operations to a joint collaborative demand
planning solution.
Above: Scenario data entry by
Henning Soeker during Pilot 1.
Right: Scenario data entry by
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Above: Participants CRP-I, from left to right, Mark Graham (Inspirage),
Chuck Berta, Ankur Bhatia (Inspirage), Paul Ward, Henning Soeker,
Sambit Misra (Inspirage), Bernie Kolb, Gilbert Huang (Inspirage), Jody
Richards, Marc Eigner, Mark Stoller, Zack Kelsey, Wayne Matlock, Holly
McNaughton, Audi Paz De Lara, Jerry Duncan.
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Up Close
Momentum:
What is the Standard
Equipment Maintenance
Program or STEM program,
and why are we imple-
menting it throughout
M-I SWACO?
Tony Clarke:
STEM is a global
Environmental Solutions
(ES) initiative introducing
a standard maintenance
program for our ES facilities
globally. So, its an initiative
that is for every area within
M-I SWACO; every ES facil-
ity has to comply. We are
introducing standard work
for maintaining our equip-
ment in the eld, whether
its being overhauled or
maintained in a facility,
or whether it is in storage.
So, STEM provides global
standards for ES equipment
maintenance. At the same
time, we are developing our
workshops in such a way
that the maintenance can
be carried out correctly and
prociently rst time every
time no matter where in
the world it is performed.
A standard by which we
ensure all of our shops
have all of the right tools in
the right place at the right
time to enable our mechan-
ics to carry out repair and
maintenance duties in a
professional, consistent
and standard manner. It
will take commitment and
a signicant change in our
culture if we are to do busi-
ness this way.
Eric Heath:
Its laying a foundation for
where we want to be in the
next few years in terms of
predictive maintenance.
We want to evolve from
a maintenance program
thats based on days, weeks
and months to developing
predictive methods that
allow us to maximize value.
A predictive maintenance
program where were
looking at trends with our
hardware and targeting
the maintenance based on
operational hours not just
time intervals.
Thats what I mean by
predictive. Were looking
at when our failures are
occurring, the wear on
units as they return to the
shop, trending the data
from our sensors installed
on the equipment and
using this to determine
how much use we can get
out of these assets before
they need to be serviced
rather than saying I need
to service it because I do it
every thirty days. Do I need
to do it? How many hours
can I run the equipment
before I need overhaul it?
What is my data telling
me?
Its a program where
youre looking at the data
youre collecting and using
that to tailor your plan to
get the most benet.
Momentum:
Is that time period for a
piece of equipment the
same whether its here in
the U.S. or whether its in
Africa or Asia?
E.H.:
No, it will be different
based on the area youre in.
In each issue, Momentum sits down with one of the many experts within the
M-I SWACO organization for a candid look at their area of expertise and how it
impacts not only our company, but the industry as well.
UP CLOSE recently visited with Tony Clarke, Global STEM Implementation
Manager, and Eric Heath, Product Support and Verication Manager, to talk
about the Standard Equipment Maintenance Program (STEM). Initiated in 2011,
the program is focusing on introducing global standards for our maintenance
facilities worldwide. The primary goal is to improve quality assurance levels,
reduce downtime and improve the overall return on our assets. The objective
is to have two Tier 1 ES maintenance workshops in each of the six areas and all
others at Tier 2 by the end of the year.
Left: Tony Clarke, Global STEM Implementation
Manager Right: Eric Heath, Product Support and
Verication Manager
Standard Equipment Maintenance Program providing a global
standard for ES Equipment maintenance
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So, if youre in Africa youre
not going to necessarily
have the same predictive
maintenance schedule as
the North Slope of Alaska.
Your operating environ-
ments are a contributing
factor that must be con-
sidered. Thats why its so
important that the areas
track KPIs so decisions
can be based on data and
the effectiveness of the
program can be accurately
measured. We want to
avoid just having a central-
ized maintenance plan
without any feedback,
without any measurement,
without any tailoring,
without any adapting.
Momentum:
Why is the STEM program
vital to M-I SWACO now?
T.C.:
Were just approaching a
year since we created the
material, developed the
approach and then the
initial rollout across all the
areas. Weve been rolling
out and implementing it
for ten months, so why is it
important? For me its
important because we
currently have 82 ES
facilities globally, and as
Eric said, weve got differ-
ent maintenance practices
and expectations in
different countries, yet we
have standard equipment.
However, our facilities
dont work to the same
standards. For example, we
have different methods of
controlling standard and
critical spares yet we have
standard ES equipment. So
to me its really important
that we get these 82
facilities to maintain the
equipment to the same
standard, the same way,
using the same tools and
techniques. Get
everybody the right
tools to do the
standard repair,
and get all
the facilities
to that same
standard
such that the
equipment ows through
the facility and can be
inspected, overhauled and
tested in an efcient
manner. We need to have
better control of our assets
and a reliable product for
our customers, one which
is t for purpose every
time, no matter where in
the world it is maintained,
one we are proud to release
to a customer.
Right now, weve got
more or less 82 different
standards just because we
have 82 shops. Theres no
one standard or best
practice being shared
across any of our ES
facilities. We have six
specic areas in the
business; each area is doing
the best they possibly can
every day to manage the
assets, but were using
A screenshot of the STEM Tier Progression dashboard.
22 Momentum
different standards and
practices, different levels of
training, different methods
of communication, often
resulting in higher than
necessary maintenance
costs and in some instances
poor quality products,
which, if they fail in service,
affect our business and
customer relationships.
Momentum:
How do you take all of
those 82 ways of doing it,
or best case scenario six
ways of doing it, and make
it one?
T.C.:
Weve introduced a global
standard, with standard-
ized methods of commu-
nication and maintenance
practices across all of our
workshops, from equip-
ment ow through the
workshop, visual com-
munication techniques,
best practices and stan-
dard work. We created a
SharePoint^ site where all
of those best practices are
shared and progress to the
standard is demonstrated.
The site is available for
everybody to access at all
levels in our business. So, it
doesnt matter if youre an
ES facility manager in Baku
or whether youre an ES
maintenance mechanic in
Cabinda. If you have access
to a company computer,
you have access to the
standards.
We created a compre-
hensive two-day training
program, which was a
train-the-trainer program,
whereby we went out to
the areas, trained the train-
ers in an area and then left
them with the material.
But, again, that training
wasnt just classroom
training; we gave them
one days worth of theory
or academic training. Day
two was a hands-on exer-
cise on the ES equipment,
going through the STEM
documentation. This was
done in a safe environment
ensuring that the trainers
didnt just have an appre-
ciation or idea of how it
should be, but rather they
left with a comprehensive
understanding of the pro-
cess and also a method and
approach as to how they
were going to train their
colleagues.
While we have a program
for training people how
to operate equipment, up
until now weve never had
standard work and stan-
dard processes that enable
our people to maintain,
document and control our
maintenance process.
E.H.:
It is important to mention
the overall HSE benet
that a sound maintenance
program provides. Ensuring
our equipment is t for
purpose and identifying
issues at the earliest oppor-
tunity reduces
risk. In addition,
the STEM program
is important to
M-I SWACO for
two more reasons.
First, to make sure
that our equip-
ment is available
for our customers
where they need
it and when they
need it, and the
second is to maxi-
mize our return
on our assets.
Weve seen many
examples of assets
in various stages
of disrepair. Weve
seen 20-year-old
assets in better
condition than
some with only
one year of use.
So, the objective is
to bring a process
that can be measured and
improved to ensure we
deliver products that are
safe and operate reliably.
When we rst started
talking about this, if you
asked how you determine
the cost of ownership of
a particular asset, you
would have received many
different answers. This pro-
gram will help operations
calculate the true cost of
ownership for critical assets
to ensure we maximize our
returns.
T.C.:
We talk a lot about asset
utilization. Weve got new
U
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s
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The STEM team won a Schlumberger award for their video explaining what the STEM program is all about. From left to
right are Joe Bacho, M-I SWACO president; Eric Heath; Brian Hunter, VP of ES Drilling; Tony Clarke; David Paterson, VP of
Marketing and Technologies.
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equipment in certain parts
of the world where theyre
doing minimal mainte-
nance. Weve got other
parts of the world where
weve got older equipment
and theyre really invested
in the maintenance and
looking after that equip-
ment. Facilities are appre-
hensive to transfer assets
because they feel theyre
going to be giving away
a lot of hard effort, time
and money which theyve
invested in that piece of
equipment. Yet, they might
get back in return a pile of
junk. Im a bit strong, but
theres that fear and idea
that they will not receive
assets maintained to the
same standards as they are
using in their facility. So
they hang on to underuti-
lized equipment when we
could transfer those assets
to other parts of the world
to meet business demands.
Theres a bigger picture:
We must improve our
utilization and get better at
maintaining and transfer-
ring our assets to meet our
customers needs and at the
same time managing our
costs in an effective man-
ner and truly understand-
ing our asset utilization.
Momentum:
What was the basic
rollout process for getting
the program out to the
82 ES shops?
T.C.:
Both Eric and I looked at
how previous initiatives
have been rolled out to the
business. Some programs
are introduced by saying,
Heres a new process;
just go out and do it, and
people are expected to
understand, perceive it,
and implement it without
any further guidance. We
approached the end-users
of this program in Global
Operations and determined
how best to roll out the
material. Operations was
involved in this process
from reviewing the mainte-
nance material to provid-
ing input and feedback on
how to best communicate
every level could access the
standard documentation
and the global metrics.
One key to the SharePoint
site is that all informa-
tion is transparent. So, for
example, you look on North
America, you see a photo-
graph of Wynn Fontenot,
then you see a photograph
of Wynns three champions:
Mike Huval, James Gharst,
and Tim Richardson. Then
you see all of his 18 shops,
and you see the photograph
of all of the ES managers,
those ops managers, and
you see their performance,
and their KPIs to the
program. But they can all
see Asia and every aspect
of our facilities there, and
they can all compare each
other to the same stan-
dards. Everybody knows
who is accountable for each
shop, at each level, in each
area. Its one program with
100 percent visibility, and
100 percent accountability.
E.H.:
One of the reasons we
were able to roll it out so
quickly and effectively is
that we used the concept of
train-the-trainer. We could
provide the training at a
shop in a particular area
and bring in all the train-
ers from other facilities
allowing them to go back to
their location and train the
operators and mechanics in
the STEM process.
Momentum:
What are some of your
goals for 2012 and 2013?
T.C.:
When we rst put it out,
the goal was every facil-
ity in 2011 had to be Tier II.
We achieved just under 40
percent by the end of 2011.
So we sat down and with
our management team,
David Patterson and Brian
Hunter, we looked at what
would be required for 2012.
We determined that every
area had to have two major
facilities at Tier I by the end
of 2012. All other facilities
in those areas had to be
Tier II by the end of 2012
with all personnel trained
in the STEM program. We
dened a facility as any
location that overhauls and
maintains ES equipment
for a customer.
By default, the target
for 2013 is to have every
facility at Tier I. If you are
already a Tier I facility then
you have to maintain that
standard. So, its sustaining
the program.
Momentum:
How are you measuring
that standard for the
workshops?
E.H.:
We have four tier levels
to measure progress at
an ES facility from a basic
Tier IV meeting the PPE,
tooling and safety require-
ments up to the Tier I
facility thats demonstrat-
ing full compliance with
the STEM Program and KPI
reporting. Initially, it is an
audit performed by the ES
Operations Manager at the
facility in conjunction with
the area champion up to
and including Tier II. We
provided a tier progression
template following the
completion of the initial
audit. The tier progression
plan allowed the facilities
to identify the resources,
actions and timeframe
Theres been a
huge cultural shift,
at least in terms
of the way people
are thinking about
maintenance
and the benets
associated with
good practices.
Eric Heath, Product Support and
Verication Manager
the program throughout
their local workforce. This
allowed us to develop the
best approach for rolling
out this initiative with the
least disruption to their
existing business.
It wasnt just developing
the STEM material and put-
ting that out to everybody,
but it was putting together
the entire program. That
involved creating a video
to communicate what
the program is about. The
video can be found on the
Schlumberger BlueTube site
(http://bluetube.slb.com)
by typing in STEM under
the search criteria. It also
involved putting together
a SharePoint site (http://
gbu.web.miswaco.com/
stem) where everybody at
24 Momentum 24 Momentum
required to progress to
subsequent tier levels. The
Tier I compliance audit is
carried out by a member of
the Corporate STEM team
when the local facility
manager and area cham-
pion can demonstrate
compliance at all levels.
Maintenance is an invest-
ment and we expect a
return on that investment.
Theres been a huge cultural
shift, at least in terms of the
way people are thinking
about maintenance and the
benets associated with
good practices. Are there
some who have embraced
it more than others? Thats
obvious from the metrics.
You can log onto the STEM
SharePoint site and see who
has done the training and
who is making progress in
tier advancement. Are there
some behind? Sure, but
theyre making progress;
they have a little bit more
to do, but theyre making
progress.
Momentum:
Are you seeing any signi-
cant cost savings yet?
T.C.:
Currently, its dif-
cult to quantify
until we have all
areas entering
KPI data. Were
certainly seeing
better utilization
gures. We keep hear-
ing through the business
and from the business
line managers that utiliza-
tion numbers are getting
better. We keep hearing
from our ops personnel
that maintenance offshore
is getting better; mainte-
nance in the shop is better.
We get feedback such as,
This is the best thing
weve ever done, and so
while we might not yet
see the actual nancial
numbers and reports, all
the indicators are that we
are doing the right thing
and its already reaping the
benets.
E.H.:
We have identied some
assets that are no longer
nancially viable and those
have been removed from
the eet. Service calls have
been reduced in many
locations, and we are now
getting metrics on equip-
ment usage that we have
never been able to track on
a global scale.
Momentum:
Will the STEM program
be rolled out for other
M-I SWACO equipment?
T.C.:
We rolled out the program
initially using centrifuges
as the product to launch
the program. This program
has value for all critical
M-I SWACO assets used
in the business. Properly
maintaining our equip-
ment is a sound practice
and we are rolling these
standards out to other busi-
ness lines such as Pressure
Control, CLEANCUT

cut-
tings collection system,
ltration, Minerals, liquid
mud plants, etc.
So, although were rolling
this out with one product
line, we want to extend
this to all of our critical
equipment. Bob Bailey, vice
president of Minerals, has
adopted STEM one hundred
percent and hes rolled it
out across every one of his
mines and grinding plants
in Minerals. So theyre
using the same standards
to comply. Theyre report-
ing to the same databases,
doing the same monthly
reports, doing the same
communications. Theyve
not said, Were different,
were Minerals. Well do
some things similar, and
only take on the parts we
like. Theyve made it t
their business.
E.H.:
Back in January of 2011
Steve Orr challenged us to
change the culture with
STEM, and thats always
been on the forefront of
my mindchanging the
culture, not just putting out
a tool, not just putting out
some sort of spreadsheet
or template. Its truly about
the culture and as a com-
pany we are starting to see
the change.
^ SharePoint is a mark of the
Microsoft Corp.
We determined
that every area had
to have two major
facilities at Tier I
|, ||e era al !1!.
All other facilities
in those areas had
to be Tier II by
||e era al !1!
with all personnel
trained in the
STEM program.
Tony Clarke, Global STEM
Implementation Manager
Trade Shows and Conferences 25
Trade Shows and Conferences
Expomin Chile, April 913
Chile is one of the most important mining countries in
the world, responsible for over 30% of worldwide
copper production and 45% of the worlds lithium
production.
Expomin Chile is
the largest mining
trade show in Latin
America and one of
the biggest in the
world. This year it
took place from
April 913 in
Santiago, Chile,
with 60,000
visitors.
The M-I SWACO
HDD, Mining & Waterwell division was there showing
our uids and the CD-250

centrifuge, which received

great interest and good business opportunities.
ENVIROTHERM NT wins another award at OTC
The ENVIROTHERM NT

environmentally friendly
drilling uid won the Harts E&P magazines Drilling
Fluid Award at this years OTC show in Houston, TX.
On hand to accept the award were then M-I SWACO
President Steve Orr, VP Drilling Fluids Lee Conn and
VP R&E Jim Bruton. The uid also won the 2011 World
Oil Award.
The show
was a major
success for
M-I SWACO,
with an
estimated 300
people
visiting the
booth over the
three and a
half days of
the show,
garnering many new contacts and renewal of current
client contact information. Kathy Dunderdale, premier of
Newfoundland, Canada, visited the booth and spoke with
Steve Orr. OTC 2012 had the largest attendance of any
show since the early 1980s with over 80,000 attending.
Q2 2012 Shows
March 48, PDAC (HDD with Schlumberger), Toronto
March 68, IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, San Diego,
CA
March 1215, NACE Corrosion 2012, Salt Lake City, UT
March 1821, Oileld Chemistry Symposium, Geilo,
Norway
March 1923, Western NAM Regional Meeting,
Bakerseld, CA
March 2021, MPD & UBD, Milan, Italy
March 2729, SPE Intelligent Energy, The Netherlands
March 2728, ICoTA, The Woodlands, TX
March 2729, Schlumberger NT Seminar, Rio de Janeiro
March 2829, Schlumberger Customer Event, Aberdeen
April 913, Expomin (HDD), Chile
April 1011, AADE Annual Drilling Fluids Conference,
Houston, TX
April 18, SPE Bergen, Norway
April 19, ES Expo, North Course, Houston, TX
April 3May 3, OTC, Houston, TX
May 2324, Critical Issues, Europe, Bucharest

Q3 2012 Shows
June 58, No-Dig, Moscow (HDD)
June 2529, NEFTEGAZ, Moscow
August 1516, Deepwater Symposium, New Orleans, LA
August 2223, ShaleEnergy Technical Conference,
Houston, TX
August 2831, ONS, Stavanger, Norway
Lee Conn, Steve Orr and Jim Bruton accept the Harts E&P
magazines Drilling Fluid Award.
The OTC booth featured the latest offerings
from M-I SWACO.
Carla Salomo, Reid Dixon, Carlos
Bianconi, Troy Giesler, Gustavo Vargas,
David Flores and Juan Veliz, operation
manager in Chile.
M-I SWACO also showed off its newest technologies
including the Intelligent Fluids Monitoring

(IMF)
System, MD-3

shale shaker, MONGOOSE

PRO shaker,
CD-500 HV Slim-line centrifuge, LPAC consoles, WELL
COMMANDER

, WELL SCAVENGER

and MULTIBACK

tools and much more.
26 Momentum
QHSE
A problem with slop water? We can nd a solution for you!
By Diana Andrade and Njideka Chima-Amaeshi
A
common enquiry these
days is how to handle
drainage systems off-
shore and deal with slop water.
The answer can be simple: using
proper clean-up and segregation
practices while drilling to reduce
the volume of contaminated
water, contaminated interfaces
or pills.
However, with regulations
limiting the criteria of contami-
nants that can be discharged
overboard, a more comprehen-
sive solution may be required.
The use of M-I SWACO technolo-
gies like the MULTI-Phase Clarier

(MPC) can allow the

operator an efcient and quick separation of dense phase,
free oil and water. Also, a more advanced solution is the use
of the Envirounit

system, a compact unit that combines

chemical and mechanical separation for a cleaner water
efuent and recovery of a reusable phase for the active sys-
tem. It allows operators to discharge water in compliance
with regulations in areas like North Sea.
Whatever the discharge regulations are, the Advanced
Waste Management department is equipped to nd cus-
tomers the best technical/economical solution through site
surveys, engineering design and treatability studies for any
slop water efuent.
With the support of the Aberdeen Research and
Technology Centre (ARTC) in
Aberdeen, ES Advanced Water
Management offers laboratory
services to the eld from the ARTC
facility to conduct comprehensive
slop water characterization, treat-
ability and evaluation of clean
efuents to verify compliance
for discharge.
The ES Slop Water Treatment labo-
ratory has become fully functional
since the second quarter of 2011. It
is a slop water quality/treatment
lab that provides support to all
Envirounit initiatives and projects
in the area of pilot and treatability
tests for any slop water from the eld. Some of our latest
projects include slop water studies for Brazil, and character-
ization and treatability studies for UK.
Among other contaminants the ES Slop Water laboratory
can test for heavy metals, organics, ammonium, total
petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), total oil and grease (TOG),
chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen
demand (BOD5).
A wide range of chemistries are also available for slop
water separation, emulsion breaking, water occulation and
clarication.
For more details or to request support, please contact
Frank Mueller, business line manager, or Joaquim Monteiro
and Njideka Chima-Amaeshi, technical services engineers.
Joaquim Monteiro, left, and Njideka Chima-Amaeshi,
right, perform lab testing in the Advanced Water
Management lab in Aberdeen.
Green Catch for keen observation
Adedayo Ojo, project specialist aboard the Hibernia platform, recently
observed a harness placed on top of an electrical panel. He removed the
harness from the electrical panel and placed it on a hanger in a nearby
storage area to prevent a build-up of static energy. Adedayo reiterated
the importance of proper storage of equipment and materials.
Adedayo was awarded with a Hibernia Green Catch for his attention
to detail and his quick response to a potential hazard.
Adedayo (right) receives his award from EMDC
Drilling Supervisor Tim Murphy.
QHSE 27
First Production Waste Management job in Brazil
deemed a success
By Jaci Seram, ES Technical Service Engineer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A
pilot project to treat sediment in a Petrobrs ren-
ery pond in Brazil applied proven oileld dewater-
ing technology for the handling and treatment of
the sludge in the nal decantation pond. The technology
used has proven that it can also be applied to the primary
decantation ponds as well as for reneries.
Along with executing a successful project, it was also a
platform for M-I SWACO to introduce and develop this type
of project as a waste management business line in Brazil,
with the focus on the reduction and handling of production
waste associated with reneries.
Gabriel Passos Renery REGAP is located in Betim,
Minas Gerais, Brazil. The targeted sludge to be treated was
contained in the nal decantation ponds
located within the renery. The dened area
for the pilot project was approximately one-
third of the nal decantation pond.
The extent of the project area was
1.79 acres (7,235 m2) and its perimeter 1,115 ft
(340 m). The length of the project area is
approximately 382 ft (118 m) long and on
average, the width of the area is 197 ft (60 m).
The dewatering technology that was
applied has been broadly used for control-
ling solids and reduction of waste during
drilling operations worldwide. In Brazil, the use of centri-
fuges for the separation of sludge coming from this type of
pond is common; however, the poor quality of service and
equipment and lack of applicable technology has created
an end result that has not proven to be cost-effective to
the clients.
Therefore, the pilot project was intended to demonstrate
to the client the improvements and cost-effective benets
that the M-I SWACO system can provide and the techno-
logical advances that have been made in handling this sort
of waste.
Before the implementation of the project, the area of the
pond to be treated contained suspended solids, high
viscosity emulsion and settled solids.
The sludges characterization showed a maximum
percentage of 12% solids and an average concentration in
the project area of 4% solids and 4% oil. Despite the low
percentage of hydrocarbons present in the pond, the visual
aspect of the lagoon was that of large quantities oil.
Within the period of 9 months, the use of the M-I SWACO
system for the treatment of 60,050 bbl (10,500 m
3
) of
The lagoon before treatment.
From left to right are Josifbio de Medeiros, ES eld supervisor;
Ubiratam Ribeiro, ES operator; Davi Coutinho, ES operator; Jaci
Seram, ES technical service engineer; Jaime Ramos, ES
operations supervisor; Nilson Oliveira, ES operator; Cludia
Melo, QHSE coordinator.
The lagoon was visually improved by the
treatment.
sludge has shown outstanding visual results.
To date, 622 tons of solids have been removed by the
M-I SWACO system. As the concentration of suspended
solids varied from zone to zone, the percentage of solids
removed by the system per period varied according to the
area being dredged. The water returned to the pit after
treatment complied with all the current legislation standards.
The visual aspect of the pond has been completely
changed and has evident visual improvement.
The project success has been noted by the service assess-
ment made by the customer, and constant visits by man-
agers from other units of Petrobrs to the REGAP project
to observe the achieved results. The success of this waste
management project has led to an agreement between the
customer and M-I SWACO to extend the project contract for
another year.
Petrobrs has 11 reneries in Brazil, and the PWM market
potential in Brazil to clean decantation ponds is around
$20 million dollar per year. Therefore the pilot project has
proved that there is a great opportunity to grow the PWM
business in Brazil.
28 Momentum
A
s of midnight Apr. 1, the M-I SWACO Hibernia
team attained yet another incredible mile-
stone of 5,000 LTI Free days or nearly 13.7 LTI
Free years.
We are extremely proud of this stellar perfor-
mance, said Todd Reid, regional manager for Eastern
Canada. Our personnel continue to be extremely
dedicated to the Nobody Gets Hurt philosophy and
to all of the safety procedures/protocols delivered by
M-I SWACO and ExxonMobil. During this 5,000 day
feat, the M-I SWACO Hibernia team has also recorded
4207 RI Free days, another signicant achievement.
During the rst decade of this milestone, two
drill rigs were being operated by Hibernia, with
M-I SWACO having 21 full-time persons associated
with the project (20 offshore). After moving to a one
rig operation, our personnel working on the platform
dropped from 21 to 17 full-timers (16 offshore).
The M-I SWACO team has been great contributors
to our success at Hibernia as we continue along the
journey together to Nobody Gets Hurt, said
ExxonMobil Drilling Manager Jim Young. This is a
great accomplishment and one you should rightly be
proud of. Your team members have been safety
leaders and are strong contributors to our STOP
program goal of a minimum of one card/person/day.
This is another example to show that we can do our
work safely and efciently and can work without lost
time or recordable incidents and can achieve our
vision of having no one hurt at all.
Eastern Canada sets a new record for safety
Q
H
S
E
Based on operational changes, faster drill rates and
enhancements in technology (most recent years),
M-I SWACO personnel currently sits at 17 full time and
16 part-time personnel. This actually added to the total
number of annual hours worked, making this milestone
even more impressive. Part-time personnel are associated
with a SWARF unit, a PFMS unit and additional CRI
requirements based on much faster drill rates.
The President of Hibernia, Meg ONeill, passed on her
congratulations to Reid in an email, calling the milestone,
a great accomplishment.
I truly believe, she said, that we can operate our
business in a manner where Nobody Gets Hurt.
Delivering this result, however, is very challenging and
requires the hearts and minds of every worker to be fully
committed to the goal every single day. The M-I SWACO
safety accomplishments indicate strong leadership,
strong processes and tools, and the commitment of every
member of the team to prioritize their safety and the
safety of their work-mates in every task they undertake.
Congratulations on achieving this milestone.
In a letter to then M-I SWACO President Steve Orr, then
VP of NAM Joe Bacho called Reids team one that walks
the talk.
Last year, the M-I SWACO Hibernia/Eastern Canada team
won a Silver Medal in the Performed by Schlumberger
contest and also received a Presidents Award for reaching
4,500 LTI Free days.
Bernard Pimentel selected as the Most Dedicated to Safety for April
Petro Vietnam Drilling III (PVD III) recently recognized M-I SWACO
Solids Control Engineer Bernard D. Pimentel for his dedication to
the rigs safety program. His participation and submission to daily
observation card were noted as quality cards and two of his
observation cards were chosen to award him the most dedicated
personnel for April.
The rig has achieved 901 days without LTI as of Apr. 30 working
for Vietsovpetro, one of the biggest operators in Vietnam oil and
gas, and we acknowledge working with a third-party contractor
like Bernard who supports our safety campaign, said the STC of
the rig.
It was the rst award this year given to a third-party contractors
observation card. Every month Rig PVD III selects and nominates
3 awards categoryPROACTIVE, VIGILANT and DEDICATED.
Bernard was already featured last January 2012, nominated for the Leading by Example and Being a Good
Seadrill Ambassador while working at the rig in offshore China. This repeated success reects the
Schlumberger adherence to Global QHSE policy.
Blaine Oim, left, of the PVD III congratulates and
awards a cash reward to Bernard Pimentel.
I
n April, M-I Pakistan proudly celebrated 10 years with-
out any Lost Time Incident (LTI). Drilling team of UEP
(previously BP Pakistan), along with the managers of rig
contractors, were invited to join the event in celebration of
this milestone. The event was organized at The Royal Rodale
Club in Karachi.
Area Operations Manager M.R. Monem welcomed the
guests and thanked them for their presence at the
event, and marked this as a prodigious achievement for
M-I Pakistan and also acknowledged the complete support
and teamwork of UEP and the contractors. He also high-
lighted the importance and effort to ensure a safe work
environment with continual stress on regular QHSE by
training engineers. He ended his note by appreciating the
ne teamwork, positive attitude and remarkable commit-
ment exhibited by all personnel.
Then Anas Hammad, QHSE manager, shared some
insights on our inspiring QHSE record, the new safety
systems being introduced as part of Schlumberger and their
records. Shields along with M-I SWACO t-shirts were
presented to the guests.
It is not just 10 years with no LTI
but 10 years with no Non Productive
Time (NPT) and this should also be
celebrated, Suhail Yusuf, Wells
Operations team leader for UEP, said.
At the end, Tariq Sheikh, senior
work over and completion engineer
for UEP, gave a closing speech,
giving appreciation for the efforts
M-I Pakistan put in for QHSE, which
more clearly added to our success
with UEP.
After photographs were taken,
a scrumptious high tea was served,
and everyone moved downstairs
and thoroughly enjoyed a bowling
session.
M-I Pakistan celebrates 10 years with no LTI
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Left to right are M.R. Monem, Area Operations Manager, presenting the
10 Years Without LTI shield to Suhail Yusuf, Head of Drilling &
Completions, UEP.
Above, left to right, are S.M. Amir, project engineer, M-I Pakistan; Ahsan Ehsan, ES/PT coordinator,
M-I Pakistan; Shaheen Akhtar, drilling uids engineer, M-I Pakistan; Zia H. Shah, area engineer,
Islamabad, M-I Pakistan; Arshad Bashir, manager drilling, UEP; M.R. Monem, area operations
manager, M-I Pakistan; Syed Ali Karim, drilling engineer, UEP; Syed Suhail Yusuf, head of Drilling
& Completions, UEP; Friedrich Mlder, manager operations, Deutag; Raq Anjum, country
manager, Atlantic; Weldemer Kindler, manager operations, Cracow; Sakina Isfahany, executive
secretary, UEP; Abid Ali, drilling engineer, UEP; Tariq Sheikh, manager completions, UEP; Anas
Hammad, QHSE manager, M-I Pakistan; Mohammed Inayatullah Sharif, area engineer, Karachi,
M-I Pakistan; Fazal Subhan, drilling uids engineer, M-I Pakistan.
30 Momentum
E
NI Norge will be able to meet produced water
goals by a clear margin thanks to specially
designed equipment from M-I SWACO.
Late last year, the team at the M-I SWACO Produced
Water and Sand Management (PWSM) test center in
Porsgrunn, Norway, worked hard to win the contract to
deliver a produced water hydrocyclone and otation
unit for the ENI Norge Goliat eld in the Barents Sea.
The scope of work covered an EPCON

Compact
Flotation Unit (CFU) skid with two 10 in CFUs and an
EPCON degasser. It also included a CYCLOTECH

hydrocyclone skid with three 40 in. vessels and two
18 in. vessels.
The produced water system collects
and treats produced water from the
production separators and coalescers
and treats it in several stages to reduce
the oil in water (OIW) content, said
PWSM Project Engineering Manager
Anne Cathrine Heggem.
Government regulations state that
water to be reinjected or discharged to
sea can have a maximum residual oil
content of 30 ppm. ENI Norge set their
own goal for the Goliat FPSO to be less
than 10 ppm.
Our complete produced water
separation process, with hydrocyclones,
two-stage EPCON CFU and a degassing
vessel with oil skimming capabilities,
has meant that ENI Norge can achieve
their goal of reducing the OIW from
1,000 ppm down to a mere 10 ppm,
Goliats discharges to run clean thanks to PWSM
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Heggem continued. They plan to reinject at least 95% of
the produced water into the reservoir.
Operations in this Barents Sea eld will be subject to
harsh weather conditions. The equipment was designed
for a temperature range from -4 to 77 F (-20 to +25 C).
We believe we won the work due to our experience
with arctic projects, said Heggem. Winterization of
process equipment has become the norm for many of our
North Sea clients. In addition, M-I SWACO has broad
experience with NORSOK (standards developed by the
Norwegian petroleum industry) specied projects, and
very reliable engineering partners.
The nal check: Anne Cathrine Heggem and Espen Taraldsen check the nal
details before the EPCON degasser is prepared for shipment.
The EPCON CFU Skid destined for the Goliat eld. Anne Cathrine Heggem and Karsten Rabe inspect
the work done by the fabricator on the CYCLOTECH
hydrocyclone skid.
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ESSO and the Transocean Celtic Sea Drill Team thank M-I SWACO crew
for making a difference
DFS III Marlon Harris (left) observed an unlabeled
drum in the sack room with an unknown substance,
possibly hazardous if spilled. He located the respon-
sible person and the drum was labeled so that
everyone could easily identify what was inside. Also
pictured, former M-I SWACO employee Chuck Donner.
Chevron Drill Site Manager Tracy Love presents DFS II
Ben Kimball (right) and M-I SWACO with the One Year
Without a Day Away From Work award in Bangladesh.
DFS III Mark Chapoton (left), on the Atwood Hunter in
Equatorial Guinea, receives a Focus Card of the Week
award from Atwood Oceanic STC Darian Smith. Mark
noticed that two shakers had broken ground wires. He
discussed the situation with the ET and got an agree-
ment that they would be xed asap. Atwoods behavior-
based Focus Plus system requires the observer to obtain
an agreement with a responsible person that remedies
the unsafe situation.
Ben Kimball performs a mud check on Rig 801 in
Bangladesh.
ETS II Rudy Hernandez (right) observed a person trying
to remove an air hose without checking to see if there
was still pressure on the line. Rudy stopped the job
and opened one of the valves to bleed off the pressure.
The rig hand agreed to always check if there is still
pressure on the line before disconnecting a hose.
32 Momentum
STEM program improves
entire Scott, LA workshop
W
hen the Standard Equipment Maintenance
(STEM) program was initiated in 2011, it was
geared toward homogenizing the routine main-
tenance program for M-I SWACO centrifuges on rigs and
M-I SWACO workshops worldwide.
Brian Hunter, VP of Environmental Solutions and driver
behind the STEM program, set the goal for ES to have two
ES workshops in each area at Tier 1 and all others within
that area to Tier 2 by the end of 2012. The ES workshop in
Scott, LA, is pushing hard to meet their goal of completing
Tier 1 requirements by July 1. Chad Ardoin, US Offshore area
manager, cited only a few checklist items remaining to
complete the task.
One of those, said Ardoin, is to get our data from the
STEM worksheets entered into the
database; and thats just a matter of
getting familiar with the system and
getting the process started.
Another task is to continue training
their people. So far, the Scott work-
shop has run about 90 people
through the one-day STEM training
program. This put them near 100%
but they have a number of new hands
who will also be getting the training.
The training consists of four hours
of classroom instruction followed by
hands-on training on the equipment.
The trainers work through each step
provided in the STEM manuals, showing the students the
precise process for checking and repairing each part of the
centrifuge. Then the students, often split into two groups
of ve or so, each have the opportunity to perform each
step themselves.
The STEM training is great, said Jeff Clement, head
mechanic. It gives the guys a second review on the
M-I SWACO centrifuge, which is especially good for the
new hands who dont have oileld experience.
Beyond giving additional resources and processes for
tracking maintenance of the centrifuges, the STEM pro-
gram has given the workshop the motivation and the tools
to organize their entire back lot. Previously, it was a space
where equipment was dumped until it was needed. Then,
they wandered around until they found what they needed
and pulled it out to be cleaned up or repaired.
We removed over $30,000 worth of scrap, said Ardoin.
The entire back lot is now well
organized, with related equipment
carefully organized together. They still
use the RED/GREEN tag system from
the ISO 9001 process for quick status
checks, but see the STEM process as a
much better system for tracking inven-
tory and maintenance.
Its what we should have been doing
all along, said Kevin LaCombe, senior business line ops
manager. The ISO 9001 program was a good start, but the
STEM program takes it to a new level.
The STEM program also extends to the rigs servicedd by
the Scott workshop. Currently, the workshop services
between six and 10 land rigs in Southern Louisiana and up
to 35 offshore rigs, both shelf and deepwater. William
Gallessero, a senior service tech on the Chevron operated
drillship Deep Seas, manages the STEM program on board
with his alternate, Jeff Rominsky.
The STEM program enables us to track the maintenance
of our equipment, said Gallessero. When there is down-
time, like when they are tripping pipe, we can run the
checklists and maintain the equipment. It means less
downtime during critical times.
Gallessero said that the program means stocking more
parts but it also means greater savings in the long run
From left to right are Terry Dejean, Jeff
Rominsky, William Gallassero, Terrence
Daniels, Levi Winans. Not pictured are
Adrien Coleman, Joshua Brattin, Miles
Dombroski.
From left to right are Kevin Lacombe, senior
business development manager; Chad Ardoin,
senior area manager; and Chad Polk, business
development manager.
Tech Roll Call
Tech Roll Call 33
because if a centrifuge breaks down, the M-I SWACO ES
crews on board are better trained to x the problem. There
is less need to y a mechanic out to the rig to make the
repair. This all equals less downtime and less expense.
Ardoin called the timing of the STEM program perfect.
I dont know how much management knew about our
situation with SEMS or if it was just timing, but several
companies started asking that their service companies
provide proof of some kind of organized maintenance
program for their equipment. We were one of the fortunate
ones who had something in place.
Customers like BP and Chevron rolled out their own
safety and maintenance programs and new regulations
in the Gulf of Mexico will potentially make the service
company liable for issues with their own equipment, so the
STEM program is a made-for-purpose system that puts
M-I SWACO ahead of many competitors in meeting
customer and regulatory demand.
The management team is eager to get the STEM pro-
gram rolled out for other equipment, despite initial
trepidation about the additional work. They recognize the
importance and necessity that the STEM process offers
they are condent that, like the STEM program for the
centrifuges, the program will enable them to better track
equipment and maintenance procedures and practices.
We just received the STEM Preliminary Check List
for the shakers, said LaCombe. We are reviewing the
check list, but are eager to get the system in place for
these shakers.
Proper uid design
and execution in the
eld outperformed
customer expecta-
tions. Those results
provided signicant
cost savings to the
customer while
improving margins
your classic win-win.
Continued from page 32
FLOPRO NT RDF, D-STROYER additive, BREAKDOWN HD
breaker improve production offshore Abu Dhabi
T
he Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), a
joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil
Company, ExxonMobil and Japan Oil Development
Company Ltd., expects to save billions of dollars by build-
ing articial islands instead of steel platforms for their
drilling campaign offshore Abu Dhabi. In order to estab-
lish the drilling feasibility and the productivity of their
completions, a series of pilot wells were drilled.
Each well was completed open-hole with a preperforated
liner or Inow Control Device (ICDs) and swellable packer
in a carbonate reservoir. The ability to run the liner to the
bottom of the long lateral reservoir section and removal of
the lter cake were of primary concern to the operator.
Through extensive lab tests in Houston to select an opti-
mum Reservoir Drill-in Fluid (RDF) and an effective breaker
system, the FloPro

NT RDF and the D-STROYER

internal
lter cake breaker were selected as the RDF;
SAFE-LUBE

lubricant was included to ensure that the drill-

ing assembly would reach the 20,000-ft ( 6,000 m) tar-
get depth and the liner could be run all the way to bottom.
The BREAKDOWN

HD breaker system was designed for a

four-day delay to allow running the completions to bottom.
Compatibility tests were run to ensure no change to uid
parameters and best ow-back results.
The rst two wells were drilled successfully, liners were
run to bottom and the D-STROYER breaker was activated by
a slightly acidic completion uid. Acid stimulation was per-
formed on the rst well to improve the initial production
rate that was already near the expected target rate. No
acid was required for the second well as its performance
exceeded the expected produc-
tion rates.
Based on concurrent labora-
tory development, the further
wells utilized a more com-
prehensive lter cake breaker
chelant system, BREAKDOWN
HD breaker. Results of this well
not only exceeded production
expectations without acid
stimulation, but is the best
producing well in the eld by a
signicant margin.
Proper uid design and exe-
cution in the eld outperformed
customer expectations. Those
results provided signicant
cost savings to the customer
while improving marginsyour classic win-win. Proper
planning, lessons-learned reviews and on-site execution
are required to overcome the challenges of managing the
added complexity of the chemistry of the lter cake breaker
system and its performance. The customized reservoir drill-
ing uid and the breaker technology were successfully used
to minimize the formation damage, remove mud lter cake
and reduce the need for clean-up acid stimulations.
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to excellence
W
hen the STEM program
rolled out in Q3 2011, the
ES operations in Latin
America (LAM) saw the opportunity
to improve not only the equipment
maintenance but to provide the
knowledge long expected by our
people regarding operations and
systems.
The centrifuge roll out in Colombia
and Brazil gave us the opportunity
to gather representatives from every
country in LAM to share experiences
and learn about the STEM procedures.
These are much more comprehensive
than the previous maintenance per-
formed by our shops.
At the time of the training it
became clear to all of us that we were
moving into a full upgrade concern-
ing the way we handle and maintain
our equipment. The amount of detail
in the training, giving specics for
shop, rig and yard maintenance,
covering daily, weekly, monthly, etc.,
showed how comprehensive the
maintenance would be and how we
needed to set a new standard for our
operations.
Along with the STEM rollout for the
centrifuges, the tier progression plan
gave us a concrete opportunity to set
goals for our shops, achieve excellence
in services and improve control in our
operations.
Latin America has some historic
issues like the lack of manuals and
procedures in the local languages and
also the customs requirements that
usually complicate the resources that
we are able to deploy. When the train-
ing occurred in Mosquera, Colombia
and Maca, Brazil, we received the
information in Spanish and Portuguese, enabling us to
quickly disseminate the knowledge within LAM.
LAM had 52 multipliers trained by Houston in these
two days and we decided to set a tough goal to train over
75% of our people. When we put LAM numbers together
we saw that our population was of over 950 employees,
meaning that our goal sounded even more challenging.
Our nal numbers for people trained in
2011 was 89% of our population, showing
how much the initiative means to LAM.
Achieving Tier 2 status was set
as a high objective for all countries
even though the difculties would be
tremendous.
In order to have a better understanding
of each countrys needs, we set monthly
self-audits where we could see the coun-
tries progressing, what requirements
were complicated and how we could
support them.
The level of commitment from all
of our ES staff and management to the
STEM program has been outstanding,
said John Oliver, VP for LAM and STEM
sponsor, dening his vision for the region.
The effort to train over 850 people was
gargantuan, but will pay off handsomely
in terms of service quality and customer
satisfaction. Furthermore, we intend to
pull out all of the stops and have 100% of
our shops certied to Tier 1 status by the
end of this year. We are also working hard
on a plan to create Maintenance Centers
of Excellence in each country, where we
will consolidate maintenance as much as
makes good business sense.
The program continues in 2012 with
the external audits being performed by
Felipe Liporace, ES Operations Support
for LAM, visiting Argentina, Colombia,
Ecuador and Brazil between January and
February and with scheduled visits to
Peru and Bolivia in March and Venezuela
and Trinidad in April.
During the external audits we were
able to personally check the progression
by each country and give proper guid-
ance to them to achieve Tier 2 by the end
of Q1 2012.
Achieving excellence through Tier 1 has
become an obsession for the region. This is an opportu-
nity to be seen as the example to our customers on how
to handle equipment and to deliver high value services.
Neuqun, Argentina
Cat, Brazil
Maca, Brazil
Mosquera, Colombia
Coca, Ecuador
Tech Roll Call 35
Specialized Tools provides the solution for post-TCP, sump packer clean-up
The major operator in Brunei had a two-fold requirement: clean-up dur-
ing deburring operations in the 7-in. interval and carry out a targeted
clean-up above a multi-zone sump packer. As the packer was run without
a plug, cleaning this area to an exceptionally high standard was critical to
ensure the success of future operations.
For the post-TCP clean-up run, the assembly was run-in-hole (RIH)
and deburring was completed successfully utilizing the RIDGE BACK

BURR MILL. Nearly 5 lb (2.2 kg) of assorted debris and metal nes was
recovered on surface. For the critical sump packer clean-up, M-I SWACO
Specialized Tools specially designed a uted muleshoe to allow the WELL
SCAVENGER

tool to be landed out on the sump packer without interrupt-

ing its reverse ow or entering the ID of the packer. One debris chamber
was utilized during this run and approximately 14 lb (6.3 kg) of assorted
debris and metal nes was recovered.
Debris from the clean-up run.
Top: The Woodside and M-I SWACO teams
enjoy a baseball game. Bottom: The sixth-
generation drillship, DDKG2.
Sixth-generation drillship drills rst exploration well in South Korea
By Benjamin Kimball, Drilling Fluids Specialist
I
arrived in Busan, South Korea, a few weeks ago, just
ahead of the rig, the newly built sixth-generation drill-
ship, the DDKG2, built in Korea at the Samsung ship-
yard, operated by Transocean.
Woodside is the rst international company to drill here
in almost 30 years, and it denitely feels like it, constantly
jumping hurdles with local and national government agen-
cies trying to import chemicals and tools that didnt travel
with the rig.
The well is located in offshore Koreapermit Block 8
and 6-1N, Ulleug Basin East
Continental Shelf in South Korea.
The target coordinates are latitude
36 20 24.738N and longitude
130 20 09.728 E. The name of the
well is Jujak-1, meaning bird of
re in Korean.
The rig arrived from Labuan,
Malaysia, in just over eight days,
and we spudded the well on
Monday, Apr. 23, shortly after
midnight. We jetted the 36 in
conductor and drilled the 30-in.
hole in just under 18 hours. The
20-in. section also went down
in no time at all, nishing well
ahead of schedule and putting
us over 12 days ahead of the plan.
The well is fairly straightforward,
being a vertical exploration well;
and the primary mud system is
a KCl, POROSEAL

polymer and
GLYDRIL

MC water-base mud mix. Water depth is 6,000 ft

(1,830 m) and presents some problems with gas hydrates,
but we are prepared with our hydrate suppression pills
and mitigation plans. The weather window is only a few
months, so any setback could be very costly in the end.
We have quite a bit of M-I SWACO involvement in the
project, including a mobile bulk plant on the jetty using
ISO-VEYOR^ tanks supplied by InterBulk to maintain a
contingency of 300 MT of barite at all times for any well
control issues. Bulking engineers are staying in Busan to
run and maintain that operation as
well as supervise at our local cutting
facility (through 3rd party) for bulk-
ing barite and bentonite.
M-I SWACO mud engineers are on
board using our HISIDE

blender unit
for the pump and dump sections of
the well (the 30 in. and 20 in. sec-
tions that went very well). And then,
of course, I am in the ofce in Busan
coordinating between our various
operations and the Woodside team
based in Busan.
We hope to be successful in nish-
ing the well ahead of schedule with
no injuries or loss time incidence and
hopefully we end up nding some
form of hydrocarbons.
^ mark of the InterBulk Group plc
36 Momentum
M-I SWACO takes a bold and promising step into Kenya
By Nikki Botha
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olids control equipment and a
waste management package
from M-I SWACO was successfully
installed on the land rig Weatherford
804 in Kenya. The installation was per-
formed in the location of Ngamia-1 in
the Lokichar area, west of Lake Turkana
in northern Kenya, the rst M-I SWACO
project in the East African country.
The project was landed on the desk
of Tony Staples, business manager for M-I SWACO in
Cape Town. It was managed by Dana Fischer, ES regional
operation manager in Cape Town, with a request to com-
ply with all the requirements for an operation in a very
remote area in East Africa. The project was fraught with
complications right from the start.
Equipment had to be shipped directly from Cameroon
to Mombasa, Kenya, via Durban, South Africa. Once
in Durban, it was determined that certain equipment
needed to be pre-inspected. Customs refused to release
the relevant equipment until such inspections were car-
ried out. The entire shipment had to be broken up and
shipped to Mombasa in three to four consign-
ments. It took several weeks to arrive at the
destination when the shipment was expected
much earlier.
Because Lokichar is a remote location in
northern Kenya, the lack of infrastructure
caused further delays. Roads had to be built
and due to the volatility in the region, security
had to be employed by the operator to accom-
pany the equipment to the end destination. No
equipment could be transported
until the entire convoy was ready
to depart. Unfortunately, because
of the rough road conditions, the
equipment took a few knocks. It
took another month to set the
equipment up and rig up.
The entire operation had to be
handled delicately and it had to
be handled well. All preparations
had to be done in advance because
logistics were difcult to support.
Kenya is inexperienced
in providing support
for oil-related services,
which just com-
pounded the problem.
The countrys economy
is largely focused on
agriculture.
At the rig site,
everything was done
perfectly, thanks to the
meticulous planning
of the team led by
Jaime Martinez, EAR
Operation Manager.
No further delays or problems were experienced.
One of the requirements, emphasized by the customer,
was that the operation should have a minimum impact
on the surrounding community. The village at the site
has for generations been living in harmony with nature
and the disruption could have unforeseen consequences
that would require further diplomatic liaising.
When the crew arrived, fty percent of the camp was
inhabitable. Initially, the crew were housed in tents
and had to ward off giant scorpions, snakes and spiders.
Eventually a proper camp was completed and living
conditions improved.
The drilling of the well went smoothly, which after
all the drama made Tullow, the operator, very happy.
Right: The tent camp at
the rig site. Bottom: Mt.
Longonot, in the Great
Rift Valley of Kenya, is a
stratovolcano thought to
have erupted last in 1860.
It is a dominant feature of
the region, showing the
signicant tectonic activity
in this part of Kenya. Bottom
right: Curious children
from the village, seeking
shelter from the scorching
African sun, watch the daily
activities on the rig.
M-I SWACO is
the shining star
of the service
providers in
Kenya.
Feedback from the rst
Kenyan job.
Tech Roll Call 37
Although the community in the village was not very
happy at the onset of the project, because all environmen-
tal regulations were considered and fully met any poten-
tial friction was avoided. Representatives of NEMA, the
environmental regulator for Kenya, audited the drilling
waste generated at the location and the ndings submit-
ted to the government showed all the results to be within
regulatory parameters.
Tullow continued drilling and on the 12 in section,
even before drilling the pay zone, decided to run logs. To
their great delight and surprise, the logs showed oil. Upon
this discovery, the President of Kenya, Mr. Mwai Kibaki,
made a public announcement welcoming his country in
to the fray of oil-producing countries.
This is the rst time Kenya has made such a discov-
ery and it is very good news for our country, President
Kibaki said in Nairobi.
This discovery is a major boom for the economic and
social development of Kenya. The media immediately
reported the discovery as having a major economical
impact in the East Africa region.
Because of the way M-I SWACO dealt with the project,
we have been earmarked to be the company of choice in
aiding the development of Kenya as a viable oil produc-
ing nation. This year will see an additional rig and further
exploration, and the shine of the M-I SWACO star will only
get brighter.
In the words of Steve Williams, Environmental Solutions
Manager, Europe & Africa (EAF): This is the type of bench-
mark we need to set for all Sub-Sahara Africa projects.
Australian water tanks, with aeration system and centrifugal pumps for
transference, provide the required water for the camp and operations.
RHE-USE process helps operator set drilling record in Haynesville Shale
slurry, along with the large LGS to the mud system. The
uid then is polished in the high speed centrifuges at
a mid-range speed. Once the slurry is as clean as pos-
sible, the chemical process begins with the addition of a
nontoxic water-base chemical that makes the cuttings
water-wet, allowing them to occulate together. A nal
pass over the high speed centrifuge at a higher rate takes
these occulated solids out of the slurry. The system is
designed to return the mud to the system at the same
oil/water ratio and mud weight as it was originally
designed.
By using the RHE-USE process, the operator set a
eld record, drilling the well ve days faster than the
best available offset with two fewer trips required.
Penetration rates averaged 150 to 160 ft/hr (46-49 m/hr)
with the operator suggesting 200 ft/hr (61 m/hr) was
very possible. The nal LGS was below 5% with larger
and rmer cuttings coming across the shakers. From
faster drilling to reduced disposal costs the use of
RHE-USE is credited with saving the operator an esti-
mated $393,590 in this application.
An operator in the Haynesville Shale was preparing to
drill a well in an area where low-gravity solids (LGS)
typically presented a host of problems, often proving
extremely difcult to remove with mechanical separa-
tion. In addition to impacting drilling performance, it
required shipping spent mud and cuttings more than
200 mi (320 km) for disposal.
M-I SWACO recommended the operator employ its new-
generation RHE-USE

process to reduce low-gravity solids

to enhance drilling efciency and reduce disposal costs.
The process would be used in a 5,659-ft (1,725 m) interval
from 10,782 to 16,441 ft (3,286-5,011 m). The chemically
enhanced technology had been eld-proven to optimize
drilling while dramatically reducing waste disposal costs.
The RHE-USE process is a patent-pending technology
that allows operators to reuse invert emulsion drilling
uids over multiple wells without relying on reclama-
tion through high rates of dilution. The process treats
oil-base drilling uid, reducing solids below 1% while
drilling, which previously had been seen as unattain-
able. It uses a multi-stage process including low speed
centrifugal separation of the LGS, then returns the barite
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Poland gaining momentum
By Michal Klunder, Project Engineer, Warsaw, Poland
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shale gas exploration in Europe
with more than 100 concessions
awarded and dozens of drillings completed.
Estimates put the total volume of shale gas
between 1.9 and 5 trillion m
3
. The govern-
ment is very supportive of the process as
it hopes to diversify its energy supply in
order to reduce dependence on imported
hydrocarbons and to meet the emissions
standards set by the European Union.
According to the Ministry of Environment,
49 exploratory wells are planned for 2012
and the number is expected to soar to
around 250 by 2017.
M-I SWACO has been present from the beginning
when the rst wells were drilled in 2010 in the Gdansk
Basin by Lane Energy. The ebien LE-2H well is the rst
horizontal well in Poland that we were involved in the
drilling operations, providing drilling uids and solids
control services. M-I SWACO, as a part of Schlumberger
team also involved in the completion phase, provided an
integrated solution for owback water treatment allow-
ing its reuse in future jobs.
M-I SWACO Poland became an independent entity at
the end of 2011 within CEU Geomarket and is the sole
company providing integrated Drilling Solutions (DS),
Environmental Solutions (ES) and Water Treatment
Technologies (WTT) solutions for shale gas operations in
Poland. M-I SWACO is the only company that has pro-
vided an integrated service on 18 of 23 shale gas opera-
tions in Poland.
M-I SWACO exceeded customer expectations by help-
ing them deliver fastest ever drilled wells in Europe. The
ULTRADRIL

high-performance
water-based system and its
modication has been used
in various part of Poland with
great benet for our clients.
It has proved its efciency
in shale gas operations.
M-I SWACO has also helped
local companies with our tech-
nical support and introduced
formate uids for conventional
gas completion wells with
great success, such as on the
Sierakow 5 well.
In order to help Polish Oil
and Gas restore production of
depleted reservoirs close to the
Ukrainian border, M-I SWACO has introduced FLOTHRU

water-base reservoir drilling-in uid for their workover
jobs, which signicantly increase their production rates.
M-I SWACO is a leader on the Polish market as a solids
control equipment provider. The MONGOOSE

PT shaker
and the 518

HV centrifuges have been introduced to

M-I Swaco Regional VP Friderik Kramberger and EAF QHSE Manager
Mohammed Ahmed visiting the Warsaw ofce: Mohammed
Ahmed, Adrian Bialek, Mario Mertin, Kevin Tremblay, Friderik
Kramberger, Ewa Rutkowska, Marlena Zelmanska, Zauhar (Gregg)
Lapinskie, Katarzyna Anna Marchel, Michal Klunder, Bayan
Shegirova, Andrzej Szczygiel, Ovidiu-Ioan Orbean. Left: M-I Swaco
facilities in Poland.
Estimates put the
total volume of
shale gas between
1.9 and 5 trillion m
3
.
Forty-nine
exploratory wells
are planned for
2012 and the
number is expected
to soar to around
250 by 2017.
Tech Roll Call 39
Poland and are greatly appreciated by customers.
M-I SWACO provides solids control equipment to all
customers in Poland and has 95% market share.
In order to further improve our services and reduce costs
for our customers, we are investing in facilities in Poland.
Since May 2012, an equipment storage area in Wronki,
Central Poland, has been acquired to store solids control
equipment and chemicals. The facility has 3,230 ft
2

(300 m
2
) of inside warehouse spaceexpandable to
16,145 ft
2
(1,500 m
2
)and 10,765 ft
2
(1,000 m
2
) of outside
storage space. Another great advantage of this site is its
infrastructures and experienced personnel allows for all
the equipment to be repaired and refurbished on this site.
A strategically positioned liquid mud plant, the rst in
the country, is being built in Puawy, in the Lublin voivode-
ship, or province. It should be operational by July 1 and will
have sixteen 500 bbl (75 m
3
) storage tanks. Four tanks will
be for oil-base mud and 12 for water-base mud, giving a
total storage capacity of 7,500 bbl (1,200 m
3
). Additionally,
the plant will have 630 bbl (100 m
3
) mud mixing system,
210 mT of bulk storage capacity in three 70 mT silos and
warehouse space of 500 mT of chemicals.
M-I SWACO Poland launched
its 2012 Objectives and
Recognition program at the end
of January. The newly created
Loss Prevention Team (LPT) has
actively been working on it
with HSE Department on
monthly basis. The main focus
was to increase reporting and
safety awareness of our newly
hired personnel.
Despite the challenges that
were faced, the M-I SWACO Poland
team have worked together and
achieved one of the outstanding reporting rates in all CEU.
M-I SWACO Poland has reported almost three times more for its
headcount in Q1 only.
As per the recognition plan, every month employees are being
awarded for best HOCs and quarterly with number of audits and
number of HOC submissions. The Field Personnel are awarded in
their eld locations by LPT and management team.
Continued from page 38
Ovidiu, Mario and Andrzej received their certicates for
best contributions.
Wieslaw Golab is presented with his gift and certicate
by Marlena, LPT Member.
Bartosz Mamczak receiving his gifts
and certicate from Michal Klunder,
LPT leader.
Wieslaw Golab is presented with his gift and certicate
by Marlena - LPT Member.
2012 Objectives and Recognition program
40 Momentum
M-I SWACO demonstrates ATC to Department of Petroleum
Resources in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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of Petroleum Resources (DPR) visited the Akpo
liquid mud plane in the Onne Oil & Gas Free
Zone for a technical presentation by M-I SWACO experts
on the AUTOMATIC TANK CLEANING

system.
The actual demonstration was slated for Mar. 29, pro-
viding a window to mobilize tank cleaning equipment
from M-I Nigeria warehouse in FOT to Akpo liquid mud
plant in FLT. Over the next two days, the equipment was
set up; the equipment and brackets and Tank Cleaning
Machines (TCMs) were installed inside the mixing pit.
Two Cloud 180 tank cleaning machines were selected
for this trial because the mixing pit is an open pit cov-
ered with grating. The tank cleaning machines were
positioned in opposite sides so as to cover the shadow
area as there is an agitator and suction pipe inside the
280 barrel mixing pit.
The slop pump was lowered into the mixing pit
through the manhole using tripod stand. There is no
sump in this mixing pit as the base is at. Because of
this, the slop pump was positioned close to the ladder.
This slop pump sucks and returns the wash uids back
into the water recycling unit in the ATC machine to
complete the close loop system.
After one and half hours of continuous washing, the
ATC machine was stopped to check the level of cleanli-
ness of the mixing pit and also to change the position of
the TCMs in order to capture some areas of the mixing
pit yet to be washed or cleaned. Cloud 180 only washes
from the position where it is installed down to the
bottom of the tank. To clean the area of the tank above
TCM position, it is necessary to either to reposition the
brackets or use another TCM such as Scan Jet 360.
Because the mixing pit is an open pit covered with
grating, a Scan Jet 360 cannot be used.
After repositioning the Cloud 180, the mixing pit was
washed for another one and half hours and it was com-
pletely cleaned.
The demonstration was very successful and the DPR
team was very pleased with the performance of the
ATC equipment.
Top: The pit before cleaning. Middle: The Cloud 180 in action as
seen through the manhole into the pit as it cleans. Bottom: The pit
after the two cycles of cleaning.
Standing from left to right: Dagogo Olungwe, ATC supervisor,
M-I Ghana; Sylvester Nwadugbo, ATC champion, M-I Nigeria; P.E.
Idire, DPR; N.U. Iyanam, DPR; Pelumi Ebire, business development
manager, M-I Nigeria. Squatting from left to right, Tony Elechi, Ben
Eze, Chidi Iwuoha.
Tech Roll Call 41
M-I SWACO Drilling Fluids major achievement saves nearly 50 days
goes a long way in the operat-
ing rates. M-I PAC UL polyan-
ionic cellulose has played a
major role in controlling uid
loss and crude oil provided
good lubrication to the sys-
tem. Excellent combination of
inhibitive chemicals is provid-
ing a fantastic result, which
is a big achievement in such
complex tectonically active
Potwar area.
High MBT is one of the major
mud problems encountered in
Sadrial and Potwar area in
general. Right from surface to
the depth of 12,000 ft (3,660 m)
the main lithology to be drilled
is reactive clays, the CEC of
which varies substantially,
i.e., gumbo clay, which is very soft, soluble, sticky and
washable. In addition to this, at Sadrial, the deciency of
positive displacement feed for solids control was over-
come with proactive inhibition and dilution to minimize
the colloidals
effect. All this
was achieved
at low cost/
barrels of
$11.8 $28 to
date. Due to
innovative
thinking we
were able to
bring down
the MBT to
5lb/bbl, which
not only
resulted in excellent cement job of 13 in. casing, but
also in the presence of high inhibitive system, led the
way to higher ROP and lower uid loss in 12 in section.
Proper guidance, technically sound team and optimi-
zation of the mud system has led the way to excellent
progress, as a result of which Sadrial -1 well is currently
approximate 50 days ahead of predicted 138 days as
shown in days vs. depth graph below. This is not only
a great achievement for POL and M-I SWACO Pakistan
team but together they have set a landmark milestone
for others to recognize their unparalleled professional
expertise and knowledge of the area.
Pakistan Oilelds Limited (POL)
has worked in Potwar Region of
Pakistan since 1915. The Potwar
region is located in southwest-
ern foothills of the Himalayas, in
northern Pakistan. It has a highly
intricate, severely faulted and
complex structural geology. The
subsurface tectonic stresses alone
render the region unpredictable to
any uniform pressure regime.
Due to the complexity of the
area, severe drilling problems are
encountered including high pres-
sure water inux, acidic gas kicks,
differential sticking and seepage
leading to severe losses. Being in a
high pressure zone, mud weights
can be as high as 18.5 19 ppg. The
mud system generally in use with
POL is a dispersed lignosulfonate system in the region.
Difculties and continuous problems faced during
drilling made POL change their mud company and the
contract was once again awarded to M-I SWACO in late
2010. The companys professional approach with their
superior engineering services and technology helped to
successfully drill extremely difcult wells in Pindori,
Domial and Belaall located in the problematic
Potwar region.
Major mud problems identied included increase in
MBT (a measurement of the amount of clay-like material
in a water-base drilling uid), poor inhibition, BHA
accretion, thermal instability, uid cut of bit matrix,
all of which have a direct impact on well bore loading
and thus ROP. All of these problems were tackled success-
fully under the proactive supervision of our technical
backup support and by highly qualied and professional
M-I SWACO eld engineers.
M-I SWACO is currently drilling in Sadrial, which
is located approximately 52 mi (83 km) southwest of
Islamabad, in the district of Attock. It is geologically
located at the cusp of convergent fault orientations,
which exacerbates the pressure regime uniformity. It
is achieving excellent results using a combination of
KCl, ASPHASOL SUPREME

shale inhibitor, M-I PAC

UL
polyanionic cellulose and maintaining oil in system. The
ASPHASOL SUPREME shale inhibitor improves wellbore
stability and enhances cake quality resulting in no
notable obstruction observed while tripping till date, up
to 10,372 ft (3,161 m). This uid combination alone mini-
mizes the connection time by reducing reaming that
Right to left are Syed Nigah Haide, drilling uids
engineer M-I Pakistan; Baber Hussain, company
man, Pakistan Oilelds Ltd.; Asif Rao, material
in-charge, Pakistan Oilelds Ltd.
Days vs. depth.
42 Momentum
Successful eld trial of new technology-laden FAZEPRO RDF system offshore Norway
long-term static/dynamic HTHP ltration test (7 days)
was as thin as that formed in a 30-min. HTHP uid loss
test, ensuring that a measure of permissible clearance
between the liner OD and open hole is maintained for
successful running of the liner and associated comple-
tion assembly. It is also noteworthy that no downhole
loss of uid was encountered in this well and the gel
strengths remained at throughout. Both in the lab
tests and eld operation, this FAZEPRO RDF system
showed little sign of either static or dynamic sag. This
together with high low-end rheology ensured adequate
hole cleaning is maintained no sweeps were pumped.
Comparative lubricity tests were performed to obtain
friction numbers relative to VERSATEC

system (OBM)
and lubricant-laden system of the same FAZEPRO RDF.
The HIPR FAZEPRO system exhibited a friction number
no different from the VERSATEC system and the system
treated with lubricant.
A 9-1/2 in. open hole interval of 4,791 ft (1,460 m)
was drilled using new 12.0 ppg (1.44 sg) FAZEPRO
RDF system, and logged while drilling, and pressure
points were taken at various points in the open hole.
Additionally, wireline logging was successfully per-
formed. A 7-5/8 in. liner was run and set across the
open hole interval without issues and nal completion
performed. The resolution of the image obtained from
Schlumberger FMI log was higher than any imaging
resolution previously obtained with this log (even in
water-base mud).
The high resolution image from the FMI log would
result in clear choice of downhole completion equip-
ment positioning by the client in future work in this
eld. This would eliminate cost overruns incurred from
inaccurate placement of downhole completion assem-
bly due to inaccurate formation knowledge.
Drill cuttings and slops generated were treated with
citric acid onsite for re-injection in a nearby well.
An operator planned to drill and complete a horizontal
crude oil producer. The worlds biggest jack-up rig was
used to drill the well off the platform in the Norwegian
sector of the North Sea at a water depth of 247 ft (75 m).
The main reservoir targets are chalk formations with
modeled pressure estimates of 5,500 6,500 psi and a
bottom hole temperature of 268 F (131 C).
This is the rst eld application of FAZEPRO

RDF
system at an oil/water ratio (OWR) of 50:50. It was also
the rst use of ECF 2184

, a high internal phase rheol-

ogy emulsier (HIPR) and the rst use of saturated (14.2
ppg) calcium bromide brine as the internal phase of
any oil-base mud (OBM) system in Norway.
This new technology-laden FAZEPRO RDF was partly
driven by the operators need to have a thin imperme-
able ltercake laid across the reservoir to enable a
successful pass of large bore (OD) liner and associated
assembly to the well TD through the narrow clearance
between the liner and the reservoir open hole.
This system was designed and modeled for drilling
this well with mud weight range of 11.5 12.5 ppg (1.38
1.5 sg) depending on formation pressures encountered.
FAZEPRO RDF, as proposed, was subjected to rigorous
aging, static and dynamic tests simulating drilling
conditions of overburden and temperature to ensure
thin impermeable ltercake is laid across entire drilled
open hole section. Additionally, ltercake cleanup tests
performed on this system at the operators laboratory
showed a desirable cleanup comparable to a standard
FAZEPRO RDF with a 60/40 OWR.
ECF 2184 (HIPR), as used in this FAZEPRO RDF formu-
lation for high water-ratio emulsication, worked quite
well, just as was simulated in laboratory tests. At no
time were emulsion issues observed, even after water
intrusion into the system while crossing a fault.
A thin ltercake of this FAZERO RDF system laid
across a WFAO-Special (3 microns) aloxite disk over
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Authors and Papers
SPE 151837 A Specially Designed Organo-
philic Chloride-Free Reservoir Drill-In
Fluid Meets the Challenges of the First
Horizontal Well in Mozambique. Ezeigbo,
E.; Luyster M.; Ravitz R.; Pereira A.;
Nguyen C., M-I SWACO. This paper was
prepared for presentation at the SPE
International Symposium and Exhibition
on Formation Damage Control held in
Lafayette, LA, USA, Feb. 1517, 2012.
Shokanov, T.; Gumarov, S.; Ronderos, J.;
Anokhin, V.; Benelkadi, S., M-I SWACO.
Modeling and Analysis of Hydraulic
Fracture Propagation from a Surface
Casing Shoe, United States Patent
Application Publication, Application No.:
US 05542/385001.
Gumarov, S.; Shokanov, T.; Geehan, T.;
Greg, M.E., M-I SWACO; J.C. Rojas, BP.
Monitoring Pioneer Waste Injection
Projects in Caspian Sea: Challenges,
Lessons Learned, Findings and Recent
Advancements. IADC/SPE 150332
prepared for presentation at the 2012 SPE
Middle East Health Safety and Environ-
ment Conference and Exhibition, Abu
Dhabi, UAE, Apr. 24, 2012.
Gumarov, S.M.; Shokanov, T.A. Sub-
surface Assurance of Drilling Waste
Re-Injection Proactive Approach
Accompanied 3 MM bbl Successfully
Injected in Caspian Sea. Extended
abstract for Geomarket Symposium
(RCA Geomarket, will be presented on
June 1315, 2012).
Jordana, Rut and Howe, Russell F. (Univ. of
Aberdeen) and Guan, Hua (M-I SWACO
Production Technologies). Retention and
Release of Scale Inhibitor in Different Clay
Minerals. SPE 156019, SPE International
Conference on Oileld Scale, Aberdeen,
May 3031, 2012.
Guan, Hua (M-I SWACO Production
Technologies). Scale Inhibitors for
Geothermal Applications. SPE 155039, SPE
International Conference on Oileld Scale,
Aberdeen, May 3031, 2012.
Ramstad, Kari (Statoil); Rohde, Hans
Christian (M-I SWACO); Dalland, Aslaug
Evaluation of Nanoparticles as a Physical
Shale Inhibitor. AADE-12-FTCE-50, 2012
AADE Fluids Technical Conference,
Houston, TX, Apr. 1011, 2012.
Zhang, Hui; Patel, Arvind and Foxenberg,
William (M-I SWACO). Lubricants and
Drag Reducers for Completion FluidsAn
Analysis of Simularities and Differences.
AADE-12-FTCE-49, 2012 AADE Fluids
Technical Conference, Houston, TX,
Apr. 1011, 2012.
Lee, John; Slater, Ken; Young, Steve;
Zamora, Mario and Stark, James
(M-I SWACO). What Happens to Invert
Mud Left Behind the Casing? AADE-12-
FTCE-47, 2012 AADE Fluids Technical
Conference, Houston, TX, Apr. 1011, 2012.
Slater, Ken; Zamora, Mario and Freeman,
Michael A. (M-I SWACO) and Azar, Mike
(SmithBits). New Laboratory Device
Evaluates Bit Balling in Carbonates.
AADE-12-FTCE-46, 2012 AADE Fluids
Technical Conference, Houston, TX,
Apr. 1011, 2012.
Zamora, Mario; Enriquez, Felix; Roy, Sanjit
and Freeman, Michael A. (M-I SWACO).
Measuring PVT Characteristics of Base
Oils, Brines and Drilling Fluids Under
Extreme Temperatures and Pressures.
AADE-12-FTCE-44, 2012 AADE Fluids
Technical Conference, Houston, TX,
Apr. 1011, 2012.
Freeman, Michael A. (M-I SWACO); Shen,
Yuelin and Zhang, Youhe (SmithBits).
Single PDC Cutter Studies of Fluid Heat
Transfer and Cutter Thermal Mortality in
Drilling Fluid. AADE-12-FTCE-38, 2012
AADE Fluids Technical Conference,
Houston, TX, Apr. 1011, 2012.
Growcock, Fred (Occidental Oil & Gas Corp);
Mahrous, Ramy and Flesher, Richard
(M-I SWACO). Shear Degradabilty of
Granular Lost Circulation Materials.
AADE-12-FTCE-27, 2012 AADE Fluids
Technical Conference, Houston, TX,
Apr. 1011, 2012.
and Ponomareva, Ekaterina (Statoil);
Johansen, Pia (M-I SWACO). Flow Assur-
ance in Complex Topside Processes with
Subsea Tie-Ins and Multiple Fluid Sys-
tems. SPE 155036, SPE International
Conference on Oileld Scale, Aberdeen,
May 3031, 2012.
Marinescu, Pavel and Vlasceanu, Paulin
(M-I SWACO). Novel Shale Stabilizer for
Reservoir Shale Stabilization and Perfor-
mance in Romanian Workover Campaign.
IADC Critical Issues Continental Europe
Conference, Bucharest, Romania,
May 2324, 2012.
Fleming, N.; Berge, E. and Ridene, M.
(Statoil); stvold, T. and Jsang, L.O. (NTNU)
and Rohde, H.C. (M-I SWACO). Controlled
Use of Downhole Calcium Carbonate
Scaling for Sand Control: Laboratory and
Field Results on Gullfaks. SPE 144047, SPE
European Formation Damage Conference,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands, June 710,
2011 and SPE Production & Operations
(May 2012) 223.
Raja, Vidya and Chase, George G. (Univ. of
Akron); Jones, Bradley N. and Geehan,
Tom (M-I SWACO). Computational
Modeling and Experiments on Shale
Shaker Performance. AADE-12-FTCE-58,
2012 AADE Fluids Technical Conference,
Houston, TX, Apr. 1011, 2012.
Riley, Meghan; Stamatakis, Emanuel;
Young, Steve; Hoelscher, Katherine Price
and De Stefano, Guido (M-I SWACO)
Drilling Unconventional Shale with
Innovative Water-Based Mud Part II: Mud
Formulations and Performance. AADE-12-
FTCE-52, 2012 AADE Fluids Technical
Conference, Houston, Apr. 1011, 2012.
Stamatakis, Emanuel; Young, Steve and
De Stefano, Guido (M-I SWACO). Meeting
the Ultra-HTHP Fluid Challenge. AADE-12-
FTCE-51, 2012 AADE Fluids Technical
Conference, Houston, TX, Apr. 1011, 2012.
Ji, Lujun; Guo, Quan and Friedheim, Jim
(M-I SWACO); Zhang, Rui; Chenevert,
Martin and Sharma, Mukul (Univ. of Texas)
Drilling Unconventional Shales with
Innovative Water-Based Mud Part I:
Continued on page 44
Authors and Papers
44 Momentum
Gumarov, S.M., Shokanov, T.A., Geehan, T.
and McEwen, Greg (M-I SWACO) and
Rojas, J.C. (BP). Monitoring Pioneer Waste
Injection Projects in Caspian Sea: Chal-
lenges, Lessons Learned, Findings and
Recent Advancements. SPE 150333, SPE
Middle East Health, Safety, Security, and
Environmental Conference, Abu Dhabi,
Apr. 24, 2012.
Cai, J. (China Univ. of Geosciences);
Chenevert, M.E. and Sharma, M.M.
(Univ. of Texas) and Friedheim, Jim
(M-I SWACO). Decreasing Water Invasion
Into Atoka Shale Using Nonmodied
Silica Nanoparticles. SPE 146979, SPE
Annual Technical Conference, Denver, CO,
Oct. 30Nov. 2, 2011, and SPE Drilling &
Completion (Mar. 2012) 103.
Cook, John (Schlumberger Cambridge
Research); Growcock, Fred (Oxy); Guo,
Quan and Hodder, Mike (M-I SWACO) and
van Oort, Eric (Shell). Stabilizing the
Wellbore to Prevent Lost Circulation.
Oileld Review (Winter 2011/2012) 26.
Young, Steve; Friedheim, Jim; Lee, John
and Prebensen, Ole Iacob (M-I SWACO).
A New Generation of Flat Rheology
Invert Drilling Fluids. SPE 154682, SPE Oil
& Gas India Conference, Mumbai,
Mar. 2830, 2012.
Young, Steve; De Stefano, Guido and Lee,
John (M-I SWACO). Advances in Invert
Emulsion Performance Through Novel
Emulsier Chemistry. SPE 153770,
SPE Oil & Gas India Conference, Mumbai,
Mar. 2830, 2012.
Riley, Meghan; Stamatakis, Emanuel;
Young, Steve; Hoelscher, Katherine Price;
De Stefano, Guido; Ji, Lou; Guo, Quan and
Friedheim, Jim (M-I SWACO). Wellbore
Stability in Unconventional Shale The
Design of a Nano-Particle Fluid. SPE
153729, SPE Oil & Gas India Conference,
Mumbai, Mar. 2830, 2012.
Stamatakis, Emanuel; Young, Steve and
De Stefano, Guido (M-I SWACO). Meeting
the Ultra-HTHP Fluid Challenge. SPE
153709, SPE Oil & Gas India Conference,
Mumbai, Mar. 2830, 2012.
Stock, Tore; Ronaes, Egil; Fossdal, Truls
and Bjerkaas, Johnny (M-I SWACO). The
Development and Successful Application
Invert Emulsion Drilling Fluid under
Extreme HTHP Conditions. SPE 151413,
IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, San Diego,
CA, Mar. 68, 2012.
Sumarov, S.M.; Shokanov, T.A.; Geehan, T;
Greg, M.E. (M-I SWACO) and Rojas, J.C. (BP).
Monitoring Pioneer Waste Injection
Projects in the Caspian Sea: Challenges,
Lessons Learned, Findings and Recent
Advancements. SPE 150332, IADC/SPE
Drilling Conference, San Diego, CA,
Mar. 68, 2012.
Torkay, D. (Archer); Brakel, J.; VanMarel, H.
(Shell); Geehan, T. (M-I SWACO); Shelton, A.
and Reid, D. (NOV); Killalea, M. (IADC) and
Womer, K. (KWTS). Results of Jan. 25, 2011
IADC Shale Drilling Technology & Chal-
lenges Workshop. SPE 150971, IADC/SPE
Drilling Conference, San Diego, CA,
Mar. 68, 2012.
Ezeigbo, E.; Luyster, M.; Ravitz, R.; Pereira,
A. and Nguyen, C. (M-I SWACO). A
Specially Designed Organophilic Chloride-
Free Reservoir Drill-In Fluid Meets the
Challenges of the First Horizontal Well in
Mozambique. SPE 151837, SPE International
Symposium on Formation Damage Control,
Lafayette, LA, Feb. 1517, 2012.
Healy, John; Sanford, Jack; Reeves, Donald;
Dufrene, Kerby and Haskell, Peter (Noble
Energy); Luyster, Mark (M-I SWACO);
Bariudin, Victor (State of Israel, Ministry of
National Infrastructures). Design,
Installation, and Performance of Big Bore
(9 5/8 in.) Completions: Mari-B Field,
Offshore Israel. SPE 151770, SPE Interna-
tional Symposium on Formation Damage
Control, Lafayette, LA, Feb. 1517, 2012.
Watson, R.B.; Viste, P. and Lauritzen, J.R.
(M-I SWACO). The Inuence of Fluid Loss
Additives in High-Temperature Reservoirs.
SPE 151662, SPE International Symposium
on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette,
LA, Feb. 1517, 2012.
Lu, Shawn and Foxenberg, William
(M-I SWACO). Double-Emulsion Spacer
Design for Highly Efcient Invert
Emulsion Displacement. SPE 151604,
SPE International Symposium on Forma-
tion Damage Control, Lafayette, LA,
Feb. 1517, 2012.
of an Automated Real-Time Drilling Fluids
Measurement System. SPE 150439,
SPE Intelligent Energy International
Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
Mar. 2729, 2012.
Riley, Meghan; Stamatakis, Emanuel;
Young, Steve; Hoelscher, Katherine Price
and De Stefano, Guido (M-I SWACO).
Novel Water Based Mud for Shale Gas,
Part II: Mud Formulations and Perfor-
mance. SPE 152945, SPE/EAGE European
Unconventional Resources Conference,
Vienna, Mar. 2022, 2012.
Jenkins, Alyn and Gilbert, Ian (M-I SWACO).
Development of Top-of-Line Corrosion
Inhibitors and a Top-of-Line Corrosion Test
Method. NACE Corrosion 2012, Salt Lake
City, UT, Mar. 1115, 2012.
Jenkins, Alyn; White, Mark; Fraser, Alison
and Nolasco, Luca (M-I SWACO). Develop-
ment of an Environmentally Acceptable
Combined Scale/Corrosion Inhibitor for a
North Sea Oileld with High Velocity
Flow. NACE Corrosion 2012, Salt Lake City,
UT, Mar. 1115, 2012.
Hughes, Trevor L. and Geddes, Jill F.
(Schlumberger Cambridge Research);
Jenkins, Alyn and MacDougall, Dugald
(M-I SWACO Production Technologies).
Novel Method to Quantify the Concentra-
tion of Corrosion Inhibitors in Produced
Water. NACE Corrosion 2012, Salt Lake City,
UT, Mar. 1115, 2012.
Friedheim, James E.; Sanders, Mark W.;
Arias-Prada, Jorge and Shursen, Ryan P.
(M-I SWACO). Innovative Fiber Solution for
Wellbore Strengthening. SPE 151473, IADC/
SPE Drilling Conference, San Diego, CA,
Mar. 68, 2012.
Lee, John; Cullum, Daryl; Friedheim, Jim
and Young, Steve (M-I SWACO). A New
SBM for Narrow Margin Extended Reach
Drilling. SPE 151469, IADC/SPE Drilling
Conference, San Diego, CA, Mar. 68, 2012.
Ronaes, Egil; Fossdal, Truls and Stock, Tore
(M-I SWACO). Real-Time Drilling Fluid
Monitoring and Analysis Adding to
Integrated Drilling Operations. SPE 151459,
IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, San Diego,
CA, Mar. 68, 2012.
Lee, John (M-I SWACO); Shadravan, Arash
(Texas A&M University) and Young, Steve
(M-I SWACO). Rheological Properties of
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Career Development and Training
Brazil customer Drilling Fluids Seminar
Basic Spanish mud school graduates 27
A customer drilling uids seminar was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 24 27 for Shell, REPSOLSinopec, OGX, Petra-Energia. The class
was taught by Ben Paiuk. Attendees were Afonso Sarlo Neto, Igor Debacker, Ligia Yoko Inafuku, Stefannie Sargo Silva, Tarcilio Dutra Neto,
Pedro Henrique Terzi, Laerte Duque, Laura Moonilal, Jessica Azevedo Flores de Oliveira, Ariel Sarroca, Satoshi Oka, Jorge Ricardo Siqueira,
Jair Antonio Miller Melo, Salomo Marques Costa, Benjamin Paiuk (Instructor), Mariana Frana, Nvea Boechat, Ana Licia Domingues,
Naisa Arturo, Barbara Ferreira Cavalcante, Leidiane Dsouza, Diego Perez Rodriguez, Frederico Braga. Not pictured: Raquel Leret, and
Priscilla Lage.
Ben Pauik led a Basic Spanish mud school with 27 graduating. The class ran at the North Course campus from Feb. 20 Apr. 12. Attendees
and their instructors were, last row: Juan Alberto Gonzales , Carlos David Miranda, Guillermo Ricardo Espinoza, Ruben Romo, Carlos
Augusto Jerez, Carlos Alberto Miranda, Ricardo Antonio Jerez, Jhorman Alejandro Torres. Middle row: Luz Omar Gloria Torrez, Cristian
Camilo Rincon, Alberto Jose Velasquez, Pedro Lopez, Carlos Javier Hernandez, Flavio Hernandez, Orlando Berbeo, Manuel Ernesto Baron.
Front row: Benjamin Paiuk (instructor), Andres Mauricio Moreno, Daniela Serrano, Andres Vera, Abi Azuri Narvaez, Miguel Alfonso
Martinez, Hector David Pacheco, Gustavo Adolfo Perez, Joel Aguilera (assistant instructor), Sebastian Romero, Nicolas Aubone (Solids
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VSAT classes held in Oklahoma and Scotland
IFE Waste Management held May 1316, with 29 attendees from operations in Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Italy, Romania, Ivory Coast,
Aberdeen, Dubai, Mexico, Thailand, U.S.A and U.K. This group attended the complete IFE FAST TRACK program.
Jeff Russo and Bobby Farmer hosted the Shaker Technologies,
Screen Technologies and VSAT Class in Broken Arrow, OK.,
Feb. 2123. The class includes classroom instruction, running a
motion analysis on a shaker and a tour of the plant.
Dennis Jackson, pictured, and Jeff
Russo hosted the Shaker Technolo-
gies, Screen Technologies and
VSAT Class in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Jan. 1719. The class includes
classroom instruction, running a
motion analysis on a shaker and a
tour of the plant in Edinburgh.
Jeff Russo and Bobby Farmer hosted the Shaker Technologies,
Screen Technologies and VSAT Class in Broken Arrow, OK.,
Mar. 2022. The class includes class room instruction, running a
motion analysis on a shaker and a tour of the plant. Jeff also took
two students from Algeria into the Panhandle of Texas and
trained them with a little hands-on Vibratory Systems Analysis
and Testing on two rigs.
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Houston graduates 82 from Basic Mud School on May 24
Basic Mud School graduates 21
Eighty-two new mud engineers graduated from the Apr. 2May 24 Basic Mud School. Attendees and their new work locations are: Omar
Alvarado, Mexico; Maria del Carmen Arteaga, PROACT; Samuel Ballard, Rockies; Troy A. Beckert, Rockies; Joseph Berryman, Midland;
Graham Breen, UK; Angus Campbell, UK; Andrew Claridge, St. Johns; Brandon Connolly, Rockies; Martin T. Cormier, Lafayette; Daniel W.
Cramer, Rockies; Fernanda e Silva, Brazil; Corey Dailey, Northeast; Terence Dartez, Northeast; Ricardo Lucio Ferreira de Melo, HDD Brazil;
John C. Dean, Rockies; Tolga Demircan, PROACT; Brendan Desjardin, Alaska; Cale Donaldson, Corpus Christi; Sam Dorris, Harvey; Bharad-
waj Edupuganti, PROACT; Blanca Espinosa Acosta, PROACT; Cody Evans, Corpus Christi; Jeffrey Fanelli, West Coast; Patrick G. Farrell,
Rockies; Vicente Jose Fernandez Castillo, Venezuela; Danilo Raul Fernandez Lopez, Venezuela; Alistair Fisher, Northeast; Randall Foster,
Midland; Brian Gardner, Rockies; Collin Garrett, Midland; Whitney Godwin, PROACT; Joel A. Gonzalez, Midland; Alexander W. Harrison,
West Coast; John Hazlett, West Coast; Allan Claus Hedegaard, HDD; Martn G. Herrera, Argentina; Tilmann Huebel, Germany; Tore stgrd
Jenss, Norway; John L. John, Corpus Christi; Michael K. Johnson, Lafayette; Troy Large, HDD; Bradley Lazoruk, Calgary; Ida B. Leineb,
Norway; David Li, R & D Corp; Oscar Martinez, PROACT; David McMaster, UK; Jeff Melkoski, Corpus Christi; Angelica Mendoza, Mexico;
John P. Mihalic, PROACT; Christopher Mooren, Rockies; Andrew Murray, St. Johns; Hasan ilker Mutlu, PROACT; Mark L. Naumann, Harvey;
Eric E. Navarro Giordano, Mexico; Albert Okhrimenko, PROACT; Eduardo Pereira, Venezuela; Oscar Ponce de Leon, Harvey; Garret E.
Richard, Harvey; Carlos Armando Rodriguez Reyes, Venezuela; Andrs Romero A., HDD Colombia; Amanda Rose, Calgary; Russell Rucker,
Corpus Christi; Gregory Jose Salazar Gamero, Venezuela; Sam Schmittgens, Corpus Christi; Alberto Scolari, Italy; Samuel C. Shaw, Midland;
Ioannis Skoularikas, UK; Aaron Smith, AK; Daniel R. Smith, Rockies; Patrick N. Smith, Corpus Christi; Magnus Stensrud, Norway; Sean
Suhor, PROACT; Matthew Taylor, West Coast; David Tilton, West Coast; Omar R. Torres, Midland; Marius Torrissen, Norway; Joe Villarreal,
Corpus Christi; Caleb Villnerve, Harvey; Nils Petter Wrp, Norway; Barrett K. Wallace, Harvey; Liliya Watkins, PROACT. All graduates
designated as PROACT report to Don Presley in Houston but work all over the world.
Basic Mud School 2012A, held Feb. 6Mar. 30, started with 23 students and graduated 21. Attendees were from Russia, Gabon, Nigeria,
Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, Pakistan, Romania, India and Colombia.
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Awards and Anniversaries
Waste Injection project for PEMEX wins M-I SWACO Mexico a PBS Bronze and
Presidents Award
implement a risk management process which evaluates
system vulnerabilities and the threats facing it, imple-
menting and maintaining countermeasures that reduce
the effects of risk to an acceptable level and provides
mitigation options to protect the operation integrity and
reliability, thus optimizing operations.
PEMEX made the call to apply WI technology as nal
disposal methodology due to the increment of offshore
drilling activities in the 2000s as well as the commit-
ment to the environment avoiding the increase of waste
onshore disposal, which represents high ecological risk
related to the transportation and adequate disposal.
Since 2007 the Waste Injection Assurance Process has
permitted the detection and identication of potential
risks giving mitigation options to prolong the life of the
injector. Over the years, many challenges have been faced
The M-I SWACO Mexico team was awarded a Bronze
Performed by Schlumberger Award in 2011 for their
Waste Injection (WI) project for Mexican national
operator PEMEX. The Abkatun WI project has been
represented as the best solution ever for safe waste
disposal in the Mexicos Marine Region. The longevity of
this project, with more than 10 years operation in the
area, is the irrevocable evidence of its success. It further
positions M-I SWACO as the only company capable to
provide the best quality waste management service in
Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and continues with a potential
new contract award for 2.5 years more.
The main objective of WI is to attain an environmen-
tally safe and trouble-free subsurface disposal of the
drilling waste by means of intermitted batch injec-
tions. An essential part of any injection program is to
Steve Orr and SABU VP John Oliver were on hand to present the Presidents Award and the PBS Bronze Award to M-I SWACO Mexico. From
left to right are Steve Orr, Joel Cordero Dominguez, Jose Antonio Cruz Santiago, Erick Fernandez Mendoza, Petronilo Perez Arvalo,
Lorenzo Chaga Morales, Leopoldo Alonso Escalante, Luciano Federico Garcia, John Oliver, Jorge Luis Vargas, Nestor W. Daboin, Juan Jose
Mendoza, Carlos Eduardo Lopez, Elio Nicolas Larez, Luis Emilio Gomez, Jair Cadena Carmona, Efrain Zaleta Posadas, Cenobio Martinez.
Awards and Anniversaries 49
10 Year Service Award
Eng. Humberto Castro (Engineering Deparment2003),
Dr. Victor Vallejo (Engineering Deparment2005), Eng.
Epitacio Solis (Operational Unit Abkatun Pol Chuc
Deparment2007 until now).
As customer focused company, our duty is to promote
excellent relationship with customer. WI team of
M-I SWACO has been characterized by the excellent
communication and teamwork with PEMEX and demon-
strated by different customer satisfaction assessment
through the years. The success implementing all recom-
mendations provided by WI technical support in country
as well as the follow-up of lessons learned is a direct
consequence of this good teamwork.
From business impact perspective, this project has
been recognized as the biggest WI project in M-I SWACO
history so far. More than 8.5 million barrels of waste have
been disposed in this project representing the waste
volume benchmark for all WI projects worldwide.
Records since 2005 show that WI Abkatun project has
received about 48 MM USD with high potential with new
contract award of 2.5 years more. Savings to customer are
estimated to be about 19 MM USD, comparing WI tech-
nology with onshore disposal where prices in average are
about 110 USD/ton compared to 155 USD/ton, respectively.
The mitigation of environmental risks is considered
the main indirect and immeasurable savings in term of
business impact. The high risk related to onshore waste
disposal involved with the transportation of more than
200 km road potentially increases the chance of high
ecological impact as well as its related liabilities.
and solved through the WI assurance process proving an
increase of the formation disposal capacity and exten-
sion of the life for those injection wells, which is directly
reected in the safe injection of more than 3 MM bbl of
drilling waste and uid per well, and a total of 8.5 MM
bbls of waste along the project so far, representing the
biggest Waste Injection Project in M-I SWACO history.
As a result of vigilant injection, the project value has
been increasing through the years, with outstanding
communication and teamwork between M-I SWACO and
PEMEX allowing a good business impact considering this
green technology the best solution to the marine area.
The direct revenue of this WI project since 2005 is esti-
mated to be about 48 MM USD, and savings to customer
are estimated to be about 19 MM USD, comparing WI
technology with onshore disposal. In addition, the con-
tinuous improvement and lessons learned have allowed
more economical benet related to the extension of
injection well life. Nowadays, PEMEX reduced the cost of
acid stimulation treatment (used previously to increase
well capacity), the well workover to recover injection
zone, by changing operational parameters following our
recommendations.
WI has been one of the key components for the drill-
ing operations in marine region for PEMEX in term of
waste management. Since the very beginning PEMEX
key representatives have worked in the development of
this green technology capable to manage most of the
waste generated in the drilling offshore platforms across
the area. Due to the longevity of this project, different
managers in PEMEX organization have been involved:
While Steve Orr was in Mexico, he
presented Fernando Lopez, MCA QHSE
manager, with his 10 Year Service Award.
Lopez recently moved to the position of
Schlumberger OFS MXS QHSE Manager.
Pictured from left to right are Nestor
Daboin, MCA regional VP; Fernando
Lopez; then President of M-I SWACO Steve
Orr and SABU Regional VP John Oliver.
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M-I SWACO Mexico wins 2nd PBS Bronze Award for Integration Project
IPM North Mexico in Q4 2010 with additional projected
savings for 2011.
While other areas are focused on fragmented segment-
driven service market, MCA is really embracing the
integration initiative since it will be a WIN-WIN-WIN-
WIN situation (Schlumberger M-I SWACO Smith
Geoservices). Schlumberger now has the complete port-
folio to offer our most active client worldwide in PEMEX.
The initial synergy impact for 2011 and 2012 is esti-
mated to be in the high eight gures while bringing
signicant cost savings and business growth due
to synergy. Also, some contractual advantages with
PEMEX, depending on the PEMEX operating regions,
for Directional Drilling and/or Drilling Fluids are now
bundled with drill bits and drilling tool accessories.
Previously, Schlumberger had to form alliances with
other companies to tender the service contracts; with the
new synergy Schlumberger, everything can be kept in-
house to give our client an integrated solutions package.
Schlumberger Mexico is becoming a new unique entity
with a complete portfolio to make it into a unique busi-
ness value.
The M-I SWACO Mexico and Central America (MCA)
geomarket group won a PBS Bronze Award and an
M-I SWACO Presidents Award for the work to integrate
Schlumberger Geoservices, Smith and M-I SWACO
operations in the region while adding value to their
share customer PEMEX.
With the new direction and focus of the company,
the Geomarket management plays an important role in
identifying and capturing synergy opportunities result-
ing from the Smith merger and Geoservices acquisition.
The MCA Geomarket is well positioned to deliver the
synergy that upper management is looking for due to
our big Integrated Project Management (IPM) footprint
in Mexico and having only one principal client in PEMEX.
Even before the merger, IPM in Mexico had a long-stand-
ing working relationship with M-I SWACO. After the
merger was announced in Q1 2010, IPM Mexico got the
ball rolling by replacing other drill bits and drilling tools
accessories providers to Smith in the projects.
An M-I SWACO IPM loss circulation solution imple-
mented in the South Mexico IPM projects have saved
millions of dollars since 2010 and was implemented in
From left to right are Jaime Valero, Williams Martinez, Jose Luis Lacruz, Miguel Villalobos, Nestor Daboin, Nixklafe Atencio, Misael
Gamboa, Eric Gin Win Lian, Gerson Leaon.
Anniversaries cont.
Anniversaries continued from back cover
Matthew Day
Everton De Jesus
Dennis De La Cruz
Evandro De Matos
Alexander De Oliveira
Evaldo De Souza
Cipriano De Vera
Gaston Diaz
Yuliya Dmitrieva
Januario Domingos
Norberto Dominguez
Ramos
Tina Dor
Vergil Drummer
Faron Duthie
Ann-Helen Einen
Ayman El Zawawi
Tanya Ellis
Pavel Ershov
Nicolas Escobedo David
Michael Esparza
Puthur Anthony Faison
Mariangela Josena Farias
De Silva
Sergey Fedorov
Shannon Fontenot
Alex Forbes
Richard France
Christopher Fraser
Szabo Gabor
Deebu Gangadharan
SambaSiva Rao Garisepalli
Connie Gates
Batyr Geldiyev
Igor Gerasin
Jorge Gomes
Jesse Goodnough
Graham Gordon
Michael Gorzik
Laurence Greenblatt
Alistair Greig
Frank Grevin
Angela Grigorash
Salamat Gumarov
Vladimir Gumenuk
Dahmane Haddad
Aymen Hamdi
Anas Hammad
Nacer Hamzaoui
Steve Harricharan
Ahmed Hassan
Katie Henning
Knut Magne Hesjedal
Mohamed Higazy
Robert Hild
Gregory Holley
Benjamin Hurt
Blaine Huseby
Maria Deolinda Ibanez
Filipe Ilda
Bolivar Insuasti
Emile Ishak Tawadros
Arseniy Iyevlev
Matthew Jackson
Kjell Eugen Jacobsen
Gunnar Jakobsen
Randi Jeannette
Mohamed Jellouli
Karl Johnson
Tori Johnson
Stephen Jones
Omar Kaizra
Mohamed Kandil
Sergey Kasimov
Rene Kempa
Kamran Khan
Vadim Khasanov
Rinat Khisamov
Anton Khomenko
Andrey Khomyakov
Pavel Khudorozhkov
Valery Khvatov
Roger Kleiven
Steven Koepke
Alexey Kolbin
Nikolay Komarov
Becky Kraft
Mikhail Krepostnov
Antony Krishnan
Tommy Kristiansen
Alexander Kuleshov
Fanis Kutlubayev
Juan Carlos Laceda
Ahmed Lagheribi
Sid Ahmed Lamri
Irene Lanting
Christopher Lee
Eugenia Leonteva
Mukhaylo Letnyanka
Andre Lima
Dmitry Litvinovich
Pedro Lopez
Fateh Loui
Jianlin Lu
Alexandre Mabiala
Gary MacDonald
Leon MacDonald
James MacInnis
Euan George Mackay
Scott Mackay
Angus Macmillan
Sherif Mahmoud El
Bassiouny
Ramy Mahrous
Fabien Makounbou
Zoungou
Wilson Malaquias
Stuart Manson
Luigi Mantovani
Thalys Marim
Massimilinano Marrazzo
Christopher Marshall
Alfonso Martinez
Martin Martono
Nadia Masmoudi
Pedro Masoko
Nicolau Mavinga
Xavier Mbianga
William McCarty
Martin Charles McDonald
James McNally
Neil McPherson
James McRae
Vibeke Meidell
Edixon Gregorio Mejias
Mendez
Paulo Miguel
Vladimir Mikov
Amro Mohamed ElMorsi
Soliman
Mohamed Mohamed Saied
Ahmed Mohamed Saif
Joel Monday
Kennedy Mope
Mario Jesus Moyano
Roderick Nash
Odd Leif Naustdal
Alexander Nazarov
Brian Negrotto
Joao Neto
Thorsten Noglik
Luiz Antonio Nunes
Placide Nzaou
Jesse OBryan
Noel Ocampo
Robin Fritz Oien
Ansel Oliver
Stian Olsen
Nathan Omsberg
Amanmamed Orazov
Fatima Oropeza
Bayram Ovez-Mammedov
Sergey Ovsyannikov
Babatunde Oyewo
Ruben Dario Padron
Chopite
Luis Ramon Padron Misel
Sudheer Palikkara
Igor Parshakov
Ivson Augusto Passos
Junior
Rigoberto Penaloza Pinzon
Chris Petersen
Colleen Phillips
Casey Pine
Elena Polyakova
Sergey Popov
Paus Pulung K
Justin Purviance
Antonio Quintal
Sergey Ramin
Marby Ramirez Marin
Roger Rath
Rune Ree
Andres Rendon Rendon
Colin Rennie
Jacob Respondek
Carlos Restrepo Ramirez
Paulo Ricci
Lawrence Richter
Ian Riddell
Norman Rilling
Rigoberto Rivera
Antonio Rizo
Samson Robinson
Luis Robledo
Ronny Endre Rodli
Dexter Romero
Fabricio Rosero Oscar
Vitaly Ryazanov
Mihail Rybalko
Ahmed Saad Helmy
Kate Saestad
Natalya Sakmarova
Johan Sanabria Monsalve
Adelmo Santos
Eloi Santos
Nilson Santos
Christopher Sawvel
Sergey Schipakov
David Scrim
Kamel Sekher
Russell Sell
Youcef Selmati
Konstantin Selyunin
Edi Erwin Sembiring
Jacileide Seram
Saket Seth
Andrey Shapolov
Mostafa Shehata
Amit Shete
Venkatesh Shridharan
Cleiton Silva
Jennifer Simpkins
Brian Albert Simpson
Ryan Singh
Brice Aymar Sitou
Therese Ann Skarpenes
Kristian Skjeivik
Brian Smith
Jerome Somai
Lin Chee Soo
Scott Sorensen
Diego Jose Souza
Mario Sergio Souza
Benjamin Spetz
Jose Manuel Suarez Tineo
I Putu Agus Sugiarta
Adnan Suhadi
Denis Sukharev
Sergey Syrikov
Tamara Tezieva
Alex Thomas
Saju Thomas
Donald Thomson
Andre Tombe
Brian Topp
Diego Torres
Cy Unverricht
Ramil Valiakhmetov
Benny Varughese
Luis Vazquez
Borje Veland
Oscar Veloz
Ronald Venghaus
Kristine Vethe
Francisco Viteri
Manuel-Robert Voinea
Ivan Voronchak
Stepan Voznyak
Philipp Wachtel
Trevis Wallace
Darren Weir
Kenneth Williamson
John Wotherspoon
Seweryn Wrozyna
Anton Yagodin
Veniamin Yakushin
Irina Yarovaya
Jennifer York
Abdelhad Zaboub
Marsel Zagidullin
Mohamed Cherif Zait
Sergey Zakharov
Alberto Zambelli
Pavel Zavalenyy
XinYu Zhao
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500 employees are recognized with service anniversary awards. With 40 years with M-I SWACO,
Satish Mahajan, Leif Rockas and James Webster are the senior members of the 500 employees receiving service awards
in the second quarter of 2012. The remaining 497 employees and their years of service are:
35 Years
Charlene Aldridge
Danny Nichols
Brenda Beers Reineke
George Tytler
30 Years
Patrick David
Rigoberto Duarte
Rudy Gonzales
Christian Minne
Kjell Magne Oksnevad
Jose Rosales
Achim Schulz
Nils Olaf Sola
Charles Svoboda
Michel Van Cutsem
James Watt
Charles Wayte
25 Years
Gary Barker
Roger Matlock
Josephine Ruiz
20 Years
Richard Biggs
Delton Drown
Thomas Ford
Leon Haskell
Nicholas Hilbig
Robert Murphy
Aanund Nevestveit
Jone Sande
Ahmed Sbitti
Gonzalo Soto
Arnold Wachtendorf
Kyle White
Chris Zlatareff
15 Years
Adebayo Ayodele
Rajesh Bahuguna
Robert Barrett
Craig Boquet
Karim Bouzid
Robert Bryant
Curtis Buxton
Marjeli Carmona Aular
Juan Marcelo Churrarin
Jonathon Clement
Dwight Conway
Shan Conway
Joann Degeyter
Robert Domingue
Ted Edwards
Maher El Torkey
Grover Espey
Peter Fernleigh
Donald Flanagan
Zhiwei Fu
Ehab Gabra Ekladeous
Luciano Garcia
Jose Guzman
Endang Hasanusindhy
Richard Hughes
Douglas Hunt
Per Kaare Karlsen
Warren Massengale
Teresa McCabe
Marit Morvik
Rachid Niazi
Cristina Nicodano
Laura Palafox
Waldo Pena
Stephen Rabke
Lance Richard
Thomas Sonnonstine
Hans Sorvik
Gary Spegal
Jeff Stephens
Richard Sterkel
Rune Sundsoy
Jeramy Trahan
Volodymyr Vartikyan
Gary Von Haefen
Dan Walker
Stephane Zapotoczny
10 Years
Samir Alibalaev
Abubaker Al-Jabry
James Anderson
Jose Ailton Araujo
Alejandro Araus
Luz Betanzos
Carl Boraine
Astrid Bortveit
George Buchan
Dustin Bullock
Benjamin Burley
Christopher Campbell
Thomas Candy
Pedro Cantillo
Javier Ceballos
Samir Cherfouh
Valerie Cogle
Bruce Cottle
Nicolas Cruz
Michelle Dunlop
Alberto Escalante
Michael Falconer
Henning Fattnes
Griselda Fuentes
Chris Gagnon
Brendon Gale
Said Ghania
Scott Gilmour
Vanessa Gonsalves
Christopher Hardy
Andrew Jones
Vladislav Kot
Frederic Lacrouts
Giovanny Lara
Donald Lejeune
Abdelkader Lemouchi
Baode Li
James Linklater
Silvino Macario
Martha Mayree Marcano
Del Giudeice
Colin McKenzie
Fergus McNab
Alexandra Merchan Prieto
Xavier Murillo
Robert Myles
Kendra Nolan
Restu Pristijadi
Frode Rasmussen
Estevao Rodrigues
Ricardo Rojas
Petr Ryabtsev
Mohammed Saeed
Blanca Sanchez
Andreas Schulze
Constantine Shavshishvili
Gordon Simpson
Kevin Simpson
Mark Temple
Eugenio Trevino Galleta
Willem Van Beek
Paul Ward
Richard Williams
Irma Wiradarma
David Zimmerman
Zoubir Zouad
5 Years
Abderraouf Abadi
Maxim Abrosimov
Alejandro Javier Acuna
Cedeno
Reza Arief Adhitiawan
Yasser Aa
Mohamed Ahmed Araiss
Jose Aleman
Andrey Alexanderov
Mohamed Ali Yehia
Kalima Al-Khauja
Dexter Ambroise
Ahmed Amer
Janice Andrews
Oleg Antipin
Zainal Arin
Omar Artigas
Mohamed Attia Mohamed
Isaac Badamasi
Raymundo Baez
Aulia Baihaqi
Badal Bakhshiyev
Jose Baldovinez
Herminigildo Balicao
RaviKiran Bangera
Juan Barbour Moreno
Robert Barnes
Anatoly Batov
Pedro Tercero Battistini La
Grave
Jairo Bautista Fajardo
Anatoly Belousov
Francisco Beltran
Ramia Ben Halima
Said Benelkadi
Kjetil Andre Berntsen
Obi Bhirowo
Juni Teguh Biantoro
Noel Bikouta
Pairoj Binarvang
Nurul Hanisah Binte
Riduan
Daniel Birkner
Roxana-Mihaela Birsan
Andre Bizi
Oscar Guillermo Bogado
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