Mud Logging Technician at Infoscert Consulting

Description:

• Accurately collect sample cuttings from shale shakers at intervals, and use a range of equipment and laboratory techniques, such as binocular microscopes, ultraviolet fluorescence to create mud logs showing a geological record of the well being drilled.
• Operate and maintain a real-time computer-based data acquisition system which records and interpret drilling parameters such as the speed of rotation, rate of penetration, oil and gas shows, pit levels, cutting rate, mud-flow rate and provided feeding it back to the drilling team and geologist to enhance safety and success.
• Frequently acting as a drilling engineer, collating and then logging details of drilling operations in oil companies computer systems, assisting he wellsite geologist during coring operations, undertaking some on-site maintenance, predicting dangerous such overpressured formations.
• Prepared end of well reports, daily and weekly posts-well reporting logs to the wellsite geologist and the oil company.