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Drilling and Advanced Rig Training (2013)


The DART® simulation suite (Drilling and Advanced Rig Training or also Dynamic Advanced Response Training) is located within the Sir Ian Wood Building of the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and represents a joint-venture between RGU and KCA Deutag Drilling Limited. The state-of-the-art learning environment employs 3D graphics to represent a rig floor and the wide range of equipment and drilling processes currently used by the oil & gas industry.


Merlin Extended Reach Drilling Course (2013)


Operations course combined with the Talisman Sinopec Godwin well DWOP with engineering modules covering advance design aspects in Extended Reach Drilling.


Stag Geological Operations and Wellsite Geology Training (2001)


A four day Geological Society accredited operations and wellsite geology course providing an overview of the role of Operations and Wellsite Geologists in well planning and drilling surveillance phases of a well.


Master of Science in Engineering Geology (1993)


One year taught course including modules in the following;


Engineering Geology, Civil Engineering, Site Investigation, Hydro Geology, Soil Mechanics, Dam Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Foundation, Design and Construction.


Dissertation on Current Practice in the Laboratory Testing of Aggregates with Reference to the Whin Sill Dolerite of Northumberland’.


Bachelor of Science with Honours in Combined Science (1992)


Three year taught course in Geology and Geography Earth Sciences including modules in the following;


Igneous Petrology, Metamorphology, Sedimentology, Human and Physical Geography, Geographical Techniques, Theoretical and Applied Geomorphology, Palaeoenvironments, Geological Processes, Data Analysis and Processing, Resources, Statigraphic Principles, Climatic Change, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution.


Dissertation on ‘The Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Great Whin Sill, Middleton-in-Teesdale, N.E. England’.


Advanced Level Geology, Geography & Art (1989)


Two year taught courses at Sedgefield Community College.

Robert Gordon University

Robert Gordon University

Garthdee House,

Garthdee Road

Aberdeen

AB10 7QB


Telephone: 01224 262000

Web: DART Simulator


Merlin ERD


Merlin ERD

Merlin House

Necessity Brae

Perthshire

PH2 0PF


Telephone: 01738 627922

Web: Merlin ERD


Stag Geological Services


STAG Geological Services

3 Fortuna Court

Calleva Park

Aldermaston

Reading

RG7 8UB


Telephone: 0118 982 0151

Web: Stag Geological



Department of Geotechnical Engineering

The University

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

NE1 7RU


Telephone: 0191 208 6000

Web: Newcastle University


Newcastle University
Anglia Ruskin University


Anglia Ruskin University

East Road

Cambridge

CB1 1PT


Telephone: 01245 493131

Web: Anglia Ruskin


Sedgefield Community College


Sedgefield Community College

Hawthorne Road

Sedgefield

TS21 3DD


Telephone: 01740 617777

Web: Sedgefield Community College


The Geological Society

Drilling & Advanced

Rig Training

Extended Reach

Drilling

STAG Geological

Services

Newcastle

University

Anglia Ruskin

University

Sedgefield

Community College

An active member of the Geological Society of London since 1991 and elected a Fellowship in September 1999. An active member of the Geoscience Energy Society of Great Britain since September 2001.

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