Qualifications, Industry Related Training and Affiliations
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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 and Art (1989)
Two year taught courses at Sedgefield Community College.
Robert Gordon University
Garthdee House, Garthdee Road
Aberdeen
AB10 7QB
Telephone: 01224 262000
Web: DART Simulator
STAG Geological Services Limited
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
Sedgefield Community College
Hawthorne Road
Sedgefield
TS21 3DD
Telephone: 01740 617777
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Mayfair, London
W1J 0BD
3rd Floor, Welby House
96 Wilton Road
London
SW1B 1DW
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.
Telephone: 0207 408 2000
Web: GESGB
