Wireline Logging Engineer Proficiency
The issue of wireline logging engineer proficiency is sometimes not taken as seriously as it should. Most people will agree that experience counts.
Service companies generally have engineers with varying degrees of experience who are assigned to different clients. The intention in this assignment is to balance the average experience level for each client. In reality, this is not always the case. If the oil company does not pay particular attention to the engineers performing their logging operations they might not get the best engineers on their rigs. There are several reasons for this ranging from a shortage of experienced engineers, to other oil companies being more particular about the experience of engineers performing their operations and therefore getting the best engineers.
Some service companies have a history of having a regular influx of new, inexperienced engineers which in itself is not a bad thing. The problem lies in not having a good crop of experienced engineers to train up the new and young engineers. Service companies have their reasons for having to recruit new engineers and probably one of the reasons is the poor retention level of experienced engineers in the field. Some wireline logging service companies attempt to fix this problem by creating a position for a coach. The problem with this is that the coach rarely goes on the job and is not there to pass on experience during a real-life job.
Having said all that, what is the crux of the matter with young, inexperienced engineers? Well, the oil company that has had to spend the equivalent of 1 or more rig days trying to fix a problem caused by inexperience will know what I'm talking about. Or in the case where valuable logging data is lost for various reasons.
Field experience has shown that, over 80% of logging company failure or problems are due to lack of experience. If all wireline logging service companies had well experienced logging engineer, say 5 years and more, there will be fewer lost time incidents during wireline logging operations.
Oil companies must insist on maintaining a high level of experienced engineers performing their logging operations and the wireline service companies need to find ways of keeping the experienced engineers in the field long enough to pass on their experience to the younger engineers.
Eyitayo (Tayo) Babaniji is a Wireline Logging Operations Consultant affiliated with FOSIL UK Ltd. He is a results-proven oilfield professional with over 10 years of documented success as an operations petrophysicist and project supervisor. A seasoned international with completed projects in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. Eyitayo Babaniji recommends Oilfield Forum.
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