Engineering interview answering Oct 2018
- 2. Tell me about yourself / Excites: / The skills and qualities you have; • Your experience & passion for working in the role; • And how you are going to ADD VALUE, to the BP brand. Thanks - Thank you for giving me an opportunity in participating this interview, . Impact - I am excited get because I look forward this is an opportunity to apply my expertise & skills at BP and which would create meaningful impact in Well Engineering field, The qualifications expected for this position are perfectly matching with my skills set, experiences and career objectives. Name Introduction & Years - Now let me introduce myself, I am Shraddhanand, I am working for Oil & Gas industry for almost 18 years. Expertise: My expertise is basically more focused on developing well engineering infrastructure which promote successful start-ups, execution & full spectrum of well life cycle. Which includes drilling, completions, workover, well integrity maintenance, plug and abandonment activities, but all activities are planned while prioritizing operational safety . Diverse Skill Sets: I have gained diverse skill set while working with reputed oil companies known for their industrial standards such as British Gas, PDO, Transocean, and KOC. I have experience in planning & design and site executions for both Onshore and offshore project. Present Position: Talking about present position, I joined current organization on Senior Well Engineer position and on last year I get promoted to Well Engineering Manager position at professional level-4, technical competency wise this is the highest position in current organization. I am accountable for planning, design & executions of more than 850 wells within Marmul & Greater Saqr Satellite (GSSFD) IPM fields utilizing 6 Rigs and 2 HFBUs
- 3. Achievements To talk about my achievements, a) On last year I had honored with "Best Efficiency Award in Project Planning from Middle East & North Africa Region “ This award was given in recognition of successful launching of infrastructure required for well engineering startup. For your information over period of two years, I have planned, designed, and executed over 450 wells. The average well delivery count per month is around 30-35 wells. b) I am also appointed as the Digital Focal Point, I am responsible for development of inhouse engineering software’s, During lockdown I also made efforts to create "Hydraulics Software," which is made available on "Optineers.com.“ c) I also have recognized with nine "PDO SHUKRAN Awards" for significant saving contributions for about 30% cost reduction as well as increase in time efficiency. d) Just to add on to my achievement from college days. Schlumberger usually visit different college campuses to complement Student Scholarship programs at university level, they usually select one research project for their scholarship programs and during my time I have been awarded the Schlumberger scholarship two research projects. About BP: Now moving towards to my interest to join BP, when I have explored information about this role on BP portal, I come know that drilling engineers are integral part of wells discipline, which is always there in other companies, but new thing I come to know about GW , It is part of global wells organization (GWO) at BP. This GWO I believe it is separate independent technical pillar of BP Which is formed with intention of safe, compliant and reliable well deliveries. To talk more about BP, In my point of view looking at BP is of one of leading organizations nowadays it is known for its commitment toward green energy and moving towards to meet its ultimate goal achieving
- 5. How well do you work in a team? Describe a time when you put the needs of the team first and demonstrated flexibility in the workplace. तुम्ही संघात किती चांगले काम करता? अशा वेळेचे वर्णन करा जेव्हा तुम्ही संघाच्या गरजा प्रथम ठेवल्या आणि कामाच्या ठिकाणी लवचिकता प्रदर्शित क े ली. Define Teamwork: When we talk about teamwork, If we can not forget that we have not borne in this world alone and we have been borne from parents, we are residing in societies or surrounded by public. If I think I can do any activity by myself by my own with zero external human support / aid / resource, then it never happen. So any task which is completed it involves shares from our companion (it can be wife, mother father, relatives, friend or collogues) so being respectful to our companion or companions is worth mentioning about teamwork. Success behind any mission is not from any single efforts, it is always from collaborative effort. Philosophical example: I would like to present two examples to talk about my understanding on teamwork, one scientific and the other may be philosophical, During our academic years, when we learn about theory of magnetism, which mentions that magnetization vectors of all domains when get align perfectly in one direction, then a strong magnet is generated / produced. Similarly, if we consider ourselves as components / constituents of organization working in one domain and if we try to align our personal objectives with company's goals, then definitely we expect for strong /robust outcome. And other side philosophical example would like to present is one moral tale, that is bundle of sticks, which is usually often shared with our children. So, in our everyday experiences, teamwork shows both principles “bundle of sticks” and “ theory of magnetism.
- 6. Examples: To talk about my personal experiences about teamwork involvement, There are variety of examples. one of which occurred during start of IPM project, and it was beginning year. We had commitment to deliver total 240 wells in one year, which was last year. We faced a massive shortage in manpower on site execution and also on logistic side, also in on senior level positions particularly with the drilling superintendent position & logistic manager. I decided to take initiative to support in addition to my existing responsibilities, I performed role of superintendent & logistics coordinator & existed role together for almost six months, which was exhaustive for me but ultimately, happiness come when we saw that we achieved well delivery targets committed for that year . There are other many instances, in which I extended my support in complex situation and helped team to come out from bottlenecks by giving them innovative solutions. For example, In our one of fiber optic campaign, One of renowned vendor (I don’t want to disclose name) who decided to stop supplying critical element & spares, then fiber optic team lost all hopes to complete wells for perforation orientation, I have supported them & introduced innovative concept of oriented perforation using Gyro technology, This idea generated in mind while relating to existed proven industrial practice of whip-stock orientation. This concept was implemented on successful trails, and now as a result we are independent from that third party supply we developed our own inhouse technology and successfully completed 90% of the oriented perforation jobs by our own, and company is now preparing to launch this concept commercially.
- 8. Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond to achieve a goal? In my understanding about term "Going Beyond" or "above" refers to situations where someone take an initiative to put extra effort or uses innovative and unconventional methods to delver desired objectives. We can relate two aspects : “Optimization to increase profit margins” and on other hand is “to maintain sustainability in routine performance to ensure consistent Cashflows”, Everywhere we come across to some negative circumstances where it is difficult to maintain sustainability in routine performance, for e.g. shortfall in resources, it can be manpower or interdependent product supplies. I would like to share some of the past positive and negative circumstance which I come across. As a part of optimization, we always struggle for improvisation in existed methodologies and well designs, e.g. deepening casing seats in order to remove problematic formations from reservoir section, Implementation of EM technology replacing pulse telemetry to reduce connection time, implementation of MPD to drill reservoir section incase nearby water injectors are kept running, this will help in reduction of production deferment from nearby oil producers, reducing length of kill string usages, displacing well with completion brine after cementation. In total, as resultant from such small initiatives our well delivery time is getting decreased. Taking about negative circumstances where I shown my leadership skills, As per my understanding leadership means taking initiative, responsibility and accountability. During time of our IPM project start up, company had zero infrastructure for well engineering or planning design, not having inhouse well engineering software’s or any SOPs. So in simple word to saywe were in crisis. Company do not willing to pay in extra for getting external resources, it was big challenge for me and I decided to take ownership & carefully crafted well engineering infrastructure by own. I developed in-house applications for well planning tools, which include a comprehensive package of 11 distinct well designs. Such type of in-house application creations has eliminated dependency on external software purchases, and gave us cost saving Also, would like to share other examples, while working with PDO, received total nine recognitions for significant of savings across various projects, To take example of Azauz. In Anzuz field, wells use to get deliver in 25 – 30 days then I took personal interest to dig out more to know the facts and performed historical study and come
- 10. Why do you want to work in the energy industry? If we go and define Energy means ability to do work or work done or Thing which become cause for generating power through energy transformation from one form to other form. The term “Energy sector” is coming from collective range of industries which involved in production and sale of energy or power, E.g: fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining, and distribution activities. We as a human are running behind to live comfort way of life and goal is to get fulfill all needs, these are being tried to achieve through energy transformation. In ancient days before fire utilization inventions people us to get light from Sun in daytime but after industrial revolution they start utilizing heat from fire to cook food and illuminating or lighting premises by utilizing flame. Then recently electrical innovation brought major revolution in Human society Moving towards comfortable lifestyle is main driving factor for industrial revolution, In our daily routine, we are surrounded by different energy conversions or energy transformations and continuously efforts for innovations are taking place in this energy field (that we can say research & development). Now if we talk about energy forms then there are various form of energies- Chemical energy, Mechanical Energy, Thermal energy, Nuclear energy, Solar energy. Tidal Energy. And out of these several energy conversions are fundamental to our routine life. E.g. Presently, electricity is primarily generated through Hydroelectric Dams, which convert gravitational (potential) energy into kinetic energy and then utilizing large turbines converts kinetic to electrical energy,. This hydro technology is > 100 years old.
- 11. Although conventional energy resources are essential but need to consider their side effects such as emission of toxic gases, heat and increasing global worming. Hence whenever we talk about energy conversion then two factors comes Infront which are Enthalpy and Entropy. A famous scientist Eddington from recent century thought or introduced us about concept of entropy He motioned that nature of entropy of world or galaxy is having increasing trend which means after certain years / period - global warming will reach to it’s peak and go beyond tolerable limit, means we are moving towards slow poisoning effect. But that disaster event can be delayed rather than to happen it early by reducing increasing rate of entropy. Conventional energy transformations are irreversible or “unrecoverable” energy. Apart from conventional sources we should look for option of different renewable energy sources Solar energy, wind power, bioenergy and hydroelectric including tidal energy. If we talk about the extents of different channels for electric supply globally. Then we can see 36% share is coming from coal and 23% from Gas, And from different forms which are solar & other renewable is just 4 %. We know solar power is unlimited energy source do not have harmful side effects or greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon footprint of solar panels is already quite small and can help in reduce increasing rate of entropies. Since over last decade, some strong industrials players like BP, Shell shown their social accountabilities, And in public interest, spreaded awareness about generation & use of renewable energy as alternate solution. They are not only teaching us philosophies but also proving them practical feasibility with implementations. There is substantial growth can be since renewable power generation technology from last recent decades, especially last 10 years we can see increasing solar pannel installation requirement in commercial and house propose. Very soon one day will come when renewable resources will replace all