Andrii Velychko

Experience

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  NJSC "Chornomornaftogaz"

  Jun 2010 - Oct 2010

  Roughneck (summer job, internship)
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  NJSC "Chornomornaftogaz"

  May 2011 - Nov 2011

  Translator of technical petroleum documentation

  Translation manual of jack-up rig from English to Russian/Ukrainian language and vice versa

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  Naftogaz of Ukraine

  Jul 2012 - Mar 2013

  Drilling/reservoir engineer

  -Planning and operating drilling, completion and workover operations at field;-Designing wells in support of a field development;-Projects in enhancement of oil and gas production, PVT analyses, well testing;-Preparing drilling contracts, supplementary agreement, cost estimates, economic analyses and assessing risk;-Assessing the suitability of new and existing well sites for optimized drilling operations;-Applying technology and innovation in mud systems, directional drilling, completion, casing and drill string design. Show less

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  Weatherford

  Mar 2013 - Jun 2019

  -Leads and provides supervision for the directional drilling operation at the wellsite in Continental Europe and Middle East;-Experience in drilling geothermal wells with extremely high temperatures (more than 150 C) in the western part of Turkey: Turcas, Zorlu, Gurmat and others;-Experience in drilling horizontal wells in Diyarbakir Province (Turkish Petroleum project) and Kurdistan;-Experience in drilling freezing ring on mining projects in Poland on wells with huge anti-collison risk using jyro: Grzegorz and GG-1 fields;-Drilling deep wells (sidetracks, J and S types at the depth around 6000 m) for UGV projects in the east of Ukraine on variety of fields: Yablunivske, Berezivske, Lannivske, Kotelevske, Machuhivske fields. Show less -Working as cross-functional field engineer (performing both DD/MWD work) on a variety of well sites in Ukraine and eastern/central Europe;-Experience in drilling different well profiles (horizontal, S-type (with open hole to 2500m), J-type, sidetracks, vertical, deep wells (more than 5000m), etc.) in hard geological conditions for customers in Ukraine: Ukrnafta, Poltava Petroleum Company, Geo Alliance Group, Poltava Drilling Company, Region, etc.;-Operating and monitoring drilling equipment (motors and down hole) on the rig site; BHA composition/bit selection;-Operating MWD equipment with positive pulse transferring and some LWD tools (Hyperpulse tool, Becfield, HEL tool) and ensure survey quality Show less

  • Lead directional drilling engineer

    Apr 2016 - Jun 2019

  • Directional driller & MWD engineer

    Mar 2013 - Mar 2016
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  Halliburton

  Jul 2019 - now

  Senior directional drilling engineer

  -Leads and provides supervision for the directional drilling operations for UGV sidetrack project in Ukraine - sidetracks with slimhole and superslim tools from old abandoned wells, using whipstock on depth more than 4000 m TVD with TD up to 6300 m;-Provide operations in Romania (Harlesti, Moreni field, etc.);-Experience in drilling with RLL (LWD tool), gamma and variety of sensors.