English Edition (6 MB pdf) - Saudi Aramco

Jaywant Verma is a Drilling
Engineering Manager working with
Schlumberger Drilling &
Measurement. He has 21 years of
experience in the drilling industry.
Jaywant’s areas of expertise are
drilling engineering and directional
drilling. His key achievements in deep gas drilling in Saudi
Arabia are the successful introduction of powered rotary
steerable systems (vorteX*), the open hole sidetrack
technique to drill challenging Khuff laterals and the
planning and execution of medium and short radius wells.
These techniques have helped in improving drilling
performance and extending the frontier of drilling and
workover operations. His areas of interest include drilling
optimization, performance improvement and introduction
of new technologies to provide solutions to drilling
problems.
Jaywant received his B.S. degree in Mechanical
Engineering in 1986 from the University of Rajasthan,
Jaipur, India.
Sukesh Ganda is a Senior Drilling
Engineer with Schlumberger, Drilling
& Measurements with 10 years of
petroleum industry experience.
Currently, he is handling Saudi
Aramco’s deep gas drilling operations
in ‘Udhailiyah. Sukesh’s main responsibilities
include pre-job well analysis and planning,
monitoring and optimizing drilling execution, mentoring
the directional drilling group, lessons learned capturing,
and operations support. He also handles Saudi Aramco’s
drilling related technical requirements on a day to day
basis. Sukesh has been a key team player in the
introduction and induction of vorteX* services in the deep
gas environment in Saudi Arabia.
In 1996, Sukesh received his B.S. degree in Chemical
Engineering from T.K.I.T.E., Warananagar, India, and in
2001 he received his M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering
from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
Socorro, NM.
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