COURSE TRAINER 1

Our Trainer has 33 years extended experience in academic and industry positions. He is the Principal Geomechanics Specialist and the Chief Technology Custodian.  Before joining the petroleum industry in 2007, he worked for 20 years in different academic positions at several universities including the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Australia where he taught a range of petroleum engineering subjects, supervised PhD and Masters Students and conducted extensive research and consulting in petroleum geomechanics. His major focus during these years was hydraulic fracturing and wellbore stability.  He started work in industry in 2007, when he joined Helix RDS. Subsequently, Helix RDS was acquired by Baker Hughes in 2009. He gradually developed advanced consulting expertise in hydraulic fracturing, sand production prediction (co-developer of HeliSand3D), wellbore stability, fault stability and reservoir compaction, subsidence and casing damage assessments.  During his industry career, he has successfully delivered more than 65 industry consulting projects focusing on field development studies, hydraulic fracture optimization and wellbore stability analysis. These projects were specifically designed to support well drilling, completion, stimulation and production operations. In his final role in Baker Hughes, he was a Geomechanics Advisor and Hydraulic Fracturing Subject Matter Expert in the Asia Pacific Region. In this role he coordinated design, optimization and execution of hydraulic fracturing projects and taught geomechanics and hydraulic fracturing training courses. Since 2019, his primary activity has been consolidating and building the capabilities. He has also had a very strong and continuous career in scientific publishing and research. He has authored and co-authored more than 90 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and made numerous presentations (including some invited presentations). He served the editorial boards of the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering and Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology over an extended period, and served the SPE WA Section Executive Committee (2005-2007) and many SPE Conference Organizing Committees. 

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