John L.

Discipline Leader Production Technology at Adura

United Kingdom

About

High performing, multilingual Petroleum Engineer with 15+ years' industry experience and a strong focus on safety. Experience working with and leading interdisciplinary teams throughout Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and USA.

Experience

  • Discipline Leader Production Technology at Adura
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    • Managing production engineering deliveries in both operations and field development • Understanding and managing risk • Assisting in effective decision making • Mentoring and ensuring knowledge transfer

  • Equinor (5 yrs)
    • Discipline Leader Production Technology
      Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 · 5 mos

      • Managing production engineering deliveries in both operations and field development • Understanding and managing risk • Assisting in effective decision making • Mentoring and ensuring knowledge transfer

    • Principal Production Engineer
      Jan 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      • Single point of contact for technical support to drilling, production and project teams • Leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver facility and well design and business case for high-value production-enhancing opportunities • Developing field-wide rig and rigless well intervention strategy to enhance well productivity while minimising cost and mitigating production risks • Designing advanced completions for light oil, gas and condensate wells (chemical injection, inflow control, artificial lift)

  • Statoil (6 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Production Engineer
      Jul 2017 - Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      UK • Successfully planned and executed start-up of first well on green field • Advised and provided support to offshore team to ensure safe and optimal daily production and injection • Ensured offshore HSE procedures met company and regulatory standards • Drove value-adding solutions as well surveillance and optimisation engineer (ESP wells) • Managed downhole chemical injection contract and qualification • Planned completion and artificial lift design for multiple producers/injectors • Progressed inflow chemical tracer strategy from tender phase to field implementation • Created GAP network model to forecast short/medium term full field production • Responsible for technology development (downhole chemical injection valve, automatic production optimsation and autonomous inflow control valve) • President of culture program initiative: organised fun office-wide activities NORWAY • Successfully executed mutual solvent injection job (water injection well) on time and cost • Ensured effective simultaneous operations with the drilling crew and operations team

    • Production Engineer
      Sep 2014 - Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      BRAZIL • Drove production optimisation/troubleshooting activities to safely maximise production on ESP wells • Collaborated with multi-functional teams to identify, execute opportunities and optimise well performance (e.g. interventions, PVT sampling, chemical injection) • Developed improved production rate estimation and allocation solution • Matured water injector acid-stimulation business case and job selection resulting in 300% increase in injection capacity UK • Managed field production chemical qualification program • Selected injection tubing and sand screen size (Prosper and NETool) • Selected field inflow control (ICD) solution using advanced completion models (NETool and Reveal) • Outlined simplification and cost saving (£700k) for downhole injection system • Contributed to well start-up and clean-up strategy and risk analysis • Developed diluent injection EOR (miscible flood) model in Reveal • Acted as Operations Section Chief in Emergency Response Organization • Carried out PVT analysis and fluid characterisation (PVTsim)

  • Field Engineer Hydraulic Fracturing at Schlumberger
    Jan 2014 - Sep 2014 · 9 mos

    BAKKEN • Ensured safe and effective hydraulic fracture stimulation • Liaised with Schlumberger and client representatives • Designed pump schedules (rates, chemical, sand concentrations etc.) • Coordinated equipment mob/demob and rig up/down • Carried out safety meetings • Monitored job progress, ordered proppant, chemicals and equipment on the fly • Finalized service contracts and compiled field tickets

  • Texas A&M University (2 yrs 10 mos)
    • Research Assistant Resevoir Engineering
      Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs

      QATAR/USA • Developed thermal acid fracturing simulator ($600k project) • Published in SPE Journal (SPE 167158-MS) • Presented at SPE Canada unconventional resources conference, Calgary (SPE 167158-PA)

    • Research Associate Reservoir Engineering
      Mar 2011 - Jan 2012 · 11 mos

      QATAR • Created well-placement optimization under time-dependent uncertainty model (Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 109, 2013) • Implemented parallel processing (FORTRAN MPI) of reservoir history matching model on a 512 core supercomputer (Suqoor, TAMU at Qatar) • Implemented parallel processing (MATLAB and CUDA) of novel lattice Boltzmann reservoir simulator on a GPU (NVIDIA: Tesla and GeForce devices)