Patrick Hanna

Business Manager | Operations Improvement | Driving & Growth Innovation | Change Leader

Dhahran, Eastern, Saudi Arabia

About

Forward-thinking Oil & Gas industry expert with 15 years of experience with large multinational companies in six different countries. Excellent at driving actionable business practices and seeing the ‘big picture’ resulting into successful operational strategies and cost-saving activities. Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and aligning business goals. Fluent in English, French and Arabic. Core competencies include: Oil & Gas Operations, Client Acquisition, Vendor Relations, Team Management, Portfolio Management, Proposal Development, Expense Management, Client Service, Risk Management, Cost Optimization, Business Development, Cross-functional Teams, HSE Management, Sales Management, Safety Compliance

Experience

  • Business Development Manager at NOV
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    - In charge of Digital Broadband Solutions (DBS) Development and Implementation, Market expansion - Client Relationship Management for MD-Totco in KSA - Leading Efforts to sales and revenue Growth - Cross Functional Collaboration

  • Country Business Manager at Stratum Reservoir
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Successfully managing the Laboratory business in 3 countries Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Pakistan

  • Weatherford (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Geozone Business Manager
      Aug 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      - Successfully Managed SLS (Surface Logging Systems) operations in Kuwait and Qatar with a fleet of 18 Mud Logging units and a team of 150 professionals with a yearly turnover of more than 10 M$ - Successfully introduced Advanced Formation Evaluation advances technologies to our Qatar operations for the first time, with successful trial jobs which developed to commercial proposal later - Increased profitability by actively using resources between the two countries - Secured additional work for SLS through our complete service offering and by extending existing contracts with International Oil Companies

    • Operations Manager
      Jun 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

      - Managing SLS (Surface Logging Systems) operations in Kuwait for KOC with 11 units and a team of over 100 employees - Thru active leadership and management I managed to successfully provide and maintain an excellent HSE record, ranking our Product line (PL) as #1 on our clients KPIs metric for mud logging providers - Continuously working on making sure that the PL profitability is maintained (increased high profit margin jobs & cost optimization)

  • Schlumberger (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Field Service Manager
      Jan 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

      - I Successfully managed operations in 3 different countries (Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) - Increased our client portfolio to 6 (50% increase) thru successful bidding - Achieved delivery with Zero Service quality issues and HSE incidents - Introduced successfully 2 new technologies in the geomarket with 2 different clients as part of my Business Development responsibilities

    • Field Service Supervisor
      Jan 2014 - Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      - Developed and grew the Mud Logging business in my area of operations, transforming it to one of the Key Successes for my PL in Saudi Arabia, generating over 1M$/month - Introduced an adaptive operating mode more suitable for the call-out nature of the operations

    • Field Engineer - GSS Mud Logging
      Oct 2011 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - Worked in the field for almost 3 years in many different environments (land, desert, offshore), and developed needed skills in geology and drilling. - Completed my fixed step program successfully by presenting my GFE (Grade 11) project to Schlumberger Geoservices management in Paris HQ.

  • R&D Intern at IMFS (Fluid And Solid Mechanics Institute)
    May 2010 - Aug 2010 · 4 mos

    - Worked on programming and simulating shallow water equations programming under Fortran and Matlab, for the aim of predicting and estimating water floods in urban areas in France.