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Abel
Engineering
Competencies:
Corporate
President - Founded ABEL Engineering/Well Control Co. in 1984
and operated same by providing well control services worldwide
for firefighting, capping, relief well operations and high risk
toxic gas handling projects.
Special
Well Control and Engineering Projects Kuwait Oil Well Fires (Controlled
41 wells with one team in 71 days)
Created
well control management systems and written over 150 Blowout Contingency
Plans for worldwide operations.
Taught
Drilling Practices for Preston L. Moore, Inc.
Taught
Advanced Well Control seminars for Pemex, TOTAL, Mobil Oil, UNOCAL,
EXPRO, NAM, etc.
Taught
a special snubbing school for Mobil Oil Co. including the manual
creation
Managed
5 rig drilling company for 2 years
Well
control projects in India, Bangaldesh, Indonesia, Republic of
China, Angola, Nigeria, Congo, Venezuela, Argentina, Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Louisiana, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Norway and
Germany. Mr. Abel has been involved in complex well control operations
worldwide in the past 20 years.
Rig
Site Supervision - Deep high-pressure gas wells, Well Control,
Relief Well drilling, Deep wells in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.
Also in Tunisia deep rank wildcat. Worked as drilling superintendent
for Aramco in Saudi Arabia on H2S type wells in deep Kuff exploration
program.
Publications
- Thirty-four technical publications in trade journals mostly
on specialized well control operations and project management
for well control operations.
Technical
Training:
Advanced
Well Control and HAZOP
Computer Skills - Word processing, Data Bases, Spread Sheets,
Project Management
Basics:
Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY 1967-1971
Engineering - Petroleum Engineer Specialist
Master
of Business Administration Southern Methodist University 1971-1974
Passport:
USA
no. 131954364 issued in Houston, 5Jun96 expires 4Jun06
Registered
Professional Engineer - Texas (#40719) and Oklahoma (#14489)
Married
with 2 sons (age 18 and 20). DOB: 17 June 1949
Member
of Society of Petroleum Engineers, IADC, Society of Professional
Engineers.
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