Salah Habachi

Drilling Engineer with 10+ years’ experience in Oil & Gas Well Construction- conventional and unconventional. Well versed in Regulatory Requirements and API Standards, Rig equipment's design selection and requirements, Directional Drilling, Casing Seat/Casing Design/Casing Wear Analysis, BHA Design / Vibrational Analysis, Bit's Selection, Torque/Drag/Hydraulic Analysis, Drilling Fluids & Cement Design of Service, Well Control Level 4 Surface Stack, Monte Carlo based AFE / Project Budgeting, Real Time Data Analysis, Offset Wells Analysis, Project Performance Analysis/ Project Risk's Assessment. Taproot Analysis /Service Quality, Project Management / HSE/Operation's Supervision.

Halliburton Energy Houston, TX, (May 2020 - Present)

Sr. Drilling Engineer – Global

• Drilling Engineering on multiple Halliburton Turnkey Projects around the globe.

Halliburton Energy Houston, TX, (March 2015 – May 2020)

Sr. Drilling Engineer - Lead (Delaware / Eagle Ford / DJ Basins)

• Assures technical integrity of well operations planning and execution. 
• Responsible for cost control, process implementation and continuous improvement. 
• Ensures risk assessments are conducted to assure a safe and environmentally acceptable operation. 
• Forecast and plan medium and long term needs to meet program requirements. Anticipate operational changes and prepare plans accordingly. 
• Evaluate results against benchmarks to align with performance targets.

Halliburton Energy Houston, TX (Jan 2014 – Feb 2015)

Drilling Advisor - Global

• Revised and updated multiple Halliburton Project Management drilling engineering standards.
• Assisted with KPI analysis and performance reviews of multiple global projects.
• Trained junior engineers on multiple EDT applications.

Halliburton Energy/ British Petroleum Houston, TX, (May 2012 – Dec 2013)

Drilling Consultant - Global

• Provided Global Consulting and Support to BP, International: trajectory design, anti-collision analysis, casing design, hydraulics, torque/drag, swab/surge, cementing, vibration analysis, well control for vertical/deviated wells
• Analyzed and resolved issues in regard of the use of the drilling applications.

Riley Geological Consultants (Dec 2009-May 2012) 

Well Site Consultant – west Texas / southeast New Mexico

• Rigged-Up / Down unit and all equipment’s. Ensure all installations are performed in a safe manner. 
• Function tested all equipment’s prior spud; performed all necessary routine maintenance schedules according to technical manuals. 
• Marked formations top’s, zones of high formation pore pressure, loss of circulation, unstable shale and other trouble zones. 
• Assisted the mud engineer on location to optimize the mud properties needed for wellbore stability. 
• Assisted DSV with any anticipated or observed drilling problems related to geology. 
• Provided all interested parties with regular and timely reports based on geological and drilling data. 
• Ensured all information required to complete the final well report is identified, recorded, and available on time for inclusion into the final report. 

New Mexico Tech (Fall 2009) 

Drilling Engineering Lab-Teaching Assistant 

• Drilling Fluid Testing: Mud Weight, Funnel Viscosity, Plastic Viscosity, Yield Point, Gel Strength, Filtrate API, API HTHP Filtrate, Cake Thickness, Solids Content, Sand Content, Methylene Blue Capacity, PH, Alkalinity Mud (Pm), Alkalinity Filtrate (Pf/Mf), Chloride, and Total Hardness as Calcium. 

University of Texas (Permian Basin Campus) (Spring 2008) 

Petroleum Engineering - Teaching Assistant 

• Petroleum production system, nodal analysis, hydraulic fracturing. 
• Reservoir deliverability, material balance, Archie equation, formation evaluation. 

Key Energy Services (Summer 2006) 

Field Engineer Intern – west Texas  

• Rigged up and down pulling units; Layed down rods, tubing and downhole pumps for 

check or replacement. Fished for broken rods, tubing’s and pumps. Bailed bottomhole sand.

• New Mexico Tech

Socorro, New Mexico, USA (December, 2009)

M.Sc. Petroleum Engineering GPA 3.98