Fluids Superintendent

Job Title:

Fluids Superintendent Department:
Drilling & Completions

Location:

Sharjah, UAE Job Purpose

The Fluids Superintendent is responsible for ensuring that all drilling and completion fluids activities comply with operational, HSE, environmental, and quality standards. The role oversees the implementation of fluids programs and coordinates activities between SNOC’s drilling team, service companies, and vendors to optimise well performance, reduce costs, and minimise non-productive time.

• Develop, technically justify, and independently implement drilling fluids programs in line with industry best practices and international recommended practices.
• Coordinate drilling and completion fluids, cementing, solids-control, and waste-management activities.
• Prepare scopes of work for drilling and completion fluids, cement slurries, equipment, materials, and services.
• Participate in tender preparation, technical bid evaluations, vendor assessments, and technical negotiations.
• Monitor fluids-related operational performance, costs, KPIs, and non-productive time.
• Prepare complete end-of-section and end-of-well recaps, including costs, performance results, and lessons learned.
• Review drilling fluids reports, product inventories, delivery tickets, credit tickets, and wellsite consumption.
• Track and maintain sufficient weighting material for well-control requirements.
• Interpret drilling fluids test results and recommend appropriate technical actions.
• Recommend solutions to prevent or address lost circulation, contamination, hole-cleaning issues, shale instability, stuck pipe, and other drilling challenges.
• Provide technical recommendations on flow rates, rheology, low-shear-rate viscosity, RPM, ROP, solids content, and overall hole-cleaning efficiency.
• Support cementing operations, including displacement activities, slurry evaluations, cementing programs, and operational supervision.
• Supervise or support Liquid Mud Plant activities, including troubleshooting and operational optimisation.
• Ensure laboratory equipment is calibrated and drilling fluids testing is conducted in accordance with API standards and international recommended practices.
• Manage or supervise wellsite teams, including Mud Engineers, Cementers, and Solids-Control personnel.
• Communicate operational risks, findings, and upcoming challenges clearly to wellsite and office-based drilling teams.
• Mentor and train personnel while promoting continuous improvement and strong HSE performance.
• Participate in risk assessments, including HARC and JSA, before relevant jobs and activities.
• Provide operational support during and outside normal working hours when required, including during cementing operations, severe losses, stuck-pipe events, and other critical activities.
• Ensure compliance with SNOC’s Quality, HSE, IT, information-protection, and environmental requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Earth Sciences, or a related discipline. A three-year technical diploma in Earth Sciences or an equivalent qualification may also be considered.
• Minimum of 12 years of industry experience in drilling fluids, solids control, and waste management.
• UAE experience is required.
• International experience involving MPD operations and severe-to-total losses is preferred.
• At least two years of experience working in remote drilling locations involving H₂S risks and mud densities above 14 ppg.
• Strong experience with SOBM, HPWBM, tight-filtrate non-aqueous drilling fluids, conventional polymer-based WBM, and completion fluids.
• Extensive cementing planning and operational experience.
• Proven experience managing total losses, stuck pipe, reaming, back reaming, hole instability, extreme geomechanical stresses, and MPD drilling.
• Experience…