MOMENTUM The magazine for the employees, customers and key suppliers of M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company

Volume 16, Number 2 • 2013 www.miswaco.slb.com

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Cover photo: D.J. Staab welds a MONGOOSE† Shaker using the robot welder.

EDITOR: Katrina Pigusch

CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE:

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Ahmed Said Amer, Houston, TX Joe Bacho, Houston, TX

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Bob Bailey, Houston, TX Alex Buchan, Beijing, China Dan Close, Greybull, WY Cheryl Cook, Florence, KY Reuel Daniels, Mumbai, India Mark Dick, Doha, Qatar Mary Dimataris, Houston, TX

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Jerry Duncan, Florence, KY David Enwere, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Tim Farrell, St. John’s, Canada Silvio Goncalves, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Dan Jefferson, Houston, TX Adil Jiyenbayev, Almaty, Kazakhstan Lance Lemaire, Battle Mountain, NV Darlene LeMaster, Houston, TX Art Leuterman, Houston, TX Fabiano Miranda, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Alan McLean, Houston, TX Diana McMath, Dubai, UAE Marie Merle, Houston, TX Deepa Nair, Houston, TX Toby Pierce, Lafayette, LA John Regan, Denver, CO Max Richey, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Neil Ross, Aberdeen, Great Britain Mike Rousseau, Houston, TX Dr. Al Sinker, Bangkok, Thailand Josh Smith, Houston, TX Liyu Sun, Houston, TX Wale Talabi, Houston, TX Alexander Van Den Tweel, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation Paul Ward, Houston, TX Jeremy Wolf, Greybull, WY

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Joe Bacho emphasizes the importance of safe driving and discusses the focus on product and service quality initiatives.

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Tianjin recognized for a great job. Bautino LMP operation gets a big contract. Kevin Kays volunteers in West, TX. Russian Z-43 sets record for world’s longest well. FlexBilling implemented in Thailand. Eureka turns 15. Qatar GeoMarket volunteers and donates. Port Fourchon pumps it up. Kartini Day in Balikpapan.

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CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Currently there are 3 Master Black Belts, 26 Black Belts, 85 Orange Belts and 721 White Belts.

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BLUE PRINT

A new section for Momentum taking success stories submissions from around the world.

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UP CLOSE

A chat with VP of Global Manufacturing Tim Richardson.

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FEATURE

Florence, Kentucky, a great place to work.

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STEM

STEM program growth continues.

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TRADE SHOWS AND CONFERENCES

OTC in Houston, a list of Q1 and Q2 shows, and the 2013 NAM REMS and NAO GeoMarket Symposia.

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M-I SWACO Greybull mine wins the Reclamation Award in the Non-coal Category from IMCC, Safety awards, Brownsville barite plant recognized by IMA-NA and MSHA, salamanders in a North Dakota sump, QHSE helps employee’s daughter get driver’s license, Team Colombia receives Oxy award.

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TECH ROLL CALL

PETRA ENERGIA Slim Hole Mud Tank system project, Battle Mountain benefits from energy efficient program, Vitoria Logistica Offshore LMP increases Brazil’s total storage capacity, ULTRADRILL† drilling fluid system wins Schlumberger Silver Invention of the Year award for 2012, CYCLOTECH† partial processing system successful in North Sea.

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AUTHORS AND PAPERS

26 papers were presented or published.

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CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

Training classes for both employees and customers.

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AWARDS AND ANNIVERSARIES

1092 employees are recognized with service anniversary awards in Q1 and Q2. Howard Keeling is the senior service member, with 45 years of service.

TO OUR EMPLOYEES, CUSTOMERS AND SUPPLIERS

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s we near the end of this year’s second quarter, I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some of our recent accomplishments and re-emphasize our main areas of focus for 2013. First and foremost, safety continues to be our biggest priority. We are saddened by two recent losses (one an employee, the other a third party) as well as several other injuries which occurred earlier this year as the result of driving-related incidents. These tragic accidents can be avoided in the future, but it requires all of us to be extremely vigilant both at work and on our own time when it comes to driving. I urge all of you, especially as we enter the summer months, to pay close First and to your fatigue level, speed, safety laws and weather foremost, safety attention and road conditions before taking the wheel—always give continues to driving your full attention.

Joe Bacho M-I SWACO President

be our biggest priority.

In addition to safety, we have also spent a great deal of time this year focusing on our product and service quality initiatives by putting in place some aggressive targets aimed at eliminating failures at the well site. Our management is committed to assuring M-I SWACO has the correct resources to successfully provide service to our customers. Also of great importance has been increasing efficiency when it comes to M-I SWACO inventory and capital, by utilizing our current products worldwide and significantly decreasing the days of sales outstanding. I appreciate everyone taking an active role in helping us achieve these goals. As always, I would like to thank all of our employees, customers and suppliers for their hard work and commitment to our business and the industry. We are off to a strong start this year, including participating in setting a recent world record with the application of our RHADIANT† drilling fluid system to drill a well in the deepest water depth in offshore India. I look forward to a strong remainder of the year, including some exciting technology introductions. It continues to be my honor to lead the remarkable M-I SWACO team.

Joe Bacho M-I SWACO President

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World Momentum M-I SWACO (Tianjin) recognized for a great job by Energy Development Corporation (China), Inc.

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n environmental incident in 2011 caused the near elimination of OBM projects in offshore China,” stated ES Operations Manager Alex Buchan. M-I SWACO Project Engineer, Wang Zhi Gang, managed a project with Energy Development Corporation, Inc. (EDC) in Bohai Bay, China, where OBM cuttings and associated waste were safely managed. The project, supported from the Tanggu Warehouse location, maintained a crew of M-I SWACO Waste Management and Solids Control Engineers on the rig for the duration of the project. The objective of the equipment used for the project was to minimize waste and provide a means of cuttings containment for safe transfer onshore. The reduction in waste resulted in minimal handling, reduced QHSE risks and reduced costs to EDC. The first time use of a VERTI-G† dryer in Bohai Bay minimized waste and allowed for future OBM projects to be considered for approval by environmental agencies.

Recently opened Bautino LMP operation gets big contract In a recent issue of Momentum, the construction commissioning of the newly built liquid mud plant (LMP) in Bautino, Kazakhstan, was highlighted. The end of Q4 2012 brings the signing of a multimillion dollar fluids service contract with major Caspian offshore operator, Agip KCO (ENI), for the next four years, or more, of operational workload. The operational start-up, plant staffing and required training courses have been completed within the limited and challenging time frame. The result is operational readiness ahead of the contractual schedule. The first oil base mud (OBM) of Bautino LMP was mixed on February 7, 2013, and was approved by the client to be sent offshore for use. Project Engineer Emil Gotzev explained the importance of this day, “For every LMP team member, from the Plant Operator to the Plant Supervisor, this day is the beginning of continuous hard work and huge responsibility in order to meet the customer’s expectations and objectives, and the company’s goals and financial targets.”

Top row, left to right, Plant Operator Rzayev Kairat, Mud Engineer Madetov Samat, Shift Supervisor Ibrayev Nurlan and Plant Operator Dubirvayev Nurbek. Front row, left to right, Forklift Operator Dubirbayev Algali, Storekeeper Zhapekov Sultangali, LMP Supervisor Jiyenbayev Adil, Electrician Salimgereev Ruslan and HSE Coordinator Altyngaliyev Nurlan.

Acronyms used in this section: ASA Asia Area AWA American Women’s Association BHA Bottom Hole Assembly D&M Drilling & Measurement DT&R Drilling Tools & Remedial EDC Energy Development Corporation ERD Extended Reach Development ES Environmental Solutions HSE Health, Safety and Environment LMP Liquid Mud Plant NPT NonProductive Time OBM Oil Based Mud PAD Pump and Dump ROP Rate of Penetration SIG Special Interest Group TMG Thailand and Myanmar GeoMarket

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Sales Engineer Kevin Kays and his family volunteer for a day in West, Texas

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simple request for a short-notice day off revealed their destination around 9:30 am and began setting up at that Sales Engineer Kevin Kays, a DPM Sales the VFW. West locals, thankful for a change in menu from Manager, has a barbeque, peeled and ate as heart the size of Texas. In fast as Kevin and crew were April, the fertilizer plant able to boil. Kevin realized explosion in West, Texas, more crawfish was needed affected 95% of the town and began to the arduand Kevin wanted to help. ous hunt of finding more He contacted the West Fire mudbugs. He was able Department and discovered to locate 360 additional they had help on the weekpounds of crawfish for the ends, but not much during hungry first responders and the week. This discovery residents prompted him to request a of West. day off to drive to West The Kays family wanted and help. to help more and visited Hailing from Louisiana, the local fire station and Kevin is no stranger to Red Cross (where they crawfish boils. He and gave a sizeable donation). his wife, Sharon, have a He saw people coming in business where they host and taking only what was crawfish boils called Who needed from the piles of Dats Crawfish. They have donations, knowing there cooked over 19,000 pounds may be others coming in of crawfish since February. who might need it more. As part of the business A restaurant attempted to plan, they intend on doing donate 200 prepared sandfour charitable events a wiches while Kevin was year and West seemed like there, but the Red Cross was a great way to give back. unable to take the donaThe original plan was to tion. Kevin volunteered to take 100 pounds of crawfish drive around and deliver and 7 gallons of jambalaya. the sandwiches to people Additional food donations who were working through came in after he shared his the rubble. plan with a barbeque cookThe Kays family and crew off competitor; he received spent a long day giving 1,500 pounds of brisket, ribs what they could to a comand pork shoulder, as well munity in need. Kevin, famas 800 hot dogs and buns. ily and crew finally packed Along with his wife, two up, thankful that the empty daughters and employees, trailers they hauled back to who took off from their Cypress were able to help Top: Kevin and Sharon Kays and their daughters Karrington and weekday jobs to volunteer, so many people. Kennedy. Middle: Two employees, Terry and Cameron, of Who Dats caravaned to West. They left Crawfish, who volunteered their time to help. Bottom: IrresistibleCypress at 4 am, arriving at looking crawfish.

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Russian Z-43 sets new record for world’s longest well

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he drilling of the new world record well, Z-43, was drilled shoe-to-shoe at a depth of 40,846 ft (12,700 m). This beat the previous world record also set by the Schlumberger team consisting of 10 segments on Z-44. This is another great example of how collaboration among the segments delivers a world-class well. Application of Continuous Improvement and risk assessment tools assisted in delivering flawless HSE and service quality.

In addition to the challenges normally present in an extended reach development (ERD) well, an unplanned sidetrack from a window below the 18-5/8" casing provided additional complications. The achievements far overcome any challenges. Some of the achievements include: • Zero HSE hurts and spills •

Flawless shoe-to-shoe BHAs in five long sections

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Complex D&M BHAs • Total of six world records broken by D&M • Flawless DT&R casing milling operations with no NPT • CRI performance with a very high ROP (150–200 m/hr) in the two 17-1/2" sections (more than 4,000 m long)

Some members of the Z-43 drilling team.

FlexBilling application implemented in Thailand

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lexBilling is a tool within the ProjectView web application that creates periodic sales orders, single line invoices and consumed sales invoiced based on the consumed product from a project’s ONE-TRAX well file. The application was implemented in 17 countries and has been used on more than 7,000 wells. Thailand, the pioneer in the ASA region, showed great initiative and has received time-saving benefits, increased invoicing accuracy, easier inventory tracking/ management and enhanced ONE-TRAX data quality. Arphaporn Thammateera, M-I SWACO Controller in Thailand, said, “FlexBilling process streamlines sales order creation process, which eliminates invoicing delays and increases invoicing accuracy Thailand FlexBilling team: Wanchana Srisai, Abhijart Kongto, Wichunart Panthukowit, Myron Lazoruk, Catalin Aldea, Alexander Danilov, Liyu Sun, Arphaporn Thammateera, Praima Teeyasoontranon, Theerada Pinsarn, Kanya Permsith, Yaowanna Yamounwai, Kesara Kongnavang.

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in Thailand.” Myron Lazoruk, M-I SWACO TMG Regional Manager, complimented, “The implementation of FlexBilling application not only improved the billing process, it also reinforced ONE-TRAX data quality in Thailand operation.”

Eureka turns 15

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n the fall of 1998, Eureka began with only 12 Communities. Leaders and members were enthusiastic and committed to knowledge sharing between segments and employees globally. Five years later, Eureka members had expanded the offering into 20 Communities and 140 special interest groups with over 10,000 members. Today, Eureka has over 30,000 members in 26 Communities, 124 SIGs and 338 bulletin boards. Since January 2012, over 300 webinars have helped experts share and exchange technical knowledge. Eureka’s offering is not limited to Communities, SIGs and bulletin boards. Through Eureka’s Tellus system, Schlumberger employees have access to an online library that makes finding SPE papers, journal articles, books, patents, market information and IT information simple. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, the Tellus team can help. Even with these great offerings, Eureka is about to get even better. Work is underway to provide you with a personalized Eureka experience. Activities in the Communities and SIGs, related discussions and people you know will be

personalized to you. Another improvement will be to the Enterprise search; it will be expanded beyond the People Search to include a bulletin board search. A final improvement will be an increased ability to find experts; through Eureka, you will be able to find the experts you are looking for from information already captured in the Schlumberger knowledge system. There are a few M-I SWACO employees who are currently Eureka leaders: • Ahmed Said Amer for the Lost Circulation Control SIG • John Candler for the Environmental Technologies SIG • Marc Churan for the Analytical Chemistry SIG • Jerry Duncan for the Lean Six Sigma SIG • Bill Foxenberg for the Reservoir Drilling & Completions Fluids SIG • Mike Freeman for the Drilling Fluids SIG • Neil Grainger for the Chemistry Community • Alyn Jenkins for the Corrosion SIG • Diana Andrade for the Environmental Technologies SIG • Tamesha Wells for the Volunteering in the Community SIG

The American Women’s Association provides soldiers a feast The American Women’s Association (AWA) of Qatar provided a Thanksgiving meal, which included deep fried turkeys, for soldiers stationed at Camp As Sayliyah in Doha, Qatar. About 100 soldiers attended the dinner where Qatar Country Manager Mark Dick fried two turkeys for the hungry U.S. soldiers. Left to right are 5 soldiers, AWA President Diane Louison, Qatar Petroleum Drilling Manager Wedge Louison, Qatar Country Manager Mark Dick. Turkey and fryer are props. No frying actually occurred during this photo.

Qatar Masters volunteer promotes M-I SWACO (for free) Qatar Country Manager Mark Dick volunteered to work at the Qatar Masters. It is a European PGA Tour event that features some of the world’s best golfers, including Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose and Paul Lawrie. Mark served as a Golf Marshall/Scorer for various groups. He also managed to get some free advertising for M-I SWACO when he taped a towel on the sign board. Qatar Country Manager Mark Dick covertly advertises M-I SWACO at the Qatar Masters.

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Port Fourchon pumps it up By Toby Pierce, DS business line manager

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he Port Fourchon team reached a significant milestone last year by mixing and pumping 1.4 million barrels of riserless pump and dump (PAD) mud. In the spring of 2012, the drilling moratorium had been lifted in the Gulf of Mexico, but customers were having difficulty securing permits. In an effort to keep their rigs busy, many of them started on a batch setting campaign for drilling the riserless sections of their development wells. Traditionally, when drilling a deepwater well, the riserless section was drilled using seawater and PAD mud. After the riser and BOP were attached, drilling

5 miles of each other and offering over 70,000 bbls of available storage; this made it possible to mix and load mud 24 hours a day at a build rate of 1,500 bbls per hour. The first step in this successful undertaking was the detailed planning of the wells in order to determine the quantities of mud required for each well in the batch set. The M-I SWACO project engineers determined the volume of mud required for each well section by analyzing the mud weight density required, the flow rate required to clean the wellbore and the expected rates of penetration.

Port Fourchon’s main yard.

would continue with RHELIANT† synthetic based mud. Until the operators secured permits, they would start multiple wells using the seawater and PAD mud. This change in drilling also meant a change in production, which meant 20,000–60,000 bbls of PAD mud every 8–15 days. Production of such a large amount of PAD mud was a monumental feat. First, the people involved in coordination and communication worked hard to produce results. They include the Port Fourchon warehouse team, Port Fourchon liquid mud team, the Amelia Marine Department, as well as buyers, supply chain teams and account teams based in customer offices in New Orleans and Houston. The second element to the success of this operation are the five liquid mud plants located within

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The next step was to determine the time line for delivery of the mud and the number of boats the customer needed to have on contract to deliver mud to the rig. M-I SWACO logistics and materials managers began to plan for barges of barite and brine material to be available and staged appropriately as well as truckloads of DUO-VIS† biopolymer and lots and lots of big bag salt. It takes 56 big bags to make 1,000 bbls of super salt saturated PAD mud. There are 22 bags on a truckload and at build rate of 36,000 bbls per day, 91 truckloads of salt or 2,016 big bags were needed daily. The salt is ordered 3–6 weeks in advance to ensure the material is on the ground when the mixing begins. Each bag has to be offloaded, staged to a storage area, moved to the mixing area and cut into the mixing pit. This required a small

regiment of workers to operate in a safe and timely manner. A novel rail and hopper system was designed to increase the rate that big bag salt could be added safely to the mixing pit. It takes 80 sacks of DUO-VIS biopolymer per 1000 bbls of S3 PAD mud or 2,880 sacks per day, which were all hand cut into the HI-RIDE† mixing hoppers at the mud plant. It takes 143 tons of barite to make 1,000 bbls of S3 PAD mud or 5,148 tons per day at full capacity. That is over five barges, or the equivalent of 228 truckloads, of barite per day. The crews at the Amelia barite grinding plant and Amelia Hub worked at maximum capacity for 14 months during this period to keep the mud plants Regional VP Bret Toups thanks Port Fourchon employees for their hard work. supplied with all required materials. During all this time, During this 14-month period, the M-I SWACO teams in the Port Fourchon shore base did not shut down mixing Amelia, Port Fourchon and on the offshore rigs did not due to a late delivery of products by barge or by truck. cause any significant downtime to the rig operations due There are five liquid mud plants in Port Fourchon. All five to late or delayed mud delivery. The ability to batch set the plants were utilized on a constant basis for the 14 months wells saved our customers 10–15% on time spent drilling during the batch set operations to build PAD mud. Building the wells. Considering the daily expense of an offshore rig, the mud required the plants to first be filled with brine this presented a significant savings for our customers. water from a waiting barge. Next, DUO-VIS biopolymer While mixing PAD mud, Port Fourchon mud plants also was added to the brine in the 1,000 bbls mixing pit, mixed and shipped over 700,000 bbls of RHELIANT followed by 35 to 55 big bags of salt. Finally, the mud was synthetic based mud. weighed up to 16.0 pounds per gallon (ppg) before being Recognition events were held in April and May at Port pumped to the storage tanks. This process repeated until Fourchon where Amelia gave their thanks for such a huge the mud plant was full. A full mud plant in Port Fourchon project. Regional Vice-President Bret Toups thanked the can hold between 9,000 to 13,000 bbls. Once the plant was crews for the hard work during this very busy period. It full, any dead time was spent waiting on a boat to take would not have been possible without the dedication of all the mud to the offshore rig. The coordination between the the M-I SWACO teams supporting this operation. M-I SWACO liquid mud team and the customer’s logistics office was critical to avoid dead time. Once loaded, the mud was transported to the rig site (150–300 miles away) and offloaded to the waiting drillship rig. The rig would offload the supply vessel and blend the mud with seawater to the desired mud weight using an M-I SWACO HI-SIDE mixing unit. Mud was circulated through the wellbore at a rate of 1,100–1,400 gpm, or 1,500–2, 000 bbls per hour. Once empty, the offshore supply boat would then make the 1–2 day trip back to Port Fourchon and be reloaded.

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Wellbore Productivity technology showcase

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he WP technology showcase is complete and has already made a big impression on many clients. The unit is a 24-ft. enclosed trailer designed with a rack system to carry full-size wellbore cleanup tool models. A very distinctive wrap, including the 3-D Displacement hero image, covers the outside and is a definite eye catcher. The idea for this showcase originated over a year ago by Barbi Messier and, after a tremendous amount of effort on the trailer design, wrap design and tool models, has culminated with fantastic results. The showcase rollout of the SMART 3-D Displacement Services occurred at the Houston, TX, Museum of Natural Science in February 2013. There were

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very positive comments from all. Since then, numerous clients have seen the showcase, including Chevron, ENI and Apache. The tools displayed in the showcase include the MAGNOSTAR† magnet, MAGNOSHOE† tool, MULTIBACK† casing cleaning tool, Heavy-Duty WELL PATROLLER† downhole filtering tool, WELL SCAVENGER† vacuum debris removal tool, WELL COMMANDER† tool, Heavy-Duty RAZOR BACK† casing cleanup tool, WELL COMMISSIONER† inflow test tool, RIDGE BACK† Burr Mill and MAGNOSWEEP II† debris recovery tool. The showcase is available for client lunch and learns, trade shows and internal events. To inquire about scheduling the showcase, please contact Barbi Messier at [email protected].

The M-I SWACO Battle Mountain location benefits from energy efficient program

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ew equipment installed at the M-I SWACO processing facility in Battle Mountain, NV, is expected to reduce the plant’s annual electricity usage by about 278,300 kilowatt hours. That is enough energy to power approximately 30 northern Nevada homes for a year, and equivalent to reducing 208 tons of carbon emissions. M-I SWACO achieved the savings by retrofitting one of the plant’s 200-horsepower air compressors with a variable speed drive that operates the compressor’s electric motor more efficiently. In addition to reducing the energy costs, M-I SWACO received a $16,657 rebate from NV Energy’s Sure Bet Incentive Program, which helps commercial consumers operate more efficiently. The Battle Mountain plant mines barite used by both M-I SWACO and customers for drilling fluid production.

Left to right, NV Energy’s John Hargrove and Karen McGinley present Battle Mountain Plant Manager Lance Lemaire a check for $16,657 from the Sure Bet Incentive Program.

Almost impossible to find crawfish, boiled and enjoyed in Doha, Qatar M-I SWACO, together with Schlumberger, Smith Bits, Occidental of Qatar and RasGas (ExxonMobil/ Qatar Petroleum) sponsored a shrimp and crawfish boil in Doha, Qatar. In total, 100 kg of crawfish and 50 kg of shrimp were boiled, along with potatoes, corn and hamburgers.

Pictured left to right, RasGas Well Management Manager Jim Davis, Smith Bits Operations Manager Mike Kieschnick, Gulf Drilling International Rig Manager Troy Pratt, Schlumberger OFS Marketing Manager Steve Schwin, Oxy Qatar President and General Manager Steve Kelly, RasGas Subsurface Technical Group Manager David Frye, Oxy Qatar Drilling Manager Angel Santos, Schlumberger GeoMarket Manager Curtis Gavin, Qatar Country Manager Mark Dick.

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M-I SWACO in Balikpapan, Indonesia, celebrates Kartini Day By Mouren Lumintang, ES administrator

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artini Day is an Indonesian holiday commemorating the birth of Raden Ayu Kartini, known as Raden Ajeng Kartini sometimes, on Apr. 12, 1879. As a pioneer in the area of women’s rights, she became a prominent Javanese and Indonesian heroine. Kartini was the daughter of a Javanese nobleman who worked for the Dutch colonial administration. Because of her father’s role, Kartini had exposure to

In 1904, at the age of 25, Kartini died after the birth of her first child. Her letters were published in 1911 under the title, Door duisternis tot licht, or “Through darkness into light.” In her letters, Kartini wrote about her views of the prevalent social conditions of the time, particularly the condition of native Indonesian women. The majority of the letters protested the tendency of Javanese culture to impose obstacles for the development of women to have freedom to learn and study. Kartini wrote of her ideas and ambitions, including Zelfontwikkeling, Zelf-onderricht, Zelf-vertrouwen, Zelf-werkzaamheid and Solidariteit. These ideas were all based on Religieusiteit, Wijsheid en Schoonheid, that is, belief in God, wisdom and beauty, along with Humanitarianisme and Nationalisme. Kartini’s letters also expressed her hopes for support from overseas. In correspondence with Estell “Stella” Zeehandelaar, Kartini expressed her desire to be like a European youth. She depicted the sufferings of Javanese women fettered by tradition, unable to study, secluded and prepared for polygamous marriages with men they did not know. Kartini Day as a national holiday was first declared by President Sukarno, the first Left to right, row 1: Mouren, Rika, Tina, Alfrida, Suwarti, Firda, Janette, Astrid; row 2: President of Indonesia, to be Apr. 21, Kartini’s Anne, Sylvia, Linda Helmer, Syane, Therecia, Ezra, Darwin; row 3: Trias, Lalo, Mahdar, birth date. This day was intended to remind Edwar, Kenny Helmer, Yudi, Hendry, Rubana, Valerie. Not pictured are Dana Fisher, Risda Pangaribuan and Hotman Pasaribu. women to participate in “the hegemonic state discourse of development.” After 1965, Suharto’s New Western ideas at the Dutch school she attended. After Order state reconfigured the image of Kartini from that of withdrawing from the school, due to her noble birth, radical women’s emancipator to one of dutiful wife and she corresponded with Dutch friends about her conobedient daughter. On this day, “young girls wear tight, cern for both the plight of Indonesians under colonial fitted jackets, batik shirts, elaborate hairstyles and ornate rule and for the restricted lives of Indonesian women. jewelry to school, supposedly replicating Kartini’s attire She married in 1903 and began to fight for the right of but in reality wearing an invented and more constricting women to be educated; this was against the unwritten, ensemble than she ever did.” but all-pervading, Javanese law Adat.

Henry Goodrich ES personnel team receives nomination The Henry Goodrich ES personnel team, offshore Eastern Canada, was nominated for the Suncor D&S Rig Based Operations Integrity Verifications Recognition program on Apr. 23, 2013. Left to right, Ken Rowsell, Darren Mackay, Yomi Ajayi (drilling fluid specialist), Kevin McQuaig, George Edwards. Missing from the photo are Blair Hayes and Jeff Tetford.

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Continuous Improvement Brazil Continuous Improvement event results in more home time for ES employees By Marcio Roberto Hoertel, personnel manager Brazil

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n mid-2012, the ES group conducted a Continuous Improvement event to examine the travel required by ES personnel to support their operations. They found that many of the ES employees were passing each other in the airport to go work in another’s home area. Over the last few years, the ES business has more than doubled in Brazil which spurred an increasing need for skilled people. The demands required the workforce to be assigned where needed to keep up with the growth of the operation. This CI effort was sponsored by Alex Church, country manager, and Alcides Left to right, Bruno Medeiros, Waldney Cavalcante, Paulo Romar, Jaci Serafim, Alcoba, ES manager. Alexandre Cerbino, Alcides Alcoba, Marcio Roberto Marcio Hoertel, Jocelito Gutierrez Hoertel, personnel manager and CI Orange Belt, facilitated the team event. The team started by accessing the skills needed to support the various operations around Brazil. Then Marcio facilitates a discussion with they aligned the closthe team. est people with the required skills to each local operation. As a result, many people were no longer required to spend time outside the work schedule to travel to the various locations. The resulting savings in travel cost and the overtime cost was significant. However, the more important benefits were reduced exposure to travel accidents, more rested employees and more time at home. In addition, a decline in ES employee turnover is being recognized.

The CI effort is a structured process of engaging the people that do the work to resolve issues or take full advantage of opportunities. Marcio’s diligent CI approach to leading a cross department team through a thorough issue analysis, establishment of a clear measurable improvement plan and periodic following guided the team in the full accomplishment of their goals. This is the caliber of work expected and performed by the M-I SWACO CI Orange Belts. True CI is a Business Transformation of engaging our people’s knowledge to “Shift from Department Efficiency to Business Efficiency.”

CI Belts Currently, there are 3 Master Black Belts, 26 Black Belts, 85 Orange Belts and 721 White Belts in the CI belt program.

Certification

Flora Salgado is awarded her CI Orange Belt Certification by CI Global Manager Jerry Duncan. Flora is the OSHE MCA.

Acronyms used in this section: APG Australasia GeoMarket ASA Asia Area BMP Middle East and Asia Area of Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines CI Continuous Improvement DSO Days Sales Outstanding DT&R Drilling Tools & Remedial EAF Europe & Africa Area ERP Enterprise Resource Planning ES Environmental Solutions GM GeoMarket KPO Key Performance Objective LAM Latin America Area MCA Mexico Central America MEA Middle East Area NAM North America Area NOC National Oil Company OSHE Occupational Safety, Health and Environment SIPOC Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, Customers TMG Thailand and Myanmar UAT User Acceptance Testing

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Focus for CI Champions on efforts surrounding inventory and DSO reduction by Jerry Duncan, CI global manager

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oe Bacho kicked off this year’s CI Train-the-Trainer session. The purpose of the CI Train-the-Trainer course, held May 13–16 in Houston, was to inform CI Champions throughout the company of the latest about the CI focus and to provide an update on the latest CI programs. The session began with Joe Bacho welcoming everyone and quickly moved to the CI focuses for 2013-2014. He re-emphasized the CI goals set in the CI Council meeting a few weeks ago. Portions of Joe Bacho’s message are shown below. “We have a significant issue concerning inventory. M-I SWACO represents [a large portion] of all Schlumberger inventory. Schlumberger has set an initiative to reduce [the amount of] inventory ... over the next few years. In order for Schlumberger to meet that goal, M-I SWACO has to meet that goal. We started a project with SBC to focus specifically on inventory reduction; it is a three-phase project and will take a few years to complete. The first phase is to reduce the supply of non-moving inventory items.”

“The second phase focuses on the Demand Planned effort, led by Mark Stoller, VP Demand Planning and CI. The Demand Planning process will provide better visibility on what is being ordered compared to the anticipated revenue. There is significant disconnect today between what we think we need and what we actually need. This is a big area of opportunity, but it is going to take time to get this rolled out around the world.” “The third major step focuses on surplus inventory. Much is said about how clients require we maintain so much inventory; as a result, there are surplus stockpiles around the world that continue to add to the inventory evaluation. So the focus is on consolidating this inventory in our hubs rather than having location surplus stocks.” “Finally, we have to look at the overall rationalization for the products we carry. There are duplicates of the same products with various tweaks and versions, which give us the opportunity to rationalize the product offerings.”

Left to right, Jerry Duncan, Max Yeh, Cheryl Cook, Martin Herrera, Pat Hozdic, Sandy King, Brenda McIntosh-Doell, Holly McNaughton, Flora Salgado, Marianne Slater, Lisa Stephen, Curtis Buxton, Don Presley, Felipe Liporace, Kenny Holland, Mark Hughes, Brad Johnson, Brian Rogers, Chris Barker, Luis de la Torre, Mike Rousseau.

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“If we do everything right over the next two years and we get through Demand Planning and product rationalization, there is a significant opportunity for a huge inventory reduction.”

“The prize is huge. That’s one of the big rewards of reducing inventory, receivables, etc., as it lets us re-invest that money in the business. I’d rather have that money create opportunities for our organization, than have it sitting in warehouse doing nothing for the company.”

“I wanted to talk to you because we have found the processes and tool sets, that we have learned and adopted through Joe Bacho speaks to the CI Champions. Continuous Improvement, which are very effective in things like reducing our inventories and our DSO. We are going to count on you heavily for the remainder of this year to focus on these two very significant areas. Some of things we are doing now are not only to fix the immediate problem, but to fix the process. We are going to change the way we do things by providing some tools, dashboards and setting metrics, which work based on the days of supply by product, which then show supplies to the country level. This allows everyone to track their progress on a daily basis. Anyone can see the level of excess at any given time.”

The week’s session included other speakers, John Oliver, VP Marketing and Technology, and Mark Stoller, VP Demand Planning and CI. Both John and Mark emphasized the importance of using CI to gain our people’s ideas and engagement to achieve improvements for the betterment of our business and our employees. Session leaders and participants shared best practices of the M-I SWACO CI approaches to achieve DSO reduction, and Mark Stoller provided an overview of Demand Planning and how these tools can be used to manage and reduce inventory. In addition, the session trainers, Jerry Duncan, Max Yeh, and Luis de la Torre (DT&R Lean Champion), introduced the new CI for Managers two-day course, presented techniques to engage the adult learner and provided updates to the CI White Belt training, now known as CI Practitioner. As part of the session, each participant developed their own CI promotion and engagement plan to deploy upon their return to their locations. Jerry Duncan, CI global manager, noted that the SLB segments are collaborating to share their CI best practices across the company and develop CI training common to all segments. Considering Schlumberger personnel are highly mobile across the company, this provides a common CI language and approach to business improvement in such a way that no one will be required to re-learn, no matter their assignment. For additional information, contact anyone in the class picture or Jerry Duncan at [email protected].

“My intent is to fix the process once and for all around inventory. It’s going to require a cultural change and make us a little uncomfortable. I was probably the worst when I was a mud engineer. I liked to have a lot of inventory setting around. I know there are a lot of people like me out there, but they are going to have to trust in the system, in the process, trust in the fact that supply chain and materials management will be able to deliver the products we need. There are a lot of things to be done to change the culture.”

“I’m calling on your support, as you return to your different operations, to focus on these two very significant issues. I’d like that to be the focus of CI this year—reduction of inventory and DSOs.”

“Within the last month we had great traction on DSO reduction. Overall DSOs are down … [with] ASA [showing] the lowest of any area in M-I SWACO. When Max Yeh, ASA CI Champion, the “DSO King,” got involved using the processes and techniques that you all have learned through Continuous Improvement, in less than a year ASA has cut their DSO in half. That’s significant.”

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Demand Planning – FORECAST 2.0 By Paul Ward

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ORECAST 2.0 is the forecasting and inventory management tool that will support our company-wide Demand Planning process. After many months configuring and developing the tool with outstanding support from the two pilot locations, North Gulf Coast (NAM) and Germany (EAF), the global rollout commenced in January of this year. NAM in particular is making excellent progress with most areas live and they are on-track for all Districts to be live by the middle of June. This has only been possible due to the commitment, determination and support from NAM senior management, district management and all levels throughout Project Engineering and Distribution in the Operations.

Development of FORECAST entry requirements for Canada West District.

Rollout Approach Each rollout commences with a 3-day kick-off session attended by a representative project engineer, engineering manager and distribution manager from each district or country participating in the rollout schedule. During the 3-day session, the teams define and develop exactly how the system will map to their business needs for capturing forecast data and calculating their material requirements for the near and longer term. At the end of the first week there is a clearly defined, understood and documented process detailing who is responsible for which aspects of the ongoing Demand Planning monthly cycle.

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Over the next 5 weeks, the system is fully configured for the operation’s needs with the implementation team returning in the seventh week of the rollout schedule to conduct system ‘user acceptance testing’ (UAT). If all goes to plan, the location will be live on the 9th week of the rollout schedule.

Teamwork A key component of the implementation has been the involvement of Operations—the people who will be entering the forecast and managing the system-generated recommendations for ordering. The participation from Operations has been outstanding, assuring the system is configured to suit their requirements.

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The system is flexible in facilitating forecast entry at a level that is appropriate for the business and/or location. For some locations, adding a forecast for every rig in the location is required, but for other locations, it may be more appropriate to enter a forecast for a group of rigs, or even at a higher level of district or country.

The system will be live in NAM by mid-June 2013. The Western Hemisphere Implementation Team will commence the LAM rollout in June and is scheduled to be live in 2013. In parallel, some parts of EAF have gone live with forecast entry and ASA have kicked off with a week 1 session and a plan to also be live in 2013. The Russia and MEA rollout will commence later this year. NAM established two Demand Planners to support the Demand Planning process. This role has been essential to ensure the right people have been involved throughout the FORECAST 2.0 implementation and to support the Demand Planning process ongoing for the NAM Area. The establishment of a full-time Demand Planner for each area is an essential requirement for an effective implementation and ongoing support of the ongoing Demand Planning process.

Transparency and Availability of Information There are many significant benefits from the FORECAST 2.0 system, such as: • All data is in a single system—a single ‘source of truth’ •

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Forward inventory projections and turns based on the plan are calculated and presented The single biggest benefit the system provides is undoubtedly the availability of information. This helps users of the system at all levels to make informed decisions regarding material planning and inventory management.

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M-I SWACO ASA DSO Continuous Improvement journey By Max Yeh and Max Richey

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time. This was an aggressive goal, but as a team we felt it istorically, the M-I SWACO ASA days sales was possible to achieve. outstanding (DSO) have been in the 70-day After defining the problem and goal statement for range. Starting in mid-2011, the DSO in ASA the project, the next step was to perform an assessment began deteriorating and had climbed to 93 days in May of the existing processes by conducting a Gemba walk 2012. The outstanding trade receivables problem had at selected countries. The Gemba walk provided the negatively affected the company’s liquidity position. Improving the ASA DSO performance was no small task, especially with so many “The M-I SWACO ASA team has achieved significant improvements in DSO countries/entities in the area using the tools and processes of Continuous Improvement. The commitment, as well as the large amount of integrity, drive and teamwork demonstrated by the M-I SWACO ASA team NOC customers. This article in this achievement is what the Blue Print is all about. My thanks and highlights the CI journey that the M-I SWACO ASA team congratulations go out to the entire M-I SWACO ASA team.” took in achieving remarkable –Joe Bacho, President M-I SWACO and sustained DSO improved performance. Max Yeh joined the M-I SWACO ASA team as the CI Champion in May 2012 with the focus of achieving sustained DSO improvement across the area and reaching the KPOs by year-end. Max’s plan was to utilize the CI methodology and tools to define problems, understand the current-state process and root causes and develop a fast-track improvement plan for the area. Due to the SIPOC diagram wide geographical spread and number of countries in ASA, we realized it was not practical to conduct sequential CI DSO events or projects at every single location. Furthermore, conducting CI projects or events one location at a time would be too slow to achieve the goal by year-end. The final approach was to identify the specific DSO issues at different locations and apply pragmatic solutions to improve the DSO by conducting CI events and projects in selected countries, and then rapidly share best practices across ASA. The ASA DSO CI journey follows the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC) A3 problem solving approach. As part of “Define,” the goal of the project was initially set to achieve 75 days of DSO by the end of 2012 per the ASA DSO KPO. This represented 18 days Cause and effect diagram of improvement at the area level in 6 months of Momentum

opportunity to get direct input from the key process owners from operations and functions. The information collected from the process owners was mapped in a high-level SIPOC chart, which highlights the key factors and stakeholders that have direct influence on DSO BMP GM DSO CI event team picture performance. In addition to the SIPOC exercise, all potential root causes were documented using a cause and effect diagram. The cause and effect diagram organized the potential root causes of issues contributing to high DSO days in four categories. The information on these two CI tools quickly helped Max and the stakeholders to understand the gaps and the issues at their locations and provided high-level direction in approaching difTMG GM DSO CI event team picture ferent countries in improving DSOs. After gaining the big picture on the issues, the area conducted two 4-day CI events in the BMP and TMG GeoMarkets and one CI project in the APG GeoMarket. The lessons learned and best practices from these events were quickly disseminated across the area. Resources were realigned and responsibilities redefined to address process gaps. Better metrics were defined and routinely captured and monitored against progress each month including collection status and actions/responsibilities to address any shortfalls. This ongoing tracking and visibility has been key to achieving the sustained improvement. DSO improvement by ASA area and GM The following table shows the improvement at ASA and GM levels in the 12-month period ending April 2013. All of the GMs have improved their DSO performance in double digits. The sum of contributions from different GMs have resulted in 42.6 days or 46% improvement at ASA area level. The chart at the right shows the M-I SWACO ASA area DSO trend from January 2012 to April 2013. The improvement trend has been remarkable since beginning the DSO CI initiative in May 2012. There was a brief DSO deterioration in October and November 2012 due to ORACLE/ SAM implementation in ASA. Both finance and field operations resources in these two months were spent adapting to the new systems. The GM teams were able to get back M-I SWACO ASA DSO Trend Chart on track in December and continued their improvement in 2013. The 42.6 days improvement represents nearly $50 million liquidity improvement for the company. This is a great continuing our success. We think a similar dedicated effort accomplishment for the M-I SWACO ASA team using the CI that is properly resourced and led by a qualified CI person methodology in achieving quick and sustained improvecould yield similar results for other areas in the company ment. We are very proud of the efforts and focus of everyone and thereby make a significant improvement in the cominvolved in the ASA DSO CI project, and look forward to pany’s liquidity position. Continuous Improvement

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Blue Print The Schlumberger Blue Print Reinforcing our organization’s values, identity, purpose and mindset By Marie Merle

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n April of this year, Schlumberger introduced the The Blue Print—Our Identity and The Blue Print in Action—Our Code of Conduct as guides to help us uphold the integrity upon which our organization’s reputation is founded. Led by CEO Paal Kibsgaard, this important undertaking outlines the mindset we must all share to ensure the future success of our organization. Today, Schlumberger stands in a unique position as the undisputed leader in its domain. This is thanks to the diversity of our people, the strength of our technology and the tremendous advantages of our size and our organization. As our industry continues to grow in terms of activity and complexity, we have the opportunity to take our performance to an entirely new level and better meet the needs of our customers, which will require unprecedented levels of teamwork. “Schlumberger stands at a crossroads,” said Paal Kibsgaard. “Over the last decade, we have grown faster than at any other time in our history, and our industry has become more complex and competitive. Our continuing success is going to require focus and teamwork of a magnitude we have not known up to now. The Blue Print lays the foundation for that focus.” “Our primary concern is to realize the full potential of our great size and organization,” Kibsgaard notes. “If we can achieve this, we will set a whole new standard of performance and reshape the oilfield services market for years to come. The Blue Print is a tool to help us in this endeavor. I encourage everyone to read it carefully, keep it close at hand and adopt its ideas as you move forward in your roles with the finest company in the oilfield services business.”

future success depends on it! The four Mindset behaviors include 13 performance factors that will serve as the criteria upon which the SLP-3 performance of each Schlumberger employee is determined. In this way, your contribution to the overall performance of Schlumberger is measurable.

Our Mindset The principal element of The Blue Print, known as Our Mindset, comprises four types of behavior—Commitment, Integrity, Teamwork and Drive. All of us are accountable for adopting this behavior in terms of our attitude, words and actions as we interact with each other and with our external stakeholders. Our

The Blue Print Stand Downs The Blue Print Stand Downs were launched around the world on Apr. 5, and as of the end of May, the resulting QUEST certifications were close to 90%. This number reflects the percentage of Schlumberger employees who have attended a presentation, participated

Acronyms used in this section: CEO Chief Executive Officer SLP-3 Schlumberger Limited Personnel Form 3

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Introduction to The Blue Print Completion Rate

The chart above shows M-I SWACO leading in percentage of employees who have completed the Introduction to The Blue Print training.

in the exercises and Q&As and gained a working knowledge of the Schlumberger Mindset and the main principles of The Blue Print in Action—Our Code of Conduct. Every employee is required to participate in a Stand Down to pass the new Blue Print certification on QUEST. M-I SWACO is among the leading segments with over 90% of employees having participated in a stand down, and a big thank you goes out to all the managers and employees involved in rolling out these efforts. The Blue Print certification finish line is set for the end of June, at which time the Stand Down period will be closed and all current employees will no longer be able

to have their QUEST certificates validated. At that point, the Values, Identity, Purpose and Mindset as well as the Code of Conduct information contained in the Blue Print documents will be incorporated into training for new employees. For more information on Our Mindset and our new Code of Conduct, visit hub.slb.com/blueprint and www. integrity.slb.com.

The Blue Print is a new section for Momentum. We invite you to submit your stories and experiences related to The Blue Print. This could be related to the rollout, experiences related to you, a co-worker, a boss, an employee, on one of the four behaviors related to The Blue Print, or it could be how you feel about The Blue Print. Whatever it is, we would like to hear about it and publish it in the next issue of Momentum. Send your submission to Katrina Pigusch at [email protected]. Blueprint

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Up Close Manufacturing In each issue, Momentum sits down with one of the many experts within the M-I SWACO organization for a candid look at their area of expertise and how it impacts not only our company, but the industry as well. UP CLOSE recently visited with Tim Richardson, Vice President of Global Manufacturing, to learn more about the manufacturing side of M-I SWACO and find out more about what is being done right.

Tim Richardson, Vice President of Global Manufacturing

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What is your background in the oil and gas industry?

How have your previous positions prepared you for VP of Global Manufacturing?

Excellence in Execution would be the simple answer.

This is not an award as much as it is a strategy. The Centers of Excellence allow us to focus on specific product types with highly trained people who are engaged in providing the highest-quality products and services.

Tim Richardson: My career started with M-I SWACO in 1980 as a Fluid Specialist. The company was called IMCO Services at that time and I was working in the Gulf of Mexico. I spent four years in the field before transferring into the New Orleans sales organization. After nine years in sales, I moved into sales with the Environmental Solutions [ES] group. Since then, I have held many positions within the company including Sales Manager, Area Operations Manager for ES, Regional Director of Operations for the GOM (DS/ES/WP), NAM ES/DS Director and currently VP of Global Manufacturing.

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T.R.: Honestly, I was surprised when asked to manage the global manufacturing groups. I believe the years I spent managing operations provided me with a different perspective. Most would see manufacturing as only supplying products to operations, but it also involves supporting product delivery. My previous experience taught me that it is important that manufacturing needs to work closely with operations and sales to assure we meet their needs.

Momentum: If there were a mission statement for how you view manufacturing, what would it be?

Momentum: Can you elaborate on that a little bit more?

T.R.: It can be attained through two things. First is a defined marketing strategy with measureable goals. Those goals include focus, simplicity, discipline and delivery of a high-quality product to market on time or ahead of time. The second part of Excellence in Execution is doing the right thing by placing the right people with the right skills in the right job.

Momentum: Four manufacturing locations recently became Centers of Excellence. Can you tell me more about the award?

Momentum: What locations are Centers of Excellence?

T.R.: Florence, KY, is a Center of Excellence for shakers. Berra, Italy, is a Center of Excellence for centrifuges. Edinburgh, Scotland, is a Center of Excellence for screens. Queretro, Mexico, is a Center of Excellence for pressure vessels.

Momentum: Why were these sites chosen?

T.R.: Each Center of Excellence location was selected because they have ownership on the specific product. Each location owns the specific product engineering development, prototype construction and the commercialization of the product. By focusing on a specific product type, it is possible to assure timely product development, quality and delivery.

Momentum: Besides the four Centers of Excellence, where are the other facilities?

T.R.: Besides the four Centers of Excellence, there are six other locations. Nivelles, Belgium, does industrial manufacturing; Singapore, Malaysia, does industrial screen manufacturing; Shanghai, China, does oilfield and industrial screens; Mumbai, India, does industrial equipment and screens; Macon, Georgia, does industrial screens; and Tulsa, Oklahoma, does oilfield and industrial screens.

Momentum: Why are these other six locations not identified as Centers of Excellence?

T.R.: As I previously mentioned, the Centers of Excellence are responsible for the development, prototype and commercialization of the product. The other locations build the products based on engineering from one of the Centers of Excellence. The other

locations are based on market strategy, allowing us to be competitive around the world. It’s important to look at the best place to build in order to compete in the local markets.

Momentum: You previously mentioned that locations focus on oilfield and/or industrial manufacturing. Can you explain more about the industrial manufacturing that M-I SWACO does?

T.R.: Most people think M-I SWACO only does oilfield manufacturing, but there is also an industrial manufacturing group. The industrial manufacturing is an exciting group within the manufacturing organization. The industrial group

Manufacturing’s current challenge is assuring on-time delivery, every time, to Operational and Capitals Sales requests. is similar to oilfield manufacturing only in the fact that they build equipment to separate particles. For the oilfield group we are removing drill solids; on the industrial side, we provide separation equipment for pharmaceuticals, minerals, plastics, food and cruise line industries. They manufacture a line of products including sifters,

round separators, rectangular separators and industrial screens. Our goal is to double the size of this business over the next five years by growing our existing market and by moving into new markets such as paper, lumber and mining. This will be accomplished through new market penetration, resources, acquisitions and new technology. Oilfield manufacturing is the largest part of the business though, and we provide equipment for drilling operations. For DPM we provide choke valves and consoles, such as the SUPER CHOKE† and AUTO CHOKE†; manifolds; RCDs; and pressure vessels, such as the SMGS, MGS, three-phase separators and degassers. For solids control we manufacture shakers, such as the MONGOOSE PRO† & PT, MD 2 and MD 3; centrifuges, such as the 414, 518 HV, 500 HV and 600 HV; and tank systems build to spec. We also manufacture our own screens, not only for our own equipment, but also for almost all of our competitors’ shakers. We also do clean cut, such as RVTs.

our purchases, capacity and personnel. Unfortunately, the downturn in drilling activity has impacted both our oilfield and industrial manufacturing. In previous years we built sifters for the proppant business in North America, which were used in hydraulic fracking, but going forward we must adapt to changes in the business. The good news is that we are seeing an increase in activity, our backlog to build new equipment; because of this we expect to finish the year at full capacity. I recently attended the first meeting to discuss the ES Demand Forecasting tool. This is exciting because it will help with visibility and preparation for the needs of Operations and Capital Sales. The new tool will involve BLMs, Operations, Manufacturing and Capital Sales, with feedback provided at each level. The power of the tool will allow manufacturing to plan resources, material purchases and scheduling, which ultimately helps us meet the needs of both our internal and external customers.

Momentum: What are some challenges that you currently face in manufacturing?

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Florence, Kentucky Manufacturing Facility A Schlumberger Center of Excellence and headquarters of SWECO

or some, Kentucky is famous for their annual derby (and mint juleps) and for others it is famous for its one-time residents such as Daniel Boone, John James Audubon, Hunter S. Thompson, Diane Sawyer and Johnny Depp. Nestled in northern Kentucky is Florence, home of one of M-I SWACO’s manufacturing facilities, famous in some circles for quality separators, but most likely unknown to the majority of employees. Everyone should know more about the facility in Florence though because there are some great things going on there. The first thing to know about the Florence plant is that safety is essential. A tour will not be given, a meeting will not occur, nor will a vendor visit happen unless visitors are willing to watch an informative safety video. Director of Global Manufacturing Tom Niehaus is proud of the fact that since joining the company in 1994 there has been a constant increase in the focus on safety with major efforts in recent years adding further levels of safety to the operation. The video promotes safety awareness and reviews the required personal protection equipment (PPE) needed on the shop floor. Once done, the viewer gets a card, good for three years, identifying them as an informed visitor. They have communal PPE available, hardhats, steel-toed shoes, protective eyewear and packaged earplugs. Plant Manager Scott Arnold oversees the day-to-day operations at the manufacturing facility in Florence. He says that some days it feels like he is managing two different companies. In a sense, he is. Not only does Florence manufacture oilfield equipment, they also manufacture industrial separation equipment sold by SWECO. M-I L.L.C. purchased SWECO from Emerson Electric on Dec. 15, 2000. Before then, SWECO sold round and rectangular separation equipment in both the process equipment and oilfield markets. SWECO started in 1917 in California, as Southwestern Engineering Company. They designed and manufactured ore milling and mining equipment. In 1942 and 1955, Southwestern Engineering Company was awarded patents for the original round motion device and modern round

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separator. Utilizing their patented technology, Southwestern Engineering Company manufactured vibratory round screen separators, grinding mills and finishing mill equipment. In 1969, Southwestern Engineering Company sold its successful heat exchanger business and renamed the

Top left: The locally famous water tower at one time advertised the Florence Mall. Top right: Jockeys enjoying some practice time at Turfway Park. Above: Kim Zaun and Dave Adner discuss the turbo separator behind them.

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formed entity SWECO Inc. In 1973, SWECO Inc. established The Oilfield Services Division to develop and manufacture solids control equipment for use in the oil and gas drilling industry. In the same year, the company set up a manufacturing plant for finishing mills in Florence, KY. Emerson Electric purchased SWECO, Inc. in 1979 from the Miller family. The company developed various pieces of equipment that greatly influenced the industry under the leadership of Emerson Electric, including the production of a rectangular separator. A downturn in the oilfield in the early 1980s led to the sale of SWECO’s Oilfield Services Division in 1987 to Environmental Procedures Inc., who later sold the business to Brandt Oilfield Services. Through the years, other acquisitions became part of SWECO’s continued success and growth. First was Macon Wire in 1994 and then Southwestern Wire Cloth (Tulsa, OK) and then United Wire (Edinburgh, Scotland) by M-I L.L.C. in 2001. M-I SWACO’s decision to buy SWECO was based on their experience in the separation and oilfield industries. At that time, SWECO was smaller, but considered a The Florence, KY global leader for the supply manufacturing facility of process separation equiphas been designated ment. There were SWECO locations in Macon, GA; as a Center of Nivelles, Belgium; Singapore; Excellence (COE) Mumbai, India; a joint venture in Queretaro, Mexico; within M-I SWACO. and a licensee in Melbourne, Australia. The SWECO manufacturing locations are strategically selected based on market demand. Approximately

Fred Brewer assembling a choke console.

80% of SWECO’s products are customized to meet customer needs. Local manufacturing lowers cost, allows for quicker delivery to customers and affords better customer service. Local representatives are familiar with the language, the local customs and are able to build a relationship with the customer. The Florence, KY, manufacturing facility has been designated as a Center of Excellence (COE) within M-I SWACO. The idea behind a COE is to have specialists for a product line. The team responsible for the product is able to make improvements to design and manufacturing because of a singular focus. AS a COE for shakers and chokes (pressure control), the Florence team is responsible for engineering, specifications, processes for manufacturing and assembling each product. Additionally, they must identify and secure the key suppliers for each component of a product. Florence is not the only manufacturing COE. The Berra, Italy, facility is the COE for centrifuges; Edinburgh, Scotland, is the COE for oilfield screens. These facilities have the same responsibilities as Florence for their respective product lines.

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Top: Scott Arnold demonstrates how the opening size of a pharmaceutical screen is measured, verifying it is within the customer’s size tolerance. Bottom: The heavy weld staging area. The flag identification process was developed using CI.

M-I SWACO is an organization with global customers and operations, which makes manufacturing and shipping an entire product line from one facility impractical. Regional production at another manufacturing facility is necessary and the COE facility is still responsible for production. Critical components are sent from the COE facility, while non-critical components are sourced by the local manufacturing facility. The COE is also responsible for training, process replication, quality and regular auditing in the satellite build facility. Key examples include Berra producing all centrifuges and Florence producing all MONGOOSE PRO† motor tubes. Capital investments are significant when developing the necessary capabilities for a product line. Creating a COE of a product line focuses the investment in a single facility and keeps the overall expenses within a reasonable budget. The equipment fabricated and assembled in Florence is manufactured with highly advanced equipment. For example, 3-D lasers are used to cut complex piping and provide exact welding prep surfaces, robotic welding is used to make crucial shaker components and choke critical

components are measured by a Zeiss coordinate measuring machine (CMM). Continuous Improvement (CI) processes are actively applied at the Florence plant, as well as all the other manufacturing facilities. Each employee, no matter his or her job function, goes through a Lean 101 course. This two-day crash course has helped improve many of the processes at the plant. A key CI project for Florence was a challenge to reduce the amount of time it took to assemble a MONGOOSE† shaker. The theoretical assembly time for a shaker was 15 hours, however the process was highly variable and tracking was difficult. One person would work on a shaker from start to finish; with a 15–20 hour assembly time, it was difficult to accurately schedule the units through the shop. The CI project led to a change in the department schedule from a five-day, 8-hour schedule to a four-day, 10-hour schedule. The operation to complete the shaker was also split into two steps, one requiring 10 hours of work from one technician and 5 hours of work from two other groups of technicians. This set a clear takt time and eliminated carryover into the next day. Overall, the improvement increases department utilization and doubles production, when necessary. Customers purchasing SWECO separators range across almost all industries, including chemical, paper, pharmaceutical, food and specialty minerals. The people most familiar with the SWECO products and customers are SWECO Director of Global Sales/ Marketing Tom Bowen and SWECO Director of Engineering Brad Jones. Brad started with the company in 1973 during his days at university. Longevity of that type with a company is

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Top: This 3-D laser cuts both pipe and tube as well as 2-D plate and sheets. Middle: Greg Rowe operates a 2-D laser that is able to cut two sheets at once. Bottom: Chris Gagnon demonstrates how the Zeiss programmable CMM operates on a choke body. It verifies critical measurements meet requirements.

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something to be very proud of, but beyond that, he identified the top two things he is most proud of in his career. “Ten years ago I hired a pharmaceutical scientist who helped us develop a vibratory filter/dryer, which is key to producers of new microsphere, controlled release, injectable drugs. A second major innovation is the five-year-old composite circular screens, which required us to develop the first composite screen with molded-on gaskets, which are now the major screen sold—over 10,000 annually.” These types of innovations have helped in the success of the SWECO product line and helped with visibility in large and small business. Who is the largest customer of SWECO products? “The specialty chemical industry is the largest purchaser of SWECO separation equipment, with over half the machines sold classifying dry powders to size before packaging, while others perform slurry screening similar to our drilling fluid shakers,” shared Jones. No matter where you The majority of big business customers are are, SWECO separators in the United States, are identified as one of while in the rest of the the best on the market. world smaller organizations are the primary customers. No matter where you are, SWECO separators are identified as one of the best on the market. Although SWECO is sometimes thought of as its own entity, it is a business unit of M-I SWACO. Vice President of Global Manufacturing Tim Richardson explains how the two are related, “M-I SWACO manufactures oilfield equipment and industrial equipment. The industrial group provides equipment and screens to pharmaceutical, food service, chemical, mineral and paper companies—essentially any company that needs something separated. The oilfield group provides equipment and screens for drilling operations around the world.” The challenge of operating two large, different businesses in one manufacturing facility determines how and where to share and split resources. In Florence, resources are shared in fabrication, machine shop and warehousing. Additionally, many layers of salaried support personnel are equally split between the businesses in functions such as purchasing, supply chain, quality and manufacturing engineering. As the processes and products become more specialized, the splits in personnel begin to occur. Welding, assembly and finishing processes are product line-specific and personnel are allocated accordingly. Another split happens on the P&L level. The industrial side (SWECO) is responsible for their own P&L, but acts as a cost center for the oilfield side. Tom Bowen describes SWECO as a complete business and profit center: “Each global location has a sales and marketing team, responsibility for meeting growth/P&L objectives and maintains locally or shares engineering, accounting and manufacturing functions with Florence, KY. Responsibility for SWECO’s worldwide business is managed from Florence.”

Tom Niehaus describes what is going on in Florence now, “As SWECO further integrates into M-I SWACO and Schlumberger, the focus is on continuing to adopt best practices and represent the corporate image. Recent efforts in enhanced PPE and shop 5S, a methodology and acronym for sorting, straightening, shining, standardizing and sustaining, have produced dramatic changes and positive results. We have quite a few visitors, both travelling employees and customers, so it is critical we maintain a very clean and organized shop on a daily basis, with the goal of representing best in class.” The next big challenge for Florence, and the manufacturing group as a whole, is forecasting for two businesses that follow differing business cycles and operate under different models. Niehaus explains, “The industrial and oilfield businesses are quite different and present a special challenge. The industrial business is largely custom work where we produce 90% or more of the components in-house. We operate under a make-to-order model where most jobs are engineered to the customer’s needs and inventory pre-stocking is minimal. In order to meet acceptable lead times, the shop has to be very flexible with a large set of capabilities.” Tom continues and explains how this is for the oilfield side. “The oilfield business is quite the opposite in that we operate under a make-to-stock model where we handle many product lines, minimal customizations and generally larger volumes. As the final configurations of the equipment are not known and demand can be very sporadic, the stocking is done primarily at the parts level instead of the finished unit. Stocking of parts is critical as many of the parts are purchased, have significant lead times and volumes for units and spares can be quite high and variable. While the two models are quite different, we have developed through the years a system that allows both to co-exist and even thrive as we are able to shift resources from one business to the other as demands change.” The successes of the Florence, KY, manufacturing facility far outweigh the future challenges they face. Evidence

Top: High bay assembly area for environmental solutions equipment. Above: Choke unit ready for shipping.

to support this is found in their active CI participation, adherence to QHSE standards and desire to improve. The next time you are in Northern Kentucky, don’t forget your steel-toed boots and stop by to visit the plant.

To find out more about the Centers of Excellence, visit the M-I SWACO Hub and watch the video. To find out more about the SWECO product line, visit their website at www.SWECO.com or visit their Facebook page, SWECO, a business unit of M-I L.L.C.

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he STEM program continues to advance across the ES business. Each area of the business in ES is now successfully conducting STEM at the rig site, as well as in the ES workshops and for standard equipment that may be in storage awaiting a customer or transfer to another location. In January 2012, there were 71 ES locations. Of those, 48% were at Tier 2, with none at Tier 1. As of April 2013, there are 62 ES locations, with 94% at Tier 2 and 16 of those are at Tier 1. An additional 12 locations are expected to achieve Tier 1 status this year.

The QUEST reporting system has been successfully modified to incorporate STEM reporting across the ES business. Additional information can be found at the STEM SharePoint^ site (http://gbu.web. miswaco.com/STEM/ default.aspx) if you have not already logged your STEM entries into QUEST. Five STEM workshop posters are currently being developed highlighting the benefits and importance of STEM. The first is available from Corporate Marketing.

Acronyms used in this section: ES Environmental Solutions STEM Standard Equipment Maintenance

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Trade Shows and Conferences 2013 Offshore Technology Conference

United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell talks to Marketing Services Manager Dan Jefferson as Schlumberger VP of Global Accounts and Industry Affairs Dan Domeracki watches.

The M-I SWACO booth at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), held in Houston May 6–9, highlighted many technologies. Equipment on display included: • HOLD RCD • VERSA-CHOKE† unit • SUPERCHOKE† unit • AUTOCHOKE† unit • MD-3† Triple-Deck Shale Shaker • DURAFLO† Axiom Shaker Replacement Screen • D500† Composite Flat Panel Screen • DURAFLO Screen for Brandt VSM-300 Shaker • MD-2† Double-Deck Shale Shaker • WELL COMMANDER† ball-activated valve • SMART 3D† Displacement Service • RHADIANT† Drilling Fluid System • RHELIANT† Drilling Fluid System Q1 Shows • Texas Groundwater Expo (HDD), San Marcos, TX, Jan. 23–25 • SPE Middle East Unconventional Gas Conference, Muscat, Oman, Jan. 28–30 • Underground Construction Technology (HDD), Houston, TX, Jan. 29–31 • SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, TX, Feb. 4–5 • IADC Health, Safety, Environment & Training Conference, Houston, TX, Feb. 5–6 • Pipeline Integrity Management, Houston, TX, Feb. 11–14 • Northeast Waterwell Expo (HDD), Fitchburg, MA, Mar. 15–16

• Society of Mining Engineers (HDD), Denver, CO, Feb. 24–27 • Next Generation Oil & Gas Summit, Cape Town, South Africa, Feb. 25–27 • AWWA Membrane Conference, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 25–28 • AADE National Technical Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, Feb. 26–27 • PDAC (HDD), Toronto, Ontario, Mar. 3–6 • SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mar. 5–7 • SPE Digital Energy Conference, The Woodlands, TX, Mar. 5–7 • SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show (HDD with Schlumberger), Manama, Bahrain, Mar. 10–13 • National Association of Corrosion Engineers, Orlando, FL, Mar. 17–21 • Offshore Mediterranean Conference, Ravenna, Italy, Mar. 20–22 • International Petroleum Technology Conference (HDD with Schlumberger), Beijing, China, Mar. 26–28 • SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubings and Well Intervention Conference, The Woodlands, TX, Mar. 26–27 Q2 Shows • IADC Drilling HSE Asia Pacific 2013 Conference, Singapore, Apr. 3–4 • SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, The Woodlands, TX, Apr. 8–10 • IADC Environmental Conference, New York, NY, Apr. 8–9 • SPE Bergen One-Day Seminar, Bergen, Norway, Apr. 10 • SPE Unconventional Resources Conference, The Woodlands, TX, Apr. 10–12 • SPE North Africa Technical Conference, Cairo, Egypt, Apr. 15–17 • SPE European HSE Conference, London, England, Apr. 16–18 • MPD & UBD Conference, San Antonio, TX, Apr. 17–18 • M-I SWACO Technology Expo, Houston, TX, Apr. 25 • OTC, Houston, TX, May 6–9 • OZWater Conference, Perth, Australia, May 7–9 • SPE Artificial Lift Conference Americas, Cartagena, Columbia, May 21–22 • SPE European Formation Damage Conference, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Jun. 5–7 • IADC World Drilling Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, Jun. 19–20 Trade Shows and Conferences

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M-I SWACO hosts 2013 NAM REMS and NAO GeoMarket Symposia By Ahmed Said Amer

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ince 2004, Schlumberger has annually hosted an internal reservoir symposium. The symposium provides an opportunity for technical experts to convert knowledge into a document that earns peer recognition and group awards based on the following criteria: • Technical depth, in honor of Conrad Schlumberger • Business relevance, in honor of Claude Boyeldieu • Innovation, in honor of Henri Doll The Eureka Prize is decided by popular vote of the judging panel. This year, the NAM REMS Symposium was held at M-I SWACO, Houston, TX, from May 6–8. Denis Heliot, Martin Poitzsch and Xiaoyan Zhong were key participants in organizing the event. It included presentations of the best technical contributions and innovations from each North American Schlumberger Engineering and Research Center. The areas included were drilling, reservoir characterization and production. The three-day event was attended by over 70 technical experts. The North America Offshore (NAO) GeoMarket Symposium, also held at M-I SWACO, was coordinated by Chris Reilly, Bob Holicek, Benson Panjikaran and Wade Welkener. The event, held from May 15–16, included several relevant topics from different groups on planning and execution of offshore projects and the value it brings to the customers. Some of the presentations were:

Susan Rosenbaum explains the selection process.

Ryan Shursen presents on ACTIMUL RD dry emulsifier.

• ACTIMUL RD† – a Solid Performer by Ryan Shursen • I-BOSS† – Avoiding Losses in Depleted and Weak Zones by Jim Friedheim • Drilling Needs an App for That by Sanjit Roy • New Technologies to Develop and Apply Drilling Fluids in uHTHP Wells by Guido De Stefano • SMART 3D Displacement Services Delivering an Efficient Wellbore Cleanup by Gabe Little • Expanding Drilling Windows in Deep Water Depleted Sands by Ahmed Amer and Jason Dore Several M-I SWACO presentations were also made in other GeoMarkets symposia with over 40 abstracts submitted. Mike Freeman leads a brainstorming session.

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Symposium Winners Conrad Schlumberger Prize for Technical Depth: Bob Freedman, “Major Advances in Reservoir Fluid Analysis Achieved Using a New High-Performance Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab System” Claude Boyeldieu Prize for Business Relevance: Jim Friedheim, M-I SWACO, “I-BOSS – Integrated Borehole Strengthening Solutions for Wellbore Strengthening and Avoiding Losses in Depleted and Weak Zones”

Sanjit Roy presents on new drilling applications.

Jerry Kapoor, W/G-Houston, “Full Waveform Inversion around the world” Henri Doll Prize for Innovation: Vikas Jain, HFE, “Characterization of Underlying Pore and Fluid Structure using Factor Analysis on NMR Data” Eureka Prize for Popular Vote: Guido de Stefano, M-I SWACO, “New Technologies to Develop and Apply Drilling Fluids in uHTHP Wells” Guido De Stefano, with Martin Poitzsch and Denis Heliot, receives an award for his presentation on RHADIANT† ultra-high temperature drilling fluid system.

NAM REMS Symposium attendees watch the presentations.

The judging panel confers after a presentation.

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QHSE The IMCC awards the M-I SWACO Greybull mine the Reclamation Award in the Non-coal Category

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reybull, WY, is home of M-I SWACO’s bentonite mine and national winner, in the Non-coal Category, of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission (IMCC) reclamation award. Reclamation of bentonite mine land in the Big Horn Basin presents several challenges. An average rainfall of 5", sodic soils and invasive weeds are ongoing problems that require fresh ideas. Nine innovative projects were conducted by M-I SWACO in 2012 to address the mitigation of several failed reclamation sites, the chemical and biologic control of invasive weeds, the reassessment of soils handling practices, the

fostering of agency relationships and the improved coordination of internal mining and reclamation communications. Addressing these concerns directly affected 545 acres of native and mined land, generated a revision in reclamation practices for an additional 1,248 acres and involved the active participation of several outside agencies and institutions. The IMCC presented the Kenes C. Bowling National Mine Reclamation award to M-I SWACO’s Mart Hinkley and Dan Close at a banquet in Cincinnati, OH, on Apr. 16, 2013.

Left: Left to right, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Representative Alan Edwards, Mine Superintendent Mart Hinkley and Geologist Dan Close. Above: Employees of the Greybull bentonite mine.

ExxonMobil Global awards Catch of the Week to Babawale Salami Babawale, an ES Engineer aboard the Transocean Baltic 1, was awarded the ExxonMobile Catch of the Week (COTW) award on Nov. 4, 2012. Babawale received the award for noticing burning electrical cable while passing a mud logging unit. He immediately called the attention of the mud loggers. The extra length of the 440v armour cable supplying power to the unit was melting. The rig electrician was notified and the unit was powered down before replacing the cable with the two end connected to an explosion proof junction box.

Salami Babawale

Acronyms used in this section: CEO Chief Executive Officer COTW Catch of the Week DS Drilling Solutions HSE Health, Safety and Environment IMA-NA Industrial Minerals Association-North America IMCC Interstate Mining Compact Commission MSHA Mine Safety and Health Administration QHSE Quality, Health, Safety and Environment SBM Synthetic Based Mud VP Vice President WP Wellbore Productivity

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M-I SWACO employees on Hibernia Platform offshore Eastern Canada excel Dec. 17, 2012 – Bob Gill noticed a rusted, unlabeled drum of some type of chemical while cleaning up the area where hazardous chemicals are stored. The drum had several numbers on the outside. Bob, with the assistance of the Hibernia stores, was able to identify the contents as hydrochloric acid. He immediately had the contents stored in a properly labeled steel drum until it could be disposed of properly. Bob Gill, right, is awarded the Enhancement/Environmental Hazard Recognition Green Catch Award by ExxonMobil supervisor Wade Greenwood.

Dec. 21, 2012 – Nicole Kavanagh was having lunch with several of her co-workers at 23:00 when she observed one of them gasping for air. She immediately began performing the Heimlich Maneuver and freed the food from his airway. Nicole received a recognition award in the ExxonMobil morning meeting on Dec. 22 for her lifesaving action. Left to right, Regional Manager Todd Reid, QHSE Manager Tim Farrell, Kavanagh, DS Operations Manager Rod Downey.

Mar. 13, 2013 – Gerald Green and Douglas Hunt were loading Glydril (WBM) onto the MV Norseman at shorebase when they observed black fluid coming from the discharge line as the transfer switched to another tank on the vessel. The initial thought was that there was SBM in the vessel’s lines. The men realized there was a potential for cross-contamination and stopped the job. Samples confirmed that SBM had contaminated the Glydril in the Norseman’s tank. The contaminated fluid was removed and a new procedure developed for flushing and cleaning vessel lines.

Gerald Green receives the Green Catch Award for his action to protect the environment.

Doug Hunt receives the Green Catch Award for his action to protect the environment.

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IMA-NA and MSHA recognize Brownsville barite plant The Industrial Minerals Association-North America (IMA-NA) in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recognized the Brownsville barite plant for zero reportable employee injuries for working 200,000 continuous employee hours in 2012. The plant actually has 241,094 working hours with zero reportable incidents. Brownsville now joins the ranks of the Greybull mine and the Amelia plant, previous winners of the same award. Bob Bailey accepted the award on behalf of the Brownsville plant on May 9, 2013, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Left to right, IMA-NA President Mark Ellis, VP Global Minerals Bob Bailey and IMA-NA Chairman and Wyo-Ben Corporation CEO David Brown.

Salamanders in a North Dakota sump present a good question

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hat do you do if you find salamanders in one of your sumps? This was a question Facility Manager Dorin Gabor had to ask when a family of Tiger Salamanders were discovered during a recent Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan update in Stanley, ND. Not knowing the status of the species or how to safely remove them from the sump, Gabor along with the regional Environmental Specialist and QHSE managers contacted the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. A non-game biologist from the Game and Fish Department was able to provide Dorin with advice on how to safely remove the salamanders and relocate them to a new home in a pond near the facility.

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The team was unsure if the species was on the endangered list. By contacting the appropriate agency, they were able to take the necessary precautions and demonstrate respect for and a commitment to the environment. Should you or any team member come across an unknown species, avoid disturbing it if possible. If you cannot avoid disturbance, contact the local Fish and Wildlife Department (or appropriate equivalent) for guidance. This is one of the many ways to demonstrate M-I SWACO’s environmental leadership.

Mom utilizes QHSE Specialist to help daughter get driver’s license Ainur Zhuldybaeva is a 16-year-old Riverton (WY) High School student and daughter of M-I SWACO Accounting Clerk Alma Lucas. She took her driver’s license exam and passed the written portion, but not the driving skills assessment section. Alma approached QHSE Specialist Ammon Foster for help preparing Ainur to pass her re-test. Ainur, Ammon and Alma met to discuss what was needed to pass. Ammon also conducted two modified commentary drives to help demonstrate satisfactory driving skills. A week later, Ainur retook the driving test and passed with a score of 100%. The examiner even commented how impressed they were with the pre-trip walk around the vehicle.

Left to right, Rockies Operations Controller Krista Fidler, QHSE Specialist Ammon Foster, newly licensed driver Ainur Zhulbybaeva, Accounting Clerk and mother Alma Lucas.

Darryl Diamond receives a Safety Leader recognition award Drilling Fluid Specialist Darryl Diamond, of Eastern Canada received a Safety Leader recognition award from the Offshore Installation Manager aboard the West Aquarius drilling rig.

Team Colombia receives Oxy Award Team Colombia received an Oxy award for excellent performance in HSE for DS/WP services in the Llanos area during the drilling campaign of 2012. Congratuations!

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Tech Roll Call PETRA ENERGIA Slim Hole Mud Tank system project By Silvio Goncalves and Alcides Alcoba

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wo slim hole mud tank systems were assembled and installed for PETRA ENERGIA (National Oil Company). PETRA ENERGIA is on an exploratory campaign to discover economically feasible unconventional reservoirs (i.e., shale gas and tight gas) located in the gas-bearing São Francisco Basin in the southeastern region of Brazil. The client’s requirements included a customized, integrated project incorporating solids control and pressure control. These factors along with a local content requirement from M-I SWACO Brazil led to a run-plug-and-play type system and a successful on-site installation. M-I SWACO Brazil managed all stages of the project from the concept phase to completion to job operation. The project involved installing two 170 bbl Slim Hole Mud Tank systems, each on separate rigs. The stage of the project was completed in a timely manner between April and October of 2012: conception, process flow diagram (PFD), shop engineering details, manufacturing, installation, factory acceptance

testing (FAT), transportation, field assembly and the beginning of the job operation. Each mud tank system is manufactured from carbon steel and has the capability to receive, mix and store the mud. Each system includes stairs with handrails, walkways, mud/gas separator, compact D-gasser, 5K choke, 5K console, kill manifold, MEERKAT PT† shaker, model 518 centrifuge packaged with two centrifugal pump assemblies, mud gun, mud hopper and 5HP agitators. The project tasks were defined early, thus allowing timely execution of all phases. The parts and components of both systems were assembled in BAPAM (base of client) by the 26th week after the contract was signed. During the course of the project, biweekly progress reports were provided to the client. The engineering reviews were conducted locally and the pressure control equipment (choke manifold, compact D-gasser and mud and gas separator) were inspected and tested as part of the process to verify the performance of the system.

New 6,000 bbl Vitoria Logistica Offshore LMP increases Brazil’s total storage capacity to 110,380 bbls (17,549 m3)

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n December of 2012, a new 6,000 bbl liquid mud plant (LMP) was installed in the Vitoria Logistica Offshore (VOL) shore base, which increased the storage capacity for all of Brazil to 110,380 bbls (17,549 m3). This base is located in the Espirito Santo State in Southeast Brazil. The liquid mud plant used the design concepts of a portable plant while following the standards of the M-I SWACO Global Facilities Engineering Group Reference Guide. The unit size is 317 m2 and is comprised of four fiberglass storage tanks which hold 1,500 barrels each, a 250 barrel mixing tank, two 6"x 8"diesel engine pump systems, a 6" venture hopper and a cartridge filtration unit. The installation was done to support a water-based fluid and completion brine operation of the SHELL BC-10 offshore project. Around the time the project began, the team had already surpassed 100,000 barrels of fluid built and pumped to the workboats. The fluids pumped included the FLO-PRO† system, sodium chloride and potassium chloride brines.

Left to right, Plant Supervisor Jose Marconi and LAM Facilities Project Manager Fabiano Miranda stand in front of the newly installed portable liquid mud plant.

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M-I SWACO receives the E&P Meritorious Engineering Award for the RHADIANT drilling fluid system

Left to right; M-I SWACO President Joe Bacho, VP of Drilling Solutions Lee Conn, E&P representative, VP of Research & Engineering Jim Bruton and VP of Marketing and Technology John Oliver.

WELL SCAVENGER recovers over 2,000 lbs of debris during completion cleanup operations in a deepwater GOM well

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major operator was completing a well that required a post-perforation packer plug cleanup and a retrieval run. After the cleanup and retrieval run, a well control issue ensued as formation sand entered the casing. The well was killed and additional cleanup of a large quantity of formation sand was required. The M-I SWACO Specialized Tools group recommended utilizing the new modular WELL SCAVENGER† vacuum debris removal tool to clean above the packer plug and perform the retrieval. Once the formation started giving up sand, the tool was used again with more debris chambers that could recover a larger quantity of debris. The BHA was designed with an overshot retrieval tool on bottom, a MAGNOSTAR† magnet, the WELL SCAVENGER vacuum debris removal tool (with three debris chambers) and a SABS circulating valve. The targeted depth to retrieve the packer plug was 11,414 ft, parameters were taken at a depth of 11,327 ft. The M-I SWACO tool engineer began washing down while pumping at 4 bpm and rotating at 30 rpm. Once the overshot retrieval tool was approximately 25 ft from targeted depth, workstring rotation was stopped. They continued to wash down at 4 bpm, achieved targeted depth and successfully engaged the packer plug for retrieval. The

post well control BHA was designed with a mule shoe on bottom and a length of tailpipe able to pass through the packer bore. Above that three MAGNOSTAR magnets were placed in the string, the WELL SCAVENGER vacuum debris removal tool (with four debris chambers) and a SABS circulating valve. Circulation was started at a depth of 11,360 ft at 5 bpm as they began washing down. The string took weight (5K) at 11,365 ft; the pump rate was increased to 6.4 bpm. The string began making progress downhole. As the mule shoe entered the packer, the pump rate was slowed to 5 bpm. Progress was made to a depth of 11,461 ft. The workstring was then POOH to record debris. One additional run was made with wash pipe to circulate out any remaining sand until the necessary depth was reached. Regular completion operations then resumed as scheduled until the well was brought on line. The post-perforation cleanup and packer plug retrieval run was accomplished in one trip. The WELL SCAVENGER vacuum debris removal tool recovered 490 lbs of formation sand created during perforation operations. Subsequently a post-well control cleanup was performed with the WELL SCAVENGER vacuum debris removal tool recovering 1,589 lbs of formation sand for a total of 2,079 lbs of debris. Tech Roll Call

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ULTRADRIL drilling fluid system wins Schlumberger Silver Invention of the Year award for 2012

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he Silver Award means that the ULTRADRIL† drilling fluid system is the 2012 Invention of the Year winner for M-I SWACO and the Schlumberger Drilling Group. This year’s Silver Award follows last year’s Gold Award for the RHELIANT† system. Therefore, for the last two years M-I SWACO has won the Invention of the Year for the Drilling Group. It is a clear recognition of the industry-changing technology that M-I SWACO continues to develop. The ULTRADRIL system is a unique high-performance, water-base drilling fluid that has demonstrated wellbore stability and drilling performance that is comparable to oil-base fluids. Independent evaluations of the ULTRADIL drilling fluid have rated it as the best water-base system in the industry. More than 70 patents have been granted or stand pending for ULTRADRIL technology. As a result, our competitors have been unsuccessful in developing a fluid emulating the properties of the ULTRADRIL fluid.

Not only has it changed the industry’s view of water-base drilling fluids, but it has also proved to be a significant commercial success for M-I SWACO. The success of the ULTRADRIL system began with The ULTRADRIL the innovation of five longdrilling fluid system tenured, brilliant researchers – Emanuel Stamatakis, Arvind is a clear example Patel, Jim Friedheim, John Lee of the pacesetting and Steve Young. technology that With the commitment and dedication of the entire R&D results in profits for organization during its deployour shareholders. ment, it has truly become one of our leading technologies. The ULTRADRIL drilling fluid system is a clear example of the Schlumberger pacesetting technology that results in profits for our shareholders.

Emanuel Stamatakis joined M-I SWACO in 1977 as a Research Chemist. During his 34 years here, he has worked in R&D as a Research Scientist and has developed many new drilling fluid products and systems. Emanuel has also helped with the startup of three chemical plants. He has over 130 granted patents worldwide. He holds a B.S. in chemistry and a M.S. in organic chemistry, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Arvind Patel joined M-I SWACO in 1981 as a Research Chemist. He has been instrumental in the development of numerous drilling fluid products and systems, including RHELIANT fluid. He has 64 granted patents worldwide and another 33 pending applications. Arvind taught 0rganic chemistry at Texas A&M University and did post-doctoral research at Fox Chase Cancer Research Center in Philadelphia. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from M.S. University of Baroda, India, a M.S. in organic chemistry from Stephen F. Austin State University at Nacogdoches, TX, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of North Texas, Denton.

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Jim Friedheim is currently the Corporate Director of Fluids Research for M-I SWACO. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, PA, and graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, with a B.S. in organic chemistry. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in theoretical organic chemistry from The University of Texas at Austin. He joined IMCO Services in 1984 as a Drilling Fluids Engineer/Scientist working in South Texas and later in the Gulf of Mexico as a mud engineer. In 1987, he was transferred to the M-I SWACO Drilling Fluids Product Development Group. From 1991 to 1996, Jim led the Drilling Fluid’s International Technical Center in Aberdeen, Scotland. He returned to Houston to join the marketing department for two years before returning to fluids research. Jim is a constant innovator, and was recognized last year as a member of the RHELIANT fluid team.

John Lee holds a Bachelor’s degree in geology from the Chinese Culture University, and a Master’s and doctoral degrees in geochemistry from Texas Tech University. He joined IMCO in 1984 as a sales and service engineer before beginning his career as a chemist. During his 27 years with M-I SWACO, Lee has worked in the field as a mud engineer, in R&D and Analytical departments as a Research Scientist, and served at a customer’s office as a liaison, before returning to R&D in 2002. His specialization includes clay mineralogy and shale stabilization. He has developed several waterbased and inverts drilling fluid systems for different applications, and was also a member of the RHELIANT fluid team.

Steve Young is another member of the RHELIANT fluid team and is currently the manager of Drilling Solutions Research and Development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He has 23 years of experience with drilling fluids in both operational and technical positions. His current position involves identifying new technology needs, coordinating the R&D efforts of a diverse group of industry professionals and translating the R&D output into field useable technologies. He has authored a number of papers on drilling fluid development, design and implementation.

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CYCLOTECH partial processing system successful in North Sea By Dr. Alastair Sinker

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and typically operates with residence times less than n Nov. 18, 2012, the world’s first offshore produc30 seconds, compared to the more usual 10 minutes for a tion scale partial processing system was suctraditional separation train. cessfully commissioned in the North Sea. The The North Sea primary wellhead platform has 15 170,000 barrels per day (bpd) CYCLOTECH† partial proelectrical submersible pump driven wells, producing cessing system was supplied by M-I SWACO’s Produced 120,000 bpd fluids Water & Sand with a water cut of Management 92% and a gas void Group (PWSM) fraction of ~20%. This and has the capacmultiphase production ity to more than is routed to another double the current platform via a 14" pipeoil production. line. The export presFor maturing oil sure from the primary basins such as the platform is ~31 barg North Sea, shallow and the maximum water West Africa production possible and the South through the pipeline China Sea, the before the ESPs trip ability to sustain (at 35 barg back presoil production is sure) is 140,000 bpd. largely dependent M-I SWACO PWSM on the ability to designed, manufacmanage the evertured and commisincreasing volsioned a compact umes of produced The North Sea successful commissioning team. CYCLOTECH parwater economitial processing system consisting of the following cally. The infrastructure of many of these mature develcomponents: opments is typically a spoke and hub structure, with a • 2 x 50% CYCLOTECH P20 pre-separation number of wellhead platforms feeding a centralized prohydrocyclones cessing platform, or feeding a centralized hub platform, • 3 x 50% CYCLOTECH B20 de-oiling hydrocyclones which then forwards the fluids to shore for processing. • 1 x degassing vessel As the water cut rises, the processing facilities and/or The system also had to be designed to handle a sigthe infield flowlines become bottlenecked and stifle the nificant sand production in the North Sea, which caused field’s ability to sustain oil production because of the rise erosion and blockage issues on process equipment in total fluids. installed on all the customer’s platforms. A partial processing system is designed to be installed Following commissioning, the partial processing on the upstream wellhead platforms or hub platforms system separated 50,000 bpd of water in the North and separate, treat and discharge a significant proporSea primary platform, reducing the fluids loading to tion (up to 90%) of the water phase from the wellstream the pipeline in the other platform from 120,000 bpd to fluids to debottleneck the infield flowlines and down70,000 bpd. This separated water was then treated and stream processing facilities. In many cases, the spare discharged on the primary platform with an oil in water capacity these systems create is a game changer, typi(OIW) level less than 2 ppm. This resulted in a reduction cally doubling to quadrupling the potential oil producin the backpressure on the primary platform from 31 bar tion from the field. Wellhead platforms are typically to 23 bar, which caused oil production from the same small, have very limited spare space, are unmanned 15 wells to immediately increase by ~10%. It has also and have almost no utility systems. This implies that created spare capacity in the other platform to allow the a partial processing system must be very compact, start-up of another six wells. However, when the system self-sufficient with minimal utility requirements, very is run at full capacity, it will allow total production to robust and flexible in operation. The CYCLOTECH partial increase to 210,000 bpd by separating 120,000 bpd of processing system uses cyclonic technologies as a basis

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water on the primary platform. could start up a significant numThis system exceeded the customber of extra wells. The fluids from er’s expectations and they are now the Congo field are very heavy considering M-I SWACO partial (17 API) and cold (23° C), yet a field processing technology for other trial performed in January 2012 applications in the North Sea. demonstrated that the partial Many maturing fields are now processing system could remove struggling with water production, in excess 95% of the water on the increasing the number of opporwellhead platform and treat this tunities for partial processing over water to < 25 ppm. This system has the last 18 months. M-I SWACO has the capacity to increase oil producalready tested and sold another tion from the offshore Congo field 80,000 bpd system to another oil by a factor of four. and gas company for use offshore The future is certainly bright for Congo. The requirement was simipartial processing and M-I SWACO Dr. Al Sinker shakes hands with Schlumberger TMG lar to the North Sea system where PWSM leads the way in this excitGeoMarket Manager Peerasak Gamonsugosol after he a number of wellhead platforms ing new field. As a footnote to this, announces the winner. are producing fluids via a multiDr. Alastair Sinker presented the phase pipeline from a hub platform to a central processing North Sea partial processing project as part of the TMG platform. The pipeline was constrained at a maximum proReservoir Symposium 2013 and won both the Henri Doll duction of 30,000 bpd with a water cut of 95%. The need prize for innovation and the overall prize for best paper. in offshore Congo was to debottleneck the pipeline so they

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Young, Steve; Friedheim, Jim; Lee, John and Prebensen, Ole Iacob. “New Rheology Fluid Simplifies Engineering, Enhances Performance.” Hart Energy E&P Magazine (January 2013) 51–53. (Based on SPE 154682).

Stamatakis, Emanuel; Young, Steve and De Stefano, Guido. “Meeting the UltraHTHP Fluid Challenge.” SPE 153709. SPE Drilling & Completion (March 2013) 86–92.

Zamora, Mario and Hildebrand, Ginger (Schlumberger). “Design Aid for Charting a Drilling Automation Roadmap.” SPE 16343, SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mar. 5–7, 2013.

He, Wenwu; Hajash, Andrew and Sparks, David. “Reactive transport at stressed grain contact and creep compaction of quartz sand.” Journal of Geophysical Research, 2013, Vol. 118, p. 497–510, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50064. Jensen, Terrell and Slater, Ken. “Product Selection Process Utilizing New Lubricity

Burden, Paul and Dimitriadis, Klisthenis (Tullow); Clement, Kayli; Nguyen, Chau; Staples, Tony and Thomas, Seye. “Drilling Fluid Selection Methodology for Environmentally Sensitive Areas.” SPE 163508, SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mar. 5–7, 2013. Thomas, Seye; Leleux, Jerome and Delvaux, Alex (Perenco). “Novell Drilling Fluid Design Enables Successful Drilling of

Musa, I. and Ansari, A. (Saudi Aramco), Alfonzo, N. and El Gammal, S. “HighPerformance, Water-Based Fluid Rising to the Challenge in Saudi Arabia.” SPE 164321, SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show, Manama, Bahrain, Mar. 10–13, 2013.

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Young, S. and Friedheim, J. “Environmentally Friendly Drilling Fluids for Unconventional Shale.” Offshore Mediterranean Conference, Ravena, Italy, Mar. 20–22, 2013. Palmgren, Tor H.; Fajt, James R.; Danilov, Alexander G. and Burnett, David B. (Texas A&M University). “Aeration and Microfiltration for Solids Removal of Produced Waters from the Barnett Shales.” SPE 163803, SPE Americas E&P Health, Safety, Security and Environmental Conference, Galveston, TX, Mar. 18–20, 2013. Massam, Karen; Andrade, Diana and Mueller, Frank. “Optimizing Drilling Waste Treatment to Meet Discharge Criteria.” SPE 163785, SPE Americas E&P Health, Safety, Security and Environmental Conference, Galveston, TX, Mar. 18–20, 2013. Massam, Karen; Hunter, Martin; Eriksen, Frank and Stolen, Geir. “Automatic Tank Cleaning; A Shining Example.” SPE 163784, SPE Americas E&P Health, Safety, Security and Environmental Conference, Galveston, TX, Mar. 18–20, 2013. Hoelscher, Katherine Price; Young, Steve; Friedheim, Jim and De Stefano, Guido. “Nanotechnology Application in Drilling Fluids.” Offshore Mediterranean Conference, Ravena, Italy, Mar. 20–22, 2013. De Stefano, G.; Stamatakis, E. and Young, S. “Development and Application of Ultra-HTHP Drilling Fluids.” Offshore Mediterranean Conference, Ravena, Italy, Mar. 20–22, 2013. Slater, K. and Amer, A. “New Automated Lubricity Tester Evaluates Fluid Additivies, Systems and Their Application.” Offshore Mediterranean Conference, Ravena, Italy, Mar. 20–22, 2013.

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Ji, Lujun; Gumarov, Salamat; Shokanov, Talgat; Anokhin, Viacheeslav and Ronderos, Julio. “Evaluating Wellbore Displacement Efficiency of Post-Slurry Overflushing and Its Effect on Injection Pressure in Waste Injection Operations.” IPTC 17198, International Petroleum Technology Conference, Beijing, China, Mar. 26–28, 2013.

Lee, R.; Decker, T. and Bulgachev, R., (BP); Navarro, R., Plank, A. (Schlumberger), Baswdeo, S. and Jones, A. “Novel Filtercake Breaker Successfully Used in the OHGP Serrette Project in the Carrier Fluid.” SPE 165140, SPE European Formation Damage Conference, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Jun. 5–7, 2013.

Patel, Arvind; Zhang, Joyce Hui; Ke, Mingje and Panamarathupalayam, Balakrishnan. “Lubricants and Drag Reducers for Oilfield Applications – Chemistry, Performance, and Environmental Impact.” SPE 164049, SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, The Woodlands, TX, Apr. 8–10, 2013.

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Career Development and Training SIPP Training Reuel Daniels, M-I SWACO QHSE manager INM, facilitated a successful SIPP Level 2 training for 24 employees in Kakinada, India. Much thanks goes to Mr. Jameel, fondly called Jameel Bhai, for organizing the entire event, enrolling employees and coordinating the logistics for the commentary task assessment (CTA) on the final day.

SIPP Level 2 students in Kakinada.

Reuel Daniels providing feedback after the completion of the CTA.

Customer Training

Conocophillips School

BP School

ConocoPhillips School

A four-day customer drilling fluids school was held at the M-I SWACO Anchorage facility, where 11 ConocoPhillips Alaska drilling engineers and one Schlumberger cementing engineer attended. The school incorporated both classroom and lab activities. Mark Kilburn, a trainer from Houston, facilitated the course with the help of local M-I SWACO Project Engineers Scotten Blair, Chris Ornt and Rick Morris.

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Deepwater Mud School held in Houston, TX, from Apr. 29–May 3. Attendees were, left to right, Acosta Andres (PE, Colombia), Julian Cuchimaqui (field engineer, Colombia), Stafan Surujbally (mud engineer, Trinidad), Phillip James Abbott (PROACT, Houston), John Hanckey (mud engineer, Gabon), Suzett Urbano (PROACT, Houston), Yang Song (modeling & stimulation engineer, Houston), Wale Talabi (training specialist, Houston).

Acronyms used in this section: BP British Petroleum CTA Commentary Task Assessment INM India GeoMarket PE Production Engineer QHSE Quality, Health, Safety and Environment SIPP Schlumberger Injury Prevention Program

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Awards and Anniversaries R.T. Braswell celebrates 35 years

Left to right, R.T Braswell receiving his service award from Regional Operations Manager Kelly Hall.

Senior Project Engineer R.T. Braswell has had a career of travel and adventure. After receiving a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1970, Braswell served as a B-52 co-pilot in the Air Force and later an aircraft commander until 1976. After getting out of the service, he worked for a company that manufactured florescent light ballasts until October 1977 when he began his career in oil and gas as a mud engineer with Dresser MAGCOBAR. Braswell has worked in several locations with several job titles, met his soulmate and fathered two children. In May 2004 he transferred into a drilling fluid product engineer position in the Houston district office. According to him, “It has been a good career for this old Tennessee boy.”

Mark Fairbanks celebrates 25 years Mark Fairbanks, M-I SWACO BPXA account manager, received his 25-year award. Mark started his career in May 1987 as a warehouseman, then moved into solids control operations in 1989. He attended mud school in August 1995 and worked on the North Slope of Alaska as a DFS for multiple clients. Mark’s field career continued until December 2003 when he was promoted to a project engineer in the Anchorage office.

Left to right, Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa, Fairbanks and wife Penny.

Acronyms used in this section: AKA Alaska GeoMarket BPXA British Petroleum Exploration Alaska CCB Change Control Board DFS Digital Field System ES Environmental Services QHSE Quality, Health, Safety and Environment

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Timothy Johnson celebrates 25 years Timothy Johnson, AKA GeoMarket QHSE manager, received his 25-year award. Tim started his career in April 1988 as a filtration hand and worked his way up to service operation manager. In 2004, he was promoted to the AK QHSE manager and continued in QHSE for M-I SWACO until July 2012, when he accepted his current position.

Left to right, Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa, Johnson and guest Carma Man.

5-Year Anniversaries

Prudhoe Bay Plant Manager Chad Myers received his 5-year service award at the Alaska seniority banquet, held Nov. 16. Left to right, Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa, Myers and his wife, Jennifer.

Cody Cucullu, ES operator, received his 5-year award at the Alaska seniority banquet, held Nov. 16. Cody works at the M-I SWACO Alaska Alpine Ball Mill. Left to right, ES Alpine Project Manager Lonnie Wood, Cucullu, father Jim and Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa.

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Project Engineer Pete Nelson received his 5-year award at the Alaska seniority banquet, held Nov. 16. Pete started his career with M-I SWACO when he attended basic mud school and was working on the North Slope as a drilling fluid specialist. In October 2011 he was promoted to his current position. Pete was instrumental in managing the M-I SWACO 2012 SHELL Arctic drilling operations, including design, planning, delivery and execution of the campaign. Left to right, Alaska Engineering Manager Kemp Webb, Nelson, wife Jane and Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa.

Chris Jones, equipment specialist, received his 5-year award at the Alaska seniority banquet, held Nov. 16. Chris began his career as an ES operator on the Alaska M-I SWACO Pressure Fluids Management System (PFMS) unit on the North Slope. Chris also has experience as a CCB operator on the ENI OPP project. Left to right, ES Personnel Manager Jason Lawson, Jones, guest Sammy, and Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa.

Garrett Hoffman, an Alaska M-I SWACO Prudhoe Bay Mud Plant manager, received his 5-year service award at the Alaska seniority banquet, held Nov. 16. Garrett started his M-I SWACO career as a facility warehouseman, where hard work helped him reach a lead position. In January 2012, he was promoted to his current position. Pictured are Hoffman, left, and Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa.

Nick Ridley, warehouseman, received his 5-year service award at the Alaska seniority banquet, held Nov. 16. Ridley works at the M-I SWACO Prudhoe Bay Mud Plant in Deadhorse, Alaska. Pictured are Ridley, left, and Alaska Area Manager Raymond Figueroa.

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IN MEMORIAM

Paul van Lamsweerde Paul van Lamsweerde (38) worked with M-I SWACO in the United Kingdom for over 10 years. He was tragically killed in a snowboarding accident at Chamonix in France on Mar. 28, 2013. He is missed by his friends and colleagues and our thoughts go out to his family.

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Angelica Galazi Maciel Veera Nancharayya Maddula Bo Madsen Claire Main Ross Mair Abdullah Makki Yury Malakhovsky Natalia Malygina Orhus Mandanguy Alfredo Oscar Mansilla Juan Fernando Mansilla Danijel Maric Cesar Marin Gustavo Gabriel Martinez Ruslan Mavlyutov Gabriel Mavungo Simon McManus Cleomax Medeiros Junior Wilson Medina Rocha Mai-Britt Mehus Hetty Meidiaryanti Aquilino Mendez Jacobo Sebastian Mendez Eric Mendoza Freguine Mendoza Ahmed Metwalli Francisco Javier Micieli Guillermo Mieres Jose Miguel Romaric Miguindou-Mbiala Steven Millen Patrick Miller Xandel Miranda Igor Mirzoev Brennan Mischenko Oleg Mishutin Bojan Mitric Ali Mohamed Haroun Abdelhamid Mohamed Ibrahim Ali Mohsin Samuel Mongold DeMarcus Moore Javier Arturo Morales Alexander Morrison Hazem Mostafa Mabrouk Arsene-Davy Moundounga Nathalie Moureau Valeria Moyano Djoko Muljono Dylan Munro Afonso Muntu Harry Inge Myrvang Deepa Nair Mena Magdi Nasrallah Wilson Nazareno Stanciu Neacsu Alexandr Nekrasov Alexander Colin Nelson Martin Elias Neme Luis Nene Obari Ngulube Flemming Nielsen Robert Nielsen Jessie Paola Nieto Burgos

Pavel Nikintin Assel Nizamiyeva Alain Nkonguily Wesley Novak Odd Magne Nyro Amelie Nzang-Ollomo Thecla Obieje Hugo Adrian Ocampo Mette Okland Pavel Oleynikov Leudo Oliveira Olubukola Olugbenle Batyr Orazniyazov Jose Ordonez Luis Ortega Luis Ortega Quintero Nelson Ortiz Perez Christian Orupabo Sergey Osaulko Mika Otterstaetter Carlos Enrique Ovando Jesus Pacheco Maria Paez Luis Palacios Tor Palmgren Jacinto Panzo Rakesh Parab Jose Luis Parada Carlos Paredes Struan Park Jagdish Parmar Norman Parsons Oscar Pastor Salcedo Derek Paterson Raymond Paterson Luca Pavani Cecilia Peck Javier Pedraza Ever Pedriel Duran Julio Cesar Perdriel Alexander Perekhodov Denis Perevalkin Sergey Perevoznik Wilman Perez Becerra Miguel Perez Guerra Victor Hugo Perez Perez Anastasia Perminova Leonardo Luiz Pessanha Sergiy Petrov Alexey Petryaykin Jose Luis Pinedo Rios Nelson Anibal Pino Marceline Pinto Estevao Pitra Dinara Pogodina Andrey Polyakov Igor Ponomarev Joshua Posey Swavik Pradeep Valeria Proano Din Pyak Hilda Mariana Quintero Leslie Quiroz Karsten Rabe Ruth Yulia Rahayu Ashwin Ramamurthy Adrian Ramirez Carlos Ramirez

Douglas Ramsey Melvin Ratcliff Niranjan Singh Rathore Mohamed Refaie Omar Remolina Amaya Riter Rengifo Vargas Vasily Repkin Marina Revazova Roberto Ribera Candia Andrea Ricchieri Kent Richardson Maykel Rafael Rincones Meneses Alexandra Pamela Rios Meneses Mathieu Roan Calum Robertson Daniel Roca Dmitriy Rochev Marcelo Rodrigues Nixon Rodriguez Dorado Jose Rodriguez Ojeda Joachim Roettle Jimmy Rojas Eko Prasetyo Romantha Marcelo Claudio Romero Weida Rong Sergio Tomas Rosales Marcia Rosero Oleksandr Rozhko Artem Rudyuk Jan-Oliver Ruhnke Anna Russinova Anatoliy Rybalkin Adel Saddik Khaled Sahli Mir Saifullah Victor Alfonso Salazar Guzman Dardo Salazar Rivera Manuelito Salvan Viktor Samarov Filipe Sambo Gulzhamal Sanbayeva Jose Sanchez Raziel Sanchez Luis Remberto Sandoval Barrientos Pierre Santana Edleia Santos Jose Santos Luiz Carlos Santos Denis Sapozhnikov Jose Saray Gamboa Enrique Alejandro Sardo Jerage Sassa Vladislav Savonov Ronald Schroeder Eric Schluer Dian Mira Sekar Ayu Claudio Serrano Chavez Carlos Serrato Mayur Shah Amr Shaheen Altaf Shaikh Maxim Shcherbatyuk Sedric Shepard Papesh Shinde

Olesya Shmakova Mohammad Shoaid Igor Shubenkin Samir Shukurov Maxim Shumilov Eloy Siale Batapa Oleg Sidorov Julian Silva Mara Lucia Silva Policardo Simba Bello Simeon Vladimir Simonov Gary Skillin Cecilie Skogen David Smith Matthew Smith Dmitry Smolin Gerald Soares Shafiek Soeker Andrey Sokolov Dmitry Sokolov Virgilio Solarzano Andrey Solodukhin Diedone Songo Gerardo Daniel Sosa Alexey Sosnovsky Stefano Spaccamonte Brandon Stafford Jasminka Stang Paul Stubbert Daniel Fernando Suarez Fazal Subhan Samuel Sullivan Liyu Sun Codey Swenson Bobby Swift Robert Sybert Olga Tambovtseva Hwee Kiat Tan Leni Tanchiatco Stanislav Tangatarov Erika Tapia Dmitry Tarapunko Armando Tati Roque Tati Mina Tawfik Kamel Redda Tayebi Olesya Tchizhikova Ruka Te Moana Dmitriy Telegin Terry Thibodeaux Arbind Thomas Iain Thomson Dmitriy Titov Kevin Todd Nelly Paola Tong Manrique Omar Torres Pablo Roberto Torres Ricardo Torres Ricardo Torres Amasifuen Druby Trahan Timo Trauth Anthony Tuohy Charles Turnbull Olga Tyumentseva Joshua Ukaps Cesar Ureta Chavez

Eberto Vaca Barrientos Nicoleta-Cristina Vaduva Anatoly Vaganov Juan Valencia Chavarro Vitaly Valisevich Darwin Valle Gerald Vallow Raju Varghese Fabian Vasconcelos Curtis Vasquez Manuel Vasquez Harry Hiroito Vasquez Zevallos Rune Vatne Vitaly Vaygult Silvia Mariela Vazquez Javier Del Milagro Veintimilla Mogollon Juan Manuel Velazquez Ivan Velez Mejia Bogdan-George Verezberger Adelcio Victorino Ingvild Vik Anastasia Vilarskaya Mihai Vilcu Gabino Villa Semen Vinokurov Olga Vorobyeva Viktor Vyunov Brian Walden Keith Walder Izzatunnafs Wan Nordin Thaweesak Wangngam Valarie Watts ZHaoHua Wei Mario Weiss Kenneth Whitehead Dell Williams XiaoQian Xu Yuliya Yakubenko Qing Yan Cathleen Yanco Anhua Yang JianMin Yang Alexander Yaroshenko Steven Yates Hamza Youb Ahmed Younes Abdel Moneim Youssef Stina Yttersian Linli Yu Alexander Yudin Irina Zadrutskaya Jesus Rolando Zambrana Pamuri Ahmed Zayed Sergey Zekeev JianMin Zhang Jun Zhang Ravil Ziganshin Felix Zubiri

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Anniversaries 1092 employees are recognized with service anniversary awards in Q1 and Q2. Howard Keeling is the senior service member, with 45 years of service.

45 Years Howard Keeling

40 Years Thomas Abercrombie Thomas Abramson Majed Alkassem Richard Barrett Bobby Farmer Peter Johnson Timothy Wilkin

35 Years Curtis Boykin Sue Cheng Francis Dechert Rita Fischer Carlos Huaynoca Eugene Leblanc Robert Mercer Daniel Miller Michael Rafferty Raymond Ravitz Dallas Rhodes Mohammad Syukur AM Charles Thomas Mark Wells Don Wooten

30 Years Peter Dutoit Pratoto Hadi Robert Keife Diadie Savane Nina Torgersen

25 Years Mohamed AbdelHalim Robinson Bolt Phillip Bumala Isabelle Bussy Bertrand Chavignon John Christie Donald Collingwood

Jonathan Cullen Dieter Dopp Marc Eaton Becky Eyesio Thomas Folke Vivienne Graham Marcel Guillot Mart Hinckley Anders Hou Lynn Jenkins Kasim Kanibu Hossam ElDin Khaled Edwin Latuihamallo Stewart Livingston Lisbeth Lode Bernard Louis Deepak Mathur Kevin McManus George McMennamy Alaa ElDin Mohamed AbdelHalim Christopher Nicol Kjell Harold Nilsen Godwin Osubor Colin Paterson Sheila Runge Arvid Sverre Sandnes Charles Sanner Brenton Sell Zia Haider Shah Kenneth Slater Thomas Speeg Henry Stachura John Stearn William Steward Bittie Still-Lakey Sundaram Srinivasan William Thurston Marcos Jose Vieira Mark Weber Steven Young Jianxiong Zhu

20 Years Christian Agala Tim Calhoon Apolinar Chavez

Mario Colmenares Finn Dahlin Angelo De Cassan Laureano Antonio Delfin Torres Edward Derkach Jeffrey Dierig Said Gadjiev Richard Harris David Harrison Frank Hildersley Heath Hopkin Dwayne Kennerson Pavel Kosmin Vladimir Kuksov Scott Larue Gordon Logan Debra Massey Gordon Morland Ronald Peltier Anna Perardel Jan Harald Pettersen Alexander Podobedov Jhonny Reyes Sanchez Russell Riddle Carlos Rodriguez Jim Teeuwsen Alexander Varlamov Mikhail Vorobyev Alexander Vyalov Robert David Wilson Damir Ziangirov

15 Years Khaled AbdelSalam Gardy Abshire Sobhy AbulFotouh Mohamed Adil Sergey Alyabiev Meddah Kamel Amer Joselito Araujo Torstein Aspaas Ibrahim Ba-alawi Sheila Barron Barry Batiste Smail Benabdellah Abdelkader Benmeddah

Ole Bjorsvik Paul Blagdon Robert Bodnar Carlos Jose Bolivar Vallenilla William Brownell Russel Byrd Harold Callaway Egyptcio Coelho Jose Da Silva Dario D’Angelo Christopher Dietzen Edna Ekwoaba Luciano Elias Kurt Fontenot Radik Galiev Claudio Garcia Marcel Gheaus Anatoly Gorlov James Greene Ali Hammamid Per Heggen Robert Hood Leila Hosoy ElSayed Hussien Mahmoud Tom Magne Jakobsen Habib Kereddine Francois LeGuellec Lance Lemair Bilal Limam Bruce Macmillan Ysupbai Madrimov Richard Mahrer Jonas Manbouana Zoran Markanovic Stephen Mason Paul Mbedi Christophe Mbemene Thomas McConnell David McDonald Mark Mercer Barret Miles Hassan Mohamed Yehia Mohamed Gualberto Angel Montano Badry Mostafa Mamdouh Mostafa

Steve Namsoo Terje Nicolaisen Frode Nilsen Aidyn Niyazgaliyev Antonio Nunez Darrell O’Brien Hope Ovie-Thompson Benjamin Paiuk Bruce Parish John Peck Jens Peder Pedersen Michael Pittsinger Andrew Popplestone James Rannells Paul Ravey Robert Reid Todd Reid Dana Rhodes Ubel Rios Jeffery Rominsky Orjan Rong Neil Rothnie Natalya Rudyuk Viviana Mercedes Sandoval Harold Saravia Grete Schilling Hossam Shabaan Alastair Sinker Viktor Skreka Mustapha Smati Corey Steensen Timothy Stein Curtis Taylor Michael Timmerman Nils Gunnar Torkelsen Theophile Torres Terje Torsvik Enzo Alfredo Turchetti Holger Ullmann Gustavo Vargas Luis Velasquez Aranguren

10 Years Essam Abd El Haleem Ricardo Acosta Jose Aguilar

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