Greenspoint Club
16925 Northchase Drive
Houston, TX 77060
Drilling Superintendent
Chevron
John graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BSc Civil Engineering in 1991 and was hired directly out of University by Chevron Canada to work as a Drilling Representative on land wells in Western Canada. He worked in various fields performing drilling, completions and workovers before transferring to …
Drilling Superintendent
Chevron
John graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BSc Civil Engineering in 1991 and was hired directly out of University by Chevron Canada to work as a Drilling Representative on land wells in Western Canada. He worked in various fields performing drilling, completions and workovers before transferring to Angola, West Africa in 1996 to work offshore as a drilling representative. In 1998 he transferred to St. John’s Newfoundland and worked initially as a drilling representative on the Glomar Grand Banks semi-sub before moving into the office as Lead Operations Engineer and eventually Drilling Superintendent. In 2001 John moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to work as Operations Engineer for the deepwater Newburn well drilled with the Deepwater Millennium. In late 2002 he transferred to Chevron Deepwater in New Orleans and was Lead Drilling planning engineer for the Tahiti development. In 2004 John transferred with the Chevron Deepwater Group to Houston to continue with Tahiti development planning, returning to the Discoverer Deep Seas in 2006 to drill and complete Tahiti Phase One wells. In 2007 John took over as Drilling Superintendent for the Ensco 7500 semi-sub drilling deepwater subsalt wells. In the fall of 2008 John took over as Senior Drilling Superintendent for the Discover Deep Seas and has drilled three record deepwater wells to date with that rig -Lewis, Turtle Lake and currently Northwood.
John is married and has three sons -the eldest Donald, is a junior studying Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M
Jack Colborn
Tue, Sept. 15, 2009
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(GMT-0500) US/Central
Greenspoint Club
16925 Northchase Drive
Houston, TX 77060