Here's how you can impress in a Drilling Engineering job interview

on top of the fundamental drilling engineering aspects, it worth to gain general understanding on the rig system from crown to the ground include its associated major drilling services e.g. rig, wireline, cementing, well testing, casing crew, logistics (land, ocean, air transportation) and shore base ops.

Also an understanding of formation characteristics is important. As a drilling engineer, having a basic knowledge of subsurface Geology is an excellent one....

in my experience, safety standard protocols, procedures and risk managements are in place already. The verification and validation (top to bottom) shall be conducted to ensure a) leader set clearly define direction and objectives to the shareholders e.g. compliance and safety are a MUST b) set clear focus and priority to deliver more barrels timely at the right cost and the right way c) always systematically collaborate, leverage and integrate across the multiple functions and/or parties d) gather proven knowledge, skills and qualification include the talented youth in a group of talent (not just looks good on certificate) e) hold everyone individually and/or collectively accountable to execute the plan and deliver excellence results.

In a real life experience safety adherence is an issue no matter how much safety measures that is put in place. This is why as a drilling engineer your regular tool box meeting with the team/crew is required. Emphasis on the needs to work safe.

A couple of tips: -Try to be updated with new technologies. Even if you are not able to get all the information when asked provide a clear understanding of the basics and physics behind them. This is an excellent way of showing proactivity and that you are eager to learn -Talk with other more experienced drillers but always separate the wheat from the straw! You can learn a lot and apply it to your daily job -If you are just getting into the industry spend a few years in a drilling service company to understand the bolts and nuts of the business, then you can decide either continuing in it or moving to another discipline

it starts in early stage of project development gain value preposition, when XF Team exercises a single well RUMS (Risk and Uncertainty Management System) to clearly define few critical challenges and prioritize its mitigations. adopt tech as it fit —- the leader shall raise BOLD question, is the new tech be adopted? if the answer is NO, why NOT? note, in a specific case a new tech adoption will result in a VOI (Value of Information), as initially expected. XF Team exercises Operational Readiness to verify and validate readiness of ALL e.g. valid permits, approved program&budget, contracts, equipment, materials, supports and particularly the “doer” along the value chain

Tips.....tech is undoubtedly the new way and it have come to say. If you know any drilling software it's an added advantage. Just clearly define what it's used for and it's benefits over conventional approach.

Being a Team player is of paramount importance specially in Field jobs. To highlight your team player skills, you can always explain about the group projects you have done (like Major, Minor projects, team competitions like paper & poster presentations). Because no matter how good a team, conflicts are bound happen. So, you can pick one such incident and show them how you have solved it with your teammates.

I could not agree more. I'm astonished at what occurs in our Medical Care System under Social Security as a 77 year old retiree. For example, experts look at scans/images of all sorts of body parts while actually never having seen a brain for example in real life (sitting at a desk in the office having never observed rig operations up close and personal). It's frightening to me.