Guizhong Chen

About Guizhong Chen

Full-blown drilling and well design for exploratory and development, land/offshore and deep water, and HPHT / High H2S & CO2 / horizontal well projects. • Supervision / management of drilling and completions teams to achieve personnel development, cost reduction and efficiency improvement. Fracture design, standardization and optimization.• Well planning and execution including drilling, completions and re-completions for sour gas and unconventional projects. • Material selection talent for high H2S/CO2, HPHT, horizontal well design• Mastering of PR/PO, Ariba, ESAR, investment recovery, inventory / warehouse management, equipment QAQC, OCTG and CRA.• Managed and delivered strategic research and consulting services in petroleum rock mechanics including well stability, sanding prediction and laboratory testing using log-based, analytical and numerical approaches. • IADC Well Control certification.Specialties: Drilling, completion, workover, well design and engineering analysis, well control, hydraulic fracturing, unconventional oil and gas, frac design and optimization, horizontal wells, high H2S/CO2 wells. Equipment engineer / QAQC / OCTG / CRA. Rock mechanics / geomechanics, pore pressure prediction, finite element / analytical modeling / numerical modeling, wellbore stability, sanding prediction, laboratory core testing. Geothermal drilling and well design (Blade Energy certified), wellbore and reservoir heat transfer modeling, ATES/BTES, superhot/supercritical well design and wellbore temperature modeling.

Experience

1. Drilling Engineer

   NOV

   Nov 2016 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Plan, drill and cement back test wells, perform BHA deisgn and optimize/execute company downhole/surface tools testing, including Motor, MWD, Rotary Steerable, MPD, Vibration, NOVOS drilling automation, and Drilling Optimization on a modern test rig. Gary played a key role as Project Drilling Engineer for NOV\'s initiative to drill the 11,500-ft deep geothermal research well at its Springett Technology Center (STC). He assisted in drilling, completing, and flow-testing what was, at the time, the deepest geothermal well in North America completed with vacuum-insulated tubing (VIT). During the early pandemic, he deepened his expertise by fast-tracking his knowledge of wellbore heat transfer modeling and thermodynamics.Leveraging NOV\'s leading role in global deep geothermal projects, Gary is positioned to bring NOV\'s latest technologies—such as fit-for-purpose PDC bit design, advanced wellbore cooling systems (insulated drill pipe and mud chillers), high-temperature liner hangers, and coiled tubing drilling—to the forefront, continuously pushing the limits of geothermal drilling technology.

Education

• University of Science and Technology Beijing

  Master of Science (M.S.), Rock Mechanics

• University of Science and Technology Beijing

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mining Engineering

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Petroleum Engineering

Skills

• Characterization
• Geophysics
• Petroleum Engineering
• Geology
• Petroleum
• Geomechanics
• Drilling
• Oilfield
• Reservoir Engineering
• Completion
• Petrophysics
• Reservoir Management
• Rock Mechanics
• Oil & Gas
• Petroleum Geology
• Gas
• Reservoir Simulation
• Upstream
• Drilling Engineering
• Wellbore Stability