Ken Muir

Ken Muir provides the principle drilling engineering capability within ROP Engineering Ltd. Ken offers nearly 40 years of experience, having worked through all levels of drilling engineering and operations supervision, including Drilling Engineer & Supervisor, Superintendent, Head of Drilling Engineering and Drilling Project Manager. This experience covers deepwater, shallow water & onshore activity, including both exploration and development drilling.

Career high points include:

• Drilling Project Manager for tripod conductor supported platform with topsides installed by Jack-up rig (Malaysia)
• Re-Abandonment of leaking onshore well using a pressurized surface system, eliminating the need for a relief well (Malaysia)
• Project Leader for first Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) from a floating rig (Libya)
• First use of dynamic MudCap on suspended horizontal gas well – established new best practice for drilling (Tunisia)
• Deepwater drilling experience (Canada & Myanmar)
• First complex tri-lateral wells with rotary steerable technology in Asia (Malaysia)
• First underbalanced, foam drilled, horizontal Coal Bed Methane wells (Australia)
• Managed team of well engineers providing all engineering & support for varied fleet of rigs including Deepwater, Tender-Assist, Jack-up and Land Rig (Myanmar)

Ken also provides extensive international experience through work in many operating areas, including the UK, Canada, U.S., Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, China, UAE, Libya, Tunisia and Australia.