Wireline Logging Engineer Proficiency

The issue of wireline logging engineer proficiency islogging service companies attempt to fix this
sometimes not taken as seriously as it should.problem by creating a position for a coach. The
Most people will agree that experience counts.problem with this is that the coach rarely goes on
Service companies generally have engineers withthe job and is not there to pass on experience
varying degrees of experience who are assignedduring a real-life job.
to different clients. The intention in this assignmentHaving said all that, what is the crux of the
is to balance the average experience level formatter with young, inexperienced engineers? Well,
each client. In reality, this is not always the case.the oil company that has had to spend the
If the oil company does not pay particularequivalent of 1 or more rig days trying to fix a
attention to the engineers performing their loggingproblem caused by inexperience will know what
operations they might not get the best engineersI'm talking about. Or in the case where valuable
on their rigs. There are several reasons for this,logging data is lost for various reasons.
ranging from a shortage of experiencedField experience has shown that, over 80% of
engineers, to other oil companies being moreservice company logging operations failure or
particular about the experience of engineersproblems are due to lack of experience. If all
performing their operations and therefore gettingwireline logging service companies had well
the best engineers.experienced logging engineer, say 5 years and
Some service companies have a history of havingmore, there will be fewer lost time incidents
a regular influx of new, inexperienced engineersduring wireline logging operations.
which in itself is not a bad thing. The problem liesOil companies must insist on maintaining a high
in not having a good crop of experiencedlevel of experienced engineers performing their
engineers to train up the new and younglogging operations and the wireline service
engineers. Service companies have their reasonscompanies need to find ways of keeping the
for having to recruit new engineers and probablyexperienced engineers in the field long enough to
one of the reasons is the poor retention level ofpass on their experience to the younger
experienced engineers in the field. Some wirelineengineers.