Abel Engineering / Well Control Company

Abel Engineering is dedicated to providing a professional high-quality service for the solution of well control incidents and problems. We endeavor to implement the most efficient and cost effective solution possible Our standard of conduct is at all times ethical with our clients and associates. Our engineering and project management services utilize:

• Experience based solutions (20 years plus in the business)
  
  
• Engineering and Project Management Principles and Practices
  
  
• Best Technology Available
  
  
• Fit-for-purpose Approaches

ABEL Engineering /Well Control Co. was founded by L. William “Bill” Abel, P.E. in 1984 as an Oklahoma Corporation to provide Consulting, Engineering and Well Control Services world-wide. ABEL Engineering was re-incorporated in Texas in 1989 and is now a Texas-based Consulting Concern that provides world-wide Drilling, Engineering, Well Control and Project Management Services. We are a small group of engineers with experience in most types of drilling operations and have experience working in locations around the world. We specialize in the unique and difficult type well.

L. William Abel Qualifications:

BS Civil Engineering, MBA degrees and Registered Professional Engineer-Texas with 30 years of experience in Well Control Operations. Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers and IADC, Society of Professional Engineers

Special Well Control and Engineering Projects

• Kuwait Oil Well Fires (Controlled 41 wells with one team in 71 days)
• Created well control management systems and written over 300 Blowout Contingency Plans for Worldwide Operations.
• Taught Drilling Practices for Preston L. Moore, Inc.
• Taught Advanced Well Control seminars for Pemex, TOTAL, Mobil Oil, UNOCAL, EXPRO, NAM, etc.
• Taught a special snubbing school for Mobil Oil Co. including creating a Snubbing Manual for Mobil
• Managed 5-Rig Drilling Company for 2 years
• Designed and constructed built-for-purpose UBD drilling rig.
• Well control projects in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Republic of China, Angola, Nigeria, Congo, Venezuela, Argentina, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Norway and Germany. Mr. Abel has been involved in complex well control operations worldwide in the past 20 years. • Designed Multitude of Underbalanced Drilling Completion Operations

Rig Site Supervision

• Deep high-pressure gas wells, Well Control, Relief Well Drilling, Deep wells in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.
• Also in Tunisia supervised a deep rank wildcat well.
• Worked as Drilling Superintendent for Aramco in Saudi Arabia on H2S Type Wells in Deep Kuff Exploration Program.

Publications

• Author of Twenty-Nine Technical Publications in Trade Journals written primarily on Specialized Well Control Operations and Project Management for Well Control Operations.
• Majority Author of Firefighting and Blowout Control (540 pages, 1994)

Technical Training

• Advanced Well Control and HAZOP
• Advanced Computer Skills – Word processing, Data Bases, Spread Sheets, Project Management

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