SVP of Drilling Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Drilling Operations · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive leader accountable for the enterprise-wide strategy, safety, and performance of all drilling operations.
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What this role is
Executive leader accountable for the enterprise-wide strategy, safety, and performance of all drilling operations. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Lead drilling alongside adjacent field functions (completions, well intervention, HSE) through VPs and senior directors, integrating the full wellbore lifecycle so drilling handoffs to completions do not compromise schedule or well integrity
- Own cross-functional decisions with high consequence — rig-count commitments, multi-year drilling contracts, and technology-adoption bets (new BHA/directional systems) — where a misjudged well-control or NPT exposure can materially affect the division's viability
- Negotiate critical drilling and service contracts and joint-operating drilling terms with top service-company and partner leadership, and resolve competing capital demands across drilling and neighboring functions
- Set the safety and well-control governance standard across all drilling and intervention activity, ensuring IWCF/IADC and BOSIET competency and personnel accountability at every wellsite under the organization
- Shape the multi-function operating budget and cascade drilling performance metrics (cost/foot, NPT, spud-to-TD, safety) into the divisional plan
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-functional knowledge of the full wellbore lifecycle — integrating drilling with completions, intervention, and HSE — to abstract, high-consequence decisions on rig commitments, contracts, and technology adoption.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Solves cross-functional problems where a misjudged NPT, well-control, or capital-commitment exposure can impact divisional viability; balances competing capital demands across field functions.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical drilling/service contracts and JV drilling terms with top service-company and partner leadership; aligns multiple functional leaders on safety and cost governance.
- Typical experience
- 15+ years with strategic leadership of multiple field functions or a significant drilling business unit.
Skills at this level
- Well Control
- — Directs interpretation of well signals for high-pressure gas and fluids and the countermeasures that prevent uncontrolled situations; sets and governs IWCF/IADC well-control competency standards across the crew hierarchy from roughneck through OIM as an enterprise safety obligation.
- Drilling Performance / NPT Analysis
- — Analyzes drilling performance and non-productive time across rigs and wells to optimize operations and reduce cost, translating cost/foot and spud-to-TD metrics into functional and divisional performance targets.
- AFE Cost Writing
- — Owns Authorization for Expenditure discipline for the drilling program — writing and approving AFEs and holding the organization accountable to drilling budget and schedule against actual performance.
- Horizontal and Directional Drilling Design
- — Sets standards for planning and designing directional and extended-reach well trajectories including complex curves, laterals, and pad-drilling programs across the portfolio.
- Casing and Grade Selection
- — Governs well-construction integrity through casing, grade, and centralizer selection practice, ensuring wellbore designs meet the technical specifications of the drilling program and manual.
- BHA Design
- — Directs bottom-hole-assembly design practice and evaluates new BHA and directional technologies to improve drilling performance and cost efficiency across operations.
- Anti-Collision and Vibration Mitigation
- — Sets anti-collision criteria and drillstring-vibration mitigation standards (buckling, stick-slip) governing safe multi-well pad and infill drilling.
- Well Intervention / Fishing
- — Provides technical authority over intervention and fishing operations — selecting methods and tools to remove obstacles such as liners, broken casing, and stuck drill pipe using coiled-tubing, slim-hole, and horizontal techniques.
- Cross-Discipline Collaboration
- — Integrates drilling with geoscience, reservoir, completions, land, construction, and regulatory groups so wellbore delivery aligns with subsurface, completion, and permitting requirements.
- Vendor and Contractor Performance Management
- — Evaluates rig-contractor and service-company performance and negotiates drilling and service contracts, holding vendors accountable to drilling cost, schedule, and safety outcomes.
- Drilling Safety and HSE Governance
- — Ensures the health and safety of all personnel at the wellsite and across drilling and intervention activity, embedding BOSIET and well-control competency and personnel accountability into the operating standard.
- Drilling Program Strategy
- — Develops and implements the enterprise drilling plan — well-planning standards, technology adoption, and continuous-improvement agenda — aligning drilling execution with corporate capital and portfolio strategy.
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