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 WHO WE ARE

ADTI specialises in well engineering, working

in partnership with Oil and Gas companies to
maximise their asset potential through our
drilling and completions management expertise.

APPLIED DRILLING TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

ADTI is part of Transocean, the world’s largest drilling
contractor. We have offices in Aberdeen and Houston,
and through our parent company we can access
operations worldwide, providing engineers with
varied international development opportunities.
ADTI has more than 30 years of experience with
turnkey well drilling and project management
operations. We’ve drilled over 1,600 wells, totalling
more than 16 million feet of hole worldwide for a wide
range of operators, from small independents to super
majors. ADTI has faced all types of challenges, drilling
wells to depths in excess of 20,000 feet and designing
and completing the world’s first 15,000 psi subsea well.
Turnkey is a proven business model of drilling wells
whereby ADTI accept the risks of getting the well
drilled to the target depth and charges a fixed price to
the operator for taking those risks. Some of the risks
taken during turnkey operations are rig downtime,
mechanical failures, geological hole problems and
logistics. Thorough planning, outstanding execution
and years of experience are the key attributes of a
successful turnkey contractor.

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OUR ENGINEERS PURSUE TECHNICAL AND
PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE, COMBINED WITH
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SKILLS.
Well Engineering Services and Project Management
ADTI provides well engineering services ranging
from specific engineering studies to the design and
management of major drilling and completion projects.
Multi-discipline teams work both onshore and offshore
in well design and operational supervision. Our
engineers have expertise in specialist drilling methods
such as extended reach drilling, underbalanced drilling,
high pressure high temperature drilling.
Our engineering group also provides subsea
engineering, completion and well testing, production
technology, subsea well decommissioning, materials
and logistical support services.
Subsea Engineering
ADTI’s team provide a wide range of subsea
engineering services, from wellhead design to
installation supervision. We also can address Materials and Logistics Support
subsea architecture design, well startup and
operating procedures.
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WHAT WE DO
Completion Production Technology and Well Testing
Completion production technology and well testing
services, provided by ADTI, encompasses the design,
procurement, planning and supervision of completion
and well testing projects through our production
technology, completion and well test engineering
disciplines. ADTI addresses issues ranging from
architectural design, material specification,
equipment procurement and preparation through to
detailed installation and operating procedures, risk
assessments and supervision of operations.
Decommissioning
ADTI provides engineering and project management
services for clients to decommission subsea wells. The
Subsea engineering team work closely with all other
disciplines to find and execute cost effective solutions.
The materials and logistics team is responsible
for ensuring all equipment is in-spec and onsite
when required.
 ADTI CAREERS

WITH WORLDWIDE ENERGY DEMAND INCREASING,

THE LONG TERM CAREER OPTIONS HAVE NEVER
BEEN STRONGER.

There is no shortage of energy supply worldwide. The
challenge that faces our industry is in recovering these
precious resources whilst valuing and sustaining our
environment. These are the technical and commercial
challenges that ADTI engineers need to meet - and
safely. We’re committed to providing a safe working
environment. The oil and gas industry has fewer
accidents than most other industries, including
construction. In addition, we’re committed to our
environment and adhere to the highest standards to
protect the communities where we live and work.
Prior knowledge of the Oil & Gas industry
is not required, but applicants should have,
or be currently studying for, one of the
following degrees or related disciplines:
Mechanical Engineering, Offshore
Engineering, Petroleum Engineering,
Mining, Aeronautical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering.
We want your career to flourish with us, and we want
to help you maximise your potential. Our structured
and accredited Graduate Development Programme will
give you the skills you will need to be a leader in this
industry. In our development programme you will be
given the tools you need to really make an impact on
your career:
- Opportunities to influence your own career path
- Early responsibility
- Structured training and development opportunities
- Highly market competitive salary and
benefits package
- Opportunities for international assignment
- Mentor support
- Access to industry leading engineering software

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 WHY US?

THE FLEXIBLE, ACCREDITED FIVE YEAR

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.

The flexible, accredited five year Graduate Development
Programme (GDP) allows motivated graduates to become
a valued professional with ADTI.
The five year development programme takes new
Graduates through three key career phases to becoming
Senior Engineers responsible for multi-million dollar
operations. Practical ‘hands-on’ rig site experience is
augmented by formal technical training. This parallel
training philosophy facilitates enhanced career
development limited only by your desire to succeed.
In addition to technical and practical operational
competencies, all ADTI engineers develop the commercial
and contractual business skills that make ADTI’s Turnkey
operations leading edge.
Each Graduate upon joining the development programme
is assigned a Mentor, an ADTI senior engineer, to provide
oversight and guidance. Upon completion of the five year
development programme, the Graduate Engineer should
be in a position of responsibility to apply for Chartered
Engineer Status.
ADTI were amongst the first in the oil industry to gain
accreditation through the IMechE for our Graduate
Development Programme (GDP). We are currently
accredited by both the IMechE and the Energy Institute
(EI), which is an independent verification of our robust
and successful programme.

ADTI’s Graduate Development Programme (GDP) is run

in parallel with the IMechE’s Monitored Professional
Development Scheme (MPDS). The programme is
designed to develop the Graduate Engineer to
attain a high level of engineering professionalism
and responsibility.

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 THE ADTI GDP
EACH GRADUATE IS ISSUED WITH AN ADTI WELL
ENGINEERS COMPETENCY TASK BOOK, WHICH IS A
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RECORD BOOK.
The Well Engineers Competency Task Book covers the
core competencies that we expect our graduates to
develop over the course of a five year period of training
and initial career development. The task book is divided
into three main areas of competence:
PERSONAL
BUSINESS
TECHNICAL
Over 370 different competency tasks are defined, which
each Engineer must complete during the first five years.
The Engineer takes complete ownership for completing
the tasks and getting them approved and signed off by
their Mentor.
This competency based programme ensures that you’ll
learn the wide variety of skills necessary to becoming
a competent Well Engineer.
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REWARDING YOUR DEVELOPMENT
To recognise and reward you for developing your
professional competencies, ADTI has a Performance
Related Pay (PRP) uplift programme, enabling you
to get an uplift in salary each year of your five year
development programme. A PRP uplift is earned when
you complete a minimum number of competency skills
within fixed intervals and undergo an appraisal by your
line supervisor and mentor. Which tasks and the order
you choose to complete your competency taskbook is
completely your choice.
PRP is independent of the company discretionary
merit awards, which can help boost your financial
remuneration even further. At ADTI, our PRP
programme moves you up the salary scale quickly,
enabling you to access many other package benefits,
serving as yet another reward for participating in this
first-class development programme.
 ADTI CAREER PATHS

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POTENTIAL CAREER PATHS

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COMPANY TRANSOCEAN RIG OPERATIONS ONSHORE
ENABLERS ENGINEERING SPECIALIST SUPPORT SERVICES ATTRIBUTES

CORPORATE MANAGEMENT

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MANAGEMENT SENIOR EXPERIENCE
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RESPONSIBILITIES
WELLS PROJECT RELEVANT
MANAGEMENT TRAINING
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SENIOR WELL SPECIALIST LEADERSHIP
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 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
”IT IS A COMMON BELIEF AT ADTI
THAT THE WAY TO LEARN IS WITH
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE.”
OUR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
CONSISTS OF THREE PHASES:
Phase I: ‘Training Period’: Offshore Training
This initial period of practical training, which each
Graduate Engineer goes through lasts for a period of
nine to twelve months. You’ll start with five weeks of
induction and intensive safety classes to facilitate your
transition offshore. This offshore training phase, where
you work your way through some of the different rig
crew positions, exposes you to the different offshore
operations, providing a solid grounding and core
knowledge of drilling operations and practices. A greater
understanding of rig capabilities will later allow you
to optimise well plans. As you gain more experience
and technical knowledge, this forms the basis for
your continued development as a Well Engineer. Of
even greater importance, you become a member of
the drilling crew, which builds credibility and better
understanding. At the end of this phase you will take six
weeks of ‘core’ Well Engineering technical courses to
build upon your practical knowledge.
Phase II: Wellsite Drilling Engineer
Equipped with the core technical training, you will be
assigned to your first responsible professional role.
A Wellsite Drilling Engineer (WSDE) is a member of
the offshore engineering supervisory team, reporting
directly to the Drilling Supervisor.
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During this phase, you will learn to implement the
technical well programmes, which have been designed
by the onshore Engineering team. You will gain
supervisory as well as technical skills, essential to your
career ahead. In order to gain operational experience,
each Engineer will spend eighteen to twenty four
months in this role, rotating through different projects to
gain a full range of operational exposure.
Phase III: Developmental Roles
Advancing from WSDE into developmental roles,
you are encouraged to try out different areas
within Well Engineering, to try to determine the
path that interests you and plays to your strengths
as an ADTI member. There is a map of potential
career paths on page 7. Typically, engineers move
onshore into the Engineering team, designing the
drilling programmes or you may choose to move
into the Subsea or Well Completions teams.
Some engineers decide that the offshore rotational
lifestyle suits them and elect to remain offshore
becoming Drilling, Subsea or Completions Offshore
Operations Supervisors with the responsibility of leading
the wellsite operations. Well Engineers may also be
offered international secondments within ADTI.
 WHAT DOES A WELL ENGINEER DO?

A WELL ENGINEERS ROLE IS A MULTIFACETED ONE.

AS A KEY PART OF THE TEAM, YOU WILL BE INVOLVED
IN MANY VARIED ACTIVITIES. THESE MAY INVOLVE:

- Planning entire drilling and Such a diversity of skills cannot be learnt overnight.
completion programmes This is why ADTI has developed its competency
- Designing oil and gas wells in order to based development programme to provide Graduate
maximise production Engineers with the necessary training and experience
they need to become highly competent and qualified
- Liaising with drilling teams during operations,
Well Engineers.
facilitating problem solving
- Continuing analysis of the entire project to ensure
that all problems encountered can be learned from
Offshore rotations are typically three weeks on the rig,
- Designing mature well workover or
three weeks onshore fieldbreak leave. Whilst on the rig,
abandonment programmes
you will work twelve hour shifts, typically six to six or
- Carry out feasibility studies for subsea well seven to seven, days or nights. Full accommodation and
decommissioning, extended reach drilling etc recreation facilities are provided offshore. Fieldbreak
- Preparing tender documents and commercial leave allows you to travel, catch up on studies or just
proposals with the contractual and take time to relax.
commercial groups
- Ensuring throughout that the highest safety,
environmental and financial performances
are attained

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 YOUR PERSONAL QUALITIES

The core qualities

essential for success.

The Oil and Gas industry is a dynamic and challenging
arena, where success is achieved through knowledge,
dedication, motivation and the will to succeed. As a
Well Engineer, you are part of a team which ensures
that client’s expectations are regularly exceeded. Your
drive to deliver excellence in every aspect of your role
will benefit you in your career development. You must
be able to draw on the knowledge and experience of
your colleagues, whilst developing your own skills set,
in order to meet and resolve the many challenges which
are presented on a day-to-day basis, both in the office
and offshore. You will work in a performance culture
and will balance the academic demands of courses with
practical offshore rotations.
Being willing to ‘muck in’ and become part of a team
is also important. You will be based in Aberdeen and
must be able and willing to move between different
assignments and work in locations both nationally
and internationally.
ADTI is passionate about you and your career. We
have created an environment which promotes and
supports the development of your knowledge, skills
and expertise. Our Training and Development team
and Mentors are on-hand to share their expertise,
experience and knowledge with you and to guide you
through an exciting, rewarding and thought-provoking
career with ADTI.

To become a successful Well Engineer, certain core

qualities are required. These qualities include proven
leadership capability and communication skills,
academic excellence, enthusiasm, keen problem solving
skills and practical common sense.

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 REASONS TO APPLY

GREAT REASONS
TO APPLY...

As an ADTI development programme participant, you will:

- Learn about the latest drilling technology and - Work for a company that respects the environment
methodologies with those who know how to apply it and the communities in which it operates

- Earn a highly competitive salary while you’re learning - Be safe working for a company that emphasises
the fundamentals of a career with enormous financial safety and quality of life
and personal potential
- Achieve career milestones
- Join a company that’s one of the best at what it does,
- Access opportunities to work overseas
gaining instant professional recognition in the industry
- Gain significant amount of operational and financial
- Get a thorough and comprehensive drilling education
responsibility quickly
that goes beyond the classroom and gives you instant
credibility in your future dealings with offshore - Become certified as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by
technical and operational matters following our accredited development programme,
academic qualifications permitting
- Choose between a variety of career paths, guided
by a network of experienced mentors who want And a final reason:
you to succeed
Performance based salary progression
- Gain commercial, contractual and business
management skills to complement your
technical expertise

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 ARE YOU READY
TO UNLOCK YOUR
POTENTIAL AND
TAKE CONTROL OF
YOUR FUTURE?

If you haven’t already done so, apply online

at: www.graduateoilcareers.co.uk
or email a detailed CV with covering letter to
Gradrecruitment.ADTI@deepwater.com or send to:

ADTI Career Development Co-ordinator

Applied Drilling Technology International
Langlands House
Huntly Street
Aberdeen, AB10 1SH

For more information on ADTI visit:

www.applieddrillingtechnology.com

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visit: www.deepwater.com

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