Personal Data
Name: CRAIG, AKINWUNMI JAMES

Contact: PETROLEUM ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT,
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY,
COVENANT UNIVERSITY.

Email: rigzone1@yahoo.com

QUALIFICATIONS

M.Sc. DEGREE, PETROLEUM ENGINEERING (AUG. 2004)
NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

B.Sc. (Hons.) DEGREE, PETROLEUM ENGINEERING (JAN. 1999)
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN,
Oyo State, Nigeria.
Research
Experience &
Dissertations

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF MEMBRANE EFFICIENCY USING
ARTIFICIAL SHALES (In conjunction with SINTEF Petroleum Research, Norway) – AUG. 2004
An experimental work to determine the membrane efficiency (or reflection coefficient – an important phenomenon in wellbore stability) of artificially-made shale/clay samples. It monitored the transport effects of different saline fluids (of variable concentrations) through pressure transmission on the samples in a triaxial-frame machine to determine their membrane efficiencies and also their permeabilities.

BOREHOLE STABILITY – SHALE/FLUID INTERACTIONS (In conjunction with
BP Norge AS and SINTEF Petroleum Research, Norway) – DEC. 2003
The project involved experimental tests focusing on the effect of drilling fluid salinity as it affects shale stability. It compared BP’s Bottle Roller technique (classified) with SINTEF’s Small Samples Fluid Exposure technique (classified).

BOREHOLE STABILITY – SHALE/FLUID INTERACTIONS (In conjunction with
BP Norge AS and SINTEF Petroleum Research, Norway) – DEC. 2003
A literature-based work that looked into the history of coiled continuous tubulars and the challenges in taking over from jointed tubulars in oilfield operations. It also looked into the mechanical forces acting on coiled tubings during operations with a FORTRAN program calculating these forces.

Professional Membership
SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS (SPE) – RICHARDSON, TEXAS
COMPUTER SKILLS

MS PACKAGES (WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, etc.), FORTRAN, MATLAB

RESEARCH Interests
DRILLING FLUID TECHNOLOGY – DRILLING FLUID FORMULATION.
BOREHOLE STABILITY – SHALE/FLUID INTERACTIONS.

Hobbies & Interests
BOARD GAMES (CHESS, CHECKERS, SCRABBLE), SPORTS (FOOTBALL, TABLE TENNIS), READING, COMPUTING, DRAWING & PAINTING.