Cont. Education - Prevention of and Response to Well Blowouts

Bhavesh Ranka has more than 12 years of experience in the well control industry. He is involved in all aspects of well control engineering, blowout intervention, and firefighting operations and recovery. He is also involved in all phases of well control engineering, including blowout contingency planning, dynamic well kill design and execution, underground blowouts, rig equipment inspections, drilling plan reviews, gas dispersion modeling, engineering, and field operations. He has been a lead engineer in third-party inspections for compliance with BSEE regulations. Bhavesh possesses regional experience in the majority of the petroleum-producing states in the United States. He has worked on well control and well control engineering projects in Australia, Cameroon, Canada, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and United Arab Emirates. He also has experience in land and offshore well control events, inland barge blowouts, H2S wells, oil-based mud kicks, and high-pressure wells. He has been a team leader on various well control projects, like blowouts, kick circulation, etc. He has been involved with surface and subsurface well control remedial projects. He has experience with special service projects that include hot tapping, dry ice and cryogenic freeze jobs, and post-event consulting.
Bhavesh graduated from University of Mumbai with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. He also has a master’s degree in natural gas engineering from Texas A & M University, Kingsville. Bhavesh is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is IADC WellSharp certified. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.

John Hatteberg is a Well Control Engineer with Cudd Well Control.  John has been involved with numerous well control jobs over his 18 year career, including drilling 12 relief wells. 

 When not working or spending time with his Wife and young Son and Daughter, John enjoys watching Texas A&M’s sports teams compete and is an avid movie buff. 

 John has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.