Company Organisation
Management and Administration
Steve Guzik
Steve is proven leader who has an extensive track record of Oil and Gas operations in the North Sea.
Joining the industry as a graduate, Steve progressed through he Santa-Fe Trainee Drilling Engineer program, ultimately becoming a Chartered Petroleum Engineer. He worked offshore for the early part of his career and became a Night Company Rep on Shell's high-profile Underbalanced Drilling campaign in the Southern North Sea.
Naomi Plumb
Naomi Plumb began working for Chris Dykes International Limited in January 2009. As Office Manager she is responsible for the company’s day to day operations, such as, invoicing, accounting, compiling End of Well Reports, and dealing with all other general administrative tasks.
Technical Staff
Neil Dewhirst
Neil Dewhirst is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. His career has given him the opportunity to work extensively both in the UK and overseas, in Colombia, the UAE, Norway and the Gulf of Mexico, with both major and smaller independent companies.
Jonathan Lilley
Jonathan has over 34 years of well engineering and operations experience from around the globe. His experience spans all types of well operations from heli-rigs to deep-water, and from air drilling to HPHT operations, having lived in and worked on projects in Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Vietnam, as well as the UK.
Graeme Rae
Graeme has over 30 years’ experience in well engineering and operations with 15 of those being related to well assurance and examination activities. He has worked for small and large operators and has performed well assurance/examination activities in UK offshore, Netherlands, Norway, Canada, USA shale gas, Vietnam, Angola, Nigeria, & Kurdistan. His experience spans ERD&C wells, shale gas, HPHT, MPD, platform and subsea wells. This includes considerable exposure to well integrity, preparation of standards and decommissioning issues. He is a chartered engineer, Fellow of Energy Institute, Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and member of SPE.
Phil Stratford
Phil has 34 years of oilfield experience, mainly with Major and Independent Operating Companies, but also including five years running a Well Management Company. He has worked in the UK, Dutch and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, UK land, desert operations in Algeria and Libya, and offshore Australasia, South East Asia and South and North America, including arctic operations in Alaska. He is experienced with all types of offshore and onshore rigs. His wells experience encompasses development, appraisal and exploration drilling in most environments and complexities. He has worked as an offshore supervisor and engineer, onshore drilling engineer and superintendent, drilling manager and global head of wells, and has also had roles as development manager for West of Shetlands and project manager for platform modifications for drilling. Phil is a Registered European Engineer and a Chartered Engineer.
Chris Carton
Chris is a Chemical Engineering graduate with over 26 years operations and well engineering experience with Service and Operating companies.
Starting off with Halliburton, he worked as a Drilling Fluids Engineer, before becoming a Directional Driller and Co-ordinator. During this time Chris worked in numerous locations in the UK, EIS, Germany, East Africa, Oman, Algeria and Canada. He is familiar with the planning and operation of many types of fluids and drilling systems, used on all types of short, medium and long radius wells.
Moving into Well Engineering in 2006 Chris worked mainly with medium and large operators, living and working in both the UK and Norway. Chris is experienced in platform and MODU drilling and abandonment operations, both as standalone activities and as campaigns. He has worked as both SDE and Superintendent and has extensive planning and operational experience in the UK CNS, SNS, West of Shetland, EIS and Norway.
