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Bertrand LACOUR

LAUSANNE

En résumé

Bertrand Lacour is the founder and General Manager of Shield OilTech.

After 11 years of working for Schlumberger (the world's leading oilfield services company) in research & development, founder Bertrand Lacour has decided to set up a start-up company to apply his knowledge, experience and creativity in an independent, smaller, flexible and reactive structure.

This decision was motivated by the desire to embark on an adventure that will see innovation and technology benefit the oilfield services industry and contribute, modestly at its level, to its quest to sustain the growing need for energy in the world.


On a personal side, great grandfather and grandfather were independent water well drillers in France employing at the time technology very similar to oil well drilling.

It is therefore a return back to the sources of a family history of drilling delivering consulting to the oilfield services industry this time.


Shield OilTech was thus born in 2011.

Mes compétences :
Concept design
Design
Design Engineering
Engineering
manufacturing
Mechanical
Oilfield
Prototyping
Vibrations

Entreprises

  • Owner & Shield OilTech - General Manager

    2011 - maintenant

  • Schlumberger - Mechanical Product Manager

    Paris 2009 - 2010 HPHT RSS and BSA Technology, Mechanical Product Manager in Schlumberger Stonehouse Technology Center (Stonehouse, UK)

    Mechanical engineering and managing a mechanical team (10 direct reports) to produce an innovative 6.75" High Pressure High Temperature Rotary Steerable System. Took the project from concept to Feasibility with highly successful field trials to the doorstep of Development.

  • Schlumberger - RSS Product Manager

    Paris 2008 - 2008 Russia Sidetrack RSS Product Manager in Schlumberger Stonehouse Technology Center (Stonehouse, UK)

    Mechanical engineering and managing a multidisciplinary team (5 direct reports) to produce a new Rotary Steerable System for the growing Integrated Project Management Russia sidetracking market. Took the project from Funded to the doorstep of Development when the project was postponed due to the downturn in Russia.

  • Schlumberger - Senior Mechanical Engineer II

    Paris 2006 - 2007 Senior Mechanical Engineer II at Schlumberger Cambridge Research (Cambridge, UK) and Schlumberger Stonehouse Technology Center (Stonehouse, UK)

    Mechanical research/engineering/design/testing on the Max010 Drilling Program. Classified Secret.

  • Schlumberger - Senior Lead Mechanical Engineer

    Paris 2004 - 2005 Senior Lead Mechanical Engineer at Schlumberger Princeton Technology Center -Princeton Junction (New Jersey, USA)

    Mechanical design for the X-Ray tools (sourceless nuclear developments): Wireline's TALN EYES & XLF, EFM in collaboration with 3PM in Norway. Prototypes currently in Field Trials.
    Manufacturing Sustaining and Rapid Response Projects: RST (corrosion resistant housings), UPCT-A, WPGRT-A

  • Schlumberger - Senior Mechanical Engineer

    Paris 2001 - 2004 Senior Mechanical Engineer at Schlumberger Princeton Technology Center-Princeton Junction (New Jersey, USA)

    Wireline Cased Hole Nuclear Tools:
    - RSTPlus (Reservoir Saturation Tool Plus): upgrade of the existing 1-11/16", 150C, 15KPSI RSTPro with 3 gamma ray detectors and a Pulse Neutron Generator. Designed the mechanics, harnesses and cables, packaged the electronics, Pulse Neutron Generator and detectors.
    - UPCT-A (Universal Perforating Correlation Tool): 1-11/16", 175C (1 hour @ 200C), 20KPSI, rugged, mono-pin tool capable of correlating with CCL and gamma ray sensors and of shooting blasting caps, SAFE and Secure detonators on dual polarity. Designed extremely rugged mechanics and qualified mechanics, gamma ray detector and electronics for the perforating environment. Improved Jobs Between Failure over replaced PGGT-C by a factor of 10. Successfully field tested. Commercialized in 2004. More than 600 units in the field since 06/2004! Performed by Schlumberger Bronze Award.
    - WPGRT-A (Wireline Perforating Gamma Ray Tool): 1-11/16", 175C, 15KPSI, gamma ray correlation, rugged perforating tool part of the Wireline Perforating Platform and stand alone gamma ray tool compatible with the PSP. Designed rugged mechanics and qualified the mechanics and gamma ray detector for the perforating environment. Successfully field tested. Commercialized in 2004. More than 30 units in the field.

  • Renault Trucks - Project and R&D Engineer

    Saint-Priest France 2000 - 2001 Project and R&D Engineer-Renault V.I./Mack Trucks Corp-Research and Development Division-Vehicle Dynamics Department-Lyons (France)

    Project Engineer for air disk brake programs on long haul trucks (Magnum and Premium): design, verification and validation of the disk brake function in vehicle environment ; significant cost reduction activities on the disk brake function along with quality and performance enhancement.
    Project Manager for the "Carbon Retarder on Propeller Shaft" research project (studies, design and integration of a new generation of retarder with water cooled carbon rotors on long haul trucks) and "18 tons Midlum truck" project (new full air disc braking system).

  • Schlumberger - Mechanical Design Engineer

    Paris 1998 - 2000 Design engineer-Schlumberger Anadrill-Measurement While Drilling-SlimPulse-SPC Sugar Land (Texas, USA)

    Studied the mechanical retrofit design and determined the feasibility of a new downhole 1.75" diameter mud pulser for SlimPulse going from a 0.5Hz modulation to 12Hz. Proposed/tested new servo drive train, turbine/modulator, pressure compensator system, power dissipator & backlash reductor. Positively impacted field test of 0.5Hz mud pulser SlimPulse through design of surface system test device the SPWT, which verifies the correct tool programming: 300 units on the field around the world.

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