Experience

Cougar Drilling Solutions has been designing and manufacturing downhole drilling tools since 1969. We also have decades of experience in the direct management of complex drilling projects from exploration and development drilling in oil, gas and geothermal. Our highly experienced managers, coordinators and field service engineers include drilling engineers, directional drilling supervisors and MWD & LWD engineers.

We’ve delivered innovative solutions, time and again, onshore and off, proving our dependability all throughout North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.We’re constantly improving existing products and developing new ones to meet the demands of the drilling industry.

Leadership Team Profile

Brod Sutcliffe, President

Graduated in geology from Leeds University, UK, 1980. Prior experience with Schlumberger, Baker Hughes & Weatherford. Field experience in mudlogging, well-site geology, MWD / LWD & directional drilling. Management experience in MWD / DD operations, drilling optimization and geo-markets

David Kent, VP Operations

Graduated in engineering from Vancouver, Canada, 1978. Prior experience with Drilling contractors, Computalog & Baker Hughes. Field experience in directional surveying & directional drilling. Management experience in MWD / DD operations, drilling engineering & drilling optimization and Integrated operations.

Bruce Avery, Director of Engineering

Graduate in Geology from Plymouth, UK, 1986. Prior experience with Sperry Sun, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes & Shell Gabon. Field experience in directional surveying & directional drilling. Management experience in MWD / DD operations, drilling engineering, drilling optimization, ultra short radius drilling & oil company staff well engineering.