Books by Jim Hughes

Ian Davidson is currently Owner and Trainer of IANADAV LLC, engaging major E&P companies to provide well engineering and well control training. Previously, he was Vice President of Marketing and Training at Blade Energy Partners, where he was responsible for conducting courses in drilling technology to meet client requirements. He was also Well Manufacturing Manager for unconventional resources, along with several other previous positions such as rig superintendent, at Shell for 34 years where he led the advance of new drilling concepts applied to well manufacturing for unconventional resources, and he is a joint patent holder on wellbore manufacturing process for in situ heat treatment process. He is a member of Shell's international technology implementation team as well as coordinator of drilling workshops with the IADC and SPE. He is also a chartered engineer and the author of several technical papers related to drilling, well control. Ian earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Central London, is a Chartered Engineer, and a IADC WellCap Supervisor Level for surface and subsea operations.