A third-generation oil and gas worker born in Trinidad and now based in Texas; Chris Pinard is the Vice President of Sales for Romar-Abrado. Joining the organisation in late 2020, Chris brings a multitude of industry experience and a fresh perspective to Romar-Abrado’s ongoing development. Exploring his role in more detail, we learn more about Chris and his hopes for the future.

“Every day in my role is different. Before joining the Romar-Abrado team, I primarily worked in operational and management positions for a Major O&G service company, primarily focused on the drilling sector. Moving into sales and marketing within the P&A market is a new challenge, but one I thoroughly enjoy. While no two days are quite the same, the priorities of my role include developing the Romar-Abrado brand, growing our market share and expanding our Medusa technology into untapped markets.

“My number one focus is to grow the company with sustainability at the forefront of our offering. I’m keen to establish the benefits of how our technology reduces emissions leakage and consequently supports emissions reduction. Additionally, I’m working towards entering new regions and promoting Romar-Abrado’s capabilities on a global scale.

“Romar-Abrado is developing its focus on operations excellence, with a particular emphasis on performance efficiency. Operations excellence at Romar-Abrado can be categorized into four key pillars:

• Modelling and analytics. This involves developing data to maximise performance and utilizing the latest software to design and analyse our technology.
• Customer and partner collaboration. By listening, sharing, and collaborating with customers and our peers, we can enhance the performance of all projects.
• Data-driven decisions. We aim to improve the casing milling process through the collection and application of milling data.
• Continuous improvement. Regularly scrutinising our lessons learned will allow Romar-Abrado to constantly improve for the benefit of our customers.

“For me, operations excellence is a mindset shift that benefits our customers, business and the wider industry and data-driven decisions are a cornerstone of our operations excellence approach. As an industry leader in specialised milling for permanent P&A, we are proud of our approach to utilizing data and analytical techniques for downhole section milling. We acquire data through several sources and use our expertise to identify trends that help us maximise performance. Data analysis has shown to improve efficiency and minimise tool/blade wear while milling, which has a positive knock-on effect when saving time, costs and increasing control. Our end goal is to be the industry benchmark for milling performance, and I’m excited to play a part in achieving this.

“I’m incredibly optimistic about the future of the organisation. I hope for Romar-Abrado’s brand to become synonymous with specialised section milling services, aiming to be the leading provider worldwide. I look forward to helping make this happen, and further establishing Romar-Abrado around the globe is up next on my priority list.”