Fred Wiegand is your World Wide Drilling Consultant with over 30 years World Wide Drilling Engineering & Supervision Experience: IWCF Surface Subsea Drilling Supervisor, IADC Company Man, Petroleum Engineer, Drilling Engineer, Completions Engineer, Drilling Superintendent, and International Multilingual Instructor.
With 3 degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Science Petroleum Engineer, Bachelor of Science Petroleum Geology, and Master of Science Petroleum Engineer, a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas, specializing in deep drilling and well control, including engineering well design and advanced wellsite supervision of any kind of drilling rig world wide, He has earned Well Control Certificates from International Well Control Forum for surface subsea drilling supervision since May 2003, has had well control certificates yearly since 1977, and have authored an article about well control in the industry magazine Petroleum Engineer International.
“I personally worked several kicks in the last few years, on the rig floor with the drillers and pushers on a jackup rig in GOM and on several land rigs. I worked on a drilling rig in the desert in Yemen, “turning and burning” in a vertical hole through the Safer Salt. I have supervised “state-of-the-art” computerized land rigs and drillships.”
With over 30 years of drilling work, he designed drilling and well-completion programs and supervised operations on many types of land rigs, also worked as company man on deepwater floaters, including jackup rigs, semi-submersible rigs and drillships off West Africa and Eastern Brazil, including all phases of drilling, sidetracking, horizontal extended reach, well control, coring, stuck pipe, fishing, directional drilling, running and cementing casing and liners, deep air drilling, conventional drilling with oil-base muds, freshwater muds, and salt muds, drilling holes from 24” OD down to 4-3/4” OD, bit selection, coil tubing supervision for fishing and well testing from jackups, and well completions using tubing from 1 inch to 7 inches, with multiple completions, including multilateral completions in fishbone wells.
He has also supervised many workover rigs, including hydraulic fracturing of wells, pulling rods & tubing, and balancing pump jacks, often designed the drilling and well completion programs with the assistance of junior engineers, as the team leader, and then implemented the programs at the wellsite as senior drilling engineer or night company man or completions engineer.
In addition Fred Wiegand has completed ERD, high-angle and horizontal well design 2 week course in Houston with K & M Technology, assited in the design of FES12ST1, a side-track well on the Forties Echo platform in the North Sea using Galaxy I jackup rig, worked 
as supervisor on directional gas wells in the Lobo Trend, Zapata, Texas area with a Flex Rig III, and worked as drilling / operations manager & supervisor on Admasco Rig #5 on a complex exploratory well on the East Bank of the Dead Sea in the country of Jordan in the Middle East.
From North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, Middle East, to India, Fred Wiegand is your World Wide Drilling Consultant.