NEWS CUTTINGS • DEPARTMENTS
ART Committee names new Co-Chairs, recognizes service of previous Chairman
Blaine Dow, SLB Drilling Technology Manager, and Sarah
Kern, Helmerich & Payne Senior Industry Affairs Specialist, have
taken on the positions of Co-Chairs of the IADC Advanced Rig
Technology (ART) Committee, succeeding the previous Chairman,
Assaad Mohanna . Mr Dow has spent his entire career in drilling,
with the past 17 years focused on technology development and
deployment in directional drilling, MPD and drilling automation.

He has written technical papers and served in volunteer posi-
tions with SPE and IADC committees. Ms Kern joined H&P upon
graduating from Oklahoma State University with a degree in elec-
trical engineering and marketing. Her various roles at H&P have
spanned engineering, operations, communications, marketing,
intelligence and industry affairs.

At its 2023 kickoff meeting on 31 January, the ART Committee
presented Mr Mohanna with a plaque in recognition of his ser-
vice. Mr Mohanna, who currently serves as a Partner at ERM,
had initially served the ART Committee as Vice Chair of the ART
Data, Controls and Sensors Subcommittee , which was then the
Drilling Control Systems Subcommittee. He began his term as
ART Chairman in early 2021 and has overseen the completion of
major projects like the IADC Rig Sensor Stewardship Guidelines.

Assaad Mohanna (right) receives a plaque from new IADC
ART Committee Co-Chair Blaine Dow (left) at the group's
2023 kickoff meeting in Houston on 31 January.

New officers elected to lead IADC UW student chapter
The IADC Student Chapter at the
University of Wyoming (UW), which was
established in 2019, recently elected new
officers :
■ Josh Stone – President
■ Julian Dawkins – Vice President
■ Pierson Lauterbach – Secretary
■ Cody Zayonc – Treasurer
The chapter has been staying active,
for example, by inviting alumnis to share
their experiences with current petroleum
engineering students . Other upcoming
events include an IADC well control
training course in March and a potential
field trip/rig tour in Colorado with Ensign
Energy Services in the spring.

IADC student chapters attend Patterson-UTI rig showcase
IADC ISP releases Q4 2022
report, announces project
to develop online portal
On 26 January, IADC released its Q4
2022 Incident Statistics Program (ISP)
report, which provided a year-end sum-
mary of safety-related data from partici-
pating drilling contractors . As in previ-
ous years, the data is compiled separately
for both onshore and offshore operations
within nine geographic regions. Through
the end of Q4 2022, ISP participants record-
ed a total of 329,745,043 manhours worked,
tallying 1,103 recordable incidents, 311 lost-
time incidents and 15 fatalities.

Also in January, a kickoff meeting of
the IADC ISP Subcommittee, which oper-
ates under the HSET Committee, was held
to initiate the first phase of a project to
develop an online portal for entering and
accessing ISP data. Once completed, par-
ticipating compan ies will be able to more
easily enter their data in the cloud, as well
as get real-time comparisons of their data
against wider industry data .

David Millwee (left), VP of Drilling Performance at Patterson-UTI, leads a rig tour
for a group of students on 26 January . A total of 14 students from three IADC Stu-
dent Chapters – Texas A&M University, the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and
the University of Texas at Austin – attended Patterson-UTI's technology show-
case, held at the company's Houston rig-up yard . The students had the chance
to get a fi rst-hand look at a variety of cutting-edge drilling and completion
technologies. A link to DC's video from the showcase can be found on Page 12.

D R I L L I N G C O N T R AC T O R • M A R C H/A P R I L 2023
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IADC Incident Statistics
Program Q4 report.

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