Jonathan Bellarby

Director and Petroleum Engineer

Scotland, UK

Jonathan holds a first-class degree in geophysics and a master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering was a prelude to 6 years with BP as a petroleum engineer. Jonathan left BP and following a short spell in Camco, jointly founded ICE Energy. After 6 years of completions and petroleum engineering consultancy and technical training, ICE Energy merged with TRACS International where he continued with engineering studies, failure investigations, leading integrated teams and developing / delivering training courses.

Jonathan now works independently and uses his thirty years of completions related experience to provide impartial advice and expertise to oil / gas companies, service companies, potential investors and legal firms.

Technical skills include:
• Tubing and casing design. Technical expert including supervising equations and workflows for Oliasoft casing and tubing stress analysis, APB, wellhead growth etc. Numerous design and failure studies and reviews of complex issues.
• Well performance and artificial lift, material selection, smart completions, HPHT, stimulation (acid and proppant fracturing) and sand control.
• SPE Technical Interest Group chairman on Completions and Well Interventions.
• Author of “Well Completion Design” book published by Elsevier. Over 20,000 copies sold.
• Teaching of technical training courses (over 300 run in 40+ countries).