Howard Crumpton

He is a Well Completions and Interventions Engineer with over 40 years of experience in both completions and interventions.  He began his oilfield career as a slickline operator, working for several vendor companies before accepting a position with BP as a well service supervisor.  A move to the office followed where, as a well intervention engineer, he was responsible for planning well intervention activities for numerous offshore wells.  A role as completion engineers came next. In this position Howard was responsible for the design and installation of platform and subsea well completions in several of BP’s North Sea fields.  He is also an experienced oil and gas trainer, having taught more than 150 completion, intervention, and well control courses all over the world for major companies such as BP, Shell, and Chevron.  He authored Shell’s internal advanced well control manual (completions and interventions) that is still in use today.  His book ‘Well Control for Completions and Interventions’ was published by Elsevier in April 2018. He has also appeared as an expert witness at the international court of arbitration.