The delegates of the 14th International Scientific and Practical Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention Conference were introduced to the newly elected Board of the Russian Chapter of the Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA).

In 2013, the position of the Senior Co-Chair of the Russian Chapter of ICoTA was held by Elena Borisovna Lapotentova, CEO of NOV Fidmash.

In 2014, the position of the Senior Co-Chair of the Russian Chapter of ICoTA will be held by Konstantin Burdin, Chief Process Engineer, Well Workover Department, Schlumberger Logelco Inc.

Konstantin Burdin

Konstantin Burdin was born on December 30, 1976 in Donetsk region.

He holds a degree with distinction from Tyumen O&G University, on specialty "Drilling O&G Wells and Well Workover". In 1999 he started his professional career as an Assistant Workover Driller in Surgut Department of Oil Recovery Enhancement and Well Workover. Later he worked as a Supervisor for coiled tubing crew.

In 2001 he was appointed as a Leading Engineer of the biggest coiled tubing well workover department in Russia. In 2003 he got a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences. The thesis was entitled as “Development and Research of Behind-the-Casing Flows Isolation Technologies with CT application”.

He has been working for Schlumberger since 2004, where he rose from the position of a Field Engineer to Chief Process Engineer of CT Well Workover Department.

He is a constant participant of the Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention Conferences starting from the year of 2000. He’s an author of more than 30 technical papers on this subject.

Ivan Yaronovich Pirch, Director of Novinka, CJSC (FID Group) was elected Junior Co-Chair of ICoTA’s Russian Chapter for 2014.

The board of ICoTA’s Russian Chapter now also includes Ruslan Yakubovich Igilov, Sales Director of Tekhnostroyleasing, LLC and Halina Aleksandrovna Bulyka, Editor-in-Chief of Scientific and Practical Coiled Tubing Times Journal, the only periodical in Russia that has a right to publish ICoTA materials.