Our Experience
Runs Deep

WARRIOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING

Committed to Quality

At Warrior Directional Drilling, we are proud to be innovators of the highest standard utilizing cutting-edge technology to lead the industry forward. Through great determination and meticulous reliable hard work, our company has evolved to become known as a top provider of directional drilling services offering best-in-class mud motors and state-of-the art M/LWD equipment and services.

Why Warrior?

Reduce Risk

Maximize Drilling Efficiency

Optimize Well Placement

About Us

Warrior Directional Drilling provides directional drilling, well-placement tools, technologies and services for high efficiency in unconventional shale and conventional oil and gas markets across North America. We support a wide range of drilling projects with tools and technologies designed fit-for-purpose with a focus on offering cost effective drilling systems to our clients. We were founded in 2016 by a highly experienced team of directional drillers, engineers and coordinators in Lafayette, Louisiana who are committed to excellence and quality-based state-of the-art technology.

Our Experience

At Warrior Directional Drilling, our experience runs deep. Our team of petro-technical experts have experience drilling every major directional play in the continental United States and around the world. As a team, we have spent decades safely solving the world’s most complex energy challenges with relentless precision.

Our People

Warrior’s versatile team of seasoned professionals are directional drillers, well planners, drilling coordinators, engineers and service specialists with a strong track record of working together in unconventional and conventional oil and gas plays. We have used our unique expertise and confident decision-making skills to help our customers set new standards for performance – and we’ve done it in every environment imaginable.

Quality

At Warrior, precision and quality control is carefully coordinated long before assembly. We understand that reaching your target depth is really a product of preparation and precise tool selection. Warrior’s highly trained team performs a battery of tests before equipment is ever put into service. Once onsite, our field personnel assemble and re-test all equipment to ensure that no damage occurred during transport. Upon completion of a job, every piece of directional drilling equipment is returned to R&M where skilled technicians carefully clean, restore, inspect and test each component to as-new condition.

Services & Capabilities

Our success is powered by our people, our expertise, our reliability and our technology. Warrior supports a wide range of drilling projects with tools and technologies designed fit-for-purpose with a focus on offering cost-effective drilling systems to our clients. We are a full-service directional company offering comprehensive service packages tailored to support the industry’s toughest directional applications.

Capabilities Include:

• Multilateral, extended reach, 3D and
horizontal directional wells
• Conventional directional drilling
• Measurement-while-Drilling (MWD)
• Logging-while-Drilling (LWD)
• Under-balanced drilling
• Wellbore correction
• Cased/open-hole sidetracks
• Formation Evaluation
• Gamma Ray
• Resistivity
• Imaging Gamma

• Spectral Gamma
• Geosteering
• Standard and High-Performance Motors
• Rotary Steerable systems.
• Real-time Communications
• Real-time Pore Pressure Analysis
• Advanced Resistivity Analysis
• Resistivity
High Temperature Tool Suite 365-deg F
High Pressure Tool Suite 25,000 psi
• Horizontal/Directional well planning
and wellbore design

People

Team of Petro-Technical Experts

Service

Customer Centered. Collaborate… Anytime, Anywhere

Solutions

Dedicated to Directional Drilling Solutions 

Regional Presence

Expertise in Various Geomarkets in NA Land

Quality

Precision and Quality Control… We Make Every Well Count

Safety

Safety is Paramount to Everything We Do
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Experience

Experience Performing Under Pressure in Challenging Drilling Areas

Mike Young

Managing Partner / Operations Manager

David “Mike” Young is co-founder and Sr. Operations Manager of Warrior Directional Drilling. Mike is responsible for the organizational alignment of all business activities and strategic direction in the areas of all drilling activity and M/LWD Operations and their overall P&L success while ensuring the safe operation of our personnel and equipment.

Mike is an oil and gas professional with technical expertise in directional, horizontal and extended-reach drilling equipment design and maintenance. He has successfully designed and developed world-class drilling equipment and provided operational excellence and leadership for organizations such as Halliburton, PathFinder Energy Services and Schlumberger. Mike’s career roles have included: highest achievable level M/LWD Field Engineer; provided flawless job execution as Operations Coordinator; Performance Engineering Group (PEG) engineer employing every available resource to acquire, analyze and assign root cause of service interruptions and correction actions to ensure the highest level of service quality; and, LWD Operations Manager responsible for employee management and development, inventory management, operations, service, HSE, quality, training, planning and budget management for the entire Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) operations.. Mike received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from ULL (formerly University of Southwestern Louisiana).

[email protected]
Office: 337-453-4050
Mobile: 337-322-7007

 

Jimmy Leger

Managing Partner / Directional Drilling Manager

Jimmy Leger is Warrior’s Directional Drilling Manager providing strategic direction for the drilling organization and ensures the safe, efficient and effective planning and execution of all drilling activity. Whether it be a tough drill design or problems on a drill site, Jimmy enjoys tackling any difficulty that may arise.

Jimmy’s drilling trade began in 1993 at Gray Wolf Drilling as a derrick hand and his since worked his way up the highest achievable levels of Directional Drilling Supervisor and DD Coordinator at Weatherford, PathFinder Energy Services and Schlumberger contracting to operators such as ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, LLOG Exploration, W&T Offshore and others.

[email protected]
Office: 337-453-4050
Mobile: 409-880-5413

Terry Thibodeaux

Sr. Technical Sales Leader

Terry is Warrior’s Business Development Manager who is responsible for new business development and maintenance of existing business relationships. He is a highly experienced sales professional with extensive knowledge and contacts in the oil operator market who has developed skills in pricing for both growth-market conditions and down-market conditions.

Terry’s career spans over 35 years in onshore and offshore operations in Louisiana, Texas and various unconventional shale plays across North America with companies such as Smith International, Halliburton, PathFinder Energy Services and Schlumberger. His career has included roles in Operations, Technical Support, Coordinator, Field Engineer, Strategic Planning, Sales, Marketing, and Product Launch. Terry’s technical expertise is primarily in directional/horizontal drilling, rotary steerables, high-performance mud motors, drilling dynamics, and MWD/LWD. He has a wealth of knowledge in well control operations and relief well contingency planning while accurately targeting well intercepts for blowout relief. He is skilled at well intercept for production development as well as specialized drilling for pipelines in unique site-specific situations under sensitive waterways and rivers. He has also been involved in geosteering, horizontal drilling, extended reach drilling, coiled tubing drilling, and managed pressure / underbalanced drilling.

[email protected]
Office: 337-453-4050
Mobile: 337-277-7217

Contact Us

Mail: P.O. Box 511, Broussard, LA 70518
Phone: 337-453-4050