Lab Specialist General - Drilling and Completions Fluids

Baker Hughes • Dubai, Dubai • Posted July 15, 2026

About the Role

This position delivers detailed Drilling and Completion lab testing and analytical work to support product and system design, project troubleshooting and performance analysis. 

As a Lab Specialist - Drilling and Completions Fluids, you will be responsible for: 

  • Performing pilot testing on drilling and completion fluids on proposed mud program recipes and actual field mud and/or brine samples, when required. 

  • Perform QA/QC on products as required. 

  • Repair, maintain and calibrate site testing equipment. Plan new equipment purchase as required. 

  • Analyse-corrosion coupons recovered from the field and provide the corrosion technical report. 

  • Run core flow tests to evaluate and select optimum mud cake breaker formulation. 

  • Run PPA/PPT (permeability Plugging Apparatus/Test), laser PSD (Particle Size Distribution) analyser to evaluate and design RDF (Reservoir Drill-In fluids) and Low in...