Lab Specialist General - Drilling and Completions Fluids

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

Position Overview

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...