John Harris

Managing Director – Helix RDS

John brings over 25 years industry experience to the role. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Engineering Science in 1980 and joined Schlumberger as a Field Engineer in various locations in Europe, Scandinavia and South America, serving as Technical Manager of Europe and ultimately Wireline and Testing Base Manager in Aberdeen.

In 1989 he established Read Well Services, a Seismic and Production Logging Service Company and as Managing Director, grew the company from 1 to 70 staff, in 3 countries, over a period of 6 years. In addition, during this period he formed and became Managing Director of IWS, an alliance between 3 major service companies to revolutionise the way well intervention work was carried out on North Sea installations.

In 1995 he became Vice President of Transocean and managed the development of their Coiled Tubing and associated Drilling business in the UK sector of the North Sea until 1997 when he became Commercial Director of RDS. As a director John has been involved in the strategic development, leadership and general management ever since and in March of 2002 he moved to Malaysia to expand the merged entity of Helix RDS into the Far East and Australia. He has been instrumental in developing new ideas and relationships towards the establishment of alternative, performance based remuneration contracts in the region whilst establishing a strong market position with the conventional Helix RDS business model. After a business development assignment with ERT, the production division of the Helix Group, John was appointed Managing Director of Helix RDS in December 2007.