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OQ Certifications NCCER SS # 451 – 74 – 7398 10 – 11 – 02
Abnormal Operating Conditions – General Pipeline
Pipeline Maintenance Technician
Corrosion Prevention Field Technician 1 – Installation
Helicopter Underwater Egress Training 10-15 – 2002
OQ Qualified Multitask
EDUCATION: High School Graduate. 2 Years University of Texas, Naval Ammunition School Graduate. Certified Welder. Certified Rigger. US Navy - Honorable Discharge.
SUMMARY: A total of over 35 years of supervision of construction and project management experience, including pipelines, process equipment, piping, rigging, welding, civil works, heavy equipment repairs and operations, survey party work, structural drafting of civil works and print reading skills. Able to read and interpret x-rays.
OFFSHORE SYNOPSIS
1993 Pipelines, risers, shore pulls, tie ins and various mechanical completions in addition to large projects.
1992 Inspection of pipelines, pump stations, shore pulls and tie-ins, hot taps and pile driving,, jacket settings.
1984-91 Pipeline rehab, river crossings, jacket settings, pile driving, pipeline offshore and beach pulls.
1982 Set jackets, drove 48" piles, set jackets, fabrication of receivers & traps, shut in flare lines, hot taps, annulus flare lines to fertilizer plant lines.
1980-81 Set jackets, drive piles, set packages.
1978 Jet Barge #4, drove concrete piles through drilled limestone, jetted same and re-drove, set bents and girder beams.
1975-77 Set jackets, drove and drilled and jetted pile, set packages, pipeline and beach pulls.
Heaviest lift, 2,250 metric tons, 350' X 60" X 5" wall pile.
TYPES OF EQUIPMENT OPERATED:
Welding Machines: Plasma, Tig, Mig, Submerged Arc, Stick, and Gouge. Cranes, Sidebooms, Traxcavators, Backhoes, Dozers, Blades, Swamp Buggies, Pile Hammers and other types
INSTRUCTION:
Have trained equipment operators and service preventative maintenance operators in Mexico, South America, Indonesia, Iran and USA.
LANGUAGE: Fluent, written and spoken, Castillian Spanish.
EXPERIENCE:
2003
Chief Inspector, Marathon Ashland Pipeline LLC, WHD 4/8 Butane, Detroit, MI.
Chief Inspector, Marathon Ashland Pipeline LLC, Effingham Retirement, Effingham, IL.
AFE # 222032 Remove portions of pipeline and fill with flowable fill per IDOT and City of Effingham specifications.
2002
Chief Inspector, Marathon Ashland Pipeline LLC, Effingham Reroute, Effingham,IL. Reroute #1 – 10" Products line through the Town of Effingham,IL AFE # 222081
Chief Inspector, El Paso / Southern Natural Gas, McConnells CS # 479, Tuscaloosa, AL. Install lowside filter/ separator
Chief Inspector, El Paso / Southern Natural Gas. Levee Project, Onward, MS. Remove 7 lines from levee.
QA/QC Verifying for turnover of packages to client. CWI support of QA/QC dept.
Newberry Technical Services, Bakersfield, CA.
2001
Coating and Welding Inspector, Gulfstream Project Coating Plant, Port Manatee, FL, AFE 33826, QIS Inspection Services, Goodwell, OK.
Consultant 360 networks inc., Bloomfield, CO. Fiber Optic Regen Site at Chicopee, MA
Consultant - Williams Communications, AFE 4582, Pomfret, CT, Regen
2000
Inspector - Williams Communications - QIS Inspection Services, Goodwell, OK, AFE 4582, Pomfret, CT Regen
Inspector - Williams Communications - QIS Inspection Services, Goodwell,OK, AFE 4901, New York City to Boston, MA
Right of Way Agent- Williams Communications- QIS Inspection Services- Goodwell, OK
AFE 4746, New York City to Boston Build
1999
Inspector - Williams Communications - QIS INSPECTION SERVICES - Goodwell, OK.
AFE 4413 Lee, MA REGEN SITE,
AFE 4746 Right of Way Agent, New York City to Boston, MA, Build
AFE 4421 Fiber Optic Installation, Albany, NY TO Boston, MA
AFE 3940 Fiber Optic Installation, Brooksville, FL TO Tampa, FL, Inspector, Plow, Tie Ins, Road Bores, Dig Downs, Marker Poles, Stationing
AFE 3939 Fiber Optic Installation, Gray, GA to Jeffersonville, GA Inspector, Tie Ins, Road Bores, Dig Downs
1998
Chief Inspector – ON & OFFSHORE QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALISTS,SOUTHRN NATURAL GAS, AFE 97-006-77 MONTGOMERY # 4 METER STATION, Pratville, AL
Welding Inspector –ON & OFFSHORE QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALISTS,SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS AFE 97-003-29, Selma, AL
1997/1998
Chief Inspector – ON & OFFSHORE QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALISTS, INC., for GUADALUPE BLANCO RIVER AUTHORITY
1996
Offshore Inspector – ON & OFFSHORE QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALISTS, INC. for COASTAL STATES CRUDE OIL GATHERING COMPANY( Abandoned pipe removal in Nueces Bay,Tx )
1995/1996
Welding Inspector – ON & OFFSHORE QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALISTS, INC. for SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY.
1994/1995
Welding Inspector – ON & OFFSHORE QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALISTS, INC. for SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY.
1993/1994
Construction Superintendant / Project Management - ABB/LummusCrest /SAUDI ARABIA
I was part of the Aramco Project management team on 170 Million dollar Fiber Optics project of which I was responsible for the 100 million dollar portion of the project ensuring contractor compliance with Aramco specifications. This was 69-Kilometer Fiber Optic installation from Ras-Al- Juwamah Pier through the Safaniah Field. Laid Pipeline from Al – Khobar to Saana, Yemen
1992
CHIEF INSPECTOR - QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALISTS, INC., AUSTIN, TX.
Inspection of pipelines, pump stations, push-pull river crossings, mechanical hook-up projects and pipe rehabilitation projects as well as inspection of civil works including roads, bridges, suspension and concrete for pipe and roadways. Suspension bridge checks for lost alignment in both abutment and tower and recheck for changes.
1991/1992
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR - AUSTIN, TX.
Civil works, roads, bridges, abutments, concrete projects and other civil projects built to ASTM standards.
1984/1991
OWNER - JOHN COSTLEY - COSTLEY BUILDERS & REBUILDERS, Austin, TX.
Fabrication of tank batteries, building conventional wooden and metal structures, hot taps, hot and cold annulus work metal bridges, airplane hangers to federal aviation standards and custom work for clients from plans, operation of heavy equipment for building pads. Pipeline Superintendent for pipeline rehabilitation, including river crossings in Mexico, both laid over and suspension bridges, contract welder for work in the Dilly, Texas (Austin Chalk), built tank batteries in the Giddings and Luling Fields, Cut down level of pipeline surge tank to comply tank farm surge tank to new EPA regulations (all hot work), worked shutdown at Phelps Dodge, Playas, New Mexico smelter regenerator flues. Additional projects included the construction of three bridges whose slope and skew was different for each of the parts of the face of the building and fabricating doubly optically correct handrails for these three bridges. Building was additionally of different skew inside to outside by 1/2 degree and fabricated a skylight support for this same building. I have built a barn for Sharpiro Cattle Co. (3360 sq. ft) to allow for the delivery of truckload quantities. Construction of a 41,500 sq. ft. Airplane hanger to federal aviation standards without a rework or recall by federal inspectors.
1983/1984
MECHANIC & WELDER
Heavy equipment maintenance and repairs.
1982
PIPELINE SUPERINTENDENT, Head of Pipeline Dept for Belco Petroleum - PERU
Laid 250,000 feet of bottom line pipeline offshore of the coast of Peru. Also, laid 900 miles of pipeline in marshlands using push/pull. Designed an amphibious type track/barge to transverse swampy areas while laying pipelines. (85% swamp and 15% land, non-navigable.) Beach pulls. Built gas receivers for Ammonia Fertilizer Plant that used the flare off gas from the field that was formerly burned off and increased production fertilizer plant 35%. Also, installed J-Tubes and ran risers. Also, worked on river crossings at Rio Negro in upper Amazon Basin.
1981
PIPELINE "STRAW BOSS" FOR LINE FROM CASPER, WYO TO TENNECO SODA ASH PROJECT
WELDING SUPERINTENDENT - TENNECO SODA ASH PROJECT.
Setting and Supervising the welding of Ball Mill Dryers, Structural Iron and Process Piping Vessels and Metal Buildings. Laid 28 miles of pipeline uphill at 7,200 ft. elevation from Green River to Tenneco Soda Ash Plant and from Plant to evaporation pond that was 40 acres in diameter that formed with earth moving equipment to evaporate Ball Mill Condensate.
1980/1981
BARGE FOREMAN & SUPERINTENDENT
Supervision and setting of jackets, drove 48" round pile, installed SBM and assisted Red Adair with Vessel support for control of IXTOC Blowout in the Bay of Campeche.
1979/1980
SUPERINTENDENT - PIPELINE SUPERINTENDANT - MEXICO
Supervised rebuilding of packages for use in the Campeche Basin, Supervised the building of yard from Mangrove swamp to fabrication yard including graving ways for jacket building. Supervised borrow and fill and achieved 110% durometer on yard surface, also Supervised over 3,000 employees.
1979
GENERAL JOB FOREMAN, Chahbahar, Iran.
Supervised Construction of over 100 miles of roads, ditches and blasting of a 1,200 mile high hill to be used as base material for the 22KM long pier at what was to be the world's largest Navy Base. Supervised DOLO factory and set up Manitowoc 6,500 crane as well as check on equipment and maintenance operations of $380 Million worth of earthmoving equipment and supervise 7,000 employees.
1978
TOWER OPERATOR-NORTH SEA-JET BURIAL FOR PIPELINES
BARGE SUPERINTENDENT-SAUDI ARABIA-RAS AL JUYAHAMAH PIER/TRESTLE PROJECT. 15 KM of trestle for liquid Natural Gas Loading.
1975/1977
RIGGER FOREMAN TO WELDING SUPERINTENDENT - NORTH SEA Mechanical hook-up work, boat work, barge work, piping installation, instrument package setting, conductor driving, setting packages, cranes, drilling rigs and supervision of installations for sub-contractors.
1972/1975
GENERAL RIGGER FOREMAN, WELDER FOREMAN
Construction of production platforms, coordination of support barge with tugs, start-up of drilling and production and specify underwater rigging for divers overseas. Installed 18", 24", 36" and 48" pipelines in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, North Sea, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and South America including river and swamp crossings, and onshore/offshore.
1970/1972
SURVEYOR
Operated Olivetti survey computer, survey chain and transit, drawing maps and civil layouts.
1968/1970
STRUCTURAL DRAFTSMAN
Drafting of concrete reinforced structures, bridges, abutments, and interior Bents; Texas Highway Department Map making, drafting, and hydrological work of a sewage treatment plant.
1960/1968
CERTIFIED WELDER
General Machine shop work.
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