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CURRICULUM VITAE
Nationality: British DOB: 6th August 1955
Position: QC INSPECTION, VENDOR INSPECTION, PIPEMILL INSPECTION SUPERVISOR, PIPEMILL INSPECTION, PLATEMILL INSPECTION, TANK INSPECTION, VALVE INSPECTION, MECHANICAL TEST HOUSE INSPECTION MECHANICAL INSPECTION, COATING INSPECTION. (FBE, 3 LAYER POLYETHYLENE, INSULATED POLYURETHANE AND PAINTING) PIPEMILL SURVEYS, EXPEDITOR ON SITE AND OFFICE BASED, COLD DRAWN PIPE/TUBING. FULL SCALE HIC TESTING
Qualifications:
AIM Associate Certificate in Metallurgy, Institute of Metallurgists
CGLI City and Guilds Metallurgical Technicians Certificate, Part I, II & III
BG/ERS Approved Pipemill Supervisor NO. 5699
CWSIP European Welding inspector (level 4) EW14/GB/00332
Aramco approved for Pipemills
Courses: Attended Seminar Training on ASME IX
Attended Welding Course At TWI
Languages; Italian, fluently. German fair. French small amount but will pick it
Up quickly, it s some time since last in France
Experience:
From February to date: W.L.A. Currently working in India as Site Representative, responsible for management, supervisor, control and reporting to P.T.J McDermott in Jakarta, Indonesia on the Conoco Belanak project at Man Industries Pipemill Indore India, Pipemill supervisor for Talisman Energy for the Kildrummy project at V and M Tubes at both Rath and Mulhiem, plants Germany. For Seamless pipe production, duties entailed were the usual supervisor responsibilities. Ras Gas extension project for J.Ray Mcdermott Dubai, pipemill inspector at the Europipe pipe mill at Mulhiem, submerged arc welded, for sour wet service
1990 to Feb 2002
Pencol Engineering Consultants (Penspen Group) London
Resident Site Engineer/Inspector of works (From March 2000 – December2001.)
On behalf of the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) for the refurbishment of 2 ex-crude oil storage tanks, to take white oils inclusive of all Mechanical works, pipeline laying/welding, welder and welding procedure qualification. Installation of primary and secondary seals, fire fighting systems, painting installation of valves at the Kipevu Power Oil storage farm, Mombassa Fire fighting water line, (Concrete lined) at the same site in with new hydrants, additionally giving advice to KPC for pipeline sleeve repair for the main Mombassa to Nairobi multi-product pipeline, included assessment and Supervision back up to KPC personnel on the pipeline, i.e. assessment of indicated defects from the P.I.G. run and subsequent repair method, assessments on defects origins i.e. mill defects or other Mechanical/Corrosion. Expediting projects on site and also desk expeditor.
Vendor Inspection, Pipemill inspection supervisor, Platemill inspection, Mechanical Inspection for the following, metering skids, orifice meters, blow down valves, relief valves, filters, boilers, heat exchangers, temperature control valves, air compressors, fuel gas train, fire water pumps.
Condensate collectors, hot water pressurisation units, slam shut valves, pig launchers and receivers, gate valves; forged bends; induction bends; sphere tees; ball valves (welded and bolted design), isolating joints; prefabricated storage tank plates with manhole cover accesses, associated fabrications and insulated pipes for hot crude oil systems. Duties were to hold preliminary progress meetings, pre-production meetings for line pipe, expedite/production progress meetings whilst at the vendors, to carry out witness/hold points on the QA plans.
To assess the vendors in accordance with approved QA procedures. Witnessing of various tests during manufacture of the items, eg. Furnace heat treatments, pressure testing ball valves, examination/witness of NDT examinations, dimensional examination, qualification of welding procedures and welders, witnessing of mechanicals tests on the isolating joints, microscopical examination of steels. Expediting reports to Head Office and to clients of the current progress of all works including any slippages.
Projects involved with were Brega Petroleum, NNPC lagos – Escravos and Jos Tank Farm, Kinetica, Theddlethorpe to Killingholme, Barking Power, Horndon-Barking, Acer Consultants, Teignmouth –Sea Outfall Southern Water. Second Severn River Crossing. Strymonohori Border Station (Greece).
Vendors were S.T.F.A, Turkey, Grove TK Valves Scotland and Italy, Clapwell Contracting, Pipeline Engineering, Catterick, Paul and Loughran, Consett, Neles Controls- Helsinki, Motherwell Bridge Thermal, Cordforth, B.E.L. valves, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Munro Miller, Livingston, Scotland, Cooper Oil Tools, Livingston Scotland. Wilson Valves, Renfrew Scotland. R.M.A. Kehl, Germany. Basco, Southampton (fabricated in Italy). Entropose, Lilliers and Fos sur Mer, France. Forge de Clabeque (plate mill) Belgium, F.A.I. Italy, I.B.S. Sunderland, Motherwell Bridge Malta. McTays, UK, Fabricom, Belgium, Bergum Impianti, Nuovo Guingas, PBV valves, Italy, Valvosider.
Senior Pipe Mill Inspection Supervisor, Vendor Inspection Supervisor, Clients Representative, Coating Inspection (3 Layer poly)
Direct secondment to B.H.P. (formerly Hamilton Oil) worked as their representative for the offshore Douglas to Lenox replacement pipeline, for all technical activities. From steel supply to load out/despatch offshore. This also included technical appraisals and the relative project meetings with suppliers of line pipe, induction pipe bends, coatings giving technical assistance to the London bases engineers on concessions required from the suppliers and their implications technically.
Pipemill Inspection Supervisor, Mechanical test house inspection, Client Representative for Total Bruce Project, Horndon-Barking, Hamilton Oil, Liverpool bay Point of Ayr to Connahs Quay and other various contracts as listed below. Duties included liaison with
Vendor and Client, control of inspection team activities, performance, PQT, FDQ's. Reporting of Vendor performance against QA/QC procedures and normal supervisory duties. From production control through to certification and responsible for the selection and management of the inspection team on site. Senior Coating Inspector for F.B.E. Coating. Asses the use of plate mills rolling thermomechanical rolled plate. Carrying out pipe mill surveys during F.E.E.D. feasibility, prior to order placement.
Responsible for the preparation and review of pipe specifications, chairing pre-inspection meetings for line pipe, proposals, procedures, documentation and certification for the pipemills, via the client. Acting as Clients' direct Representative in the producing Pipemills. Consultant to major oil and gas companies for the above mentioned and vetting proposed inspection teams. Vetting of pipemills for performance, quality assurance, NDT, Thermomechanical rolling of plate in the plate mills and technical appraisals of vendors prior to order placement. Witnessing weldability trials. Duties were to witness and approve NDT, all coating tests for F.B.E. and 3 layer extruded polyethylene, welding procedures, first day qualification tests, specifications worked to include A.P.I., A.S.M.E., B.S. and others. Review of NDT, welding inspection, procedure/welding qualification. Vetting of coating plants at N.K.K. Sumitumo, Nippon Steel and Hall Longmore (including F.B.E. and extruded polyethylene). B.P.C.L. Leith.
Projects involved with were: TSEP Pipeline Teesside, Hull B.P., Beattock Compressor Stations for Bord Gais, Great Yarmouth Power/BP Amoco, Lasmo, Bhit Project F.E.E.D. Contract, Pakistan. Shoreham Pipeline, Douglas to Lenox, B.H.P. Liverpool Bay, replacement line BG Transco Fort Dunlop pipeline for Heartlands EPC contract, St Fergus to Peterhead pipeline for Scottish Hydroelectric Plc, Benghazi Harbour pipeline to Ras El Mungar Terminal for Brega Petroleum, ADCO, 4th M.O.L.
Line, Longannet (Scottish Power), Hamilton Oil Company Liverpool Bay project. Point of Ayr to Connahs Quay. Kandla-Bhatinda multiproducts pipeline, India. Sarier Tank
Farm, Libya. B.O.C. Rotherham-Stockbridge, Oxygen Line. Horndon-Barking Barking
Power, Total Bruce, Theddlethorpe-Killingholme Kinetica, Multi-fuel products pipeline fuel transportation of Thailand, Sea Outfall South west Water. Feruka-Harare, Zimbabwe for Lonhro, Total Bruce, Shell North West Ethylene Line, Kenya Western Extension Line, Jos Tank Farm and Lagos-Escravos Pipeline. Phase III Depots and Pipelines (2000
km of pipe) for NNPC. Bangladesh Mineral and Gas Corporation. Tea Estates Development and Secondary Gas Development. Maersk Oil – Skjold Project.
Producing plants were: Corinth Pipeworks and coating plant, Greece, Sumitumo, Nippon Steel and N.K.K. Japan (Including extruded polyethylene coating plants); ILVA Italy; T.D.I. Italy; G.T.S. Dunkirk and Belleville, France; Enterpose, France; B.S. Stockton; Hall & Longmore, South Africa; British Steel, Hartlepool. 20" mill and 42" mills, BS/Ramco F.B.E/3 layer Coating Plant, Hartlepool; Mannesmann, Germany; Forge de Clabeq, Belgium; Munro Miller, Cooper Oil Tools; Thyssen Plate Mill, Duisburg, Germany. B.S. Scunthorpe Plate Mill, Dalzell; Vallourec Alnoye, France. Benkan
Yokohama, Japan; W. Press, Darlington, C.P.C.L., Leith; Kilroe, Clywd; Port Said Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, M.R.W. Rath Dusseldorf; Isotub, Dunkirk, A.B.B. Moller insulated coating plant, Fredecia – Denmark, Oktomouri II pipeworks, Kumanovo – Macedonia, Crescent Steel, Pakistan, Data Pipe Industries, Pakistan, ABB, Moller Denmark.
1989-1990
John Brown Engineers & Constructors (W.L.A.)
Pipemill Inspection Supervisor, Clients Representative.
Employed on the Petrofina Humberside to Brucefield Project at BS Hartlepool 20" Pipemill. Duties were as stated previously on other projects. Responsible for the Management of the inspection team on site.
1989-1990
British Gas (W.L.A.)
Pipemill inspection for British gas at British Steel Hartlepool. 42" pipe mill, Pipe 36" and 20" O/D.
Shell Gannet (T.I.M.E.)
Pipemill Inspection at S.T.L. Wednesfield. Duties were dimensional control checks,
NDT witness, Witnessing of rolling, heat treatment, mechanical testing and usual duties for mill inspection.
John Brown Engineering (W.L.A)
Pipemill Inspection Supervisor, Clients Representative on Site.
Hamilton Brothers Ravenspurn North Project at the B.S.C. 44" Pipemill, Hartlepool. Normal Supervisor duties as previously described. Responsible for pipe production through to certification and release. Also responsible for the performance of the inspection team.
Brown and Root International, Houston, Texas (O'Neil)
Pipemill Inspection Supervisor, Coating Inspection Supervisor, Client Representative for AI Furat Petroleum Company for Tanak/Tayani E.R.W. piplines at Hoesch Hamm, West Germany.
Responsible for Production control through to final release. Duties were mechanical testing, monitoring NDT, hydro test, H.I.C. testing certification, final inspection, supervising of extruded polyethylene coating and F.B.E. coatings, boat loading inspection of induction bends and usual supervisor duties, advising Brown & Root International on concessions to pipe tendered by the Vendor. Also assigned to BP on various contracts. Responsible for the management of the inspection teams on site and selection of personnel.
1988
Shell UK (Atkins)
Pipemill Inspection Supervisor for the Shell Sole Pit Project at Mannesman and at Belleville, G.T.S. Industries.
Duties were to ensure that all QA procedures were carried out, control all documentation and monitor all inspection activities of the vendors and the inspection crew. These included final inspection, NDT, mechanical testing, documentation and normal supervisor duties which included the responsibility of managing the inspection team on site and selection of personnel.
(T.I.M.E.)
Platemill Inspection, British Gas Site Representative for Morecambe Bay phase 1 stage 2 at BSC Clydesbridge. Duties were to monitor performance against QA procedures and report on final inspection, ultrasonics, identification and complete load-out control.
Developed on-site control systems in conjunction with British Gas.
Subsequently assigned to British Gas as Inspection Supervisor at the BSC 44" Pipe Mill for Barrington Phase 2. Duties were to monitor production and NDT and also final inspection performance of the Pipemill inspectors.
1988
Marathon Oil UK (T.I.M.E.)
Pipemill Inspection Supervisor, Client's representative on Central Brae seamless line pipe at Seamless Tubes Ltd. Duties were to monitor QA procedures on rolling, U/T, eddy current, MPI, mechanical testing, heat treatment, hydrostatic testing, certification, final inspection and usual supervisor duties. Responsible for production control through to final release and management of the inspection teams on site.
1984 – 1987
British Inspection Engineers (BIE)
Inspection, Platemill Inspection Supervisor, Pipemill Inspection Supervisor, Vendor Expediting Inspection,
(i) Assigned as patrol Inspector on 222km of 56" diameter pipe on behalf of Aramco at Italsider, Taranto, and responsible for the supervision of welding, ultrasonics, x-ray, hydrotest and subsequently assigned to supervise MPI of 62km Inde Trunk Line.
(ii) Shell Tern/Eider Project, BSC Plate Mill, Scunthorpe. Inspection for the primary steel plate on the Tern/Eider projects. Client's representative on site, and site supervisor/Team Leader, advising each inspector of his duties upon arrival at site, and conducting indoctrination procedures. Carried out QA audits on BSC and also on BIE inspectors.
(iii) Assigned to Woodside Petroleum to oversee inspection at BSC, Stockton. Monitored the performance of MW Kellog inspectors on all aspects of
Inspection. Mechanical Test House inspector on Shell Tern conductor pipe at
BSC, Stockton.. Inspection of seamless gas cylinders as a third party inspector covering all aspects of production at TI, Chesterfield. Assigned to
Belelli Brothers of Mantova, Italy for the inspection of Cans for the Agip
Bouri gas field Libya at Eisenbau Kramer, Germany.
1984
Assigned to shell UK for RE-MPI of South East Inde Pipeline at BS 44" Pipemill as Pipemill Inspection Supervisor.
1984
(i) Mill Patrol Inspector at Seamless Tubes, Wednesfield, On the Shell Cormorant TFL Project, monitoring mill performance from rolling, visual, dimensional control and load out. At Seamless Tubes, Corby checking in of the above mentioned material and monitoring the mill performance with respect to MPI, UT furnace control, grade, checking, monitoring dimensional control at the cold draw bench, witnessing of mechanical tests, metallographic examination and strain age charpy testing.
(ii) Shell Fulmar offshore coating project at MK Shand, Invergordon. Duties included reporting any damage to pipes incurred during loading on to the supply vessel and ensuring all identification was correct.
1983 – 1984
T.I.M.E.
Pipemill Inspection and Platemill Inspection, on Shell fulmar Project at BSC Hartlepool responsible for monitoring of all QA procedures during plate manufacture. Duties included checking of all incoming slabs, witnessing of deseaming and documentation review. When required, carried out shift leader duties and load out. Also involved at BSC, Stockton, on pipe inspection of carrier pipe for Shell cormorant 85 project.
1981-1983
Moody Tottrup
Pipemill inspection, mechanical test house inspection, at Mannesman, Italsider, Valourec, Pont-a-Mousson Hoesch, Slazgitter Pine, Bergrohr, Maraldi and BSC Works. Duties involved final bench inspection of all dimensional tolerances of pipes. Other duties included review of radiographs and shift leader responsibilities. Clients included DONG, Shell Gortez CO2 line, Stat Oil, Seagull corporation, Michigan and Wisconsin, Trans-Panama, United Texas.
1973- 1981
Rylands Whitecross Steel Wire Producer
Quality controller responsible for all quality control aspects within the plant. Duties included mechanical testing, analysis of chemicals used on site upgrading of material: control of heat treatments i.e. normalizing, annealing, patenting and interannealing and trials for the use of Stelmor wire rod in suspension cables for bridges. Control of hot dip galvanizing baths for zinc coating and in line cold drawing of hot dipped fencing wires. Statistical analysis for reinforcing wires used in car tyres by Pirelli. Other duties included testing wire for Humber Bridge suspension cable and also investigating customer complaints.
Penspen on Site Company Training:
Spent 3 weeks on the Horndon-Barking Pipelines (Gas). Appreciating the aspects of field welding of pipes, pipes to fittings, the welding of Special Fabrications of pipe spools, cold bending of pipes, site N.D.T. Corolation of site paperwork and general welding inspections at the front end and back end.
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