CAREER HISTORY:

April 2001 to Present Kvaerner Oil & Gas Ltd

Principal Engineer

Principal electrical engineer working on feed study for Amerada Hess's Perth-over -Scott subsea tieback project. Work involved purchase of two HV switchboard extensions 13.8kV and 6.6kV, purchase of five HV drive motors 3.5MW to 500kW, modification of 30 LV cubicles to suit new loads, purchase of 3.5MW, 13.8kV VSD, purchase of 110V UPS, lighting, PA, Alarms etc associated with new Perth module. Job cancelled due to insurmountable Process problems surrounding chemical injection issues at wellhead.

Lead Electrical Engineer working on Talisman modifications team, responsible for mod. works at Claymore Alpha, Piper B, Tartan, Saltire and Flotta terminal.

Lead Electrical Engineer working on Britannia platform expansion to bring on-board five new subsea fields. Work taken to end of feed stage, project on HOLD due to cost constraints. Design consisted of 2 additional Solar generators rated 11MW, a new 13.8kV switchboard including 12 new drives from 0.8 to 5MW, and 3 new LV switchboards. A provision was added for a new I.S. limiter due to fault level limits on the existing 13.8kV switchgear.

6 months secondment to Amerada Hess Ltd as Technical Authority for the Scott platfrom, AH001 floating production facility and Triton FPSO. Work included offshore technical support, responsibility for offshore personnel training and interfacing with the HSE for ongoing safety audits and inspections. Investigated causes of major fault in 6.6kV switchboard and updated planned maintenance routines to help prevent reoccurrence.

Oct 1999 - April 2001 AMEC Process and Energy Ltd

Lead/Senior Engineer

Package Engineer for Mobil's Skene Gas Compression Module with particular responsibility for the specification, bid evaluation and interface requirements of a 24 pulse, 14MW VSD for the main gas compressor. The interface requirements include protection, harmonic distortion analysis and tie-ins to the new power management system. Carried out safety review of all electrical aspects of the compressor motor drive systems.

Package engineer for 5.2MW electric heater unit and associated 3.3kV pump motors for pipeline fluid heating.

Lead Engineer for BP Federal projects covering all BP works managed out of AMEC's Aberdeen offices.

March 1998 - Oct 1999 Halliburton Ltd

Senior Engineer / Project Engineer

General workpack production and equipment specification, with particular responsibility for BP's Schiehallion FPSO and ETAP platform facilities.

Carried out electrical safety and design review of Schiehallion gas compression systems and made recommendations for improvements to meet the design intent.

Carried out load study of ETAP platform systems to determine availability of spare generation for use in an additional gas compression train for provision of additional gas lift.

Technical input to a study of the cost savings to be made in supplying BP Forties field via a 1.3GW dc link to shore. Power was to be supplied from Hydro Electric's Peterhead power-station/grid connection point.

Project Engineer covering BP electrical work on ETAP platform, also responsible for carrying out electrical safety reviews of all BP projects.

Feb 1992 - March 1998 McDermott Engineering (Europe) Ltd

Senior / Lead Engineer

General workpack production including vendor bid analysis and factory acceptance tests for major items of electrical equipment.

Production of costed report on the feasibility of applying downhole pump technology to several wells on Shell's Dunlin Alpha platform. The report included discussion of operability, power system disturbances, harmonic distortion and hazardous safety aspects. Presented report to Shell.

Design, build and safety supervision of a 3.3 kV, 1 MW alternator supplied fire pump module. Commissioning of module HVAC units, transformer, alternator, engine batteries, starter unit and charger unit. Production of planned maintenance routines for all equipment.

Major works on Cormorant Alpha (COA) platform including Replacement Permanent Living Quarters (RPLQ). Also responsible for specifying the power systems studies required to prove new 7.5MW process drive electrical design acceptability to the client and Det Norske Veritas (DNV).

Carrying out and reporting on safety review of emergency lighting and power systems on offshore platform; report presented as part of platform safety case to Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Responsibility for carrying out/overseeing all Shell Northern Business Unit power generation and distribution systems study work including loadflows, transient stabilities, and harmonic penetration of networks.

Oct 1990 - Feb 1992 Brown & Root Ltd

Senior Engineer

BP Kinneil Terminal Expansion Project in Grangemouth, Scotland. Responsible for the specification and bid evaluation of trace heating systems, power system studies, five new LV motor control centres (MCCs) and modifications to existing LV switchboards. Also provision of technical input to the specification for a slip power recovery HV drive.

Production of LV single lines and LV schematics.

Production of all documentation required by trace heating designers including piping line list, DB schedules, piping isometrics and general arrangements. Checking of trace heating design documents and answering of all technical queries arising.

Specification of the power system studies required to prove design acceptability to client. External specialists performed these studies and they included fault levels, loadflows, transients and harmonic investigations. Liaison with vendor to agree acceptable simplifications in model representations, additional areas of study in response to initial findings and content of final report.

1985 - 1990 Yard Ltd

Consultant

Responsible for the co-ordination, and technical content of general engineering works, nuclear support systems reliability studies, computer aided studies, specifications and technical/safety design reviews for many varied industrial networks

1982 - 1985 Yard Ltd

Design Engineer

Responsible to consultants and senior consultants for project input and that of any assistant design engineers in my charge for specific projects.

1982 - 1990

Yard projects included the origination of specifications and general engineering work as listed below.

Shell Expro

Designed an improved underwater electrical and telemetry connector for Shell's COA Underwater Manifold Centre (UMC) supplying a seabed satellite well installation. Included an investigation into long term power supply options for a downhole monitoring package requiring no physical connections to the wellhead.

Carried out technical/safety review of the 6.6kV/660V/440V systems on Shell's Kittiwake platform to ensure the high integrity electrical power generation and distribution concept was not comprised during fabrication. Produced report and made recommendations to improve safety and reliability of the generation and UPS systems.

Property Services Agency

Electrical refurbishment of 6 MW steam generating plant providing heating for a large naval base, boiler sequencing control added and commissioned. Protection grading for the plants' electrical system and energy audit of site offices carried out.

For some of the above projects I was seconded to various sites for trials and commissioning participation. Work included:

Property Services Agency

Onsite harmonic measurements on an 11kV distribution system, produced measurement and switching schedules, calibrated CTs and VTs up to 50 ^th harmonic and took part in trials.

Scottish Development Agency

Onsite measurement of voltage disturbances on the supply to a large air conditioning plant. Wrote measurement and switching schedules for these trials.

British Aerospace

Testing and commissioning of weapons barge equipment including motors, transformers and cables.

In addition to general engineering, I have worked as a core member of a project team responsible for the production of computer aided analysis work, including report writing and making presentations to clients. These studies included:

Norske Shell

Proposed platform power system was analysed at the predesign stage to determine whether fault current zeros would be produced within 3 cycles of a busbar fault.

Changes in main generator reactances were proposed to meet this requirement. Wrote report and presented findings to Norske Shell. (Troll field).

Hawker Siddeley Power Engineering

Harmonic analysis of a complete oilfield installation with grid and local generation. (Colombian oilfield).

North East Shipbuilders Limited

Modelling of a supply system containing a split reactor to determine whether such devices could be used to suppress the harmonic distortion present onboard ferries with large converter drives.

Property Services Agency

Investigation and remedy of voltage fluctuations on a large grid supplied system. Fluctuations at 132kV, 33kV, 11kV, and 415V were studied.

Ministry of Defence

Time domain computer modelling of dc motor starts on isolated dc generators. Time domain computer modelling of a buffer circuit for use in a 300 V battery supplied 1 MW dc system. The development of power system analysis software.

National Nuclear Corporation

Reliability analysis of analogue circuit breaker trip unit for nuclear safety case report. Presented report findings to the Nuclear Safety Review Board of MOD(N).

Shell Expro

Computer modelling of electrical systems on an underwater manifold centre for the purpose of fault finding without costly diver intervention.

Coal Products Limited

Computer modelling of a private power generation system for the purpose of proving its suitability for connection to the local grid under all normal conditions.

Yarrow Shipbuilding Limited

Computer modelling of results of AVR failure modes in an isolated power system.