Experience

StarStream Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Instrumentation and Control Engineer

  • Oct 2015 - Present

  StarStream is an upstream oil and gas industrial process control services company.StarStream’s unique approach reveals limitations and improvements through analysis of equipment data and the application of mathematical techniques. We provide our clients with quantifiable, process control improvements. StarStream is an upstream oil and gas industrial process control services company.StarStream’s unique approach reveals limitations and improvements through analysis of equipment data and the application of mathematical techniques. We provide our clients with quantifiable, process control improvements.



Apache Corporation

• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instrumentation and Control Engineer

  • Sep 2012 - Oct 2015

  Supplying I&C engineering services for Forties and Beryl field facilities I&C issues ranging from front line technical issues to large project risk management, technical guidance and design. Answering engineering queries. Audit of technical management processes and systems. Technical authoring of HSE responses and Safety Case updates. Shutdown planning. Technical approver of category 1 drawings, operational risk assessments, spares holdings, maintenance system impairments and deferrals. Root-cause analysis. SCE verification activities. Technical interviewing.



ConocoPhillips

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instrumentation and Control Engineer

  • Mar 2010 - Sep 2012

  ConocoPhillips Rubislaw House Jasmine MMS June 2011- September 2012:- Responsibility to deliver a SAP/SPO based CMMS leading a multi-discipline team for the new Jasmine gas platform development. Lead technical input with regards to I&C for originating criticality assessments, asset registers, maintenance hierarchy, preventative and predictive maintenance standards and task instructions, and equipment maintenance strategies. Setup IEC 61511 based systems of work for the operations phase including Safety Requirements Specification dossiers, Functional Safety management plans and procedures for all the safety instrumented functions. ConocoPhillips Rubislaw House SNS FMT March 2010-June 2011:- Duties were to undertake day to day operational support of all CoP SNS assets, providing short-term solutions and undertake operational investigations. Deliver instrumentation & control engineering support for offshore operations on Southern North Sea assets and implement improvements via management of change. Input into CoP certification and verification activities ensuring integrity of SCE’s. Supervise and manage sub-contract activity. Ensure that the maintenance programme is fit-for-purpose, through reviewing and authorising the technical content of PM amendments. Develop, maintain and distribute CoP standards, procedures and specifications as required. Ensure cost control is maintained over operational engineering repairs and change-outs, including yearly forecast and control on budgets for all Southern North Sea assets.ConocoPhillips BMG project PSN May 2007-March 2010:- Brownfield Modifications Group E&I design and engineering team under-graduate engineer on minor Capex projects. Involved in Triconex PLC change out installation and commissioning, wide area network sand monitoring upgrade, and chromatograph installation and commissioning.

• Instrument Technician

  • Jan 2002 - Mar 2010

  L.O.G.G.S Platform – Joined in October 2004. Assigned to the Field Support Group, which is a maintenance team, specialising in normally un-manned satellite platforms, to carry out planned maintenance and reactions to shutdowns. Main job functions included planned maintenance and systematic fault finding on a range of different systems, preparing and obtaining work permits, certificates and plans, identifying and ordering spares, planning job schedules, liaising with engineers on technical issues.Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal (TGT) – Served the final part of an Indentured Apprenticeship, which led to a permanent staff employed Instrument Tech. I acquired skills by working on my own (one instrument technician on site per shift) and learning more in depth knowledge about plant operations.



ECITB

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Apprentice Instrument Technician

  • Sep 1997 - Dec 2001

  Altens Technical College – 2½ years study of the fundamental principles of Instrument, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, including practical exercises, of instrumentation, measurement & control, followed by another year and a half on-site training. Altens Technical College – 2½ years study of the fundamental principles of Instrument, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, including practical exercises, of instrumentation, measurement & control, followed by another year and a half on-site training.