1989
GLOBAL MARITIME LIMITED
London,
England
I was engaged to provide the Marine
Design Draughting necessary in the compilation of the conversion specification of an
Oil Tanker into an FSU `Floating Storage Unit’ for Marathon oil.
Detail work involved Engine Room
Layouts & General Arrangements, Bilge & Ballast system modifications,
Accommodation Conversion plus the addition of a Heli-Deck and Conceptual Design the
New Bow Structure to house the Mooring Turret from which the vessel is anchored to the sea
bed.
Many years later while contacted to Kerr
McGee on the Hutton TLP re-floating project in Aberdeen, I was seconded to
Global Maritime to assist them in surveying the platform.
The investigation was to establish an
alternative towing arrangement for use when relocating the platform to it's new
location and presenting the information in AutoCAD drawings.
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Other
Relevant Experience
Originally from a shipbuilding
background, I have considerable and varied experience in Marine & Offshore
Design and possess a disciplined approach including the motivation to work
without supervision or as a member of a project team dedicated to the ultimate
goal.
I served a Naval Architectural Design
Drawing Office apprenticeship at Swan Hunter Shipbuilders on the Tyne during the
days of the Super Tankers in the Sixties and early Seventies, which included
over two years school and shop floor experience with external studies up to HNC
level.
In 1974 I left the Tyne for Vosper
Thornycroft in Southampton on the GRP Minesweepers followed by two years in
Halifax Nova Scotia on structural detailing on Semi-Submersibles & a Drillship,
before moving to Newfoundland for the construction of two similar Anchor
Handling Tugs.
In 1978 I arrived at MIL's shipyard in
Sorel, Quebec for a period of more than a year for the construction and final
outfitting of a series of Container Vessels. After a period at Collingwood
Shipyard, Ontario, Canada working on Great Lake Bulk Carriers, I was engaged by
Bell Aerospace to loft existing GRP air intake cowlings from Military Hovercraft
to assist in accurate close tolerance productions for future manufacture.
1981 saw a return to Marystown,
Newfoundland, to prepare steelwork drawings on fishing trawlers, following an
interesting fifteen months at Saint John Shipbuilders in New Brunswick. Where I
worked on the design & fabrication of the stern structure, rudder, stock and
shaft spectacle frame bossings including shell & framing expansions of a Ice
Class Ro-Ro ferry intended for all year sailing's to Prince Edward Island.
After returning to the UK in 1982 I
visited Sandefjord, Norway for structural detailing and preparation of
hydrostatic documentation. Later the same year I was involved in a NATO project
to convert a standard container vessel into a Combat Helicopter Support Vessel.
Using the next hatch cover as a Heli-Pad an elevator with intermediate decks
replaced the central containers. With entry through the elevator machinery house
on the hatchcover over, the side containers were converted into repair workshops
& stores for heli maintenance.
In 1983 I became associated with ITM
Offshore modifying the crane hook & boom jib on the crane barge Mariner to
Lloyds Approval followed by working within the Project Management Team on the
Design, Construction & Installation of the ITM Flexiport at Port Stanley in the
Falkland Islands.
Norway a country enjoyed by all my
family served as home for over a year in Alesund, where I worked on a variety of
Factory Trawlers & Refrigerated Container vessels. Many years later in 1996 we
all had a summer in Kristiansand at Westamarin while I worked on the conceptual
feasibility study for the fabrication of the waterjet foundations and intake
structure of the STENA HSS 900 high speed twin hull ferry project.
1985 & 86 was an enjoyable period in
the early days of Northern Ocean Services on Teeside when I prepared a
conceptual design package of a Multi-Purpose OSV for BP, followed by a more in
depth study for BT Marine of the same with Dive Support and Pipe/Cable Laying
capabilities. This design reached Bid Tender stage when reduced oil prices, put
the project on hold.
At the end of 1987 I was engaged to
support the installation of a Heli-Deck on the Northern Venturer, which included
structural modifications and strengthening, piping and revised Fire & Safety
Plan liasing with Lloyds Register for Approval with site supervision through to
completion.
Matatec Hatchcovers engaged me during
1988 to manage the design, detail, fabrication and supervision of
sub-contractors on a ferry modification project, to install a tween deck vehicle
hatch/ramp. The ramp was capable of transferring articulated lorries and cars up
to the exterior vehicle deck, which when raised with the last two lorries formed
a flush watertight Upper deck.
At the Tees Offshore Base drydock in
1989, I managed a team of detailers for Cable & Wireless, while supervising
sub-contractors and site construction during the modifications to an OSV, adding
cable storage tank, gantry and transfer equipment to lay subsea telecom cables.
During 1989 working for a
sub-contractor of McTay Marine, I drew the structural fabrication design to
incorporate the Voith Schnieder propulsion thruster and fairing guard into the
hull of a harbour tug, involving modifications to the shell and framing
expansions.
Prior to the introduction of CAD to
the smaller shipyards in 1990 I prepared bi-lingual class & fabrication drawings
of a 9500 dwt L.P.G. carrier being built for Scottish owners with class approval
by Germanischer Lloyds at Brand Werft in Oldenburg in Germany .
I visited BMT Offshore in Aberdeen
during 1993 where I prepared detail drawings and feasibility studies on various
vessels to give Dive Support and Standby/Rescue capabilities. I also visited
Global Maritime in London on a FSU tanker conversion feasibility study for
Marathon Oil.
In 1997 I spent eight months in
Louisiana, at North American preparing structural detail drawings on a variety
of OSV's and Anchor Handling vessels for use in the Gulf of Mexico with AutoCAD
14. Having moved from manual Pen & Ink draughting in 1993 when during a quiet
work period, I bought my first computer with an AutoCAD license paying for one
on one tuition at Loughborough University, I entered the world of Computer Aided
Design.
Recently I gained FPSO experience at
Nevesbu in Holland & Harland & Wolff in Belfast on Bluewaters Glas Dowr and BP's
Schiehallion projects returning later to Nevesbu to prepare fabrication
detailing for Damen Shipbuilders on a Navigational Aids Vessel
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