1983
SEAFORTH MARITIME
Aberdeen,
Scotland
Prepared the structural and layout drawings required for the
installation of a subsea dive spread on the semi-submersible MSV Stadive during post
delivery outfitting in readiness for its first project in the North Sea.
Followed by the development of a collapsible
stairway for escape from offshore platforms a project, the project did not proceed past
initial tests, until it was resurrected following comments in Lord Cullen's report on the
Piper Alpha Disaster many years later.
The report requested that emergency access for
platform personnel down from the top deck to the sea for rescue, be provided on all
offshore platforms.
I later worked on this same project as Project
Manager through to final testing ready for intallation on a platform for operational
trails and evaluation.
Continue this Project
at PEARSON REELOTECH
Dry-Docks in Aberdeen
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 have been very fortunate
to have been given the opportunity to gain in depth experience in a variety of
other disciplines in both the Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries. In 1975
& 76 I worked on the layout & fabrication detailing for the drilling
& process areas on the SEDCO 471 drillship and their Semi-submersible
STADRILL in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
During 1988 & 89 I
visited Tri-Ocean Eng. in Calgary, Alberta, where I produced the structural
& mechanical layout and details of the Mud Sack Storage module on the North
Sea platform Statfjord B, after completing the structural draughting on a road
transported Pea Shooter rig which I later repeated, including systems and
mechanical layouts.
Before moving to Ontario,
I prepared the conceptual design drawings of the complete topside drilling
facility for the Australian offshore platform North Rankin A, this included
design and detail covering the structural, mechanical and electrical
disciplines, 99 of the 116 completed drawings.
After working in the Earl
& Wright's San Francisco office in 1981, I was sent to Hyundai Heavy
Industries yard, Ulsan, South Korea to assist in the Engineering Co-ordination
of variations to existing 700 Series designs being incorporated in the 800
Series of Semi-Submersible Rigs.
In 1992 Pearson Reelotech
offered me the opportunity to manage the design, detailing, fabrication and
initial testing of the prototype of a retractable stairway to aid the rapid
evacuation of personnel from offshore installations down to sea level into
liferafts or rescue craft.
This was a very
interesting project to handle, having already done preliminary development on
the same concept in 1983 at Seaforth Maritime prior to the Cullen Report on the
Piper Alpha disaster. It involved the design, detailing, fabrication with
intermediate & final testing to gain the approval of Lloyds, with a
electro-mechanical lifting arrangement on a separate enclosure located on top of
the assembly storage deck house.
The stairway having been
winched up into the deck house was released when the alarm was raised or the
entry door latch was activated allowing access down the staircase, after final
testing the prototype was installed on a Conoco platform for offshore
evaluation.
In 1994 having entered the
world of CAD the previous year, when during a quiet work period I bought my
first computer paid for one on one tuition at Loughborough University, I visited
SubSea Offshore in Aberdeen for my first complete project with AutoCAD .
I was involved along with
a dedicated Engineer to complete the structural design and detail of various
pieces of heavy handling equipment to install and control the access
riser/conductors onto the top of the tether caps, which were located on the
casing below the sea level. This allowed access down through the tether of
inspection and x ray equipment for periodical inspections on the ‘Heidrun’
tension leg platform.
Recently I gained FPSO
experience at Nevesbu in Holland & Harland & Wolff in Belfast on
Bluewater's Glas Dowr and BP's Schiehallion projects also working on the design
detailing of Sedco's latest deep water semi-submersible drilling rigs at MSC in
Schiedam in The Netherlands.
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