The Bay du Nord project in offshore Newfoundland includes multiple significant oil discoveries, and Equinor plans to develop the field using a production and storage vessel known as an FPSO, linked to …
The Bay du Nord project in offshore Newfoundland includes multiple significant oil discoveries, and Equinor plans to develop the field using a production and storage vessel known as an FPSO, linked to …
Oil Shales & Extraction Capsules
Led execution planning, defining scope, and updating commercial terms / financial systems. Optimizing manhour & resource planning. Driving project controls and document control services. Chairing international client meetings regarding mining scope, ore processing, refining and utility services.
Retail & Commercial Fuel Facilities, Load Racks, Tank Farms
Managed design, construction and inspections of retail & commercial fuel distribution facilities. Provided detailed estimates, engineering and construction schedules, equipment & material procurement, permitting, tendering, inventory management, material releases and logistics / shipping, construction field change orders, schedule change notices and contract amendments.
GTL Reactors, Studies, Designs
Management of multiple Fischer-Tropsch GTL technology licencors. Engineering leadership for site selection, engineering, cost estimating, economic modeling and market analysis for a proposed GTL plant in western Canada.
Oil Sands Mines, Early Works
Facilitated a major project execution program for a large, multi-contractor design team on the basic engineering design of an oil sands mine, ore preparation area, haul roads, ponds and stream relocation. Developed project delivery strategies. Led the creation of all early works issued-for-tender dossiers containing the engineering work packages for procurement of construction bid estimates.
EOR, Polymer Flooding
Managed client requirements and designed reservoir polymer injection equipment for well pads. Coordinated engineering and fabrication of EOR oil reservoir injection equipment for deployment in western Canadian oil fields.
Upgraders, Multi-Office Execution
Directed battery limit interfaces via multi-office execution, and managed the design between the process units engineered in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Houston and India. Coordinated Bantrel multi-discipline design interfaces with 3rd party utilities and pipelines to develop interconnection scopes, tie-ins and schedules. Managed scope, schedule, cost and quality of the interface scope, and led teams to remove ~200 remaining holds.
Gas Plants, Meter Stations, Compressors, Gathering Systems
Managed multi-office engineering teams to complete MOC projects, numerous replacement-in-kind and small operations projects for gas gathering areas and processing plants located in AB and BC.
Tank Farms, Crude Blending
Managed the engineering design, procurement, and scheduling for the KMCT Baseline Tank Terminal (BTT) greenfield expansion project ($700M, 5M bbls storage, 700 kbbls/d transfer). Led the project’s engineering & procurement design firm in the crude blending area, crude transfer booster pumps, three metering modules and five valve manifold modules, e-house area buildings.
Pipelines, Transients, Surge Relief
Managed the engineering design, procurement, and scheduling for the KMCT Baseline Tank Terminal (BTT) greenfield expansion project ($740M, 5M bbls storage, 700 kbbls/d transfer). Led the project’s engineering & procurement design firm in the facility pipe rack modules, surge relief system, U&O, and pipe rack interfaces to the Trans Mountain PipeLine terminal and the KMC Rail Loading facility.
Brownfield, Refineries, Tie-Ins
Coordinated the battery limit design between the Client process team and engineering teams. Led multi-discipline design design teams with 3rd party utilities and pipelines to develop interconnection scopes, tie-ins and schedules.
Modules, Wellpads, Process Buildings
Responsible Engineer managing material requisitions and technical execution of major fabrication contracts. Drove construction efficiency, minimized construction requests for information and decreased re-engineering costs.
Industrial Design/Construction
Managed design, construction and inspections of industrial facilities. Provided detailed estimates, planning for new or upgraded facilities, led annual equipment & material procurement, conducted permitting, tendering, inventory management, construction field change orders, schedule change notices and contract amendments.
Warehouse Commercial Buildings
Innovatively updating architectural and engineering design standards to incorporate new materials and technologies. Improving the accuracy of the estimating process and decreasing costs. Inviting new equipment vendors and construction contractors to encourage efficiency.
Portfolio
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