Daniel Read Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

• Accountable in Upstream for setting competence standards, designing and governing competence management activities for Safety & Operational Risk (S&OR) critical roles, Control of Work and technicians at all BP sites
• Integrator for upstream functional competence programs under Upstream Talent and learning to unlock efficiencies
• SPA for Upstream procedure for S&OR critical role competence assessment
• Team leader for governance with key segment and functional stakeholders and accountable for segment performance reporting
• Managing third party spend on assessment
• Team leader to build and deliver assessment tool to 1200 critical upstream employees

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed the strategy, development and execution of global competence assurance programs for S&OR safety critical roles and technicians across the Operations organization. Lead the revision of the technician’s.
• Facilitated the deployment of all senior technical staff within operations for the sub-functions: logistics, Engineering services and Reliability & Maintenance
• Lead a functional delivery team in western hemisphere to implement capability strategy within the regions for deployment, development and competence assessment
• Acted as integrator across the regions and functions to deliver capability strategy in an efficient manner aligned to the functional agenda
• Lead the team through challenges of new strategy development and management of change which resulted in the disbanding of the team

London, United Kingdom

• Managed a global team of ship operators, team leaders and superintendents to deliver clean seas, safe ships and commercial success through sound voyage management
• Team executed 6000 voyages per year on BP operated and time chartered vessels, covering 12,000 port calls and managing a $1bn bunker fuel spend. Objective to optimize every aspect of the voyage for commercial gain.
• Delivered a complete revision of procedures to enhance voyage execution efficiency and compliance while improving integration with stakeholder’s process across trading and the wider BP group
• Developed tactical and strategic solutions to resolve incidents and disruptions to voyages where they may affect the commercial viability of vessels
• Provided leadership in the capability development of the talent pool for commercial operations to enhance career planning, retention and succession planning for the team. Developed and introduced a long term capability.
• Provided leadership to enhance the effectiveness of the stakeholder relationships across BP Shipping, Trading and Downstream to ensure maximum value to the business

Houston, Texas Area

Seconded to the Macondo spill response effort as part of source control working in the operations section as the Simultaneous Marine Operations Director.Responsible for leading a team of discipline experts to work with the various operations sections to plan and execute integrated surface and sub-surface activity while maintaining safe marine operations.

Houston, Texas Area

• Provided a regional center of expertise to support the upstream and downstream businesses to mitigate the marine risks inherent in the design, construction and operation of marine systems.
• Managed a team of discipline experts in Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Operations either directly employed or seconded into project teams across upstream and downstream to deliver marine assurance
• Drove technical leadership for development of marine group defined practices
• Managed the ongoing implementation of relevant elements of Group Marine Standard and monitored group wide compliance
• Managed the technical assurance relationship with Alaska Tanker Company and acted as SPA for vessel design changes. (ATC are third party operators of BP owned vessels)
• Integrated and built relationships across the upstream and downstream regional organizations to enhance the understanding and implementation of sound marine risk management

Houston, Texas Area

• Owned the strategy to enhance market share in the global drilling contractor segment for BP's Castrol brand of lubricants and associated products
• Built key relationships with main international drilling contractors to build market share and establish commercially advantageous supply contracts for global supply
• Lead, coached and developed regional based drilling account managers and customer service teams to enhance market support
• During tenure in role, key achievements: established technology licensing agreement and unique product offering to Nabors drilling. Established global single source supply contracts with Global Santa Fe and Transocean.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible both for the design & execution of the asset's marketing strategy and tactics, and for identifying material new business opportunities within the Asset
• Built asset marketing plans in line with the overall strategy of the business unit, particularly as regards Brand and price positioning & customer segmentation
• Developed highly distinctive product & service offers with supporting sales support materials to maximize their impact within the asset
• Key achievements: technology licensing agreement with Petrobras for production and distribution of licensed products in South America, distinct segment offer to global cruise industry market and helped secure Carnival.

London, United Kingdom

• Physical and paper hedging tools were a new market for BP Marine who formed a small JV (3 regional leads) with BP Trading to market these products to the global shipping market to manage their bunker fuel exposure.Key.
• Analysis and planning – identified customer exposure and needs of price risk management
• Customer management – developed and supported customer relationships both externally and internally
• Marketing and offer development - prepared and presented innovative offers to board level
• New business development - implemented BP strategy to position business for the future, including identification and development of new opportunities within the marine marketplace
• Negotiations - made and adjusted offers to meet customer and BP needs in a fast moving trading environment

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Accountable for providing expert technical advice and investigation capability to the European marine customer base.
• Managed lubricant analysis for customer predictive maintenance programs
• Lead incident investigations to support warrantee claims
• Provided expert lubricant application recommendations
• Researched and attained key OEM approvals and associated field trials for new products

Global Offshore

• Completed apprenticeship as Cadet with P&O Cruises for 4 years and attained Chief Engineer license.Accountabilities at sea:
• Person in charge of machinery spaces as watch keeper
• In charge of maintenance planning and execution including predictive maintenance program and troubleshooting
• Lead bunkering operations and all lubricant and fuel analytics
• Seconded to new build program engineering team during 6 vessel construction project with Fincantieere ship yard in Italy.