Jim Bruce, P.Eng. Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Provide regional sales support and Canada-wide engineering oversight for design and installation of customized fall protection / fall arrest systems.

Calgary, Canada Area

Providing offshore engineering support for Chevron interests in Arctic and sub-Arctic basins. In this capacity, I have worked on projects in the Canadian and American Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Russian Arctic, Greenland and Caspian Sea. Specifics to my role include:• Assessing the impact of changes to the environment (global warming) on concept selection and project economics.• Evaluating the application of minimal facilities for use in Arctic and other remote regions• Contributing to the development of key drivers for the evaluation of exploration and development in Arctic regions. This includes:o Lead the development of the Chevron Tactical Ice Management Simulation (TIMS) computer model that enables the evaluation of both exploration and development drilling capabilities in Arctic regions. o Key developer of a model to evaluate year-round tanker transit options from remote Arctic basins. • Evaluate new technologies for proposed application in Arctic environments including:o A temporary, detachable mooring system designed to convert a DP drillship to a fixed mooring with the capability to rotate around a central turret.o Evaluation of offset installation equipment for well capping operations in a harsh ice environment.• Project lead on Exploration Drilling Cost Estimate report. This work evaluated the suitability of multiple MODU concepts tasked with drilling an exploration well in the harsh offshore environment of a remote Arctic basin. Key output included the probability of successfully achieving the required number of drilling days, based on MODU type, over a single or multi-season campaign.• Review NE Caspian ice conditions and provide recommendations on design ice loads for mooring piles along a dredged marine channel.• Managed and coordinated a JIP focused on defining the operational environment off NE Greenland.• Provided steering committee oversight on Arctic focused R&D through Newfoundland R&D commitment.

Engineering manager in charge of Ice Engineering group at C-CORE. In this role I was responsible for developing work programs, budgets, business development and long term strategies for a group of 10-15 engineers and scientists. Nature of projects focused on Arctic structure (exploration and development) concept evaluation and developing focused R&D initiatives to address client needs.

Senior project engineer in ice engineering group working on a variety of projects that included: design ice loads on offshore structures, operational ice management assessments for floating drilling and production facilities and development of environmental design basis.

Managing partner. Significant portion of work surrounded modelling environmental impacts of Confederation Bridge on ice conditions in Northumberland Strait and the installation, operation and analysis of the ice load monitoring system on two main bridge piers.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Project engineer working on: dynamic response of Arctic drilling platform to ice loading, development of ice jamming model for Confederation Bridge environmental assessment and assorted finite element analyses of structures.