John Birrell Email & Phone Number

Perth, Australia

Member of the Operations Start-Up Team for the Ichthys Project, Venturer FPSO. During the construction phase I was based in Goeje, South Korea where my duties included:Procedure and checklist development, review and validation for the start-up phase of the project.Vendor package specification review, PSV bench test witnessing and vendor package flange management checks.Final vessel closure inspections.Completions assurance work where I was the system responsible person for over 100 areas, this involved; Completions Assurance OTP supervision, dossier checks and reporting of system status.Start-Up material requirement documentation and purchase order checking to ensure the material being supplied was the correct quantity and specification.Training on several systems to ensure knowledge before the start-up and operational phases of the project, these systems included the MEG System, Condensate Systems, Turret Systems, Chemical Injection Systems, Flare and Drain Systems and Firewater Systems among others.INPEX ISSOW System training to ensure I was ready to perform operational tasks in the hook-up, start-up and operational phases of the project.During the Hook-Up phase of the project I have been working as a Process Area Authority (Start-Up) where my duties include:Process area start-up including the MEG System, Heating Medium System and Condensate Separation System.Permit endorsement and sign on, checking the permit covers the task required, all work party members are competent to carry out the work, they are working on the correct equipment and they are aware of all HSE concerns.Process Isolations including building isolations, checking and approving isolation schemes, confirming the integrity of isolations and verifying isolations carried out by other operators.Daily Rounds; checking equipment to ensure it is operating within specification.Leak testing of systems, ensuring all isolations are in place to permit testing on time.Pigging Activities.

North Rankin Complex

• Experienced in NRC Utilities and Process areas. These areas include all safety systems, management of wellheads including annulus pressures, gas drying using glycol dehydration, product separation, compression and all water systems.• Permit sign on; checking that work parties are competent to carry out assigned work, aware of the safety concerns and that the permit covers the task.• Process isolation's including building isolation's, checking and approving isolation schemes, confirming the integrity of isolation's and verifying isolation's carried out by other operators. • Daily rounds; checking equipment to ensure it is operating within operational specifications to ensure integrity of critical equipment with regards to pressure, temperature and velocities. Monitoring separation and gas dehydration system.• Planned work; carrying out routine scheduled work which involves testing safety systems, changing duty of equipment and isolating equipment for routine maintenance. • Operating procedure verification; ensuring steps are detailed correctly and task can be carried out safely. Modifying existing operating procedures where required. • Laboratory work, prevention of hydrates and corrosion in pipelines by testing product for water content. Ensuring environmental targets are met before discharge through analysis of oil in water content. Calibrating equipment, stocktaking and ordering of consumables. • Good understanding of hydraulic systems and process drawings due to 22 years piping design experience.

Perth, Western Australia

Woodside Energy, Pipework Replacement Project. Based in Woodside’s offices as part of the Facilities Engineering Team. Duties were to analyse the pipework inspection reports by system and decide on the correct course of action with regards to integrity. Typical actions were Painting, Temporary wraps, Furmanite clamps to Pipework Replacement. These actions were decided using Woodside standards and specifications. Scopes of work were produced for the major maintenance or projects groups to carry out depending on size.Woodside Energy, Small Brownfield projects on the Karratha gas plant, work included the addition of small equipment packages, associated pipework and supports and the tie-in to existing equipment.Vermillion Oil and Gas Water Injection Modifications. This was a FEED project for adding water injection facilities to the existing Wandoo ‘B’ platform. The project involved laying out new equipment, booster pumps, water injection pumps, hydrocyclone and routing all major pipework to allow production of a plus or minus 20% cost estimate. All layouts were done using PDMS.Coogee Resources, Montara FPSO Fuel Gas modifications. This project involved the detail design of several new fuel gas lines and their pipe supports. This was done on PDMS.Apache Energy, Several small Brownfield projects on various Apache installations, work included the addition of small equipment packages, pipework and tie-in to existing equipment.

Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, Russian Federation

Sakhalin Island is a province of the Russian Federation and is situated to the East of the Russian mainland and North of Japan. PSN’s project team were to provide technical support to SEIC (Sakhalin Energy Investment Company) on all Brownfield projects to be carried out on the Molikpaq platform. Duties as Lead Piping Designer included day to day management of the piping team, planning and scheduling all work to be carried out and estimating man-hour requirements for all new projects. The job also entailed mentoring and training of junior Russian designers, checking all of their work and ensuring their understanding of the requirements of detailed engineering work.

Perth Western Australia

Involved in several projects including the Angel project which consists of an offshore platform situated in Australia’s North West Shelf area. The platform includes gas and condensate separation, gas dehydration and export facilities. The platform design was to allow for not normally manned operation. I was employed on this project during FEED and detail design stages. Duties included PDMS piping, equipment layout and detail for all systems, MDS pipe support design and 2D work using PDMS DRAFT. I was responsible for PDMS Administration work which included the general update and maintenance of the piping catalogue and specifications, creating and modifying components. Setting up and installing PDMS for new users and assisting piping design team with PDMS problems.

Process Operations Certificate 2 And 3, Process Operations

Hnc Engineering And Hnc Engineering Design, Mechanical Engineering