Engineering Consultant
Engineering Consultant providing services for Atkins in the field of Structural Integrity Assessment of Fixed Offshore Structures and Life Extension. Set up the Edinburgh office, which started with one Engineer, in September 2010, which grew 4 years later to a peak of 28 Engineers / Analysts ranging from Graduates to Principal Engineers.Established relations with universities, including Edinburgh, Heriott Watt and Dundee to provide constant stream of well trained graduates and maintain… Show more Engineering Consultant providing services for Atkins in the field of Structural Integrity Assessment of Fixed Offshore Structures and Life Extension. Set up the Edinburgh office, which started with one Engineer, in September 2010, which grew 4 years later to a peak of 28 Engineers / Analysts ranging from Graduates to Principal Engineers.Established relations with universities, including Edinburgh, Heriott Watt and Dundee to provide constant stream of well trained graduates and maintain steady growth of the Atkins, Oil and Gas, Structures team in Edinburgh and elsewhere. Provided technical expertise, training and mentoring for other Atkins teams globally, including in Perth (Australia), Sharjah (UAE), Houston (USA), and London, Bristol and Aberdeen in the UK.Project technical lead for "Structural Integrity Assessment" of the following platforms Apache (Beryl Alpha and Bravo), BP (Andrew, Clair Ridge, Miller, Pompano and Shah Deniz), CNR (Ninain, North, Central and South, Tiffany and Murchison), Marathon (Brae A and East Brae), Talisman (Arbroath, AUK, Claymore, Clyde and Montrose), Total (Elgin), Woodside (North Rankin development) and ADMA (various converted barges). These projects covered the resposne of fixed offshore structures to a variety of extreme loadings and included wave-in-deck loads due to 10,000 year abnormal environmental conditions, high energy ship impact accidental events, seismic ALE and RLE levels, structural damage modelling and non-linear foundation behaviour including ageing effects.Project technical lead for "Blast Response" of the Apache Beryl Bravo topside, Shell Prelude piping and Talisman AUK topside.Project technical lead for "Fitness-for-service" assessments to API 579 for various damage forms of pressurised systems (pressure vessels and pipelines) including wall thickness loss due to corrosion and erosion and denting. Show less