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Melbourne, Australia

Traditional photovoltaic solar farms only produce electricity while the sun is shining. Batteries can store energy for export on demand - but economics typically limits storage capacity to 1 or 2 hours at rated power output.RayGen solar energy plants employ fields of autonomous heliostats (self-aligning mirrors) to concentrate solar energy onto high-efficiency liquid-cooled photovoltaic cells. The electrical energy is exported and/or used to run the plant. The heat energy is… Show more Traditional photovoltaic solar farms only produce electricity while the sun is shining. Batteries can store energy for export on demand - but economics typically limits storage capacity to 1 or 2 hours at rated power output.RayGen solar energy plants employ fields of autonomous heliostats (self-aligning mirrors) to concentrate solar energy onto high-efficiency liquid-cooled photovoltaic cells. The electrical energy is exported and/or used to run the plant. The heat energy is transferred to a large body of water located underground. When electricity demand is high, this heat is used to boil ammonia, which spins an expansion turbine, which drives a generator (similar to some geothermal energy plants). The ammonia gas is then re-condensed, using chilled water.A 3.0 MW / 50 MWh (17 hours storage at rated output) plant is already operating in Carwarp near Mildura, VIC.Multiple grid-scale plants are in the projects pipeline. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Pacific Hydro operated a diverse portfolio of hydro, solar and wind power plants – with about 1 GW of installed capacity across Australia, Brazil and Chile, plus about 2 GW of potential capacity under development.My role included technical governance of design, functionality, implementation, maintenance and enhancement of generating plant control & safety systems, in consultation with plant construction and operations staff.Main Achievements• Developed the business case for… Show more Pacific Hydro operated a diverse portfolio of hydro, solar and wind power plants – with about 1 GW of installed capacity across Australia, Brazil and Chile, plus about 2 GW of potential capacity under development.My role included technical governance of design, functionality, implementation, maintenance and enhancement of generating plant control & safety systems, in consultation with plant construction and operations staff.Main Achievements• Developed the business case for a new enterprise-wide infrastructure for management of time-series operating data, including data analysis and visualisation tools. Managed system design, implementation and user-training for renewable energy plants across Australia, Brazil and Chile using OSIsoft PI System™ within the approved budget.• Audited three ‘run-of-river’ hydro power plants (in Chile) and one storage hydro power plant (in north-west Australia) for risks to personnel, equipment and business continuity. Recommended 112 corrective actions, added risk-rankings and issued final report on time.• Dramatically reduced risk of hydrogen explosions in battery-rooms.• Made key contributions to incident investigation for a serious dam 'over-topping' incident in Chile.• Developed an improved water management control scheme for a 111 MW run-of-river hydro scheme in Chile.• Organised and led the 2018 Operations Diagnostic Audit for Australian wind and hydro power plants, co-ordinated findings, recommended corrective actions, added risk-rankings and issued final report on time. Show less

Gamba Terminal, Gabon

Shell Gabon (now Assala Gabon) operated about 200 onshore oil/gas wells, 200 onshore oil/gas pipelines, 7 gathering/pumping stations and a crude oil terminal, together with associated gas-compression and marine tanker loading facilities.Led a team of 22 discipline engineers supporting operations and maintenance functions as well as front-end studies, conceptual design, detailed design and procurement for capital projects. Provided technical authority review and approval for… Show more Shell Gabon (now Assala Gabon) operated about 200 onshore oil/gas wells, 200 onshore oil/gas pipelines, 7 gathering/pumping stations and a crude oil terminal, together with associated gas-compression and marine tanker loading facilities.Led a team of 22 discipline engineers supporting operations and maintenance functions as well as front-end studies, conceptual design, detailed design and procurement for capital projects. Provided technical authority review and approval for plant-change proposals, requests to deviate from standards and project deliverables.Main Achievements• Contributed to significant reductions of unplanned deferment in each asset unit• Supported maintenance planners to achieve a 46% reduction of the planned maintenance workload• Dramatically reduced the back log of plant change management requests• Merged and re-organised discipline and maintenance engineering teams following a major staff retrenchment• Prevented a major hydrogen sulphide gas release that probably would have caused multiple fatalities• Supported Gamba Terminal’s new submarine export pipeline project to successful completion• Co-developed new maintenance strategy for Gamba Terminal’s single buoy mooring for marine tanker loading• Engaged Shell Group technical authorities within each functional discipline to support Shell Gabon• Coached and mentored 3 graduate engineers during their initial 3-year development programs Show less

Seria, Brunei

Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) operates about 1800 wells, 200 offshore structures, 3000 km of pipelines, 6 oil gathering stations, 5 gas conditioning stations, a crude oil terminal and marine tanker loading facilities.Led a team of up to 8 engineers supporting front-end engineering design, conceptual design and detailed design for capital projects. Provided technical authority review and approval of plant change proposals, standards deviation requests and project… Show more Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) operates about 1800 wells, 200 offshore structures, 3000 km of pipelines, 6 oil gathering stations, 5 gas conditioning stations, a crude oil terminal and marine tanker loading facilities.Led a team of up to 8 engineers supporting front-end engineering design, conceptual design and detailed design for capital projects. Provided technical authority review and approval of plant change proposals, standards deviation requests and project deliverables.Projects included• New offshore compression platform at Champion-7 offshore complex• New solar-powered lean well jackets at Bubut and Danau NUIs, with shared wet gas pipeline to Brunei LNG• New compression modules at Ampa-9 offshore complex• New drilling platform at Champion Intermediate Deep, a safety-driven project for prevention of gas blow-outs• Rejuvenation of crude oil export and marine tanker loading system at Seria Crude Oil Terminal (SCOT)• Control optimisation for continuous dehydration units at SCOT• Expansion and upgrading of produced water treatment plant at SCOTMain Achievements• Added significant value to Effluent Water Treatment Plant upgrade by advocating variable-speed positive-displacement pumps in lieu of the usual centrifugal pumps requiring capacity and recirculation controls • Dramatically reduced the cost of well-head control panels by developing a standardised, expandable concept and then tendering a 5-year contract for supply and support services• Identified the chain of events that triggered a major Loss-of-Containment incident at an offshore Normally Unattended Installation (NUI)• Reduced the risk of electrical blackouts by improving fuel gas blending control scheme robustness• Coached and mentored 4 graduate engineers to complete their initial 3-year development programs Show less

Seria, Brunei

Led a small team of engineers supporting front-end engineering design, conceptual design, detailed design and procurement for capital projects. Provided process control, optimisation and troubleshooting support to Operations.Projects included• Bugan Development Project – new 18-slot drilling platform NUI (BUDP-01), multiphase pipeline and brownfield modifications• Champion-West Development Project – new 18-slot drilling platform NUI (CWDP-01), multiphase pipeline to Champion-7… Show more Led a small team of engineers supporting front-end engineering design, conceptual design, detailed design and procurement for capital projects. Provided process control, optimisation and troubleshooting support to Operations.Projects included• Bugan Development Project – new 18-slot drilling platform NUI (BUDP-01), multiphase pipeline and brownfield modifications• Champion-West Development Project – new 18-slot drilling platform NUI (CWDP-01), multiphase pipeline to Champion-7 Complex and brownfield modifications• New Fuel Gas Conditioning Systems at Ampa-9, Fairley-4 and Magpie-1 offshore complexes• Water injection system commissioning and troubleshooting at Champion-7 offshore complex• Control optimisations for production separators and surge drums at Champion-7 offshore complexMain Achievements• Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Assessment Facilitator and reporter for Bugan Development Project• Reduced the cost of SCOT Emulsion Treatment Plant Upgrade project by USD$2.2 million - by uncovering errors in process simulations, thus enabling two fired heaters and two fin/fan coolers to be deleted from scope• Saved USD$0.4 million budgeted for new severe-service control valves – by optimising crude export surge drum level controllers, thus virtually eliminating erosion in crude export pump minimum-flow control valves• On own initiative, resolved instabilities in Ampa-9 offshore complex’s crude export system, thus stabilising electrical power generation system, thus stabilising fuel gas conditioning system, thus reducing wear and tear and energy losses in all of these systems• Dramatically improved NUI remote operation and remote maintenance capabilities by extending process control domain to NUI facility and specifying all new systems to be OPC-compliant. Concept was proven at Champion-West NUI (CWWJ-02) and adopted for subsequent developments• Developed a new BSP Engineering Guideline: ‘Fixed Instruments for Erosion and Corrosion Monitoring’ Show less

Seria, Brunei

Supported front-end engineering design, conceptual design, detailed design and procurement for capital projects. Provided process control and troubleshooting support to OperationsProjects included• New offshore East HP/LP Separation Module and 60 km East HP wet gas pipeline to Brunei LNG• Troubleshooting and refurbishment of an offshore solar-powered hydraulic power unit and electro-hydraulic valve actuation system at Iron Duke NUI (IDDJ-01)• Offshore Well Jacket… Show more Supported front-end engineering design, conceptual design, detailed design and procurement for capital projects. Provided process control and troubleshooting support to OperationsProjects included• New offshore East HP/LP Separation Module and 60 km East HP wet gas pipeline to Brunei LNG• Troubleshooting and refurbishment of an offshore solar-powered hydraulic power unit and electro-hydraulic valve actuation system at Iron Duke NUI (IDDJ-01)• Offshore Well Jacket Re-instrumentation and Expansion at Champion-West NUI (CWWJ-02)Main Achievements• Added value (estimated at USD$15~22 million NPV) to a gas pipeline – by moving slugcatcher overpressure protection elements from offshore to onshore, thus enabling the offshore operating pressure to be increased, thus increasing pipeline capacity from 5.3 to 7.0 million Sm³/d• Added value to new offshore developments by introducing Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications into BSP• Introduced remote real-time monitoring of pipe wall-thickness into BSP• Introduced remote automatic testing of process shutdown valves into BSP• Improved reliability of wellhead control panels by switching hydraulic pumps to pneumatic-driven type Show less

Kuala Belait, Brunei

Damit WorleyParsons Engineering is a design consultancy that specialises in Oil & Gas facility engineering.Led a team of 6 engineers and 5 designers delivering conceptual design packages, detailed design packages and procurement support for capital oil & gas projects.Projects included• Re-instrumentation of three major offshore complexes, including new Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Safety Instrumented Systems / Instrumented Protective Systems (SIS / IPS), using a… Show more Damit WorleyParsons Engineering is a design consultancy that specialises in Oil & Gas facility engineering.Led a team of 6 engineers and 5 designers delivering conceptual design packages, detailed design packages and procurement support for capital oil & gas projects.Projects included• Re-instrumentation of three major offshore complexes, including new Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Safety Instrumented Systems / Instrumented Protective Systems (SIS / IPS), using a Main Automation Contractor (MAC) contracting strategy• New Offshore Crude Stabilisation Module at Ampa-9 offshore complex• New HHP Gas CO2 Analyser Skid and Gas Blending Controls at Champion-7 offshore complex• ‘Minimum Facilities’ concept for Mampak – front-end engineering design and conceptual design• LNG Train De-bottlenecking at Brunei LNGMain Achievements• Championed the use of variable frequency electric motor drives in BSP• Pioneered the use of insertion-regulator gas sample probes in BSP• Pioneered the use of self-calibrating CO2 analysers in BSP Show less