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Western Cape, South Africa

Western Cape, South Africa

Western Cape, South Africa

Owner of a project technical advisory services company which provides a range of services to operating and consulting business clients.Experience in various phases of projects:• Feasibility and screening studies • Conceptual studies• FEED studies• Detailed engineering/EPC• Construction support• Commissioning support & management• Plant optimization & debottlenecking• Plant troubleshooting and operations support• Technical advisory services• Technical due diligence

Western Cape, South Africa

Responsible for leading Sacré-Davey Engineering in Africa. Lead Process Engineer on multiple SDE projects. Recent assignments include:• FEED package for a LNG bunkering facility• Process design of a bulk hydrogen and nitrogen storage to end user (laboratory) system• Design of the firefighting system for an engine oil reprocessing facility• Technical due diligence of a municipal and agricultural waste to biogas to RNG facility• Feasibility study for a canola oil transshipment facility – railcar unloading, intermediate storage, and marine loading• FEED for a DEG transshipment facility – railcar unloading, intermediate storage, and marine loading• Owners Engineer for a canola oil transshipment facility – railcar unloading, intermediate storage, and marine loading

Hong Kong

Team Leader of the East Asia energy business based in the Hong Kong regional headquarters. Responsible for oil & gas, LNG, nuclear and renewable energy as well as to assist with transaction advisory services for the energy sector.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Provided independent project review services and/or project execution services to amongst others:• Operating Companies (leading major projects)• JV Partners (shareholders in the project but reliant on the operating company)• Lending consortia (providing the funding for the projects)• Smaller businesses that do not have the necessary resources in-house to design, execute, finance or manage a projectOur project management and consulting services also assisted with: • Packaging projects to achieve financial backing • Executing projects that had been successfully financed and were ready to be executed

Houston, Texas, United States

Lead Process Engineer for the Mozambique LNG projectLead Process Engineer on the LNG Plant Owners Team for the FEED phase of the Mozambique LNG project, located in the offices of first Bechtel, then Fluor and finally CBI in Houston, Texas. Changes in location occurred when that EPC consortium was deselected by Anadarko. Responsibilities included:• Providing process engineering guidance, input and review for the LNG Plant FEED study including input to and review of the FEED design and deliverables• Working closely with the Plant Operations team to ensure that the FEED design would meet the long term ongoing operational needs of the plant• Participating with and/or leading the owners team in all major design reviews during FEED• Working with the central engineering team to ensure that the project was aligned between the 3 EPC bidding consortia, and the subsea operations and onshore operations and maintenance teams• Providing inputs to the overall project bid evaluation team• Providing inputs to the Marketing team in terms of potential production from the LNG plant• Providing inputs to the overall project management team – I reported directly to the LNG Delivery Manager as well as serving as the Lead Process Engineer reporting to the LNG Engineering Manager

Adelaide, Melbourne And Brisbane, Australia & Houston, Texas, Usa

Senior Process Engineer in the Concept Development team of the Upstream portion of the Gladstone LNG (GLNG) project. This role was to provide process engineering expertise to the project initiation, concept select and concept refine phases of various projects in the Upstream portion of the GLNG project. Each of these would then be developed to a point where they would be evaluated and could then be recommended for implementation.Staff Process Engineer on the LNG Plant FEED/EPC Owners Team of the GLNG project located in the offices of Bechtel in Houston, Texas. Reported to the Team Leader Process Engineering and also acted in that position for some time. Responsibilities included:• Providing process engineering guidance, input and review for the LNG Plant FEED study including input to and review of the FEED design and deliverables• Working closely with the Plant Operations team to ensure that the FEED design will meet the long term ongoing operational needs of the plant• Reviewing vendor documents submitted during EPC phase• Attending vendor kick off meetings and subsequent progress meetings for the major package items• Participating and/or leading the owners team in all major design reviews, P&ID reviews, HAZOP studies, SIL reviews, vendor package reviews, etc• Working with the integration team to ensure that the project is aligned between the upstream field, pipeline and LNG plant• Providing inputs to the overall project economics team• Providing inputs to the Marketing team in terms of potential production from the LNG plantMajor Achievements:• Providing the main engineering contractor with the solution and methodology required to solve a major engineering problem that was encountered during FEED

Adelaide, Australia

Lead process engineer for the team working on the Port Bonython scope of the COEP-PD project. This work included detailed process design and evaluation of the modifications required, as well as lead responsibility for, the flow improver test runs for the Moomba to Port Bonython pipeline and lead responsibility for the plant performance trials/audits for the entire project i.e. Moomba facilities, Port Bonython facilities and Moomba to Port Bonython pipeline.Process design/evaluation included:• System hydraulics including verification/checking of suitability of various existing pumps and existing and new lines for new service• Oil and water separation• Rundown and storage heat losses• New instrument datasheetsMajor Achievements:• Personally solving detailed engineering problems within a very short period of joining the company• Conducting a successful trial run for evaluation of flow improver for a major pipeline (over 400 km long)

South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe And Angola

Provided professional consulting services to clients in the process industries.The nature of the assignments personally led during this period included:• Process troubleshooting and optimisation• Operations support• Construction and commissioning support• Feasibility studies• Conceptual process design• Development of basic engineering packages• Detailed process engineering• Project execution• Project management• Capital cost estimation• Incident investigations• Environmental audits and studies• Safety reviews (HAZANS and HAZOPS)• Atmospheric dispersion modeling• Flare radiation studies (onshore and offshore)• Developing business strategies and• General and production managementServed as Principal Process Engineer leading each assignment, some of which included:• Site project engineering for a major onshore and offshore oil and gas upstream debottlenecking project• Development of commissioning and operating procedures for a major onshore and offshore oil and gas upstream debottlenecking project• Process troubleshooting of NGL production facilities on offshore platforms• • Conceptual package development, basic engineering package, detailed engineering, construction and commissioning support for a filtration, sulphur melting, and separation system for the Sulphur removal units at Sasol, Secunda• Process inputs to the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Sasol Gas from Mozambique Project• Design review, construction and commissioning support for the revamp of a hydrotreater unit at Sasol, Secunda• VOC emissions surveys for several petrochemical facilities including emissions from tanks; road, rail and ship loading areas; relief valves, and effluent treatment systems• Project management and line management of the heap leach and CIP gold recovery plants for a small mining groupMajor Achievements:• Performing work for virtually every major oil & gas and petrochemical company in South Africa as well as both Chevron and Total in Angola

Mossel Bay, South Africa

Process Engineer Synthol DivisionResponsibilities included:• Technical Services to Support Plant• Process Monitoring and Support for 4 Major Process Units• Process Integrity of the Plant• Plant Acceptance Test Runs• Liaison with Licensors and Engineering Contractors• Initiation of Start-up Modifications• Developing and setting up of systems, procedures, methods & standards• Troubleshooting plant commissioning problemsMajor Achievements:• Plant start-up and commissioning including check-out and performance test runs of 4 major process units in a major synfuels complexProcess Engineer Design GroupResponsibilities included:• Detailed engineering of new projects and modifications• Liaison with Projects Department• Technical support to Production Departments for commissioning, troubleshooting and optimisation of new projects and modifications

Kempton Park, South Africa

Chemical Engineer - ProjectsResponsibilities included:• Investigation of various projects supporting the Chlor-Alkali division and developing and documenting these projects to the point where they could be presented to the company board for approval• Management of design, procurement, erection and startup of the projects which were approved by the board for execution• Technical support of plant operations including production monitoring and analysis• Development and conceptual design of capital projects and modificationsMajor Achievements: • Developing a good working relationship with the major operating division of the site which led to my next role as Process Technologist• Project coordination and acceptance of various sections of the new chlor alkali complex plantProcess TechnologistResponsibilities included:• Technical support of plant operations including production monitoring and analysis• Development and conceptual design of capital projects and modificationsMajor Achievements: • Project coordination and acceptance of various sections of the new chlor alkali complex plant

Harmony Gold Mine, Virginia, South Africa

Responsibilities included:• Technical support of plant operations including production monitoring and analysis• Plant investigations and research and development of new processes at laboratory and pilot plant scaleMajor Achievements: The commissioning of a 240000 ton per month gold plant

Engineer’S Degree, Chemical Engineering

High School