Stuart Spence Email & Phone Number

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Pipeline Services Department.Project work including Lead Engineering roles on a number of large scale as well as smaller scale projects, encompassing all relevant project engineering from FEED through to detailed operational engineering, hazard identification and risk assessment and supervision of operations in various Oil and Gas theatres, including Production Platforms, Dive Support Vessels and Onshore Terminals. Pre-Commissioning• Pipeline Strength Testing and full system Leak Testing to relevant standards• Riser Annulus Vacuum Testing and• Barrier Testing operations to ensure the safety of all personnel and equipment.De-Commissioning• De-oiling using various chemicals• De-gassing of pipeline systems.Flow Assurance• Pressure Pulse (deposit profile) Survey;• SureTherm® using various chemical compounds to exothermically remove a wax deposit from a pipeline and• Smart Plug® Isolation Tool setting.Key ProjectsPremier Oil - Balmoral Decommissioning - Lead Engineer / Field EngineerOver multiple campaigns, involving De-Oiling, Gasket Testing and Barrier Testing operations.Apache - Aviat Pre-Commissioning - Lead EngineerFCG; Strength Testing; Leak Testing and Dewatering of the flowline and Vacuum Annulus Testing of the Riser.Shell Lomond - Pressure Pulse Survey - Field Engineer Survey to determine the deposit profile of a suspected wax build up.Nexen - Ettrick and Blackbird - De-Commissioning- Field Engineer De-commissioning which involved de-oiling, gasket and barrier testing operations.Maersk - Culzean DFPV - Lead Engineer Responsible for engineering the Drain, Flush, Purge and Vent methodology for the Culzean uHP/HT platform topside process systems.Pipeline Calculations Spreadsheet - Lead Engineer - Creating a new calculations spreadsheet to accurately model pipeline flushing, pigging, dewatering, leak and strength testing operations; as well PRV sizing, gauge plate sizing along with various other relevant pipeline calculations.

Fifth Year MEng Group Project entitled “FEA of pipe-in-pipe systems for deep sea applications”. This includes the finite element analysis of various configurations of deepwater pipe-in-pipe subsea pipelines.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

One day a week whilst at University. Employed in the projects team, duties include: Assisting in the completion of Workpacks, Technical Drawings, calculations relevant to offshore HVAC systems and inspecting delivered equipment.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Project included FEA (ANSYS Workbench 14.0) of various Vickers indentation tests on thermal spray coatings of different dimensions and materials, in order to determine the stress profiles of these indentation tests. The results supplemented a wider investigation assessing the quality of thermal spray coatings using Vickers indentation tests. The results are included in a report which will potentially be published in a recognised peer-reviewed journal (Journal of Engineering Fracture Mechanics - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013794414002252).

Fourth Year MEng Individual Project entitled “Benchmark of WellCat software against theory for determining the axial forces on a completion string”. This involved using MathCAD to calculate the axial forces using the accepted theory and subsequently comparing these results to those ascertained using WellCat software. This has given me a greater understanding of the design of a well and has developed my interest in the oil and gas industry in general.

Robert Gordon University

As team leader; completed a group project to design, build and test a Land Yacht. The project included design concept inception, CAD modelling (Solidworks) through to manufacture and concluded with successful testing on Aberdeen beach. I was heavily involved in the CAD modelling of the project, as the most proficient team member in this area.

Master Of Engineering (Meng) With Distinction, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Former Captain and Treasurer of RGU Amateur Boxing Club.

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