Group Managing Director, Managing Director Europe, Africa and Middle East, Global Leader – Subsea Pipelines

Ian Nash

Qualifications

• BSc (1st Hons) in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK
• MSc in Marine Technology from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK
• BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Surrey, UK

Affiliations

• Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineers (FIMarEST) 
• Chartered Engineer (C Eng)
• Chartered Marine Engineer (C Mar Eng) 
• European Engineer (Eur Ing)

Experience

• • 34 years engineering experience (32 in subsea)
  • 32 years subsea experience specialising in subsea engineering and offshore pipeline design and installation.
  • Worked throughout Europe, Africa, Australasia, North America and the Middle East.  
  • Held senior technical and management positions for major INTEC Engineering, R J Brown and Associates, ABB Global Engineering, Saipem and SASP Offshore Engineering.

Director of Operations and Business Acquisition, Europe, Africa and Middle East

Chas Spadbery

Qualifications

• Ph.D. High Strength Steels, London City University, UK
• Meng Mechanical Engineering, London City University, UK

Affiliations

• Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineers (FIMarEST) 
• Chartered Engineer (C Eng)
• Chartered Marine Engineer (C Mar Eng) 
• European Engineer (Eur Ing)
• Association of Project Management Professionals (APMP)

Experience

• Over 20 years subsea experience specialising in subsea cable engineering and offshore pipeline design.
• Responsible for a number of “world first” projects
• Held senior technical and management positions for a number of large contractors  including Petrofac, Wood, IntecSEA.

Acting General Manager – Asia Pacific – Kuala Lumpur

Suhaimi Ismail

Qualifications

• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, USA

Affiliations

• Practicing Professional Engineer, Board of Engineers Malaysia

Experience

• More than twenty three years in the oil and gas industry covering areas of pipeline engineering, project engineering, procurement, tenders and proposals, business development and profit and loss operations management.
• Seventeen years’ experience in subsea pipeline engineering design and project management for both upstream and downstream oil and gas industries.
• More than six years’ experience in business unit operations management where the responsibilities cover Profit and Loss (P&L) and all operational matters of the country operations.
• Provides specialist consultancy services for offshore pipeline design and installation.
• Responsible for in country and South East Asia engineering, marketing and business development.

Engineering Manager – Asia Pacific – Kuala Lumpur

Ir Siti Haryana A Ghani

Qualifications

• B Eng Mechanical, University Malaya, Malaysia

Affiliations

• Professional Engineer, Board of Engineers Malaysia

Experience

• Over twenty years’ experience in offshore engineering, covering all aspects of subsea pipeline design from conceptual, FEED, detail design, technical bid evaluation through procurement and construction.
• Experience in engineering consultancies and project management.
• Project experiences covers for sites in South East Asia, Southern Asia, Africa and Middle East.

Operations and Business Acquisitions Manager – Asia Pacific – Kuala Lumpur, Senior Project Manager

Rizal Mohd Yusof

• Qualifications

  • Bachelor Engineering (Hons) in Mechanical, Glasgow University, Scotland.

  Affiliations

  • Registered Member of Board of Engineers, Malaysia

  Experience

  • Over twenty years’ experience in Project and Engineering Management in Onshore and Offshore Pipeline Engineering with extensive involvement in Marine Terminal & Pipeline Facilities and Aviation Fuel Hydrant Pipeline Feasibility Study, Conceptual Design/Selection and CAPEX & OPEX Cost Estimation.
  • Responsible in business tender management, project key technical and commercial risks and the implementation of ISO 9001 standards.
  • Working experiences throughout South East Asia, Southern Asia. Africa and Middle East.
  • Main leading projects include Trans Thailand-Malaysia Onshore & Offshore Pipelines, Petrodar (Sudan) Basin Development (480km cross country pipeline), SKS Development Marine Terminal & Pipeline Facilities, British Gas New Panna Offshore Pipeline and SBM Facilities and Petronas Aviation Fuel Hydrant.

Director of Engineering – Europe, Africa and Middle East

Christopher Burnett

Qualifications

• MSc in Civil Engineering, Computational Finite Element and Fluid Dynamics – University of Wales Swansea
• BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering – University of Wales Swansea

Affiliations

• Member Institute of Marine Engineers MIMarEST
• Chartered Marine Engineer CMarEng
• Chartered Engineer CEng

Experience

• Christopher has over 16 years’ experience in offshore engineering, covering all aspects of subsea pipeline design from feasibility studies, cost estimates through to detailed design, procurement and construction.
• Christopher also has extensive knowledge of various finite element packages including ANSYS, ABAQUS, Autopipe, Solidworks, Offpipe and Sage to assist in most aspects of pipeline design.
• He has significant experience in the design of offshore carbon capture, transportation and storage systems located within the North Sea.
• Christopher is on the IMAREST membership committee and recently was part of the DNVGL Pipeline Lateral Stability Software (PILSS) JIP steering committee tasked with overseeing soils modelling and testing within the software.

Global Leader – Subsea Systems

Jos Greenhalgh

Qualifications

• M.Eng. Honours degree (Merit) in Offshore Mechanical Engineering
• Institution of Marine Engineering Science and Technology

Experience

• 15 years’ experience in Subsea System Engineering encompassing design (conceptual, FEED, detailed and execution), hardware delivery, construction, and testing (FAT, EFAT and SIT).
• Management experience in both Contractor and Operator engineering teams associated with taking projects from conceptual design through to execution, and intermediate phase combinations. Examples include delivery of subsea manifolds for the Caspian and Norwegian Sea, subsea system FEED, and technical studies (West Africa and Artic)
• Subsea mechanical hardware SME
• Concept selection, field development, FEED, Detailed design and Execution
• Delivery Lead (including client representative)
• Technical assurance
• System engineering including integration of HIPPS and Subsea Processing Technology
• Manifold and Template engineering including associated hardware FAT, SIT and SRT testing programmes
• XT engineering including well intervention system
• Material selection
• Hardware qualification (including valves, connectors, shear rams, instrumentation)
• Design analysis
• Interface management
• Project Management

Senior Technical Consultant - Europe, Africa and Middle East

Bill Neilson

Qualifications

• MSc in Mechanics of Materials, University of Strathclyde
• BSc (1st Class Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow

Experience

• • 36 years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry of which the last 30 has been dedicated to pipeline design and offshore engineering projects.
  • Held senior positions including Operations Director for Pegasus International (formerly Mentor Project Engineering)
  • Other industry experience includes J P Kenny and secondments to BP, Marathon and SLP
  • Worked on a number of major projects – in various roles – including Centrica Baird, ATP Tors and Cheviot, SLP, MacCulloch, CNR Baobab, BP Forties Replacement Pipeline, Marathon East Brae, Statoil Gullfaks Pipelines and the Arco Thames Project.

Finance Director - Europe, Africa and Middle East

Robert Wall

Affiliations

• Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland
• Chartered Accountant

Experience

• Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience as Finance Director or Senior Business Partner in international engineering, consulting and project based multi-site, multi-currency businesses.
• Expertise covering strategy and business planning and modelling, statutory and management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, development of KPI’s, treasury, financial and bid modelling and developing and strengthening the control environment.