PragmaticaGGS LLc , Houston TX.
PragmaticaGGS LLc: Founder/CEO Texas Registered Company (TBPE) F-19199; 2017 thru 2020 +
Multiple corrosion, materials, integrity engineering- consultative and advisory interactions for energy industry Americas region. Focus on heat exchangers, infrastructure/atmospheric corrosion, patent reviews, unique anode chemistries, structures, etc. 2019/20+
MST, Rolla, Missouri, Petrochemical/Corrosion PhD studies and research proposals advisory 2019/20+
Manchester University, UK, alumni project proposals & initiatives (Earth Sciences) 2019+
Board Member University of Houston/NACE - Committee to develop Corrosion Engineering (Certifications & MS level) at UH, Texas, 2018+
Executive Board Member- The Council of Global Associates (CGA) for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, Punjab, India, 2018+
In June 2018, presented with co-authors to the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) in San Antonio, Texas. The scope being to discuss the role of Corrosion and Integrity Management, within the context of HSE and Process Safety. The dialogue is ongoing and interested SME's are invited to join this very important conversation, via the response sheet on web page: www.PragmaticaGGS.com.
Post Mumbai invited (May 2018) to meet Faculty and Researchers at the premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar campus, near the state capital Chandigarh, Punjab, Northern India. The meetings are a work in progress for collaborative ventures, targeted for 2018/19.
Invited paper entitled 'Advances in Corrosion and Integrity Management' given to the NACE CORCON 2017 Conference in Mumbai,India, Sept 2017, with much follow up interest via Industry and Academia; leading to developing relationships with IIT (Ropar) above.
Corrosion Under Insulation development of test protocols for collaborative topics, targeting inherently safer, inherently reliable, inspection intervals, and cost effective solutions.
Atmospheric panel testing for coatings and bolting/fasteners.
Close look at all localized corrosion phenomena and life cycle working solutions per HSEQ$.
Coordination and leading multi-disciplined work to address real world corrosion/energy issues via academia and not for profit agencies.
Joint venture exercises with clients in USA, Canada, and Caribbean.
Technip Houston, Texas, 2011-2017
Global business development and new project initiatives pertaining to corrosion, materials selection, materials performance and mechanical integrity management.
TechnipFMC, Forsys-Subsea scopes to continue all existing Technip and Genesis legacy works, with remit to grow the Life of Field, Corrosion, and IM groups for all related technical and commercial matters.
The corrosion group offered new and existing services for subsea/offshore and also midstream and downstream projects. Included viable formulated answers within economic constraints.
Led a lengthy applied R&D program with regular workshops per corrosion modeling, flow assurance, inter-disciplinary exercises, findings leading to studies for Petrobras & Trinities O&G.
Participated in development, delivery of corrosion, materials, mechanical integrity, training modules for BP (Alaska, Houston & Trinidad via webinar at BP Training Site Westlake, 2016).
Vars project initiatives in corrosion and materials performance, incl. best practice corrosion modeling, lab & field testing, corrosion monitoring, corrosion management, FFS, CP/coatings.
BP Hopkins project supported deliverables for corrosion and integrity management.
Stone Derbio, proposals for weld corrosion, CP/Coatings, preservation, and mechanical integrity
BP Thunderhorse South Expansion, Corrosion and Integrity management detail Incl. correlation of modeling, field, lab qualification data, attendance at BP working party meetings and PHHSR workshops.
BP Atlantis Water Injection corrosion and integrity management; application of best practices.
Kodiak subsea tie back ; multi-disciplined third party reviews per materials, corrosion, CP/welding.
Kodiak integrated systems fitness of purpose for topsides, subsea, downhole, and preservation studies.
ExxonMobil Scarborough project design and corrosion management, incl. corrosion monitoring workshops.
Newfoundland Research and Development Corporation(RDC) harsh conditions Safety and Integrity.
Technip Deepwater Division / Genesis
•BP Corrosion strategy and Inhibitor qualification for Thunderhorse South Extension (THSX).
•BP Juniper Asset, Trinidad, transitional phase, materials, corrosion/erosion and integrity.
•Chevron Greater Longui Area (GLA) West Africa. materials selection and top of line corrosion.
•Ocean-flow Star Engineering Services Inc. Review of materials and design Kodiak subsea asset)
•Chevron Workshop Consulting per Corrosion Management Strategy Lianzi Offshore West Africa.
•Marine Well Containment (MWCC) Including development of long term storage plans.
•BP Corrosion Management detailed strategies for THSX) select phase.
•Maersk Chissonga high level Corrosion Management Strategy (CMS) design competition.
•Shell Permian Basin, West Texas; Corrosion Management for unmanned production facilities.
•Development of Corrosion Management Strategy (CMS) for Repsol – COEVA ptroject
•Development of departmental Corrosion Management Strategies guidelines and work process.
•Corrosion and Pigging studies: White paper for PDVSA APS phase.
•Corrosion integrity management SME support for BP Thunderhorse: Flowlines, Riser reliability
•Risk and IM support for BP Atlantis flowlines, review historical corrosion modeling work.
•Corrosion Risk & IM support for BP Mad Dog phase2 with focus on Hull & Moorings. Similarly for Chevron Jack St Malo, Luva, Petrobras Cascade-Chinook, and MWCC integrity engineering.
•Active with the Engineering Institutions: IMECHE, IMAREST NACE, ASME, via Society meetings.
•ISO 19901 Structural Integrity Management(SIM) Industry Committee member (Pub for 2017)
Technip USA, Inc.,
•Main remit to provide technical advice (corrosion, materials, mechanical integrity)
•Advisory per new technology qualification plans such as per DNV RP A203 and the API RP 17N.
•Engaged with the Statoil, Chevron Jack St Malo, Luva and Petrobras Chinook- Cascade projects
•Development of Corrosion, Integrity, CP, Coatings, threshold KPI`s for Petrobras CC.
•Assessment of Mad Dog2 Corrosion Management Strategies via PEER group reviews
•Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC)- integrated strategy detail per long term (25 yr+).
•Active per company DeepStar JIP initiatives- API SEM75/ USA Gulf Of Mexico Regulatory, etc.
Wood Group Integrity Management, Houston, TX, 09/05 to 05/11
•Joined WG/JPKenny as Senior Corrosion Specialist, subsequently Team Leader, Principal Advisor
•Recognized Company Technical authority Americas region (Corrosion, Materials, CP and IM.
•Commissioned to lead and re-write the CP specifications for CVX Corporate standardization, Deliverable peer reviewed and approved for CVX practicesby client.
•Project management for various, Oil and Gas concept, FEED, detail design projects.
• Assisted with the CP/coatings third part reviews of integrated systems designed by different vendors, e.g. the Independence Hub.
•Client engagements - BP, Noble Energy, Jack St Malo (CVX), Macedon (BHP), EXM (Hadrian), CVX, Callon/COPI, Anadarko, Hydro, etc.
•Challenges workshopped: GoM (EXM/BP/Anadarko/Shell) Africa (Olokola), North Sea (Valhall).
•Technology for Business - Develop Corrosion & Fitness for Purpose modules per NEXUS software
•Committee member of Technical Leaders Group to foster innovation within the company.
•Performance of established coatings FBE, 3LPP/3LPE, thermal spray aluminum (TSA), marine.
•BD and active participation within Joint Industry projects (Ohio, and Tulsa universities)
•Strong proponent of early subsea corrosion integrity design appraisals, ISD, HAZOP studies
•Support for audit development of corrosion integrity management and BOEMRE driven SEMP systems for WG companies, post Macondo incident.
•Elected WG North America HSE Integrity Management Committee Team Leader 2010/2011. Active Member of WG SEMP Forum 2010-11, and Internal JUT groups, focus on culture of safety.
•Marketing, and generation of new risk based methodologies for critical pipelines analyses.
•Instrumental in initiating and progressing more formal links between corrosion and flow assurance disciplines via internal and external papers.
•Expert witness engagement per contentious marine/subsea bolting failures.
•NACE TG076, Flow Induced Corrosion prediction w/co-writers fr. Shell & ARC (2008+ongoing).
Deepwater Corrosion Services, Houston, TX, 10/99 to 09/05
•Shell & ExxonMobil; corrosion, inspection, IM, failure, testing, field trials, CP/coatings, for GOM assets.
•In-Service Inspections, offshore GOM, overseas investigations Russia, Brazil, India, UK, etc.
•Risk based integrity programs, inspection matrices, and corrosion modeling applications.
•Troubleshooting; topsides (pumps/heat exchangers), subsea risers/flowlines/stress joints, umbilical’s (Seacat & ROV tethers), multiple failure investigations and solution developments.
•Assessments of unexpected material responses, subsea metal/metal seal failures, abnormal CP, coatings performance under deep and shallow subsea environments.
•Extended Secondment to INTEC at Cameron offices ~ working with project staff to review drawings, materials, corrosion and CP/coating systems for the Canyon Express project.
•Design and execution of bespoke tests for Oceaneering ROV umbilical corrosion issues: unique flow rig inhibitor evaluation. Involved design and construction of a flow loop, commissioning, and performing test trials with selected filming inhibitor, Reporting and implementing recommendations with client.
•Seconded to Lloyds Register (6 months assignment ) to join the BP Mardi Gras pipeline project at LR offices
•Marathon, CP & TSA instrumented buoy sea trials, crevice corrosion testing for CRA fasteners (SPAR),
•Shell Deepwater GOM subsea metal to metal seals integrity project, developing refrigerated cold electrochemistry trials to formulate solutions for CRA`s and CP interactions.
•Offshore I-Rod cold brittle testing via bespoke procedures, to successful application conclusions
•Shell Liaison –Development of applied corrosion testing, and thermal imaging of defected pipe spool trials, via artificially induced heat transfer.
•SES plus multi operator development of working solutions to counter bolting/fastener hydrogen embrittlement/cracking, under chloride corrosion fatigue, with and without CP Utilizing near full scale component tests at vendor site.
•Brasil Waters Expert witness/litigation works re corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, with and without CP, (case studies).
•Critical assessment per drastic early wind turbine coatings failures offshore Irish Sea.
Lloyds Register, Houston, TX, 06/97 to 09/99
•Offshore / marine projects with emphasis on safety, design appraisal, verification of parts, equipment per wellheads / trees, pressure plant, etc. (estimated >100 certifications issued).
•Predominantly mechanical, materials and corrosion projects, utilizing LR rules, International codes of practice (API / ASME / DNV / BS/NACE etc.) and in-house modeling.
•Risk based integrity management and corrosion criticality criteria. Trained familiarity with CORTRAN (Company Software). Assets including Sable Island, Terra Nova, Britannia, etc
•Significant exposure to mechanical integrity, design appraisal, design verification, corrosion management, and failure analysis procedures through Aberdeen and London office visitations.
•Authorized by London HQ to approve, mechanical pressure systems, materials, corrosion, and cathodic protection plans.
•Assisted writing development of new LR Rules for Corrosion & Integrity per offshore structures, MODU, FPSO, marine. Involved with Negotiations to apply SEMP75 for accepting companies.
CSU California Maritime Academy, Vallejo, CA, 1996 to 1997
•Supported academic faculty for marine and mechanical projects for naval, coastguard and marine students. Supervising tutorials and workshops for materials, laboratory reports.
•Worked primarily with minority undergraduate students in large and small groups and individually within the marine engineering curriculum.
OIS plc (now Oceaneering), Aberdeen, UK, 1991 to 1995
•Managed multiple small and large scale topsides Inspection, condition and corrosion management issues North Sea projects, re pressure vessels, piping, tubing, open & closed drains.
•Various failure investigations and close workings with company and client metallurgical experts, Including some expert witness litigation analyses.
•Full component, offshore heat exchanger mal-operation studies, metallurgical and scale analyses, testing/trials in workshop for major operators.
•Texaco, detailed inspection campaigns to verify fitness for continued service of critical separator vessels, checking on-site offshore materials characterizations ( hardness, metallurgical micrography, surface scale characterization, etc)
•Fronted multiple inspection team and draughting projects (Incl. creation of as built drawings) for clients, Chevron, Shell, Amoco, BP, Texaco, etc.
•Development of industry course metallurgy and corrosion modules – lecturing for offshore training courses at SCOTA /UKOOA, Aberdeen.
•Managed multiple annual contracts deploying inspectors, technicians and engineers to offshore and onshore sites for surveys, per condition/corrosion monitoring, to specifications.
•Offshore Fire Water system CUI surveys, AMOCO; stayed abreast of this important topic via industry meetings of the Welding Institute and Institution of Corrosion (Abz Chapters).
•Chevron tubing weldolet corrosion survey interpretation reinternal and external corrosion issues.
•Philips, sweet CO2 Corrosion issues, modeling calculations and failure analyses.
•Close liaison with company NDE departments to resolve corrosion data interpretation.
•Active within Marine Club (London), UK Institute of Corrosion (Committee Aberdeen branch), and Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
•Many company papers and project presentations based on offshore site work done at company.
•Formulated (on site) and managed Spirit of Columbus (MODU) NDT baseline construction surveys, at Fincantieri shipyard, Genoa, Italy.
•Industrial supervisor for two MSc level dissertations, (CUI) and Injection Inhibition, as part of UK Dept of Trade and Industry initiatives for R&D at Robert Gordons Institute, Aberdeen.
•Active as professional member and elected Hon Committee member of the UK Institution of Corrosion (Abz branch).
YARD Ltd (Yarrow Admiralty Research and Design)/BAeSEMA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1984 to 1991
•Engaged in materials performance and corrosion for Marine/Naval projects, with strong emphasis on safety and integrity for power plant, pressure systems, heat exchangers, etc.
•Design and development of sea water recirculating test rigs to evaluate materials degradation and corrosion phenomena for range of marine alloys, coatings and non-metallics.
•Commercial work engaging materials selection and performance, incl. Hull CP/ coatings, anti-fouling studies, high temp wet steam corrosion, etc.
•Significant cutting edge work for RN with comparative alloys CRA’s of the day leading to selection, and widespread introduction for marine/naval applications.
•Inter co. SME collaboratives with critical insights: PWC, cavitation ‘inhibition’ schemes, fastener coatings, unique electrochemical lab/field correlations w/RNEC.
•Major SHHD copper corrosion civil buildings project utilizing site visit reports, on-line potential probes, bypass loop for biostuds, sampling protocols, and ongoing failure analyses.
•Laboratory characterization and development of ‘galvanic series’ for multiple alloys in steam condensate type environments using potentiodynamic techniques.
•Various mixed marine alloys, offshore heat exchanger failures under unsteady operations, Montreal Protocol criteria for non-metallic/seals performance (environmental chamber).
•Engagement with offshore wind/tidal concepts, and local steel foundries (magnetite scales). Expert witness projects per marine and shipping industry.
•A number of topical presentations to naval officers, engineers, and government officials, Incl. visits to naval laboratories and establishments on projects and applied research.
University of Manchester (UMIST) England UK- Post Graduate R&D 1977 to 1983
Post graduate Research Scholarships by UK Science Research Council and support funding by UKAEA.
•MSc, Course/examination and dissertation: Scale Nucleation on a Heat Transfer Surface.
•PhD, Research Thesis: Scaling and Corrosion under Turbulent Heat Transfer.
•Post Doctoral Fellowship: Design of Impingement Corrosion Test Rigs (Offshore applications).
•Vars Lectures and laboratories demonstrated to corrosion and terotechnology graduates.
NNC, Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, 1974 to 1977
•First Professional job working in construction and plant commissioning, system trials, power raising, etc, based at Hunterston B nuclear power station complex, Scotland UK. Assisted in writing commissioning manuals, formulating tests and trials, executing trials, writing reports for SSEB and NNI approval.
•Commissioning, inspection, proving pressure envelopes (tertiary shutdown system, vessels, heat exchangers, condensers, boiler feed pumps, gas circulators, boilers, cooling loops, etc.
•Critical mechanical inspection discoveries and resolution engagement with R&D/design teams , per Reactor vessel economizer ‘drooping’ - led to major metallurgical investigation, witnessed the fast track multi-disciplined resolutions ( first irked my interest in corrosion!)
•Close visual inspections of critical parts of pressure vessels, and internal components.
•Detailed inspection of sub diagrid crawl space areas underneath fuel stringers and control rods; discovery of some inlet vanes being out of spec. led to an MOC deviation (equivalent)
•Reactor building rooftop environmental inspection and blow down stack flue gas measurements per NNI requirements.
•Participated in multidisciplined team inspections of reactor components, gas dew point testing, temperature distributions, pressure/leak detection, verifying cooling flow paths.
•Various support functions for station integrated system trials, helping testing to per the UK HSE Regulator for high temperature CO2 coolant, turbine hall, electrical engineering trials.
•Application of concurrent design principles, multiple system wide testing, management of system changes, material failure investigations, re-design issues based on updated R&D data.
•Substantial involvement with the SSEB authorities at 'handover' with very strong emphasis on safety aspects, setting to work parameters, power raising, environmental and public concerns, etc. Overall the station was derated ( 18.2% s.t.w parameters) due to corrosion and oxidation issues, prompting my desires for post graduate studies in corrosion.