Experienced Process Engineer

Seeks challenging rotational assignment w/ opportunity to influence long term vision & implement short term solutions, to mentor, to combine my 26 years of experience & a new situation where I can continue to grow while making valuable contributions

BHP Billiton 2001 – Current

Zamzama Gas Plant, Pakistan. Plant expansion w/ nitrogen rejection. Responsible for preparing & delivering training packs (a mix of remote & in person training), pre-com & commissioning procedures, & key operating procedures.

Bass Strait Asset, Australia. Ongoing ops support role for facilities operated by joint venture partner. Responsible for the evaluation of ongoing projects. The team saved over $400M (AU$) in project capital cost over 5 years.

Esso, 1998 - 2001

Bream Offshore Gas Pipeline. Process engineer for schedule driven project.

Longford Restoration after the fire of 1998, which totally disrupted natural gas supply for over 2 weeks. During the first part of the response, developed & implemented temporary solution to restore gas to the state. Design engineer during the HAZOP for the short term solution, one of the highest profile HAZOP studies in Australia. Responsible for ensuring the restoration team did not disrupt the undamaged parts of the highly integrated complex.

Fluor, 1991-98

Bayu-Undan, Conoco/BHP, Zone of Cooperation between Australia & Indonesia/Timor Leste. FEED for this large offshore system (offshore fractionation & cryogenic separation). Responsible for cold section process design. Solved problem of printed circuit heat exchangers riming. Identified numerous scenarios that were the governing case for equipment design, & successfully worked with key offshore constraint of minimising facility weight.

Flounder Platform Drilling Program, Esso
Process Engineer for Detailed Design of platform modifications for an infill drilling program.

HAZOP Facilitator Training. Successfully trained 12 facilitators.

Griffin Venture & Gas Plant Upgrade, BHP. Process Engineer for numerous small projects for the Griffin Venture FPSO, offshore Western Australia & onshore Gas Plant.

HAZOP Facilitator for studies of numerous Esso operated facilities, over 500 P&IDs reviewed.

Hydrogen Sulphide Awareness Training

BP, 1989-91 and Amoco, 1981-89

Surveillance engineer for the offshore Endicott oil field (Arctic), and Surveillance engineer for 4 gas plants, numerous small compression & glycol dehydration facilities & oilfield water flood operations. Design engineer for tertiary-recovery oil field (CO2) for the central treating facility from FEED to post commissioning.

Masters of Engineering Science in Process Integration, Monash University (Australia), 2002
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, University of Arizona (USA), 1981
(no degree) Studied Arctic Engineering, University of Alaska-Anchorage (USA), 1990
Numerous Industry short courses

I have 26 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
I have experience with design, debottlenecking, troubleshooting, start-up, hazard evaluation, project conception, training, and mentoring.

I have experience with unit operations involving distillation, energy transfer, pumps and compressors, electrical generation, filtration, storage, absorption, adsorption, cryogenic operations, and utilities management.

I am a creative focused person, who has great people skills, enjoys a challenge and has outstanding written and oral communication skills. I am a team player and l can also work autonomously.

IT System Skills:
Microsoft Office Suite of Software
Documentum
HYSYS
Visio
Numerous Specialty Software

PUBLISHED WORKS

(SPE Paper 77929) Weight Reduction of off-shore natural gas liquids processing facilities (by John Westover, Andrew Hoadley, and Tony Dyson)
Activity Based Learning (by John Westover, Rob Terry, and Ed Boyapati) for the World Congress of Chemical Engineers