Work History

• 7/2014 - 2/2021

  SHELL PRELUDE

  Production Technician: on Prelude in the Upstream area which covers the subsea wells up to gas supply to Acid Gas Removal, mostly as outside technician but also covering DCS coverage when required. I was part the Utilities team for the first 2 years in Korea. I was an active member of the Emergency Response Team onboard.

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• 11/2010 - 7/2014

  NGUJIMA YIN FPSO

  Production Maintenance Technician: (WOODSIDE) - AUSTRALIA (OIL PRODUCING PLATFORMS) I was employed as a Production Maintenance Technician. Duties involve outside process and utilities operations and Control Room operational duties (Rotational), start-ups, plant shut down and process optimization.

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• 1/2008 - 6/2010

  Induced Gas Floatation

  Senior Start-up Technician: unit and Oil Treatment/Export plants. Duties involve Train start-ups, training, operating procedures, TQ's and Operational duties. Rest of project I was Balance of Plant Lead mostly involved with training. Both outside plant and control room (Rotational).

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• 2/2005 - 6/2008

  COOGEE RESOURCES

  PROCESS TECHNICIAN: Initially operating gas plant - including well operations, both on and offshore, liquid separation, gas scrubbing, gas compression, daily gas nominations, plant control settings, general chemical regenerations and also plant maintenance. This lead to my roles offshore on FPSO's responsible for the operation of the process - including subsea well operations, 3 phase separation, turbine gas re-injection, plant control settings, chemical treatments, sampling and testing as well as minor plant maintenance. Both outside plant and control room duties (Rotational).

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• 2/2001 - 6/2005

  BHP BILLITON BOODARIE IRON, PORT HEDLAND, WA

  PROCESS TECHNICIAN: As Process Technician I was responsible for the day-to-day operation of process in the Reactor operations, ore driers and feed in to the plant. The process reactors contained high volumes of hydrogen, natural gas, iron ore and various inert gases.

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• 2/1998 - 6/2001

  BP REFINERY, MURRIN MURRIN, KALGOORLIE SMELTER, IC

  INSTRUMENT TECHNICIAN/ CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR: INSTRUMENT TECHNICIAN/ CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR. Construction and commissioning on refinery upgrades, refinery shutdown work and assisting in front line maintenance on the plant during operational stages. Responsible for supervising installation and loop checking of instrumentation, as well as the loop pack preparation and "As Built" of all the documentation on instrumentation. Assist KNS process engineers with interlock and logic control testing on DCS as well as commissioning of units. Quote Preparation, sizing of valves and sales of various Instrumentation with Fluid Controls. Migrated to Australia in January 1998

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• 2/1993 - 6/1997

  ALPHA-OLEFINS & ACRILO-NITRATE PLANTS, CHLORINE PL

  COMMISSIONING SPECIALIST: COMMISSIONING SPECIALIST/SENIOR COMMISSIONING TECHNICIAN. With "Commissioning Support Services Group" assisting Sasol as commissioning specialist in supervising contractors during stages of construction on Several projects, doing loop checking and commissioning of new Greenfield plants - Sasol Fibres, Alpha-Olefins and Acrilonitrate projects. These projects are all gas and chemical related refineries. I also assisted in producing electrical and instrumentation drawings on Auto-Cad.

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• 1/1988 - 7/1993

  SASOL

  Instrument Technician: 3, MOSSGASS, SOUTH AFRICA TANK FARM, HYDROGEN REFORMERS, GAS METERING & LNG VAPORISERS Maintenance, fault finding and problem solving on various plants. Construction kick-off, factory acceptance checks, function testing and commissioning units on arrival. Field Punching, loop checks, pre-commissioning, function testing and finally commissioning of plants.

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