I successfully completed Jul2014-Apr2015 a contract assignment as Project Engineer with INVISTA via BEI Engineers during FEL-1 on a $1B adiponitrile plant to be part of an integrated nylon 6,6 complex in Shanghai, PRC. Due to commercial uncertainties, the project did not pass gate and was recycled to FEL0. Contributions to Yinglon ADN focused on finalizing the EPC RFP and analyzing the resulting p
roposals (the FEL-2 execution strategy involved selecting the EPC). I also drove preparation of the FEL1-quality overall project schedule (P6) with focus on FEL-2 logic, including sketching out the scopes of various studies planned in FEL-2. Using a spreadsheet, I created a useful tool for the Construction Manager to validate the resource loading projected by FEL1-quality Aspen-generated cost estimates. I drafted the Project Sponsors' Objectives, FEL-1 Project Execution Strategy, FEL-1 Project Execution Plan, and IP Security Plan; and provided technical editing on the OSBL Scope of Work and the ADN Process Design Criteria before coordinating compilation of the FEL-1 Engineering Book for the gate review. My degrees are in mechanical and petroleum engineering from Oklahoma University (near my birthplace) but my ability to quickly solve partial differential equations has softened over the years. I earned a Project Management Professional certification and consider myself a project manager or project engineer. My wife, Janet, and I are empty-nesters and grandparents. She practiced medicine until retiring in 2015 to spoil the grandkids. I retired from Marathon Oil Oct2010 on completion of a $100MM demonstration plant at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio on which I was responsible for OSBL, PSM, and permitting. The technology converted CH4 into liquid fuel resembling diesel using various catalysts and Br2 near ambient conditions but was postponed in favor of acquiring drilling prospects in the horizontal fracking land rush. I became financially independent, refitted a yacht, circumnavigated Earth via Panama Canal, and solo’d Cape Good Hope in a gale. On return Jun2014, I sought out consulting work to buy a bigger boat. That remains my purpose. During my career, I worked in 16 countries on major projects that included offshore drilling/completion and production platform installations, on- and offshore pipelines, LNG re-gas terminals, and electric power generation. Early in my career, I was a mechanical engineer at Texaco Port Arthur Chemical Plant. During 2013/14 (via internet at various ports), I co-authored three technical papers in the Society of Petroleum Engineers regarding downhole interventions in horizontal wellbores.
