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Mr. K. E. Young,  VP,  Engineering Coordination, Houston

Professional Record:

Synopsis:

Twenty nine years of experience in engineering, project management and marketing 

for offshore oil production facilities.  Projects have included the design, fabrication,

 installation, hook-up and commissioning of platform jackets, decks, submarine

 pipelines, SPM/MBM marine terminals and FSO/FPSO facilities while working for 

 operating, contracting and engineering companies.  Sixteen years of combined

 overseas experience in Saudi Arabia and S. Korea.

Projects

2004-2005

Hyundai Heavy Industries

Houston/Ulsan

West Seno TLP & FPU

·   HHI Project Director for the West Seno TLP Project

 

2002-2003

Self Employed

Houston

Solid123D Software

 for Project Design &

 Construction

·   Wrote 3D modeling and graphics program for application in structural design,

 structural analysis and construction support.

·   Developed and implemented marketing web site www.solid123d.com

 

2000-2002

Hyundai Heavy Industries

Ulsan, S. Korea & Houston

 Chevron Texaco BBT

BP Thunder Horse

Shell NaKika FPU

Conoco Belanak FPSO

Chevron Agbami FPSO

ExxonMobil Kizomba A

Unocal West Seno TLP

Conoco West Natuna

Consultant, HHI Offshore Structural Engineering & Business Development:

·   Project bid development and project engineering support for projects bid and/or

awarded to the HHI Offshore Engineering Division.  Primary duties included

(1) preparation and coordination of construction plans for the technical bid

proposals and (2) the development of engineering subcontract agreements.

·   Completed the structural design work for the Conoco West Natuna Hang Tauh

platform, including the Living Quarters and topside structures.  Developed

and completed the platform loadout and transportation/tie-down plans.

 

1998-2000

Enercon Engineering

Houston, Texas

Conoco/HHI

West Natuna Project

Sr Consulting Engineer, Structural Department:

·    Engineering project manager and lead structural engineer for the Living Quarters

 on the Conoco West Natuna Hang Tauh project.

·   Lead structural engineer for (1) the topside facilities interface with the barge structure

and (2) the development of an RFQ package for the West Natuna Living Quarters

Apache Pipeline;

Gulf of Mexico

·   Engineering project manager and lead pipeline engineer for the design of a 6” gas

 pipeline, risers and topside hook-up.

Elf Virgo Jacket;

Gulf of Mexico

·   Structural engineer for detail steel items, including the jacket lower bay and

 mudmats, pipeline J‑tube and docking pile installation template.

 

1992-1997

Saudi Aramco

Dhahran, Tanajib,  Jizan,

Jeddah and Duba

 Duba MBM

Marine Terminal

Project Engineer; Offshore Projects & Central/Western Region Projects Department:

·   Coordinated the engineering design program to upgrade an offshore multi-buoy

 mooring marine terminal for 16,500-dwt tankers

Jizan SPM Marine

 Terminal & Pipelines

·    Developed design specifications, contracts and served as offshore project engineer

 during the 11-month fabrication and installation program for 2-ea SPM marine

 terminals and their associated 24" submarine pipelines at the Jizan petroleum

 products storage plant

Marjan Power Cables

·   Coordinated the engineering design program for 15-ea 5-kv submarine power cables

in the Marjan field.  Wrote the construction contract and developed the contract

bid program

 Platform Completions

 & Commissioning

 ·   Completed the engineering design for the "de-mothballing", electrification and

 commissioning of 17-ea wellhead and tie-in platforms in the Marjan field.

·   Directed the Saudi Aramco-operated offshore construction spread and construction

team comprised of three workboats and one jack-up barge as required to support the

 Marjan field commissioning program in March 1993.

 

1991

Marathon Oil Company

Houston, Texas

 South Pass 89C

 Production Platform

Commercial Contracts Engineer, Offshore Construction Services Department

·   Developed and administered the commercial sections of numerous construction

contracts and purchase orders associated with the design and construction of the

South Pass 89C production platform jacket and deck.

 

1990

Shell Oil Company   

Houston, Texas

 Mustique Platform;

G.O.M. Jacket

Independent Contract Engineering Consultant;

Contracted to Shell Oil Company; Fixed Platform Design Group

·   Performed in-place design model development and analysis for the Mustique

 prospect and miscellaneous structural engineering for other Shell projects.

 

1985-1990

Hyundai Heavy Industries

Ulsan & Seoul, Korea

Harmony & Heritage

 Jacket; Fabrication

Independent Contract Engineering Consultant;

Contracted to Hyundai Heavy Industries

·   Worked with the HHI project management team and the HHI project engineering

department in Ulsan.  Principal duties during the fabrication of the

40,000-ton/1,200-ft long Harmony jacket and the 35,000-ton/1075-ft long

Heritage jacket included the following:

§  Assisted Korean management in the administration of technical and

commercial issues associated with the jacket fabrication.

§  Developed engineering plans and computer analysis programs for the

 unique aspects of the jacket fabrication, including (1) plans for roll-ups on

 4,000-ton bent sections and (2) the analytical methods to establish the

ballasting sequence and mooring plans for the jacket loadouts 

ONGC Bombay High

 Pipelines; Design

 

Barge Conversion;

 Design

 

 Offshore Business

 Development 

·   Worked with the HHI Engineering Center and the Hyundai Offshore Business

Development Department in Seoul on the following activities:

§  Coordinated ETPM as the subcontractor for the design and installation of 14‑ea

 submarine pipelines under the ICP-ICW contract between HHI and ONGC

§  Developed purchase orders for all ICP-ICW pipeline materials

§  Coordinated R. J. Brown & Associates in Singapore as engineering consultants to

help develop plans to convert the HD-1200 derrick barge into a combination

pipelay/derrick barge

·    Assisted in the development of bid proposal documents projects from ONGC, 

 Conoco, Woodside and Aker

 

1982-1985

Esso Middle East;

Seconded to Aramco

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

 

 

34-ea Marjan Pipelines;

 Design/Construction

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aramco Offshore

 Design  PMT

 

Project Engineer; Offshore Platforms & Pipelines Division

·         Company Representative for all contractual and engineering matters associated

with the bidding and construction of 34 offshore pipelines in the Marjan field.

Project value, not including materials, was $53 million.  Principal activities

included the  following:

§         Developed the project scope of work and bid documents, evaluated the

technical/commercial bids and awarded the construction contract. 

Negotiated and settled all change orders to the contract during the

construction program.

§         Coordinated the offshore operations of the Contractor's pipelay barge and

two tie‑in spreads during eight months of offshore installation.  Coordinated

the organization of a construction team to inspect the contractor's fabrication

of pipeline spool pieces in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

·         Member of a 6 man Aramco PMT directing the work performed by a task force of

 about 120 engineers from Fluor Arabia.  Principal duties included (1)

 coordination of  the design of the "Package B" and "Package C" offshore pipeline

 projects, (2) conceptual development of a standard design for an offshore tie-in

 platform and (3) engineering  support for various jackets and decks being

constructed in the UAE.  

 

1977-1982

Exxon Production

 Research Company

Houston

 

 

 

 

EPMI Jackets;

Structural Design

 

Zinc Prospect;

 Geotechnical Engineer

  

Guyed Tower

Research

 Research & Structural Design Engineer; Offshore Structures Division

·         Performed detailed structural engineering and AFC drawing development for

various offshore jackets and module support frames for EPMI, the Malaysian

affiliate of Exxon.  Platforms included Irong Barat, Semangkok 'A', Tapis 'A', TCOT

and Tinggi 'A'.  Performed all basic analyses required for jacket design, including

in-place, transportation, launch, upending, appurtenance modeling and pile

sections.

·         Planning and coordination of engineering contracts with Lockheed Missiles and

Space, EG&G and Sante Fe Engineering Services Company to establish

instrumentation programs to assess the potential seafloor movements at a

deepwater lease site in the Mississippi Canyon of the Gulf of Mexico.

·         Principal activities included (1) collection of storm response data from the Test

Guyed Tower in 300-ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico; making comparisons

between the predicted and measured response; writing a joint industry report and

co-authoring an OTC paper describing the results, (2) development of an efficient

guyline dynamics analysis procedure and (3) reviewed industry design codes and

wrote an internal company report on buoyancy tank design procedures.

Education, Training & Publications:

Degree/Certificate

Dates

Organization

M.S.C.E.

1976

University of Texas at Austin

Majored in structural engineering and engineering mechanics

with computer applications.  Thesis title was "Development of a

Finite Element Program for the Analysis of the Balcones

Research Center Frame Reaction Structure".

GPA of 3.83 out of 4.0

B.S.C.E.

1975

University of Texas at Austin

Summa Cum Laude graduate.  Majored in structural engineering, Engineering Scholar in 1974/1975.

GPA of 3.94 out of 4.0

Company Training

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●     Coaching and Appraisal           ●     Saudi Aramco

●     Effective Supervisor                     ●     Saudi Aramco

●     Floating drilling                            ●     Exxon

●     Reservoir engineering                 ●     Exxon

●     Statistical analysis                       ●     Exxon

●     MARC finite element

        analysis program                         ●     Exxon

●     Microprocessor training at

        Zilog Corporation                        ●     Exxon

Development of PC

 Computer Analysis

 Applications

--

●     Structural Modeling

§  Developed Solid123D, 3D Structural Modeling and

 Graphics Program

§  Developed Solid123D web site, www.solid123d.com

§  Pipeline J-tube Design program, used on Elf Virgo

●     Jacket Loadout & Ballast Operations:

Developed the ballast plans on the H-851 launch barge

during the Harmony/Heritage jacket loadouts

●     SPM Underbuoy Hose Analysis:

      Used on the Jizan SPM's for confirmation analyses

Other Items 

--

●     Co-authored OTC paper 3131,"Field Test of a Guyed Tower"

●     Granted a U.S. patent No. 4,372,706, "Emergency Cable

Gripping System"

●     Certificate of Recognition from Saudi Aramco in 1993 for

the development of a pipeline freespan analysis program.

Software Proficiency

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SACS, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office

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