Freelancer - Chief Operations Officer
Quadratech
Total years of experience :29 years, 4 Months
Acting as HSE and Contract & Procurement Manager
I was doing freelance work, providing consultancy to set up, establish and rollout a HSE Management System for a local company, including HSE policies, HSE plan, procedures, emergency response, structured meetings, inspection, intervention and system to manage HSE documentation.
At the same time I provide technical advice on contract management and input into preparation of tender and contract documents.
To further widen my skills and extend my experience, I took up a new challenge in the field of logistics from August 2016. On that job, as Integrated Planning Cell manager, I was responsible to lead a team to manage the integrated logistics planning - a very challenging task to ensure that cost-effective resources are allocated to the business demands and people and material movements are efficiently scheduled to meet the activity plans across the Company.
In early 2009, I was back in BSP to assume the role of Head Geomatics Services (Geomatics Manager), reporting to the Technical Director. The department is divided into four sections:- Offshore Survey Operations, Onshore Survey Operations, Metocean Services, and GIS & Geo-Information Management. Total number of staff was 38 people. Total annual budget was around B$ 15 million. The job also carried the role of Contract Owner for all the (up to 15 contracts) held by the team. One of my key achievements on this job was the review and implementation of a new upgraded organisation structure to meet the business demand, resulting in a reduced but up-skilled work force of 32 people. As a Technical Authority Level 2 for Geomatics, the main accountability is to ensure all activities and deliverables are quality-checked and assured that applicable standards are adhered to avoid any geo-spatial data integrity incident. On the HSE front, I was proud to lead and manage the team and contractors to a fantastic safety performance and maintained Goal Zero operations (14 years LTI-free on 8th January 2016).
In November 2005, I went for another oversea job assignment in Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) in Muscat, taking up the role of Head of Survey Operations, for three years. Working in a totally different environment, the main challenge was to manage the survey operations spread over three geographical locations:- the main office in Muscat, and two remote site offices in Fahud and Nimr, approximately 300 Km and 700 Km respectively from the capital. I was responsible to manage a team of 7 company staff and 15 contractor survey personnel, and holding the Survey Contract with ACV of approximately USD6.5 million. The main activities were Well Delivery support (site survey and positioning), engineering project support, seismic support (2 separate acquisition crews), topographical surveys, geodetic surveys, subsidence and (precise GPS) deformation monitoring.
I returned to BSP in January 2000 to take up the role as Team Lead of the Geomatics Operations, with 10 Company staff and varying number of contractor personnel. As a Contract Holder of four main contracts and with an annual
budget of B$10-15 million, the principal task was to manage efficient execution of the survey and positioning
operations so as to provide quality and reliable services in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner, in support of
BSP’s wide range of activities. The services include:
* offshore/inshore bathymetry, including multibeam survey
* analogue site investigation/debris clearance survey
* digital hi-resolution site/shallow hazard surveys
* geotechnical survey support
* seismic survey/positioning support (conventional 3D, OBC)
* engineering survey/positioning support (pipeline/jacket installations, etc.)
* site investigation/Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) support
* Automatic Vessel Tracking (AVT) of marine fleet
* Remote Positioning (RP) of workboats and barges
* Barge Management System (BMS) for rig and tender moves
* general land survey operations
* storage tank calibration and maintenance support
* structural and dimensional surveys
* onshore field subsidence survey (GPS campaign and precise levelling)
* geodetic network (GPS).
Key projects delivered during the 5-year on the job include Pipeline ROV inspection and CP Trailing Wire survey campaign
In May 1996, I went for my first cross-posting assignment to Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (NAM) in Holland for 3.5 years. With the job of Project Surveyor (offshore) I had two main responsibilities:- seismic survey and positioning support and seabed and engineering project support. The main tasks on seismic support include pre-survey preparations (safety and environmental aspects of site, technical details, specifications and scope, contract preparation and advice), survey supervision (operations and HSE, data QA/QC and reporting), and data processing (navigation data handling, verifications, QA/QC). For offshore survey project support, tasks include planning and execution of site surveys, (swathe) bathymetry surveys and pipeline inspections. On some projects, I also undertook the role of onsite Company Representative, with the responsibilities of ensuring the operations are executed to the acceptable technical specifications and HSE requirements.
In October 1995, I took up the role of hydrographic surveyor in the offshore survey section until April 1996. In that role, the main responsibility was to plan and execute the daily offshore survey operations (hydrographic and analogue site surveys), monitor and report work progress. Part of the job was also to act as Company Site Representative onboard survey and seismic vessels, drilling rigs and other offshore construction/work barges. One of the main projects that I supervised at that time was the 3D seismic acquisition project (executed by the vessel, Western Legend.
In 1991, I was appointed as the team leader of the land survey operations consisting of 3 Company staff, 3 contract staff, and as a Contract Holder for Land Survey Services with 4-5 field survey crews. The main responsibilities were to plan and manage the land survey activities, contract and resources, as well as the team’s budget of c. B$2 million annually, to support the Company’s exploration and production activities. Some of the major projects delivered include the field subsidence survey campaigns (1992, 1995), GPS geodetic survey network establishment (1992), land 3D seismic survey (1992).
My career began as a field surveyor in theland survey operations of the Topographical Department of BSP. Main tasks were to acquire and process field data on various type of land/topographical surveys, engineering and structural survey support, storage tank calibrations, geodetic surveys, field subsidence monitoring and land seismic survey support.