Equipment Maintenance Supervisor
Halliburton
Total years of experience :46 years, 10 Months
I am currently stationed onshore in Soyo, Angola supervising the maintenance of both onshore and offshore equipment in the following departments Production Enhancement (Stimulation/Hydraulic Fracturing), Pipeline Process Services (Coiled Tubing, N2), Cementing (Onshore and Offshore equipment), Wireline, Testing & SubSea, HP Iron testing & re-certification, Sperry and facilities equipment such as base generators, vehicles. The maintenance department consists of mechanics, electronic technicians, administrators, welders, testing personnel adding up to 45 people. My duties and responsibilities involve the training and mentoring of maintenance & Test Bay personnel, to improve their competencies and improving the maintenance structure of our location, material management, asset integrity, liaising with suitable 3rd party companies to carry out specific tasks. We use SAP maintenance program for our CMMS, which has the capabilities to track and record equipment maintenance history, purchase orders, asset integrity.
I joined this well service company as maintenance manager looking after Coiled Tubing, Stimulation and Cementing equipment. The company has 2 operating bases, Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) and Basra (Southern Iraq). I am based in Basra, and working a rotation of 5x4 weeks. There are no maintenance structures in place, and I am required to create & implement PM programs for all equipment for operations general maintenance as well as more specific periodic inspections to be carried out within the maintenance department. Bringing the department up to a standard that will be in line with our clients BP, Exxon and ENI’s expectations. Liaise with business lines to keep operations running efficiently. I am involved in determining personnel training needs, expanding the department to meet with operational demands.
I worked in the maintenance department on the stimulation vessel Stim Star Angola. My duties included improving maintenance structure, reducing equipment downtime, ensuring material stock levels are in place, implement HSE procedures and mentoring of local personnel. Equipment utilized include Caterpillar 3512 and C32 marine engines and gensets, Allison transmissions, Halliburton triplex and quintuplex pumps, hydraulic systems.
• GSP are primarily a drilling company which also encompasses Pipeline, Shipyard and Well Service divisions. They are based in Romania and have projects in Turkey, Russia & Mexico.
• This is a residential position working from Constanta.
• I am responsible for the maintenance on 1x Coiled Tubing fleet, 1x Frac fleet and a Uniline unit utilized for slickline and braidline operations.
• The manufacturer for all Well Services equipment is NOV, Hydrarig for the coiled tubing units, Rolligon for the frac units, and ASEP Elmar for the slickline unit.
• The Well Services department was formed in 2010, and required the introduction of a maintenance philosophy starting from scratch. My duties include building maintenance structures, creating planned maintenance routines, material management; critical spares for all equipment, liaising with local & international suppliers. Commissioning the equipment, and upgrading/modifying where required. Training operations personnel on basic equipment maintenance, forming an experienced maintenance team. Creating and managing equipment maintenance budgets. Create and track maintenance history on all Well Services equipment.
• This was a rotational position with a cycle of 35/35. I managed the maintenance on three stimulation vessels, one based in Takoradi, Ghana, and the other two based in Lagos, Nigeria. The vessels differ in some ways from each other with one vessel using electric motors to drive the majority of their equipment utilising 3x Caterpillar gensets, another vessel has an acid blender installed, and the majority of the equipment is driven by hydraulic power packs. The vessels utilise POD blenders, mainly driven by Detroit 60 series diesel engines, Gardner Denver HD2000 triplex pumps driven by CAT 3512 & 3512B engines transmitting torque through Allison S9800M automatic transmissions.
• Each vessel has a maintenance crew onboard at any given time, consisting of mechanical & electronic technicians, who also assist with frac operations.
• My duties included improving the maintenance structures, planning and implementing major maintenance projects, training maintenance and operations personnel. Controlling the maintenance budget, material management and monitoring predictive and preventive maintenance minimising equipment problems.
• This was a rotational position with a cycle of 35/35. I managed the maintenance on three stimulation vessels, one based in Takoradi, Ghana, and the other two based in Lagos, Nigeria.
• My duties included improving the maintenance structures, planning and implementing major maintenance projects, training maintenance and operations personnel. Controlling the maintenance budget, material management and monitoring predictive and preventive maintenance minimising equipment problems.
• This was a rotational position working a cycle of 35/35. In Western Siberia, BJ offered services in Coiled Tubing, Fracturing, and until 2007 a service
& work-over rig department. I started employment with BJ managing a maintenance workshop in Muravlenko, supervising local and expat personnel, material management, creating & monitoring of work orders, and implementation of HSE standards & procedures. Equipment we maintained included service and workover rigs, both Russian (A-50) and western manufactured (Kremco 600 and Cooper LTO-350). As this was a land rig operation, auxiliary equipment used was quite extensive, and included Russian trucks (Ural, Kraz, Maz & Kamaz), tractors, bulldozers, forklifts, buses, pick-ups and Niva cars. Western equipment included Kenworth C-500 bedtrucks and Freightliners which use Caterpillar diesel engines.
• I then worked in Nizhnevartovsk at our central base, managing a workshop consisting of 14 bays maintaining 2 fracturing fleets, and supporting 2 coiled tubing fleets, and 2 fracturing fleets operating in a satellite location. The equipment of both fleets consist of SPM triplex pumps, Blenders, coiled tubing units from Hydrarig and Fidmash NOV.
• This was a residential appointment, living in Doha and running the Brandt operation in Qatar. My duties included liaising with the clients, meeting their requirements, supervising service engineers, operations and maintenance on offshore Brandt equipment which mostly included centrifuges and shale shakers. I was also responsible for purchasing, logistics, sales reporting directly to the Middle East Regional Manager.
• Brandt is an internationally recognised company, and my service was with the Middle East, North African & Caspian region. Brandt is involved ostensibly in the waste treatment and management of drilling solids. Environmental standards are very important nowadays and oil companies employ companies such as Brandt to remove by process any impurities produced when drilling for oil or gas. This is done using various equipment, such as decanted centrifuges, vortex dryers, thermal desorption units, shakers, desilters, mud cleaners, degassers etc.My duties included surveying, installation, maintenance and repair of these units, and my services were utilised in Egypt, Iran, Turkmenistan as well as Dubai. I received some training to become plant supervisor of a thermal desorption unit. This equipment treats drilling cuttings by heating the cuttings, and through a process of cooling and separation, recovers drilling oil clean enough to be reused for drilling operations.
• Schlumberger is an oilfield service company, and has locations worldwide. Their divisions include cementing, fracturing and coil tubing, all of which I have carried out duties on. I was placed in Angola for 4 years, and spent over a year in Western Siberia. I managed a workshop catered to service and repair oilfield equipment, trucks, tractors, buses and light vehicles. I worked on a 28 days on, 28 days off rotation schedule.
• My duties were mostly utilized on coil tubing and fracturing equipment as well as western trucks such as Peterbilt and Kenworth, and various Russian built trucks. They included planned, routine and breakdown maintenance. I was involved in supervision of maintenance of equipment such as engine driven hydraulic power packs, positive displacement pumps, centrifugal pumps, LN2 generation units, Caterpillar mechanical & electronic diesel engines, winterised equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• My duties also included, supervising and basic training of operations personnel, maintenance planning, ordering of spares and training of maintenance personnel.
• I was employed on an offshore installation, which produces gas and condensate through a process of separation. The F-A platform is the sole supplier to the refinery and efficiency must therefore be kept to the highest standard.
• This was achieved through the skills and teamwork of personnel, and encompassed a wide range of engineering categorized under three sections, planned, predictive and breakdown maintenance.
• With reference to the plant and equipment utilized on the platform, to mention but a few, Caterpillar diesel engines are used in conjunction with Sulzer pumps for fire protection, Nuovo Pignone duel fuel (diesel & gas) turbines are used for power generation. Howden compressors for plant and instrument air systems, and Sulzer compressors for the refrigeration plant.
• Although drilling had finished on the platform, we were involved with maintaining their equipment should the need arise for them to return. Equipment such as the draw works, mud pumps etc. are tested periodically. We also ‘skid’ the drilling derrick for well service companies such as Halliburton to enable them to do routine logging checks.
• I was involved in the introduction of a new maintenance philosophy, which was designed to improve overall efficiency of the maintenance department. This involved the reviewing and amending of scheduled maintenance routines.
• I have extensive experience with predictive maintenance, mainly through vibration analysis, which is recorded with a data logger on selected critical equipment, uploaded to a computer program where it is possible to analyse the data.
• General, planned and breakdown maintenance on industrial machines, hydraulic presses, conveyor systems etc. I was also involved in the field of projects on design, construction and commissioning of more efficient machines to enhance production with minimum costs.
• On completion of my apprenticeship I joined an afloat department, and my duties were in the order of maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment utilized on a wide range of vessels such as minesweepers, frigates and submarines etc. for the Royal Navy and private contractors.
• Towards the end of the 1980’s I joined a project team concerned with the construction and outfitting of pilot cutters and launches. This included the installation of rudders, main drive shafts, diesel engines and auxiliary systems.
• In my last years at Rosyth I was trained and became a Nuclear Refueller, responsible for the removal and replacing of fuel rods in nuclear reactors under the auspices of the Atomic Act and Official Secrets Act.
City & Guilds Technicians Course in Mechanical Engineering