Practice Chemical /Petrochemical Engineering and EH & S Management within the oil and gas industry. Strong work ethics, integrity and ability to communicate effectively and work with culturally diverse teams.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Oil and Gas Field Operation Supervisor
ExxonMobil Production, Nigeria
06.2022 - Current
Manages Terminal Operations, 350kbd
Accountable for crude oil Export Activities. 4# Tankers of 950kbbls per month.
Oil and Gas Field Operation Supervisor
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
03.2022 - Current
Person -In-Charge of Terminal operations, managing 350kbd of crude oil production
Crude oil storage tanks management and supervision
Motor Tanker cargo loading and documentation management
Equipment Reliability & Maintenance
Day to day running of Terminal operations managing 200 contractors on a daily basis
Daily engagement with Government partners, NNPC and NUPRC regulators & NMDPRA.
Subsea/Deep water Operations Engineer
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
01.2004 - Current
Over 10 years of working experience in Operations, Operations readiness and assurance plant maintenance and project engineering and deep water operations in a major oil and gas organization
Skillful in operations and troubleshooting subsea/deep water operations systems flow assurance issues, chemical injection systems, electrical power units and hydraulic power units (HPU) and HPU fluid quality control
Troubleshooting MCS systems and subsea hydrate inhibition
Experienced in discipline mechanical completions, operational readiness and assurance, onshore and offshore plant commissioning and start up
Experienced in mechanical equipment maintenance and reliability improvements
Skilled in developing root cause failure analysis for mechanical equipment and providing technical support for projects, Front end engineering designs (FEED) and cost estimations
Risk assessment, management of change (MOC) development and follow-up and stewardship to completion
Provided technical support for planning and unit's turnarounds and major maintenance activities as a team leader
Provided technical support for maintenance and operations personnel and troubleshooting of faults on mechanical equipment
Responsible for maintaining material envelopes statement liaising with maintenance folks to conduct reliability-based inspection (RBI) analyses
Conducted Process hazard analyses (PHA), Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) Facility Assessments, compliance audits and procedure development
Highly motivated, result oriented, great team player with good leadership skills having worked in culturally diverse teams in Malaysia, Nigeria and USA
Day to day Operations of the production and gas injection and gas lift wells and responsible for coaching and mentoring platform operators
Gas processing using TEG to achieve required dew point
Well testing and production optimization of oil and gas lift wells
Performed operator/production duties including, Surface and Subsurface valves testing to meet MMS regulatory requirement
Conducted USCG/ Self Inspection and maintenance of firefighting and life saving equipment to meet Coastguard/EHS and MMS/ DPR requirements
Prepared daily and monthly production reports using Computer automated Production System Software
Proficient use of process trending software for process monitoring and analysis
Supervised I & E testing of devices to achieve regulatory compliance
Monitored and reported NPDES and Effluent water sampling ensuring that discharge water effluents conforms to the regulatory limits
Worked as alternate safety leader ensuring operations are conducted in a safe and environmental sound manner
Worked with Chemical Vendors to pull corrosion coupons on wellheads and flow line and batch treat pipelines to reduce or prevent corrosion and handled other flow assurance issues.
UPSTREAM NIGERIA OPERATOR CARE / RELIABILITY LEAD
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
08.2019 - 09.2021
POBP management- Production Operations Best Practice - QIT-JVO
Operator Care Structured rounds management- Offshore & Deepwater
TTM - Machinery Surveillance Reliability
Company production performance, KPIs data management
Process Safety Advisor to Senior Management
Offshores operations management.
CRUDE MOVEMENT OPERATIONS TEAM LEAD
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
10.2016 - 07.2019
POBP co-ordination - Production Operations Best Practice - QIT-JVO
Terminal Operations Coordination
Loading and Motor Tanker loading / shipping coordination
Advisor to Site management on operability/ reliability monitoring and surveillance.
OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
09.2008 - 04.2014
Overseeing / Supervision of a team of 25 Engineering & Technical personnel responsible for the production of 165,000barrels/day of crude oil production in a safe and flawless manner
Enforces Management expectation by assisting workforce to better understand management expectation of their oversight responsibility
Ensure/ review invoice of supporting document, and ensure it aligns with details of maintenance work service/material orders and terms of contract
Ensures quality and quantity of service/ material receives agrees with purchase order
Reviews bid committee documentation/ensures and participate in negotiating rates and prices with vendors
Ensures production flawless operations and personnel comply with relevant laws and regulations
Provides functional guidance for developing root cause failure analysis for mechanical equipment
Coordinates and supervise provision of technical support for projects, well work-over and Front end engineering designs (FEED) and cost estimations
Supervises Risk assessment, management of change (MOC) development and follow-up and stewardship to completion
Proffer suggestions and ideas to upper management in mitigating internal controls, risks to safeguard company asset
Carry out Management facility inspection and timely report and planning for timely gap closures
Coordinating daily conference meeting on various asset performance indicators and productions preparations and reporting.
Process Operations Lead/ Co-coordinator
MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA UNLIMITED
02.2008 - 01.2009
Lead a team to formulate isolation, purge, start up and shutdown procedures (Seconded to BRT Train 2 commissioning and Start-up)
Performed actively in Risk Assessment and Management teams, PHA, HAZOP, HAZID reviews and incident investigations
Coordinated start up activities and processes for a new NGL/LPG processing plant including operability reviews
Performed successful one-time 30days facility operations Capacity testing flow assurance for 30days without a shut-down during BRT -Train 2 start-up.(LPG plant)
Supervised operations, electrical, instrument and mechanical technicians in the day to day plant operations and maintenance and made decisions which resulted in continuous process plant uptime
Provided Engineering support for process plant upgrades, equipment modifications and change out and stewarding of performance indicators
Commissioning and start up team member of OSO/NGL/BRT condensate platform ,NGL/LPG plant and utilities comprising of condensate production, stabilization, gas compression/ injection and NGL extraction from associated gas using rotoflow turbo expander and JT valve in a pseudo-parallel mode all with the distributed control system.(DCS)
Gathered, recorded, processed and optimized all operating production, injection and NGL/LPG extraction data, ensured efficient process operations, met and exceeded condensate, gas injection and NGL targets in a safe and efficient manner
Expertise with gas dehydration using glycol and molecular sieves, operated and maintained 3-phase separators, de-ethanizer columns, de-ethanizer columns and de-butanizer columns, gas fired heaters, nitrogen purge systems, firewater systems, heat exchangers, solar gas turbines, centrifugal compressors and pumps (including cryogenic multistage compressors and canned pumps)
Facilitated competency assurance programs and training for process plant operators on rotating and platform equipment to ensure equipment availability and reliability to meet asset team and corporate targets
Supervised contractors, Job planning and scheduling of maintenance jobs using risk based matrix, conducted and reviewed behavioral job safety analysis thus promoting SHE and Operations Integrity Management System (OIMS)
Reviewed well tests data for accuracy before transmission to reservoir engineering for simulation studies and producability calculations
Prepared plant and process vessel isolation procedures for maintenance and issued the applicable work permits as required
Skillful in process and equipment trouble shooting , surveillance and trending of equipment failure and pipeline pigging.
Process Engineer
MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA UNLIMITED
07.2004 - 12.2005
Worked with equipment vendors for timely and cost effective problem resolutions to meet project timeline
Reviewed Operations procedure writing, reviewed pre-commissioning activities, and verified Mechanical completions walkthrough, Turnover commissioning packages /acceptance walkthrough, Commissioning, Punch listing and categorizations to ensuring all deficiencies are identified are closed
Conducted Loop checks pre-commissioning activities in Fabrication yard on equipment, Instrument controls and SDV's
Worked with the reservoir management team (RMT) to match production with injection for efficient reservoir pressure maintenance
Performed Function Testing Procedures Walk through the Production platform equipment units with Exxon Mobil Development Company (EMDC) Mechanical/Instrument Inspectors on Discipline Mechanical completion commissioning/ Instrument checklist ensuring that As Built conforms to P&ID and quality control
Supervised sub-contractors during calibration of instruments and Valves to mitigate deficiencies and ensuring timely correction
Supervised sub-contractors during Critical devices Function Testing of Equipments/instruments control Loops and Platform commissioning and start up.
MPN Field Operator Representative
BURGEN DOLPHIN MOBILE PLATFORM RIG- SCHLUMBERGER (Operators)- MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA.LIMITED
08.1997 - 02.1998
Conducted conductivity and resistivity checks on logging and wire line tools
Worked with Field engineers to prepare tools for logging (porosity, resistivity, neutron and gamma rays), also prepared CST, TCP and Caliper tools
Tools set up and connection on the rig floor and driving of winch during actual logging.
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Petrochemical Engineering -
Rivers State University of Science and Technology
01.2002
Higher Diploma in Oil and Gas Engineering (Plant Operations) -
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
01.1997
Skills
Plant Commissioning
Controlled and emergency plant shutdown
Plant Start-up (cold / hot start) and Operations
Integrating EH&S into Business Management
Control room operations and logistics
Supervisory Management
Jobs shutdown coordination
Control and use of permit to work system
Competency Assurance Programs
Business Use of P & ID for operations and maintenance procedure writing
EH&S systems design and EMS implementation
Health and safety management per OSHA requirement
Design Safety, PSSR and Behavior Based Safety, HAZOP and HAZID
EHS Internal Auditing
Quality Assurance
Tank Management
Equipment reliability and Integrity Issues
Flow Assurance Issues
Treatment, Storage and Cargo Loading
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Internet
E-mail
World Wide Web
Operator Interface (DCS)
Wonder ware
Windows95, 98, 2000, NT & XP
Affiliations
Nigerian Society of Petroleum Engineers-Member
Nigerian Institution of Safety Engineers
Internationalexperience
Malaysia
Nigeria
Gulf Of Mexico - USA
Serviceawards
One year award for loyal service rendered by Mobil Producing Nigeria. August 1998.
Five years award for loyal service rendered by Mobil producing Nigeria. August 2002
Outstanding SHE performance Award by ExxonMobil for successful completion of LPG -BRT train 2 (over 2million Man-Hours) without an LTI- March 2007
Ten years award for loyal service rendered by Mobil producing Nigeria. August 2007
Fifteen years award for loyal service rendered by Mobil producing Nigeria. August 2012
Twenty years award for loyal service rendered by ExxonMobil Production Company 2017
Managing Directors Fire Emergency Response award, July, 2013.
Hobbies and Interests
Music
Traveling
Computing
Making Friends and Meeting People
Internet
Driving
Swimming
Training
API Approved Basic Production Surface and Subsurface Safety Devices (T-2) EXXONMOBIL
Helicopter Underwater Egress Training and Basic Survival Craft Operations- EXXONMOBIL
Triethylene Glycol Regenerative Gas Dehydration Course by GLY-TECH Services Inc-USA 2007
Emergency Evacuation Plans and Drills (OSHA, USCG, MMS), USA,- 2005
Offshore Safety Training-Consulting Safety Specialist, Thibodaux Louisiana USA June 7-12, 2004
Marine Fire Fighting (Basic/Advance) at Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service USA June 21-26,2004
OJT at Eugene Island Platform, Gulf of Mexico, USA June 28-July 9,2004
Yoho Platform Operations Training, Johor, Malaysia, July 28,2004-July 18, 2005
BRT Terminal periodic risk assessment using traditional HAZOP techniques, September 24-October 3,2004
Coaching and Counseling workshop by MAC-TAY TACK Consulting, July 29-August 2,2002
Workplace Assessor/ Competency Training BSZ 40198 Certification IV by East Gippsland Institute of TAFE Australia. May 18-21 2003 and August 10-12, 2004
Confined space Entry by MSTS ASIA SDN BHD Johor, Malaysia August 9/ September 27, 2004
Quote
There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
Timeline
Oil and Gas Field Operation Supervisor
ExxonMobil Production, Nigeria
06.2022 - Current
Oil and Gas Field Operation Supervisor
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
03.2022 - Current
UPSTREAM NIGERIA OPERATOR CARE / RELIABILITY LEAD
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
08.2019 - 09.2021
CRUDE MOVEMENT OPERATIONS TEAM LEAD
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
10.2016 - 07.2019
OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
09.2008 - 04.2014
Process Operations Lead/ Co-coordinator
MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA UNLIMITED
02.2008 - 01.2009
Process Engineer
MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA UNLIMITED
07.2004 - 12.2005
Subsea/Deep water Operations Engineer
EXXONMOBIL PRODUCTION COMPANY-NIGERIA PRODUCTION
01.2004 - Current
MPN Field Operator Representative
BURGEN DOLPHIN MOBILE PLATFORM RIG- SCHLUMBERGER (Operators)- MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA.LIMITED
08.1997 - 02.1998
Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Petrochemical Engineering -
Rivers State University of Science and Technology
Higher Diploma in Oil and Gas Engineering (Plant Operations) -
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
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