Oil, Gas and Chemical Committee

Vision Statement

To be the centre of excellence for oil, gas and chemical industries engineering.

Mission Statement

To deliver a programme of value adding, interesting and innovative products and services which significantly increases interest from the IMechE membership and the industry in general, in the oil, gas and chemical community.

The themes that we aim to address are:

Public image
Human resources
Knowledge sharing with other engineering groups and bodies
Operations technology

Committee

Mr Andy Teague, Chairman
Project Director, SABIC UK Petrochemicals
I am a Mechanical Engineer with over 20 year experience in most sectors of the heavy end of the chemical industry. After completing a degree in Mechanical Engineering I started work with ICI in 1981. I have worked in a number of roles in manufacturing, design and projects in the Fertiliser, Halochemicals and Nylon and Polyester sectors of the chemical industry. I am currently a Project Director for Huntsman Petrochemicals (UK) Ltd working on the development of a new Polyethylene Business including the construction of the world's largest low density polyethylene plant. I qualified as a Chartered Engineer through the MPDS scheme in 1985. Mechanical engineering is essential to the oil, gas and chemical industry so I was very pleased when the IMechE set up a Technical Committee devoted to this area of industry. I am looking forward to helping the Committee achieve its goals.

Mr Tim Adisa, Bechtel Ltd

Dr David Allen, Manager, Frontier Maintenance Solutions

Mr John Armstrong MIMechE, Maintenance Manager, Enfield Power Station, E.ON UK Generation
John is a graduate from Birmingham University with a MEng in mechanical engineering and gained chartered status in September 2007. John started in the oil, gas and chemical’s industry working for MW Kellogg on Statoil’s KEP 2005 project near Haugesund in Norway. John undertook roles both in the design office and in the field. These included commissioning new plant equipment across the Karsto refining facility and learning to snowboard. Upon return to the UK John moved on to work in a variety of roles for E.ON UK, initially across E.ON’s CHP fleet and subsequently in the corporate centre. Currently John is engineering manager for Enfield Power Station a 408MW GT26B gas fired power station situated next to the Epping Forest.

Mr Bob Baley, Mechanical Section Head, KPC

Mr Calum Hughes
Calum is a mechanical engineer with 15 years or so in upstream oil and gas who has cross-trained as a lawyer.  He currently spends most of his time working within the carbon capture and storage industry. At the start of his career he served his apprenticeship with Rolls Royce Gas Turbines and went on through the HND route to do a BEng in Mechanical Engineering whilst working for Jaguar Cars.  He then went into the oilfield as an engineer with Schlumberger for whom he went on to manage upstream EPC projects. After this he spent a number of years as a consultant project manager on oil and gas EPC projects before cross-training as a solicitor specialising in energy law.
He is currently part of a consultancy providing services to the energy and carbon capture and storage industries.

Eur Ing Don Barber, Enmat International (acronym of energy matters )

Paul Fidlin, Senior Maintenance Engineer, Totals Lindsey Oil Refinery
Paul has been working in industry for 23 years now, having started out as a craft apprentice at 16 years of age.  He studied for a BSc through the open university and later did his MBA through Sheffield Hallam University.  He has worked in chemicals, food and now oil and gas and is curently a Senior Maintenance Engineer at Totals Lindsey Oil Refinery.

Paul Benson, Lead Mechanical Engineer, Jamnagar Export Refinery Project, Bechtel Oil Gas and Chemicals

Mr Malcolm Corry, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited
Malcolm Corry has nearly 40 years experience in the Oil and Gas industry in all phases of project execution including FEED, detail design, procurement and construction. Malcolm has worked both with major client and contractor organisations and has extensive overseas experience. Malcolm has delivered 5 joint venture projects (Rosetta in Egypt, Rhourde el Baguel in Algeria, Java Sea Gas Conservation in Indonesia, Thames and Claymore in North Sea). Since 2004, Malcolm has been a Senior Project Manager with Foster Wheeler Energy based in Reading, UK and has worked on two Oil and Gas FEED projects in the middle east and an LNG FEED in Nigeria.

Robin Luxmoore, SABIC UK, Petrochemicals Inspection Manager (Systems)
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham in 1967 and then completed a Graduate Apprenticeship at Ruston & Hornsby in Lincoln. A year as a postgraduate at Bath University was followed by a spell with The Nuclear Power Group and then as a Field Inspector with Qualitest Engineering Services. Then spent fifteen years working in the nuclear industry on the development of remote handling equipment; first with BNFL at Sellafield and then with Remote Marine Systems Ltd based in West Cumbria. Then moved to Teesside to work for Tioxide and then freelance in the pressure equipment field.Have been in my current job for just over three years working as part of a UKAS Accredited in-house inspection team of over forty personnel providing services to a major company in the petrochemicals processing filed. Responsibilities include the management of all the records and the systems necessary to provide a reliable service and to maintain the team’s accredited status.

Steve McKenny, Asset Integrity Manager, Centrica Storage Ltd

Steve is the Asset Integrity Managerfor Centrica Storage Ltd with responsibility for the Inegrity Management of Centrica's gas storage assets in the UK. Steve has a BEng and MSc in Mechanical Engineering with 9 years of experience in upstream integrity engineering and management. He began is career with Penspen Ltd as a pipeline integrity engineer working on various integrity projects both in the North Sea and globally, specialising in subsea inspection and pigging before moving to join Chevron as an inegrity management engineer primarily supporting Chevron Nigeria's operations.

Dr K McQuillan, Sabic UK, Petrochemicals Ltd

Mr John Phillips, Global Manager, Large ASU Machinery Engineering
Air Products PLC
John is the global manager of the Air Products Large Air Separation Unit Machinery Engineering department and is based at Walton-on-Thames. He is responsible for a team of professional engineers who provide engineering services to the project teams responsible for the design of air separation plants. These services include the specification, selection, detailed design and testing of fluid machinery, the design of cooling water systems and the acoustic design of the plant. John started his career as an indentured five year student apprentice with Rolls-Royce, Bristol Engine Division in 1969. He graduated from Bath University in 1974 and joined the Development Test department where he was involved in sea level and high altitude testing of the RB199 engine for the Tornado multi role combat aircraft. John is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and has been associated with the Oil Gas and Petrochemical committee since 1988. He was a membership panel interviewer between 1990 and 1999 and is a registered MPDS mentor.

Mr Paul Raithby, AIMechE Mechanical Reliability Engineer, Millennium Chemicals - A Lyondell Co
Paul is a graduate from Hull University with a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and a further MBA in Industrial Management from Sheffield Hallam University and is working towards chartered Status. Paul began his engineering career as an apprentice mechanical tradesman and completed his studies part time after completing his apprenticeship and working as a tradesman. Paul has enjoyed a career in Reliability within the Titanium Dioxide industry with Millennium Inorganic Chemicals – A Cristal Company, working on a variety of improvement projects at the top tier COMAH site in Stallingborough UK.

Mr Steve Rowe, Technical Policy Adviser, Ofgem

Mr Raj Shergill, Project Manager, Clyde Bergermann Materials Handling Ltd
Raj graduated from Loughborough University with a BEng(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering with a further Diploma in Industries Studies (DIS). He has recently achieved Chartered Status within the IMechE and wishes to continue his Professional Development and play a part within this committee. He has worked at the Power Technology Centre, Ratcliffe Power Station for my Sandwich Placement. Since graduating Paul has continued his career in the Power Industry and worked as a Project Engineer in the Systems Division of Greenbank. He has been involved in R&D and helped with measurements and optimisation of coal fired boilers. He progressed on to a Project Manager for Greenbank Materials Handling, and has recently joined Clyde Bergermann as a Project Manager. Clyde Bergermann has a long history of success in supplying bulk materials handling systems to the Global Power Industry.

Mr Andrew Taylor, Consultant

Mr John C Ward, Consultant

Mr Edward York, Project Manager, Hanover (GB) Ltd
I have now been working in the Oil and Gas industry for 17 years, starting as a design engineer, moving on to technical sales, then project engineering and now finally project management. I graduated in Aerospace Engineering in 1992, that July I started work with what became Kvaerner Process Systems Ltd, where I learnt the basis of my career in oil and gas process package design. This also involved inspection both onshore and offshore. I worked my way into Application Engineering (technical sales) within the company. I am now very pleased to be working for Exterran (UK) Ltd in Aldridge, West Midlands as a Project Manager. Exterran is a $3.5 billion company whose main activity is in the rental and operation of reciprocating compressors over Continental America, however, the company also offers wellhead to pipeline design solutions Worldwide within the oil and gas industry. Brazil & Water treatment packages for Buzzard Project in UK sector. Exterran is rapidly becoming a small EPC supplier of turn-key packages around the Globe, with work in Gabon and Thailand.

Richard King CEng MIMechE
Richard is a Principal Systems Engineer for Vetco Gray Controls, based at Nailsea near Bristol. He is responsible for coordinating Controls System design across VG centres of excellence for major tenders and projects. During the last 10 years, Richard has held a number of positions with Vetco Gray which include Project Manager, Product Development Manager and Tender Management. Previously, Richard has worked in the Offshore Oil and Gas industry for nearly forty years in engineering roles for both oil majors and major contractors such as ENI, British Gas and Cameron Iron Works. Richard began his engineering career as a student apprentice with a division of Pegler Hattersley which subsequently became part of Rockwell International and McEvoy Oilfield Equipment. He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.