Engr. Michael Ake

Experience

• 

  SGS Inspection Services Nigeria Limited

  Dec 2006 - Mar 2014

  Responsible for the Supervision of all existing measurement & instrumentation projects for major clients in the oil & gas industry, and managing SGS measurement and instrumentation division and reporting to the Operations Coordinator. Other responsibilities include but not limited to the following:• Supervising of all instrument calibration services to clients, and monitoring prompt response and delivery period/turn around for every calibration service, and supervision of calibration engineers and technicians, while also giving technical support to the operations coordinator.• Preparation of tenders/Bid Proposals on instrumentation, oil & gas metering related projects, instrument calibration and certification, meter proving & meter linearity checks, auditing of oil & gas metering facilities.• Supervision of metering and instrumentation projects within the department, and provision of technical support ongeneral metering and Process instrumentation to the team of field calibration Engineers in client offshoreLocations/platforms. Also led team of metering engineers to field for prover loop (pipe prover) calibration, Master meter proving, meter linearity checks and fiscal instrument calibration such as chart recorder, Pressure and Temperature transmitters’ calibration and inspection orifice plate and fitting. Show less In this position my responsibility included but not limited to the following:• Instrument calibration and certification, meter proving & meter linearity checks, auditing of oil & gas metering facilities.• Coordinating of metering and instrumentation projects within the department, and provision of technical support on general metering and Process instrumentation to the team of field Engineers in SPDC Soku LSGP, other offshore locations/platforms.• Calibration/maintenance of all GE related products {Panametrics, Druck, Pressurements, and Solatron densitometers} for numerous clients like SHELL, NLNG, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, etc. Calibration of Automatic Samplers by water injection method for CHEVRON Nigeria limited.Pipe Prover (Prover loop) Calibrations - Master meter method using water, Master meter method using crude, Water draw method.Flow Meters- Vs master meter, Vs master Prover loop, Vs standard test measure, Vs compact Prover.Tank Calibrations - Horizontal & vertical, road tanker calibrations, Using Optical strapping, Internal Floor (Bottom) survey Water fill and dip verification, Manual Strapping and Metering methods.Instrument Calibrations - Pressure gauges, inspection of orifice plate and fitting, Temperature gauges, Pressure transmitters, Temperature transmitters, Differential pressure transmitters, Automatic sampler, Chart recorder. Show less In this position i did the following jobs;• Master meter proving for Chevron, NPDC AND PAN OCEAN, NIGER DELTA PETROLEUM RESOURCES (NDPR) AND TOTAL E & P in the various locations.• Pipe Prover (Prover loop) Calibrations - Master meter method using water, Master meter method using crude, Water draw method.Flow Meters- Vs master meter, Vs master Prover loop, Vs standard test measure, Vs compact Prover.Tank Calibrations - Horizontal & vertical, road tanker calibrations, Using Optical strapping, Internal Floor (Bottom) survey Water fill and dip verification, Manual Strapping and Metering methods.Instrument Calibrations - Pressure gauges, inspection of orifice plate and fitting, Temperature gauges, Pressure transmitters, Temperature transmitters, Differential pressure transmitters, Automatic sampler, Chart recorder. Show less

  • Senior Supervisor(metering and Instrumentation)

    Mar 2009 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Metering Engineer

    Sept 2007 - Feb 2009

  • Freelance Metering Engineer

    Dec 2006 - Aug 2007
• 

  Petrofac Emirates LLC

  Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

  Metering Engineer

  Responsible for all metering activity and supervise the metering technicians and report to project manager. Currently managing the Central metering and manifold platform in IRAQ CRUDE EXPORT EXPANSION PROJECT OFFSHORE, IRAQ for south oil company. Operating the Emerson floboss S600 in exporting Iraq crude oil Through four metering skid pumping through four SBM to various vessels for south oil company in Iraq, producing the batch reports, proving of the ultrasonic meters on the skid through the flow computer and carrying out meter linearity checks on the meters with the plots. Show less

• 

  SGS INSPECTION SERVICES NIGERIA LIMITED

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2018

  Current role is responsible for business development and coordinating all existing measurement & instrumentation projects for major clients in the oil & gas industry, and managing SGS measurement and instrumentation division and reporting directly to the Operations Manager.Other responsibilities include but not limited to the following:• Coordination of all instrument calibration services to clients, and monitoring prompt response and delivery period/turn around for every calibration service, and distribution of jobs to all engineers and technicians, while also giving technical support to the Marketing /Business development manager.• Preparation of tenders/Bid Proposals on instrumentation, oil & gas metering related projects, instrument calibration and certification, meter proving & meter linearity checks.• Coordinating of metering and instrumentation projects within the department, and provision of technical support ongeneral metering and Process instrumentation to the team of field calibration engineers in client offshoreLocations/platforms. Show less Responsible for the Supervision of all existing measurement & instrumentation projects for major clients in the oil & gas industry, and managing SGS measurement and instrumentation division and reporting to the Operations Coordinator. Other responsibilities include but not limited to the following:• Supervising of all instrument calibration services to clients, and monitoring prompt response and delivery period/turn around for every calibration service, and supervision of calibration engineers and technicians, while also giving technical support to the operations coordinator.• Preparation of tenders/Bid Proposals on instrumentation, oil & gas metering related projects, instrument calibration and certification, meter proving & meter linearity checks, auditing of oil & gas metering facilities.• Supervision of metering and instrumentation projects within the department, and provision of technical support ongeneral metering and Process instrumentation to the team of field calibration Engineers in client offshoreLocations/platforms. Also led team of metering engineers to field for prover loop (pipe prover) calibration, Master meter proving, meter linearity checks and fiscal instrument calibration such as chart recorder, Pressure and Temperature transmitters’ calibration and inspection orifice plate and fitting. Show less

  • Operations Coordinator

    Jun 2015 - Jul 2018

  • Senior Supervisor(Metering and Instrumentation)

    Jul 2014 - May 2015
• 

  Dnalemic International Limited

  Jul 2018 - now

  CEO/MD

  Metering and Instrumentation Services.