Allan Schultz, P.Eng

Experience

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  McDermott International Inc.

  Aug 1984 - Mar 1990

  Naval Architect & Pipeline Engineer

  Hudson Engineering (a J. Ray McDermott Company), Junior to Senior Naval Architect / Pipeline Engineer involved in engineering design and analysis in support of J. Ray McDermott's design, fabrication and installation activities, mostly related to their Gulf of Mexico operations. Major Projects included:J. Ray McDermott’s Articulated Barge Project (1986 to 1990), Houston, TX, Escondido, CA and Wageningen, The NetherlandsConceptual, FEED and Detail design/development analysis for an articulated, double barge system for transporting and launching offshore structures up to 2500 ft long.Assigned as J. Ray McDermott’s representative to supervise model testing to prove the concept during two testing programs: 1) At Arctic Model Test Basin in Escondido, CA using a scaled down model of a Bullwinkle-similar fixed jacket structure for seakeeping tests of the dual barge system and launching of the jacket from the articulated barge system (as related to ongoing bid engineering to prove the concept to Shell for their 1352ft W.D. Bullwinkle Jacket installation), and later; 2) Seakeeping and launch tests at the Marin Model Test Basin in Wageningen, The Netherlands for model testing of a prototype 2200ft compliant tower structure, with the participation of EPRCO (or Exxon Production and Research Co.), to further prove an articulated barge concept and correlate the software analyses (using MOSES) with the model tests.Conoco, “Joliet Field” Green Canyon Block 52 Project, US Gulf of MexicoActed as McDermott’s field engineer for loadout, securing and towage of the 52A (Marquette) and CPP Platform topside modules and jackets at Gulf Marine Fabricators at Ingleside, TX, USA. Texaco USA, Kilauea Project, US Gulf of MexicoConceptual, FEED and Detail design and analysis as well as field support engineering for Kilauea jacket loadout, transport and installation at Green Canyon Block 6A in 616 ft water depth. Show less

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  London Offshore Consultants, Inc.

  Mar 1990 - Mar 2001

  MWS & Marine Surveyor / Naval Architect

  Lead Naval Architect, Project Consultant, Field / Staff Surveyor and at times Marine Advisor / Superintendent attending on behalf of Proprietary O&G and Shipping interests as well as for their legal and insurance concerns on jobs / projects worldwide including but limited to:PEMEX Exploración y Producción, Cantarell Modernization and Redevelopment ProjectTampico, Tuxpan, Ciudad del Carmen, Bay of CampecheMarine Advisor, Field Manager for Marine Advisory and Warranty Services Contract with responsibility for MWS engineering review and field approval of 20+, 65m water depth jackets and deck structures. Approval, marine advice and/or field management was provided during fabrication, loadouts, transports from various fabrication facilities.ALNG LNG Plant (Train 1 Construction) Project (AMOCO/BP/BG/PETROTRIN/Bechtel)Point Fortin, Trinidad & TobagoCarried out cargo inspections/approvals in Houston for transport to and offload in Trinidad with subsequent engineering revisions and approvals of heavy lift installations.Chevron, Escravos Project, Offshore NigeriaMWS engineering review and onsite (Gulf Marine Fabricators, Ingleside, TX) installation approvals for jacket and topside module loadouts and securing. Bandera Engineering, October Gas & Zafco Warda Projects, Gulf of Suez, EqyptProject Engineer for Bandera to carry out marine and installation engineering as well as fabrication yard attendance (New Iberia, LA) for jacket and topside module inspection, loadouts, seafastening and sailaway.Saga Petroleum, Snorre TLP, Stavanger & Oslo, NorwayMarine warranty surveyor for review and approval of engineering and procedures for marine operations, hull fabrication and attended for load-outs, load-ins and joining of TLP hull corner node sections and joining pontoons. Also served on Saga's PMT to manage pipeline installation work. Show less

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  PETRONAS

  Mar 1990 - Dec 1990

  Pipeline Engineer

  Petronas Gas SDN. BHD, Miri Gas Export Terminal Project, Kuala Lumpur and Miri, MalaysiaPhase 1 (March to May 1990) – Geotechnical site inspection with testing of soils for subsequent conceptual pre-engineering for Initial Phase 1 offshore portions of marine terminal for proposed LPG plant marine terminal consisting of 8" O.D., 12km long, export pipeline along with PLEM and CALM to FEED. Phase 2 (Nov. to Dec. 1990) – Bid preparation work managing Petronas Gas team of juniors engineers which included preparation of invitation to bid for contractors and subsequent bid evaluations and responses. Show less

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  Independent Consultant carrying out marine structural, project manager and marine surveyor services

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Project Manager / Marine Structural Engineering / Marine Surveyor

  - Global Maritime Consultants, Inc., PM / Naval Arch. / Pipeline Eng. (Mar 2002 – May 2002); - Ultramarine Consultants, Inc., Field Consultant on Chiapas Bridge Project (Mar 2001 – Jun 2001); - Cairo Marine Services, Inc., Naval Arch. for Crane Vessel Stability Approval (Mar 2001 – May 2002);- Appointments by various P&I Club managers, correspondents and legal interests

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  Ultramarine, Inc.

  Mar 2001 - Jul 2001

  Marine Consultant

  Ultramarine Consultants, Inc., Field Consultant for design / installation sub-contractor (Ultramarine) to Mexican Contractor (ICA) to oversee the loadouts, transports and installations of the 3 largest steel jacket supports of the highway bridge over a Lake for the Chiapas Bridge Project (Mar 2001 – July 2001).

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  Braemar (Incorporating The Salvage Association)

  Sept 2002 - Nov 2004

  MWS & Marine Surveyor / Lead Naval Architect

  BMT Salvage Ltd., now known as Braemar (Incorporating The Salvage Association), Staff Surveyor & Lead Technical Consultant (as Naval Architect) carrying out marine / structural inspections & reviews as well as marine warranty surveyor services. Major project work consisted of:Petrolera Ameriven, HAMACA Project, Terminal de Almacenamiento y Embargue de Jóse (TAEJ)Jóse, VenezuelaDeputy Field and Technical Manager providing marine warranty services on offshore tanker South Island Dock construction project (including steel piled jackets with concrete prefab sections and set in-place concrete construction), transport of steel jackets, pipe joints, loading arms, etc. Pipeline engineer / warranty surveyor for loading, transport and securing of pipe joints from USA to Venezuela, review/approval of engineering for 20” and 36”export submarine pipelines (each 6 km long) from onshore beach manifold to the offshore TAEJ Terminal.Attended, advised and approved barge beach pull/tow to TEAJ Terminal installations along with offshore pipeline riser installations and subsea pipeline to riser tie-ins and subsequent subsea pipeline trenching. Show less

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  Independent Consultant for O&G and Ports & Marine clients

  Nov 2004 - Aug 2010

  Project Manager / Discipline Lead / Marine Structural Engineering

  Clients included:Shell International Exploration & Production (Houston), Arctic & Deepwater Projects (May 2013 to Present)London Offshore Consultants (Houston), (March 2012 to May 2013)Technip Consultant (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd, Lead for Topside Buildings (May 2008 – Sep 2008); BP (Trinidad & Tobago), Lead Structural Engineer (Jun 2007 – Apr 2008); SINCOR – Total, PDVSA & Statoil company, Sincrudos de Oriente, Offshore Project Lead Engineer (Sep 2006 – Jun 2007); Arup Energy, Lead Naval Architect & Marine Advisor (May 2006 – Sep 2006); Reliance Industries Ltd., Lead Structural Engineer (Feb 2006 – Apr 2006); Charles Taylor Consulting, Staff Adjuster & Marine/Pipeline Consultant (Aug 2005 – Feb 2006); Thompson Marine Shipping, Marine Superintendent (Nov 2004 – Feb 2005); Cairo Marine Services, Inc., Naval Architecture for Crane Vessel Stability Approvals (2004 – 2008);Also carried short-term appointments by various P&I Club managers, correspondents and legal interests including but not limited to RRVW, Phelps Dunbar, Eastham Watson, Thomas Miller (UK Club), Charles Taylor (West of England), Steamship Mutual, Skuld, American P&I, North of England Club, etc. Show less

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  Charles Taylor plc

  Feb 2005 - Feb 2006

  Claims Adjuster

  Charles Taylor Consulting plc, Houston, TX USAConsultant claims adjusting, field survey and marine consultancy for Gulf of Mexico platform / subsea pipeline for insurance claims for damage discovery & subsequent repairs related to hurricanes Lili, Isadore, Ivan and Rita. Also onshore claims handling and repair monitoring for building, shipyard equipment damage and builders risk and P&I claims for four shipyards in south Mississippi related to Hurricane Katrina claims.

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  Pegasus International

  Feb 2006 - May 2006

  PMT Structural & Marine Lead

  Pegasus International / Reliance Industries Limited, Krishna Godavari D6 Project, Subsea Pipeline / 100m W.D. CRP Platform, Kakinaka, India Structural / marine lead consultant (contracted by Universal Pegasus to work on Reliance’s Project Team) for review, engineering mentoring and technical quality assurance of the KG-D6 Project’s Connection-Riser-Platform 100m water depth and subsea pipeline /riser connections’ Front-End Engineering Design and subsea.

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  Arup

  May 2006 - Sept 2006

  Lead Naval Architect/ Civil Eng. & Marine Advisor

  Arup Energy / Bechtel / Brass LNG Stakeholders, Brass LNG Port Project, NigeriaConceptual design and installation engineering for caisson sections of an approximate one km long breakwater structure (to protect a LNG port offshore Nigeria). It consisted of individual concrete caissons each having a steel structural interior skeleton that would be lifted and/or floated and towed into place from the fabrication yard to the offshore site where each would be piled inplace on-bottom. Responsible for model test supervision of the concept in Wallingford, UK, to prove the design, installation methods and further develop the concept. Involved 2D wave testing against caisson structure for determination of maximum design wave loads as well as testing installation methods using a model of a typical derrick barge to suspend and lower a caisson through the waterplane the purpose of which was to empirically evaluate installation procedures using a spread-moored lifting barge in expected wave states over a range of Hs = 0.5m to 2.5m.Arup Energy / Clough Offshore, Maari Ace Well Head Platform, New ZealandLead Naval Architect on marine and structural detail design review of mobile, strand jack self-elevating steel platform for 102m water depth. Show less

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  PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.

  Sept 2006 - Jun 2007

  Marine Superintendent and Offshore Lead Engineer

  PDVSA's SINCOR Export Terminal Expansion Project (with Statoil and Total partners), Marine Superintendent and Offshore Lead Engineer for offshore installations during conceptual development and pre-engineering for preparation of bid solicitations to engineering contractors for basic engineering of a proposed new marine terminal for crude oil export. The concept pre-engineering dealt with onshore facilities as well (power/pump station, pipe routing from tank farm to beach, etc.) and offshore facilities (offshore site evaluations, landfall and constructability assessment, monobuoy-type selection, preliminary pipeline sizing, pipeline route evaluation, Class 5 to 4 cost estimating for project concept phase). Show less

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  BP

  Jun 2007 - Apr 2008

  Lead Structural Engineer

  Lead Structural Engineer for BP Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. on BP’s Major Offshore Projects Trinidad-based team handling all structural issues in regard to all EPIC review and approval activities for all BP platforms offshore Trinidad. Scope of work included design, build, installation, hookup and commissioning for the Savonette Platform and Pipelines, along with dealing with structural and pipeline issues for brown field platforms: Mango, Cashima, Mahogany B, Amherstia A.

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  Technip

  May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Structural Project Engineer Lead

  Technip Consultant Malaysia, GUMUSUT-KAKAP FPS Project, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaStructural Project Engineer Lead over team for topsides buildings’ detail design of a semi-submersible Floating Production System. Topsides modules consisted of East, West, North and Process Modules including living quarters, power generation, flash compressor, TEG regeneration and HP1 and HP2 compressor modules.

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  Ausenco

  Nov 2008 - Aug 2010

  Project Manager & Discipline Lead in Ports, Marine & Offshore Division

  Project Manager and Marine Engineering Discipline Lead on various Ports, Marine & Offshore projects, primarily in Colombia and South Africa. major projects include:- Carbones del Cerrejón, P-40 Expansion Project, Puerto Bolivar, ColombiaMarine Civil Structural Discipline Lead over Vancouver-based team to carry out concept to detail engineering for upgrade of port loading facilities and material handling equipment to a 40 Mtpa coal export project. Was responsible for detail design and bid specification to construction contractors for an approximately 600m long rock-filled rubble-mound type causeway to support a conveyor system to transport coal to dual quadrant shiploaders to load cape size ships at a new Berth No. 2. Company onsite representative to select appropriate soil boring sites for soil testing.- VALE Mozambique Ltd., Beira Temporary Coal Loading Terminal Project (2009)Port of Beira, MozambiqueFeasibility study to determine the reusability of existing Beira Port structures and equipment including berth facilities, conveyors, stackers, train car unloaders, shiploader, railways as described below:1. Visual inspection and the Quay No. 8 topside and underside of structure;2. CAPEX estimates for various rehabilitation and renewal strategies for Quay and material handling ship loader and conveyor systems;3. Assistance in building the structural model for the existing Quay structure, then reviewing and commenting on subsequent structural analyses.- Savia Peru, San Felipe Platform Project, Offshore PeruMarine installation advice for marine and structural design, fabrication and installation for one and two piece 142m (465 ft) water depth platform jacket structures for offshore Peru. Show less

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  Technip

  Jan 2011 - Jun 2011

  PRQ Jacket Delivery Manager & Marine Advisor

  PDVSA - Mariscal Sucre Dragon-Patao Subsea Development Project, Houston TX (USA), Caracas, Cumana & Puerto Ordaz, VenezuelaActing in dual roles as PMT Jacket Delivery Manager for PRQ platform jacket structure for the Mariscal Sucre Dragon-Patao subsea development offshore eastern Venezuela as well as Marine Lead over marine constructability engineering and operations for Dragon-Patao Topsides, Jacket, Piles and Subsea structures on PMT in Houston, USA and Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. Based in Houston to assist on concept and detail design as related to both the Jacket and Topsides structures, assisting in the review and writing of contracts for fabrication and T&I contractors with PDVSA. Primarily responsible for having developed a workable concept to loadout and transport the Jacket, Piles and miscellaneous platform components and identifying risks for the loadouts from the Venezuelan fabrication yard on the Orinoco River to transport to the offshore installation site. As Marine T&I Lead I identified and advised on solutions to risks that could affect the Jacket and Topside marine, hookup and commissioning operations from the Venezuelan fabrication site and from the Sardinia, Italy, respectively, as well as those involved in material transports from New Iberia, LA, USA and European ports to the offshore site. Show less

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  London Offshore Consultants, Inc.

  Apr 2012 - Oct 2012

  Naval Architect & Marine Warranty Services Surveyor

  Field attendance and document review for comment / approval of project design engineering and procedures as related to marine warranty surveyor services primarily on Chevron Jack St. Malo, Shell Mari-B West Delta 143, Noble Energy Mediterranean Tamar Development and Noble Energy Equatorial Guinea Alen Projects (April 2012 to October 2012).

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  Shell International Exploration & Production

  May 2013 - Dec 2015

  Naval Architect & Mooring / Station Keeping Consultant / Project Marine Lead

  Contracted through NES Global to Shell International Exploration & Production, on Deepwater & Arctic Projects in Shell's P&T Civil Marine for marine assurance on Arctic (Alaskan) Drilling Projects including mooring equipment repair and upgrade work for the Kulluk (post-grounding work in 2013 to 2014 at Keppel FELS in Singapore), Noble Discoverer and Polar Pioneer Projects (for Chukchi Sea 2015 drilling campaign) from May 2012 to Present, Marine Lead on ACS Project (Arctic Containment System) from October 2013 to Present. Also, from July 2014 to Present, serving as a BTM (Buoy Turret Moored) Loadout Engineer and MWS Coordinator on the Stones FPSO Buoy Turret Mooring and as a Marine Advisor for Stones PFR (Pipelines, Flowlines & Risers) Project. Show less

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  Addx Corporation

  Jul 2016 - now

  Lead QA Marine Surveyor

  Lead QA Inspector supporting United States Coast Guard (USCG) on their site team at Vigor Marine, Harbor Island, Seattle, WA. Vigor Marine was awarded a contract by the USCG to perform the Structural Enhancement Drydocking Availabilities for the USCGC BERTHOLF (NSC 1) and USCGC WAESCHE (NSC 2). Lead QA Surveyor on 3 man team to oversee / monitor planned works by Vigor Marine to support the ships’ structure in the drydock during each of the Structural Enhancements Repair Execution Phases (REPs) in order to ensure that the structural integrity and alignment of the hull and propulsion shafting is maintained and that the final structural configuration is within contract specification limits. Show less

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  CDM Smith Inc.

  Feb 2019 - now

  Disaster Assistance Engineer and 406 Mitigation Specialist

  Disaster Assistance Engineer / 406 Mitigation Specialist at CDM Smith Inc. / FEMA involved in post-Hurricane Michael recovery.

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  Waves Group Ltd

  May 2021 - now

  Naval Architect & Marine Engineer / Civil-Structural Engineer