Frederick Manuel, PE, PMP

Experience

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  Chevron Corporation

  Jan 1980 - Jan 1991

  Well design, drilling, and workovers on offshore and land wells, with emphasis on subsea. Geothermal plant and wellfield operations engineer at the 9-MW Desert Peak Geothermal Power Plant. Production engineer for west flank of Bay Marchand, a 400+ well field offshore Louisiana. Engineering and supervision for drilling, completion, and workover for land and offshore drilling rigs. On-location rig supervision ("Company Man"), land and offshore Gulf of Mexico.

  • Offshore Engineer (Oil and Gas)

    Jan 1990 - Jan 1991

  • Operations Engineer (Geothermal)

    Jan 1987 - Jan 1990

  • Production Engineer (Oil and Gas)

    Jan 1985 - Jan 1987

  • Drilling Engineer (Oil and Gas)

    Jan 1981 - Jan 1985

  • Drilling Representative (Oil and Gas)

    Jan 1980 - Jan 1981
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  CalEnergy Company, Inc.

  Nov 1991 - May 1999

  Lived in Jakarta, Indonesia. Led geothermal construction and operation efforts in Indonesia, including resource exploration and development, resource engineering, well drilling, construction, environmental and regulatory permitting, and safety. Indonesian projects: Dieng, Patuha, and Bali (400-MW concessions each). Managed construction, start-up, and operation of the 60-MW Dieng Unit I. Also managed O&M in the Philippines [Upper Mahiao (125-MW binary), Mahanagdong (180-MW), and Malitbog (210-MW)]. Show less

  • VP & COO, Asia and VP, Indonesia

    Feb 1997 - May 1999

  • VP, US Geothermal Operations

    Jul 1995 - Feb 1997

  • VP and General Manager, Imperial Valley (Geothermal)

    Feb 1995 - Jul 1995

  • General Manager, Coso (Geothermal)

    Apr 1993 - Feb 1995

  • Manager of Operations, Coso (Geothermal)

    Nov 1991 - Apr 1993
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  Calpine Corporation

  May 1999 - May 2006

  Managed Calpine's centralized plant support groups. With approximately 300 employees, supported ~90 gas-fired plants (~30,000 MW). Managed: Safety, Health and Environmental (SH&E), Commissioning, Turbine Maintenance Group, Predictive Maintenance, CMMS, Inventory and Supply Management, LTSA Contracts, business processes and analysis, plant optimization, reliability compliance, and best practices. Managed, including P&L and O&M Calpine's natural gas-fired power plant portfolio. Overall management responsibilities included plant support functions (as described above), with the exception of SH&E. Ten direct reports. Gas Operations had approximately 2500 employees by the end of 2002. Consolidated the newly acquired Geysers geothermal projects to create the organizational structure to support the expanded portfolio of 19 turbine-generator units with approximately 880-MW of total capacity. P&L, O&M, engineering, geology/resource engineering, power sales, and SH&E. Eight direct reports and approximately 300 indirect reports.

  • Senior Vice President - Operations, SH&E

    Nov 2002 - May 2006

  • Senior Vice President - Gas Operations

    Aug 2000 - Nov 2002

  • Senior Vice President - Geothermal

    May 1999 - Aug 2000
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  Manuel Energy Incorporated

  Jan 2007 - Mar 2008

  Founder and Principal

  Consulting services to power industry clients. Focus on Kuwait; 8 months spent in country.

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  Advanced Power Projects, Inc.

  Mar 2008 - Nov 2009

  Senior Vice President, Engineering

  Managed engineering for simplified combined cycle (SCC) gas turbine steam injection technology. These activities included development of gas turbine components and balance of plant systems as well as gas turbine and power plant performance modeling.

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  Advanced Power Projects, LLC

  Jan 2010 - Sept 2010

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

  Gas turbine, solar, geothermal, solar-geothermal hybrid engineering.

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  Gradient Resources Inc.

  Sept 2010 - Aug 2015

  Sr. Vice President, Engineering and Construction

  EPC contract negotiation and management, engineering, construction, drilling, testing and evaluation of wells, operation and optimization of the 30 net MW Patua geothermal power plant and wellfield, located in Northern Nevada.

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  Manuel Weyman Group, Inc.

  Sept 2016 - now

  Chief Executive Officer, Co-owner

  Manuel Weyman Group, Inc. provides technical support and project management services to the electric power generation industry, with a focus on renewable power. The company is based in Reno, Nevada, USA, and is a registered Nevada corporation. The company is co-owned by Fred Manuel and Roland Weyman.