Hamish Button

Experience

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  Atlantic Drilling Company

  Jan 1990 - Sept 1992

  Naval Architect

  (Atlantic Drilling was a Benline Shipping company) Semisubmersible mooring and stability analysis. Structural analysis for semi-sub and jackup rig enhancement. Drilling riser analysis and definition of operational limit states.

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  GL Noble Denton

  Sept 1992 - Sept 1993

  Naval Architect

  Mooring design North Sea semisubs. Stability manuals semisubs. Pipeline bundle design verification.

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  Technip

  Sept 1993 - Oct 2006

  Burullus (BG) London, Cairo and Alexandria EgyptSimian-Sapphire Project Simian, Sienna and Sapphire gas production fields reside in 1400m WD offshore Egypt south of the Nile Delta. Field facilities included 37 christmas trees, 2 export line manifolds, 4 in-field pipeline manifolds, 2 chemical injection and control manifolds, 36 sliding and tilting PLETs, rigid jumpers, 400km of 4in, 10in, 20in and 26in pipelines, trenching, shore approach cofferdam and a controls platform jacket and topsides. Responsible for managing all subsea infrastructure, platform and shore approach facilities design, system design, technical safety: pipelines and subsea structures out of London and controls platform out of Cairo and construction support in Alexandria. Circa 200k engineering manhours. Show less

  • Engineering Manager Simian-Sapphire Project

    May 2002 - Oct 2006

  • Engineering Manager NaKika Project

    Sept 2000 - May 2002

  • Engineering Project Manager

    Jan 1999 - Sept 2000

  • FPSO Turret and Mooring Manager

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Sept 1993 - Jan 1997
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  Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants

  Oct 2006 - Jan 2013

  Responsible for the development of a pipeline instrumentation and inspection robot pigging company. Acquisition of the technology; development of the product; operational testing and establishment of the supporting service business. BG Miskar Project London and TunisiaMiskar Sour Gas production platform upgrade: 2 subsea tieback wells; 4 dry tree wells and a replacement of coalescers and glycol reboilers; through to mechanical completion, pre-commissioning and hand over to operations. Overall responsible for the design and project management of this brown field gas platform upgrade and its in-country construction with a 60-man offshore team.

  • Director Pipeline Intervention and Robotics

    Jul 2009 - Jan 2013

  • Project Manager Miskar Project

    Oct 2006 - Jul 2009
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  Technip

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2017

  Chief Technology Officer

  Regional Executive UK, Norway and Canada Responsible for the identification and development of technologies to support projects; networking with Group technology officers and directing Group R&D departments on delivery of Sponsored Technologies; providing technical direction and resolution of technical challenges for the Company. Sponsorship of pipeline fabrication facilities and welding partnership with Serimax. Reference technologies: Welding, Mechanically Lined Pipe, Flexible pipe CoflonXD, Logstor Coatings, HFI Pipe, 3D Visualisation and Geospacial Information Systems. Show less

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  TechnipFMC

  Jan 2017 - Apr 2022

  EPCI Director Edvard Grieg Tiebacks Solveig and Rolvsnes Project

  Lundin Norway Edvard Grieg Tiebacks Solveig and Rolvsnes Project Oil and Gas Facilities Subsea Development 6 wells: XTs, well-heads, satellite structures, pipelines, umbilicals, control system, well completion tooling and services. Overall responsible for the EPCI project from FEED, Tender and Project execution. Management of the integrated SURF and SPS Contract, with international engineering, procurement, manufacture, fabrication and installation through to incentivised completion including operational services. This international project is nearing successful completion following a tremendously busy and challenging year complicated by COVID. Show less

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  Ocean Installer

  Apr 2022 - now

  • Director International Projects

    May 2023 - now

  • Project Director

    Apr 2022 - Jun 2023