George Ormerod

Experience

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  Parsons

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1993

  Graduate Engineer

  Worked on numerous onshore gas plant projects working as both a process and safety engineer.

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  J P Kenny

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1996

  Senior Engineer

  Britannia Operator Ltd: Britannia Field Development - Export Pipelines. Safety Engineer responsible for undertaking safety analysis and providing safety support comprising of: Dropped object risk analysis; study to optimise SSIV layout; Pipeline safety assessment; assisting in review of reliability based design methodology.BP/Wood Group: BP/Wood Group ‘Asset Engineering Alliance’. Responsible for safety engineering support on a number of BP Magnus and BP Clyde Platform upgrade projects. Show less

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  M W Kellogg Limited

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1997

  Senior Engineer

  McDermott Marine Construction Ltd: Seconded to MMCL to assist in the design competitions for the Shell Shearwater and Elf Elgin fields. Shell Petroleum Development Company. Offshore Gas Gathering System (Nigeria) – FEED. Safety re-evaluation of the onshore facilities to account for the new slug catcher design and revised fire protection scheme.Razi Ammonia Plant Upgrade: Chairman for HAZOP of Razi Ammonia Plant upgrade vendor packages. Belgium Refining Corporation: Antwerp Refinery C/V/V upgrade project. Project safety engineer for basic engineering phase. Responsible preparation of project safety plan and conduct of in-house HAZOP. Also provided assistance as a process systems engineer for P&ID development, valve sizing, hydraulic analysis. Show less

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  McDermott International Inc.

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  Senior Safety Engineer

  Worked on the Elgin field PUQ (Process, utilities and living quarters) platform design from FEED to construction. Responsible for risk and reliability analysis to support the installation design and safety case, including providing significant input to the installation design, operations and combined operations safety cases

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  Asset Performance Management Ltd

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2003

  Principal Consultant

  Seconded to KPDC: Agip KCO - Kashagan East Field Development. Responsible for the Pipelines Quantitative Risk Analysis, updating of the Pipelines safety deliverables and assistance with the Onshore Plant QRA, including event tree analysis, consequence analysis, reporting, assessing risk reduction measures.Tubelines Consortium. Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly (JNP) PPP bid. Extensive availability modelling of the JNP tube lines to support the Confirmed Financial Offer.Dutch Zuid High Speed Line. Zuid Rail Group bid for construction and infrastructure operation of Dutch HSL. Responsible for the RAM analysis of track, signalling, mechanical/electrical and external events to provide input to the BAFO performance model. Provided input to the major hazard, risk assessment and compliance section of the Development and Availability Safety Cases.Tubelines Consortium/Surface Lines Consortium. Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly (JNP) PPP bid. Responsible for the data analysis and availability modelling of rolling stock.Network rail. Developing the maintenance and renewals cost model for the Network Rail bid to take Railtrack out of administration. Show less

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  KBR / Granherne

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2000

  Principal Safety Engineer

  OMV (Pakistan) Exploration Gmbh. Sawan Gas Field Development. Project Safety Engineer. Responsible for: Development of the project health, safety and environmental philosophy; flare and vent stack radiation and dispersion calculations; production of hazardous area classification drawings; undertaking the development HAZID.Amerada Hess A/S. South Arne Sulphate Removal Package - Project Safety Engineer responsible for: The production of safety layout and hazardous area drawings; reviewing and updating safety studies; coordinating safety actions system; addressing ad-hoc safety issues.BHP Ltd. Liverpool Bay Development. Responsible for undertaking an assessment of the risk of pollution from the Lennox installation. This involved using QRA techniques (event trees) to estimate the size of likely oil releases and their corresponding frequencies. Show less

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  Agip KCO

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  QRA Engineer

  Kashagan East Field Development. Responsible for: Supervising contractor QRA analyses (onshore, offshore and pipelines), Explosion Overpressure analysis and other safety studies; providing support for the regulatory submissions, addressing ad-hoc issues and reviewing contractor documentation and reports.

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  Costain Oil, Gas & Process Ltd

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Principal Engineer

  Costain - Petrofac: Centrica HRL Morecambe Bay Asset - engineering, construction and project support. CPL’s safety engineer responsible for planning and undertaking the technical safety engineering aspects of the upgrade projects on the assets, including: Developing HSE plans and philosophies; hazard identification and HAZOP; managing third party contractors for QRA and explosion analysis; managing project impact on safety critical elements, performance standards and verification scheme and the assets safety case/COMAH report. Show less

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  Risktec Solutions Ltd

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2011

  Principal Engineer

  Whilst at Risktec I’ve been responsible for a range of complex QRA models of onshore plants, offshore facilities and pipelines, including major sour facilities (such as Kashagan in the North Caspian Sea).I’ve also written and updated HSE Cases, undertaken HAZIDS, HAZOPs. SIMOPs reviews, Bowtie Reviews, Project HSE Reviews, insurance surveys, dropped object analyses, SSIV studies, reviews of EER systems and EER analyses.

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  Risktec Solutions (Canada) Ltd

  Oct 2011 - Dec 2021

  Principal Consultant

  Responsible for developing Risktec’s Calgary office and undertaking a wide range of process safety, risk management and technical safety work.

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  Risktec Solutions

  Jan 2022 - now

  Regional Director - North America

  Responsible for managing and developing Risktec's North American operations. Still keeping my hand in with consultancy work.