André Andringa, Boskalis Offshore Energy

Andre has a master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands). Throughout his career of more than 30 years Andre has been managing companies and very large projects in civil engineering and renewable energy.  He is used to and likes to work in the interfaces of:

• Management and Technology
• Engineering and Construction
• People and Organizations

As Project Director for Boskalis Offshore Energy, he has been responsible for the successful realization of the EPCI / Balance of Plant scope for the Veja Mate Offshore Windfarm (Germany) and the Aberdeen Bay Offshore Windfarm (Scotland).

ETM October 2018

Don Abbey, Woodside Energy

Don Abbey is a recognised expert in GPS, survey control and survey operations for major projects. He has extensive project management and operational experience and provides expert advice to industry and government. He is currently the Geodetic Advisor for Woodside Energy.

SSAC - Sept 2015

Benjamin Ahani, Aker Solutions

Benjamin is EEHA and TÜV functional safety certified senior EI&C engineer with 17 years of experience in conceptual, FEED and detailed design of Greenfield / Brownfield oil & gas projects in Europe, Middle East and Australia. Benjamin has joined Aker Solutions in Perth 3 years ago involved in upstream subsea / topside developments in the North West Shelf

SCDU - Oct 2016

Carissa Aitken, National Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA)

Carissa Aitken has been working as an industry regulator with State and Commonwealth Governments for 15 years. This includes senior and managerial roles in environmental assessment and approvals, policy development and governance and regulatory reform. She has also previously worked for the State Environment Minister, for BP at the Kwinana Refinery and as an environmental consultant. Since Joining NOPSEMA in 2012, Carissa has focused on key areas including decommissioning, seismic survey assessments and compliance functions

Evening Technical Meeting, October 2015

Guillaume Allegret, TechnipFMC

Guillaume has a Master Degree in Mechanical and Construction Engineering (INSA Lyon, France) and a total of 19 years’ experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. He started his career with Coflexip Stena Offshore International as Structural Engineer in France in 1998, moved to Technip Australia (Perth) in 2001 as Construction Engineer. He joined Clough in 2003 as Senior Subsea Engineer, and pursued his career through operators and FPSO Contractors in Asia before returning to Perth joining Subsea 7 in 2012 as Engineering manager. Guillaume moved to TechnipFMC in 2015 in the role of Installation Engineering Discipline lead and is currently the Engineering manager – Australia Subsea Projects & APAC Systems Engineering Lead working across projects and tenders with a focus on Prelude FLNG and Greater Enfield projects.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2018

Matthew Allen, Subcon

Matthew Allen is the Co-founder of Subcon. He started his career with six years in the merchant navy. Following which he studied a Bachelors of Engineering in Naval Architecture at the Australian Maritime college. He subsequently built a successful career as an offshore project engineer for tier one construction companies including Clough, Technip and Saipem. Later he worked for Woodside and Chevron as an Offshore Installation Manager.

He holds an Executive MBA from UWA and 2 Bachelors degrees in Engineering and Technology from the Australian Maritime College.

In 2011 Matthew and Dr Kervin Yeow cofounded Subcon to provide specialist Blue Solutions for Reef Restoration, Marine Foundations, Stabilisation, Scour and Erosion Control. The business has grown internationally with offices in Delft, Singapore and Perth.

ETM April 2021

Espen Amundsen, OceanTeam Fluid Care UK

Espen Amundsen is the Managing Director of Ocean Team Scandinavia with the responsibility of the Ocean Team Scandinavia business unit held by Ocean Team Group of Companies. Previously, Mr. Amundsen provided his services as Head of Engineering and as Specialist Engineer at Ocean Team Scandinavia with the main responsibility developing the Supercritical CO2 Flushing Technology (SCCO2). Mr. Amundsen worked with fluid transfer systems his entire life starting with tractors, to diesel mechanic and working as a diesel technician at Mercedes and Bosch, holding a big technical background. Mr. Amundsen has an education as an Auto Mechanic, a Production Technologist, and as Mechanical Engineer. Furthermore, he was the founder and owner of two companies in Norway, gaining leadership experience now applied to the Managing Director position at Ocean Team Scandinavia.

Abigail Anderson, Vermillion Oil & Gas

Abigail has worked for Vermilion Oil and Gas for the past four years. As an engineering graduate from the University of Western Australia, Abi has split her time at Vermilion between the projects and operations departments. Rotating between the Perth office and the Wandoo field, Abi has also completed a Certificate III in Process Plant Operations. Her role as Operations Engineer sees her undertaking a variety of tasks including overseeing the Marine and Subsea Life Extension projects. Having managed several diving and ROV campaigns over the past few years, Abi has an in-depth understanding of the Wandoo subsea and marine assets.

ETM - Apr 2016

Mark Appleby, Baker Hughes

Mark holds a honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He began his subsea career in 2004 as a Flexible Pipe Engineer with Wellstream in Newcastle upon Tyne, then relocating to the South East Asia region in 2010. He has predominantly worked in Oil and Gas sector but also has experience in mining, air handling system and power generation. During his time at Shell (Malaysia) gained expertise in the subsea systems, well intervention and delivery management. In 2019 Mark joined Baker Hughes in Perth as a Lead Systems Engineer working in early engagement, FEED and tendering.

Subsea Production Systems Course, August 2019

Victor Artus, TechnipFMC

Victor is a Senior Project Engineer at TechnipFMC in Perth. He graduated from the ENSTA Bretagne (France) with a Master of Engineering degree in 2013 (Naval Architecture and Offshore).  He started his career in the Subsea Installation Engineering department at TechnipFMC Paris before moving to Perth for the Prelude Project in 2014. He has since worked on numerous SURF and mooring projects over the last eight years, both onboard offshore installation vessels overseeing and onshore coordinating project execution. Notable projects include Shell Prelude, Chevron Wheatstone and Woodside Pyxis.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - November 2021

Stephen Auld, Sonardyne International Ltd

Stephen Auld has worked in the oil and gas industry for over 20 years.  After graduating with an Honours degree in Engineering and an MSc in Computing he joined Coda Octopus in Edinburgh.  Following various promotions he finally led the company as MD for 5 years.  Leaving Coda Octopus Stephen joined Schlumberger as BDM to promote the use of unmanned surface vehicles for various offshore applications.  For the past year Stephen has been working with Sonardyne, firstly as BDM and now as Global Business Manager for their subsea asset and monitoring group.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Doug Austin, James Fisher Defence

Doug Austin is the Asia Pacific Area Director of JFD , a subsidiary of UK PLC James Fisher and Sons. A graduate of Aberdeen University, Doug emigrated to Australia in 1998, establishing and managing a regional headquarters in Perth for UK –based commercial and military diving system manufacturer Divex. Divex merged in 2015 with fellow James Fisher subsidiary James Fisher Defence to form what is now JFD, a global company with over 450 employees, and a technology leader in underwater engineering. JFD have built 9 major saturation diving systems in Australia, and operate submarine rescue contracts in Australia, Singapore , UK and India.

ETM - June 2016

Jeff Baker, Lloyd's Register Energy

Graduated from Southampton University in 1982 with an Honours Degree in Ship Science. Has 25 years experience as Project Manager for new construction Validation, Verification, Classification and Certification Services Contracts, dealing with Fixed and Floating Offshore Installations, pipelines and risers in UK, Australian, NZ, Nigerian and Brazilian waters. In Australia, following an assignment for LR during 1992/3 on the Griffin Project in Melbourne, Jeff relocated from London to Perth in early 2004 to manage LR’s involvement in the Enfield Project and subsequently the Angel, Vincent and Van Gogh Projects. In 2007 he was appointed Lead Surveyor for Oil and Gas Services and, following the amalgamation of LR’s Offshore, Onshore and Risk businesses into one Energy business in 2008 and a further restructuring into global streams, Jeff is now Energy Compliance Technical Manager for Australasia.

ETM - Aug 2015

Peter Baker, Wood.

Peter: is Principal Subsea Controls Engineer at Wood PLC, has over 30 years’ experience in subsea engineering, has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IMechE. Peter has wide experience of new and emerging subsea technologies and their incorporation into developments as they move further offshore and into deeper waters.Many subsea technologies require large amounts of electrical power delivered to remote locations and this is the subject of Peter’s presentation.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

ETM Oct 2017

Norman Ballard, BlueZone Group

Norman Ballard has worked as an Electronics Engineer for the last 23 years in large corporates and start-ups.  After emigrating to Australia, Norman established Hummingbird Electronics which became well known for delivering innovative electronics solutions in the automotive sector.  After selling the business in 2017, it was time for a change and so Norman joined BlueZone Group, a supplier of Remote and Autonomous Defence Systems, as Engineering Manager.

August ETM 2021

Alex Bandini-Maeder, NGI

Alex is a Senior Geologist at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Perth where he leads the geoscience team. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Energy Geoscience at the University of Western Australia where he participates in research projects on biostratigraphy and seismic stratigraphy. He is also actively participating in the International Ocean discovery Program (IODP) and took part in expedition 351 offshore Japan where a 1,600m deep borehole was drilled in a water depth of 4,700m to better understand the subduction initiation processes. Since 2010, Alex has been extensively involved in the development of several offshore and onshore energy projects in South East Asia and Europe. His expertise covers the scoping of geophysical surveys and geotechnical site investigations focusing on geohazard assessments; and the management and interpretation of multifaceted datasets to assess the potential geohazards and associated risks to the projects and help develop mitigations

ETM - Oct 2016

Mark Beardsley, RPS Metocean

Mark has over 20 years of experience in the processing and management of physical oceanography data for the offshore oil and gas industry. Work experience over the years has included processing and quality control of instrument data, presentation of data, management of data, setting of software requirements, development of web data interfaces and technical report writing. Presently Mark is mostly involved with project and personnel management and quote preparation, while still conducting data management and data processing. Mark has been employed at RPS MetOcean since 1991, with prior employment in the government and education field

Metocean - March 2015

Mathieu Beaujon, SERIMAX

Mathieu start working as Welding Engineer (IWE) 11 years ago within Nuclear power plant in Europe and then join the great O&G industry with Saipem in France and Italy to finally join Serimax in Singapore in 2008. He arrived in Perth in 2013 to open Serimax Australian Office and act take the position of Vallourec Pipeline representative in Australia. Since January Mathieu has been appointed Regional Commercial Manager for Serimax APAC and is based in Kuala Lumpur

ETM - Oct 2017

Sarang Behere, Curtin Corrosion Engineering Industry Centre

Biography not given at time of course.

Materials & Corrosion, June 2015

Oliver Bevan, Subsea 7

Oliver has a degree in Naval Architecture from the Australian Maritime College and started his career as a graduate engineer at Subsea 7 Australia in 2008.

He has worked on a variety of shallow and deep-water subsea construction projects in Australia and North Sea, including offshore operations onboard many vessel in Subsea 7’s fleet.

Oliver is currently a Senior Project Engineer in Subsea 7 Perth office, specialising in precommissioning of subsea flowlines and control systems.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - November 2021

Christian Bottcher, Woodside Energy Ltd

Christian holds a degree in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering from Swinburne University in Melbourne. He began his career as a Controls Systems Engineer with ABB in Melbourne, then relocating to Sydney and then Perth in 2009. He has predominantly worked in Oil and Gas sector but also has experience in mining, steel production and power generation. During his time at ABB Christian gained expertise in the integration and commissioning of Subsea Control Systems with Production Control Systems. In 2014 Christian joined Woodside as a Subsea Controls Engineer and has been directly involved in commissioning and start-up of number of subsea systems. More recently, Christian has been working in supporting subsea operations and is now the Subsea Production Team Lead. His team being responsible for delivering safe, reliable and efficient production through the subsea system.

Subsea Production Systems Course - September 2018

Adriana Botto, Wood

Adriana has over 15 years of experience working with integrity management of subsea systems. Adriana is a principal engineer working for Wood since 2006, responsible for  various technical and management roles over the years working in Rio, Houston and Perth. Adriana has gained considerable experience by managing a Joint Industry Project (JIP) on SURF Integrity Management, launched in 2010, and the SEAR JIP in Australia. Prior to joining Wood Group, Adriana worked with Petrobras where she was a member of the Integrity Management Group. Adriana has a Master Degree in Ocean Engineering from COPPE/ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - June 2018

Mark Bourne, NOPSEMA

Mark was appointed as NOPSEMA’s Well Integrity Manager in August 2018, following four years as a NOPSEMA Well Integrity Specialist.

Prior to joining NOPSEMA Mark had 26 years of upstream oil & gas industry experience, working on and offshore in Australia, Holland, Germany, Libya and Qatar, starting as a mud logger and working up through various drilling operations and engineering roles to Senior Drilling Operations Engineer with a major operating company.

Mark holds a Bachelors of Science (Hons) from the University of Wolverhampton in Applied Sciences.

ETM February 2020

Mike Bowler, Woodside Energy

Mike has been with Woodside Energy for 13 years.Mike obtained a BSc (Hons) degree in Survey Science at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom in 1981. He commenced his offshore survey career as a surveyor and party chief with Gardline, based in Great Yarmouth, primarily working in the North Sea on a variety of rig site survey, pipeline and cable route surveys, as well as undertaking hydrographic surveys for nautical charting. He joined the Hydrographic Office of the Ministry of Defense in 1986 as a HydrographicOfficer, responsible for preparation and QC of surveys and navigational charts for areas as diverse as the Persian Gulf, South America, West Africa and the busy sea lanes and changing sandbanks of the Southern North Sea and Dover Strait.Mike emigrated to Australia in 1991 and worked as a freelance hydrographic surveyor, primarily with Associated Surveys (later Fugro Survey Pty Ltd), specializing in acoustic positioning and construction projects in Australia and throughout South East Asia. In 1998 he took up a position with Shell as Survey Coordinator for Brunei Shell Petroleum, which involved managing onshore and offshore surveys including a major ROV inspection survey of 190 of the company’s offshore pipelines, utilising digital video capture and GIS. Mike left Shell in 2003 to join Woodside in Perth where has held a variety of roles covering Survey Operations, Seismic Acquisition and Processing and Health and Safety and is presently their Survey Operations Manager within the GeoTechnical Operations Department.Throughout his operational career he has been committed to Technology and Health and Safety improvement initiatives within the industry. Mike is a former chairman of SurveySafe and is presently on the IOGP Shared Common Industry Technical Standards Task Force.

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Noel Boylan, NGI Perth

Noel is the Managing Director and a Principal Engineer with the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Perth. He undertook his PhD studies, which examined the shear strength of peat soils, at University College Dublin in 2008. Shortly afterwards, he emigrated to Australia to take up a position at UWA’s Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS) and later worked for a Perth based geotechnical consultancy. In 2014, Noel joined NGI when they established an office in Perth and he now leads the office. Noel has worked on projects ranging from site characterisation, foundation design, mooring anchor design for FPSO & FLNG, pipe-soil interaction, and geohazards. He has worked on projects offshore Australia, South East Asia, Gulf of Mexico, the Caspian and the North Sea. Noel is also actively involved in research and development projects on some of the above subjects and has authored/co-authored over 35 technical papers

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Adrian Boyle, Cathx Group

Adrian Boyle is the Chief Executive Officer of Cathx Ocean. Adrian holds a Ph.D. in Physics in the area of Laser and Optical systems and holds a Degree in Materials Science, both from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Following his doctorate, he worked in Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden on high bit rate optical communication systems before joining an Irish technology Start-up company Machine Vision Technology in 1998. For the twenty years since then, Adrian has worked in technology, leadership, founder and commercial roles in companies specialised in Machine Vision, Machine learning and optical or laser technologies. Building on this experience, Adrian Boyle founded Cathx Ocean in 2009 to deliver Advanced Imaging and Machine Learning as a core automation technology for the subsea sector.

ETM Feb-19

Olav Brakstad, ClampON AS

Olav Brakstad is an engineer in electronics and instrumentation. With background in marine communication and navigation systems, Mr. Brakstad joined ClampOn in 1999. In ClampOn he has gained first-hand experience and extensive knowledge on acoustic monitoring systems. He is today ClampOn’s Sales Manager for the Eastern Hemisphere

SCDU - Oct 2016

Fraser Bransby, Fugro AG

After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree and PhD in 1995, Fraser spent 15 years at the Universities of Cambridge, Western Australia and Dundee researching and teaching in geotechnical engineering. During this time, he developed links with the offshore industry by performing testing, research and consultancy for and with a range of contractors and consultants. In 2010, Fraser joined Advanced Geomechanics (now Fugro AG) where he has led geotechnical support to a wide range of projects particularly related to pipelines/flowlines and subsea structures. This has included Browse, GWF-1, Prelude, Scarborough, GWF-2 and Tangguh amongst others. Fraser is currently a Technical Authority and the innovation lead for Fugro AG and has published more than 100 papers in journals and conferences on topics ranging from pipe-soil interaction to the mechanics of plant roots in soil

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Dennis Brennan, Castrol Global Marine & Energy

Dennis is currently employed by Castrol Global Marine & Energy, a global lubricants specialist, as the Account Manager for Australia and New Zealand. He provides lubricants and coordinates specialist advice relating to Subsea Fluids for Operators, OEM’s and third party service companies. Dennis has a Degree in Business and utilises his 25 years’ experience to oversee ongoing operations and commission new projects across the Oil & Gas and Marine sectors in New Zealand and Australia.

SSAC May 2021

Trent Broadway , Subsea 7

Trent has over 23 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, focused on projects in rigid pipelay, SURF, diving and heavy lift, taking numerous projects through the project lifecycle from award to design to offshore execution and closeout.

Trent brings an extensive experience in umbilical, flexible and rigid pipe installation as well as in subsea construction, and has worked offshore across various pipelay, diving and construction vessels. Today, Trent holds the role of Engineering Manager for Subsea 7 Australia & New Zealand.

SSAC - May 2022

Cory Brooks, Western Advance

With over 20 years experience in marine navigation and control systems, Cory has led the introduction of autonomous vessels to the Australian off shore market. Western Advance with support from ASV Global, now owns and operates a C-Worker 5 as a Class 2C Domestic Commercial Vessel from their facility in Perth.

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Peter Brownlie, INTECSEA

Peter has over 15 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, both for a leading subsea equipment manufacturer and in a subsea system development role for INTECSEA. Recently Peter has had responsibility for FEED, pre-FEED and Concept Select engineering of subsea production systems for planned gas and oil developments for Indonesia, China, Japan and Australia respectively. Previously he has taken a leading engineering role encompassing equipment design, manufacture, testing and installation for two major subsea developments for Canada and West Coast Africa. These and numerous smaller design projects have provided knowledge across the full range of subsea equipment with particular experience of subsea system engineering, wellheads, subsea tree systems, subsea connectors and installation equipment

SSAC - Sept 2017

Steve Buchan, MetOcean Consulting Pty Ltd

Steve Buchan qualified as a Mechanical Engineer, before studying Physical Oceanography, and spending 40 years in a Metocean Consultancy. Probably uniquely – he has been involved in the development of operational and/or metocean design criteria for every operational Oil & Gas facility on Australia’s North West Shelf, from Exmouth to Darwin. He has also been involved in many international projects.

His experience covers all aspects of Physical Oceanography, from field measurement design, to data QC and interpretation and subsequent application to numerical modelling, statistical analysis and metocean design criteria determination.

Metocean - June 2021

Darren Burrowes, BlueZone Group

Darren is co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at BlueZone Group. BlueZone Group is an underwater technology company providing products and engineering services for diverse market sectors including Defence, Offshore Oil & Gas and Oceanographic Science. Darren graduated with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration and has career experience as a Weapons Engineer in the Royal Australian Navy, roles in two major shipbuilding projects, (ANZAC Ship and Minehunter Coastal), and experience in start-ups and growing technology-based companies.

Last updated: AUT Conference Oct-2019

Gregory Bush, RPS Metocean

Greg has over 20 years of experience in commercial oceanography for the offshore oil and gas industry. Early work experience focused on field work offshore, through to project management then company management. His highest level of education was a doctorate in physics using acoustics to measure sea ice thickness in Antarctica. Areas of special interest include mooring design and oceanographic survey, particularly current measurements. He has worked around the world including 3 years based in the UK, and 9 years based in Singapore. He is currently the general manager for RPS MetOcean in Perth

Metocean - November 2018

Walter Caharija, Siemens Energy

Walter Caharija is a distinguished specialist in control systems and marine robotics. He currently works as an Industrial Cyber Security Officer at Siemens Energy, based in Trondheim, Norway. In this role, he oversees and contributes to the implementation of cybersecurity requirements for various Siemens Energy products and solutions, including subsea control systems. Many of these requirements, along with Siemens Energy’s own best practices, are derived from the IEC 62443 standard

SCDU 2024

Ryan Carmichael, Royal Australian Navy

The inaugural Commander of Navy’s newly established unit responsible for receiving a substantial suite of maritime autonomous systems into service from late-2018. Project SEA1778 Phase 1 will deliver an initial expeditionary mine countermeasures capability through the application of AUVs, USVs, ROVs and deployable support craft. Ryan is a Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Officer by trade, with a career profile spanning Domestic Counter Terrorism, Counter Piracy, Explosive Ordnance Disposal roles and most recently a 2 year exchange posting with the Royal Navy as second-in-command of a mine countermeasures vessel based in the Persian Gulf.

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Emily Carmichael, DOF Subsea

I graduated from Curtin University as a Mechanical Engineer in 2014. I have had three years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry, completed the graduate program with DOF Subsea and am now working there as a project engineer. My experience thus far includes commissioning, inspection maintenance and repair of new fields, mooring/pile installation and mooring replacement.

ETM Jun 2017

Daniel Carneiro, Wood Group Kenny

Dr Daniel Carneiro is a structural engineer with over 12 years’ experience in designing subsea pipelines and risers. Daniel has been with Wood Group in Perth for the last 5 years, most of which in technical leadership positions within the Woodside’s Browse FLNG Flowlines, Persephone Rigid Riser System and (formerly Apache’s) Julimar projects. His previous experience was gained working from Rio de Janeiro, his hometown, along with some short term assignments in Abu Dhabi, Houston, Mexico and Paris. Daniel has authored and co-authored over 20 technical papers for international conferences and journals

SSAC - May 2017

Mark Casey, Santos

More than 35 years relevant experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, including experience in the subsea facilities, feasibility and concept development for oil and gas discoveries, and in the design, procurement, integration testing, offshore commissioning, and operations support of subsea production systems, working on behalf of operating companies, consultants, and vendors, located in both the North Sea and the Asia Pacific region. Mark joined the oil and gas industry in 1987 as a subsea control system engineer working for TRW Ferranti Subsea in the North Sea, before relocating back to his native Australia. Mark is currently working for Santos, as a Senior Staff Subsea Engineer for the Santos oil assets, and is the Santos Subsea, Marine and Moorings Technical Authority (TA1).

Ned Chapman, BHGE

I grew up with a keen interest in aeroplanes and flying so decided on a career in aerospace was the way to go. After 10 years in aerostructures of designing lightweight flying machines with Safety Factors as close to 1 as you could get…I decided to transition to Subsea Controls and work with equipment where the philosophy of being heavy and needing to sink seemed like a natural progression… I currently head up the BHGE Subsea Controls Engineering Team in Perth. Outside of work I’m an avid photographer.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Ryan Chatfield, Terra Australis

Ryan Chatfield, photographer, and filmmaker, is one part of the creative force behind Terra Australis. Renowned for their expertise in cinematic underwater imagery, Ryan and his team recently garnered acclaim for the Disney+ documentary series, “Shipwreck Hunters Australia.” Terra Australis are driven by passion for exploring the Western Australian coast, seeking captivating interactions with the natural world.

Feb ETM 2024

Fiona Chow, Woodside Energy

Fiona graduated in Engineering at Cambridge University in 1989 and joined Arup Geotechnics in London for two years before undertaking MSc and PhD at Imperial College London. Her prize-winning PhD research led to the development of the ICP design methods for offshore piles that have been incorporated into API and ISO standards and triggered the development of other CPT-based pile design methods. She worked with the Geotechnical Consulting Group London for seven years before moving to Perth where she joined WorleyParsons, becoming Global Director for their Geotechnical Consulting Practice. Fiona joined Woodside in 2014 as their Chief Geotechnical Engineer. She is a member of the ISO/API Committees for Offshore Foundations and leads their subgroup on foundation reassessment and pile ageing

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Leong Pei Chze, Forsys Subsea

Leong Pei Chze is a Life of Field Services Engineer at Forsys Subsea, focusing on subsea condition monitoring systems. Prior to this, she was a Production Performance Services Engineer and a Controls and Data Management Product Design Engineer at FMC Technologies. Pei Chze holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia

SCDU - Oct 2016

Daniel Clarkson, Woodside Energy Ltd

Dan is a Subsea Engineer who has been working at Woodside since 2016. Dan has completed a number of roles at Woodside across both Projects and Operations including working in the IMR team, Ops Readiness, GWF2 Pipeline Installation and 3 years as the NWS Subsea Production Engineer. His current role at Woodside is Subsea Systems Lead & TIC, providing production support to Woodside’s producing assets. Dan completed a Bachelor of Marine and Offshore Engineering at the Australian Maritime College in 2015.

Subsea Production Systems Course, June 2024

Chris Conner, Baker Hughes

• BEng Mechanical Engineering Strathclyde University 2006
• 2006-08 Grad Operations Engineer – Vetco Gray XT Test & Assembly BOD, Aberdeen.
• 2008-10 XT Project Engineer, BP Skarv EPC, GE Vetco Gray, BOD, Aberdeen
• 2010-12 CWOR EDP, Engineering Lead, Balder Ph3, Glasgow/Dusavik
• 2013-Present, Senior Services Engineer, XTs, Completion, Drilling, CWOR, MCS, Baker Hughes, Jandakot.

Glenn Cook, Bureau of Meteorology

Glenn has been a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology for almost 28 years. After graduating with a Physics Degree from the University of Melbourne in 1989, Glenn was recruited by the Bureau and completed a Graduate Diploma of Meteorology in 1990. He was posted to Perth in late 1990 and worked in the WA Regional Forecasting Centre as an operational meteorologist until 2000. However, between 1992 and 1994, Glenn was seconded to the RAAF special reserve to take on the position of Officer-in-Charge of the Meteorological Office at RAAF Base Tindal, in the Top End of the NT, providing weather forecasting services to the F/A 18 fighter squadron. In 2000, Glenn commenced work in the WA Climate Services Centre of the Bureau of Meteorology as a consulting meteorologist, and between 2006 and 2015 was WA Regional Climate Services Manager. The Centre’s role is to provide climate data and monitoring services for WA, as well as communicate information about past climate, climate forecasting, and climate change. Since 2015 Glenn has been a Climate Liaison officer with the Bureau, providing his climate expertise to WA stakeholders.

Metocean - November 2018

James Cooper-Maitland, Defence Science Centre

Australian Regular Army officer for 13 years, separating from Defence in 2018 as a Major. James spent 5 of those 13 years in the Northern Territory, with two years as a NORFORCE Squadron Commander based in Nhulunbuy in north east Arnhem Land. Career highlighters were two operational tours, one in Iraq and the other in Afghanistan as an embed with the US Army’s 4th infantry division headquarters based at Kandahar. James graduated from the Joint Warfare College as an Information Warfare specialist in 2016. On separating from the Army in 2018, James started with the WA State Government in 2019 as the Manager for the State’s Veterans Issues portfolio before joining the Defence Science Team within Defence West at the beginning of this year. James has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies and another in Information Systems, both from Murdoch University, and a Master’s Degree from UNSW in Strategy and Policy.

June ETM 2024

Noel Cowley, Neptune Geomatics

Noel has nearly 30 years hydrographic survey experience and commenced his career in 1987 at the Royal Australian Hydrographic Service. Noel completed 14 years of service here before leaving and joining Thales Geosolutions in Perth as an Offshore Party Chief. Noel worked with Thales for approximately 4 years prior to moving to EGS Australia as their Chief Surveyor. In 2007,Noel departed EGS and became Operations Manager at UTEC survey before progressing to General Manager of the Australian business unit and finally Sales and Marketing Manager of the Asia Pacific region. Currently Noel is the Business Development Manager at Neptune responsible for Neptune’s Survey, Diving and ROV divisions.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

Adam Czajko, Subsea Engineering Associates

Adam Czajko graduated from the University of Western Australia with a double major in Civil Engineering and Chemistry. He has over 20 years experience in engineering, procurement and construction management of underwater oil and gas facilities. He has worked for design consultants, offshore contractors and energy companies in Australia and overseas. In 2009, he started Subsea Engineering Associates, a specialist engineering consultancy, and in 2013 began working on offshore projects in the Baltic Sea. Projects included Baltic Gas in Poland, Balticconnector between Finland and Estonia, and the current Baltic Pipe between Denmark and Poland where Adam’s current role is the Deputy Project Director for the offshore section.

October ETM 2021

Stephen D'Souza, NOPSEMA

Stephen D’Souza is an Environment Manager for Assessment and Inspection at the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), Australia’s independent national regulator for health and safety, well integrity and environmental management of offshore petroleum activities.

Stephen is a Marine Engineer with extensive experience in both the maritime industry and the offshore petroleum industry. For the past 12 years, Stephen has worked as a regulator in both NOPSEMA’s safety and environment teams.

ETM February 2020

Tim Dallas, Pressure Dynamics International

Tim Dallas is a qualified Mechanical Engineer, having completed his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with honours in the UK. Tim has over 23 years of worldwide experience in the Oil & Gas industry, with a focus on subsea infrastructure and technology. He was initially technically and Project Management focused – deploying and commissioning a range of subsea equipment, particularly down hole rigless intervention spreads and well control packages. Tim’s career then moved toward business development after having gained a strong understanding of all aspects of subsea equipment installation, operation and decommissioning – including IMR activities, asset integrity management and pipeline repair services.

Evening Technical Meeting, April 2015

Richard Daniell, TechnipFMC

Richard is a subsea design and project engineer with 8+ years of broad experience in flexible risers, flowlines, jumpers, and related ancillary equipment. His current role is as a project and package engineer, responsible for delivery of a flexible pipeline scope, including site testing and offshore installation.

He has previously lead ancillary equipment qualification projects as well as undertaking R & D and providing technical support for the wider TechnipFMC group. Prior to this, his work included flexible pipe tender and detailed design, including dynamic and fatigue analysis, end fitting and bend stiffener design, as well as on bottom stability and tie-in analysis.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - June 2019

Steven Davoren, ChampionX

Steve has over 30 years experience as a production chemicals specialist in the Upstream Oil and Gas industry. From starting as a Field Technician in the Santos Cooper Basin operations 1990, Steve has built a career that has seen him work across Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region with ChampionX. Key operations that he has supported include Santos, Woodside, Shell Australia & Malaysia, ExxonMobil and BP. As a broad production chemicals specialist, he has been engaged in greenfields CAPEX project production chemicals scoping and selection, particularly for offshore deepwater projects in the region. Steve’s working experience in the wider Asia region sees him as a SME within ChampionX in areas like Top of Line Corrosion Control and MEG Regeneration Systems.

Materials & Corrosion, July 2024

Kevin Day, Ten Point Interpretation

Graduated in Geology and Oceanography at Swansea University. Since then, has had 40 years involvement with marine surveys and geohazard assessments as a geophysicist, covering the majority of exploration and production basins worldwide. Spent 23 years with Gardline, in later years as Geophysical Manager. Then a number of years with RPS as Geohazards Manager, a return to Gardline and finally a few years with LR Senergy, as Principal Geohazards Specialist. Is now an Independent Consultant with Ten Point Interpretation.

Offshore Geohazards Course - April 2021

David De Lima, Cisco Systems

David has over 20 years industry experience in Australia and overseas in both national and global roles as a network and security specialist. He’s worked in OT projects in process control networks in both mining as well as Oil and Gas. He currently works for Cisco Systems as the local Perth security consulting specialist

Evening Technical Meeting - August 2018

Giovanni De Vita, DOF Subsea

Giovanni De Vita has a MSc in Geology from the University of Bologna (Italy). He joined DOF Subsea in 2009 and he is now the Geomatics Lead in the Perth branch. Giovanni leads the survey team, and he is involved with various projects, from IMR, AUV, geophysical, survey and remote operations, onboard the various DOF Subsea vessels in the APAC region.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

Daniel Denning, Viper Innovations

Daniel Denning has been involved with Viper Innovations for 11 years, and currently sits as Engineering Manager.  He is responsible for development and research of Viper Innovation’s products. Dan has first-hand experience on the challenges that Viper resolves on electrical cable and umbilical monitoring and protection for subsea. Dan’s background is Electrical, Electronics and Computing. He is a Chartered Engineer and obtained his doctorate from Glasgow University in 2005.

SCDU 2024

Christine Devine, Fugro

Christine Devine is a principal geoscientist with experience in geohazard identification and risk assessment for various subsea site characterization projects. She possesses over 15 years of experience interpreting geological, geophysical, and geotechnical data and has a background in the mineral exploration and mining industry. She has a B.Sc and M.Sc in Geology and is registered as a professional geoscientist in both Newfoundland, Canada.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Allan Devlin

Allan is a recognized Dynamic Leader with over 15 years of Oil and Gas industry experience. This includes operating experience with ExxonMobil’s Canadian assets and Woodside’s NorthWest Shelf Venture assets, as well as Major Capital Project experience with the Chevron operated Wheatstone and Greater Gorgon LNG Developments including Jansz-Io Compression.

Allan is a Chartered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) with Engineers Australia and current Chair of the Society for Underwater Technology Phoenix Committee, a collective of underwater professionals who possess extensive subsea experience in engineering, science or academia.

AOG Conference - Mar 2018

Paul Dimmock, NGI

Paul is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with NGI, based in Perth. He specialises in offshore Geotechnical Engineering and Geohazard risk characterisation. He has worked in Consulting, Client and Academic positions. Before joining NGI he was a Geotechnical Engineer for BP, based in London. he has a Civil Engineering and IT undergraduate degrees from UWA, a Masters degree in Soil Mechanics from Imperial College (London), and a PhD on the subject of ‘Tunnelling-induced ground movement’ from the University of Cambridge. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Ross Dinsdale, Blue Ocean Monitoring

Ross is the Asia Pacific General Manager for Blue Ocean Monitoring, a leader in utilising autonomous underwater vehicles for ocean data collection. Formerly, Ross was the Business Development Manager for an oil and gas exploration and production company and he has also held investment banking and investment research roles in Australia and internationally covering the oil and gas sector.

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Tuan Do, FMC Technologies

Tuan was born and raised in Texas, and received a Mechanical Engineering degree from Texas A&M University in 2007. Immediately after graduation, Tuan started his career at the FMC Technologies Houston office, working in the Aftermarket group. Tuan worked on several projects in the Gulf of Mexico for 2 years as an Offshore Installation Engineer, before transferring to Equatorial Guinea (West Africa) and working in a similar role. In 2011, Tuan transferred to Singapore as a Senior Installation engineer, and has been working in the region ever since. In his current capacity as the Engineering Lead, Tuan manages the FMC’s Subsea Services engineering team in the APME region.

ETM - Apr 2016

Craig Donald, ISES Technical Services

Craig, a graduate engineer with over 30 years experience in the offshore oil & gas
industry. Managing Director & co founder of ISES Technical Services, which
specialises primarily of cathodic protection assessment of subsea oil and gas
facilities. Over the last three years ISES has been collaborating with OFG to develop
the iCP system on AUVs.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

David Donohue, iXblue Pty Ltd

David is the Managing Director of iXblue Pty Ltd, a specialist survey firm established
in 2007 to undertake nautical charting and safety of navigation surveys in the
Australasian region. iXblue has been one of the primary service providers of
hydrography for the New Zealand government for over ten years and is currently
one of two panel members working in support of the Land Information New Zealand
Annual survey program. iXblue employs a small team of expert hydrographic
surveyors and marine geophysicists who reside in Australia and New Zealand.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Neil Douglas, Viper Innovations Ltd

Neil Douglas has been in the Subsea Controls Industry for 34 years.  He is a founder and Managing Director of Viper Innovations, a company that specialises in the asset integrity management of Subsea Control Systems and subsea umbilicals and electrical distribution systems.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Kate Downes, Fugro

After completing a Bachelor of Surveying degree at the University of Otago, New Zealand, Kate moved to Perth commencing work at Fugro in 2015. Kate has completed various jobs in both the role of online surveyor and data processor – working offshore and in Fugro’s data centre. Geophysical surveys, positioning services, and processing multibeam echosounder data have been the more predominant forms of work she has been engaged in.

Highlights of her time at Fugro so far include working on the high-profile Search for MH370 project, working in the North & Baltic Seas for Fugro’s Dutch office, and mapping largely uncharted waters throughout Papua New Guinea.

Introduction to Positioning & Survey 2019

Alan Downing, Solartron ISA

Having worked at Solartron ISA for over 25 years, originally in the engineering team I transitioned to sales in the early 90’s. This coincided with the developments of marginal fields in the UK North Sea and the “new” requirement to allocate wet gas. My close involvement in early applications led to appointment as Product & Marketing Manager, contributing to the development and supply of Solartron ISA’s wellhead products around the world. I have been Sales Director since 2008

SCDU - Oct 2016

Scott Draper, UWA

Scott has been is a Senior Lecturer at UWA jointly within the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems. He completed a DPhil (PhD) in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, UK, in 2011 on fluid mechanical aspects of marine renewable energy. Since commencing at UWA in 2011 Scott has worked as part of a multidisplinary team on problems in offshore engineering, including scour and sediment transport with application to stability design of subsea pipelines. Scott has authored around 40 publications.

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Yvonne Driessens , Shell

After finishing her Masters at Delft University of Technology, Yvonne started to work as a process engineer in Shell. Since then she has worked in 4 continents on large projects across all phases of a project. In 2015 she moved to Perth where she was Shell’s technical representative on the Gorgon asset and as such she was heavily involved in the discussion around subsea compression for the Jansz-Io field.

October ETM, Oct 2020

Yuriy Drobyshevski, INTECSEA

Yuriy is a naval architect with 30-year of experience, with the past 16 years in Australian offshore industry. He worked on design and analysis of floating structures and mooring systems, including FPSOs, Semi-submersibles and Tension Leg Platforms, as well as construction vessels and marine operations. Yuriy acted as a lead discipline engineer, owner’s engineer, study manager and technical advisor on multiple projects, both in Australia and internationally, as well as a manager of INTECSEA floating systems group.

ETM Aug 2017

Andrew Duff, Wood Kenny Group

Andrew has 19 years of experience in pressure testing, precommissioning commissioning and start-up. He started his career in pipelines in Perth with Challenge Pipeline Services (CPS) after working with Solahart during and after University. While at CPS Andrew worked throughout Australia as well as in Indonesia, and then continued in the precommissioning specialty when CPS was purchased by BJ Services. Andrew moved to Weatherford and then IKM Testing as companies moved and changed. Andrew has worked for multiple clients throughout Asia and on Sakhalin Island Russia, and has lived in Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. Andrew joined JP Kenny / Wood Group Kenny (WGK) in 2012 as Principal Engineer for pigging and precommissioning building the role within the company. Andrew is currently working on the Ichthys Gas Export Pipeline as well as supporting other projects in this specialised niche

ETM - Apr 2015

Steve Duffield, Guardian Geomatics

Steve Duffield is a founding Director of Guardian Geomatics Pty Ltd. Prior to that he was employed by Decca, Racal, Thales and Fugro. In those roles he worked both in Australia and internationally. He was involved in a variety of offshore project types and locations. Steve is currently the President of the Australasian Hydrographic Society and a Director of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies. Steve has an MBA and is a FCPA, FAIM and GAICD.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Jeremy Dunster, NOPSEMA

Jeremy Dunster commenced with NOPSA (now NOPSEMA) in September 2006 and is currently NOPSEMA’s Manager – Assessment and Inspection – Vessel Facilities, based in Perth.  Prior to joining the Authority, Jeremy spent five years as the Health, Safety and Environment Manager with a Petroleum regulation Treaty Organisation after decade working for an Australian Oil and Gas company in a number of roles located in Darwin, Dampier and Perth.

He has tertiary qualifications in Economics, Operations Management, and Mechanical Engineering.

ETM June 2018

Ken Eddy, Fugro Survey Pty. Ltd.

Ken Eddy has been a Hydrographic Surveyor for over 40 years and is currently the Survey and Training Manager at Fugro Survey Pty Ltd in Perth. Ken has been with Fugro Survey for over 22 years and has held many field and office based management roles. Prior to joining Fugro Survey (then Racal Survey), Ken was a Hydrographic Surveyor in the Royal Australian Navy for 21 years. Whilst in the Navy Ken was involved in numerous hydrographic surveys around Australia including one in Antarctica and was also the Hydrographic Advisor to the Solomon Islands Government for 2 years.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

Sarah Elkhatib, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)

Sarah completed her Bachelor of Engineering degree at UWA where she developed an interest in Offshore Geotechnics.  She later undertook postgraduate study with a focus on drag anchor systems for floating facilities and obtained her PhD degree in 2005.  She has since worked in the oil and gas industry in Perth, delivering projects comprising site characterisation studies, concept to detailed level engineering and installation support. Sarah’s industry experience has been broad in terms of the development types (fixed platforms, floating facilities, subsea structures) and the regions in which she has worked (Australia, the Middle East, Asia and Europe). Sarah’s passion for the industry is evident through her volunteer activities.  She has been a member of the SUT Committee for a number of years, serving as Treasurer for the past two years.  She previously held the Chair role of the OSIG-Perth, an SUT special interest group, for offshore site investigations and geotechnics.  She is very active with organising SUT/OSIG technical events with the aim of sharing knowledge across the industry. Sarah currently works as a Principal Engineer at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Perth where she continues to deliver projects in the Offshore Energy sector.

SSAC May 2018

Scott Elson, L3 Harris MSA

Scott Elson, is currently the Chief Technology Officer for L3Harris MSA, a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies, Inc.  based in Perth, Australia.

His job includes supervision of the Australian marine based research and development projects.  These currently include underwater acoustic communications, antisubmarine warfare sensors, coastal security monitoring software and secure communications technologies.

Scott graduated from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia , with a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems), he continues to work closely with computers, electronics and automation systems. In his free time he enjoys a bit of DIY and a run along the northern beaches.

August ETM 2021

Ryan Epstein, Subsea7

Ryan has over 6 years experience in technical and project engineering (both project execution and sales & marketing) covering both diver and ROV installation of structures, spools, umbilicals, flexible flowlines and bundled solutions. Predominantly based out of Australia/Asia with on-site (onshore/offshore) experience. FEED and concept select studies experience for fully integrated SPS/SURF solutions for large project developments.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2019

Carl Erbich, Fugro AG

Carl has practiced for over 25 years in the offshore geotechnical consulting industry. His early career was spent in the UK, initially at Fugro McClelland and then at Kvaerner Earl and Wright. His most notable achievement during this period was his leading role in the design of the pioneering ‘bucket foundations’, for the Sleipner SLT and Europipe 16/11 jackets for Statoil. Carl’s first involvement in the Australian offshore industry also occurred during this time, performing advanced analyses for the Goodwyn Pile remedial project. Carl moved to Australia in 1995 initially to work on the first incarnation of the Gorgon project, and he subsequently joined Advanced Geomechanics in 1996.

He has been the Engineering Technical Authority and a Director of Advanced Geomechanics since 1997, and in these roles has played a pivotal role in almost every engineering project undertaken by AG since that time, including Bayu Undan, Laminaria, Yolla, Pluto, various NW Shelf upgrades (inc. NRB, Angel, TSEP), Marlin B, Gorgon, Ichthys and Prelude. Carl has been responsible for the development of numerous design methodologies and software tools and is also a leading expert in the application of advanced numerical methods and has authored and co-authored over 20 technical papers. Carl is also a longstanding member of the API Geotechnical Resource Group (RG7) and ISO Foundation Panel (P4).

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Leiv Erling Grytten, FORCE Technology Norway

Leiv Erling Grytten hold a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from NTNU in Trondheim, specializing in mechanical design. Leiv Erling handles costumer relations, sales and marketing for the company Worldwide, and have been focusing most of his time bringing their subsea inspection technology FiGS® to marked, from prototype to full global commercialization. He is also working closely with the FiGS® R&D team to find new applications for their unique technology.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Tore Erntsen, Proserv UK

Has more than 20 years of industry experience and has held various technical and management positions. Holds an MSc in Engineering and ICT from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim.  Worked for Siemens, SICOM and Weatherford with core focus on Subsea. Joined Proserv as General Manager in Norway in 2013. Participates actively in Subsea standardization groups, both SIIS and MDIS. Today VP Technology and Engineering for Proserv.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Jan-Tore Ervik, Sensorlink

Jan-Tore has a Bachelor in Electronics, graduated 1996; -experience from maritime and offshore industry since 1998; -worked in different areas like Dynamic Positioning, Software testing, classification; -10 years in DNV GL as business developer for test services; -joined Sensorlink in 2017 as responsible for sales/business development.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Mark Evans, BE&R Consulting

Mark is Director of BE&R Consulting who specialise in full life cycle floating
production support from concept through to operation and decommissioning.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Stephan Eyssautier, Subsea 7

Stephan has an extensive background in SURF installation and design scopes: After few years as Project Engineering Manager with Subsea7, Stephan has recently established the Field Development Group of Subsea7 in Perth, whose mission is to provide Early Engineering Studies to help marginal fields to reached FID and maximise added value for clients before execution ITT. Stephan has more than 17years of experience acquired within Saipem, Technip and Acergy ; along his career, he has been involved in a number of Technology Developments, like CRA Mechanically Lined Pipe Reeling, Bundle Towing and Deepwater Risers. Stephan is Subsea7’s delegate for Technology within APAC region and founding member of Subsea7’s Community of Excellence for SURF and Moorings. Stephan graduated with a Master of Science from Ecole Centrale de Nantes and holds a Master in Economics and Management from IFP-School. Stephan is passionate about Innovation in general and beyond Subsea Engineering, Stephan’s interests span from Renewables to Sailing and Rugby.

SSAC - Sept 2017

Paul Farquharson, Baker Hughes, a GE Company

Paul is currently the Services Engineering Leader for the Asia Pacific Region for Baker Hughes. He has over 28 years in the subsea and underwater O&G business. His knowledge and understanding cover full stream engineering and a deep, detailed appreciation of all aspects of Subsea Production Systems and associated disciplines.

Paul has been a corporate member with Baker Hughes for many years and is current member of the 2020 SUT Committee. He continues to contribute on various sub-committees, including the ETM sub-committee focusing on delivering relevant and insightful evening technical meetings. He is active on various academic and industry bodies which encourage technology advancements and solutions with a view to determining future possibilities.

Subsea Production Systems Course - September 2018

Ray Farrier, (Consultant)

Ray trained as a military diver in 1972 and spent most of his time looking for dead bodies and illegal firearms dumped in the waterways of the UK. The novelty factor soon wore off and in 1974 Ray started on the more glamorous discipline of offshore commercial diving and has since then worked around the world. In an offshore career spanning 40 years starting as a humble “bubble head diver” to founding Chairman of Neptune Marine Services and holding many other senior management positions including Managing Director, General Manager and Director of Not-for Profit organisations. When “trip’s offshore” lasted 10 weeks, mobile phones and the internet didn’t exist and the word “facebook” wasn’t in the dictionary Ray has seen more change then many. The evolution of the offshore field in this time frame has been similarly revolutionary with how things were done then compared to how it is done today. Not just what happens on the seabed but the vessels built today to deal with exploration in ever deeper water. Ray is the recently retired Chairman of the Society of Underwater Technology (SUT) and a “Fellow of the SUT” and has an immense amount of knowledge of the Subsea Industry.

YES! Event, September 2015

Stephen Fasham, Sonardyne International Ltd / Atteris Pty Ltd

Stephen works in business development for Sonardyne a leading supplier of Subsea Solutions. Starting out 40 years ago in Subsea Positioning the company now has an extensive portfolio of subsea instrumentation covering applications from diver tracking to BOP control with a focus on subsea communication. Stephen has a previous life as a development engineer in the optics industry working on optical communication, displays and sensors having graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University – some time ago.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

David Field , ICON Engineering

David is managing director and a founding partner of ICON Engineering. David has over 25 years experience in detailed design and installation of offshore structures, project management and development of equipment to support construction and drilling operations. Prior to founding ICON, David worked for Brown and Root Vickers in London, Saipem, Clough and WAPET. Since founding ICON David has developed a track record in successfully managing the installation of jackets and topsides utilising float-over and jack-up rig installation methods, and has personally supervised the installation of many significant offshore structures.

OSIGp Selections of OTC - July 2018

Brendon Fitzgerald, Vanguard Solutions

Brendan is co-founder and Managing Director of Vanguard Solutions with over 38 years’ experience in Safety and Reliability Engineering, Process Design and Process Simulation.

Brendan’s passion for Process Safety was forged by his role supporting a legal team at the Piper Alpha Inquiry, where he led work that disproved one of the two main theories for the cause of the disaster.

A highly experienced workshop facilitator, Brendan is a qualified HAZOP Leader and an approved HAZOP/SIL Facilitator.  Brendan is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

ETM June 2018

Fiona Fitzpatrick, RPS Australia Asia Pacific

Dr Fiona Fitzpatrick is a marine geologist and currently employed as an Associate Consultant for RPS in Perth, mainly working on marine geohazard evaluations for proposed well locations. She has twenty seven years’ experience in marine oil & gas exploration and has been employed in a variety of technical and operational roles. Fiona has extensive experience in marine geohazard investigations and geotechnical studies, exploration and evaluation of marine mineral deposits off both the west coast of Africa and north coast of Australia diamonds) and has managed large scale marine survey programmes off the Irish coast.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

James Florrison, Recfishwest

James leads Recfishwest’s artificial reef and research operations. James has extensive experience in the consultation, design, configuration, permitting and monitoring of artificial reefs and other habitat enhancement, restoration, and retention activities. He assisted in the creation of a framework for the development of habitat enhancement initiatives that has a strong focus on long-term benefits driven by industry and community partnerships. In 2015 James completed his Honours degree on the use of citizen science to monitor artificial reefs. These methods have since been accepted by Commonwealth and State Government regulators for legislative monitoring requirements.

Feb ETM 2024

Jan Flynn, Woodside Energy Ltd

Jan is Chief metocean Engineer at Woodside Energy Ltd.  She graduated from Southampton University with an MSc in Oceanography in 1987, since when she has worked in applied oceanography, primarily for the oil and gas industry. She has undertaken studies in a wide variety of ocean environments in Europe, Middle East, Africa and SE Asia, including extensive field measurements, data analysis and interpretation. She was the Lead Metocean Engineer for Shell’s Prelude Floating LNG facility, from exploration drilling through to installation in the field off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia.  She and her team are presently supporting Woodside’s Scarborough, Senegal and Browse Developments, various  tie-back projects and the base business in Western Australia.

Metocean - November 2018

Nathan Formby, GE Digital

Nate Formby is the Principle Solution Architect for GE Digital (APAC). This role involves working with customers on Industrial Internet applications and solutions that deliver business outcomes and unlock new opportunities utilising Operational Technology (OT) data, also requiring examination of the cyber posture of the equipment and environment. Nate is GE’s representative on the Australian Governments Cyber Security Growth Centres (CSGC) working committee that is working with industry providers, academia, and end users to help formulate how Australia can meet the growing need for Cyber expertise and awareness to protect industry. He also contributes to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute – International Cyber Policy Centre workshops that provide industry an opportunity to offer insights to government on Cyber Security related matters.

YES! Cyber Security - May 2017

Pat Fournier, MMA Offshore

Pat graduated with a BSc Hons Geophysics from University of Tasmania in 1999.

Pat worked offshore as a marine geophysicist for various survey companies between 2000 -2010 where he specialised subsea geohazards to support offshore drilling and installation projects.

Following this period of offshore work he has filled numerous onshore roles including project manager, operations manager before becoming General Manager – Neptune Survey in 2016.

Pat is now the BD Manager for MMA Subsea Geosoltuions focussing on promoting and developing MMA’s Geosolutions services.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

Roland Fricke, Atteris/Worley

Roland is a Principal Consulting Engineer specialising in integrity management of subsea and pipeline systems. He graduated with BSc (1989) and MSc (1991) degrees in Materials Engineering from University of Cape Town South Africa. He has 30+ years’ experience with oil & gas operators and in consultancy and has worked on projects in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia.

Roland is now based in Perth and enjoys contributing back to the industry through involvement with standards committees and industry associations such as the SUT. He enjoys mentoring and delivering training to younger engineers

Subsea Production Systems Course, June 2024

Ben Fu, MacDermid Offshore Solutions

Background – Thermal and dynamic power engineering degree from Haerbin Engineering University in China, 10+ years experience within the oil gas and shipbuilding Industry. Worked as a subsea field service engineer with Cameron / One Subsea with hands on experience within the subsea completion equipment, IWOCS, subsea xmas tree and installation of the equipment. Also worked as a Mechncial Engineer in CSIC China in cargo vessels and oil tankers building and repairing. Joined MacDermid as their Technical Services manager in 2014 looking after all day to day customer fluid and operational technical inquiries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Afton Galbraith, Subsea Engineering Associates

Afton Galbraith is the Operations Manager at Subsea Engineering Associates, a Perth based subsea and pipeline consultancy. Afton has more than twenty years of experience in the subsea oil and gas industry including design, procurement, fabrication, testing, installation and commissioning of subsea production pipelines, equipment and structures. He has experience in feasibility studies, assurance reviews, material and hardware procurement. In addition, Afton has managed Conceptual, Design and Follow-on engineering teams on a wide range of projects and is responsible for recruiting, management, training, development and financial performance at SEA.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2023

Gilles Gardner, i-Tech 7

Gilles is the Global Asset Integrity Technical Advisor for i-Tech 7, the life of field
business unit of Subsea 7. He has over 16 years’ experience in the Oil and Gas
industry focused on the design, inspection and integrity management of subsea
systems. Gilles has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering (Design and
Manufacturing), is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Michael Garvey, Shell Australia

Michael is a Senior Metocean Engineer at Woodside Energy Ltd. Michael’s role as a Metocean Engineer embedded within an operating oil and gas company is to ensure metocean risks are understood and mitigated by the business. He is involved in all phases of hydrocarbon development – from exploration, early project feasibility through to design and operations. He has worked on most aspects of metocean engineering but takes particular interest in the analysis and interpretation of measured data. He studied Environmental Engineering at UWA, graduating in 2004.  Prior to joining Woodside, he worked at Shell Australia for 5+ years and prior to that worked in the consulting sector (primarily for oil and gas) since graduation.

Metocean - June 2021

Christophe Gaudin, Wave Energy Research Centre

Professor Christophe Gaudin is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Western Australia. He is the Director of the newly established Wave Energy Research Centre in Albany and the Head of the Oceans Graduate School, a multi-disciplinary research group of about 100 oceanographers, structural, hydrodynamics and geotechnical engineers.  Professor Gaudin graduated with a Doctorate in Soil Mechanics from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes in November 2002, and joined the University of Western Australia in July 2003. His research interests cover offshore anchoring systems and shallow foundations, pipeline-soil interaction and similitude principles associated with centrifuge modelling, for which he has authored over 180 referred publications. He is currently spearheading several research initiatives associated with foundation systems for offshore renewables, with support from local and international industry.

ETM October 2018

Kevin Gauld, Chevron

18 years in the Oil & Gas industry and joined Vetcogray Aberdeen (Baker Hughes) in 2003. I have led multiple teams in the design, engineer, manufacture, installation and intervention of subsea systems. I have worked for ENI, Santos & Hess and I currently work for Chevron as a Snr Subsea Equipment Engineer in the Subsea & Pipeline Team. I have worked for Chevron for the last 8+ years.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2021

Paul Georgeson, A60N

Paul is the managing director of A60N, a recent start-up focused on enabling subsea operational excellence. He has over 20 years working in the Oil and Gas industry focused on Operations Support and the Integrity Management of subsea pipelines, subsea production systems and associated offshore platforms and FPSOs.

June ETM - Jun 2021

Rick Gillinder, Fugro

Rick is currently the Installation Discipline Lead at Fugro. Rick graduated the University of Western Australia in 2005 with Bachelor degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Science (Physics Honours). In 2006 he joined Technip Australia as a graduate subsea installation engineer, working on a number of different Installation project across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. In 2010 Rick moved to TS Marine, now Fugro, and some of the more recent projects he has been involved in include GWF-1 Subsea Installation, GWF-2 Mooring Installation, GAB Marine Survey, Stybarrow Decommissioning, and Greater East Spar Development

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Oddbjorn Gjerde, (SEAR Consultant)

Obi has a wide background from media, sales, engineering and project management. He is a proven go-getter and has great passion for developing solutions by bringing the right people together. He has strong faith in SEAR, the people involved and how the group work together to solve issues. Bachelor of Art (Film and Television) and Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Kevin Glanville, Proserv

Entered into the Oil & Gas industry following a 12year service in the Royal Air Force. The past 32 years within the industry providing topside and subsea automation solutions including the ongoing development of the Proserv Artemis subsea control system. My role also includes close collaboration with clients in identifying and resolving both technical and commercial gaps, risks and challenges for brown and green field applications. I participate in Join Industry Projects [SIIS & MDIS] and industry standardization API17f forums.

SCDU 2024

Markus Glaser , Aalen University

Markus is holding Phd. degree in mechatronics engineering and has a background of the development of highly reliable mechatronic drive systems for over 20 years ranging from bone elongation actuators to mission critical defence applications. During his industrial career Markus was engineering manager at WITTENSTEIN for the subsea and defence solutions group. Markus is now leading the research institute for high integrity mechatronic systems at Aalen University. The focus of the research are battery based fail safe actuation systems for subsea valves.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Fiachra Gleeson, Woodside Energy

Currently the Subsea Delivery Manager for the Greater Western Flank 2 Development for Woodside responsible for subsea hardware, controls, construction, light well intervention and pre-commissioning. Qualified with a Masters degree in civil engineering. Started life in the oil and gas industry working for Brown and Root AOC as a structural engineer designing platform conductors, risers and topside structures before being transferred into subsea construction with Rockwater. Has worked for Subsea 7, Sonsub-Clough, Technip, SBM and Fugro-TSM on a variety of projects worldwide. Work locations include the North Sea, Brazil, West Africa, South China Sea and Australia. Experienced in both engineering and project management.

ETM - Aug 2016

Anthony Gleeson, Sonardyne Asia Pte Ltd

Anthony Gleeson is the Vice President for Sonardyne Asia Pte Ltd. Graduating from the University of Bedfordshire in 1996 with a BSc (Hons) in Mapping Science, Anthony first worked in the Offshore Oil and Gas industry as a surveyor/navigator, primarily in the deep-tow seismic industry. He joined Sonardyne Asia in 2009 and has since become the regional director for the Middle East, Asia and Australasia

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Susan Gourvanec, UWA

Susan Gourvenec is a Professor at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS) at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Susan emigrated to Australia and joined COFS in 2001 following undergraduate, PhD and post-doc positions in the UK at the Universities of London, Southampton and Cambridge. Susan has twenty years of geotechnical engineering experience with particular interest in offshore geotechnics. Susan is co-author of text book Offshore Geotechnical Engineering and co-editor of Proceedings of the International Symposia on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics. Susan coordinates and teaches courses on offshore geotechnical engineering as part of the curriculum at UWA and as short courses for industry. She is a consultant offshore geotechnical engineer to industry, member of the ISO/API Committees for Offshore Geotechnics and Chair of the Shallow Foundations Technical Panel

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Seamus Grainger, DOF Subsea Australia

Seamus commenced at DOF in 2014 working in the project engineering team. The projects he’s been a part of have been executed with clients and service providers in the northwest shelf, Vietnam, New Zealand, Singapore and Indonesia. He’s spent time managing a number of contractors in Singapore, Indonesia and New Zealand for fabrication and mobilisation scopes and has recently completed a secondment in HSE. Tonight, he’s going to share some of his experiences as a young engineer working in HSE.

YES! Event, May 2016

Ian Grant, Quadrant Energy

Ian has more than 20 years’ experience in oil and gas operational roles both internationally and in Australia, most recently as Quadrant’s Director of Operations. Ian is responsible for the safe and efficient management of Quadrant Energy’s supply chain, drilling, production, Brownfield projects and Operational Joint Venture Management.

Ian holds a Master’s Degree in Management from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is presently Chairperson of the Industry Advisory Board for ACEPT (Australian Centre for Energy & Process Training). In addition he retains Chartered Manager status in the UK and is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

ETM June 2018

John Grapiglia, Corrosion Control Engineering

John Grapiglia graduated as an Electronics Engineer in 1980 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Started work for what was then Telecom (Melbourne) in their cable protection section, with the role of protecting the lead sheathed cable network from various forms of damage including stray DC currents and lightning. John has been involved in a variety of cathodic protection projects, ranging from onshore pipelines and structures, reinforced concrete structures, and offshore projects. The project locations include Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, UK and Pakistan. He is currently a Principal Engineer and Company Director for Corrosion Control Engineering (WA) Pty Ltd.

Materials & Corrosion, June 2015

Phil Griffin, London Offshore Consultants (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

Phil, a Master Mariner and Marine Management & Logistics Specialist, is Director – Marine at LOC (Australia) and manages LOCA’s marine support services to our Marine Warranty clients & teams, and to our offshore energy and shipping Clients within (and intending to enter) the Australasian market. An OVID accredited surveyor and ISM/QA auditor , Phil also coordinates and undertakes vessel audits and surveys in respect of suitability and fitness to purpose. Phil provides expert review and advice in respect of marine Project & execution planning; offshore drilling campaign planning & execution;’ marine & offshore risk management, and shipping & chartering matters. Additionally, Phil has a sound knowledge of offshore sustainable energy methodologies & crossovers from the offshore hydrocarbon industries.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

Terry Griffiths, UWA

Terry has around 25 years’ experience working in the offshore industry and is a Chartered Subsea Engineer on the National Engineering Register. Terry has recently completed his PhD looking at the behaviour of small diameter pipelines and cables at UWA and has been working through Aurora applying these new engineering insights to offshore wind projects around the globe. Terry has been an active participant in SUT Perth branch since its inception and some of the highlights of his career have been through his involvement in SUT in Perth.

ETM April 2018

Matthijs Groenewegen , Allseas

Matthijs is the General Manager at Allseas Marine Contractors Australia Pty Ltd. He studied MSC Offshore Engineering at Delft University of Technology. His previous roles include Senior Project Manager at Allseas Engineer BV – Responsible for 4 Johan Sverdrup topside installations, 2 Tyra topsides removals and 4 Tyra jacket removals from 2014 – 2019. From 2008 – 2014 he was a consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants – acting as Advisor to the South Stream Management on the pipeline from Russia to Turkey.

ETM February 2020

Hema Gunasagaran, Oceaneering

Hema has 5 years working experience in the Oil & Gas Industry. She has a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) in Petroleum Engineering and MBA in Project Management. She worked as a Well Intervention Engineer under new ventures and technology prior to Oceaneering. Now, she represents regionally for ROV Services as Oceaneering’s Business Development Lead.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Mark Gundersen, Marine Advanced Robotics

Mark Gundersen is CEO of Marine Advanced Robotics. His company is creating stable, scalable, and modular ocean-going robots that can operate at sea at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. He has over 30 years of at-sea experience in some of the most challenging waters on our planet. Mark received his bachelor’s degree in engineering at Stanford University, is a member of the American Society of Naval Engineers and Navy League of the United States.

ETM June 2019

Steve Hall, Society for Underwater Technology

Steve became Chief Executive of SUT in April following over 25 years in ocean science, survey & policy, including managing ‘Autosub’ AUV science missions 1998-2002, helping develop the U.K.’s marine spatial planning system and election as vice chair of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. He’s a Fellow of SUT & IMarEST, with a particular interest in marine science education, ocean stewardship & championing the use of marine autonomous systems for research, surveillance & monitoring.

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Alex Ham, Wood Group Kenny

Alex has over 17 years’ experience in materials engineering and integrity management. He left university with a BEng, MSc and PhD in Materials Engineering and joined the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (now QinetiQ), selecting materials and coating systems for naval applications and investigating failure causes for a variety of components, both metallic and composite. He then spent several years managing integrity in the water industry, both in the UK and Australia. He joined Wood Group Group in 2008, first leading the materials and integrity team on the post pre FEED and FEED stages of Ichthys before moving to Gorgon as Integrity Lead for the last 5 years. He is also now SURF Team Lead in the Ops Support Group, which provides subsea integrity management, inspection and fast turnaround ad hoc support to a wide variety of clients.

Reliabilty course, February 2017

Gordon Hamilton, Fugro GEOS Ltd.

Gordon has worked for Fugro GEOS for 19 years, specialising in structural monitoring of offshore structures both above and below water. Starting as a Project Engineer before moving into Project, Operations and then Commercial Management in Fugro GEOS’ Structural Monitoring division in Glasgow. Project highlights have included project managing a subsea wellhead and conductor monitoring project for a client in Norway, a Platform Seismic monitoring system off Sakhalin Island and spending a month offshore in the Falkland Islands. Before joining Fugro, Gordon worked as a Flight Test Engineer for Rolls Royce in Los Angeles and for the Department of Transport in London. Gordon graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Glasgow.

Evening Technical Meeting, February 2015

Zahidul Hasan, TechnipFMC

Zahid Hasan holds a Master of Engineering degree from National University of Singapore. He has been with TechnipFMC in Perth for last fifteen years, most of which in technical leadership positions and currently the Project Engineering Manager within TechnipFMC’s Front End and System engineering group. With over twenty years of experience in the oil and gas industry, in particular subsea hardware and system engineering, Zahid supports his clients from FEED through to Life of Field for Subsea Development Projects. Starting with Woodside Enfield project, Zahid has worked for many subsea development projects and subsea processing system FEEDs in Australia and possesses in-depth product and system knowledge for subsea field developments. Before joining TechnipFMC, Zahid worked for DNV Singapore and was involved with DNV led Joint Industry projects to develop new technology for pipeline repair and Subsea Structures.

Subsea Awareness Course, October 2021

Ross Hendricks, TechnipFMC

Ross Hendricks has an honors degree in Chemical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and is an accredited project manager from the Project Management Institute.  In 1997 Ross began his career with Oceaneering based in Houston Texas as a design engineer for controls systems and then took a role as the lead IWOCS engineer for their offshore installation and completions.

Joining FMC Technologies in 2002, Ross started with the Controls delivery team before moving over to the aftermarket controls team to work offshore on the BP Thunderhorse project. After a few years, he moved on to lead the BP Atlantis project overseeing the entire offshore installation and completion scope of the project. He became the SSS Systems engineering manager before moving to Perth in 2008 seconded to Woodside for FMC Technologies. After 2 years based in Woodside Ross took on the role of Engineering manager for Subsea Services in Perth, and then the Asia Pacific region.

For the last four years Ross was the Business Development manager and Subsea Processing Lead for TechnipFMC in Australia before recently taking a role as SPS Project Manager for TechnipFMC in early 2018.

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Ron Hille, Bureau of Meteorology

Ron has been working for the Bureau of Meteorology since 1984 and spent the last 25 years working in the Commercial Weather Services (CWS) section of the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia. CWS specialise in providing detailed tailored weather services to the Oil & Gas Industry operating in Australia and offshore waters (NW Shelf, Timor Sea, Bass Strait and Southern Ocean). He has worked for many years as the marketing manager for CWS and is currently under contract as a senior meteorologist with the CWS team. He has experience working on offshore drilling rigs/drilling ships/barges and platforms during weather sensitive operations, and has made numerous visits to offshore facilities providing pre cyclone season briefings. In more recent years he has been one of the main facilitators in weather training seminars and workshops provided by CWS for the Oil & Gas Industry.

Metocean - March 2015

James Holbeach, Wood

Dr. Holbeach has over 14 years experience specialising in multiphase flow and Flow Assurance. He has worked at all project stages – from conceptual studies to FEED to detailed design, on both small and large developments for oil and gas condensate projects. His particular specializations are thermo hydraulic multiphase flow and MEG system design. Dr Holbeach is Regional Manager for Wood Group Kenny’s flow assurance business unit in Australia, managing Perth, Melbourne and other regional project offices.

Evening Technical Meeting, August 2015

Paul Hornsby, Royal Australian Navy

Paul Hornsby is a marine geophysicist by education and a Mine Warfare specialist
by profession. Paul is Navy Lead for Autonomous Warfare Systems, covering all
domains. He was previously responsible for Mine Warfare, Diving and Special
Operations Capability during which appointment he led the international
Autonomous Warrior 2018 program. He has been Chairman of Australia On The
Map since 2013, and has previously been Chairman of THS, IFHS and President of
AHS.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Harry Hubbert, Greenroom Robotics

Harry Hubbert, co-founder of Greenroom Robotics and former Australian Navy Officer, is proud to have played a part from startup to its current status as a growing, self-sustained business. With a solid eight years of experience in developing, implementing, and supporting intricate solutions in Robotics, Software, and Autonomy, Harry’s journey reflects a blend of technical acumen and humble leadership. His passion lies not just in technological innovation but also in fostering a collaborative environment for innovation, promoting STEM education across Australia, and nurturing leadership qualities within the engineering community. His endeavours with Greenroom Robotics as well as sitting on the board of the Defence Trailblazer Universities Program and the Western Australian Defence Science Centre showcase his commitment to collaborative progress and educational development in technology sectors.

ETM June 2024

Brendan Hyland, WFS technologies Ltd

Brendan is the Founder and Chairman of WFS Technologies. He is an experienced entrepreneur, manager and investor in international technology businesses. Originally from Belfast, Brendan was sponsored by the UK MoD to study electrical and electronic engineering at Queen’s University of Belfast. He has worked in the chemicals industry, in management consultancy and in the industrial instrumentation industry. After completing an MBA at the University of Durham, in 1998 Brendan founded Kymata Ltd, an optoelectronics company that designs and develops planar optical devices. He established operations in Scotland, the Netherlands, the US and Canada before the business was sold to Alcatel in 2001. Brendan founded WFS Technologies in 2003 and has steered it to become the world leader in underwater and underground wireless products and technology. Headquartered near Edinburgh, the company has a customer support centre in Belfast and sales offices in Aberdeen and Houston. It has a growing customer base in the European and US energy, environment, consumer and defence industries.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Mariano Iannuzzi, Curtin University

Mariano Iannuzzi is the Director of the Curtin Corrosion Centre and the Chevron and Woodside Chair in Corrosion, Professor of materials and corrosion science at Curtin University. Mariano also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Mariano earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University and his Bachelor of Science degree from the “Instituto de Tecnología Profesor Jorge Sabato” (Institute of Technology, Professor Jorge Sabato) in Argentina. Before joining Curtin University, Mariano was a Principal Engineer and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Corrosion Engineering at General Electric – Oil and Gas (now BHGE) in Norway, an Assistant Professor at The University of Akron in the U.S., and a Senior Researcher at DNV-GL in both the U.S. and Norway.

ETM Oct 2019

Ahmed Ibrahim, GE Oil & Gas

Ahmed leads the Digital Solutions business for GE Oil & Gas in Asia Pacific, covering multiple business segments including Drilling & Surface, Subsea Systems, Turbomachinery Solutions and Downstream Solutions. In this role, his primary goal is to take Oil & Gas companies on a journey to operational excellence using digital and analytics technologies. Ahmed has been with GE for 8 years. He held roles of increasing responsibilities in sales, supply chain and lean process improvement across the GE O&G portfolio of products. Over the last 3 years, Ahmed has been focusing on the Oil & Gas market in Asia Pacific, increasing automation and infusing technology to achieve financially optimized operations for GE’s customers. Ahmed holds a BSc degree in Marine Engineering from Alexandria University. He is based in Perth- Australia.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Sam Ingarfield, Fugro AG

Originally hailing from Sydney, Sam studied civil engineering at the University of Western Australia before joining Advanced Geomechanics in Nedlands. He has since gone on to work in Fugro’s Perth and European offices following the company’s acquisition of AG in late 2013. Through this he has gained experience in the design of offshore foundations and numerical simulation. He has been pivotal in the development of software simulating a range of geotechnical problems, including submarine mass movement events such as debris flows and turbidity currents.

ETM - Oct 2016

Kevin Ingram, Chevron Australia

Graduated from Aberdeen University with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, joining ABB VetcoGray (now GE Oil & Gas) as a graduate engineer in 1996. Worked in various roles within research and development, proposals and tenders and delivering subsea equipment projects. Joined FMC Technologies in 2005 as a lead subsea project engineer delivered both vertical and Horizontal Xmas tree systems. Joined Chevron in 2006 as a subsea engineer moving to Perth, Australia in 2008 to be the Gorgon package lead engineer responsible for subsea wellheads, Xmas trees and tooling. Joined the Chevron operations subsea and pipelines team in 2014 now supporting Gorgon and Wheatstone operations.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2017

Jan Ingulfsen, Swire Seabed

Jan Arvid Ingulfsen has more than 30 years of experience within the survey industry and the last 16 years involved in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) projects. Started his subsea survey career as a surveyor and cartographer in 1986. Since 1994 worked as a manager for a team of specialists using ROV’s, KM Hugin AUVs and hullmounted systems for detailed seabed mapping and inspection

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Eric Jas, Atteris Pty Ltd, Member representing APGA

Eric is a civil engineer with 30 years’ experience in the offshore and onshore pipeline industries. In his international career to date, he has worked for pipeline construction contractors, engineering design consultancies, as well as pipeline operators. In 1999, Eric founded Atteris Pty Ltd, a subsea and pipelines engineering consultancy, where he has since been the Managing Director and one of the Principle Engineers.

YES! Event, October 2016

Nathan Jensen, NALCO Champion

Nathan possesses over 11-years’ experience within the oil and gas sector, He is currently ChampionX’s Technical Account Manager working with Woodside Energy Limited where he supports a range of asset integrity and flow assurance development projects. Previously he has held the position of Principal Technical Specialist with ChampionX supporting a range to production chemical development project across ANZ and the wider Asia Pacific region. Nathan is currently completing his Ph.D. studies part time with The Centre for Energy at The University of Western Australia. During his time at The University of Western Australian Nathan collaborated and managed a wide range of oil and gas focused development projects, working closely with Chevron Energy Technology Company and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Nathan’s specialities include gas processing and separation techniques, asset Integrity, along with experience in flow assurance (prevention and remediation techniques).

Materials & Corrosion, March 2018

Sam Johns, Castrol Offshore

Sam is currently employed by Castrol Offshore as the Subsea Technical Service Engineer, Asia Pacific region. He provides technical support & specialist training relating to Subsea Control Fluids for Operators, OEM’s and third party service companies. Sam’s 15 years experience with hydraulics, spans from engineering design and fabrication to onsite commissioning and operational roles across the Oil & Gas and Mining sectors in New Zealand and Australia. Sam has Diplomas in Mechanical Engineering and CAD from Christchurch Polytechnic and Trade qualification as a Fitter. Turner, Machinist. Sam currently delivers the Subsea Control Fluids portion of the SUT Subsea Awareness Courses in Perth and SE Asia.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Niekie Jooste, WeldNet

Niekie Jooste received his degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He later obtained diplomas in welding engineering as well as statistics. Niekie is a registered welding engineer with the International Institute of Welding. (IIW) Following his emigration from South Africa, Niekie has been a welding and materials consultant in Australia for ten years, working for the welding consultancy: “The WeldNet”. Niekie is the editor of the futurist welding industry newsletter called: “The WelderDestiny Compass”.

Materials & Corrosion, March 2018

Grant Judson, Australian Maritime Safety Authority

Grant Judson is the Principal Advisor Navigation at the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. He provides high level navigation and nautical advice to enhance safety of navigation in Australian waters. Grant is leading the development of AMSA’s approach to the safe and effective regulation of autonomous vessels here in Australia, and contributes to international work on Marine Autonomous Surface Ships at the International Maritime Organization. Grant is a professional mariner, who looks for safe, practical and risk based solutions.

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

James Keane, Royal Australian Navy

James is a Capability Realisation Engineer with the Royal Australian Navy implementing Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Mine Countermeasures and Rapid Environmental Analysis. This journey began at the Australian Maritime College in Tasmania where he studied Naval Architecture and self taught in programming, especially for robotics. From there James undertook Marine Engineer Officer training which ultimately led back into a unique position – developing and implementing Maritime Autonomous Systems from within Navy.

ETM June 2019

Stephen Keenlyside, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks

Project Manager working for ASN with more than 20 years of subsea communication’s systems delivery experience, including both regional and trans-oceanic systems. Current projects include the recently commissioned North West Cable System which is owned by the Nextgen Group, which is a key component to one of Australia’s largest nationwide fibre optic networks, developed by Nextgen Group, which provides ultra-speed data networking to the northern and western regions of Australia. The North West Cable System also seamlessly connects offshore O&G facilities in the Browse, Bonaparte and Carnarvon Basins to on shore locations.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Paul Kennedy, Guardian Geomatics

Part of the Guardian Geomatics foundation team, Paul brings his strong technical and operational experience in industrial and Hydrographic surveying to establish high standards, rigorous procedures, confidence, and capability that Guardian Geomatics can deliver offshore projects.

As Operations Manager and Director of Marine Site Characterisation at Fugro in Australia, Paul’s role was to oversee the safe and efficient operation of survey projects undertaken in Australia, NZ and Papua New Guinea. A key focus of the role was to drive high quality projects to be delivered on time and on budget. This was achieved from the development of a robust business management system which was very process driven with procedures and work instructions.

From 2014 to 2017, Paul was the project director for the search for MH370. His role was to design the search systems, plan the execution of the search and to oversee the excellent team Fugro assembled. The project team consisted of more than 300 individual team members and is regarded as the single largest offshore survey ever undertaken.

Paul is a graduate in Oceanography, and post-graduate in Hydrographic surveying. He has worked in industry throughout his career, in Aberdeen, SE Asia and Australia as a data processor, Surveyor, Party Chief, Project Manager and Data Center Manager. Paul is a AHSCP Certified Level 1 Hydrographic Surveyor, and the SSSI Commissioner for Hydrography in Western Australia.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

Anthony Kerr, DOF Subsea Australia

Anthony has a Surveying Degree from Curtin University, is a Licensed Surveyor (Land Surveying) in the state of Western Australia and has been working in the offshore oil and gas industry for the last 25 years. His first offshore surveying position was with Racal Survey which later became known as Thales GeoSolutions. Anthony was Survey Manager at Racal Survey (Thales GeoSolutions) until the company was merged with another survey company at which time he joined some colleagues and formed Tri-Surv Geomatics as Technical Director. Tri-Surv Geomatics was latter acquired by Neptune Marine Services and was rebranded Neptune Geomatics. In 2011 Anthony joined Wood Groupside Energy Limited as Survey Projects Manager and for approximately 4 years worked on Wood Groupside’s Browse FLNG project. In January 2015 Anthony started at DOF Subsea as Survey Project Manager involved with various projects onboard the DOF Subsea vessels the Skandi Hercules, Skandi Singapore, Skandi Protector and the Skandi Hawk.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

Andrea Kesterson, Woodside Energy

Andrea started her career working for Boeing in Oklahoma City. She then changed industries to join WorleyParsons and relocated to Dallas to establish the Proposal Centre and work as a Business and Proposals Manager. After her time at WorleyParsons she relocated again this time to Perth to join Woodside as a Business Advisor on the proposed Browse Development. Following this, she joined the Canadian Business Unit, responsible for establishing Woodside’s Canadian business presence after an acquisition in British Columbia. Currently, she is the Change Manager for the Operational Technology team where the focus is to deliver fit for purpose Operational Technology cyber security.

YES! Cyber Security - May 2017

Loai Khalayli, Woodside Energy

Loai is a graduate engineer at Woodside. Loai is part of Woodside’s Operational Technology team, which is focussed on minimising the cyber security threats to industrial control systems. Prior to this role, he worked as an Instrumentation and Control Systems engineer supporting the North West Shelf Project operations for two years. On the Greater Western Flank-1 Project, he worked on the interfaces of Topsides Control systems to subsea systems, and was the main instrumentation and control systems engineer in the start-up team for Tidepole wells.

YES! Cyber Security - May 2017

Dowon Kim, Curtin University

Dowon Kim received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the
Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea, in 2003
and 2009, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with Curtin
University, Bentley, WA, Australia. From 1998 to 2011, he was a Transmission and
Substation Engineer and an Engineering Lecturer with Korea Electric Power
Corporation, Seoul, South Korea. He was a Senior Testing and Commissioning
Engineer with Global Testing Services, Canning Vale, WA, Australia until 2016.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Peter King, Australian Maritime College

Peter King is the AUV Facility Coordinator for the Autonomous Maritime Systems Laboratory, Australian Maritime College. He is a Computer Engineer who has spent the past decade working on the development and deployment of AUVs

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

William Kirkwood , Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

William (Bill) Kirkwood has been with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) since 1991. Bill has developed a number of vehicles and instruments at MBARI including the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon, the autonomous vehicle class (AUV) Dorado and the deep ocean Raman systems (DORISS) to name a few. Bill is also an Adjunct Engineering Professor at Santa Clara University (SCU), working with undergraduate and graduate students since 1999.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

James Knipe, Subsea Engineering Associates

After completing his MSc in Pipeline Engineering, James started his career in Aberdeen working for a specialist consultancy developing methods of analyzing flexible flowlines. Various roles followed including a 9 month stint in Nigeria as Interface engineer on a large deepwater development, and project management roles on North Sea projects, mainly brownfield subsea gas tie-backs. James has been living in Perth for a little over 5 years and is a lead subsea engineer at Subsea Engineering Associates. Over the past few years James’ role has mainly been lead engineer on trunkline and transmission pipeline projects, from the design engineering phase through to construction.

Evening Technical Meeting - August 2018

Rachel Koch , Blue Ocean Monitoring

Rachel has undertaken hydrographic surveys for over 13 years, a career that encompasses AUV surveys in many different environments. Rachel has a diverse project portfolio ranging from operational support of offshore diamond mining in Africa ,through to mission critical planning and execution of surveys in the search for Malaysian airline MH370. Her experience in simultaneously managing and coordinating a large fleet of AUVs at significant water depths is unprecedented. Rachel has now embarked on a new challenge and is developing the AUV service line at Blue Ocean Monitoring as AUV Survey Manager.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Magnus Komperød, Nexans Norway AS

Dr. Magnus Komperød has been working at Technological Analyses Centre in Nexans Norway AS since January 2012. His main research interests are mathematical models and physical testing of subsea power cables, umbilicals, and power umbilicals. Over the last three years Dr. Komperød has mainly been working on R&D projects aiming towards (i) cables and umbilicals in ultra-deep and hyper-deep waters and (ii) cables’ and umbilicals’ sensitivity to the ambient temperature.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Stella Kortekaas, Fugro AS

Stella is a principal geologist with Fugro AG. She has about 20 years of experience in geology. After 10 years of academic research (PhD and 2 post-docs) she joined Fugro Engineers in the Netherlands in 2006. There, she managed the geological consulting group for a few years. In 2011 Stella came to Perth for a secondment in Fugro Survey. When the secondment finished she decided to stay in Perth and worked for a short period in Worley Parsons and then AG, which later became Fugro. In the 10 years in Fugro, Worley and AG she worked on numerous integration projects, site characterisations, geohazard assessments and geological models.

ETM - Oct 2016

Justin Kretschmar, Teledyne

Justin Kretschmar is the Vice President of Business Development, Strategy, & Product Line Management for Teledyne Marine. Justin focuses on aligning products and services to meet the needs of the market and drives business growth through development of markets and partnerships. Justin has 13 years’ experience, including Teledyne R&D groups as a New Product Development Engineer and as Manager for Strategy & Application Development. Justin has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida, and Executive Education Certificate’s from the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina.

SCDU 2024

Karstein Berge Kristiansen, Siemens Energy

Karstein Berge Kristiansen works as discipline lead engineer in the subsea Electrification, Automation and Digitalization section of Siemens Energy.

He lives in Trondheim Norway and holds a master’s degree in chip design from the Technological University of Norway in Trondheim. He started with a Certificate of Apprenticeship in Electronics and have worked with many types of electronic devices and problems for more than forty years.

SCDU 2024

Daniel Kruimel, Teledyne

Daniel has several years of business development and project management experience both in Australia and South East Asia. He has recently rejoined Teledyne after previously working for CARIS and will be focusing on ensuring clients investing in Teledyne solutions receive maximum RoI for their software and hardware.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Ajith Kumar, FMC Technologies Singapore

Been with FMC since 2009. Graduate Engineer in Electronics & Instrumentation with 18 years experience in Oil & Gas Industry including for Upstream & Downstream segments covering Topsides & Subsea domains in Project Engineering & Management , Software Configuration Services, Startup & Commissioning.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Myo Kyaw Thu, Baker Hughes

Myo has over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He entered the industry in 2002 as a Subsea Designer working for ABB Vetco Gray in Singapore. Since then he has taken various engineering roles within the industry such as Subsea Design Engineer (Vetco Gray), Subsea Project Engineer / Xmas Tree Applications Engineer (GE Oil & Gas), Well Engineer (Stuart Wright Pte Ltd), and currently working as a Senior Well Systems Engineer at Baker Hughes Ltd. in Perth, Australia. Qualification : BEng Mechanical (Hons) from National University of Singapore (2006), MSc (Management of Technology) from National University of Singapore (2012).

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2024

Brian Lamb, Shell Australia

Brian is presently a Senior Subsea IMR Engineer for Shell Australia and has worked in the Energy Industry for 27 years. For the last 12 years he has worked at Shell in various Subsea Engineering roles linked predominately to the Prelude FLNG and Malampaya Subsea Gas Projects. He joined SUT 9 years ago and has presented the introductory presentation at SUT Subsea Awareness Courses in Singapore, Malaysia and Perth. Previously Brian has held roles in Subsea and Intervention Engineering projects as well as in defense industry roles in the US. Brian is a Chartered Member of Engineers Australia and has a Mechanical Engineering degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

Subsea Awareness Course, August 2020

Beniot Lamoureux, DORIS Engineering Australia

I started as a process/flow assurance engineer for Doris Engineering in 2003, I then moved to Perth in 2006 and worked for several Operators (Apache, Chevron, PTTEP) as a subsea/commissioning engineer. I was Involved in several offshore projects, including Van Gogh, Gorgon, Montara, covering the design and construction phases of subsea hardware (SPS and URF) and the installation and commissioning/start-up of production assets from the process facilities (FPSO, onshore gas plants etc.). I re-joined Doris Engineering earlier this year and now act as Managing Director for its business in the Asia Pacific region.

ETM Oct 2017

Matt Lancien, SPEC Pty Ltd.

Matt holds a double degree in Mechanical and Welding Engineering from the University of Metz and the French Welding Institute. He started his career in Paris as a Welding Engineer but has spent most of his time assigned to offshore pipelay vessels and fabrication yards in West Africa and The Middle East. He has worked on large EPCI projects ranging from shallow to deep water with an array of complex CRA and carbon steel pipelines, risers and subsea structures. He has also worked twice in Antarctica on the French research station. He arrived down under in 2010 where he first worked on the design and construction of 2 large diameter onshore pipelines in Queensland. He is currently working in Perth as a Materials & Welding Engineer for SPEC providing specialised engineering solutions and advice to Operators and Contractors for the design, procurement, fabrication and offshore installation of subsea and pipeline projects.

Evening Technical Meeting, June 2015

Andy Lane, NGI Perth

Andy graduated in Geology, University of London in 1972. On graduation joined Binnie and Partners, Consulting Engineers on the Wash Feasibility Study; where mainly involved with metocean data – but managed some geology (and fishing!). Followed this with four years in the North Sea with E.G. & G Geophysical Ltd, then four years with E.G. & G in Singapore and two years with E.G. & G. Australia Pty, starting as a trainee Geophysicist and ending up as Chief Geophysicist. Worked in Perth as an independent consultant (1984 to 2002), mainly on Oil and Gas projects, with some construction and mining projects. As an independent was fortunate to work for a variety of operators on most of the NWS projects. In 2002 joined Woodside as a geohazard analyst. Developed the Company’s geohazards capability, becoming the Geotechnical and Geohazards Co-ordinator within the Geomatics department. Retired in 2014

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Céline Lanoëlle, Atteris

Celine graduated in France and started her career as a flexible riser analyst with MCS Galway, Ireland were she established strong basis for Finite Element analysis. She soon moved to Perth and broaden her skills to installation support of flexible risers and flowlines , as well analysis of other riser types including drilling risers, top tension risers and SCRs. However she did not limit herself to analytical work. Throughout her career, she also built expertise in integrity management and operation support, managing to cover many aspects and project phases of flexible riser engineering. She is now working as a lead engineer for Atteris. She is also a member of the WISE task group, and is glad to be part of the team running the Get Wiser events.

ETM Jun 2017

Geoffrey Lawes, iXblue

Geoff Lawes joined iXblue in 2018 following a 17 year career as a Maritime
Geospatial Officer in the Royal Australian Navy. During his time in the Navy, Geoff
Commanded a Navy survey ship and also held headquarters staff roles in the
Hydrographic Meteorological and Oceanographic group. He has a unique blend of
skills and experience having also studied and worked in the fields of Physics,
Computer Science, Hydrographic Science and Navigation. Geoff enjoys being on the
leading edge of subsea technology and is always looking for new ways to solve
complex problems in this challenging environment.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Aaron Leather, Oceaneering

Aaron Leather started his career in Aviation as a Commercial Pilot before moving into the Oil and Gas industry as a ROV Pilot 16 years ago. Being heavily involved in ROV operations offshore before bringing his knowledge and experience into the onshore operations team at Oceaneering. He is still involved in aviation and drone technologies outside of his Operations Manager role and is currently working with new technology development for the offshore industry.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Jason LeCoultre , IAS Group

Jason has been working with composite materials since undertaking his engineering degree at the University of Western Australia. Over the last 20 years he has used composites as an alternative to traditional steel replacement in the Australian resources industries. He is the General Manager of the ICR.IAS joint Venture and, recently has worked closely with the University of Western Australia on the use of composites for subsea structural applications.

June ETM - Jun 2021

Che Keong Lee, Kongsberg Maritime

Che Keong (CK) is the Subsea Sales Manager at Kongsberg Maritime Singapore office responsible for subsea construction, autonomous navigation and monitoring applications in Asia. CK has been with Kongsberg Maritime for 5 years, before this he was with C&C for 6 years. In Kongsberg, he has been involved with developing subsidence monitoring and long term autonomous solutions with operators and contractors

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Karthicase Letchumanan, TechnipFMC

Karthicase received Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’sDegree with Honours from University Malaya in 2001 and then he completed Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same University in 2016.He has over two decades of industrial experience, and out that, close to 17-years working for FMC Technologies/TechnipFMC in the field of subsea product engineering, specializing in Subsea Tree system design, manufacturing, system integration testing, offshore drilling and completion, subsea testing and SPS system engineering. Areas of expertise include Subsea Tree hardware design engineering and subsea drilling and completion. Designed the flagship Shell Prelude Full Bore EVDT Tree and associated EVDT tools suite and vastly contributed to the development of the idea of Light Weight Tree, hence developing TechnipFMC’s Subsea 1.5 Tree design.Projects led in the past include Shell Gumusut-Kakap-Ph1, Shell Prelude, Anadarko-Prosperidade/Golfinho, Woodside GWF-Ph1 Tidepole Drilling and Completion, Shell PSCR IMR and COPA BUIW Drilling and Completion. Strong involvement in legacy projects such as Woodside Vincent, Woodside Chinguetti, Woodside Xena/Pluto and Shell STAR.Currently, working as Project Engineering Manager for TechnipFMC’s Front-End and System Engineering organization based in Perth, supporting as SPS System Engineer/Lead and Front-End Study Manager for EPCI Projects such as Shell Crux, Woodside Lambert West FEED and Chevron MSO.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2024

Luca Letizia, OneSubsea

Luca Letizia is currently working as Subsea manager for OneSubsea, based in Perth. He has a first degree in Chemical Engineering, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Nottingham University and MBA from Warwick University in the UK. His career has moved from multiphase flow modelling, to software development to engineering and management and commercial roles in Schlumberger and OneSubsea. He is currently looking after the Subsea sales and marketing for Australia and China. In its spare time, Luca is an avid surfer and motorbike enthusiast.

October ETM, Oct 2020

Julien Levadoux, OneSubsea

Julien Levadoux is currently working for OneSubsea, in Perth, as a Subsea Production System Technical Manager for the Woodside Scarborough project. Julien has a Master of Science in Mechanics from ENSAM and a Master of Science in Fluid Mechanics from the University of PARIS VI. Julien has over 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry and has previously worked for Total in the USA as a research engineer before joining Cameron Controls in Germany where he has designed Subsea Controls components and Systems for four years. He relocated to Perth with Aker Solutions early 2009 as a Subsea Controls System Engineer before returning to Cameron (now OneSubsea) late 2010

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Casper Lewis, GE Oil & Gas

Caspar has several years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He has served in a variety of engineering roles in his career with GE and most recently with the team in Perth as a Subsea Systems Engineer

Operating Subsea - April 2017

Michael Lewis, Proserv Offshore

Michael served an apprenticeship with Brisco Engineering in the UK, a manufacturer of topside wellhead control systems, he progressed onto working as a commissioning engineer for wellhead controls systems in the North Sea and Scandinavia. Michael moved onto Baker Hughes where he continued his career in control systems and was instrumental in the development of the CAC subsea control system. He was relocated from the UK to Dubai in 2004 where he spent eight years as the GM for Weatherford’s controls business. In 2012 Michael relocated to KL with Proserv, as VP Technical Sales where he also completed an MBA, before moving to Perth in 2014 to manage the integration of the Velocius/Proserv business. Michael is now responsible for Proserv’s subsea systems business in the Asia Pacific region

ETM Apr 2017

David Liddy, MacDermid

Over 25 years in the Offshore Oil & Gas Industry, working in Research & Development and Technical Support.
UK based Technical Manager for MacDermid Offshore Solutions since 2007. Responsible for R&D in EMEA region and supporting hydraulic control fluid business globally.

SCDU 2024

Adrian Lim, Rosen Australia

Adrian is ROSEN’s Asia Pacific Regional Manager for Integrity Management and Engineering Services. He is a proven engineering professional with 19 years engineering (pipelines and other assets), integrity management and project delivery/management experience. He has worked for both Wood Group and Woodside. Recent past roles include Technical Integrity Custodian for Woodside’s pipelines and Team Lead for Riser Delivery (Engineering and Procurement) for Woodside’s Persephone Development. Adrian’s hobby horse is integrity and Fitness For Service (FFS) assessments for a broad range of assets (pipelines, pressure vessels, and process and storage tanks). This expertise is recognized by peers and industry, and Adrian is a group leader for the Australian Standard (AS 2885.3),was a steering committee member for DNV RP F101, DNV RP F116 and ISO 19345 (Integrity management for offshore pipelines).

ETM Aug 2017

Rodrigo Lima , Aker Solutions

12 years of experience in Oil & Gas, withing subsea control systems and system engineering, both in the Norwegian Continental Shelf and in Brazil. Has been involved in numerous projects covering concept selection, detailed engineering, product testing, qualification and commissioning of topside and subsea controls equipment. Working with Aker Solutions for the past 4 years as Specialist Engineer within Controls.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Liz Lindahl, Wood

Liz is the Director of Wood Studies Service Line.  She has over 25 years’ experience in the oil & gas industry.  She started her career in Houston, Texas as a subsea pipeline engineer.  After moving to Perth over 14 years ago she moved into management at  Wood. Liz has been active in SUT over the last 8 years and has been on the committee for many of those years.  She has volunteered her time on several subcommittees including scholarship and YES! subcommittees. If you have talked to Liz before you would probably know about her keen interest in cruising or camping around the Western Australian coast with her husband, fishing, diving and relaxing in the sun.

AOG - Mar 2018

Steffan Lindsø, Oceaneering

Steffan has a Masters degree in Naval Architecture from the University of Southampton. He has since then worked as a Naval Architect for Maersk, building everything from container vessels to tug boats. Later worked as a Project Manager for Damen Shipyards in Singapore, building fast aluminium patrol vessels and crew carriers.
In Oceaneering, Steffan has been working in various positions, starting with subsea engineering. Currently working as Subsea Robotics Product Manager, forming the strategy for Oceaneerings future robotics, as well as being heavily involved in the development and testing of our new autonomous systems.

Lunchtime Technical Meeting June 2020

Thomas Longo, Technip Oceania Pty Ltd

Thomas’s background is predominantly in project / subsea installation engineering with the EPCI contractor Technip, with experience across a variety of work scopes including: SURF installation; Riser Colum hook up;Subsea Gas Compressor Station Module Installation, Hook-up and Pre-commissioning (world first); Subsea pre-commissioning activities; FPSO disconnection and decommissioning; andManifold, EHFL and Spool Installation; Thomas’s other roles have included mechanical package engineering for platform design as well as some early career experience in mechanical maintenance engineering. Thomas has worked both onshore and offshore with the majority of the time spent in Australia and Norway, as well as short stints of work in Malaysia and India.

Flexi Risers course, August 2016

John S Løvås , TechnipFMC

John S Løvås is currently Chief Systems Engineer – Subsea Controls for TechnipFMC Norway. He has over 30 years of experience in Installation, commissioning, operations and maintenance as service engineer (5 years),  Projects/FEED as lead and project engineering (10 years whereas Expat 3 years in US and 3 years in Brazil), Aftermarket Engineering manager (2 years) and Subsea Controls SME system Engineer (6 years), where he has developed in-depth knowledge of the design, manufacturing, installation, operations and of subsea controls systems. He spent his last 3 years as Global Customer Eng. networks to align regions engineering/product offering, tendering and life of field to maintain focus on customer technical relationship.

His current responsibilities as Chief Systems Engineer is introduction, development of new control system   product / technology, support TechnipFMC regions offices Brazil, Singapore, Australia, US and Norway and interaction with the customers.

John S Løvås has Bachelor of Engineering in Automation system from TOS technical university in Kongsberg, Norway.

SCDU 2024

Eldar Lundanes, TechnipFMC

Eldar Lundanes is an electrical engineer who joined TechnipFMC and the oil and gas industry in 2001. Since then he has been working with subsea control systems and field development through all phases from R&D and concept studies, to project execution and post installation support. He is currently based in TechnipFMC’s Kongsberg office focusing his efforts on the development of new control system technologies.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Lindsay Lyon, Shark Shield Pty Ltd

Lindsay is the Managing Director of Shark Shield, he has over 25 years as a successful, energetic and entrepreneurial business leader with a proven track record in both private and public companies through building executive teams to develop and execute on strategic business objectives. Lindsay’s extensive corporate experience includes senior executive of a multi-national, CEO of an ASX listed company, growing globally focused early stage ventures including capital raisings, IPO’s, M&A and managing a P&L while delivering customer satisfaction and shareholder value without compromising quality or safety standards.

ETM Feb 2017

Laura Machuca-Suarez, Curtin University

Dr. Laura Machuca-Suarez is a lecturer at the Curtin Corrosion Engineering Industry Centre (CCEIC), Curtin University since 2013. She is an environmental microbiologist with over 10 years of both research and industrial experience. Laura completed her Ph.D in Corrosion at Curtin University, Australia and currently leads research and industry projects in the field of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) and the role of microorganisms in deterioration processes such atmospheric, marine and oilfield corrosion. Her current research focuses on the application of biomolecular, electrochemical and surface analytical technologies to study MIC. Laura is engaged in the supervision of several Ph.D students and is a member of the Australasian Corrosion Association (ACA) and the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) in which she is part of two Technical Working Groups.

ETM - Feb 2016

Harry Mackay, Woodside Energy

Harry Mackay has over 25 years’ experience in the Oil & Gas industry and is currently employed by Woodside Energy Ltd, Subsea & Pipelines Function as the Subsea Systems Technical Authority. He graduated from Robert Gordon University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has an extensive background in subsea hardware and subsea control systems in both Subsea Operations & Projects. He is a Fellow member of the SUT and has served on the Perth Branch Committee between 2008 & 2011. – Since then Harry has been actively involved in various SUT Courses as a presenter and has been involved in various SUT sub-committees including the Subsea Controls Down under, Scholarships & the Immerse exhibit

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Norman Mackay, DOF Subsea

Norman Mackay is currently responsible for Business Development for DOF Subsea who are a leading provider of integrated life of field subsea services to the offshore oil and gas industry and renewables sectors. Originally born in Scotland, he gained an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Information Technology at the Robert Gordon’s University in Aberdeen, Norman has gained over 35 years of experience within the Oil & Gas Industry and Renewables Market Sectors operating mainly in the subsea marketplace. This experience has been gained in the fields of business development, project management and sales & marketing at senior management level. Norman holds membership with the Perth branch of the Society of Underwater Technology and the Energy Club of WA.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2022

Ian MacLeod, Fremantle Museums & Collections

Ian MacLeod has a Ph D in electrochemisty and a D Sc in materials conservation of shipwrecks. Shipwreck artefacts provide logged data on the oceanographic microenvironment reaching back for hundreds of years. Graphitisation of cast iron on reefs provides a very reliable modelling of the flux of dissolved oxygen in a highly turbulent situation. Uneven concretion patterns warn of localised attack as the rate of concretion formation responds to localised corrosion rates as does the in-situ pH. Asset management teams need to tap into this resource to protect infrastructure which is being pushed beyond original design life.

ETM - Apr 2016

Chris Madeley, SEA Global

Chris has been with SEA for over a decade, and is responsible for analytics and leading development of SEA’s ICE Platform. He has a varied background in subsea engineering, applied mathematics, software automation, and data science.

Oct ETM 2024

Sarah Madrigal, Arup

Sarah joined Arup as a graduate engineer after completing a degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Western Australia. Sarah has been involved in the management and delivery of offshore geotechnical projects covering a wide range of geological areas and technical requirements.  Sarah has experience in site investigation planning and execution, the development of geological models and geotechnical interpretation of laboratory testing, and the design of infrastructure such as gravity based platforms, subsea structures, piles and mooring systems.

Subsea Awareness Course, Sept 2017

Carsten Mahler, OneSubsea

Dr. Carsten Mahler works as a research engineer for subsea controls at OneSubsea. His work focuses on research, concepts, studies and new technology developments in the arena of all-electric control systems. Before joining OneSubsea, Carsten has worked as a researcher at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, focusing on engineering processes in automation.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Neil Manning , 3D at Depth

Manning’s career spans over 20 years in the offshore Oil and Gas, and Submarine Network Telecommunications industries where his focus was system and subsea engineering solutions. His successful record of initiating strategies to enable business growth has resulted in expanded operations and sales, advancements in technologies, and corporate acquisitions. As President of CD Ltd, the company’s annual revenue growth increased by a factor of 10x, and Manning was a key member for the sale of CDL to then Teledyne Technologies. Manning has also led a variety of corporate expansion efforts internationally in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

ETM Feb-19

Marius Martens, INTECSEA

Marius is the Floating Systems Manager of INTECSEA and also the Chairman of Subsea Energy Australia. He has been working in the Australian offshore and subsea industries for over 18yrs; initially as a Naval Architect, then as a Riser Engineer. Although he is now responsible for all of Floating Systems, he originally established the INTECSEA Riser Group in the ANZ region 11yrs ago. The riser group has developed from there and reached a pinnacle in carrying out, not only the original conceptual and pre-FEED design, but also the detailed design of the INPEX Ichthys Riser System. Competing globally, using their Australian expertise, this team have undertaken riser projects from all over the world; including the Gasprom Shtokman Project in Russia, ENI Goliat Project in Norway and Ophir Fortuna in West Africa. As a result Marius has gained riser engineering and Naval Architecture experience from all project phases: Concept Selection, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Installation, Brown Field Inspection and Intervention.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - November 2021

James Martin, TechnipFMC

James Martin graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Huddersfield in England and went on to join Dril-Quip Inc’s graduate program in 1997. As design engineer he participated in a number of subsea and surface systems for North Sea projects. He moved to FMC Technologies Singapore, to take up the role of lead engineer for Woodside Chinguetti Phase 2 in 2004. He was the system engineer for Woodside Pluto on which he ultimately served offshore as a crew chief. After over a year in field development he went on to become the engineering manager for the CNOOC Lihua 4-1 development and then engineering manager for the Woodside Greater Western Flank Phase 1 development. In 2014 he moved with FMC technologies Perth as chief engineer to support the Woodside portfolio and technical sales. He is currently in the Perth Front-End Engineering team for TechnipFMC

SSAC - Sept 2017

Rune Martinussen, Equinor ASA

Rune Martinussen is the Lead Advisor for Subsea Control Systems at Equinor. Before joining the company, he served as an officer in the Royal Norwegian Navy and held several technical and managerial roles in the supplier industry. He is an alumnus of the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, where he specialized in Underwater Warfare Systems.

SCDU 2024

Zach McCann, Sonomatic

Zach McCann has been active in the NDT industry for 26 years, working in all areas of industry between 1993 and 2004, before taking on a management and development role within Sonomatic in 2005, working with a strong team to build Aberdeen primarily in the subsea division, implementing new approaches to existing subsea inspection approaches and initiating the companies ROV deployed inspection systems.  In 2009 he started and with a strong team, has since been building Sonomatic’s Australian and SEA operations.

Materials & Corrosion Course - August 2019

Michael McCarthy, Western Australian Museum

As the Western Australian Museum’s ‘Inspector of Wrecks’ Michael (Mack) McCarthy was responsible for the assessment of newly-found sites and from 1981 led the Museum’s HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran programs being ‘official observer’ on the 2008 site inspections.Recognized at the subsequent Court of Inquiry as a ‘persistent agitator’ for resolving the mysteries, he was a member of the 2015 re-visitation. An Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University and Texas A&M University he has published widely in maritime archaeology and maritime history has curated many exhibitions and numerous websites.

ETM - Feb 2016

Robert McCauley, Curtin University

Associate Professor Robert McCauley has been an active researcher at CMST for 20 years, having been studying sea noise for some 30 years. He completed a part time PhD through James Cook University, whilst working at Curtin, in 2001. His PhD interest was vocalising fishes, which the ocean is full of especially in the tropics. He has since expanded his interest to larger fauna, notably great whales and has spent much of his science career studying the impacts of man-made noise, notably marine seismic, on marine fauna ranging from plankton to great whales.

ETM - June 2016

James McCawley, Fugro

James McCawley graduated with a Bachelor of Geomatic Engineering from University of NSW in 1994 and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Hydrographic Surveying at the University of Plymouth in 1996. Later in 1996, James joined Fugro in Perth as a Hydrographic Surveyor and worked offshore as a Surveyor, Data Processor and Party Chief on a wide variety of projects in Australia and internationally.
In 2008, James was promoted to Project Manager with a focus on delivering Fugro’s construction support survey services to contractors such as TechnipFMC, Clough, Subsea 7 and McDermott for offshore and subsea installation projects. James is currently Fugro Australia’s Positioning and Construction Support service line manager and is responsible for delivery of these services in the Pacific region. He is also Fugro Australia’s (survey) Operations Manager, managing the team of personnel and equipment resources that are deployed across multiple projects.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

Morgan McDermont, Advanced Navigation

Morgan heads the design team for the Acoustic Products portfolio at Advanced
Navigation. As a mechatronic engineer with a work history in field robotics and
autonomous systems, Morgan has driven the development of the Subsonus family
of acoustic navigation, communication and sensing instruments. His interest in the
field extends from a passion for subsea electronics and scuba diving.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Jock McFarlane

Flexible Risers & Flowlines Course - Nov 2021

Andrew McGregor, Sonomatic

Andrew is a Chartered Professional Engineer with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from UNSW. He has over twenty-eight years’ of professional experience. Andrew has spent the last twenty-two years in the oil and gas industry, both onshore and offshore in Australia in a variety of operational and consulting roles. During this time, he has led the development and implementation of statutory compliance, risk-based inspection (RBI) and corrosion under insulation (CUI) programs for numerous operators including Santos, Quadrant Energy, Apache Corporation, ConocoPhillips and Shell.
Andrew has developed and executed integrity inspection scopes for major gas plant and refinery turnarounds and has also performed statutory inspections of various items of pressure equipment. He has also been personally involved in hundreds of fitness-for-service assessments and failure investigations. He has extensive experience in metallurgical failure analysis and root cause analysis techniques along with broad knowledge of non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques.
Andrew joined Sonomatic in the role of Integrity Team Manager – Australia in November 2023.

Materials & Corrosion Course, July 2024

Colin McIvor, Subsea Innovation Cluster Australia

Colin has over 28 years’ experience with global consulting firms in engineering, resources and management consulting. Colin holds an engineering degree and PhD from Kings College, London and has a strong background in engineering computer simulation and running expert teams and applying this to technical innovation and risk management. He has spent a significant part of his career establishing and running Knowledge Management and Innovation initiatives for a number of international companies. He has been the Cluster Manager for Subsea Innovation Cluster Australia (SICA) for several years establishing it as the trusted broker in facilitating complex collaborative subsea innovation projects.

SCDU 2024

Mark McKenzie, K2 Technology Pty Ltd

Mark is a highly qualified and experienced asset management consultant who is a chartered engineer and a fellow of Engineers Australia. He has worked in the mining, oil and gas and defence industries, in Australia and overseas. He has presented papers and delivered training at a number of national and international conferences. He is passionate about educating companies and individuals in the art of managing their assets. This passion is evident in his work with the Asset Management Council and University of Western Australia where he is an Adjunct Associate Professor.

Reliabilty course, February 2017

Simon McManus, MacDermid Offshore Solutions

Simon studied Engineering in Manchester specialising in hydraulic control systems before working on the Occidental Claymore Platform during the installation of the SCAPA subsea template back in 1988. After working on several other offshore installations and in hydraulic testing, Simon is now a Chartered Engineer with an MBA from Hull and has run the Technical function for MacDermid for the last 20 years, developing the Oceanic and Erifon range of products now used worldwide for hydraulic subsea control.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Mahna Mehdizadeh, Woodside Energy Ltd

Mahna has been working in Oil and Gas industry over 10 yrs taking several roles in different companies as Subsea Interface Engineer, Subsea System Engineer, Subsea Umbilical Engineer, and Subsea Controls Engineer. Companies that Mahna has work with are Aker Solutions, INTECSEA, Chevron, & Woodside Energy Ltd.

Mahna has joined Woodside 2.5 yrs ago and her current role is Scarborough Subsea Controls and Umbilical Lead. Her job involves supporting the project for technical development and design of Subsea Controls System and Umbilical. Subsea Controls system and Umbilical are key components on subsea production system for safe and controlled operation of the field and production of the hydrocarbon from subsurface to the offshore processing facility. She has participated as the presenter, Umbilical Product, for the Perth SUT.

SSAC - May 2022

Christopher Merrick, DORIS Engineering

Christopher Merrick is a Consultant Subsea Engineer for DORIS Engineering Australia with a passion for solving technically complex problems. He has 18 years of experience encompasses engineering, project management, asset integrity and operations, most recently having completed 6 years as Senior Subsea Engineer for PTTEP Australia. Chris holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Edith Cowan (Western Australia), a Masters in Oil and Gas Engineering from UWA (Western Australia), and an MBA from UWA (Western Australia).

ETM Oct 2019

Salvatore Micali, Aker Solutions

Salvatore Micali works as a Regional Concept Line Manager for the Front End Subsea Facilities department of Aker Solutions in Perth, Western Australia where is focused on early concept, customer engagement and business development activities for the subsea systems. He is involved in the assessment of new subsea production and processing applications, involving also power, control, process and boosting technologies. Mr Micali holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the Catania University, Italy. He has more than 11 years of experience from the Oil & Gas industry focusing on offshore applications. Before starting in Aker Solutions Perth, Salvatore worked 3 years in Oslo, Norway in the Head Quarter of Aker Solutions’ Subsea department and 4 years at GE Oil & Gas in the Turbo Machinery department in Florence, Italy.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Ronan Michel, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks

Ronan is an Electrical & Telecom engineer. Working for Alcatel submarine cable from 1989, he has installed then sold submarine cables worldwide. From 2006, he started Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks diversification in Oil & Gas. He sold the 3 major subsea fibre networks connecting platforms to shore, in Australasia, since 2009. He is currently Product Line Manager Oil & Gas, including DC/FO development and qualification.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Ronan Michel, ASN

Ronan is an Electrical & Telecom fibre engineer.

Working for Alcatel submarine cable for 35 years, he has installed then sold submarine cables worldwide.

From 2006, he started Alcatel Submarine Networks diversification in Oil & Gas.

In Australasia, he sold the major subsea fibre networks for connecting platforms to shore.

He is currently Product Line Manager Oil & Gas.

SCDU 2024

Scott Miller, Fugro Survey Pty Ltd

Scott Miller has a bachelor of cartography from Curtin University, Western Australia which included an exchange to the University of Gavle in Sweden, graduating in 2000. He then commenced working at Fugro Survey in early 2001 employed as software tester and multibeam data processor. From there he continued through to become a hydrographic surveyor and then Party Chief or Site Manager. In 2014 he was certified by the AHSCP as a level 1 Certified Professional Hydrographic Surveyor. Upon Fugro’s award of the search for MH370 Reconnaissance (Phase 1) project he was tasked with overseeing the mobilisation, calibration and customer acceptance of the survey systems onboard the Fugro Equator and also appointed Party Chief, a role he has continued into Phase 2 (Deep Tow Survey) of the project, spending more than 1 year in the search effort.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

Richard Mills, Kongsberg Maritime

Richard Mills is the Sales Director for Marine Robotics at Kongsberg Maritime. He is
responsible for the global sales and marketing of the HUGIN, the recently released
HUGIN Superior AUV Systems, and the Sounder USV. He leads a sales team located
in Norway, the UK and USA. Richard has been with Kongsberg since 2012. Prior to
this he held a similar position with ISE located in Vancouver, Canada.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Andrew Mills, Wood

A materials engineer by training, Andrew has over 20 years of experience in the fields of integrity, risk, inspection, and materials technology.  Andrew has spent time developing, reviewing, auditing, and implementing Integrity Management systems in many countries.  He has acted as an independent consultant to the West Australian Government Regulator on issues of plant and pipeline integrity.   He has been with Wood for 17 years, including 2 years in KL and 7 years in Jakarta, and is currently based in Perth, with global involvement in Wood Group’s integrity management offerings.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - June 2018

Ian Milne , University of Western Australia

Dr Ian Milne is a Senior Research Fellow within the Oceans Graduate School at The University of Western Australia, where he is a lead researcher within the ARC Industrial Transformational Research Hub for Offshore Floating Facilities (offshorehub.edu.au). He has specialised expertise in metocean engineering and fluid-structure interaction for floating structures with application to the design and operation of large-scale energy projects, having worked within oil and gas operators, engineering consultancies and academia and having published in the leading international journals within the field

Metocean - June 2021

Marcos Mockel, Shawcor

Marcos Mockel is a Chemical Engineer with over 14 years of international experience in the pipeline service market. His has served in different executive, commercial and technical roles during these years. He is currently the Senior Manager, Global Technical Solutions for Shawcor Pipeline Performance and one of the technical authorities of Pipeline Performance group.

ETM Oct 2017

Thushi Mohan, Baker Hughes

Thushanthan Mohanarajah is a highly experienced Senior Subsea Control System Engineer with over 15 years of expertise in the oil and gas industry. Specializing in Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), detailed design, software development, testing, and commissioning of subsea and topside systems, he has successfully delivered numerous projects for complex offshore and onshore facilities. His comprehensive skills span across subsea control systems, topside Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSS), project engineering, and site commissioning. Having worked on both topside and subsea systems, Thushanthan is proficient in leading teams and managing projects from concept to commissioning.

SCDU 2024

Iain Moir, Vanguard Solutions

Iain Moir has 16 years of experience applying reliability techniques to solve multidisciplinary problems throughout the, Resources, Nuclear, Mining and Defence sectors. He is the General Manager of Vanguard Solutions, a Safety Engineering and Risk Management consultancy focusing on risk reduction, failure control, asset optimisation, life-cycle analysis and application of inherent safety principles. Iain carries industry credentials relating to reliability and functional safety, and is Master’s degree qualified in both Civil Engineering and Safety Engineering, Reliability and Risk Management. He has recently completed a Reliability study for an FPSO, and is well versed in reliability tools and techniques.

Reliabilty course, February 2017

Svein Eirik Monge, Emerson Process Management

Svein Eirik Monge is Product Manager, Subsea Flow Metering at Roxar Flow Measurement, a business unit of Emerson Process Management, and has been at the company for eleven years. Other roles he has occupied include Production Technician, Service Engineer, Service Project Manager, Technical Product Manager for the Roxar Subsea Wetgas Meter, and lastly as sales manager for the Subsea portfolio. Prior to working in Roxar, he worked in the aircraft maintenance industry.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Henri Morand

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February ETM, Feb 2021

Julie Morgan, Woodside Energy Ltd

Dr Julie Morgan is a Process Engineer by training, with more than 30 years of oil and gas field development experience. Julie has specialised in flow assurance over the last 20 years and is currently the Chief Flow Assurance Engineer for Woodside. Julie has worked subsea and deepwater developments in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Brazil, Far East and Australia. Julie brings the fluids, systems design and operability understanding in order to determine what subsea hardware is required.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2019

Glenn Morrison, AAM Group

Glenn Morrison commence in the spatial industry in 1993. Following eight years of residential surveying in Perth, Glenn joined AAM as a Senior Surveyor in 2004. During his time at AAM Glenn has undertaken both traditional and terrestrial laser scanning surveys for processing plant upgrades, inshore bathymetric surveys for port locations and established monitoring programs for both structural and erosion detection. The establishment of the client’s spatial needs is Glenn’s focus in determining the appropriate technology to measure, process and represent the outcomes of both land, aerial and hydrographic surveys. Since 2008 Glenn has been part of AAM’s Senior management Team and consults to clients on AAM’s Land, Aerial and Geoservices capabilities.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

Bevan Morrison, TechnipFMC

Bevan spent the first 10 years of his career with Schlumberger across the globe. Initially working in Indonesia and offshore Thailand specializing in wireline logging and intervention services. He then cross trained to the Drilling & Measurements segment of Schlumberger and spent time offshore modeling and Geo-steering horizontal wells in Egypt and China before progressing into operational line management and business development roles in Egypt, Sudan and Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. In 2008 Bevan joined TSMarine, later sold to Fugro, to lead the business development of the fast-growing subsea intervention market in Asia-Pacific, often combining services with construction, installation and IMR capabilities. In 2011 Bevan took on the global role as Vice President Well Intervention Solutions for Welltec, a leader in downhole Intervention solutions. Based in Singapore but with a global responsibility Bevan focused on the deepwater & subsea basins of Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, West Africa as well as Asia Pacific. 2013 brought Bevan back to the vessel side of the business with FTO Services, as Joint Venture between FMC and Edison Chouest, heading up the business development of Intervention Services for FTO primarily focused on the deepwater markets of West Africa, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil. With the 2017 merger between FMC Technologies and Technip he is now focused on the growth in Asia Pacific after securing long term intervention contracts with INPEX and Woodside which will bring the latest generation deepwater light well intervention services to the region for the first time. He is a keen rugby player, supporter and coach.

ETM Aug 2017

Alex Mosnier, Floating Solutions Consulting

Alex is Director of Floating Solutions Consulting, who specialise in hull integrity
management, in particular reducing risk & improving economics for their Clients
through the efficient management and optimisation of hull inspection,
engineering, risk mitigation and repairs.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Abdul Mueed, Curtin University

Abdul is a Subsea Engineer who recently graduate with a Masters in Subsea Engineering and has over 2 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He is also actively involved in the community as a sub-committee member at SUT-Phoenix and loves exploring new technologies which could benefit the industry.

ETM April 2018

Sravani Mukkisa, Matrix Composites and Engineering

Sravani is the Program Manager for the Subsea Test Facility at Matrix Composites and Engineering, overseeing test facility operations and leading strategic initiatives and projects to enhance the capability and utilization of testing services for oil and gas, defence and marine applications.

She started her career in Houston, USA in oil and gas service industry as an R&D Engineer in completions segment with  Baker Hughes before joining SLB where she worked in drilling and slickline business segments. Chasing warmer weather and beautiful beaches she moved to Australia and went on to managing technology development projects for start-up and improving reliability of multimillion dollar critical assets for BHP in Mining industry. Her efforts at the start-up earned her recognition for technological innovations and an award from CMEWA in 2022.

Sravani holds a master’s in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and certifications in Business Administration and Project Management.

SCDU 2024

Kevin Mullen, (Consultant)

Kevin Mullen was a Subsea Engineer with INTECSEA in Perth, Australia up until his recent semi-retirement. Mr Mullen has 40 years engineering experience, with 26 years in the offshore oil and gas industry working on subsea systems, specialising in subsea control systems and umbilicals. He has experience in instrumentation, controls, telecommunications, computing, electronics, electrical engineering, subsea materials and corrosion, and hydraulics. He gained experience of offshore oil and gas in the North Sea and Atlantic margin, and came to Australia to work on big gas 19 years ago. He was Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia where he coordinated the Subsea Technology Module of the Master of Oil and Gas Engineering degree from 2000 to 2013, and he was appointed Adjunct Professor at Curtin University in 2015, where he coordinates units on Subsea System and on Umbilicals and Risers on the Master of Subsea Engineering course. Recent assignments given to his students have included the Scarborough field and the Browse LNG development.

Reliabilty course, February 2017

Mark Musarra, Blue Zone Group

Mark graduated from Curtin University in the days it was known as W.A.I.T., with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering. Originally employed by Underwater Video Systems as a student intern in 1982 to assist with work on the subsea trenching plough for burial of the main trunk line from Nth Rankin A to the Burrup Peninsula. In the ensuing 37 year period,

Mark has specialised in providing solutions for custom engineering projects, for various companies, both in the offshore and mining industries and eventually accepted the position of Engineering Manager at UVS in 1991, a position he held until August 2012, when Mark was promoted to General Manager at BlueZone Group. Mark continues to grow capability into the defence and trenchless technology market sectors, to support a broad technology footprint, including subsea Oil & Gas.

ETM Apr 2019

Alistair Mykura , Castrol

Alistair Mykura is the OEM manager for Subsea and Energy at Castrol. He has over 15 years’ experience in the Oil and Gas sector, predominantly with the OEMs and currently helps lead the development and qualification of Castrol’s new subsea products. He has experience across a number of subsea energy roles from project execution to subsea control product development. His expertise includes hydromechanical equipment within subsea production control systems.  Prior to joining the Oil and Gas industry he worked in equipment reliability within the Nuclear power sector. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Birmingham.

SCDU 2024

Tim Nallipogu, Woodside Energy

Tim Nallipogu holds a BSc honours degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters in Offshore Engineering.

Tim has over 15years subsea and pipeline engineering experience covering technology studies, field development concept screening & definition, FEED, detail design, manufacture & testing, installation, and production operations.

He is the Woodside Subject Matter Expert for Subsea Processing, notable experience includes commissioning, start up & operations of subsea boosting systems, technology qualification for long subsea tie backs, project delivery for subsea boosting systems, several qualification studies on subsea separation and compression, industry JIPs and advisory boards on subsea processing.

ETM Oct 2019

Rick Naude, Applus RTD

Rick Naude has been a Mechatronics Engineer in the Research and Design Department at ApplusRTD since 2008. As part of a small Research and Design Engineering Department he has a key role in designing, building, commissioning and maintaining the electronics, mechanics and software of semi-automated custom NDT robots. He has successfully completed numerous site projects across onshore and offshore sites in Australia and the world including Nigeria, Japan, Malaysia, Qatar and New Zealand. He has various conventional and advanced NDT and Rope Access qualifications and is a member of Engineers Australia, currently pursuing Chartered Engineers Status through the Engineers Australia Professional Development Program.

Materials & Corrosion, June 2015

Preben Nielsen, Wood

Preben is the Australian Business Manager for Wood’s Flow Assurance Team with over 11 years’ experience in the oil and gas, mining and aerospace industries. He has Bachelor degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Physics and Applied Mathematics from UWA and a Master’s degree from the University of California, Irvine. Preben has extensive experience working on flow assurance, systems engineering and development engineering projects throughout the development life-cycle and into production. He has delivered flow assurance studies for many developments with a focus on gas condensate systems and development of key strategy documents and operating guidelines.

Subsea Awareness Course, August 2020

Nicholas Nielsen, DNV GL - Oil & Gas

Nicholas is a structural engineer for DNV GL, working with pipelines and structures for onshore and offshore projects, with 5 years’ experience working in Europe, Asia and Australia, where he has been involved in several mega projects on the North West Shelf. He is currently working primarily with verification, risk management and technical advisory for subsea pipelines, with a focus on delivering smarter solutions from design to operation through innovation and technology qualification.

Evening Technical Meeting - August 2018

Federico Noera , PetrolValves Group

Federico joined Petrolvalves in 2019, in the role of Engineering Director and Innovation lead for the company.

He joined General Electric in 1998, and grew up in GE holding different roles in business areas in multiple countries. Starting R&D and Black Belt for the Six Sigma Initiative in New Product Introduction, Mergers & Acquisition, Strategic Marketing, Application Engineering & Product Management

Federico joined Finmeccanica in Ansaldo Energia in 2008, leading Research & Development and Product Development within the Company, moving back in GE O&G in 2011 as Advanced Technology General Manager, and then in mid 2012 in Aberdeen, UK, taking the global role of CTO,  Global Engineering Senior Executive and Product Management Leader for the Subsea & Drilling System Engineering team.

He then moved back in GE Power in Baden, CH, leading the Engineering team for Power Generation New Units & Plants.

Federico holds a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Turbomachinery.

October ETM 2021

Scott Norieka, RPS MetOcean Pty Ltd

Scott Noreika is the Consultancy Manager and a Senior Oceanographer at RPS MetOcean Pty Ltd (RPS), a physical meteorological and oceanographic consultancy firm in Perth (since 1974) and he’s been with the company since 1991. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a BSc in Physical Oceanography/Naval Science in 1984. He then spent 6 years as a US Naval Officer working at sea (Pacific and Indian Oceans) and onshore (Hawaii) in roles including management of personnel and operating systems and in provision of metocean services/support to the Pacific Fleet. He moved to Western Australia in 1991, where he took up his position with RPS. In his 21 years at RPS, he has been involved in the development of operational and/or design metocean criteria for most of the operational Offshore Oil & Gas developments (and related coastal facilities) on the NW Shelf and in the Timor Sea. He also has extensive experience in conducting metocean studies for global offshore sites in the Southern Ocean, in the South China Sea, in the Indonesian Seas, off East and West Africa, off Brazil, and in the South and North Western Pacific Ocean.

Metocean - November 2018

Dermott O'Brien , Atteris

Dermot is the General Manager at Atteris. He has worked in the oil and gas industry since 1990 in a range of geographical areas including United Kingdom, Oman, Italy, Australia and Indonesia. With over 25 years’ industry experience, Dermot has built up extensive industry knowledge, in particular in subsea pipeline design and construction.

OSIGp Selections of OTC - July 2018

Norman O'Rourke , INPEX

Norman has over 25-years of experience in the global oil and gas industry with a demonstrated capability in leading global, multi-discipline project and engineering teams. He has an engineering background in front end engineering, systems design, product development, detail engineering, manufacture, testing, offshore installation and life of field support. Norman is a Fellow of both Engineers Australia and the SUT.

SCDU 2024

Keelan O’Neill, University of Western Australia

Keelan is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia. Keelan works in the Fluid Science and Resources division in the School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering. His research project involves the application of the novel technology of Earth’s field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to multiphase flow metering. Keelan’s contribution to research was awarded with the chemical engineering postgraduate research excellence award in Western Australia.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Michael O’Neill, Fugro

Michael completed a PhD in geotechnical engineering in 2000 at The University of Western Australia.  In 2001 he joined Advanced Geomechanics, which in 2013 became part of Fugro.  Michael has 17 years of consultancy experience in the analysis and design of foundations for the offshore oil and gas industry.  This experience includes management and implementation of conceptual, front-end and detailed engineering design programmes for deep foundations (such as driven and drilled/grouted piles), shallow foundations (such as mudmats and caissons) and anchor-chain systems (comprising drag anchors, suction anchors and pile anchors) in carbonate sediments.  Michael has worked on a number of significant local projects (including Angel, North Rankin B, Ichthys, Wheatstone, Prelude, Scarborough, Browse), has spent time in project offices working directly with clients and has co-authored a number of geotechnical journal and conference papers.  Michael’s offshore site experience includes client representation and supervision of platform foundation installations and geotechnical site investigations.

OSIGp Selections of OTC - July 2018

Ana Requejo Olivan, One Subsea

Ana Requejo is a Senior Subsea Systems Engineer with the OneSubsea Early Engagement team in Perth. In her current role, she collaborates with customers to deliver optimal front-end engineering solutions for the development and expansion of their subsea assets.
Ana holds a Master’s Degree in Automation and Electronics Engineering from the University of Vigo in Spain. She began her career in the railway industry in Germany before transitioning to the Oil & Gas sector in 2005 as a Subsea Controls Engineer in the UK. In 2008, Ana moved to Perth, where she worked in the Gorgon and Wheatstone Upstream Projects. She joined OneSubsea in 2019.

SCDU 2024

Jana Orszaghova, University of Western Australia

Jana works as a Research Fellow at UWA and is affiliated with the Wave Energy Research Centre. She focuses on hydrodynamics of marine renewable energy systems, both wave energy converters and floating offshore wind turbines. Using mathematical, numerical and experimental approaches, her work contributes towards safer and more economical marine energy systems. Prior to coming to UWA, Jana completed her PhD in coastal and ocean engineering at the University of Oxford and worked as an R&D engineer in the UK.

ETM April 2021

Wes Palmer, TechnipFMC

Wes is Senior Subsea Installation Engineer at TechnipFMC in Perth.  He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 2006 following which he spent his graduate years working as a capital projects engineer in the Mining and Minerals Processing industry in Western Australia.  He then returned to UWA to complete a Master of Oil and Gas Engineering from 2008 to 2010, before commencing in the Subsea Installation Engineering department at TechnipFMC. He has since worked on numerous Subsea Umbilical, Riser and Flowline projects worldwide over the last nine years, both onboard offshore installation vessels and associated oil and gas processing facilities overseeing and coordinating project execution.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - June 2019

Adam Parmenter, WOOD.

Adam has over 14 years of experience in subsea RBI/integrity management studies and Reliability, Availability and Maintainability analyses in the Oil and Gas industry, as well as Mining.

He has performed subsea operational support activities for a multitude of clients, consisting of RBI assessments, integrity management planning, offshore flexible riser annulus vacuum testing, IOW monitoring and development of inspection scopes of work.

He has been involved in the coordination, project management and production of technical deliverables for a large suite of integrity management documents for the Shell Prelude (Risers), INPEX Ichthys and ConocoPhillips Bayu Undan projects.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - November 2021

Miles Parsons, Curtin University

Dr. Miles Parsons is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, where he has been conducting underwater acoustics research for the past twelve years. After graduating in mechanical engineering from Cardiff University, Miles came to Australia and became immersed in marine wildlife as a Divemaster in Coral Bay, Ningaloo and commenced his PhD research in acoustic methods to monitor fish spawning aggregations at CMST, in 2005. Miles’ research projects now focus on fisheries acoustics, understanding the impacts of noise on marine fauna, habitat mapping, bioacoustics and soundscape ecology, with a particular focus on the use of novel methods and technologies.

ETM Feb 2017

Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia

Charitha Pattiaratchi is Professor of Coastal Oceanography at The University of Western Australia where has been based for the past 27 years. He leads the IMOS Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders. He received his tertiary degrees from the University of Wales. He has supervised over 40 PhD students and 140 honours students and has published over 300 articles/reports on coastal oceanography, including over 130 in peer-reviewed international journals. The research programs he has developed integrate ocean observation, numerical modelling and synthesis to define the role of physical processes in pathways of water and sediment (including morphological changes), weather and climate and ecosystem functio in the coastal ocean (including estuaries and beaches) and the adjacent deep ocean.

Evening Technical Meeting, October 2015

Drew Peoples, Chevron Australia

30 years with Chevron including 4 years on Gorgon concept select and front end engineering, 10 years on Wheatstone from concept select through to start-up and early operations. Previous experience in the North Sea, USA and West Africa. Currently providing execution and operational advice to future subsea projects and is primarily focused on management of the Gorgon & Wheatstone early life subsea and pipeline operations. Education: B.Eng Mechanical Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland; M.Eng Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

SSAC - Sept 2017

Mark Perry, Wittenstein Motion Control GmbH

Mr. Mark Perry is theGlobal Subsea Business Development Manager for All Electric Subsea Actuation Systems. Mark is a Control and Instrumentation engineer with an extensive background in the Intelligent instrumentation and valves field, having worked for companies such as ABB and Siemens as Sales Director and in leading business development roles. In recent years he worked for subsea valve manufacturers such as Oliver Valves and Master Flo prior to joining WITTENSTEIN motion control in 2013.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Irene Pettigrew, Sonomatic

Most people are introduced into the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) industry by sheer luck and my story resonates with this whereby I was introduced to this field in 2003 when developing a new NDT ultrasonic transducer during a 12 week industrially sponsored project as part of my Applied Physics degree which provided a career pathway to complete a PhD in Ultrasonic Engineering in 2008.

Before immigrating to Australia in 2013, I developed and deployed advanced NDT solutions for various components within nuclear power stations in the UK, Europe and South America.

I am now the resident Advanced NDT and Innovation Manager with Sonomatic Australia, Australia’s leading Advanced NDT solutions and Integrity Services provider for onshore, offshore and subsea assets. I am passionate about and practice technical excellence in which I always have taken pride in ensuring Clients are using the correct inspection solutions for their integrity threats and issues.

Materials & Corrosion Course June 2021

Brett Phillips, Oceaneering

Brett Phillips is the Technical Solutions Manager – for the Oceaneering Projects Group & Subsea Robotics Groups across the Asia Pacific. Brett has been with Oceaneering since 2011 and in the ROV and subsea equipment industry for over fifteen years. In this time has worked on the supply of turn key intervention solutions, ROV intervention operations and project managing of intervention scopes including drill support, cutting, dredging, marine growth remediation, hydrate remediation and bespoke solutions within the Oil and Gas industry.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Francesco Piasentin, S2V Consulting

Francesco Piasentin, Facilities Consultant. Francesco has more than 10 years international exposure in the Oil & Gas industry as a facilities consultant, from early appraisal phases through to project execution. In recent years he has worked extensively in field development planning arena in the SEA region, including considerable focus on marginal oil and gas resource development strategies.

Evening Technical Meeting, August 2015

Barnaby Pountney, DOF Subsea

Barney joined DOF Subsea’s UK office in 2014, after achieving an MSc in Hydrography from the University of Plymouth (UK). After a period in the Atlantic region, Barney moved to the Perth office. Since being in Australia, Barney has become heavily involved with geospatial data acquisition and processing, delivering both in Australia and abroad. He is currently the Geomatics Survey Specialist focusing on data management with remote solution.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

Brian Purvis, Woodside Energy

Brian has more than 25 years’ experience in operation, engineering and construction within the oil and gas industry. He’s worked for several major oil and gas companies and has held several technical positions with engineering consultancies. His early years were spent with British Gas in engineering research, pipeline systems and subsea production facilities. He was a Senior Pipeline Engineer for BP midstream pipelines business in the North Sea. Principle consultant with GE Oil & Gas and was the Pipeline Technical Authority for Total E&P UK and worked on West of Shetland developments. Joined Woodside in 2014 as the Pipeline Technical Authority and recently became the Engineering Authority in 2015

Operating Subsea - April 2017

Aaron Pushparatnam, Technip Oceania Pty Ltd

Aaron is an Installation Engineer with TechnipFMC, and is currently responsible for Flexible Pipe Installation on the Greater Enfield Development Project (Woodside). He was previously assigned to Prelude OIC (Shell), where he was involved with 4 different campaigns. This included being responsible for the Flexible Pipe Risers Installation on the final offshore campaign on the Deep Orient. Aaron volunteers for the Petroleum Club of Western Australia and for Engineers Australia, where he mentors secondary school students who are interested in pursuing a career in engineering. In addition to his passion for engineering, he loves travelling, tennis, and watching Masterchef.

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Eoghan Quinn, Advisian New Energy

Eoghan is a specialist in clean energy technology development advisory. He has worked across the renewable energy sectors in Europe, Middle East and Australia, project managing and undertaking due diligence on clean energy projects including offshore, wave and tidal energy development, renewable/fossil hybrid systems, solar systems (Photovoltaic (PV) and investments in clean generation technology. He has specialist skill sets for project management, due diligence and technology commercialisation. He has previously assisted in capital raising and renewable energy technology development with research institutions, governments and the finance/advisory sectors.

ETM Apr 2017

Colin Radici, ROSEN

After studying Electro-Technology I gained my first job at ROSEN 12 years ago. I am the Data Evaluation Manager for in-line inspection services, and am responsible for the analysis, evaluation, reporting, client communications, software training and certification for the ROSEN Asia Pacific Region. I have achieved my Level 3 MFL and Geometry Data Analyst Certifications as per ANSI/ASNT In-line Inspection Personnel Qualification and Certification Standard. Travelling to Canada, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Malaysia, China and Indonesia I have obtained a broad knowledge of the pipeline inspection industry and our clients.

Materials & Corrosion, June 2015

Eirik Ravnås, Innova AS/ATV 

Eirik has a degree in industrial mathematics and have been working with electric actuators since 2008 through projects like the Ormen Lange Subsea Compression pilo t and Åsgard Subsea Compression.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Joey Rawson, Bureau of Meteorology

Joey Rawson is a Meteorologist who has been working for the Bureau of Meteorology since 2002. During this time, he has worked in several roles including the Officer in Charge of the Pearce RAAF Weather Office, embedded Meteorologist for Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES), and in the Energy and Resources team providing site specific forecasts to the oil and gas industry.  This summer, he is taking on a role as a consultant Meteorologist to Woodside. Joey has a BSc(Hons) from Flinders University and more recently has just completed a PhD from the University of Western Australia.

Nitin Repalle , 2H Offshore

Nitin is a Principal Engineer at 2H Offshore, Perth. He is responsible for leading the engineering and business development of dynamic riser/cable systems and offshore renewables in Australia. Nitin graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering before pursuing his PhD at the University of Western Australia. He is passionate about leveraging digital solutions to enhance engineering applications and enjoys mentoring young engineers.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2021

Richard Rickett, Seatools

Richard has been involved in the subsea industry in various capacities since 1983, and is passionate about the capabilities of smaller, smarter ROVs, AUVs and remote technology

AUT Conference - Oct 2017

Andrew Ripley, Subsea 7

Andrew has been involved in the Energy industry for the last 20 years.  He holds a Masters and a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Dundee and is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology.  He started out as a geotechnical design engineer, honing his skills with Technip, before moving to Subsea7. He has worked in both the renewable and oil and gas industries and has been exposed to an assortment of different projects and challenges that has provided him with a range of different insights and experiences.  Andrew has held a variety of different roles, including engineering manager, package manager, operations lead and more recently he has taken up the role of Field Development Study Manager for Subsea7 Australia.

August ETM 2024

Mark Roberts, Kongsberg Discovery

Mark graduated with a Masters in Oceanography from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom in 2004. He started his career in the marine survey industry in 2005 with Fugro in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Australia in 2012 to take a role with Fugro in Perth.

During his time at Fugro, Mark was responsible for managing geophysical and hydrographic contracts for the major oil and gas operators, in addition to project managing the search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 between 2014 and 2017.

In 2018, Mark joined Guardian Geomatics, where he provided support services to Ocean Infinity, operating the largest global fleet of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)

In 2021 Mark joined Kongsberg Maritime, and started his role as Sales Manager for Marine Robotics in Asia Pacific in May 2022

ETM June 2024

Andrew Robertson, Woodside Energy Ltd

Andrew is a Chartered Professional Mechanical Engineer with 20 years industry experience, 10 years of which are in subsea and pipelines related roles. His more recent roles have seen him working on Woodside Subsea Project Manager NRA and GWA Umbilical Replacement Saturation Diving Projects. From Feb 2015 – June 2018 he was a Woodside Subsea Production / Operations Engineer (responsible all Woodside North West Shelf subsea surveillance and systems engineering). Currently he remains at Woodside as Subsea Maintenance and Repair Team Lead (leading the team responsible for executing all Woodside operating assets subsea maintenance and repair activities).

Subsea Production Systems Course, August 2019

Mike Robinson, FMC Technologies

Mike Robinson is the regional director for Subsea Services for FMC Technologies in Asia Pacific, and is based in Henderson, Perth. Prior to his current role Mike was responsible for Field Development as well as Sales and Marketing for FMC Technologies. During this time he was also the regionally responsibility for Subsea processing across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Prior to Perth Mike was based in Houston for 14 years where he held various roles including business management, project management, technical sales leadership, filed development engineering and global account management. A native of Scotland Mike has been in Australia for 4.5 years. Mike’s career started with FMC Technologies 1990 in Aberdeen where he was responsible for Project Technical Sales, then through various roles to Operations Manager of the Aftermarket facility. Mike was elected Chairman of Subsea Energy Australia in 2011 a trade organization with over 100 members aimed at promoting Subsea business to and from Australia for its member companies. Mike is a member of the SPE, Energy institute, ASME and has been a regular presenter for the SUT in Australia and previously in the UK and USA. Mike worked in Engineering in various disciplines with W-K-M from 1985 until FMC technologies. Mike studied Mechanical and Production Engineering at Napier University in Edinburgh, post Graduate Management and Masters in Business Administration at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

YES! Event, September 2015

Toby Roe, Subcon International Pty Ltd

Toby has worked in the offshore construction industry since graduating from the Australian Maritime College. He has worked on some of Australia’s largest projects including the NRB Jacket and Topside installation and the Wheatstone Pipeline installation. He joined Subcon International in 2014 and has been instrumental in the delivery of high profile projects including the Shoalhaven and Hervey Bay OARs. Toby has a passion for design and innovation and this is reflected in the market leading fabrication, construction and installation techniques adopted by Subcon.

Evening Technical Meeting, October 2015

Greg Ross, Aker Solutions

Greg Ross has worked in the Oil and Gas industry for over 25 years. After graduating from Curtin University in 1982 he started work in the design and fabrication of packaged gas processing equipment and cryogenic equipment. His career covers the design and fabrication of most elements of gas and oil processing and specialist separation technologies as well as project execution and construction. As well as Australia, Greg has worked in Malaysia, Norway and the United States. For over the last 10 years Greg has worked in the subsea field and has been involved in all aspects of subsea technology with a focus on controls and distribution equipment.

Subsea Awareness Course, Sept 2017

Lorenzo Rossano, Advanced Technology Valva SpA

Graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. He has been working in the valve industry for 14 years, since 2016 he has focused on embedded fluidic control systems, devices and IoT ecosystems for industrial applications.

Since 2021 he has been part of Advanced Technology Valve SpA, with the role of Electronic Engineering Manager where he is responsible for the R&D program related to electronic and mechatronic products such as electric actuators and health monitoring systems for submarine valves.

Lorenzo is a member of the API SC17 (Subsea Production System) commission.

SCDU 2024

John Rossier, DOF Subsea

John Rossier (JR) is General Manager Operations, DOF Subsea – Asia Pacific region. In April 2005 he was one of a ‘break-away’ group from Covus Pte Ltd to establish DOF Subsea locally. JR’s global operations and diving experience can be traced back to 1975. In the early 80s, he played a part in solving another WW II mystery and at the same time helped prove the commercial value of gas recovery systems. The HMS Edinburgh was torpedoed in 1942 by a German submarine and was sunk in the Barents Sea taking 58 sailors and 465 ingots of gold with her. On 16 September 1981, JR uttered the words “I’ve found the gold! I’ve found the gold!” The salvage team confirmed the new gas recovery technology performed as predicted and was safe at significant depths. Additionally, John Rossier is an active participant in the broader aspects of industry development and regulation, working with industry bodies such as IMCA, and AMMA.

ETM - Feb 2016

Olivier Royet, DNV

Olivier is a Senior Principal Specialist based in Perth looking after Subsea and Pipeline project in Australia. He has been working with DNV for 15 years in London, Singapore, and Perth. As a technical lead, he is involved in the design, fabrication and installation package covering subsea, risers, flowlines and trunkline packages. He is a facilitator for new technology qualification covering technical work and leading workshops. Knowledge on pipeline/component materials, pipeline stability and erodible seabed.

October ETM 2021

Andrea Rubio, OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company

Andrea Rubio is the Product Manager for Electric Systems at OneSubsea, where she has worked for the past ten years. In this role Andrea leads the company’s worldwide Electric initiatives encompassing sales, marketing, engineering and research; supporting the innovation and development of new products and services within this field. In her career Andrea has held the positions of Product Design Engineer, Subsea Engineering Manager and Senior Product Analyst. She holds a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Central Oklahoma and a Master of Science from the University of Oklahoma in Aerospace Engineering.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Bill Russell-Cargill, Inpex

Bill has over 40 years of offshore survey experience that has entailed working mainly in marine diamond mineral exploration, offshore oil & gas field construction and subsea IMR Operations; undertaking the navigation and positioning, seafloor mapping, geophysical and geotechnical survey tasks, on projects conducted off the Southern African and Australasian coasts. In 2018 he joined INPEX as a survey specialist supporting subsea implementation operations. At the start of his career as a Professional Land Surveyor he became keenly interested in underwater acoustics and applications use in hydrographic surveying. He joined IMT, the Institute for Maritime Technology to undertake post-graduate engineering research in underwater acoustics at CAL while studying for an MSc at the Central Acoustics Laboratory, University of Cape Town. In 1983 he left CAL to found Underwater Surveys Pty Ltd, a survey contracting company providing offshore survey services to the marine industry, in particular the diamond mining industry off Southern Africa’s west coast where seabed mapping and positioning services were in demand to help mine diamonds in the sea. In 1998 he sold Underwater Surveys to Fugro, a leading International Geo-data specialist company and stayed on as the Managing Director while being rebadged as Fugro Africa. In 2001 he relocated to Fugro Survey Pty Ltd, Perth as a Director. In 2005 he joined CMST, Curtin University of Technology as a CRC Adjunct Research Associate to work on their Coastal Habitat Mapping Research Program. On completion of the CRC’s habitat mapping research program in 2006 he joined the newly established Perth branch of Geo Subsea, an International Norwegian company, as the local Survey and Inspection Manager. This later became named DOF Subsea and at the end of 2014 he left DOF to spend some time fishing off Cape Town, along the African coast. He returned to Perth in 2017 to join Scope Resources as Managing Director; and in 2018 he became a survey specialist consultant working in INPEX contracted through Scope Resources.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

Drew Sage, Aker Solutions

Drew is a Perth born engineer who studied Chemical Engineering at Curtin University, graduating in 1997.  He has over 23 years of engineering and management experience in all project phases on both greenfield and brownfield projects.  Drews key skills are in the concept and front end development of offshore oil & gas facilities, including novel, unmanned platform design. Drew was the contract manager for the Jansz-Io Compression study and coordinated delivery of subsea compression and unmanned platform workscopes to the client.  He is now the Aker Solutions Technical Director for Front End and the Australian Company Director.

October ETM, Oct 2020

Ahmed Said, MMA Offshore

An accomplished professional in Hydrospatial surveying, with extensive experience across various sectors including environmental, Geotechnical and Geophysical surveys, offshore constructions, and installations. With an MBA from the University of South Wales UK and a Certified Professional in Hydrographic Surveying Level 1 from the GCA, my expertise spans managing ROV/HAUV/ASV operations, offshore platform inspections, and leading deep-water projects globally. As a Project Manager and Party Chief, I’ve successfully led high-profile surveys for different energy sectors, emphasizing quality, safety, and client satisfaction. My work underscores the critical impact of renewable energy expansion on hydrographic survey activities, showcasing my ability to lead projects with precision and efficiency.
Just after finishing my engineering degree in Egypt, I went into a small Survey job and here I am, spending almost 18 years managing leading and finish projects almost all over the world.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

Sean Salter, Wood Groupside Energy

Sean was appointed as Vice President Technology in 2015. He has over 27 years‘ experience in the oil & gas industry, 25 as a Subsea & Pipeline engineer. Sean is responsible for the identification, development and maturation of technology (across the breadth of business) that can provide Wood Groupside with strategic advantage. Sean joined Wood Groupside in 2004 and has been responsible for the development of Wood Groupside’s Subsea & Pipeline capability. Prior to joining Wood Groupside, Sean worked for Shell International for 15 years in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and West of Africa.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Calum Scott, Santos

Having completed a Masters of Civil Engineering at The University of Melbourne in 2020, Calum joined Santos in Brisbane, working in the Concept and Onshore Integrity Engineering teams. In early 2023 Calum took up an opportunity in Santos’ Perth office to join the Subsea and Marine Engineering Team, where he worked mainly on near-end of life assets in the Subsea IMMR space. Calum is currently responsible for looking after the subsea infrastructure of Santos’ domestic gas assets, centred around the Varanus Island Gas Hub. While mainly involved in the operations phase of oil and gas assets, both onshore and offshore, Calum has also been involved in concept studies including Hydrogen and CCS projects, and has more recently been offshore for various construction activities related to the Barossa Gas Project.

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2024

Mirel Sehic, Honeywell

Having spent 7 years embedded in the Pacific engineering team across various Major Hazard Facilities (MHF) throughout Asia Pacific – Mirel Sehic (BEng Mechatronic/BSc Mathematics) gained a very deep understanding of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Seeing an increase in more focused and tailored attacks abusing gaps in the ICS, Mirel has set his sights on utilizing the skills gained in the various intricate ICS environments to increase awareness and steer MHFs and Stakeholders toward Cyber Security industry best practise.

YES! Cyber Security - May 2017

Chris Selman, Wood.

Chris Selman is a principal corrosion and integrity management consultant at Wood PLC, specialising in oil and gas system corrosion modelling, material selection, risk assessment and corrosion and integrity management programmes. Currently based in Perth, his career began Mobil in the UK, followed by periods with QCL International, Taywood and WorleyParsons in Australia before joining Ionik Consulting, which became Wood Group Integrity Management, then Wood Specialist Technical Solutions. Chris has been involved in the corrosion and materials design in most of the major capital projects in WA, including Pluto, Gorgon, Wheatstone, Scarborough, Crux, Ichthys and Macedon. When not combatting corrosion in the oil patch, Chris is involved in an international effort to combat oil pollution from corroding World War II shipwrecks.

Materials & Corrosion Course - August 2019

Gunasekaran Settiyannan, FMC Technologies

Gunasekaran Settiyannan (Guna) is currently the Chief Engineer – Subsea Controls for FMC Technologies. He has over 21 years of experience in FEED, Detailed Engineering, Installation and commissioning, Operations and Maintenance. He has spent the last 5 years in Subsea Controls Engineering, where he has developed in-depth knowledge of the design, installation and operations of subsea controls systems. His current responsibilities include Tendering and Project Engineering for FMC Technologies Singapore. Guna has a M.Sc. degree in Physics from Bharathidasan University, India and M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Sathyabama University, India.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Cameron Sheppard, ROSEN Australia Pty Ltd

Over 18 years of extensive experience in the international oil, gas, and resources industries, with a track record across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, and China.

His career spans various roles from onsite execution to Project Management, Quality, HSE, Operational, and Executive management

Materials & Corrosion 2024

Mohsen Shokri, BHGE

Mohsen Shokri (MIEAus CPEng NER) is Subsea Controls Engineer at Baker Hugues, a GE Company. As part of Early Engineering team, he is leading Subsea Controls section of Subsea tenders for Australia and Asia Pacific region. Mohsen holds B.Sc. in Mechanical engineering and M.Sc. in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation engineering. He has been working in different engineering role including heavy lifting, robotics and subsea industries for over 15 years.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Greg Smith , C-Kore Systems

Greg is General Manager of C-Kore Systems. He has an engineering background, with a master’s degree in electronic engineering from York, where he graduated top of his year, and has just completed an MBA at Warwick, graduating with a distinction. He has been with C-Kore since its foundation and personally developed the Cable Monitor from first prototype to production unit. Presently he oversees the team designing new products and manages C-Kore’s operations and deployments. Greg is keen to
ensure C-Kore fulfils customer needs and so has frequently accompanied the units offshore to observe their use in the field.

ETM August 2019

Chris Smith, Royal Australian Navy

Commodore Chris Smith CSM RAN joined the Royal Australian Naval College in
March 1989. He has had many seagoing and shore appointments, and completed
operational deployments in Solomon Islands, the Middle East, and provided
humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in Fiji. Commodore Smith holds a
Masters of Management in Defence Studies, a Masters in Maritime Studies, and a
Masters of Arts (International Relations). He is married with three grown children.

Last Updated: AUT Oct-19

Ray Smith, DOF Subsea

Ray Smith has over 30 years of experience in the IMR industry covering Inspection,
ROV, subsea engineering, and survey disciplines. Ray started as an offshore
engineer before moving into a variety of technical, project and commercial roles in
UK, USA and in the last 7 years Australia. He is currently the Survey and Inspection
Manager at DOF Subsea in Australia.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Derek Smith , MacDermid

Business Development Manager for Asia Pacific Region for MacDermid Offshore Solutions. I have over 20 years in the oil and gas industry which I have seen various roles within the Subsea discipline. I have a Higher National Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineer. Prior to my role with MacDermid Offshore Solutions I have held the role of Integrated Service Lead with Baker Hughes which has supported the installation of the Chevron Gorgon and Jansz IO projects. Prior to that I was based in the UK where I held various control support engineer roles with Aker Solutions and GE Oil and Gas. I have been with MacDermid Offshore Solutions since 2015 where I support our current customer base on Subsea and BOP control fluids.

SSAC October 2021

Greg Smith, C-Kore Systems Ltd

Greg is Operations Director at C-Kore Systems. He has an engineering background, with a first-class master’s in electronic engineering from York, and more recently an MBA with distinction from Warwick. He has been with C-Kore since its foundation and personally developed the C-Kore Cable Monitor. Presently he oversees C-Kore’s operations, which includes research and development and customer deployments. Greg loves solving problems, and this is the heart of what C-Kore strives to do!

SCDU 2024

Harvey Smith, Woodside

Harvey Smith has 37 years’ experience in Subsea Production Controls systems, initially in Directional Control Valve design, through Hydraulic Power Unit design, assembly and testing, working for or with all 4 major Subsea Original Equipment Manufacturers and currently as a Principle Subsea Controls Engineer and Subject Matter Expert for Woodside Energy Limited. Harvey has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Offshore Engineering (Electrical). He has been involved in the start-up and continued cooperation of the SEAR JiP with other local operators. In his current role, Harvey works across all Woodside projects and on reliability improvements, ongoing Subsea opportunities both installed base and new projects and is proactively involved in the lesson learnt process and internal standards update.

SCDU 2024

Sam Stainer, UWA

Sam obtained a PhD in geotechnical engineering from the University of Sheffield in the UK in 2011 with a thesis focused on using transparent soils to model the failure mechanisms of helical screw piles. Since then he has held various research roles at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at UWA, working on projects exploring spudcan punch-through, developing image-based deformation measurement techniques and measuring pipe-soil interaction parameters using shallow penetrometers. He is currently a Research Fellow working on geotechnical aspects of the scope of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Offshore Floating Facilities.

ETM - Oct 2016

Kimberley Stimson, TechnipFMC plc

Kim started her career at DOF Subsea in 2014 completing a number of IMR and short turnaround construction projects. Kim moved to TechnipFMC Australia in 2018. Since joining the Perth office, she has worked on the Greater Enfield Development EPCI, where she supported numerous installation packages. Additionally, she completed HLV load-outs in France and Norway, umbilical transpooling in the UK, and offshore execution of structures installation, flexible pipelay, umbilical installation and pre-commissioning scopes.

In 2019, Kim was seconded to Malaysia for Merakes iEPCI. She was responsible for the development and execution of structures installation procedures, and led the fabrication and installation of the rigid spools. Upon her return in May, Kim joined the Gorgon Stage 2 project team to assist with the spools installation campaign.

Grahame Strong, Wood Group Kenny

Grahame has 25 years of experience, mainly in corrosion engineering within the petroleum industry. His experience extends to the application of electrochemistry, chemical treatments, material performance, computer modelling, and risk assessment / management and engineering. He has a general interest in all aspects of science, mathematics and engineering which has allowed him to apply his skills to a variety of material issues in innovative, practical and cost effective ways. Over the years he has given many talks on subjects ranging from cathodic protection, chemical testing, corrosion and corrosion control, and asset integrity management.

Materials & Corrosion, June 2015

Tobias Stuenkel, OneSubsea GmbH

Tobias Stuenkel works as a senior controls automation engineer developing the new OneSubsea next generation controls software and integrating third-party engines and interfaces. In addition, he maintains and develops the OneSubsea topside controls software template. Tobias is also subject matter expert for third-party products such as downhole pressure and temperature instruments and chemical injection valves.

He started his career with OneSubsea 10 years ago after completing a master’s degree in sensor and automation technology, developing topside control software for several oil and gas production fields, as well as designing external interfaces for console applications and DCS systems, hence gaining extensive knowledge of the subsea product portfolio.

SCDU 2024

Damon Sunderland, Arup

Damon graduated in 1994 from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand as an engineering geologist. He has more than 20 years of practical experience in offshore geoscience disciplines including specialisation in offshore geotechnical site investigation, geological ground modelling, the integration of geo datasets and geotechnical design. Damon has lived in New Zealand, the UK, the Netherlands and Australia and worked on projects in a wide variety of geological environments e.g. deep water Brazil, deltaic offshore West Africa, the seismically active Caspian Sea to carbonates of the Red Sea and Australia. Since 2009, Damon has worked at Arup (consulting engineers, designers and planners) in Perth. Currently Arup’s WA Energy Business Lead, Damon works on a variety of offshore and nearshore renewable and non-renewable projects. Damon is a past Secretary, Vice Chair and Chair of the SUT OSIG committee in Perth and continues as a Committee Member.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2021

Jeena Sunnassee, Wood.

Jeena Sunnassee has over 10 years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry specialising in Flow Assurance. She has worked on both small and large developments for subsea and onshore projects from conceptual studies to Execute phase; and from multiple office locations. Miss Sunnassee is the Engineering Manager for the Intelligent Operations group at Wood.

Subsea Production Systems Course, August 2019

Mark Sweeney, Fugro Survey Pty Ltd

Mark started as a land surveyor in 1995 with Fugro-BKS in Northern Ireland. He left after five years to work for the Ordnance Survey in Aberdeen, Scotland, then returned to Fugro as a Senior Cartographer for the Offshore Survey Division. Mark has been involved with many offshore survey projects, extensively in the oil and gas sector but also in the subsea cable market. Over his 14 years in the offshore survey industry he has had many roles ranging from training to Project Management. For the last nine months Mark has been in Australia as Project Manager for the Fugro Discovery, one of the three ships Fugro is using in the search for the lost Malaysian Airlines plane MH370.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

David Szczepanski, UWA

David Szczepanski is in his final semester of a Mechanical Engineering degree at Edith Cowan University. By completing his work experience for an oil & gas-based company in Singapore, David found a strong passion for the hydrocarbons industry; thus, deciding to focus his studies on relevant topics so that he can develop his knowledge and ready him to pursue his career in the industry

ETM April 2018

Majid Talebi, Pressure Dynamics

Majid has a Masters Degree. in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked in the manufacturing and oil & gas for the last 15 years. As the engineering team lead for Pressure Dynamics, he has worked on PHPUs life extensions & FPSO refurbishment.

Previously at Aker Solutions, he was a key member in design & manufacture of PHPUs, IWOCS, SCMs, TUTUs, EHFLs and subsea controls troubleshooting campaigns. He was site-supervisor for splicing, pre-commissioning and tie-in of the Gorgon onshore controls umbilical.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Richard Talmage, Shark Mitigation Systems Ltd

Richard originally joined SMS in mid-2015 to deliver a robust foundation on which to grow the Clever Buoy technology and to ensure the successful delivery of the Clever Buoy trial at Bondi Beach, NSW in Q1 2016. Richard then ensured that the Jeffrey’s Bay deployment in South Africa for World Surf League was a success and shortly after joined SMS full-time as General Manager in August 2016. Richard brings over 16 years’ experience in delivering complex technology programs and projects across multiple industries including finance, mining, oil and gas sectors. “The Clever Buoy project has been an exciting journey for me. Over the past two years we have successfully created a unique, commercially viable and non-invasive alternative to historic shark mitigation methods that will benefit communities around the world in years to come.”

ETM Feb 2017

Kar Chai (KC) Tan, Castrol Global Marine & Energy

Kar Chai has 18 years’ experience in the Marine and Energy sectors. He is currently working for Castrol Global Marine & Energy as a lubricant engineer providing technical assistance across the ASPAC region. Kar Chai started his career as a Structural Engineer and has held many roles such as Project Manager while overseeing numerous projects including repairs, conversions and new builds. Kar Chai graduated from the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow with a Bachelor of Engineering in Naval Architecture with Ocean Engineering.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2021

Laith Tapper, NGI Perth

Laith is a Senior Engineer with the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Perth. He completed a DPhil (PhD) in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in 2013 focused on the geotechnical performance of offshore shallow foundations. Laith has industry experience in offshore geotechnics for both oil and gas and renewable energy projects in the areas of site investigation and characterisation, foundation design and installation. He has been involved in a number of offshore wind farm projects including developments in Europe and Taiwan.

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Miranda Taylor , NERA

As NERA chief executive, Miranda is a strategic leader at the forefront of innovation and collaboration within the Australian energy resources sector. With more than 20 years’ experience in strategic policy, risk management and stakeholder engagement, Miranda drives sector-wide transformational change by bringing together the country’s best minds from technology, research and enterprise to build a more sustainable and efficient energy resources sector. Miranda has overseen NERA since its inception in 2016 and her leadership transforms thinking and processes within the sector for the benefit of the Australian economy – now and into the future.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Erika Techera, UWA

Erika Techera is Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Western Australia where she has been working since 2012. She teaches and researches in the area of international and comparative environmental law with a particular emphasis on marine environmental governance. Erika’s current research explores international law for the conservation and management of sharks, Pacific and Indian Ocean marine environmental law, as well as legal frameworks to support marine protected areas and marine spatial planning. She is the author of Marine Environmental Governance: from international law to local practice (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law (2013) as well as over 50 other books, chapters and papers. Prior to joining UWA Erika was Director of the Centre for International Environmental Law and Co-Director for the Centre for Climate Futures at Macquarie University. Before becoming an academic Erika practised as a barrister in Sydney.

ETM - June 2016

Liz Tellier, 2H Offshore Engineering

Elizabeth Tellier is Director of 2H Offshore Engineering in Perth, She has 14 year’s experience in the oil and gas industry with various types of riser design, subsea structural monitoring systems and riser integrity management. In 2010 Elizabeth was relocated to Perth from 2H Houston to start a local office with the goal of supporting the growing subsea market in WA. She has taken an active role in the subsea community and has participated as a committee member for the Perth branch SUT.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2019

David Thain, Woodside Energy

Maintenance & Operations experience -23years. Left school in 1990 (after YR12) and joined Shell UK as an apprentice technician in Aberdeen. Started working offshore in 1993 and completed my apprenticeship as a mechanical/Operations technician in 1994 and worked permanently offshore until mid 2000. In that time I was responsible for operating and commissioning several subsea systems before moving onshore and taking an Asset team lead position in Aberdeen I emigrated to Australia in 2006 to take up a position as Woodsides Subsea Production Team Lead. People ask me why have you spent so long in Production within O&G companies? I look at it like this. If I was in Formula 1 would I rather be designing the car or driving it and feeding back improvements?

Operating Subsea - April 2017

Carolyn Thain, Woodside Energy Ltd

Carolyn graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2001 with a double degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. She joined the Oil and Gas industry in 2002, working for Halliburton on land rigs throughout the United States and Mexico as well as offshore facilities in Australia. In 2006, Carolyn joined Woodside and spent her initial years supporting subsea operations on the Enfield and Vincent assets, moving on to lead project teams to deliver subsea extensions to those assets before moving to frontend developments within the Greater Enfield area. Between 2013 and the present Carolyn has more recently led the Browse subsea team and is currently the subsea delivery manager for the Senegal Development in West Africa.

ETM Jun 2017

Derek Thomson, CR3, Kuala Lumper, Malaysia

Accomplished Technical Leader with over 30 years of experience and dynamic leadership in offshore Oil and Gas Operations, Engineering, and Project Execution, gained during a successful international career at Shell and as an Independent Consultant for clients such as Technip Energies, Expro, and James Fisher Decommissioning.

Recently recruited into newly created Group-level position to support CR3 expansion plans, with specific focus on expanding our offshore integrated services provision and solutions to local, regional, and international oil, gas, and energy sectors now and into the future.

Expertise spans multi-billion-dollar Subsea, FPSO, and Floating LNG ventures. Proven track record of improving collaboration and performance across diverse, multi-discipline teams, resulting in enhanced project outcomes.

SCDU 2024

Michelle Thornton, Subsea 7

Michelle has 17 years of experience in the subsea construction industry covering rigid pipeline design, installation analysis and offshore installation.  Michelle has extensive experience in flexible flowline and umbilical installation analysis, transpooling and offshore installation and experience in spoolpiece installation analysis and offshore installation, bundle design and installation analysis.  Michelle has extensive offshore experience in both diving and ROV construction projects including isolation and commissioning operations.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - June 2019

Manish Tomar , Chevron Australia

Manish has more than 10 years of operations experience with subsea systems primarily in Australian offshore oil and gas fields. Manish is a subsea engineer working for Chevron Australia since 2012 being involved in various roles supporting the delivery of Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Erik Tran, Technip Oceania Pty Ltd

Erik is a Senior Project Engineer (Flexible Pipe/Umbilicals) at TechnipFMC with experience in flexible pipe cross-section design and optimisation, ancillary equipment design, riser configuration design, dynamic and fatigue analysis, flowline tie-in and stability assessments, manufacturing and package delivery. Notable projects include Woodside Pyxis & Greater Enfield and INPEX Ichthys

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - November 2021

Edd Tveit, Sensorlink

Edd Tveit holds an BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stavanger Ingeniørhøgskole (Collage). He has spent more 30 years working with pipeline pigging, plugging , repair, inspection and integrity. He was the founder of PSI – Plugging Specialists International AS – now TDW Williamson Offshore Services. PSI developed the remotely operated SmartPlug systems. Edd left TDW in 2008 to join Sensorlink, who developed the control and communication system for the SmartPlug. The last three years Edd has worked with Sensorlink AS as Director Business Development with development and sales of ultrasonic based online and real time pipeline erosion and corrosion monitoring systems.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Steve Tyler, Woodside Energy Ltd

Steve joined Woodside in 2014 as a Senior Geohazard Analyst and was previously a Principal Geophysicist at Advanced Geomechanics and the designated Technical Authority for Geophysics and Site Planning and Investigation. He has experience both in academia and industry concerning the integration of geoscience datasets, ground model development and geohazard analysis and has specific experience in tailoring geohazard and geoscience studies for engineering requirements. He is also an experienced Offshore Manager with over fifteen years of experience in marine geophysics and has worked worldwide on oil and gas, cable route and marine infrastructure projects offshore. He spent three years in academic research to achieve a PhD in Marine Geophysics and complete a research scholarship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute involving the analysis of marine geophysics and other multidisciplinary data within a GIS environment. He is an active member of SUT and a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2019

Edith Ugwumba, ChampionX

Edith is the Technology Team Leader for ChampionX Production Chemical Technologies in Australia & New Zealand. Edith has a BSc in Industrial Chemistry and an MSc in Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Prior to joining ChampionX in 2019, Edith conducted studies in Corrosion Engineering at Curtin University specialising in MEG Regeneration Unit (MRU) design, chemistry, and corrosion mitigation. Edith manages a Field Technical Laboratory in Perth that is set up to do corrosion inhibitor performance testing for our ANZ customers and has overseen testing programs for Corrosion Inhibitor Selection for subsea application for offshore operations in Western Australia and Northern Territory including for MEG Regeneration in Deepwater gas/condensate production

Paul Upjohn, Advanced Technology Valve

Paul Upjohn has been a member/contributor to SUT in Perth since arriving in Australia in 2006, setting up the Roxar Flow Measurement office in Perth after having previously worked for them in Aberdeen and Bergen.

Paul had a spell with GE Oil and Gas as Regional Product Manager Subsea Controls before being back at Emerson managing the Roxar business within Australia.

Since 2016 he has worked for ATV as their Asia Pacific Regional Sales Manager focussing on the subsea valve market plus in the last three years has been working for Viper Innovations as their Sales Consultant for the Australian market.

Currently a serving SUT Perth Branch committee member, as well as a previous stint between 2014 to 2018, Paul has contributed in organising the Subsea Controls Down Under Conferences since 2013 along with a number of other sub-committees within the SUT, which is his way of giving back to the industry.

SCDU 2024

Lex Veerhuis, Fugro

Dutch, Civil Engineer with a masters degree in Flood Risk (Delft University of
Technology). He has worked with Fugro on various topics involving implementing
new ways of working in the organisation. For the last two years he was based in the
head office in the Netherlands. Since April Lex has been working in Perth on
improving our service offering in the subsea IMR industry.

Last Updated: AUT Conference Oct-19

Lina Velosa, Nexxis & Abacco Group

From Colombia where she worked as a field consultant, to managing business development for an Oil and Gas Services Company in the Asia Pacific region and directing her own company, Lina has a professional history in negotiation, strategy, and technical sales, she has the experience to deliver the insights and practical businesses knowledge.

YES! Event, May 2015

Jack Vincent, OneSubsea

Mr. Jack Vincent is Product Champion for Subsea Inspection Maintenance and Repair (IMR) Services with OneSubsea. In this role he oversees the product lifecycle strategy and development of OneSubsea’s efforts within IMR – including the next generation vehicle platform “uROV”. During his career at Schlumberger, Jack has worked in various roles in engineering and technology including: Product Design Engineer, Project Engineer, and Product Champion. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Peter Wademan, Wood Groupside Energy

Peter has worked at Wood Group for 23 years and prior to that for Racal Survey for 7 years.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2015

Hema Wadwa, INTECSEA

Hema Wadhwa is an Engineering specialist, business developer and project manager, experienced in subsea systems engineering and research. She has authored and co-authored several technical papers and has presented technical work at local and international technical conferences. Hema is an elected member of Society of underwater technology committee. She mentors students and young engineers and has been an invited guest speaker at several industry events. Hema was also recognized as one of the Top 25 migrants by the ‘Skilled migrant Professionals’ summer magazine issue this year.

Evening Technical Meeting - August 2018

William Wagland, OneSubsea

William graduated University in 2011 and has worked with OneSubsea for the last 5 years. The First two years of his career he was part of the OneSubsea Graduate Engineering Training Program in which he was exposed to the various OneSubsea product design groups via a rotational work program. Upon completion of his training/development program he was integrated into the local project engineering team within the OneSubsea Perth office and has continued to learn and grow as a Subsea Project Engineer while working on a number of subsea development projects and studies.

YES! Event, May 2016

Lisabeth Wagner, UWA

Lisabeth Wagner is a PhD student in the Fluid Science and Resources Group at The University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth. In 2014, Lisabeth graduated with a Diplom-Ingenieur (M.Eng.) of Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.  Throughout her studies and on completion of her studies, she worked on various aspects of energy generation and conservation at Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany. Now as a PhD student at UWA, Lisabeth focusses on produced water monitoring in the oil and gas industry focusing on a novel approach using NMR. Ultimately, this technology will be implemented subsea, requiring remote or autonomous operation

ETM April 2018

David Walker, Yokogawa Australia Pty Ltd

David Walker is a chemical engineer with over 30 years’ experience in control systems across a range of industries including oil & gas, mining, power, water & waste and chemicals. Currently David is Chief Engineer for Yokogawa Australia, and provides technology support, project execution management, engineering improvements and standardisation. Most recently, David was lead engineer for the Wheatstone Upstream project and was involved in the implementation of the subsea controls.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Alastair Walker, INTECSEA

For the past four years Alastair has been Lead Engineer for Advanced Analysis on the Chevron Wheatstone FEED and Detailed Design. Prior to joining INTECSEA Alastair was Founding Director for two commercially successful subsea pipeline design and development companies; these were KW Ltd, and AME Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. His primary interest during 35 years of subsea pipeline engineering has been the advancement of design methods to ensure that pipelines can be designed and installed to operate safely and to accommodate the effects of challenging conditions, including extremely deep water, high temperatures and pressures, use of stronger materials and development of CRA clad and lined pipe.

Evening Technical Meeting, June 2015

Phil Ward, Technip Oceania Pty Ltd

Phil Ward has eight years’ experience in subsea flexible riser, flowline and ancillary equipment design and installation in Technip. During this time he has worked on projects, tenders and studies at all life stages of flexible pipes and has been involved in related site and offshore installation activities. He spent three of these years in the groups’ flexible pipe research and development department in France focussing on riser dynamic and fatigue analysis.

Flexi Risers course, August 2016

Brian Wardlaw, Oceaneering

Brian currently holds the position as Country Manager for Oceaneering’s Australian operations, covering Asset Integrity, ROV and Service, Technology & Rentals organisations, with additional focus on the Subsea Distribution Solutions group, incorporating umbilicals, and associated distribution hardware.  He has been based in Perth for the last 7 years, and currently resides at Oceaneering’s facility in Jandakot. With over 17 years experience working in the oil and gas industry, he began his career as a Project Engineer working at Oceaneering’s umbilical manufacturing facility in Scotland. After 6 years Brian had a change in role when he took up the Technical Sales Manager position which supported the Sales and business development effort throughout Europe, experience which has proven invaluable to him during his current position. The presentation that Brian will deliver will take you through the various steps associated with the design, manufacture, test and loadout of umbilicals with a brief overview of the associated hardware.

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Austen Watkins, Bureau of Meteorology

Austen Watkins is a Decision Support Specialist within the Energy and Resources section of the Bureau of Meteorology.  He obtained a Graduate Diploma in Meteorology in 2010 and has been an operational meteorologist across multiple disciplines of weather forecasting in Western Australia up until 2020. Through this experience, Austen has moved to a more specialised role involving operational meteorology and communicating weather related risks and uncertainty to end uses. During the cyclone season in Australia,  Austen is embedded within Australian Offshore Oil and Gas companies with the primary focus of supporting asset managers and emergency management personnel with high level decision making around planning and response to cyclone hazards.

Metocean June 2021

Martin Watson, Fugro Survey Pty Ltd

Martin Watson is currently the Data Centre Manager at Fugro Survey Pty Ltd in Perth. He has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Hydrographic Surveying from Plymouth Polytechnic (1979). Martin worked for a number of Dutch Dredging companies and was chief surveyor on several large projects including the Parallel Runway at Sydney Airport. He has also worked offshore for many years on survey vessels involved in the Oil and Gas Industry. Martin has worked with Fugro for over 20 years since emigrating to Australia in 1988.

Positioning & Survey course, September 2019

Phillip Watson, University of Western Australia

Phil is the Shell Professor of Offshore Engineering and Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub on Offshore Floating Facilities at University of Western Australia.  He is a highly experienced offshore geotechnical engineer, with over 25 years oil and gas experience and previously held the position of Global Director of GeoConsulting for Fugro. At Fugro he was a champion of innovation and technology development, working to integrate specialist consulting teams around the world, and with a commitment to sharing expertise and streamlining access to leading edge design approaches.  Prior to joining Fugro, Phil was a Director of specialist geotechnical consulting firm Advanced Geomechanics.  He is a Fellow of The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, the current Chair of ISSMGE Technical Committee 209 ‘Offshore Geotechnics’, and a committee member of ISO Working Group 10 / API Resource Group 7.

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2019

Phil Wells, MMA Offshore

Following graduation from what’s now Curtin University, Phil’s career commenced in land surveying then broadened into hydrographic surveying when based in Port Hedland WA.  Working with the port authority developed his attention to detail and love of surveying on the oceans. Joining the Perth office of Racal Survey provided exposure to projects further offshore. Experience leading to his current technical management role was developed as an online surveyor, data processor, senior surveyor and then Party Chief on projects from the North Sea to Antarctica.

Positioning & Survey Course, March 2024

James Westcott, Engineers Australia WA

James works as a Director and the Engineering manager for Atkins, a multi-discipline engineering consultancy covering energy, transport and infrastructure with over 18000 employees worldwide. He completed his Mechanical Engineering degree at UWA in 1989 and received his MBA from INSEAD France in 1998, and has been chartered for over 20 years. He was the former Chairman of the Oil & Gas Group at Engineers Australia, and is the 2016 Deputy President and incoming 2017 President for the WA Division.

YES! Event, October 2016

James Whelan, University of Western Australia

James Whelan has worked in the offshore oil and gas industry for 15 years.  He has worked as a hydrodynamist at INTECSEA and at Woodside Energy Limited.

James Whelan has PhD is in high speed catamaran slamming and holds an adjunct professorship at UWA.

David White, The University of Western Australia

Professor David White is the Shell EMI Professor of Offshore Engineering at the University of Western Australia in Perth. He has been at UWA since 2006, having previously held a lectureship at Cambridge University in the UK. His research encompasses many aspects of offshore geotechnics and fluid-soil-structure interaction. The work combines physical modelling, particularly using the UWA centrifuge and O-tube facilities, with numerical analysis and field observations. David has authored book chapters on piled foundations and pipeline geotechnics, and his >220 career publications have won 7 prizes. He was awarded the 2010 Anton Hales Medal by the Australian Academy of Science and the 2011 Western Australia Tall Poppy Science Award. He was the 2011 Western Australian Early Career Scientist of the Year.

Offshore Geohazards Course - June 2017

Elizabeth White, Atteris

Elizabeth graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor of Science from The University of Western Australia and worked for four years in installation engineering with Coflexip Stena Offshore before transitioning into the flexible pipe team at Technip, where she worked for a further eight years.  She has extensive experience in flexible pipe cross-section design and riser dynamic analysis, developed while working on a range of project phases including concept design, detailed design, manufacturing support, installation support and life extension.  Elizabeth has worked on both ultra-shallow and deep-water projects in Australia, Norway and France and is currently a Lead Engineer at Atteris.

The Life Cycle of Flexible Risers & Flowlines - June 2019

Jeremy White , Subsea 7

Jeremy has a Engineering degree in Marine and Offshore Systems from the Australian Maritime College and started his career as a graduate installation engineer at Technip Australia, in 2004. After working on a series of projects off the Western Australia coast he joined Acergy (now Subsea 7) to take up a role as Field Engineer working on heavy construction and saturation dive vessels working in Australia, NZ, SE Asia, on deep water projects in West Africa and diving projects in the North Sea. He later transitioned to a Shift Supervisor role on a flexlay construction vessel in the Subsea 7 PLSV fleet operating in Brazil.  In 2014 he moved back onshore to take up Lead Installation Engineer role in the Subsea 7 Perth office. After working as lead engineer role on various tenders and projects Jeremy has now brings his experience to a project operations manager role.

SSAC May 2021

Liam Widdrington, Siemens Subsea

I was born Newcastle (North East of England, not Australia unfortunately) in 1991. I left school to go on to be an apprentice on the tools. From then on I studied at college and went onto University where I studied Mechanical Engineering with modules in Electrical Engineering also. I conducted a Graduate Scheme at Sellafield Nuclear Decommissioning, and made the move from the North East to the Lake District, setting up my own business with my fiancé. For almost 2 years now I have been a part of the New Product Development team at Siemens Subsea in Ulverston, primarily working on the DigiTRON3 controls connector as a Design Engineer.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference, October 2016

Christian Wiebe, Matrix Composites & Engineering

Christian has over 15 years’ experience in the subsea industry, primarily in the design and analysis of dynamic riser system.

Christian has worked on numerous projects world-wide, ranging from short consultancy scopes to managing full riser system designs. While spending the majority of his career working in consultancies and design houses, Christian’s current role as subject matter expert for SURF and VIV for Matrix Composites and Engineering complements his design experience with insight into the challenges of working in the supply chain.

ETM February 2021

John Willcocks, Wood

John has over 25 years experience in the Oil and Gas industry, with the last 20 years being in the subsea sector.  John has been based in the UK and Norway, with the last 11 years in Perth.  He is currently the WGK Australian Pipelines Manager. Responsible for ensuring technical and commercial delivery of the functions works scopes, team structure, proposals, technical and business development. Experience and competence from initial field conceptual design, FEED, detailed design, through to procurement, site fabrication and operational support activities. He has fulfilled the role as project manager on two Detailed Design projects, and been the PM and lead engineer on a number of conceptual / pre-engineering subsea pipeline/development and costing studies.    Competence and design experience within the core areas of pipeline engineering and very familiar with the main pipeline design codes and recommended practices.

Experience in developing subsea Inspection, Maintenance & Repair activities (including the development of risk based inspection programs).  The early part of his career was mainly within Safety, Risk and Reliability engineering for both onshore, offshore installations and subsea pipelines.  Participated in the Tartan Alpha QRA for the safety case.  Dropped Object studies, Consequence analysis etc.

Subsea Awareness Course, September 2020

Greg Williams , RPS Metocean

Greg Williams is a metocean specialist and Technical Director at RPS MetOcean Pty Ltd – a meteorological and physical oceanography consultancy in Perth.  Greg has over 25 years of ICT, metocean, and NWP modelling experience, has previously established and run metocean data management and global HPC modelling centres at Fugro and Weathernews, and has consulted and collaborated with defence, government, private industry, and research organisations in 17 countries for the implementation of operational weather forecasting systems, local-area models, automated data-collection, data-processing and visualisation systems, cloud infrastructure, and metocean standards.

Metocean June 2021

Duncan Wilmot, GE Oil & Gas

Duncan Wilmot (Lead Materials Engineer, GE Oil & Gas), has been involved in the global Oil and Gas industry for more than 20 years, working for leading contractors and manufacturers, primarily in the Subsea sector with subsea production equipment, piping components, subsea pipelines and risers. His background includes technical, quality and project management, with expertise in welding, corrosion and materials engineering for carbon and low alloy steel, weld overlay cladding and corrosion resistant alloys including super duplex, nickel alloy, metallurgically clad and mechanically bonded CRA lined pipe.

Materials & Corrosion, June 2015

Ian Wilson, (Consultant)

Ian joined SUT in 1980 prior to undertaking a Churchill Fellowship in Underwater Engineering in the UK in 1982. Subsequently, Ian gained Project Engineering experience in Europe & Middle East, covering Subsea IMR, Construction & Hyperbaric Welding. Ian joined Woodside in 1990 and gained experience in production, Subsea development & construction. Ian was made a Fellow of SUT in 2014 and have been Secretary of SUT (Perth Branch) since 2012. His employment at Woodside ceased in April 2015, and he is currently undertaking pro bono work in the area of competency assessment for Subsea Engineering and Offshore Pipeline Engineering.

YES! Event, October 2016

Hugh Wolgamot

Hugh Wolgamot is a Senior Research Fellow at UWA, an ARC DECRA Fellow and co-program leader at MERA.  After obtaining his PhD from the University of Oxford, he joined UWA as part of the Shell Chair and has worked on a range of different problems in offshore hydrodynamics, with strong interests in local industry problems and in floating offshore renewables.  This has included using field data, numerical modelling approaches and laboratory techniques.  He was co-leader of the UWA wave flume refurbishment project, now incorporated into UWA’s Coastal and Offshore Engineering Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 January 2022

Peter Wong, Aker Solutions

Peter Wong is Director of Customer Management at Aker Solutions. He started with the Perth operations back in 2000 and held Project Management positions in Kuala Lumpur and Paris totalling 7 years before returning to Perth to join the subsea business area. He has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and a MBA from UWA. With over 18 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, Peter has worked on global and Australian projects, such as Chevron’s Gorgon Foundation, Inpex Ichthys and Woodside’s Greater Western Flank Phase 1.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2019

Andrew Woods, Curtin University

Dr Andrew Woods is a Research Engineer at the Centre for Marine Science & Technology and Manager of the HIVE Visualisation Facility at Curtin University. He has a strong background in stereoscopic 3D imaging, visualisation, 3D reconstruction, 3D cameras and displays, video electronics, underwater vehicles (ROVs), and engineering software development, including research & development with applications in offshore oil and gas, and maritime archaeology.

ETM - Feb 2016

Karl Woods, Wood Groupside Energy

Karl has a Masters in Offshore and Ocean Technology (specialising in risk management) and an Engineering Doctorate in the subject of improving project value through design for reliability. Since starting his professional career in 2005, Karl has worked across the subsea community in the application of best practice in reliability engineering to develop reliability and technical risk management systems. He was closely involved in the original drafting of API RP 17N “Subsea Production Systems Reliability and Technical Risk Management” and currently sits on the update committee focused on addressing reliability and integrity management during Operations.

Reliabilty course, February 2017

Joel Woolerson

Joel is a Director and Sales Manager at AFP, a leading hydraulic engineering company providing process and fluid power products and services nationally. As well as heading up the Sales team, Joel has over 13 years’ experience as an engineer, using his expertise to conceptualise, design and deliver cutting-edge fluid handling systems.

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference – Oct 2018

Iain Wylie , Oceaneering

Iain Wylie is a Project Manager specialising in Engineering Solutions at Oceaneering where he is passionate about solving problems through lean product design and innovation. He studied Aerospace Engineering and Nuclear & Radiological Engineering at Georgia Tech. He started in the subsea industry at the “gemba” as an ROV pilot and Tooling Technician in the Gulf of Mexico before taking these experiences into design engineering and project management. Iain moved to Australia in 2012 with Oceaneering.

June ETM - Jun 2021

Si Huai Yeaw, Aker Solutions

Si graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2009 with a double degree in Chemical Engineering and Commerce. Since joining Aker Solutions in 2011 Si’s work has mainly focused on subsea developments in the North Sea and APAC region. Currently based in Perth, Si is focused on subsea processing and boosting technology applications including separation, dehydration, cooling, compression and pumping technologies in the Asia Pacific Region. Lastly, Si became an SUT Committee Member last November.

ETM Apr 2017

Hamidreza Yeganeh , JFD Global

Hamid is a subsea engineer with twenty years of experience in design, installation, and operation in shallow and deep-water projects. He has worked in several major offshore fields with focus on pipeline engineering, diver and diver-less system applications. In 2018, Hamid has joined JFD and is supporting the technical side of Australian projects and operations. Since 2019, he has been employed as the lead engineer working to deliver the Pressure Hull Collapse Project to Defence Science and Technology.

August ETM 2021

Sophie Yin, Woodside Energy

Sophie  works on operational pipeline integrity assessments in the Subsea Engineering Team at Woodside where she has worked for 6 years. In her day to day role she assesses and manages risks to pipeline integrity across all operating assets which arise from inspection and monitoring activities, integration of new developments and other opportunities.

ETM February 2021

Robin Yoon, GE Oil & Gas

Robin Yoon is a Lead Subsea Systems Engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. He has graduated with Bachelor (honours) of Oil and Gas Engineering and Graduate Certificate in Business from the University of Western Australia. His work experience includes working in Aberdeen and Australia, being involved in concept design/FEED through to EPC, management, testing and servicing stages of major oil and gas projects in Australian and South East Asian regions. Other hobbies include travelling, family and anything with a slight kick of adrenaline rush.

Subsea Awareness Course, May 2017

Matthew Zed

Matthew has held positions in Data Science, Operations Transformation and MetOcean at Woodside and prior roles in Coastal Engineering consultancies over the last 17 years.  With a key focus on data analytics, engineering design criteria and decision support tool development, Matthew has held key roles at Woodside in the maturation of engineering analytical systems, digital platform development and realising value out of research initiatives through operational implementation.

Wednesday 19 January 2022

Hammam Zeitoun, Wood Group Kenny

Hammam is a Project and Engineering Manager working for Wood Group. He has 15 years’ experience in the engineering and design of subsea pipelines and subsea structures. For the last 3 years Hammam has been managing WG engineering and procurement support scope on Woodside Greater Western Flank 2.Hammam completed his first degree in Civil Engineering at Cairo University in 2000. He received his MBA in 2004 from Heriot Watt University, UK, and his Msc. from Newcastle University in 2010.

ETM - Aug 2016

Jeff Zhang, Wood

Dr. Jeff Zhang is a lead flow assurance consultant at Wood Australia. He has over 14 years flow assurance and process engineering work experience beyond 5 years post-graduate research experience on multiphase flow and heat transfer. He has been involved in several Australian major gas condensate developments and worked through all project phases. He has demonstrated track record of executing, leading and managing flow assurance work scopes in multi-disciplinary project team.  He received his doctoral degree from Tsinghua University, China. He has published 15 papers on peer-reviewed journals and co-authored 19 invention patents. He currently serves in the local SPE Western Australian Section as the Program Chair and in the global SPE Flow Assurance Technical Section as the Webmaster.

Subsea Production Systems Course, August 2020

Wenhua Zhao, UWA

Dr Wenhua Zhao is a DECRA fellow and Shell-funded Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses on offshore hydrodynamics and wave-structure interactions, which has led to more than 80 publications spaning from the most renowned academic journal in fluid mechanics to most industry-focused conferences. Wenhua has been serving as a Chief Investigator for the OFFshore Hub (https://www.offshorehub.edu.au) and the TIDE (https://tide.edu.au). He was elected as a By-Fellow in 2020 at Churchill College of Cambridge University, and he is currently a Deputy Editor for the renowned journal Ocean Engineering.

Subsea Awareness Course - May 2022

Hongjie Zhou, NGI

Hongjie is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at the Perth office of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). He is a PhD graduate from the University of Western Australia and has about 15 years’ experience in research and consulting work in the offshore oil and gas industry in Australia and worldwide. His expertise covers advanced numerical modelling, pipeline geotechnics, geo-design of subsea structures, and pile/conductor-soil interaction.

OSIGp Selections of OTC - July 2018

Jess Zlokich, Baker Hughes, a GE Company

Jess is Flexible Pipe Systems Lead Engineer at BHGE where she is currently focused on customer support and early engineering for the Asia Pacific region. She completed her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, with first class honours, in 2009 at the University of Western Australia and has over 9 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry.

Jess started her career as an installation engineer, after a couple of years she moved on to a more technically focused role as a riser analyst, gaining experience in the design and analysis of offshore systems including drilling risers, SCRs, conductor systems, jacket conductors, jack up rigs MODU mooring systems and subsea pipelines. The last 4 years Jess has been at BHGE in the Flexible Pipe Systems team primarily working on cross section design, global analysis, customer support and early engineering including FEED projects.

ETM Apr 2019