CAREER EPISODE 1
Wind farming in Europe, and Oil and Gas Platforms Structure Execution in the Middle East
1. Introduction
[CE 1.1]
- Project: Wind farming in Europe, and Oil and Gas Platforms Structure Execution in the Middle East
- Duration: [Date] – [Date]
- Location: [Location]
- Organization: Petrofac Int. Ltd.
- Position: Graduate Engineer (Structural Engineer)
2. Background
[CE 1.2]
Nature of the Overall Engineering Project
Petrofac Int. Ltd. offered me a permanent job at their university job fair in 2013. The company’s plan that year was to take graduates under the wing of its new initiative, the Petrofac Academy. The academy was systemized in a way to teach graduates the ins and outs of the oil and gas industry to prepare and guide us in the path of professional engineers.
The program consisted of workshops on time management, communication, and teamwork, all of which were accompanied by e-learning. After four months of soft skills and training, we were placed on projects to discover the true nature of professional work.
[CE 1.3]
Early in my career, I learned the fundamentals to kick-start my career as a structural engineer for offshore platforms. From there, with guidance and more training, I became responsible for conducting the following activities:
- I reviewed the structural drawings.
- I prepared the material takeoff from drawings, along with the bill of material quantification.
- I prepared weight control reports.
- I carried out drawing modifications utilizing AutoCAD.
- I carried out activities that were particularly dependent on offshore-specific software, including structural modelling.
- I analysed the various activities included in the design, including reading the analysis reports.
- I performed changes or optimization based on the analysis outcome.
- I mentioned a younger engineer for all the responsibilities I performed.
- Personal engineering activity.
CAREER EPISODE 2
Borwin Gamma Project
1. Introduction
[CE 2.1]
- Project: Borwin Gamma Project
- Duration: 2017 – 2020
- Location: United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Organization: Petrofac Int. Ltd.
- Position: Structural Engineer
2. Background
[CE 2.2]
Nature of the Overall Engineering Project
Petrofac Int. Ltd. offered me a permanent job at their university job fair in 2013. The company’s plan that year was to take graduates under the wing of its new initiative, the Petrofac Academy. The academy was systemized in a way to teach graduates the ins and outs of the oil and gas industry to prepare and guide us in the path of professional engineers.
SIEMENS and Petrofac, as a Consortium, were contracted by DC Netz BorWin3 GmbH to design, build and install a 900 MW Offshore HVDC converter platform. The converter platform will be installed in the EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) of the North Sea.
[CE 2.3]
Responsibilities:
- I executed the foundation installation of the jacket for the defined platform using the heavy-lift crane vessel.
- I did the Jacket configuration, which worked to define the six main legs, split into two rows.
- I carried out the ‘Stand Alone Phase’ execution, where the foundations were not accessed from the set construction point.
- I did the transportation and installation phase execution, which was initiated when the resources and equipment for the offshore campaigns were mobilized.
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CAREER EPISODE 3
Hollandse Kust (ZUID) Alpha Platform
1. Introduction
[CE 3.1]
- Project: Hollandse Kust (ZUID) Alpha Platform
- Duration: [Date] – [Date]
- Location: [Location]
- Organization: [Organization]
- Position: Project Engineer
2. Background
[CE 3.2]
Nature of the Overall Engineering Project
The HKZ Alpha OSS platform consists of a six-legged jacket substructure supported on six skirt piles, with an integrated cable deck and a topside comprising 4 decks. The cable deck, part of the jacket, facilitates cable pulling before topside installation.
[CE 3.3]
Objectives of the Project
The scope of the project was to define the design requirements and implement the procedures and parameters for the structural analysis and design of the HKZ OSS platform topside and substructure, with a life span of 30 years. The design included ULS, FLS, ALS, SLS, and installation conditions, including lift, transport, on-bottom stability, and load-out. In the project, I used ACS 11.2 V8i for the global design of Jacket and Topside.
The selected software resulted in modelling the structure as a 3D space frame, generation of member loads due to waves, currents, self-weight, and buoyancy, solution of non-linear pile-soil interaction, and solution for forces, displacements, and reactions via stiffness analysis.
[CE 3.4]
Duties:
- I exported cable, which was located on the north side of the platform at the defined cable deck level.
- I analyzed the Serviceability Limit State (SLS), which was in correspondence with the tolerance criteria.
- I obtained a variable functional deck load determination in accordance with DNVGL-OS-C101 [S2].
- I analyzed the critical wave direction, which was linked with the obtained maximum forces. Get free CDR samples available at AustraliaCDRHelp.Com.
