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John PRICE Resume

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Last Update: 15-05-2025

Full Name: Mr. John T. PRICE

Profession: Instrument Engineer

Mobile Telephone No's.:+44 (0)7785 291 693 +31 (0)6 108 368 48

E-Mail Address:johntprice93@gmail.com

Skype Address:jtprice93

Web-Site: www.johntprice-resume.com
(scanned copies of my qualification certificates
and, for authentication, a curriculum vitae apostille
may be viewed and downloaded)

Nationality: British

Martial Status: Single with de facto wife

Qualifications: B.Sc. Information Technology
(1994) - The Open University, U.K. (correspondence course)
H.N.C supplementary courses: Fluid Power and Plant Engineering
(1976) - University of Wales Newport (formerly Gwent College of Higher Education), NEWPORT, U.K..
H.N.C. Engineering
(1975) - Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly Llandaff Technical College), CARDIFF, U.K..
(view certificates)

Professional Affiliations: Incorporated engineer, I.Eng. ( U.K ).( Registration no.: 351 686 )
Member of the Institute of Measurement and Control, M.Inst.M.C. ( U.K )

Special Training: Offshore survival craft procedure.
IIF (Incident & Injury Free) Safety Orientation.
Chevron Safety Instrumented Training for SIS (safety instrumented systems).

Computer Skills: Microsoft (MS) Windows 7, Vista and XP
MS Office Professional, 2016 and 2007
Access, advanced
Excel, advanced
Word, advanced
Intergraph IN-Tools, intermediate)
MS PowerPoint, intermediate
MS Project, intermediate

Languages: Bahasa Indonesia and French (intermediate)

Non-smoker Full course of Covid-19 vaccinations (Pfizer), (view certificates)

Granted 10 year residential and work permit in The Netherlands - 3rd May 2021 (view certificates)

Professional Experience

Career Summary

My career has been built upon experience gained in the process industries: oil & gas (offshore and onshore), petro-chemical, power-generation, including the offshore renewables sector (wind energy). The primary role has been instrument engineering: mainly detail engineering / design through facilities engineering, application engineering, construction, inspection, commissioning and maintenance for offshore and onshore oil and gas facilities and multi-discipline project management. There have been assignments in thirteen foreign countries in five continents; most overseas projects have been undertaken in the Asia / Pacific Rim region.

In addition to the usual instrument engineering roles, since 1986 there has been increasing emphasis upon PC-based software skills. This began with the development and management of instrument schedule / index databases in dBase-III; thereafter Foxbase, FoxPro, Access and IN-Tools in a Windows 7, XP and Vista environment; also use of instrument vendor sizing/selection software.

In order to formalize the professional IT skills gained, a British Open University B.Sc. degree course was taken from 1991 to 1994 and an instrument schedule database management project was completed for an honours classification in 1997. The main theme of the course was IT and systems engineering.

Oct 2022 - Jun 2024

Systems Engineer.

Tennet TSO

ARNHEM, The Netherlands

Assigned to the HKN, HKWA and HKWB (700MW Dutch sector offshore HV platforms) project team. Responsible for the review of documents associated with the auxiliary SCADA/DCS (Honeywell Experion PKS5.11), Isolated maintenance network (IMN), Out of Band (OOB) and PAGA systems; based at fabrication yard (Equans/Smulders, HOBOKEN, Belgium) construction supervision and attendance of FATs and SATs.

Mar 2022 - Sep 2022

Lead Instrument Engineer

SBM Offshore

SCHIEDAM, The Netherlands

Assigned to the Exxon Mobil (EEPGL) Guyana Liza Field brownfield projects team. Responsible for the creation/supervision of the instrumentation documents associated with the Gas to Energy gas export pipeline tie-in to the Destiny and Unity FPSOs: client liaison, ICSS interface philosophy, I/O list, instrument schedule and RFQ data sheets.

Mar 2020 - Dec 2021

COVID LOCK-DOWN ISOLATION

Self-enforced isolation from the work environment owing to the Covid pandemic, although the disease was NOT contracted personally

Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

Senior/Lead Instrument Engineer

KCI Engineers

SCHIEDAM, The Netherlands

Assigned to the TAQA Petroleum P15-D oil & gas platform (Dutch sector) engineering design revamp team. Responsible for the creation/supervision of the instrumentation documents associated with new platform pipeline tie-ins: data sheets, I/O list, instrument schedule and loop/wiring diagrams. Assisted with the KCI detail engineering proposal for the Bluewater Haewene Brim FPSO Pierce Depressurization Project.

Aug 2016 - May 2017

Senior Construction Specialist (I&C)

Saudi Aramco

JAZAN, Saudi Arabia

Assigned to the Jazan Refinery Project, Jazan Economic Zone, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Responsible for the review of the on-site design development and monitoring of the LSTK contractor's fabrication and pre-commissioning activities. of the Diesel Hydrotreater and Hydrocracker areas (EPC 10/11) of the refinery plant. Resolution of design changes and progress reporting.

Dec 2013 - Feb 2016

Senior Instrument Engineer

Kellogg Joint Venture (KJV)

ULSAN, Korea

Assigned to the US$50 billion Chevron Australia Gorgon Barrow Island Gas Production Project. Responsible for the resolution of instrumentation engineering and fabrication issues arising on site from the KJV and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) fabrication teams: preparation of site instruction and technical query documents; review of instrument site queries; liaison with the Perth-based Follow-on Support Team and equipment suppliers; red-line mark-up of engineering documents; walk-down and punch-listing of modules; preparation of carry-over work-scope lists, related to the modules prior to and following shipment to Barrow Island, West Australia.

Sep 2010 - Mar 2013

Senior Instrument & Control Engineer

Chevron Australia Pty. Ltd.

PERTH & KUALA LUMPUR

Assigned to the US$30 billion Chevron Wheatstone offshore gas platform project for the North-West shelf, Australia. Responsible for the coordination and supervision of the Technip engineering contractor’s multi-national instrumentation team and the DSME fabrication contractor for: mechanical packages; field instruments; support to the project SPI/INTools instrument database; development of P&IDs; review of process vessel design; attendance of HAZOPs; during the FEED and Detail Engineering project phases.

Jan 2007 - Jun 2010

Instrument SERIP Consultant

Tengiz Chevroil (TCO)

TENGIZ, Kazakhstan

Engaged on a 28/28-day rotation in the Surface Equipment Reliability Integrity Process (SERIP) group of the Operations Project Support (OPS) Department. To develop instrument, electrical and package preventive maintenance and repair procedures associated with the primary oil and gas facility at Tengiz; review project drawings and documents for approval; liaise with engineering contractors for document handling and delivery; to investigate and resolve project and design issues; assist with the reliability centred maintenance (RCM) process using ART's reliabuilder software.

Oct 2006 - Jan 2007

Lead Instrument Engineer

DPS (Bristol) Ltd.

PORTISHEAD, U.K.

Assigned to the Iraq SCOP Khurmala Dome Middle, North and South onshore degassing stations degassing detail design project. Responsible for the coordination of the in-house engineering team, the Turkish sub-contractor, Avrasya and package vendors during the close-out phase; liaison with the DCS supplier, Emerson and other package suppliers.

Oct 2005 - Jul 2006

Senior Instrument Engineer

Jacobs Engineering

LEIDEN, The Netherlands

Engaged on the Borealis Burghausen PP6 polypropylene design project. Responsible for the review of the instrumentation content of major mechanical packages including: Gas compressors, pumps and vessels.

Mar 2005 - Sep 2005

Senior I&E project engineer

Siemens PG Icis

Aberthaw Power Station, BARRY, U.K.

Manage site and engineering issues associated with the Siemens APACS DCS control system upgrade for the No. 7 unit 500 MW steam turbo-alternator (installation phase). Liaison with system configuration, software engineers and electrical installation sub-contractor.

Nov 2004 - Apr 2005

Senior Instrument Engineer

Kellogg Brown & Root

LEATHERHEAD, U.K.

Engaged on the British Petroleum Angola Greater Plutonio 220 mbbld FPSO design project. Responsible for instrument support to mechanical packages: Sulzer water injection, Rolls-Royce RB-211 turbo-generators and Dresser-Rand gas compressors and Bently-Nevada condition monitoring system. Also specification of component instrumentation and INTools database support for the DCS.

Aug 2002 - Apr 2004

Senior Instrument/Electrical Engineer

Chevron Texaco

HOUSTON, U.S.A.

Assigned to the South Sanha Condensate project (existing facilities team). Reporting to the CT project manager, responsible for the review of the detail engineering, by Paragon Engineering, of the retrofit of gas-compression modules to the EKA, NNA and SSA oil/gas platforms, offshore Cabinda, Angola. Assist with HAZOPs; development of P&IDs; SAFE charts; perform technical review of vendor documents and compliance with specifications of I&E, mechanical and control building packages, including: component instrumentation, Solar / Dresser- Rand CGT-driven gas compressors, control-room / MCC buildings, process vessels and instrument air compressor skid. Resolution of technical queries and liaison with Angolan document control for retrieval of existing drawings; and discussion with field operations and maintenance depts.. Responsible for the joint development and writing of test procedures and initial shutdown/HUC/commissioning procedures.

May 2002 - Jul 2002

Senior Instrument/Electrical Engineer

Merpro Process Controls Ltd.

Bristol, U.K.

Assigned to the Conoco Indonesia Belanak WH-A and WH-B platform project. Specification of instrumentation for the Merpro sand removal packages.

Nov 2000 - Jan 2002

Senior Instrument/Electrical Engineer

Chevron (CABGOC)

Cabinda, Angola

Engaged on a 28/28 day rotation assigned to the 36 mbbld Malongo West Fox offshore oil production and gas-injection upgrade project. Detail specification of the Siemens/Moore APACS DCS; development of platform SAFE charts, instrument schedule and purchase orders for field instruments. Responsible for all instrument commissioning procedure including test and HUC.

Jun 2000 - Oct 2000

Senior Instrument Engineer

Agra Birwelco Ltd

Bristol, U.K.

Assigned to the Innogy Ltd. Little Barford 20 MW regenerative fuel cell power plant project. Responsible for the detail specification and purchase order inquiries for all field instruments

Dec 1999 - Mar 2000

Lead Instrument Engineer

P T Kvaerner Indonesia

Jakarta, Indonesia

Recruited to supervise the preliminary engineering phase of the Premier Oil Anoa platform tie-in to the new 42-MMSCFD AGX (Anoa Gas Export) project. Responsible for the instrument survey of the existing Anoa facility; preparation of SOR (scope of requirement) documents; deliverables register; specification of the revised Anoa component of the ICS (Instrument and Control System, Foxboro IA/Triconex) and field instrumentation to interface with the new AGX platform.

Jul 1998 - Apr 1999

Senior Instrument Engineer

ABB Lummus Global b.v.

The Hague, The Netherlands

Assigned to the detail engineering team for the Kemya Olefins project, Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia; a 40,000 tonne per year ethylene plant. Responsible for the specification of field instruments using IN-Tools data sheet preparation software and specification documents using Metaphase document management system.

Aug 1997 - Jul 1998

Senior Instrument Engineer

Odebrecht Oil & Gas Services Ltd.

Sutton, Surrey, U.K.

Engaged on the Saga Petroleum AS Varg FPSO project. Responsible for instrumentation support to the main process separation and utility packages; liaison with fabrication site, package and instrument vendors.

Feb 1997 - May 1997

Senior Instrument/Electrical Engineer

Transfield Worley Pty. Ltd.

Perth, Western Australia

Assigned to Transfield/Worley joint venture Woodside Offshore Petroleum project team. Responsible for the preliminary work for the Lambert and Hermes sub-sea tie-in and the preparation of a number of conceptual design reports for call-off work associated with the Woodside Cossack Pioneer FPSO.

Jun 1996 - Dec 1996

Senior Instrument Engineer

JGC Corporation

Yokohama, Japan

Assigned to the Saudi Aramco JU'AYMAH additional gas fractionation design project. Responsible for the development of detail specification for field instruments including the process analyzer system and metering system.

Nov 1995 - Apr 1996

Senior Instrument Engineer

Norske Shell EPTT 4152

Kollsnes, Norway

Assigned to the Troll onshore gas/condensate terminal mechanical completion team. Responsible for the inspection of the plant instrumentation; preparation of engineering clarification documents; liaison with main engineering consultants and installation sub-contractors.

Jul 1995 - Sep 1995

Senior Instrument Engineer

Raytheon

The Hague, The Netherlands

Engaged on the Allied Signal Longlaville high-density polyester (HDPE) plant expansion project design team. Responsible for the preparation of instrument data sheets, P & ID and instrument schedule development

Jan 1995 - Jun 1995

Senior Instrument Engineer

Snamprogetti Ltd

Basingstoke, U.K.

Assigned to the Fisons Loughborough Chemical Pilot Plant project. Responsible for the development of the cause and effect diagrams utilizing Generic CAD version 6.1 and the production of alarm/shutdown listings for the plant DCS/shutdown system

Jul 1993 - Jul 1994

Senior Instrument Engineer

Det Norske Veritas Engineering (Veritec)

Stavanger, Norway

Assigned to the Phillips Petroleum Co. Norway (PPCON) Ekofisk task-10 project. Responsible for the modification of the existing temperature control system on the 2/4 tank platform to upgrade to revised hazardous area classification; specification of intrinsic safety equipment and revision to existing loop and panel drawings. Engaged on the Elf Norge petroleum Froy tie-in project. Responsible for the instrument support on the mechanical and safety packages, including: Frank Mohn water-injection pumps, ETA deaeration, Sultzer crude-oil export pumps; support to mechanical completion group for the preparation of mechanical acceptance records.

Mar 1991 - Jun 1993

Senior Instrument Engineer

Foster-Wheeler Wood Group Ltd.

Aberdeen, U.K.

Engaged on the design team of the Chevron Ninian Southern and Central platforms third-party entrant (TPE) sub-surface completion tie-in project. As database administrator, responsible for the development of the computer-based instrument schedule and drawing index, using Foxbase Plus software; support to the other project disciplines for database development, coordination of P & ID drawing detail, data processing and production of computer-derived deliverable documents.

Nov 1990 - Mar 1991

Senior Instrument Engineer

John Brown Ltd.

Aberdeen, U.K.

Involved with the British Petroleum Magnus platform flowline revamp project. Responsible for the preparation of the instrument hardware specification sheets, purchase orders and installation workpacks.

Mar 1990 - Sep 1990

Senior Instrument Engineer

Solus Ocean Systems Ltd.

Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia

Seconded to Sarawak Shell Petroleum Berhad (SSB) onshore and offshore commissioning department. Responsible for the review of the Baram Delta Gas Gathering (BARDEGG) project design documents. Commissioning activities included offshore oil shipping-pump control panel revamp and boiler plant instrumentation retrofit.

Jun 1989 - Apr 1990

Senior Instrument Engineer

Amoseas Indonesia Inc.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Assigned to the Amoseas Anoa offshore production platform project construction phase. Responsible for the supervision of Indonesian contractor staff at the P.T. Gunanusa Utama yard, Grenyang, Indonesia.

Oct 1988 - May 1989

Senior Instrument Engineer

John Brown b.v.

Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Assigned to the Du Pont/DSM joint venture Surlyn polymer processing plant design revamp project. Responsible for the detail specification of the main control panel; support to the drafting group's Intergraph CAD system drawing preparation and the development of the PC-based project instrument schedule using dBASE III software

Sep 1987 - May 1988

Engineering Manager

Yokogawa Corporation of Asia Pte. Ltd.

Singapore

Responsible for the applications engineering of all types of process control equipment manufactured by Yokogawa and supplied in the ASEAN region. Specifically engaged as project manager on the Huffco Badak Oil Station Upgrading DCS project.

May 1985 - Jul 1987

Lead Instrument Engineer

Tripatra Engineering

Jakarata, Indonesia

Lead Instrument Engineer. Assigned to the Amoseas Anoa offshore production platform design team. Responsible for the supervision of instrument engineers and draftsmen in the preparation of the instrumentation detail design package, including component instruments, control panel, PLC and SCADA interface with the FPSO. Instrument Project Engineer. Also engaged on the Atlantic Richfield Indonesia Inc. (ARII) blanket project contract for the detail engineering design of a number of offshore oil and gas installations in the Java Sea ARII concession area.

Jan 1985 - May 1985

Project Engineer (Instrumentation)

Hyundai Offshore and Engineering Co.

Milan, Italy

Engaged on the AGIP El Bouri NC-41B Libya offshore oil production platform project team. Responsible for the technical review of bids for instrumentation based upon the detail design of Snamprogetti Engineering.

Apr 1984 - Dec 1984

Senior Instrument Engineer

Lummus Nederland b.v.

The Hague, The Netherlands

Engaged on the engineering design project team for the Aramco Abu Ali spheroiding for Ras Abu Ali, Saudi Arabia. Responsible for the revamp of the existing main control room panel; development of panel and semi-graphic layouts and interface with the Honeywell TDC 3000 DCS.; preparation of detail component specification packages for bid and purchase.

Mar 1982 - Dec 1983

Senior Instrument Engineer

Solus Ocean Systems

SERIA, Brunei

Seconded to Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP), Negara Brunei Darusalam. Based on the Champion 7 offshore oil and gas complex, on a 28/28 day rotation to: supervise British, Filipino, Singaporean Chinese and Malay technicians in calibration and loop checking; propose and implement design changes; prepare system check sheets and as-built drawings on the 12-platform complex.

Jun 1981 - Mar 1982

Senior Instrument Engineer

Mc. Dermott Engineering

London, U.K.

Engaged on the engineering team of the British Gas Barrow-In-Furness Morecombe Bay gas terminal. Responsible for the development of instrumentation philosophy, cause and effect matrices for the central plant shutdown and ventdown system

Oct 1978 - Jun 1981

Senior Instrument Engineer

Worley Engineering

London, U.K.

Engaged on the detail engineering team for the British National Oil Company (BNOC) Beatrice Bravo and Phillips Petroleum Co, Maureen North Sea oil production platform projects.

Aug 1977 - Aug 1978

Instrument Engineer

Comsip Enterprise

Paris, France

Seconded to Aramco Southern Area Operations Engineering (technical) Services dept., Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia.

May 1974 - Aug 1977

Instrument Technician

Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB)

Aberthaw Power Station, BARRY, U.K.

To install, commission service and maintain electronic and pneumatic instrumentation associated with 3 x 500 MW coal-fired boilers and steam turbo-generator and 3 x 17.5 MW Rolls-Royce gas-turbine sets, auxiliary water treatment, fuel and ash-handling plant.