Late Life Care of Ageing Pressure Assets

Ian Chapman: HM Specialist Inspector Mechanical Engineering, HSE

Adam Thistlewaite: Global Service Line Director, TeamFurmanite

Adam Thistlethwaite is Global Service Line Director for TeamFurmanite’s On-Stream Repair Group. A Member of the IMechE Pressure Systems Group board, Adam holds a first class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering, a master’s degree in welding engineering and an MBA from Lancaster University Management School. A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IMechE, Adam also sits on the ASME PCC-2 Sub-Committee on Mechanical Repair. Prior to his current role he was Pressure Systems Technical Authority and Asset Integrity Manager (Surface Equipment) for Centrica Exploration and Production.

Peter Batty: Chief Engineer, LmP Technical Services

Peter Batty has been actively engaged in pressure vessel inspection and certification since 1986. He initially worked in the nuclear Industry for BNFL and the Atomic Energy Authority as a research Engineer, becoming an Engineer Surveyor with National Vulcan in 1990. He progressed through to Head Office Engineer before joining LmP in 2003, where he is the Chief Engineer. He works across small engineering workshops through to large Pharmaceutical sites where the containment of stored energy, from pressure to chemicals, is paramount. He is actively involved in SAFed where he is a member of the TC1 Pressure Systems Committee. He also sits on the Professional Affairs Committee and the Membership Panel of the Energy Institute, the Pressure Systems Group of the IMechE, and the Inspection Qualification Board of BINDT.

David Burgess: Principal Consultant, ABB Ltd

David Burgess is a Principal Consultant with ABB Ltd. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and works as a Senior Inspection Engineer in ABB's Inspection Services Division. Duties include the Development of Inspection Philosophies, Technical and Integrity Management support to Clients and Inspection Engineers, Training Manager for ABB Inspection Services and RBI Team Leader for ABB's RBI+© pRIME Risk Based Inspection process. Prior to joining ABB, David has over 25 years of experience in the Major Hazards Manufacturing and Process Industry, with Responsibilities in Asset Maintenance Management, Integrity and Reliability Management, Turnaround Strategy, Project Management and Equipment Design.

Gordon Kanyike: Mechanical Engineering Consultant, Amec Foster Wheeler

Gordon Kanyike is a Mechanical Engineering consultant in Amec Foster Wheeler’s Monitoring and Inspection Design team which delivers inspection design and capability assessment projects for the benefit of clients in a range of industry sectors. Projects cover the application of conventional and advanced NDT techniques and on-line monitoring. The main techniques are ultrasonics, eddy currents, radiography and surface inspection, although all NDT and monitoring techniques are covered. The work involves laboratory experiments, theoretical modelling using commercial and bespoke software and site/client visits for implementation and auditing. The team maintains contact with experts in industry and universities and works closely with the Remote Operations and Structural Integrity teams within Amec Foster Wheeler.

John Sharples: Technical Operations Manager, Amec Foster Wheeler

John Sharples is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and a Fellow of the IMechE. He has been working in the field of structural integrity for over 30 years, particularly specialising in fracture mechanics. For more than 20 years, he has been actively involved in the development and application of the R6 Defect Assessment procedures and he also sits on the British Standards Committee (WEE/37) responsible for developing the BS7910 code and chairs the sub-committee on Residual Stresses. John has published numerous technical papers and run structural integrity related courses. He currently is Technical Operations Manager within Amec Foster Wheeler and Chief Technical Advisor to FESI (Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity).

David Nash: Vice Dean (Knowledge Exchange) and Deputy Head of Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde

David Nash is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. After spending several years with a pressure vessel fabricator, he gained an MSc and PhD working on local load and saddle support contact problems. His research lies in the applications of finite element analysis in pressure vessel technology. He is a Vice-Chairman of the Pressure Systems Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and former UK national representative to EPERC, the European Pressure Equipment Research Council. He presently chairs the BSi PVE/1/15 Design Methods committee for PD5500. He is an ASME Fellow and a trainer for ASME’s European Pressure Vessel Courses.

Paul Smith: Consultant - Nuclear New Build, Amec Foster Wheeler

Paul Smith is a consultant in Amec Foster Wheeler’s Nuclear New Build Team. His work focuses on requirements management for safety classified pressure equipment, including the development of regimes for the application of nuclear codes and standards, and independent inspection and design assessment of nuclear equipment. Paul participates and chairs national and international committees for pressure equipment, and also regularly publishes work on comparisons of international codes, standards and working practices for nuclear pressure equipment.

Stuart Turner: Lead Oil and Gas Engineer, Scottish and Southern Energy

Stuart Turner started his career as a graduate engineering working for BG Group and after completion of a 2 year graduate program took a position of Network officer looking after maintenance activities on the gas transmission and distribution network. After this Stuart moved to take on a roll completing major overhauls and construction works as pert of the gas networks development and expansion projects. In 2008 Stuart moved to SSE as a gas systems engineer where has developed engineering standards and procedures required to manage the high pressure gas assets across the SSE fleet. Laterality in 2011 Stuart moved to a lead engineer role where he recruited a team and is now responsible for asset management practices for oil and gas equipment across the fleet including fitness for service assessments of high pressure storage equipment and hydrocarbon containing assets.

Alan Haque: Technical Specialist Pressure Systems, British Engineering Services Limited

Alan Hague left school at sixteen to start an Engineer Cadetship with B.P. Tanker Company and rose to Second Engineer with Blue Star Shipping obtaining a Combined Chief Engineers Certificate of Competency. In 1990 he joined British Engine (latterly RSA Engineering) as a Boiler Surveyor and within a couple of years was the site Pressure Systems Surveyor at Dungeness Nuclear Power Station. After 20 years as a Surveyor he took on a role as a Technical Specialist (Pressure Systems within what was to become British Engineering Services. This has led to him sitting on SAFed Technical Committees where he has helped draft IMG02.