Expert Details

Offshore Oil and Gas (Electrical Commissioning and Startup)

ID: 725651 Kentucky, USA

Mr. Banks has applied his expertise to the overall success of oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and California. He has been involved with the largest facilities in the Gulf and on the California coast since 1992. From platforms powered from a shore based facility to platforms with 123 MegaWatts of onboard power generation, from 30,000 Bpd to 250,000 Bpd, the projects have been successful.

Expert has been the third party verifier for co-generation and power plants internationally. With the advent of large offshore facilities with space constraints, comes the need for large ideas to test and verify the systems. Commissioning and operating procedures were developed to decrease cost and to prove systems conform to specifications before being operated in more costly environments.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1988	Degree: BS	Subject: Electrical Engineering	Institution: University of Kentucky

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2008 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Production Engineer	Department: Engineering
Responsibilities: Production Engineer
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2001 to 2008	Employer: Mustang Engineering	Title: Facilities Construction Manager, Project Engineer, Commissioning and Start-up Engineer	Department: Upstream Oil and Gas
Responsibilities: Design through construction, commissioning, start-up and re-construction of Offshore Oil and Gas Production Platforms.

International Experience

Years	Country / Region	Summary
Years: 1994 to 1996	Country / Region: Venezuela	Summary: Large scale upgrade to a refinery, providing all the electrical expertise for commissioning from 138KV to 48 VDC
Years: 1996 to 1997	Country / Region: South America	Summary: Start-up and commissioning of Power Plants for third party companies.
Years: 1997 to 1998	Country / Region: Venezuela	Summary: Upgrade of Chevrons Campo Boscan Oil gathering stations and process facilities.
Years: to Present	Country / Region: Mexico/ Campeche	Summary: Electrical commissioning of three Offshore Gas Processing platforms in the Bay of Campeche.

Language Skills

Language	Proficiency
Spanish	Proficiency in the spoken Spanish language.

Fields of Expertise

offshore engineering, power engineering, offshore oil drilling rig, petroleum production, petroleum, control system