Expert Details
Global Oil & Gas Equipment Manufacturing Companies, Oilfield Services Companies (Company Development)
ID: 731035
California, USA
Expert's clients throughout the supply chain range from marine construction companies, subsea wellhead & pipeline installers, underwater inspection companies, ROV/AUV operators, well intervention specialists, digital oilfield service providers, shipyards, FPSO & FLNG owners, EPC contractors, helicopter & logistics management companies, environmental risk assessment consultancies and industrial development agencies.
Expert has successfully provided oilfield services, leased drilling systems, established distributor networks and completed consulting assignments in all the major oil & gas regions, including the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Brazil, Middle East, West Africa, Australia, China and throughout Southeast Asia. He secured a 70% global market share for a subsea equipment product line. The consulting projects include providing timely O&G market intelligence, Capex forecasts, E&P expenditures, independent asset valuations, global shipyard capabilities, rig construction deliveries, offshore support vessel charters, subsea robotics [ROV/AUV] markets, pipeline construction & inspection expenditures, enhanced oil recovery technology trends and drilling fluids supply/demand dynamics.
As a former global oilfield equipment supply & services company owner, expert has supplied drilling rig systems, drilling fluids & specialty chemicals, pipeline inspection equipment, NDT systems, pipe pigging equipment, remotely operated underwater vehicles & robotic systems, subsea cables & connectors, geophysical & seismic survey systems and digital oilfield services. He has owned and operated a rental/lease pool of oil & gas drilling equipment. He has developed and manufactured underwater pipe inspection equipment, including video systems. Expert has managed shipyard operations involved in the design, fabrication, commissioning and repair & maintenance of vessels.
For 30+years, he has prepared monthly global reports on planned exploration & production expenditures by oil companies that creates a derived demand for equipment & services throughout the supply chain. These forecasts and market share reports are based on expert's practical experience in actually owning & operating companies that supplied equipment, components, systems and services to support oil & gas exploration & production activities, worldwide.
Expert prepare monthly global reports on the planned exploration and production expenditures by oil companies that drive the demand for pipelines and pipe coating contracts. Expert has owned an oilfield services company directly involved in pipeline coating inspections and repair.
Expert raised the capital to establish a global remotely operated underwater vehicle [ROV] company and then secured Canada's largest ROV contract in the offshore oil & gas industry.
He then successfully established international joint-venture arrangements that generated ROV service contracts in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea and Brazil. Expert completed a global study of ocean observation system requirements in the offshore oil & gas, underseas defense, ocean science, maritime shipping, commercial fisheries, port security and marine environmental market segments of ocean industry.He completed a global study of shipyard capabilities to build offshore drilling rigs [jack-up, semi submersible & drillship], Floating Production, Storage & Offloading systems [FPSOs], Floating Liquefied Natural Gas [FLNG]. He then advised offshore oil & gas equipment manufacturers & service providers on how to achieve the local content needed to win bids in Brazil, North Sea, South China Sea, Persian Gulf and throughout Southeast Asia. Expert raised the capital for the mining of barite for offshore drilling projects. He then completed numerous studies of the supply/demand balance in the oil & gas drilling fluids and specialty chemicals market, including identifying acquisition candidates for drilling contractors.He identified the global markets and completed a SWOT analysis of geophysical & seismic survey vessel operators and service providers, worldwide. He then identified the planned exploration & production expenditures by oil companies that drive the demand for geophysical & seismic survey contracts.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1971 | Degree: MBA | Subject: International Business | Institution: Xavier University, Cincinnati |
| Year: 1970 | Degree: Bachelor of Commerce | Subject: Finance | Institution: Saint Mary's University, Halifax |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1975 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert is responsible for undertaking and managing international consulting assignments. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1974 to 1979 | Employer: Nova Scotia Research Foundation Corp | Title: Marketing Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Responsible for commercializing ocean technologies and licensing the technologies to industry. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1980 to 2013 | Employer: Offshore International | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:He owned and operated a global oilfield equipment supply and services, equipment leasing and technical training business. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has authored publications on free trade agreements' effects on the ocean industry. He has also written numerous articles on financing offshore oil/gas ventures. |
Fields of Expertise
artificial lift, balanced oil well drilling, barite, coal bed methane production, crude oil market analysis, crude oil pricing model, crude oil recovery, development drilling, diving, drill, drill pipe, drilling, drilling rig, drillship, dynamic positioning, energy economics, enhanced oil recovery, field inspection, fixed offshore structure, floating offshore structure, floating production system, floating system, fluid injection, formation fracturing, gravity-based structure, horizontal drilling technology, imaging sonar, inspection, marine propulsion, marine propulsion system, marine riser, offshore drilling, offshore flowline, offshore marine terminal, offshore oil drilling rig, offshore oil equipment, offshore oil pollution control equipment, offshore pipeline, offshore structure, oil detection, oil drilling rig, oil environmental contamination process, oil exploration, oil market forecasting, oil spill containment equipment, oil spill prevention, oil spill response, remote sensing, remotely operated vehicle, remotely piloted vehicle, semisubmersible oil drilling rig, sonar acoustics, subsea manifold, surveillance system, tanker floating production storage offloading, tension leg platform, ultrasonic testing, underwater corrosion, underwater inspection, underwater light, underwater nondestructive testing, underwater pipeline, well drilling, Asia-Pacific market, business intelligence, drilling mud, economic analysis, forecasting, market assessment, market development, market positioning, market potential, shipbuilding, strategic market planning, pipeline inspection, video inspection, pipeline leak testing, market forecasting, trend forecasting, pipeline coating material, autonomous aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, drones, floating liquified natural gas, oilfield compressors, oilfield specialty chemicals, heavy drilling, commodity market development, economic market development, equipment specific maintenance, spar floating production system, multiphase flow pipeline, CO2 flooding, chemical flooding, thermal oil recovery, oil drill bit, jackup rig, wellhead, enhanced oil recovery polymer, natural gas pipeline, pipe threading, gas pipeline leak detection, surveillance, pigging, seismic sensor, regulatory compliance auditing, coating inspection, marine waterjet, coated pipe