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Brendan Fitzgerald
Brendan
is a co-founder and Director of Vanguard Solutions with some 25 years broad
experience in Safety and Reliability Engineering, Process Design and Process
Simulation. His early career was in process engineering and simulation for
Chemshare, with work on several major projects. Thereafter he worked for WS
Atkins, then Granherne as a key member of their risk and safety groups. He
has broad knowledge of topsides, FPSO and pipeline systems, with extensive
experience in feasibility and conceptual design, modification and
optimisation and safety/risk assessment of new and existing facilities. He
has led teams providing the detailed design input, Formal Safety Assessments
and Safety Case development of new designs to five major projects in the Asia
Pacific region. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
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Paul
Breen
Paul is
a Director of Vanguard Solutions. In the earlier part of his engineering
career, he worked on major projects in the UK nuclear industry, employed by
British Nuclear Fuels followed by Taylor Woodrow. During this period he
managed multi-discipline design teams and served on the UK Department of
Trade and Industry steering committee (1988) for the design of robotic hardware.
He then moved to Land & Marine Engineering and spent five years engaged
in the design of directional drilling systems, subsea systems and offshore
construction equipment. As a consultant in safety, reliability and risk
management, he has held senior positions in the oil & gas industry since
1989 with AEA Technology, Brown & Root and AMEC. He has undertaken
numerous roles in project management teams within major North Sea Operators
in Holland and the UK. Paul moved to Australia with Granherne Pty Ltd in 1997,
to manage the HSE function within the Woodside Development Engineering
Consultancy. He has been engaged as a risk management consultant on various
oil & gas projects in the Australasian region. Paul has formal training
and extensive experience as a facilitator of HAZID/HAZOP and similar
structured review techniques.
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Ian
Bett
Ian is a
co-founder and Director of Vanguard Solutions having previously worked for
ten years with one of the industry’s foremost consultancies. His experience
since graduating has included emergency response training, explosion
modeling, the performance of all aspects of Formal Safety Assessments and
Risk Assessments and other safety studies. He has also helped to develop
several of the methodologies now commonly in use within the industry. His
work has taken him from the UK where he worked as part of the team developing
Safety Cases for the Shell facilities, to Germany as part of a team looking
at the refurbishment of a refinery, to Indonesia working for Arco on an upgrade
to a gas platform, New Zealand working for STOS on the Safety Cases for the
offshore and onshore facilities. Since arriving in Australia he has worked on
many more facilities and projects in Western Australia, Sydney, Singapore and
Japan.
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Sjaak
Lemmens
Sjaak
joined the Vanguard Group in February 2004 and set up Vanguard Enviro Pty Ltd
on 1 July 2004 to focus further on the environmental capabilities that
complement Vanguard Solution’s risk and safety capabilities. Sjaak has 22
years’ experience in environmental science. He is currently engaged as Senior
Environmental Advisor to BHPBilliton. He previously was acting Principal
Environmental advisor to Woodside, and Lead Environmental Advisor for a
number of offshore developments (Woodside Chinguetti, Mauritania; BP Shah
Deniz, Azerbaijan; BP Kepodang, Indonesia; BP Lan Tay-Lan Do Nam Con Son,
Vietnam). Sjaak has undertaken various ISO 14001-compliance audits. Sjaak has
a broad background in marine biology, but he has a strong technical focus.
Increasingly he is called upon his environmental engineering capabilities, in
addition to his capabilities in environmental management, environmental
approvals and EIA capabilities.
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Nenad Mandic
Nenad has some 15 years of
professional experience in risk and safety engineering and management with
specialist’s expertise in cost benefit analysis and risk optimization studies
during conceptual design of new offshore and onshore oil and gas production
and processing facilities, and the upgrading of existing facilities to meet
acceptable levels of risk. His areas of expertise include design,
development, and implementation of HSE/Safety/Risk Management Systems; formal
Safety Assessment and preparation of HSE/Safety Cases for both offshore and
onshore oil and gas facilities, as well as development of risk-based
cost-benefits analysis computer models for evaluation of justifiable costs
for the implementation of various protective measures. Nenad is a proficient
user of various safety / risk management software packages including Shell
FRED, Shell Shepherd, THESIS, PHAST, CIRRUS, FaultrEASE, as well as all
Microsoft Applications.
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Jim
Shepherd
Jim joined
Vanguard Solutions and Vanguard Enviro in January 2005 and brings a wealth of
Oil and Gas experience to the emerging Environmental Group. He has some 24
years Oil and Gas experience (with six in Australia) in Oil, Major Corporate
and Operations HSE, Service Company Exploration, Design House [Conceptual,
Front End Engineering Design, Detailed Design and Completions (HU&C)]
support. Prior to joining the Oil and Gas industry Jim spent ten years
working in Marine Research (Hydrography, Fisheries and Pollution) for the UK
Government, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, in Aberdeen
Scotland.
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Kerry
Lovell
Kerry joined
Vanguard Solutions in 2004 as a Lead Engineer. Kerry is a highly experienced
professional with 30 years of specific expertise in Risk Management, Safety /
HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) Management Systems, Government
Approvals & Liaison, and related aspects of oil and gas management and
operations. He has varied experience across all phases within project teams
and operating groups, including risk assessment, Safety Case preparation
& review, and HAZOP & HAZID facilitation. His experience with
management systems includes design, implementation, review and auditing.
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Andrew
McGhee
Andrew
has more than 13 years broad experience in the Oil & Gas industry. In his
early career he worked for WS Atkins in their risk and safety departments,
completing a broad range of studies for offshore oil and gas facilities,
onshore oil terminals and refineries. In his later career he moved onto
project work, commissioning and operations of offshore production facilities.
His experience in process and safety engineering, project work, commissioning
activities and operations provides him with an extremely broad knowledge of
the oil and gas industry.
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Gerard Courteille
Gerard has acquired, over the last
25 years, extensive experience in the risk assessment and managements fields;
this, as a key member or associate of a leading classification and certification
group. He has an in-depth knowledge of the different safety regulations in
force in different parts of the world and, in particular, of the European
approach to risk reduction on major hazards installations: Seveso II
directive and Safety Cases. He has also been involved in the development of
environmental and safety standards and in the implementation, since the
inception of such standards, of effective risk management systems that
satisfy the Safety Case provisions.
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Iain
Mackinnon Moir
Iain
joined Vanguard from the UK bringing valuable Safety and Risk Engineering
experience from the North Sea and the Nuclear Industry. Iain has two
Engineering Master Degrees, including an MSc in Safety Engineering,
Reliability and Risk Management. Since joining Vanguard, Iain has worked on
projects in the Bass Strait and North West Shelf of Australia, New Zealand
and India. He has been involved in both offshore platform and FPSO projects
as well as onshore processing plants. He has a broad range of experience
including risk and safety assessments, and loss control engineering. Iain has
experience of new facility design/FEED projects, detailed design, brownfield
modifications and upgrades, and existing facility engineering support. Iain
is currently Vanguard Solutions’ office-based project manager. In this role,
he is the technical lead and currently manages the projects with seven
engineering staff.
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Fred
Soale
Fred is
a Lead Engineer/Consultant currently responsible for business development in
the Mining/Major Hazard Facilities, Dangerous Goods sector on behalf of the
Vanguard group. He has expertise in relationship management and a strong
investigative capability with experience in analysing complex industrial
issues. Fred also has a very strong background in reviewing and assessing
environmental and safety management systems and commitment to a continuous
improvement methodology.
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Andy Rigg
Andy joined Vanguard Solutions in
2001 from the UK with 5 years experience in the field of Safety and Risk,
mainly in the North Sea Oil and Gas industry. Following completion of
an Engineering degree, he undertook an MSc in Safety Engineering and Risk
Management at Aberdeen University. Working for key North Sea operators
in the management of safety and risk and in the development of Safety Case
and QRA studies, he has provided valuable support to both project engineering
and management teams in greenfield design, brownfield modification projects
and operational support contracts. His ability to recognise areas for
continuous improvement in safety through engineering, procedural, operational
and behavioural changes and to transfer this knowledge to the work force has
provided significant value to the projects he has undertaken.
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Dan Ralph
Daniel has fourteen years
experience in risk and safety design and assessment. His career has included
onshore and offshore oil and gas platforms, FPSOs and subsea facilities, and
onshore mineral and LNG developments. He has participated in and led safety
engineering teams on design projects, and conducted and managed the
development of Safety Cases and formal safety assessments, risk based design
and decision making activities, reliability and availability studies;
hazardous area classification, fault tree analysis; and facilitated HAZOPs,
FMECAs, SIL Reviews and HAZID workshops.
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John Gilbert
John
completed a Bachelor Degree of Petroleum Engineering from the University of
Adelaide in 2006. He has a background in engineering in the manufacturing
industry, in particular heavy mining consumables manufacture. He is focussing
on developing a new skill set as a safety and risk engineer with Vanguard
Solutions. for offshore oil and gas installations and has participated in
HAZOP and HAZID workshops and Leak-off tests.
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Terry Harris
Terry recently joined Vanguard
Solutions and brings a variety of experience from the Oil & Gas, Onshore
and Rail Industries to the group. He has been involved in both offshore
platforms as well as process plants. Terry has experience of new facility
design/FEED projects, detailed design, brownfield modifications and upgrades,
and existing facility engineering support. He also has experience in HAZOPS
and HAZIDS as facilitator. He is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with the
IChemE and a member of IEAust.
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Obelia Akerman
Obelia, who joined Vanguard Enviro in
April 2007, has a broad background in the offshore industry.Obelia has a
background in Environmental Science, with considerable expertise in the
aquaculture industry, gained before joining the offshore industry. Since
working for Vanguard Enviro, Obelia has been involved with environmental
performance reviews of offshore gas and drilling platforms, preparation of a
waste management plan for a major oil an gas facility and has provided
scribing services for HAZID and ENVID workshops.
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Farhan Jabbar
Farhan joined Vanguard Enviro in May 2007
as an Environmental Consultant. He has a sound background of oil & gas
industry including upstream and down stream businesses. In his most recent
role he was responsible for a managing HSE processes at about seven
downstream operational sites for one of the largest oil & gas company in
the world. His major tasks included the development and implementation of HSE
Management Systems; Corporate and regional HES reporting, waste monitoring
and management, focusing on the Loss Prevention System (LPS) and flourishing
HSE awareness. Since working for Vanguard Enviro, Farhan has carried out
water and waste audits and assisted with Safety Case preparation.
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Martin Bardsley
Martin, recently joined vanguard as a
senior process engineer. Martin brings valuable experience in process
development, sub-sea engineering, process modelling, computer programming, reliability/
safety and design & development. Martin has an honours degree and a PhD
in Chemical Engineering. Before joining Vanguard Solutions, Martin was a
senior process and safety consultant in Aberdeen
where he worked on, amongst others, Qualitative Risk Assessments, Basis of
Designs, Performance Standards, SIL and Reliability Assessments and Explosion
Analysis for offshore oil & gas projects.
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Emma Hurley
Emma recently joined Vanguard Solutions
and brings eleven years of experience from the Oil & Gas industry to the group.
She has been involved in both offshore platforms and onshore process plants.
With a background in process and safety engineering, Emma has experience of
new facility design/FEED projects, detailed design, hazardous area
classification, brownfield modifications and upgrades and site based facility
engineering support. She has experience in HAZOPs, HAZIDs and SIL reviews as
a participant, scribe and facilitator.
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