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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details of Michael Hargate

Date of birth : 23-3-44
Marital Status : Divorced
Driving License : British & International
Nationality : British
Contact Address : 26 Yen Bia St. Vung Tau City. Vung Tau. SR Vietnam
Internet Address : mhargate@hcm.vnn.vn Tel: (084) 64 091 3 948634
Qualifications : H.N.D. City & Guilds Part 1, 11, 111
Membership : MIDiag.E, ASME Inspection, and Committee Member

CAREER DETAILS

2000 to Date
Company : Petrovietnam Gas Company (PVGC)
Project : Gas Facilities for South East Vietnam
Job Title : Consultant: Mechanical Engineer ( Rotating & Static Equipment)
Job Description :
Setting up five-year Inspection & Maintenance Plan with turnarounds. Trouble shooting and directing the gas plant engineers in breakdown and maintenance related problems. Reporting and analyzing of all equipment failures. Operating CMMS systems. Responsible for engineering, plant modifications, to reduce maintenance costs and improves plant and equipment reliability. Dealing with third parties, vendor reps etc. Writing, Scopes of Supply, Work, Service, for EPC Contracts. Compiling, plant & equipment, maintenance, inspection & repair procedures, ensuring that plant & equipment are maintained to relevant specifications or codes.

1999 - 2000
Company : Foster Wheeler (FWMOL)
Project : Management Operation & Field Set Up (Vietnam - PVGC Gas Plant)
Job Title : Consultant: Rotating, Static Equipment Engineer
Job Description :
Preparing & writing Preventative Maintenance Procedures (PPM), setting up the mechanical workshop, training classes on plant & equipment, recommending spare parts and directing the gas plant engineers in trouble shooting the mechanical or static related problems. Preparing for the first annual turnaround & related shutdown works. Consultant to Project Engineers. Training Engineering Graduates.

1998 - 1999
Company : AMEC King Wilkinson
Project : Ratawi & Burgan Reconstruction ( Kuwait )
Job Title : Consultant: Facilities Engineer
Job Description :
Provide engineering support to the Project Engineer & technical guidance to the Construction Supervisors. Assist the P.E. with the review of various tender packages. To ensure that the Projects are completed safely, to specification and on schedule. Completed several 16” Trunklines.

1998-Feb to Aug.
Company : Costain Oil,Gas & Process Ltd.
Project : Improvements to Vapour Dehydration Units (Kuwait)
Job Title : Senior Commissioning Engineer
Job Description :
Total on site commissioning responsibility for nine Booster Station Glycol Dehydration upgrades. Writing the operating procedures and manuals also classroom and on site operator training for the K.O.C. operators and engineers. Reviewing and recommending changes to part stock levels. Front End Engineering Design Engineer duties (FEED) for future upgrades to all Dehydration Units. Consultant to Project Engineer Department.

1988-1998 (Jan.)
Company : Yemen Hunt Oil Co.
Project : Oil & Gas Production Facilities (Yemen)
Job Title : Maintenance Engineer: (Const./Comm)
Job Description :
Responsible for all technical support and engineering for the entire YHOC operation covering the company’s five main productions sites. Equipment included cryogenic gas plant, lean oil gas plant, oil/gas separation plant, reinjection gas compression, vapour recovery compression, power generation and crude oil pumping stations. My areas of responsibility were as follows: - Oil refinery (10,000 b.p.d.) and two central productions station (220,000 b.p.d.) Two L.P.G. plants, a reverse osmosis plant, drilling rigs, two-gas compression & injection units and a 5,000,000-barrel moored oil tanker in the Red Sea. The position required a high degree of personal initiative as support services available within Yemen are were very limited. I was responsible for all field services; commissioning, trouble shooting and maintenance of turbo-machinery associated with gas compression and power generation packages. The power generation was supplied by gas turbines (Frame 5 G.E.- Avon – Saturn & Centaur) and Caterpillar gas and diesel engines. As the Maintenance Engineer I had to oversee the all the rotating equipment Planned and Preventative Maintenance programs. This included the vibration and rotor balancing departments. I also commissioned several projects, which included cryogenic plants and gas injection units. Refinery turnaround, steam turbines, boilers, heaters, catalyst change out, reactors etc

1981-1988
Company : Petroleum Development Oman (Shell)
Project : Oil, Gas Exploration & Production
Job Title : Senior Construction & Commissioning Engineer
Job Description :
On site responsibility for the construction of a power station, production and gathering stations, oil and gas tank erection, reverse osmosis plant and full residential facilities.
Several small pilot projects for enhanced oil recovery which have included the following, cold and hot water, steam, gas and polymer injection. I reported to the Senior Project Engineer based at Mina-al-Fahal on the coast while I was desert based on rotation. Determining long term manpower requirements for routine maintenance and future turnarounds. Organizing and holding vendor training classes. Providing classroom training and hands on maintenance and repair work. Provided specialist support to Project Management teams. Revised various Maintenance Procedures.

1979-1981
Company : Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
Project : Oil, Gas Exploration & Production
Job Title : Rotating Equipment Engineer
Job Description :
Reporting to the Engineering Manager and directing the technicians on problems and planned maintenance. Control of 50 T.C.N. personnel. I was the construction & commissioning engineer on Saudi Arabia-s only gas injection and reclamation pilot program at Ju-amay Gas Plant. For this project we utilized exotic steels and gaskets. During my period in Arabia I also commissioned the off shore tanker loading facilities for Ju-amay Gas Plant. CMMS set up for total gas plant equipment.

1968-1979
Company : Humber Graving Dock Eng.
Project : Ship Repair & Oil Refinery Maintenance
Job Title : Mechanical Engineer (Rotating Equipment)
Job Description :
General maintenance duties on Lindsay Oil Refinery and Conoco Petroleum Coking Plant both in North Killingholme Lincs in the U.K. It was my responsibility to coordinate the planned shutdowns and quick turnarounds at both sites. I also was project coordinator on several offsite capital construction expenditures. Steam raising facilities, boiler maintenance & inspection, steam turbine overhaul & upgrades. Participating in technical and commercial evaluation of tender documents.

1965-1968
Company : National Coal Board
Project : Coal Extraction
Job Title : Underground Colliery Engineer
Job Description :
Responsible for six square miles of underground network and equipment both rotating and stationary. I reported directly to the Senior Divisional Engineer.