Advisory Committee

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Dr. Venkatapathi Tharigopula is a leading advisor for Pipeline Construction & Tie-in at Equinor, Norway. With over 20 years in offshore energy industry, Venkat has experience in field development and engineering management of Subsea developments. Experience in working with pipeline design, pipeline construction, pipeline structures and tie-in related issues. Currently, focusing on scaling up CO2 transport and storage projects, especially related to hydrogen reforming with CCS.

Prior to joining Equinor, Venkat worked for Det Norske Veritas (DNV). He is graduated in Applied Mechanics from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has doctorate degree in Structural mechanics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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Andy Studman holds a BSc in Applied Physics and HNC in Multidisciplinary Engineering and has 35+ years in the upstream energy business in various operations, maintenance & integrity management roles in the UK and Middle East.

His current roles are Principal Pipeline Engineer and Subject Matter Expert (Pigging Operations) for the Shell Group.

External from Shell he is Chairman of the UK Pipeline Users Group (PLUG), committee member of BSI PSE/017/02 transmission pipelines and steering group member for the Energy Institute for creation of new guidance on topics related to pipeline integrity.

His passions are doing the basics right first time, developing people, implementing new technology, sharing and learning best practice (and having some fun along the way).

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Carlos is responsible for the Rigid Pipe and Riser Design Group within TotalEnergies Headquarters. In this position, he is involved in all aspects related to pipeline and riser developments, from R&D and early phase studies to project execution and integrity assessments in support to operations. With over 20 years of experience in numerical modelling and pipeline engineering, he has worked on challenging pipeline projects, often requiring advanced engineering methods.

Prior to joining TotalEnergies, Carlos worked in a number of consultancies as an FE analyst for the pipeline industry. He is graduated in Civil Engineering from the UPC in Barcelona and has a PhD in Computational Mechanics from the University of Wales (Cardiff & Swansea) in the UK.

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With 33 years’ experience in the offshore industry, Pieter held a range of engineering and management roles for subsea pipeline and offshore projects around the world. Until November 2020, Pieter worked for Shell as staff engineer in various countries including Australia, Russia, Ireland, Netherlands, and Norway, where he was the Principal Technical Expert Offshore Pipelines amongst others. From November 2020 Pieter starts his own consultancy, SeaLeopard Engineering, based in The Hague which provides client expertise in design, installation, construction, and operations for subsea pipeline systems. Pieter has fulfilled a range of nonprofit activities and is currently associated to the Society of Underwater technology in Perth as board member. Pieter enjoys mentoring students and advancing frontier subsea/offshore projects using new technology. He holds an MSc degree from Delft University in Mining & Petroleum Engineering and is a chartered engineer.

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Dr T Sriskandarajah, B.Sc., Ph.D., is working in Subsea 7 as an Engineering Director, Engineering Technical Authority with 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He completed his first-class Honours degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD sponsored by the Department of Energy, United Kingdom. He also possesses many post graduate diplomas completed in United Kingdom and recognised technical authority in the industry. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Institution of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, London. He has managed well over 60 projects in 38 different countries in Oil & Gas industry. He involved & carried out many R&D and JIP projects over many years. He authored and co-authored well over 80 technical papers and published in national and international conferences.

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Tim Crome has worked in the offshore pipeline / subsea industry since graduation from Imperial Collage, London in 1980. He joined TechnipFMC in Norway in 1997 and is now a Chief Engineer within their Norwegian organisation. He has held various managerial and commercial roles including Director for Technology within the Global Front End group, Vice President for Subsea in the Mediterranean Region, Director for Sales and Business Development for operations in Norway. From 2001 to 2007 he was Engineering Manager for the Oslo office. Tim sits on the program committees for two subsea / offshore technology conferences. His career started with pipeline design consultancy at JPkenny in London in 1980, 4 years later he was seconded to Oslo to work for a Norwegian operator and has been in Norway ever since working on subsea and pipeline related projects.

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Colin is responsible for the technical development of the digital pipeline engineering toolkit. He has over thirty-five years’ experience in the engineering, procurement, construction and operation of offshore pipelines. He has specialist knowledge of large diameter trunklines, heated pipelines and cryogenic pipe in pipe systems.
He is a member of the DNV pipeline committee.

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Ian Nash has been Peritus International Group Managing Director since June 2019 and Managing Director of EAME region from August 2015, previously he held the position of Director of Operations and Business Acquisitions for Peritus since the company’s’ commencement in Jan 2010. Prior to Peritus Ian was the Operations Director then Managing Director for the UK Office of INTECSEA where he was responsible for oversight and day to day running of the UK office with 130 personnel; liaison with Head Office and other INTECSEA global offices. Previously to this role Ian was INTECSEA’s Engineering Manager responsible for over-sight of Engineering and Project Management within the UK office. Ian has 36 years general engineering experience, the last 34 of which have been specialised in subsea engineering and offshore pipeline design and installation. Sub-sea/pipelines experience includes Project Manager for the Pre-FEED and conceptual studies for the Middle East to India Deepwater Pipeline a 1200km long 3500m deep trunkline system; Project Sponsor for the FEED Optimisation of Mamba Straddling development in Block 4 offshore Mozambique. Project manager for the detailed design of pipelines, offline structures and tie-in spools of the ultra-deepwater 24”/20” Rota 3 system in Brasil (2400m WD); Project Manager for the detailed design of ultra-deepwater PIP production flowlines, service lines and associated structures for Angola Block 31 PSVM Development; Project Manager for the detailed design of Europipe 2 42” Gas Pipeline from Norway to Germany; Project Engineering Manager for the engineering and installation of the Canyon Express development of 3 subsea fields in 2200m water depth; Project Manager for the FEED of MedGaz 2x24” pipeline system from Algeria to Spain crossing numerous fault zones and subsea canyons, and other detailed and conceptual engineering projects, and installation activities. Ian has project management experience in liaison with clients, progress reporting, man-hour tracking, bid preparation, cost estimation, bid evaluation and contracting strategy. He has also been responsible for man-hour and schedule estimation and design narrative preparation for design tenders. Ian has experience in the performance of HAZID’s for design and installation aspects of pipeline and subsea facilities and has acted as HAZID chairman on several occasions. Ian has also written and presented papers on deep and ultra deepwater developments at numerous international conferences. Throughout Ian’s Oil and Gas career he has lived and worked in UK, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Italy and Canada.

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Gary Anderson is currently Director of Offshore Market Development for T.D. Williamson, a company specializing in equipment, tools, products and services for the pipeline industry. He joined the company in 2011 as Offshore Solutions Manager in the United Arab Emirates, before relocating to Stavanger, Norway where he was Technology Director, leading the R&D group there. Prior to joining T.D. Williamson he worked for Pipeline Engineering, Baker Hughes and spent 19 years with GE PII working on pipeline integrity and inline inspection projects globally.
Gary graduated with BEng in Engineering Technology from Northumbria University, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

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Dr Raj Ramar is Senior Manager Engineering for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia (EMEA) region for McDermott. For more than 21 years, Raj have been involved in design and analysis of onshore and offshore steel, composite structures and offshore pipelines working for engineering firms and research organisations. His work involves technical management as well as performing design and analysis of subsea structures and flowlines/pipelines at concept, FEED and detailed design stages of a project. Raj has been supporting deep-water SURF EPCI tenders for major capital projects. He has worked on several key projects including major offshore explorers & national oil companies.

In particular Raj has significant experience in static and dynamic non-linear finite element analyses to assess structural strength and integrity of the offshore pipelines whilst providing practical solutions to structural and offshore pipelines problems. He has also gained experience in pipe-in-pipe design, reeling analysis and design engineering of flexibles and umbilicals.

Previously Raj worked on finite element analysis of aircraft engines as a Research Staff at the Rolls-Royce Vibration University Technology Centre, Imperial College London. He also worked on Structural Mechanics of Tensegrity Structures at the Cambridge University Deployable Structures Laboratory for his doctoral research study.

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Working for ITP since 1997, Christian has always been involved in the development of solutions to technical challenges revolving around the flow assurance of difficult fluids. A physicist by trade, he has developed pipe-in-pipe solutions for ultradeep waters, electrically heated pipelines, sulfur, bitumen, and subsea LNG pipelines. He has a keen interest in developing efficient solutions to the world’s energy challenges, in the Oil and Gas industry and beyond.

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Kevin has over 35 years’ subsea and pipeline engineering, design and consulting experience. He has worked in senior technical and operations positions within JP Kenny, AME, APA, KW Ltd and latterly as Director at OGV Ltd.

 Kevin has worked on challenging subsea and pipeline projects around the world, either as a design / project manager or technical consultant, working as the operator representative or directly for the design house. Kevin has extensive experience in HPHT pipelines, strain-based design and global buckling. He has also been involved in the review and development of structural design criteria and guidelines, and is often called to act in peer review, audit capacity and design authority roles on specialist pipelines projects. He has been involved in incident investigation and reinstatement of pipeline systems.

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Phil has held technical and business leadership roles at Xodus, Heerema, INTECSEA and KW Ltd. over the last 20 years. He now acts as an independent consultant supporting clients with design verification, technology development and qualification, digitalization and advanced design and analysis.

His career includes design and assessment of complex subsea systems comprising pipelines, flowlines, risers and associated structures, spools and hardware. Phil has contributed to technical advances in deepwater, pipe-in-pipe, arctic and seismic design, with numerous published papers. His experience includes all project phases and most of the major offshore oil and gas production regions. Before entering the subsea oil and gas sector, Phil provided structural engineering and advanced analysis consultancy services to a wide range of landmark projects, from the UK’s tallest sculpture to the world’s tallest building.

Phil graduated from Loughborough University, UK, and is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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Carl-Petter Halvorsen has more than 35 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, all related to the engineering, design, procurement and installation of rigid pipe, flexible pipe and subsea construction work and also the IMR and inspection phase. After a short time with DSND now Subsea 7 he joined Wellstream as General Manager for their Norwegian office in 1998, he moved to Newcastle in 2001 as their Business Development Director and stayed until a management buy-in took place in 2004. He founded the company Consultare Ltd to support businesses in UK and Norway to grow their business, some international companies he has supported include PSI (now TD Williamson), Marine Subsea Group, STATS Group, Innospection, Simmons International, CSUB AS, Seasystems (ex Scana Offshore ) and others. More recently, he has been heavily involved with renewables, especially floating wind turbines world-wide. Now also developing new AUV technology with Japanese partner, Kawasaki Heavy industries, for subsea related activity within energy sector and mining etc. Ad Hoc due diligence and M&A activity also on the agenda. He lives in Aberdeen.

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Asle Venås has worked in the oil and gas industry for almost 40 years. He joined DNV in 1982 and a major part of his working experience is from development and operation of oil and gas fields. The last 30 years he has mainly been working with onshore and offshore pipelines during design, construction, operations, life extension as well as abandonment. He has been project manager for many large and challenging pipeline projects as well responsible for several R&D projects both internally DNV/DNV GL and Joint Industry Projects. He has also been heavily involved in the development of the Offshore Standard DNV-OS-F101/DNVGL-ST-F101 “Standard of Submarine Pipeline Systems”. Asle has authored more than 75 technical papers and publications. He held the position of Global Director for Pipelines in DNV GL from 2009 to 2017 with a global responsibility for their pipeline business. He currently works in the Pipeline Technology unit at DNV GL’s Head Office in Oslo Norway, where the main focus is offshore pipelines. Asle still has a role as advisor globally and supports DNV GL’s global pipeline business.

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Alasdair Clyne graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in metallurgy in 1977, after which he worked in a steel foundry for 18 months and then a metallurgical consultancy until he joined British Gas Research and Development on November 1980. Alasdair worked initially in mechanical testing and then moved into structural integrity of pressure vessels and pipelines. He then moved to what is now Baker Hughes GE-PII in 1994 working in defect assessment consultancy in pipelines. Still with PII, he moved to Argentina, May 2001 through January 2005 when he then transferred to Houston. In November 2006, Alasdair moved to Calgary with Det Norske Veritas (now DNVGL) where he remained until joining ROSEN Canada in November 2013, initially working in Sales and then transferring to the role of Business Line Manager for Integrity Solutions in 2017. Alasdair returned to the UK in May 2021, where he now works for ROSEN Europe in integrity-related Business Development.