Curriculum Vitae for Ole Bisbjerg

Key Qualifications

Mechanical engineer with a Master’s Degree from the Technical University of Denmark having worked 25 years in the offshore oil and gas industry. Has a broad experience covering all aspects from the design phase through fabrication/installation of offshore oil and gas installations. Areas of specialisation are subsea inspection and subsea installation work, rigid and flexible pipelay, trenching, tie-ins and steel fabrication. Seven years commercial diving experience as a Diving Offshore Surveyor in the North Sea. Trilingual in English, French and Danish.

Personal Details

Name Ole Gregers Bisbjerg

Year of Birth: 1961

Civil status: Divorced

Address Unit B-33-1 Panorama

2 Persiaran Hampshire

50450 Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Telephone +601*-***-**** (cell)

E-mail acsfhk@r.postjobfree.com

Nationality Danish

Languages Fluently trilingual English, French and Danish after growing up in Geneva, Switzerland. Working knowledge of German.

Qualifications

1981-1987 M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.

Master’s thesis: Pipeline welding metallurgy.

Commercial air diver 1986 (Denmark) and HSE part 1 in 1988 (UK). Offshore safety and survival, BOSIET, BOSET, HUET, H2S, NDT and IRATA rope access technique courses.

Employment history

Bureau Veritas Malaysia, KL, Malaysia

27 August 2012 - Present

Senior Verification and Validation Engineer

Management of offshore oil and gas projects verification activities in South East Asia. Lead structural, pipeline and lifting engineer for the IOAIA asset integrity assessment audits of more than 100 platforms, floaters, onshore facilities as well as rigid and flexible risers and interfield and export pipelines on behalf of Malaysia Petroleum Management, Petronas MPM. The work is ongoing and the number of offshore platforms in the audit will exceed 200. The assets audited to date are operated by Petronas’ Production Sharing Contract (PSCs) Operators Shell, Talisman, Petrofac, Murphy, ExxonMobil and Carigali.

Bureau Veritas Australia, Perth, Australia

27 June 2011 – 27 August 2012

Senior Oil and Gas Technical Lead

Full time employee managing validation, verification and certification activities for on- and offshore oil and gas projects in Australia.

Team lead during a fire investigation after a hydrogen fire at the Burrup fertiliser plant in northern WA in order to determine the necessary repairs and replacements required before allowing the owner to re-start the plant.

Marine Underwater Security Consultants, MUSC, Offshore Iraq

20 December 2010 – 15 June 2011

Offshore Superintendent

Working as a contractor for MUSC managing a fleet of survey and diving vessels clearing pipeline corridors and SPM loading circles from possible UXO (un-exploded ordnance). The total area being cleared is 35 km2 of seabed and covers 75 km of pipeline corridor and 4 SPM loading circles. I was managing the entire operation offshore, based on one of the vessels. This involved 7 diving and survey vessels as well as 8 small craft that were launched from deck. Four crew change and supply vessels coming out from Iraq and Kuwait were used for transfers. The total manpower offshore was around 240-250 men including ship’s crew. The largest vessels were the AOS Provider, AOS Constructor, Albatross, ADS Aquadiver II and Boss 1, an AHTS. The personnel included 28 divers, 20 survey personnel, 12 British security personnel & Cox’ns and 30 armed Iraqi security guards. Surveys were carried out using seaspy magnetometers and USBL positioning. Mitigation was performed by divers with water jetting and using a Marin Subsea MFE excavator.

Maersk Drilling, Singapore

14 August 2006 – 31 October 2009: Singapore

Senior Structural Superintendent

Full time employee with Maersk as Senior Structural Superintendent and site representative for three Semi Submersible new-building drilling rig projects. The rigs are a DSS21 design that have double derricks and are rated to 10,000 feet. The rigs were being built by Keppel FELS Shipyard with a number of subcontractors located locally, in Indonesia, and in the Philippines. The derricks were fabricated as owner furnished equipment (OFE) by NOV in Shanghai and the subsea risers manufactured by Aker Solutions in Malaysia as OFE. Inspections were carried out regularly at all sites by my team. In addition to quality, I was responsible for monitoring progress of all deliverables to ensure that the overall schedule was not compromised. Rig deliveries from 2009 to 2010.

FMC Technologies

9 March 2005 – 31 July 2006: Kongsberg, Norway

QA Manager

Full-time contractor as QA manager on the Woodside Frame Agreement covering 7 projects running concurrently. Dedicated project QA managers and QC inspectors dealt with the routine deliveries and I managed the problems that were relevant to all projects. I also provided QA ‘fire-fighting’ support needed at times to reach the tight deadlines and resolve QA-related issues. Served as focal point towards Woodside Energy in Perth, Western Australia, on all QA/QC related issues working to ISO 9001. Deliveries included subsea wellheads, manifolds, flowlines and controls systems.

Maersk Oil & Gas

1 May 2003 – 17 December 2004: Esbjerg, Denmark

Subsea IRM Engineer

Full-time consultant to the IRM (inspection, repair & maintenance) department. Inspection planning and condition monitoring. Co-ordination of structural, riser and interfield pipeline inspection using ROV vessels, DSVs, rope access technicians and intelligent pigging. Supervision of offshore inspection, repair and small installation tasks above and below water as Client Representative. Preparation of tender packages, bid evaluation and contract management for lump sum and day rate contracted vessels. The department had a permanent staff of 2 and myself to cover the IRM on 45 jackets, 750 km of interfield pipelines and 9 subsea installations (subsea wellhead, PLEMs and pipeline valve stations).

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, LR

October 1999 – August 2002: Stavanger, Norway

Senior Surveyor

Marketing of LR Industrial and Offshore activities in the Nordic Area. Industrial surveys and surveys of mobile offshore units and the heavy lift barge Saipem 7000 during modification for J-lay. Conversion of MSV Regalia for well intervention. Re-termination of the BANFF FPSO flexible risers by NKT Flexibles. Major survey of the saturation diving system on Stolt Offshore’s Seaway Kestrel carried out in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 2002.

July 1997 – October 1999: Leatherhead & London, England

Project Manager

Project manager on the Amerada Hess South Arne Development Project. Responsible for the co-ordination of design appraisal, fabrication surveys, offshore installation and commissioning activities. Worked very closely with the client QA and Engineering as well as all contractors and subcontractor’s QA/QC and Engineering. Heavily involved, providing both technical support and verification, in obtaining the relevant permits from Danish authorities such as the Danish Energy Agency, the Danish Maritime Authority and the aviation authorities. All waivers from the prescriptive Danish regulations were evaluated by my team. This project represented more than 40,000 man-hours worked by LR staff all over Europe. The South Arne is a concrete gravity base platform with one concrete tower and a steel lattice tower supporting an 8,000 tonne deck. The facilities comprise accommodation, processing unit, gas export, oil offloading by shuttle tanker and 550,000 barrels oil storage capacity. The South Arne platform is located in Danish waters and must comply with the strict prescriptive Danish Energy Agency Guidelines. The installation of the platform took place in June 1999.

November 1995 – July 1997: Esbjerg, Denmark

Installation Engineer

Assistant project manager on the Maersk Olie og Gas AS Svend, Roar and Harald Development Projects. Responsible for the co-ordination of design appraisal, waivers and queries, survey during fabrication, hook-up and commissioning. Surveyor during pipelay of 100 km of 16 and 24” subsea pipeline, trenching, valve station installation and tie-in.

Det Norske Veritas, DNV

August 1988 – November 1995: Esbjerg, Denmark

Diving Offshore Surveyor

Project Manager on Skjold further development project pipelines with Stena Offshore as contractor and the Regnar Field Development (SBM control buoy over a subsea wellhead) with Stena Offshore as installation contractor.

Annual in-service underwater inspection of structures, risers and pipelines from various dive support vessels and pipeline survey vessels using saturation and air divers and ROVs. Underwater inspection as an air diver. Preparation of Long Term Evaluation Reports, Long Term Inspection Programmes and Annual Inspection Programmes for all fields in the Danish North Sea sector on behalf of the operator. Assessment of damage found and approval of remedial work.

Surveyor onboard various DSVs and other vessels during offshore construction and repairs such as hyperbaric weld repair of the Kraka 10” pipeline, installation of risers, tie-ins of pipelines up to 24” diameter, pigging and hydrotesting of pipelines, installation of an SBM control buoy and its umbilical to the subsea wellhead and laying of a 4” flexible pipeline for water injection. All of these activities included review and approval of procedures, personnel qualifications and supervision of the work.

Underwater survey of the remains of a Russian supertanker ‘Ludvig Svoboda’ that sank during breaking up while afloat near Læsø in Denmark, in order to evaluate the weight of steel to be lifted during salvage, on behalf of the salvage company. Underwater surveys of ship’s hulls, harbours and jetties including thickness measurements, evaluation of cathodic protection and inspection of damage.

MacArtney A/S

August 1987 – August 1988: Esbjerg, Denmark

Project Engineer

Design, fabrication and sale of underwater fibre optic cable systems and underwater equipment for offshore, military and onshore applications.

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