Project Engineering

KENNETH M KAHLDEN

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SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Thirty years of experience in Project Controls as Senior Project Controls Planner and Scheduler and Principal Cost Engineer in various industries, including: Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper and Petrochem. Scheduling expertise in the areas of tender planning, engineering, construction, fabrication and installation for various size projects that include the responsibility of all project control and administrative functions including contract support, execution planning and procedure development. Twenty years of Lead Planner and Scheduler experience including: the development, implementation and maintenance of computerized schedules, manpower and equipment planning, material and cost control, conflict resolution, manpower forecasting, purchasing, expediting, subcontract administration and coordination of field personnel.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Computer programming in Cobal, RPG, Fortran and Assembler as well as scheduling software in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Milestones.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SENIOR PROJECTS CONTROLS SCHEDULER

(August TO November 2016)

EMAS Chiyoda Subsea – Houston, Texas

Primary focus was to provide planning support to Business Development in preparing and amending Tender schedules with secondary roles in supporting Regional Vessel Schedule maintenance and reporting and Project Planning on live projects as required. Provided planning, control and monitoring service to the Business Development and Project team(s), covering all aspects of engineering, procurement, construction, and associated subcontractors' for BP’s Mad Dog Rebid Tender.

SENIOR PROJECTS CONTROLS PLANNER AND SCHEDULER (contract to BP)

(2002 TO 2015)

Clover Global Solutions – Houston, Texas

Senior subsea construction and installation planner and scheduler for BP Global Projects Organization Gulf of Mexico business unit. Led all installation planning for BP deep water platforms thru the Gulf of Mexico and Africa which included planning activities tracking 10 drilling rigs, completion operations that included jumper installation and well commissioning and start-up.

Over 15 years scheduling experience using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.

Completed five day training course in Primavera P6.

BP Thunder Horse Water Injection – A $500 million turnkey water injection development to BP Thunder Horse platform which included 2 rigid flowlines, replacement of existing plets on two flexible flowlines, installation of two manifolds, laying of two umbilicals and installation of 6 jumpers.

Oversaw the monitoring of contractor engineering schedules, equipment delivery schedules from various suppliers and schedules from installation contractors.

Conducted meetings with the Area Planning team for subsea planning activity input into the Master Control Schedule and input requirements into the MAXIMO work order system, which allowed visibility to the platform. The subsea portion of the water injection system was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.

BP Atlantis Subsea Installation Project – A $600 million subsea installation project for the Atlantis deepwater platform from concept select thru full field development which included 6 flowlines and SCR's, 6 manifolds, 9 plets and 40 jumpers. The controls system included 12 umbilicals both hydraulic and electric, 25 hydraulic distribution modules and numerous steel flying leads to approximately 40 producing and water injection wells.

Supervised the subsea planning effort including several junior planners and vast contractors for one of BP’s most productive offshore platforms.

BP Thunder Horse Subsea Installation Project – A $750 million subsea installation project for Thunder Horse platform, a GOM large deep-water discovery located 150 miles south of New Orleans.

With his vast knowledge of subsea systems, Mr. Kahlden was able to implement and develop the integration and maintenance of the Subsea Installation Schedule which included overseeing all subcontractor planning and scheduling personnel and integration of the subsea schedule into the overall field development.

BP Deepwater Production Business Unit –Projects included numerous deepwater subsea platforms including King, King's Peak, and Nile. The King and Nile projects are subsea tiebacks to the BP Marlin Tension Leg Platform, in water depth ranging from 3,600 ft. to 5,400 feet.

Responsible in maintaining cost and planning for the crude oil handling facility installation on the drill rig Transocean Discoverer Enterprise: producing monthly reports directly to BP project management including cost accrual and forecasting, progress status reports, including various equipment vendors and project schedule updates.

PROJECT PLANNER AND SCHEDULER

(1995 TO 2002)

Aker Maritime – Houston, Texas

Accountable for the development of project control procedures, code of accounts, WBS, and project reporting formats to which insured the compliance with client project requirements. Additional responsibilities included budgeting, tracking actuals vs. planned, forecasting, variance analysis, capital expenditure analysis, change order administration and all required project status reporting.

Exxon Diana DDCV Project - E, P & C project to develop the Diana and Hoover Fields located in 4,800 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico. A floating Deep Draft Caisson Vessel (DDCV) which will support a drilling rig and production facilities capable of producing 100 KBD of oil and 325 MSCFD of gas.

Senior Project Controls Coordinator responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of planning, scheduling, cost reporting, forecasting systems and coordination of information relative to project administration for structures and project management.

Produced monthly reports including; Progress and Cost Forecast Reports, Contingency Rundown and Usage Curves, Manhour Histogram and S-Curves, Cost Accrual Profile Curves and detailed schedule updates. This schedule had the added challenge with forecasting manhours totaling in excess of 170 thousand hours but the project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.

Marlin Field Development - Optimization studies and preliminary engineering work performed during the tender planning phase of Amoco's 3240 ft. Marlin field including all specifications, drawings and procedures required to bid the fabrication and procurement of the facilities and develop target costs and schedules.

Maintaining overall responsibility of scheduling and cost tracking of the various contractors during the preliminary engineering phase.

Development and correlation of detailed engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning target costs and schedules.

Mobil Exploration Indonesia, NSO “A” Project Phase I – Tender package development for a project to develop a gas field approximately 65 miles North Sumatra in 350 feet of water. The project included a four-leg platform with gas dehydration, thirty-inch pipeline, sulfinol processing and tail gas units and tie-ins to the existing PT Arun LNG plant.

Responsible for the development and progress reporting of the detailed Phase I schedule and developed the preliminary Phase II schedule, cost control and assisted in the development of a detailed AFE estimate and Phase II Bid Package.

PLANNER AND SCHEDULER - INCLUDING TRUNAROUNDS

(1985 TO 1995)

Brown and Root – Houston, Texas

Amoco Orient Petroleum Company (Liuhua 11-1 Development Project) - A $600 million project consisting of 20 subsea horizontal wells drilled and maintained from a permanently moored Floating Production System (FPS). Liuhua 11-1 “state of the art” deep-water project was fully automated including subsea manifold and Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV) and marked Amoco's entrance into the Chinese market.

Developed and maintained the subsea schedule in Microsoft Project, which consisted of over four thousand activities including Engineering, Procurement, Drilling and Subsea Installation.

Collaborated with numerous contractors on the engineering and manufacturing progress which included monthly schedule presentations to Amoco management.

James River Naheola Mill - Requested by mill management to return to plant and schedule the largest shutdown in James River, Naheola Mill history. The shutdown consisted of maintenance for their seven tissue machines, pulping and wood yard facilities and the first scheduled outage for their new recovery boiler.

Developed area schedules, mill shutdown and start-up sequence, manpower histograms and daily progress and reporting during the execution phase. The shutdown was conducted on schedule and under budget due largely to detailed planning and communication between the shutdown team and mill supervisors.

Arco China, Yacheng 13-1 Gas Project - Procurement scheduling with responsibilities that included working on a billion dollar project consisting of two platforms with land based processing equipment and several hundred miles of pipeline.

Instrumental in tracking all project equipment from specification development through subcontractor delivery and interfaced between engineering and procurement, procurement and expediting, outside contractors and construction.

James River - Shutdown scheduler for Brown & Root’s first involvement at James River, Naheola Mill.

The seven day mill wide shutdown comprised of tissue machine upgrades, major modifications to the mill pulping facilities and tie-ins for their new recovery boiler.

Accountable for the interface with the contractors who were installing the new recovery boiler tie-ins and acceptance and integration of their schedules into the mill shutdown plan.

Rocky Flats - Engineering and procurement scheduler for Rocky Flats environmental clean-up project for the United States Government. This highly sensitive and time constrained project was designed to clean-up and dispose of low level radioactive waste contained in three large ponds on a federal munitions facility.

The project schedule was closely scrutinized by numerous government agencies and directly tied to milestone payments.

Texas Eastman Polyethylene Project - Engineering and procurement scheduler for a $150 million grass roots polyethylene project that was fast track and schedule driven with over 300,000 progress able engineering man hours.

Specific responsibilities included the development, monitoring, updating and reporting of a combined engineering, procurement and construction schedule using Brown & Root systems (Epics and Open Plan).

Boise Cascade - Schedule development and implementation for the largest shutdown in the St. Helens Mill history with over 40,000 man hours safely expended with the absence of re-work and within budget.

Specific duties included the training of key mill personnel in the use of computerized scheduling software from the development phase through the daily progress update sessions.

Georgia Pacific Cable Replacement Project – Developed and implemented a computerized CPM schedule to track on a daily basis the progress of replacing over 600 damaged electrical cables.

Inland-Orange Mill Modernization Project - The 60 million dollar Inland-Orange project was an extremely fast-track and schedule driven engineering and procurement project for the mill modernization of a linerboard mill.

Maintained project performance through procurement and engineering coordination.

As the project scheduler the position strengthened a working knowledge of cost engineering and estimating basics.

Weyerhaeuser - Planning and scheduling of a 14-day maintenance shutdown which involved the schedule development, performing daily status updates and progress reports against the plan and included the development of schedule recovery plans and resource histograms.

Bowater Southern Maintenance Shutdown Planning - Develop a detailed maintenance shutdown schedule utilizing mill personnel and outside contractors for a 21 day shutdown which utilized time scale logic plots, daily progress reports and schedule updates.

Champion International Corporation – Planner and scheduler for the No. 34 paper machine speed increase which included upgrades to the No. 30 winder productivity. Both projects were completed on schedule and under budget.

EDUCATION

Associate of Applied Science: Computer Programming

AIRCO - Computer Learning Center - Houston, Texas

Business

University of Houston – Houston, Texas

TRAINING COURCES

Brown and Root Project Management

Aker Project Management

Primavera P6 5 days training course

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