Mechanical Engineer Design

Name: DAVID FERG, P.E.

Title: Facility Engineering

Education: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1993

B.S. in Mathematics

US Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, 1976

Mr. Ferg has more than 40 years of experience as a Project Manager/Project Engineer/Mechanical Engineer in the oil and gas, petrochemical, power, and maritime industries. His experience includes project engineering, mechanical design, and interface coordination for major deep water and continental shelf oil and gas projects, as well as miscellaneous onshore projects. His specific offshore responsibilities include development of preliminary concepts, process and instrument diagrams, general arrangements, equipment selection and design, piping design, weight budgets, cost estimates, construction support, and coordination of facility design activities with design disciplines. He is Registered Profession Engineer in the State of Louisiana in Mechanical Engineering.

Representative assignments include:

Project Manager/Project Engineer/Facility Engineer. Responsibilities included overall design, project management, coordination, and drafting supervision for offshore floating oil and gas facilities and refineries. Major project experience includes:

- Shell Oil, Requisitioning Mechanical Engineer for the Vito FPS. Developed the purchase specifications, and coordinated drawing review for the process pressure vessels, heat exchangers and chemical systems. The emphasis for this phase of the project was to explore weight and cost reductions while maintain high reliability and quality.

- Shell Oil, Lead Mechanical Engineer for FEED design of the Vito FPS. Oversaw the development of system flow diagrams; purchase specifications for vessels, tanks, pumps heat exchangers and piping systems; performing hydraulic calculations; developing and maintaining weight and cost budgets; supervision of drafting and engineering personnel; inter-discipline coordination; and project scheduling.

- Murphy Exploration & Production Co., Project Manager for topside design of the Dalmatian Subsea Development.

- Chevron USA, Process Hazard Analysis Facilitator for the Eugene Island 252 “I” facility, South Timbalier 151 facility, Mobile Area 904 facility, Main Pass 30 “A” facility and South Marsh Island 217 “A” facility.

- Chevron USA, Project Manager for the Blind Faith facility water polishing unit.

- Arena Offshore Grand Island 102 A Platform Assessment, Project Engineer. Scope included evaluating the existing facilities for suitability for relocation, including determining name plate capacities of systems, recommended facility upgrades and detailed cost estimate for the facility.

- Alliance Refinery Small Projects Team, Phillips 66. Projects included preparing cost estimates and construction scopes of work, assisted in preparing project designs and construction project schedules, overseeing the design team, purchasing the equipment, and providing technical support to the construction team.

- Shell Llano 3 Subsea Well Tie-back, Lead Mechanical Engineer. Scope included Auger TLP including flowline receiving equipment, chemical injection equipment, and adding a glycol/gas contactor to the production systems. Specific attention was given in the design to minimize down time for the Auger facility.

Lead Mechanical Engineer, Flue Gas Desulfurization and Refinery Projects, Southern Company, Plant Hammond, Rome, Georgia. Responsibilities included mechanical design. Specific duties included coordination of multidisciplined design and drafting efforts, vessel, equipment and pipe sizing, construction cost estimating, field evaluation and verification, preparation of bill of materials and bid specifications, writing of operational procedures, commissioning and start-up support.

Project Engineer. Responsible for the mechanical design of oil and gas production facilities, petrochemical plant projects and pipelines; specific duties included coordination of multi-disciplined design and drafting efforts, vessel, equipment and pipe sizing, construction cost estimating, field evaluation and verification, preparation of bill of materials and bid specifications, PHA studies, writing of operational procedures, commissioning and start-up support and overall project management. Major project experience included the following:

- Project Engineer, Topsides Design of J. Bellis Subsea tie back to the Brutus TLP facility. The multi-discipline design included the flowline receiving equipment, chemical injection equipment and modifications to the existing production systems.

- Project Engineer, Topsides Design of Glider Subsea tie back to the Brutus TLP facility. The multi-discipline design included the flowline receiving equipment, chemical injection equipment and modifications to the existing production systems. Care was taken in the design to minimize down time for the Brutus facility for the addition of the Glider equipment.

- Lead Mechanical Engineer, Bonga Southwest FPSO’s Topsides FEED design. The scope of work included evaluating the Bonga FPSO design for reuse, as well as overseeing the preparation on specifications, data sheets and mechanical flow diagrams.

- Facility Design Engineer, Novel Deepwater Systems, SDS. Worked on wellhead spar platform designs; design included preparation of process flow diagrams, preliminary general arrangements, weight budget, and cost estimates for the topsides facilities.

- Project Engineer, DDCV Facility Studies, EMDC. Coordinated preparation of engineering design documents, process flow diagrams, material selection studies, and piping specifications.

- Lead Mechanical Engineer, Bonga FPSO’s Topsides FEED design. Also provided technical support during the bid evaluation and detailed design phases of the EPIC contract

- Facility Design Engineer, Backbone Studies, Shell. Primarily responsible for design of the glycol, oil sales, and shipping systems design; also involved in design of separation, oil treating, flares, and firefighting systems.

- Served in three roles for the “Ram-Powell” TLP” design. One as the RAPIDT Interface Coordinator, responsible for coordinating the design efforts of the various consultant and client project engineers; two as Project Engineer responsible for coordinating the multi-discipline design effort for the Process Module, Glycol Skid and Interconnect Design as well as resolving Global Design issues; and three, Lead Mechanical Engineer for the post AFC period responsible for coordinating design issues with the construction group, implementing design changes, coordinating a debottleneck study and preparing “as-built” documentation for the project.

- Shell Offshore, Inc. office for the Deep Water Division, Health, Safety and Environment Department. Responsible for obtaining USCG and MMS compliance approvals for Auger and Mars TLPs. Duties include assisting in the preparation of technical submittals to the USCG and MMS, preparation of official correspondence between SOI and the regulatory agencies, acting as a technical resource for regulatory requirements and as the primary interface between SOI and the USCG; also worked on recommending alternatives to Halon 1301 fire suppression agent for SOI, specifically for the Mars project.

Project Manager. Responsibilities included multi-discipline design projects in the petrochemical industry. Duties included preparing engineering contract proposals, preparing scopes of work and project budget, developing and updating project schedules, interfacing with clients, and overseeing design team. Notable projects included:

- Construction Manager, Port Sulfur Filter Plant Upgrade, Freeport Sulfur Company.

- Project Manager, Flare System Upgrades, Conoco, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Mechanical Design Engineer. Responsibilities included mechanical design in projects involving the petrochemical and oil and gas industries. Technical duties involved developing system flow diagrams; sizing of vessels, tanks, pumps compressors, heat exchangers and piping systems; performing hydraulic calculations; and thermal pipe stress analyses. Project duties included: supervision of drafting and engineering personnel; specification preparation; inter-discipline coordination; and project scheduling. Notable projects included:

- Lead Mechanical Engineer, Mobile Block 823 “A” Sour Gas Production Facility, Mobil Oil.

- Lead Process / Mechanical Engineer, Garden Bank 189 “A” Oil and Gas Production Facility, Texaco.

- Lead Engineer, Facility Satellite Group Evaluating and Upgrading Existing Facilities, Shell Offshore Inc.

Facility Engineer. Responsibilities included design, fabrication, installation, and startup of offshore oil and gas production facilities including separators, well manifolds, LACT units, glycol dehydration units, gas compressors, platform shutdown and control systems, and oil and water treating equipment; evaluation, troubleshooting and upgrading of existing facilities. Notable projects included:

- Rabbit Island Low-Pressure Gas System Installation

- Vermilion 380 “A” Oil and Gas Production Facility Installation

- South Marsh Island 236 “A” Oil and Gas Production Facility Design, Fabrication and Installation

- South Marsh Island 236 “B” Test Facility Design, Fabrication and Installation

- East Cameron 278 “B” Gas Production Facility Design, Fabrication and Installation

- Main Pass 30 “A” Oil and Gas Production Facility Design, Fabrication and Installation

- West Delta 109 “A” Crude Oil Cooler Installation and Flotation Cell Replacement

- Eugene Island 313 “A” Flotation Cell Upgrade

- Eugene Island 338 “B” Flotation Cell Installation

- Served on Automation Study Team, Platform Winterization Team, and Produced Water Treatment Study Team; and as an instructor for Texaco’s T-2 Refresher Training

Lieutenant – Commission Officer (attained the rank of Lieutenant), U.S. Coast Guard. Served as a shipboard Assistant Engineer and as a Marine Inspector; as Assistant Engineer was responsible for the maintenance and operating of the engineer plant on board the USCGC Jarvis. As a Marine Inspector was assigned to the OCMI Office in New Orleans and was responsible for enforcing USCG regulations for various merchant marine and oil field ships and boats.

Employment History:

Jacobs 2008 – Present

Facility Engineering

URS 2005 – 2008

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Linder and Associates 1993 – 2005

Project Engineer

Talbert & Associates 1991 – 1993

Project Engineer

Walk, Haydel & Associates 1988 – 1991

Mechanical Design Engineer

Texaco, Inc. 1981 – 1988

Facility Engineer

US Coast Guard 1976 – 1981

Lieutenant

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