Roy D. Espinosa
Senior Structural Engineer /
Engineering Manager
CAREER SUMMARY
• Fourteen years’ experience as structural engineer in coastal and offshore oil & gas industry.
• Eight years’ experience as structural designer/detailer for offshore & civil industries.
EXPERIENCE
2014 (August) – Present – Myrex Industries (steel fabricators) – Engineering Manager – Running the day to day operations of the Engineering department, composed of 10 project managers, that feeds shop drawings to our 3 plants and other steel fabricators. The day to day activities include but are not limited to: Holding weekly progress meetings with all project managers, preparing weekly look-ahead lists for projects going out for approval or being released for construction, assigning new projects to detailing firms in India, Chile, Canada and the US. Procuring engineering services for the majority of the projects, assigning Project Managers to each of the new jobs running through the plants, checking every drawing that leaves the engineering department for quality assurance, approving all invoicing due to the department’s needs (engineering and detailing), preparing for and updating the other department managers and the company’s president weekly on overall progress for each of the projects, identifying potential chokeholds in the detailing process by the issuance of RFI’s and TQ’s, administering disciplinary actions to employees when deemed necessary (including terminations), interviewing and hiring new personnel for key positions in the department, performing employee reviews and awarding wage adjustments, meeting with clients in the field and during the sales process for larger projects to secure such projects.
2013 – 2014 (September) – RDS Houston (part of KCA Deutag) – Project Engineer – Performing structural design and analysis of high performance drill floors and all drilling related structures using mainly SACS software. My major and daily duties include preparing calculations (by hand and computer analysis) for aspects and areas of the drill floors and their interaction with the supporting decks. Also, I coordinate design (with third party consulting firms, fabricators and service providers) of structural operations to enhance the designs, and see their implementation from conceptual ideas, up to the delivery of finished products. The major project is described below:
• West Rigel (owned by North Atlantic Drilling) – Project Structural Engineer. Oversee the design and the 3D construction of the drill floor for North Atlantic Drilling’s drill floor. Duties include coordination with third party consulting companies and approving agencies to complete the design, drawings and reports as deliverables. Scope of work for this project has included the design of all aspects of the Drill Floor, from equipment layout, structural interface with the supporting hull structure, riser tensioner foundations, mezzanine decks, drilling tower foundations, FEA of main structural leg to deck connections, winterization measures, and all structural necessities of a drill floor. I oversaw the design of the project from the Design Basis document through the final approvals by DNV and clients. This project has taken over a year and I have been the dedicated structural engineer overseeing it.
2012 – Noble Drilling – Senior Lead Structural Engineer – Performing structural design and analysis of a fleet of 81 drilling vessels worldwide. My major and daily duties include preparing calculations (by hand and computer analysis) for any and all modifications on any of our rigs. Also, I coordinate design (with third party consulting firms, fabricators and service providers) of structural operations to enhance our rigs, and see their implementation from conceptual ideas, up to the delivery of finished products. Currently, I am in charge of overseeing all structural operations of Noble’s Americas Fleet (from Brazil up to Alaska). Major recent projects include (most recent first):
• Noble Discoverer – Project Structural Engineer. Oversee the winterization of the drill ship for Shell’s operations in the North Polar Region. I have recently returned from Alaska on an assignment to oversee winterization procedures and meet with rig personnel and the operations team to coordinate all efforts for adequate preparations for structures and systems to be ready for drilling operations. Duties include coordination with third party consulting and construction companies to oversee design, drawings and reports as deliverables, and finally construction of all winterization modifications. Scope of work for this project has included the design of BOP sea fastenings, the addition of a secondary BOP and its supporting structure, complete crane upgrades (including the pedestals), a new main propulsion system and a switch from steam to glycol systems.
• Noble Bully I – Project Structural Engineer. Oversaw design and production of drawings and structural reports (approved by ABS) dealing with upgrades to the vessel and its sister ship (The Bully II) in order to meet Shell’s increased production expectations. This project has included coordination with local fabricators for delivery of essential structures and tools for the efficient operation of the vessel while still on location in the Gulf of Mexico.
2002 – 2012 - SBM Offshore – Project Engineer – Performing structural design and analysis of various offshore structures – mainly drilling vessels. Major projects and duties include (most recent first):
• Baleia Azul – Project Structural Engineer. Oversee the design of the electrical cable tray and piping supports. Tasks include meeting with various discipline leads to coordinate efforts and supervising the work of junior structural engineers assigned to the project. I have been verifying the work of the three junior engineers, preparing and checking their calculations, and implementing necessary changes to the design/drawings via the designers.
• BP Mad Dog Rig repair – Project Structural Engineer. Overseeing design and production of drawings and structural reports (approved by ABS) dealing with the removal of damaged structures (from hurricane Katrina), and the installation of the new drilling package. This included major lifting and transportation analysis of the major drilling components while at sea. Sea fastening and procedures for removal or old structures and installation of new ones were a major part of the project. The majority of the calculations and reports have dealt with the said lifting of the old and new structures and their installation procedures, including designing the lifting mechanisms, connections and step by step procedures for cutting, lifting, installing and permanently fixing the structures together. I deal directly with BP engineers and managers. I routinely I visit the Kiewit Offshore ship yard to oversee parts of the construction and deal with mis-fabrication issues. In the office, I coordinate efforts along with the project managers, designers, and other discipline engineers to produce the required calculations/sketches in order to provide reports and drawings for oversight by both (increasingly strict) BP requirements and ABS rules.
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