Name: Anthony Patrick Haynes
Date of Birth: 4 August 1951
Education: William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester
University of Birmingham, 1970-73
Qualification : B.Sc (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
CEng CSci FEI ACS SPE
Status: Married; 3 children
Nationality: British; Norwegian resident
Address: Jon Smørsv 4,
1397 Nesøya, Norway
Mobile phone : 47 916 44 679
E-mail : aph@eboroil.com
Career:
1973-1975 Burmah Oil Trading Limited, Swindon, UK
Employed as trainee Petroleum Engineer. Worked on analysing drilling fluids, mooring systems and bulk material transfer systems involved in North Sea operations. Transfered to Ecuador as trainee drilling engineer and participated in drilling two wells in the Oriente jungle with a heli-rig. Later transfered to Norway to help Wilh.Wilhelmsen construct three Aker H-3 drilling rigs (Treasure Hunter, Treasure Seeker and Treasure Finder). Designed the cement and barites handling systems for the rigs and assisted in producing operations manuals and marketing the rigs.
1975-1977 Land and Marine Petroleum Consultants, Switzerland
Employed as a Consultant. Initially continued the work with Wilh Wilhelmsen and then started designing the materials handling systems on Ninian Central and Southern platforms and foundation modules for Thistle for Chevron and Burmah respectively. The work included the detail design, commissioning and trouble shooting on the platforms, the flotels, ten support vessels and the shore installations. The work on Thistle included working with a gilsonite cement mixture and devising tests to ensure that the gilsonite and cement had not separated during handling. The Ninian Central installation is the largest and most complex in the North Sea. The work was performed in conjunction with Birmingham University.
1977-onwards Eboroil S.A., Switzerland
Employed as a Director. Company provides technical consultancy support services to the oil and gas industries. The main clients have been Amoco, BNOC, Chevron, Mobil, Northern Resources, Wilh. Wilhelmsen and Wilrig, Quatronor, Haugesund Mek Verksted, Sonangol and TransCanada Pipelines. Also I co-ordinated a joint venture between Eboroil and Canarctic Shipping Ltd. on operations with the m.v Arctic, the only Super ice class OBO in the world.
I was responsible for installing the Thistle Single Anchor Leg Mooring where Eboroil had the technical and financial responsibility for the ballasting operation which was completed in 23 hours. In March 1977, it was one of the deepest installations in the World.
I have been involved in developing novel technology for subsea operations and oil production technology. One of these projects was sponsored by the UK’s OSO and has resulted in Weirs having a turbine driven downhole pump. The work on subsea templates and risers resulted in the award of two patents. Also I have authored one SPE paper on pneumatic handling in the North Sea area.
The work for Mobil on Statfjord included developing long term forecasts for operations, marine chartering programmes, and controlling vessel conversions of six vessels. The projects have included preparing the complete contingency plans for field development including platforms, the flotels and the support ships involved in providing the logistics and contingency stand-by services. A similar scope was undertaken for Amoco on Valhall, and during the project execution of both projects Eboroil introduced changes in the tax rulings affecting the development whereby 250% of marine expenditures were depreciated. In both projects, Eboroil produced documentation for presentation to the partners and the Government including Statoil, the Oil Directorate and the Finance Ministry.
The work for Wilh. Wilhelmsen and Wilrig including project managing the coordination of the conversions of the Seaway Swan into Treasure Swan and the conversion of the Treasure Hunter as a tender support for use on the Odin field. Also Eboroil was retained to perform the co-ordination of the new buildings Treasure Scout and Treasure Saga. While the work covered some of the marine aspects the main effort was on the drilling systems. In 1992-94 for Wilrig I was employed to compare the operations of the rig fleet world wide and make recommendations for their spare parts systems.
My work in 1982-83 included performing technical and financial audits of exploration and production operations of six offshore operators for the Governmental authorities. This work was for Sonangol to compare the relative merits of their foreign partners.
I have been involved in evaluating the technical and financial aspects of projects using reuseable production systems ( jack-up, tanker and semi-submersible based concepts using subsea completions) in the following offshore areas UK, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Egypt, Angola (including Cabinda), Ghana, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, East Coast of Canada, the Philippines, Vietnam and Australia.
Also I have reviewed a number of prospects in the Russian arctic and compared them with known Canadian arctic operations exporting the oil using the m.v Arctic. This work has included co-ordinating base line environmental studies for onshore developments and preparing development plans together with the environmental impact assessment. The Canarctic joint venture involved working with the development of ice navigation systems as well as all aspects of developing a 100,000 dwt ice strengthened Oil-Bulk-Ore carrier.
The work from 1996 in the Former Soviet Union started in Lithuania with Genciu Nafta’s emergency plan including oil spill contingency planning, assisting with the budget development incorporating staffing requirements, organising staff training and organising the planned maintenance programme for the new oil treatment plant. The operations have included work-overs with a Russian A-50 rig and with coiled tubing and the production of 4,500 bopd and the operation of the jet pumps and the supporting water injection. Later most of my time was used on negotiating oil sales with Swedish, Polish, Italian, Czech and Russian based buyers. Later a second Lithuanian company, Minijos Nafta became a client so that oil sales from Lithuania to Poland could be co-ordinated.
In March 1998, I was included in the team for DSND’s mobilisation for the monohull m.v. Botnica. The work involved developing the specifications for the hook up phase of the Well Intervention equipment and the operating requirements for commissioning. DSND’s client terminated the contract and so the actual commissioning is delayed.
From May 1998 I have been working on packaging the development plans for a number of companies in Udmurtia and Kazahkstan for inclusion in Eboroil Udmurtia Inc. The basic concept is to buy 100% of production against confirmed western stand-by letters of credit in US dollars and Eboroil in conjunction with independent consultants IPEX a.s. develop the production plan and negotiate suitable financial support to implement the projects.
In December 1999 I co-authored a patent application on the use of dynamically positioned Shuttle tankers for the use in Direct Well Intervention and offshore underbalanced drilling operations. In April 2001 a paper was given to the Oslo Chapter of the SPE on the merits of the concept which now has the registered trademark of M.O.S.T. (Multi Operational Shuttle Tanker).
A contract was signing for MOST in 2005 but the financing failed and the operator farmed-out. MOST prepared the Environmental Impact Statement and it went out for public hearings and was approved in its entirety in July 2005. The new operator of the Block has said that they are interested in giving MOST a development contract for another of their discoveries.
Today I oversee the research and development programmes for Eboroil Udmurtia Inc, Ebordiesel and Eborpower as well as being a consultant to MOST. It is hoped that a contract in the North Sea will be received in MOST in the last quarter 2007 which will allow me to concentrate on Ebordiesel and marketing production and oil sales enhancement services in Eboroil Udmurtia Inc.
Last revised 17th August 2007
