ROLE PURPOSE
Act as the COMPANY technical focal point for offshore pipelines, risers and associated subsea systems from concept selection and FEED through EPCIC, commissioning and handover. Provide hands-on engineering support for waxy crude pipeline replacement, flexible and rigid system selection, brownfield tie-ins, pipeline integrity and asset life extension.
ROLE PURPOSE
Act as the COMPANY technical focal point for offshore pipelines, risers and associated subsea systems from concept selection and FEED through EPCIC, commissioning and handover. Provide hands-on engineering support for waxy crude pipeline replacement, flexible and rigid system selection, brownfield tie-ins, pipeline integrity and asset life extension.
Responsibilities
- Lead offshore pipeline and riser studies, including flexible versus rigid system selection, and recommend suitable solutions.
- Define pipeline requirements for waxy crude service with Process and Flow Assurance specialists, including insulation and heating needs.
- Develop pipeline replacement and tie-in solutions for existing offshore facilities.
- Lead pipeline and riser integrity assessments and life extension studies. Review operating and inspection history, degradation mechanisms, remaining life and data gaps; recommend justified operating limits, inspection, monitoring, repair or replacement.
- Prepare and review engineering specifications, calculations and drawings, including supplier designs.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces, including dynamic riser connections to FPSOs, structural, and ensure compliance with COMPANY requirements and applicable standards.
- Prepare technical tender packages, evaluate bids and support procurement.
- Oversee contractor and vendor delivery, monitor progress and resolve technical issues.
- Ensure constructability and pre-commissioning requirements are addressed in design. Support offshore installation, pre-commissioning, commissioning and handover to Operations.
Qualification & Experience
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Must be registered with Board of Engineers Malaysia.
Essential experience
- Minimum 15 years of relevant offshore pipeline and riser experience across design, installation and commissioning, with demonstrated hands-on technical review and problem-solving capability.
- Experience delivering at least two offshore pipeline or riser EPCIC projects, including brownfield platform tie-ins and at least one interface with a floating production facility.
- Demonstrated experience in rigid and flexible pipeline engineering, including dynamic flexible riser systems connected to FPSOs. Experience shall include review of riser configuration, vessel motion effects, fatigue assessment, hang-off and connection arrangements, ancillary equipment, and installation requirements.
- Experience with waxy crude pipeline systems, including insulation or heating selection, pigging, shutdown and restart requirements, and coordination with Process and Flow Assurance specialists.
- Experience in pipeline integrity assessment and asset life extension beyond original design life, including inspection scopes, degradation assessment, remaining life and recommendations for continued operation, mitigation, repair or replacement.
- Experience developing pipeline replacement, riser and tie-in solutions at constrained existing offshore facilities, including structural interfaces, constructability and installation sequencing.
- Experience in technical tender preparation, bid evaluation, contractor and vendor management, offshore execution support and handover to Operations.
- Ability to independently check engineering calculations using validated spreadsheets or appropriate tools, challenge consultant assumptions.
Codes and standards
- Working knowledge of applicable pipeline standards, including DNV-ST-F101, ASME B31.4, ASME B31.8, ISO 13623, API RP 1111 and API 1104, according to the approved design basis and scope.
- Working knowledge of API Spec 17J and API RP 17B, API Spec 17K, API Spec 17L1 and API RP 17L2.
- Familiarity with DNV-RP-F116 for pipeline integrity management, DNV-RP-F101 for corroded pipeline assessment, and relevant ISO and AMPP/NACE materials and corrosion standards.
Professional skills
- Strong written and spoken English, technical reporting and presentation skills, multidisciplinary coordination, stakeholder management and professional integrity. Able to work independently with sound engineering judgement.
- Malaysian offshore project, local procurement and applicable authority interface experience, including DOSH and DOE where relevant, is preferred.