Andrew Comley
Principal Naval Architect, Engineer & Safety Consultant, and Managing Director @A Comley Limited
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Naval Architect, Engineer & Safety Consultant, and Managing Director @A Comley Limited
Elgin, GB
Provide specialist consultancy services in a number of naval architecture, engineering, integrity and safety disciplines to the offshore & renewable industries, particularly with regard to Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Facilities. Key assignments include:• Technical Authority - Marine Technical Consultant / Authority Ikdam FPSO, Lundin Tunisia BV - Moorings Technical Authority, WGPSN• Marine Integrity Consultant - Bonga FPSO Hull and Mooring System Integrity Review, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company- Supsa SPM Life Extension Project, BP• Marine Technical Auditor - Captain FPSO and Platform Safety Case Thorough Review, Chevron - Byford Dolphin Desktop Audit of the Stability Section of the unit’s Operations Manual, Dolphin Drilling• Marine Investigation - Gryphon FPSO Mooring System Failure Recovered Chain Investigation, Maersk Oil - Various Mooring Line and Riser Failure Investigations, Norwegian Hull Club - North Producer FPU Multiple Single Mooring Line Failures, EnQuest• Naval Architecture Consultant - Project lead for the refurbishment of the mooring system of the Hummingbird FPSO, Wood Group UK - Project lead for the installation of ICCP anode blanking plates and a retrofit passive anode system on the Hummingbird FPSO, Wood Group UK - Development of In-water Inspection Procedures for Propellers, Propeller Shafts and Rudders, Harkand - Global Producer FPSO Walk to Work Project, Maersk Oil - Review of the Motions of a Novel Offshore Structure, Health & Safety Executive - Specifier and reviewer of a state of the art mooring system fatigue assessment for the Hummingbird FPSO, which resulted in a methodology for estimating the fatigue usage of the system in near real time, Wood Group UK• Marine Safety Consultant - Al Shaheen Field Walk to Work Proof of Concept Project, Maersk Oil Qatar - Review of the Risks of bringing a Flotel alongside the Everest Platform with the platform still producing, BG
EDUCATION
University of Glasgow
Researcher, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Newcastle University
B.Eng (hons), Marine Technology with Honours in Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding
SKILLS
ABOUT ANDREW COMLEY
Chartered Naval Architect, Engineer, Investigator and Safety Consultant in the Offshore Oil & Gas and Renewable sectors who relishes taking on new challenges. I thrive best when I take a holistic approach to my work, thus enabling me to use my associative thinking abilities to their best. This means that I am equally likely to use knowledge from the world of archaeology to that from the world of engineering. I am passionate about finding out how and why things have gone wrong, and how, as an industry, we can improve, in order to stop the same incidents reoccurring time and again, thus saving lives and resources. Time and again this approach has proved itself and has enabled me, for instance, to save Centrica approximately seven days of production on the Armada platform, amongst others, by showing that it was safer to bring a floatel alongside the live platform than it was to completely shut the platform down, with my findings being subsequently accepted by the HSE. Or for instance showing that the reason a person was accidentally lifted in a container on a platform, was due not only to bad radio protocols but also due to the crane driver having not been offshore for a number of years and so was no longer used to working night-shifts and so had probably half dozed off as a result of his midnight dinner.So whether you are looking for someone to help your floating renewables project team with a design problem, or your floating production asset with an integrity issue, or you unfortunately need an incident investigated, or you just want to know more about how we could help you with a miniature railway in your garden, then please get in contact on 07•••••••28 or email me at a••••••••@acomleyltd.com.
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