HUMPHREY ONYE BLESSING
Summary
Decisive Production Engineer skilled in production scheduling and workflow coordination. Monitors team performance and equipment operation to reduce downtime. Concise communicator with strong command of industry standards and best practices. Committed team leader with exceptional leadership, organisational skills and communication abilities leads high-performing cross-functional teams. Leads projects, company operations and business growth. Takes on challenging new role harnessing interpersonal skills, collaboration and problem-solving. Driven to deliver high-quality service and consistent results.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Industrial Trainee
Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company
Bonny
2011.08
- General Role
- Ensured safe production initial start-up (ESP-ISU) project
- Populated data into the Alarm Configuration Manager
- Participated in the Risk Assessment session for ESP-ISU simple engineering change review/implementation documents
- Identification, observation and understanding of operation principles of process equipment
- Using process book (PI) application to plant data
- Calculated HHV using ISO 6976 standard
- Conducted well water analysis
- Identification, observation and understanding of principles of operation of various equipment
- Study of water treatment plant.
Production Team Leader
Agbada Cluster, Heirs Holdings Oil and Gas Limited, HHOG
2022.04 - Current
- Strategic role
- Coordinated & managed on- site activities in Agbada Cluster comprising of 3 Flow stations (circa 40Kbopd); 1 Associated gas & booster compression plant (38MMscf/d); 1 Non-Associated gas compression plant (40MMscf/d), 1 Early Non-Associated gas compression plant (40MMscf/d)
- Monitoring production across over 60 wellheads
- Emergency on-scene commander and member of the Incident command system (ICS)
- Coordinated activities across all the facilities in the cluster to meet statutory and regulatory obligations
- Delivered on Projects - Production Optimization (Carried out Process optimization on the following aspects: Gas lift optimization, Chemical injection optimization, Efficiency in gas processing and conditioning, Process quality assurance
- Achieved an improvement on the quality of gas supply to customers' requirement of 15˚C water dew pointing, reduced flaring arising from low customer off take for Associated Gas gathering facility and reduced HSE risks associated with asset integrity of export gas pipeline due to wet gas
- Actively anchored barrel chasing activities to maximize field production whilst not compromising integrity
- Act as a stand-in for Superintendent for Agbada cluster overseeing 5 facilities with an average production of circa 65kbopd, 70MMscf/d
- Managed production operations and maintenance team of over 100 personnel
- Key processes include Two phase Separation process, Gas compression, Heat & mass balance, heat exchangers, pumping and metering, Adsorption and absorption process, filtration, Gas lift optimization, well operation
- Process control and instrumentation, Maintenance, HSE, Contracting, Management of change, etc
- Operational role
- Make Initial Proposals for Improvement
- (Facility operations)
- Inform subordinates of their individual responsibilities, accountabilities, tasks and targets for HSE, and ensure these are understood and accepted
- Participate in internal audits and ensure resulting action items are completed within agreed time
- Review Team Member and Operators training and ensure training needs are identified
- Supervise contractors for compliance with all relevant HSE procedures
- Conduct site inspections and take immediate corrective action
- Ensure monitoring of health, safety and environmental aspects are undertaken in accordance with program
- Compile monitoring data for the Superintendent
- Take part in incident investigation
- Maintain records of the status of all wellheads in the field
- Ensure proper on-site management of contractors' waste
- Maintain contractors' man-hour records
- Ensure functionality and maintainability of all related SCEs
- Ensure all incidents are reported on time, correctly & accurately
- Health, Safety and Environment role
- Control concurrent activities within the cluster
- Conduct Emergency Drills and Activate Emergency Procedures as Required
- Monitor and Report HSE incidents
- Ensure spills and incidents are reported on time, correctly & accurately, investigated and closed out
- Ensure that agreed HSE performance indicators are met for all relevant activities as per the HSE Plan
- Check and monitor compliance with all HSE procedures in the facilities.
Production Team Supervisor Agbada
Cluster
2021.07 - 2022.03
Operations Supervisor
Heirs Holdings Oil and Gas Limited, HHOG
2018.01 - 2021.06
- Strategic roles
- Lead and manages the operations team to execute HHOG's daily production target of 65,000 bpd (70MMscf/d)
- Ensures production targets are met and wells and facilities maintenance, integrity, HSE and business requirements are satisfied
- Supervises the controlled concurrent operations during shutdown in compliance with HHOG's HSE policy as facility shutdown manager
- Acts upon permission with delegated responsibility as asset holder site supervisor
- Reviews and issues permit for high, medium, and low risk ratings ensuring appropriate mitigations are in place to ALARP
- Focal point representing field teams and presenting sound field operation point of view in the development of HHOG's production database tool (P2- Production Instance Application)
- Operational role
- Record and report well surface production data
- Conduct site inspections and take immediate corrective action through daily check-ins at the flow stations and gas plant
- Maintain a register of well tests and associated records on site
- Sample products and other consumables for analysis for lab testing
- Monitor, inspect and maintain cathodic protection systems
- Process condition monitoring across the three (3) flow stations, booster compressor, AGG, ENAG and Main NAG facilities in Agbada cluster
- Health, Safety and Environment role
- Ensures action items are completed on time following internal audit reports
- Apply agreed HSE performance indicators to measure effectiveness of all activities based on HSE policy
- Deputising Functions
- Asset focal point for annual production performance review
- Focal point for interface management with functional support teams: production programming, wells engineering, hydrocarbon accounting, real-time operations center, asset engineering and production chemistry teams
- Key Results Achieved in Execution of Role
- I supervised contractors for compliance with all relevant HSE procedures
- I developed reporting procedures for all incidents for timely execution
- I coordinated twenty-one (21) days facility turnaround maintenance activity in September 2021
- Shell Production and Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC)
- Strategic Role
- Coordinated and managed onsite activities in production hub comprising:
- Four (4) Flow stations, c., 40k bpd
- One (1) associated gas and booster compression plant (38MMscf/d)
- One (1) NAG compression plant (40MMscf/d)
- Monitored production across over 40 wellheads and maintained parameters of all the wellheads in the field
- Managed production operations of over 60 personnel (company staff, contractor staff and facility station attendants)
- Executed production schedules based on business demand
- Maximized effectiveness of production team, equipment, and materials to produce optimally within planned schedules while reducing cost
- Key processes include Two Phase Separation Process, Gas Compression, Heat and Mass Balance, Heat Exchangers, Pumping and Metering, Adsorption and Absorption Process, Filtration, Gas Lift Optimization, Well Operation, Process Control and Instrumentation, Maintenance, HSE, Contracting, Management of Change, etc
- Health, Safety and Environment Roles
- Developed and executed best practices, routines, and innovative solutions to improve production, reduce deferment and facility uptime
- Ensured safe work environment through implementation of safety awareness programs and compliance with HSE requirements
- Supervised operational tasks at the production facilities and concurrent activities within the field facility in line with the Company's HSSE and SP control framework within the asset
- Ensured that agreed HSE performance indicators are met for all relevant activities as per HSE plan
- Ensured proper onsite management of contractor's waste
- Supervise contractors for compliance with all relevant HSE procedures
- Drove compliance with statutory requirements in the asset ensuring statutory inspection, well testing, flare management, effluent discharge management are effectively complied with
- Deputising Functions
- Emergency deputy on-scene commander
- Leader of teams' facilitator
- Act as a stand-in for Operations team Leader for Production hub overseeing 6 facilities with an average production of circa 60kbopd, 65MMscf/d
- Key Results Achieved in Execution of Role
- Delivered on Projects: Agbada 2FS debottlenecking, Agbada 2FS GL optimization
- Achieved an improvement on the quality of gas supply to customers' requirement of 15˚C water dew pointing, reduced flaring arising from low customer offtake for associated gas gathering facility and reduced HSE risks associated with asset integrity of export gas pipeline due to wet gas
- Participated in Audits (Operational Excellence, MIE, ISO14001, HSSE control framework, GHG, Operating integrity)
- Responsible for driving the achievement of Goal Zero (no harm, no leaks, no ethics, and compliance breaches, sustained competitive advantage and cash generation, retained asset integrity, built the PU performance unit, and embedded winning ways of working in the team
- Actively anchored barrel chasing activities to maximize field production while not compromising integrity.
Field Operations Trainee
2015.06 - 2017.12
- IMOR Fields, Okoloma Gas Plant, Soku Gas Plant, Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal)
- General Role
- Exposure to fundamental competences in Field Operations such as managing well and facilities alarm, operating wells and facilities within operating envelope, maintaining operational registers for wells and facilities alarm
- Exposure to embed competences in production planning and programming such as collated and visualised integrated production system data
- Executed communication and shift handover
- Managed critical documentation for wells and facilities
- Implemented effective Permit to Work system
- Key Results Achieved in Execution of Role
- Executed short term production system optimization
- Developed and managed short term production forecast and schedule
- Implemented a well integrity surveillance plan.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering
Rivers State University
Nigeria 2006.01 - 2012.07
SPILL CONSULT Incident Command System ICS 100 (IMS 100) Certificate Number 186661362 - undefined
SPILL CONSULT Incident Command System ICS 200 (IMS 200) Certificate Number 186661363 - undefined
SPILL CONSULT Incident Command System ICS 300 (IMS 320) Certificate Number 08115904 - undefined
RESEARCH MATERIAL - undefined
Certificate of Higher Education - International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
NEBOSH
2012
Skills
- Technical
- NAG well operation
- Oil stabilization
- Process improvement
- Oil well operation
- Gas processing
- Technical reviews of plant design
- Deep dive
- Terminal operations
- Onsite/ remote technical support
- Causal analysis
- Occupational health and safety
- Troubleshooting
- Production deferment causes
- Developing scope for facility concepts
- Schedule prioritization and Activity Planning
- Analyzing data for optimization
- Managing Emergency Response Plan
- Non-technical (Soft)
- Strategy
- Interpersonal skills
- Integrated delivery
- Change management
- Excellent in implementation
- Leadership and entrepreneurial
- Resource allocation
- Root cause analysis
- SAP
- Shift plan development
- NEBOSH compliant
- Production target management
- Operations management
- Employee management
- Safety compliance
Accomplishments
- Seasoned chemical engineer with considerable work experience in the oil and gas industry focusing on oil and non-associated gas processing facilities
- Collaborative and able to work independently across multiple reporting streams such as project management, production evaluation and process development within the in upstream sector
- Seeking opportunities to lead, contribute and develop both technical and managerial skillsets.
Languages
English
Native
Timeline
Production Team Leader
Agbada Cluster, Heirs Holdings Oil and Gas Limited, HHOG
2022.04 - Current
Production Team Supervisor Agbada
Cluster
2021.07 - 2022.03
Operations Supervisor
Heirs Holdings Oil and Gas Limited, HHOG
2018.01 - 2021.06
Field Operations Trainee
2015.06 - 2017.12
Industrial Trainee
Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company
2011.08
Bachelor of Technology - Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering
Rivers State University
2006.01 - 2012.07
SPILL CONSULT Incident Command System ICS 100 (IMS 100) Certificate Number 186661362 - undefined
SPILL CONSULT Incident Command System ICS 200 (IMS 200) Certificate Number 186661363 - undefined
SPILL CONSULT Incident Command System ICS 300 (IMS 320) Certificate Number 08115904 - undefined
RESEARCH MATERIAL - undefined
Certificate of Higher Education - International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
NEBOSH