Offshore Drilling Rigs
Specification, Operation, Market Intelligence
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Regional Manager responsibility for major drilling contractors in West Africa, Brazil & the North Sea.
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Operation Manager Worldwide Deepwater for Transocean through the early 2000's ramp-up.
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Introduced timeline and commercial modeling in evaluation of different rigs in relation discrete programs, and published related SPE papers.
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Represented Transocean in both the IADC and SPE sponsored post-Macondo industry forums addressing lessons learned.
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Consulted to Chevron on post-Macondo well control.
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Led Freeport McMoRan in the specification, contracting, commissioning and delivery of newbuild drillships as they morphed from domestic land operations to become a respected deepwater operator in the US Gulf.
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As Vice-Chairman and later Chairman of the North Sea Chapter of the IADC in the late 80's led the industry in both the Safety Case regime and High-Temperature / High-Pressure reforms.
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Integrated Rig Stacking Solutions LLC initiated in 2015 for the preservation, maintenance, mooring & monitoring of rigs.
Chip has 35 years experience in the Operation, Specification, and Marketing of particularly deepwater rigs. He has been an industry pioneer ... at the forefront of the deepwater surge ... and a leader in the post-Macondo, post-Piper Alpha and post-Ocean Odyssey initiatives. He has addressed analysts at the New York Stock Exchange with market perspectives ... communicated the lessons of Macondo in the halls of Congress ... and run offshore rig operations in some of the most challenging arenas in the business.
