Charles Thompson

Overview

Charles brings project-management and technical-advisory experience across offshore operations, marine construction, drilling and wider energy developments. His work connects engineering decisions with contracts, budgets, schedules, risk and interfaces between owners, contractors and offshore teams.

His experience includes project definition, construction and commissioning planning, management of change, operational readiness and systems turnover. He works with multidisciplinary teams to bring delivery information and responsibilities together around the project requirements.

Areas of Expertise

• Offshore project management and owner representation
• Commercial, contract and procurement interfaces
• Planning, scheduling, delay analysis and change control
• Project risk, stakeholder and contractor coordination
• Systems completion, commissioning and turnover
• Operations readiness and project-information workflows

Selected Professional Experience

• Project-management advisory work for NOC / Waha in Libya, connecting concept development, constructability, cost models, schedules and commissioning planning.
• Technical advisory support for the Tengiz 3GI project in Kazakhstan, covering multidisciplinary coordination, walkdowns, punch lists and commissioning controls.
• Senior project technical advisory work on the KOC Low Fars Heavy Oil project in Kuwait.
• Project leadership with AP Moller Maersk Oil and Pride International / Ensco, including offshore capital projects and managed-pressure-drilling system development.

Qualifications

• MSc Advanced Manufacturing
• BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
• HNC Mechanical Production Engineering

Previous Clients & Career Associations

• NOC / Waha
• Tengizchevroil
• Kuwait Oil Company
• AP Moller Maersk Oil
• Pride International / Ensco

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