Simple Solutions (Scot) Ltd
James P Deans
Professional Engineer with wide experience in Manufacturing and Design, since 1979. Working as an Inspector & Expediter in the Oil & Gas Sector since 1996.
I go everywhere with a camera or two!
As an inspector I have dealt with the following products:
Valves: all types & components: Actuated & Manual
Packages: Accommodation, Compressor, Cuttings Reinjection, Diesel Generation, Jacket Flotation System, Metering, Mud Mix & Pump, Instrument Air, Flash Gas Compressor, Flare Tip & Ignition, Fresh Water Maker, Seawater Filters & Fuel Gas Treatment
PIpe: Elbows, Tees, Forgings, Fittings, Flanges, Spools, Sections, Tubes, etc
Rotating Machinery: Pumps, Compressors, Fans, Submersible Pumps & Electric Motors, Turbines, Winches, Coal Mining Machinery, High Power (1MW) Gearboxes
Vessels: Glass Lined Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Plastic Tanks, Plastic Vessels, etc
Other Products: Downhole Equipment, Umbilicals, Cranes, Lifting Equipment, Fire Fighting Equipment, Gantry Cranes, Grouting Equipment, Helicopter Refuelling, High Pressure Hoses, HVAC, Life Boats, Risers, Soot Blowers, Subsea Trees, Umbilicals & Wellhead Connectors
Instruments: Flow Meter, Laboratory Equipment, Temperature Gauges, Pressure Gauges
Components: Bearings, Gears, Junction Boxes, etc
Offshore Hire Equipment Inspection
Processes: Casting, Induction Bending, Forging, Weld Overlay, Fabrication & Machining, etc
Fabrication–vessels, overlaid vessels, heat exchangers, skids & pipe spools. Fit up inspection, welding inspection, dimensional inspection
Led Kick Off Meetings & Pre Inspection Meetings, Review of Material Test Certificates & MRBs, Wide experience with (Super) Duplex Stainless Steel Specs–ASTM & other internationally recognised specifications, & specifications from the client & their main contractors. NDE witness & review: DPI/LPI, MPI, UT, X Ray (review only)
Testing: Cryogenic, Corrosion, Pressure, Hydro Static Testing, Gas (Nitrogen) & air, Functional, Performance, Load Testing Materials, including tensile testing at ambient & elevated temperatures, impact testing, hardness testing, Critical Crack Tip Opening Displacement (CTOD), etc, Mechanical, PR2, System Integration Tests (SIT) & Factory Acceptance Tests. Calibration, Painting witness & review, Dimensional inspection, Final Assembly, Punch list control & closure, Inspection & Test Plan execution, P&ID checks & Packing.
I have acted as a client inspector, & expediter, for the following clients
Apache, BASF, BP, Conoco Phillips, DuPont, ENI, Exxon, Maersk, MHI, Petrobras, Qatar Energy, Saipem, Shell, Total, Worley, Wintershall, Wood, Woodside, etc.
I have worked with vendors all over Europe, such as:
Amclyde Norson, Atlas Copco, Bendalls, Bray Controls, Celeros, Doosan Babcock, Drilquip, Ferguson Modular, Flowserve, Forbes, Forsyths, FRAMO, Graylok, Halliburton, Howden Compressors, HPF, Hydrasun, IODS, James Walker Devol, KME, Kone Cranes, LEWA, LFF, MAN, Marioff, MI Swaco, NOV, Oceaneering, Oil States, Pacson, PCT, Pfaudler Balfour, Premier Hytemp, Proclad Induction Bending, Proserv, Score, Sparrows, SPX, Stewart Buchanan, Sulzer Pumps, Survival Craft Inspectorate, TFMC, etc