Instructor Bios
Mr. Ky Alston comes from an extensive background in gas processing. He is currently a contract instructor / consultant for John M. Campbell & Company. Ky had 24+ years with Amoco Production Company. He worked in maintenance, operations, and engineering disciplines for Amoco Production Co. in several locations throughout Wyoming. He worked his way up through the operations ranks training newer operators, debugging new projects. He then shifted his focus to the engineering group where he became heavily involved in the process simulation effort for process optimization and troubleshooting at several area facilities. He has also been involved in all stages of project management of all sizes. His primary responsibilities for JMC are Operator Training, Consulting and Process Simulation.
Dr. Frank Ashford has 40 years experience in oil and gas producing facilities. Dr. Ashford joined with John M. Campbell & Company in 1988; he provides instruction fluently in either Spanish or English. Previous to joining John M. Campbell & Company, Dr. Ashford was a Professor at Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, where he taught various courses in Natural Gas Engineering Technology. He has authored technical articles published in World Oil, JPT, SPE, Intevep Pub., PDVSA, Pacific Oil World, AAPG, SPELAC, and GPA. He holds a B.S., a M.S. and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Gary Blackburn, has over 35 years of experience in engineering and management of oil and gas developments. During his 27 years working for Shell Oil Company, he led well construction and field production teams in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Alaska. While working in ABB's Floating Production System's Division, Gary led engineering teams designing deepwater systems, naval architecture, structural, topside facilities, drilling systems, and floating system hulls. After an assignment as the ABB's Project Manager for ExxonMobil's Kizomba A TLP, he was assigned as ABB’s Vice President - Project Execution. In this role, he was responsible for oversight of ongoing projects and development of new processes for EPC project execution. Currently, Gary is providing consulting services for drilling systems as part of field architecture design with operators of deepwater fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Gary serves as President of John M. Campbell Consulting, and is also John M. Campbell's Offshore Discipline Manager.
Mr. Mark Bothamley (markb@jmcampbell.com) is Chief Engineer with John M. Campbell & Company in Norman, Oklahoma. His experience covers the areas of design, operation, troubleshooting and optimization of offshore and onshore oil and gas production and treating facilities. Prior to joining JMC he was with BP/Amoco for 24 years, in several locations around the world. Mr. Bothamley is a past chairman of the SPE Facilities Subcommittee and a former member of the GPSA Data Book Editorial Review Board. Mr. Bothamley holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and a Diploma in Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
Mr. John C. Bourdon has more than twenty-nine years experience in hydrocarbon processing and specializes in sulfur recovery processes for the petroleum refining industry. Mr. Bourdon has been involved in the development of several sulfur-related technologies and mechanical innovations, has authored several papers and made presentations worldwide. He has experience with several E&C firms including extensive start-up and troubleshooting activities. He consults for both North American and international clients. He is a registered professional engineer and is fluent in English and Spanish. Mr. Bourdon has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and advanced degrees in other fields.
Mr. Jimmy N Breaux is a consultant engineer working for Shell International Exploration and Production as well as an instructor for John M. Campbell & Co. He has more than 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry. He is currently working as Topsides Lead Engineer for a 120,000 BOPD FPSO in West Africa. He is responsible for Process, Mechanical, Instrumentation, and Rotating Equipment Engineering deliverables. Also Mr. Breaux is the Topsides Lead Engineer for design and installation of a 45 MMscfd Gas Lift Compressor and for a Waterflood Expansion project on a Gulf of Mexico TLP. This project is in the pre approval system selection phase. The expansion will involve addition of a 2nd gas turbine driven waterflood pump for 45,000 BWPD @ 5,000 psi discharge. His previous responsibilities include Topsides Manager for the Auger TLP in the Gulf of Mexico and leading the debottlenecking team for this facility. He was the API RP 2G Chairman 1991-1993 and headed a rewrite committee for offshore firefighting systems. He received a B. S. in Physics from Loyola University of New Orleans and a M. S. in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Louisiana and a member of SPE.
Mr. Darrell G. Carver is a registered engineer in Texas with international and domestic experience who has worked on facilities in domestic and international locations and both on and offshore. He retired from ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company in 2002. He has more than 32 years of uniquely diverse electronics, instrumentation, and electrical upstream experience, holding senior operational and technical positions on oil and gas projects worldwide. As Principal Controls System Engineer for Phillips Petroleum he was recognized as a company expert for automation and electrical control systems. While with Phillips Petroleum, he served on numerous committees and task forces for the company representing both electrical and instrumentation disciplines. Mr. Carver has authored and co-authored several technical papers and he has been the instructor for numerous in-house courses. In addition, he has participated on numerous process enhancement teams for upstream facilities as the electrical and instrument representative. Mr. Carver received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas.
Mr. Chandra has 25 years experience in the energy industry, primarily in gas processing, transportation and market analysis. During his time in the industry, he has served in a variety of roles in operations management and consulting activities. Ajey has worked on a variety of assignments in the areas of market analysis, forecasting, gas processing and transportation costs. He has served in managerial roles for multiple gas processing facilities in multiple regions around the world.
Mr. Mick Crabtree holds an MSc (Research) in Industrial Flow Measurement and an HNC in Electrical Engineering. Before joining John M. Campbell & Co. as an instructor and consultant, he trained over 5,000 engineers, technicians and scientists. Formerly trained in aircraft instrumentation and guided missiles in the Royal Air Force, he completed his service career seconded to the Ministry of Defense.
Emigrating to South Africa in 1966, he worked for many years for a local manufacturing and systems integration company, involved in industrial process control, SCADA and PLC-based systems. Later, as editor and managing editor of ‘Pulse’, a leading monthly engineering journal ,Mr. Crabtree wrote and published hundreds of article as well as seven technical resource books on industrial process control: ‘Flow Measurement’, ‘Temperature Measurement’, ‘Analytical On-line Measurement’; ‘Pressure and Level Measurement’; ‘Valves’; ‘Industrial Communications’ and ‘The Complete Profibus Handbook’.
Mr. Crabtree has spent the last 12 years running industrial workshops throughout the world in the fields of: Process Control and Instrumentation; Data Communications; Fieldbus; Emergency Shut-down Systems; Project Management; On-Line Analysis; Valve Technology; and Technical Writing and Communications.
Mr. Pierre Crevier earned B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1980 and 1987 respectively. He worked in operations, design and business development functions across Canada prior to joining Saudi Aramco in 1992.
As a member of the Upstream Process Engineering Division in Dhahran he provides process consultancy to the company’s gas plants and refineries. Over the last 15 years he has led the company’s efforts in addressing chronic Claus catalyst deactivation caused by aromatic contaminants.
Mr. Ralph Dartez has over 30 years of engineering and management experience. He has led engineering, construction, operating and field development and management teams in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska Cook Inlet and UK North Sea for Marathon Oil Company. Ralph was Marathon Oil Company’s Gulf of Mexico Region Manager during the mid 1990s at the time a number of deepwater fields were discovered and developed including Troika (2700’ water depth), Oyster (1000’ wd), Arnold (1700’ wd), Petronius (1800’ wd) and Camden Hills (7100’wd). He has experience with drilling and completions, design, construction and reservoir management of deepwater and particularly sub-sea developments.
Mr. Arthur Delargy has over 15 years experience in Process Design/Consultancy, Field Development Planning and Process Systems engineering.
Technologies he has worked with include Nitrogen Rejection, CO/H2 Coldbox technology, LNG, Gas Processing including dehydration/dewpointing, sweetening and NGL/LPG extraction, ammonia, heavy oil and various oil refining processes, as well as both on and offshore oil and gas experience. The scope of his project work has ranged from proposal preparation and field development planning to engineering design and HAZOP studies to troubleshooting on an operating plant.
He holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering (Honors.)
Mr. Kris A. Digre is an instructor in the Offshore discipline for John M. Campbell & Co. and a consultant for John M. Campbell Consulting. He has been involved in the Oil Industry for over 42 years working in locations around the world. He has designed or been involved with the design of offshore structures located off the coast of West Africa, Alaska, Australia, Brazil, Borneo, California, China, Egypt, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. He has been involved in the technical specification development and/or installation of all of deepwater Tension Leg Platforms (TLP) and a Floating Production System (FPS) in the Gulf of Mexico and an FPSO offshore Nigeria. Kris remains active in retirement consulting, instructing and providing advice to and consulting with the API on offshore standards. Mr. Digre is a graduate (BSCE) of Illinois Institute of Technology and a Licensed Professional Engineer in New Jersey, Louisiana, Texas and California.
Mr. Bill Dokianos has over 35 years experience in Process, Rotating Equipment and Controls engineering . He is an instructor and consultant for John M. Campbell & Co. His experience includes analyzing and solving poor platform up time at GB 128. Activities included process control changes due to stacked separator vessels, revising safe charts, operating settings and reconfiguration of pipeline export pumps. He managed a subsea tieback project in which the platform modifications included high pressure vessel redesign, dehydrator expansion, adding a second vapor recovery unit, restaging high pressure and intermediate gas compressors and modifying bulk oil process design. He has been responsible for DOT compliance activities and reporting. This included development and implantation of federal risk programs and smart pigging. Mr. Dokianos holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. He is a Professional Engineer in the states of Louisiana and New Mexico, and holds a General and Commercial Contractor License in the State of New Mexico.
Mr. Rafil Elyas is an instructor of John M. Campbell & Company. He has approximately seventeen years experience in gas conditioning and processing. Mr. Elyas has authored several papers and made presentations worldwide. He has experience with several simulation software programs including HYSYS. He is a registered professional engineer with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia. Mr. Elyas is fluent in English and Bahasa: Malaysia and Indonesia. Mr. Elyas received a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, LC Smith School of Engineering in Syracuse, New York.
Mr. Robert Fanning is a training consultant with John M Campbell and Company. He held various Process Engineering and Management positions in his 26 years with Mobil. Mr. Fanning’s background includes general oilfield facilities, water flood facilities, CO 2 flood facilities, NGL recovery, and extensive experience in LNG. Mr. Fanning was on the Board of the Permian Basin Chapter of the GPA for several years and is a past President of the chapter. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wyoming and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.
Mr. John Farrah is an instructor and consultant for John M Campbell & Company. He has more than 40 years of chemical production, power production, gas processing and process engineering experience. He works as a Gas Processing and Chemical Production Safety Consultant, who has proven strengths in the areas of planning, problem solving and team building, combined with attention to detail. He also has extensive knowledge in the field of safety. Mr. Farrah is a Fellow Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas, and served As Chairman for the Coastal Bend Section of AIChE. He has acted as Team Leader to update and publish the Gas Processor’s Association Gas “Plant Safety Checklist” and served as Safety representative for Marathon on the GPA Safety Committee for 10 years. Mr. Farrah published and presented a paper on “Conversion of Boilers to Oil Firing” to the Mexican Chemical Engineering Society (IMIQ) in Mexico City. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Mr. Alan Foster is a training consultant with John M Campbell and Company; he is based in the UK. Mr. Foster spent 25 years with Petrolite Corporation and Baker Petrolite, involved in oilfield and refinery operational problems and their resolution by chemical treatment programs. Mr. Foster has developed and taught courses on oilfield water treatment and oilfield corrosion control, since 1978. Other courses included oil demulsification, paraffin and asphaltenes, oilfield microbiology (and MIC) and refinery technology. He was also qualified by the original training company in its field, to teach their project management course. For 25 years he was a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and reached Fellowship status in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Mr. Foster received his B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Portsmouth Polytechnic (UK) and his MBA from Leeds University.
Mr. David Hairston is a consultant and instructor with John M. Campbell & Company for over 7 years. Mr. Hairston has over 38 years of experience oil and gas pipeline systems in project and construction management, engineering and design, construction and material logistics, and executive management for oil and gas facilities. Project experience includes pipeline transportation and production facilities, both onshore and offshore, offshore structures, training, and construction operations. Worldwide project and construction management experience at all levels includes grass-roots gathering, processing, and transmission pipeline systems with a capital cost of over USD$ 2.5 billion. Specialized technical expertise includes river and special obstacle crossings using open-cut, bridging and directional drilling methods; offshore construction and logistics planning and operations. Mr. Hairston has been published in ASCE Magazine, Proceedings of Marine Technology, Proceedings of several industry Pipeline Conferences, and the Oil and Gas Journal. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Civil Engineering for the University of Houston. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in several U.S. states.
Mr. Bob Hlozek PE, is an instructor/consultant for John M. Campbell & Co. He has over 40 years of technical experience in the Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemicals, and Specialty Chemicals Industries. His extensive background includes process engineering, design and equipment sizing, product development, plant startups, economic evaluations, technical management, business development, and operations, sales, and marketing support. He retired from Dow Chemical Company after 19 years. Prior to Dow, Bob worked for ICI America, Celanese, Northern Natural Gas (Enron), Production Operators (Schlumberger), and several E/C firms. Bob’s expertise is in natural gas processing specializing in sour gas removal, sulfur recovery, and amine solvent technology. He has been involved with many amine plant startups including field troubleshooting of over 100 global plants. Bob has a BSCHE from Texas A&M with graduate studies toward MBA at Univ. of Delaware.
Mr. Keith J. Hodges is a learning advisor, instructor development consultant and project manager for John M Campbell & Co. He is British and has now relocated to Spain. He qualified as a Project Manager in the UK and from 2000 to 2005 managed a multi million pound building project there. Work with JMC includes Project Managing programs in Saudi Arabia and Angola. He has developed and directed an Instructor Acceleration Course for new Campbell instructors and developed a Competency framework for instructors. In 2003 he had a paper relating to project management, published in the Public Service Review, Central Government and an article published within the Public FM in 2006. For a number of years he worked within National Police Training, where he designed, directed and evaluated courses at a National level, including management courses. He has been involved in Computer Supported Collaborative E-Learning since 1996 and continues to develop programs in this medium. He has also directed Coach/Mentor and Management courses in this format. Mr. Hodges has a Masters Degree in Education (M.Ed.), Training and Evaluation, gained from the University of Hull in 1995, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of the West of England gained in 1998.
Mr. Joe Honeywell is a graduate of University of Tulsa with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Honeywell began his career with an engineering consulting company named Crest Engineering. He worked in the mechanical department for thirteen years, specializing in rotating equipment, pressure vessels and piping systems. Mr. Honeywell advanced to project engineer and later project manager, where he was involved in many offshore and onshore projects for oil and gas producers, both domestic and international. Mr. Honeywell joined another consulting company, Crown Tech, Inc. where he worked for 19 years and became a principle in the company. At CTI, Mr. Honeywell provided engineering services to many oil and gas producers, pipeline companies, power producers and equipment manufacturers. His responsibilities included project management, design, manufacturer, construction management, start-up and operation of power plants, pipelines and production facilities. Mr. Honeywell’s background includes extensive experience with mechanical systems and rotating machinery. Mr. Honeywell is a Registered Professional Engineer; and a member of ASME and holds a U.S.A. patent.
Mr. Hubbard is based in Norman, Oklahoma with over 40 years of experience in oil and gas facilities, worldwide. Mr. Hubbard is president of John M. Campbell & Co., a position he has held since 2010. In 2009 he retired from the University of Oklahoma where he taught courses and directed a master's program in Natural Gas Engineering and Management in the Petroleum and Geological Engineering Dept. From 1980-2002 he worked for John M. Campbell & Company where he held various management positions and provided training and consulting services to several international oil and gas companies. He also worked for Texaco from 1972-1980, where he held engineering and management positions. Mr. Hubbard is a member of SPE and GPSA, he has chaired the SPE Facility Engineering Committee and is program chair of the Oklahoma City SPE Section. He is currently a member of the SPE Project, Facilities and Construction Advisory Committee. He has published several papers in the area of gas processing and facilities design. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University (1971), and an MBA from Tulane University (1978).
Mr. Frank Jarrett is an instructor and senior engineer for John M. Campbell & Company. He has over 35 years of experience in the natural gas processing industry. Mr. Jarrett has a background that covers natural gas liquids recovery, natural gas liquefaction, nitrogen rejection and recovery of helium from natural gas, acid gas removal, product distillation, dehydration, relief system design and evaluation, CO2 pipeline and compression, plant utilities and support systems. He is a registered professional Engineer in the state of Colorado and has served on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Gas Processors Association. Mr. Jarrett received a B.Sc. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
Mr. John Kanengieter specializes in executive coaching and working with teams in challenging work systems. His work with leaders in a consulting and executive coaching relationship is augmented by his expertise gained from 20 years in the field of experiential education and leadership development. His practice includes clients as individuals, teams, and large organizations.
John is a principle trainer contracted by NASA to work with Space Shuttle Crews in the dynamics of teamwork and leadership on extended space expeditions and worked closely with the Columbia Shuttle Crew. He also works on leadership development with the U.S Naval Academy, the Wharton School of Business and Wildland Forest Fire Crews.
He holds a Masters Degree in Applied Behavioral Science with an emphasis in Executive Coaching and Consulting in Organizations from the Leadership Institute of Seattle, Bastyr University.
Mr. Dale Kraus is an instructor and a consultant for John M. Campbell & Co. He has twenty-nine years of progressive responsibility from staff to management positions within the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry.
Mr. Kraus has obtained sound basis in Facility/Processing Engineering and Field Operations in Oil and Gas Production. Mr. Kraus is a member of A.P.P.E.G.A and the Canadian Gas Processors Association. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan.
Mr. Perry Lovelace is the Director for John M. Campbell and Co., a PetroSkills member. Mr. Lovelace specializes in Maintenance Management and Competency-based Training Programs and has over 25 years experience in industrial training and consulting. After graduate studies, he worked for a large consulting mechanical/electrical engineering firm applying rigorous systems analysis to industrial facility design and construction.
He has dedicated his career to providing high quality learning experiences, keeping in tune with the changing economic and technological environment, especially as applied to long-term facilities and equipment management. He has assisted many organizations through on-site consultation and training. Clients include industrial and utility organizations of different types and sizes in the United States, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Trinidad/Tobago, UK and Mexico. An engaging and popular speaker/facilitator, Mr. Lovelace continually receives high marks from participants.
A certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) by the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Mr. Lovelace also holds a B.S. in Science Education and an M.S. in Botany from the University of Oklahoma, with pre-doctoral studies in Plant Ecology at the University of California.
Mr. Harvey Malino is an Instructor/Consultant for the John M. Campbell Company. He has more than 35 years of experience in the Chemical and Hydrocarbon Processing Industries. During his 28 years with Union Carbide Corporation/UOP, he held both technical and commercial positions. These included: Molecular Sieve Technical Manager- Design and Field Service; Licensing Manager for the Ethylene Oxide business; Area Sales and Marketing Manager for Southeast Asia; Business Manager for the Gas Processing Business Group; and, World Wide Sales Manager for the Gas Processing Business Group. Mr. Malino has lived and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Singapore, Chicago and Charleston SC. Mr. Malino is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New Hampshire. He is a Senior Member of the Advisory Board of the Laurence Reid Gas Conditioning Conference in Norman, OK. Mr. Malino earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York; and, an M.B.A from Pace University in New York.
Dr. Andrea Mangiavacchi is an instructor/consultant with John M. Campbell in the Offshore Discipline. A free-lance independent consultant since 2001, Andrea is involved in international deep-water offshore projects on behalf of several major clients. As technical liaison member between API and ISO committees, he is also actively involved in the development of US and international standards for offshore structures. After an early involvement in teaching and research activities at the University of Rome, Italy and at Rice University in Houston, Andrea joined Brown & Root (today KBR), where over the next 25 years he was involved in a number of major international offshore oil and gas projects (Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, South America, West Africa, Asia-Pacific). He also held a number of corporate positions in the area of deep water technology, fixed and floating offshore structures. Andrea has extensive experience in structural analysis and design, hydrodynamics, naval architecture, Computer Aided Engineering and Design. Andrea holds a M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Rome.
Mr. Kevin McLaughlin is a training consultant with John M. Campbell & Co.; he is based in the UK. Mr. McLaughlin worked in the UK Chemical industry for 20 years prior to moving into the oil and gas production industry, where he has worked for more than 20 years. He has specialized knowledge and experience in water treatment associated with oil and gas production systems. For more than 15years he was manager of a group of technical specialists for a major Production Chemical Manufacturing company, with additional responsibility for product development, management and application in oil and gas production systems. He has traveled extensively to onshore and offshore locations throughout the Eastern Hemisphere solving water treatment and separation problems. Mr. McLaughlin has developed and taught courses in oilfield water treatment since 1990. He is a Chartered Chemist, Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK , and a member of SPE.
Mr. D. John Morgan is based in Denver, Colorado, and is Executive Vice President of John M. Campbell & Company with over 30 years experience in the design, startup and troubleshooting of oil and gas facilities. He has published extensively on sour gas treating, sulfur recovery, CO2 treating, materials of construction, LNG training, and cryogenic gas processing. He consults for both North American and international clients in the gas processing industry. He performs training in LNG facilities, oil and gas production facilities, and gas plants around the world. He is very active in industry activities including membership of the Editorial Review Board of the Gas Processors Supplier's Association, the Program Advisory Committee of the Laurence Reid Gas Conditioning Conference, and had served as Adjunct Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Mr. Morgan has many years of experience training non-native English speakers. He holds a B.Sc. (Honors) in Chemical Engineering from London University; and an M.E. in Chemical & Refinery Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, USA.
Dr. Mahmood Moshfeghian is an instructor and consultant with John M Campbell and Company (JMC). He is the author of most of Campbell Tips of the Month and develops technical software for JMC. He has 35 years teaching experience in universities (Oklahoma State University, University of Shiraz, University of Sydney and University of Qatar) as well as for oil and gas industries. Dr. Moshfeghian joined JMC in 1990 as a part time consultant and then as full time instructor/consultant in 2005. Previous to joining JMC, Dr. Moshfeghian was a Senior Research Scientist at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University. Dr. Moshfeghian is a senior member of AIChE and has published numerous technical papers on thermodynamic properties, and Process Engineering. Dr. Moshfeghian has presented invited papers in international conferences. He holds a B.S., an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, all from Oklahoma State University.
Mr. Ralph Neumann is an instructor/consultant for John M. Campbell & Company’s Gas Processing courses. Throughout his extensive career, Mr. Neumann has gained experience in Oil and Gas Production, Natural Gas Processing, Specialty Fractionation, and Pipelines and Gathering Systems. Responsibilities have included the development of conceptual and detailed designs, multi-discipline project supervision, economic feasibility studies, consulting, and a variety of field services including pre-commissioning, startup, training, and troubleshooting. He has also been responsible for project development, management of engineering (including safety and environmental), and management of field operations for a large midstream natural gas processing company. He has authored and presented technical papers to AIChE (dynamic simulation) and Gas Processors Association (nitrogen rejection facilities, gas plant operations management, and gas and NGL treating). Mr. Neumann received his baccalaureate and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Stephen T. Pehnec is JMC's Senior Manager and Instructor of Operator Training. He joined the company in 1990. He is responsible for the design, development and delivery of operator training programs, worldwide. Mr. Pehnec has more than 38 years of experience in oil & gas exploration, production and processing operations, including technical, supervisory and management positions. He has delivered pre-startup training for a number of large projects, such as Qatar Petroleum's North Field Project (Um Said, 1991) and Sable Offshore Energy's Goldboro and Point Tupper plants (Nova Scotia, 1999). Mr. Pehnec holds a BA degree (Physics) from the California University of Pennsylvania (1971) and an MBA degree (Operations Management) from Waynesburg College (1989). He has earned instructor certificates from the Petroleum Industry Training Service (PITS, 1984) and Abacus Learning Systems (2002), and he has completed a number of JMC's engineering-level courses.
Mr. Dennis Perry is a training consultant with John M. Campbell & Company and teaches in the Electrical and Instrumentation discipline. Mr. Perry has been working in the automation, electrical and instrumentation design business for many years. His work experience includes working in the aerospace industry as an analog circuit designer, working in the electronic instrument manufacturing business as production engineering manager, and working for a major oil and gas company as a division automation supervisor and later as a staff engineer in the central, Upstream Technology group. He has also worked for an instrument manufacturer as service manager and for an engineering construction company as an instrument/electrical engineer. Mr. Perry Graduated from Louisiana Tech with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering.
Mr. Peter Reeves is an instructor and consultant for John M. Campbell & Company. He has over 18 years experience, 13 years of which is in Oil and Gas Processing and LNG. Particular areas of expertise include: gas processing; LPG / condensate recovery from gas; NGL fractionation and storage; process optimization; LNG; heavy oil processing; field development planning, including high level cost estimating and scheduling; steady state and dynamic process simulation; and plant operations. Mr. Reeves is a member of several professional societies. These memberships include MIChemE, CEng, and Gas Processors Association. Mr. Reeves has experience both as a Contractor/Consultant and in an Operating Company environment. His design experience ranges from field development/ concept screening studies to front end engineering, dynamic simulation studies and detailed design. Operations experience includes plant troubleshooting, performance monitoring, process optimization, energy efficiency improvements and process development / improvement. Mr. Reeves received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham.
Mr. John A. Sheffield is a Senior Manager with M W Kellogg Ltd. a major UK E&C Company for more than 16 years. John was the manager of the Process Engineering Department, Project Manager for development of LNG projects for export and import terminals and Commercial Vice President with responsibilities for key clients and projects. He helped develop projects for LNG facilities in the UK, China, Norway, Egypt, Germany and Australia and the development of LNG offshore technology for the Azure Project an EU funded project.
With John M Campbell & Co. John is an Instructor/Consultant presenting short courses on the LNG business and technologies on both an In-house and public basis in venues around the world.
He also practices as a consultant, assisting companies with development of both LNG export and reception terminals and is currently active with major LNG projects in Europe and Far East Asia.
John graduated from UC London with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He has served on the Management Committee of the European GPA for more than 12 years and chairs the GPA Europe LNG working party.
Mr. Pravin Sheth is a consultant with over 27 years of experience in refining industry in the areas of Technical Training, Technical Service, Refinery Operations and Asset Support. During his previous experience he was responsible for providing technical training, technical service and design support to worldwide ExxonMobil affiliates and technology licensors. He was Lead Asset Support Engineer responsible for providing technical support to company's worldwide Sulfur, Amine and Cat Cracker units. He has also served as a Sulfur, Amine and FCC complex operation supervisor. Mr. Sheth presented “Sulfur Recovery Unit Operation with Lean acid gas feed” at PT Arun conference in Bali, Indonesia in 1993. He was a Panel Member at the National Petroleum and Refining Association in 2004. And he presented "Cat Cracker Operations Troubleshooting" at the National Petroleum and Refining Association Cat Cracker Seminar in Houston, Texas during 2006. Mr. Sheth received his Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering in India and a Master's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri.
Mrs. Kindra Snow-McGregor is an instructor and consultant for John M Campbell & Company. She has a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines, and over 13 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. Particular areas of expertise include: gas treating (amine and dehydration), gas processing, LPG / condensate recovery from gas, NGL fractionation and storage, process optimization, sulfur handling, and process safety. Prior to joining John M Campbell & Company in 2008, she has served in management and lead process engineering roles in the oil and gas engineering, procurement and construction business. She has managed and served on significant projects in the industry for clients such as BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, QatarGas and XTO . She has been actively involved in industry groups for many years, such as the Gas Processors Association, and the Rocky Mountain Gas Processors Association (RMGPA). Currently she is on the GPA Technical Research Committee, Sub-Group 2, and is a RMGPA scholarship committee member. She has published seven technical papers at international conferences, and is a co-inventor on two technology patents in the gas processing industry.
Mr. Gordon Sterling is based in The Woodlands, Texas. In a 35-year career with Shell E & P, USA, he was involved in many deepwater developments. He was the design supervisor for the Cognac Platform, in 1978, which set the "deepwater" record at 1024 feet of water; the project manager for the Bullwinkle Platform, which set a new water depth record of 1354 feet in 1988, and the Construction Planning Manager for the Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in 2850 feet. He was the Manager of Major Projects for Shell’s Deepwater Division in New Orleans during the mid and late 90’s when the Mars, Ram Powell and Ursa TLP’s were designed, built and installed, (Ursa in 3950 feet of water) and when the Mensa subsea development in 5400 feet of water was designed, built and brought on production.
From 1991 through 1999 he was on the Board of Directors of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the largest technical conference related to offshore oil and gas in the world, annually host to 45,000 or so visitors in Houston Texas. He was Chairman of the conference in 1998 and 1999. In 2008 he was chosen for the prestigious Heritage Award by the OTC.
With this background he brings a broad knowledge of the early development planning steps, and a detailed knowledge of the development and production system options. In association with two colleagues he has written a book titled "Deepwater-Petroleum Exploration and Production-A non-technical guide", which was recently published by PennWell.
Mr. David A. Tenhoor, CPIM is an instructor in the field of Supply Chain Management for PetroSkills/John M. Campbell & Company. He has been consulting and teaching APICS (The Association for Operations Management) CPIM certification courses since 2005. He has taught in many different industries from chemical processing to discrete manufacturing. Companies include BASF, National Oil well Varco, Halliburton, ExxonMobil Chemical and Cameron.
David brings a well-rounded package of industry experience to PetroSkills/JMC. He has held positions in Inventory Control, Manufacturing Management, Strategic Sourcing and Transportation/Distribution Management. He also has experience in Finance and Product Development. David received his undergraduate degree in Geology from Hope College in Holland, Michigan and an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University. He is a member of the Houston Chapter of APICS and served two terms on the Board of Directors as Treasurer.
Mr. Jim Vinson is a project manager and instructor with over 30 years experience in the areas of industrial technical sales and services, project management, and technical management. He has lived and worked in worldwide locations, specifically, Holland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and South America. Mr. Vinson has held several management positions in the energy and power industry which include heavy equipment commissioning, pre-commissioning, routine maintenance services, and specialty chemical cleaning. His responsibilities included liaison and consulting work between clients, owners, operators, and engineering-construction companies on numerous large heavy industrial projects: electric power plants, de-salination plants, refineries, petrochemical plants, fertilizer and methanol plants, as well as GOSP, GTL, and NGL plants. Mr. Vinson received baccalaureate degrees in Chemistry from Cameron University and the University of Oklahoma, followed by advanced degrees at OU and OSU.
Mr. Stuart Watson has over 15 years of experience in oil and gas processing. His experience has taken him to facilities around the world in regions including Australia, Africa, the Middle East and the US. Mr. Watson graduated with honors in 1996 from Curtin University, Perth, Australia with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating he worked in Perth, Australia supporting Woodside’s offshore facilities. In January, 2000 Stuart accepted a position with Pearl Development Company of Colorado where he worked over the next eight years at many of the Gas production and processing facilities in the western US. His work included Expansions for Unocal Alaska, Facilities engineering at the El Paso Field Service’s 650MMscfd “Chaco Plant” and various other projects in Colorado and Wyoming. In 2008, he oversaw and commissioned a 92MMscfd amine sweetening and cryogenic NGL train for the Government of Ras Al Khaimah (U.A.E.). Thereafter, he started his own engineering consultancy supporting both mechanical and process disciplines. Stuart began instructing for John M. Campbell in January 2009 with piping and rotating equipment disciplines and supports JMC Consulting services in an array of process startup and engineering design roles.
Mr. Peter Williams is an Instructor/Consultant with over 35 years of industrial experience, most of which
were in oil and gas processing. His experience includes plant process engineering, operations supervision,
project development and business case definition, project technical support, plant engineering management,
membrane applications in gas processing, and internal consulting, primarily with Saudi Aramco. Canadian
experience includes plant engineering in phosphorus production, heavy water, and bitumen upgrading, and
project engineering. He also has experience with benchmarking, implementation of a safety management
system, and the application of lean six sigma methods to engineering management. He has Masters degrees
in chemical engineering and in economics, is a Professional Engineer in Alberta, and is a certified Six Sigma
Black Belt.
Mr. Ronn E. Williamson, C.P.M., CFPIM is an instructor/consultant for PetroSkills/John M. Campbell & Company. He has been consulting and instructing in the field of supply chain management for more than fifteen years. During this time, he has delivered significant value to more than fifty, cross-industry organizations. He has provided education programs internationally to hundreds of people in procurement, logistics and materials management. In 2005, he joined the PetroSkills/John M. Campbell team to develop a competency-based training model for Procurement/Supply Chain Management (PSCM) for the oil and gas industry.
Ronn gained his supply management expertise during twenty-three years of operational and management roles for a major equipment OEM company. For five years, he had executive responsibility for purchasing and transportation at Thermo King Corporation, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric and a billion-dollar global business. Ronn received an undergraduate degree (BME) in engineering and a master of business administration degree (MBA) from the University of Minnesota. He has been a member and past chapter president, of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). He is a member of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and the International Association for Commercial Contract Management (IACCM). Ronn is certified at the Fellow Level by APICS and has a lifetime certification from ISM.
Mr. Wes Wright has 25 years experience in oil and gas producing facilities and is currently a consultant and instructor. Mr. Wright began teaching with John M Campbell in 2004 where he has been delivering courses in CO2 Surface Facilities, Oil and Gas Processing and Operator Training world-wide. Prior to joining John M Campbell, Mr. Wright was the lead on-site engineer at the Weyburn CO2 Miscible flood where he was closely involved in the development, design, construction, start-up and operations. Through the 1980’s, Mr. Wright performed contract research at the University of Calgary in Enhanced Oil Recovery, and was a consultant on a wide range of sweet and sour oil and gas projects throughout Western Canada. Mr. Wright graduated in 1983 with a BSc in Engineering from the University of Calgary. He is a Professional Engineer in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada and is a member of the SPE. He has been published in the ASME-OMAE, the CSCE and the IAHR.
Mr. Clyde Young is a training consultant with John M Campbell and Company. Mr. Young has over twenty-five years of diverse experience in operations and maintenance of production and processing facilities. This includes significant experience in operations and development of management systems for gas processing and water/wastewater treatment facilities, which includes operating procedure development, training program development, compliance auditing, vulnerability assessment, emergency planning and mechanical integrity program development. Mr. Young holds a B.S in Social Sciences from the University of Wyoming- Laramie Wyoming.