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(Baron Consulting Fze.)

2018 BROCHURE


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Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION 3

2 PRINCIPLE & OBJECTIVES 4

3 SERVICES & PROJECTS 5

3.1 Consulting Services 5 3.2 Projects 2001 - Date 6

4 INDEPENDENT ADVISOR ROLES 9

4.1 International & National Oil Companies (IOC/NOC) – Business Support 9 4.2 Contracting Companies – Project Support 10

5 WORKSOPS FOR DECISION SUPPORT 11

5.1 The Creative Workshop 11 5.2 Screening Workshop 12 5.3 Review Workshop 12



1 INTRODUCTION

Peter Baron, the founder and principal of BaronNet has a 48-year association with the Oil & Gas industry. He has worked within the Operating and Contracting / Consulting industries and gained experience in Oil & Gas Production, Gas Processing and Hydrocarbon Transportation & Refining, He has held positions in Project & Technical Management, Systems Development and Quality Assurance. Key areas of experience and major responsibilities include:

• Project Management & technical direction of multi-discipline engineering projects for onshore / offshore oil & gas and pipeline projects

• Independent Consultant in oil and gas field development, conceptual studies and front-end design.

• Independent Engineer for design and development reviews and audits and arbitration.

• Independent Consultant in concept, scheme optimization, for refinery design and technical and solutions for operations.

• Management of multi-discipline engineering design offices.

• Operations Management of Refinery; technical support to Operations and in-house projects

• Development and Management of a Corporate Quality Management System to ISO 9001 certification, auditing and assessments.

Qualifications & Professional Associations B.Sc. (Hon.) Chem. Eng. Chartered Engineer, Fellow Institute of Chemical Engineers, Certified Lead Assessor (QA).

World Wide Experience Experience has been gained in the UK North Sea, Former Soviet Union, Middle East, North / West / Central & South Africa, Gulf of Mexico and North / South America. Most recent experience is in Kurdistan & Yemen



2 PRINCIPLE & OBJECTIVES

Network of Experienced Oil & Gas People

BaronNet is a group of individuals linked by their experience, knowledge of each other and each other’s capabilities, aware of what they can achieve together – as both individuals and as a team. The raison d’être of BaronNet is to retain the experience of Oil & Gas people who would otherwise retire, change career or otherwise abandon the field. These are people who enjoy using their expertise to provide solutions, to remain active and involved in an industry which continually raises new challenges.

The Team

Members of the BaronNet Team are all associates or former colleagues and intimates of many projects. Any task or assignment is the focus of the Team – using the Virtual Office the support of the whole Team is on-call for any one individual – wherever in the world employed. - The Team form a virtual expert network, using the latest Internet technology, performance unrestricted by boundaries, time or by conventional office practices working as one team.

Expertise The members of the Team are experienced in most aspects of Oil & Gas – from the earliest analysis and conceptual thinking through the front-end design, the detailed engineering and project management on to the field operations, troubleshooting and revamp. They are equally adept auditing the work of others or at providing the designs, at guiding the project to success or helping retrieve the wayward project from potential disaster.

Confidentiality

The people and the virtual office are both pre-disposed to providing Clients with full and secure confidentiality – involvement in any particular activity or the information surrounding it is strictly controlled by the work environment and by the professionalism of the people.

Company Objectives:

Deliver Value Identification and Value Realisation to the Client’s Business Decision Process

Act as an Independent Engineer, providing confidential technical advisory and review services

Provide Leadership of Study and Project teams to work on behalf of the Client’s Decision Process

Provide general consulting services to the oil & gas industries for hydrocarbon exploration, production, transport, processing, refining and marketing



3 SERVICES & PROJECTS

3.1 Consulting Services

Business Decision Support Services

Provide Independent Member participation on Client Decision Review Board to create Value in:- ➢ Strategy support to the Company developments ➢ Participate in integrated teams with Client’s personnel ➢ Provide leadership to Clients’ in-house development

teams ➢ Execute support studies & services with a BaronNet team

Project Champion

Provide Leadership to Clients Developments from Concept through tender activities to EPC Management ➢ Development and design ➢ Scheme improvement or cost reduction ➢ Activity and work-scope definition ➢ Cost & schedule development ➢ Tender support, analysis and management ➢ Project Management services

Design

Provide design services for onshore & offshore O&G Field Development; Refinery, Pipeline & Terminals ➢ Early appraisal, feasibility, ➢ Screening and concept selection studies ➢ Conceptual & process design through to facility definition ➢ Overall scheme development through FEED to EPC

Project Development

Support Contractor development or bid activities ➢ Development and design – scheme improvement or cost

reduction ➢ Activity and work-scope definition & schedule

development ➢ Team Management / leadership

Focus Workshops

Organize and facilitate workshops to focus development ideas for: ➢ Initial scheme development – Creative ideas generation

and assessment ➢ Schemes under development – Screening for direction &

assurance ➢ Sanction - Selection and decision support to meet Client

approval criteria

Audit / Review & Due Diligence

Provide Independent Engineering expertise for: ➢ Screening and high-level management reviews ➢ Design review / audit - for re-assurance of design integrity ➢ PEER / PEP reviews ➢ Project assessment / audit /troubleshooting

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3.2 Projects 2001 - Date

2014 – date 2012 – 2014

Owner / Director; Baron Consulting FZE (HFZ, Sharjah, U.A.E.)

Project Manager Taqa, Abu Dhabi, UAE Atrush Field oil export pumping station and pipeline, Kurdistan, EPC project KRG / MNR Feeder Line project, PM of EPC of 36” oil export pipeline. Confidential Client – Preparation of tender documents for a 30” gas transmission line, including execution plan, cost estimate, schematics and design drawings. Horizon Terminals (HTL), UAE Project Manager and TA of the development of operational, safety and technical corporate guidebooks for HTL world-wide oil terminals. Independent Engineer & Technical Authority Taqa, Abu Dhabi, UAE Oil export pipeline FEED and detailed engineering, Atrush field , Kurdistan Independent Engineer & Technical Authority HKN Energy, Dallas, Houston Technical and design support services to Field Development of Sarsang field and export pipeline. Pipeline design, cost and schedule studies, Flowline detailed engineering, Flare sizing Studies. Gulf Keystone, Shaikan Field Pipeline design, cost and schedule studies Independent Engineer Xodus Process & Sub Surface Groups, Dubai, UAE Concept design support services to various Field Developments incl KNOC in Kurdistan, BP in Egypt, Confidential in Chad.

Process & Facilities Director; Xodus Group (Dubai, U.A.E.)

Consultancy Strategic studies, Field Development Plan support, Technical and design support services to various concessions in Kurdistan; operations support to EPF facilities Technical appraisal support services to offshore facilities in East India, Field Development and onshore terminal expansion reviews.

Project Management & Engineering Project Manager of detailed engineering of wellhead installations, including P&ID development, piping & instrumentation detailing, safety reviews, & relief systems sizing and specification. Haban Field, Yemen Project sponsor of a gas pipeline detailed engineering – DNO, Summail Field, Kurdistan Project Manager of Tank Farm and export terminal basic package, DNO Tawke Field



Assignment

2008 – 2012

Technical Director - NRG – Global (Sharjah, UAE) Independent Engineer Technical Due Diligence and verification of investment in oil production, transport & refining facilities in a West African nation Technical Due diligence and advisor for a Lube oil refinery in KSA (performance / contract dispute) Contract dispute negotiations for a gas production facility in Iraq Technical Advisor on design and operational matters for a gasoline / jet fuel, import / export and blending terminal & tank form in the UAE Independent project audit (UAE) - the review embraces the entire project to audit the strategy & execution of the project, included integrity, lessons learned, and the business processes and oversight methods.

Project Management Deputy Project Director of a $800m Gas / Condensate processing and export facility; responsible for project management, engineering, construction and commissioning.

Consultancy Preparation of several oil, gas and condensate field development plans in Kurdistan; including reservoir development, process facilities, gas utilisation and export pipelines. (Western Zagros, Heritage, GEP, MNR, ) Feasibility & economic studies and concept designs for a Crude oil refinery, Asphalt refinery, naphtha reforming facilities, oil storage & distribution terminal. Heavy oil power station - including preparation of pre-sanction documents for technical and project execution strategies. (All projects in Kurdistan) Offshore stranded gas feasibility study and concept design

Assignment

2005 – 2008

Director of Project Development – Petrofac Energy Developments Offshore - Crux, FPSO, Timor Sea – Design Review and Due diligence of proposed FPSO based gas recycling/stripping development. MEO, Timor Sea – review of concept designs for offshore LNG and Methanol production platforms. Refineries – Development of three refinery basic engineering packages for EPC bid; simple condensate splitter with hydrotreating; complex refinery with thermal/visbreaking cracking complex; full complex hydrocracker based scheme. Support to commercial negotiations. Development of numerous other schemes for Gas Oil upgrading, residue cracking, and brownfield upgrades. Pipelines & Terminals – Development of the concept design, preliminary engineering and Capex/ Opex of a multi-product pipeline and associated import and distribution terminals; routed from Maputo, Mozambique to Gauteng Province in RSA. Oil Storage & Blending Terminal, Fujairah – development of schemes, basic engineering through to EPC bid-package, support of commercial negotiations. Onshore Oil & Gas – Saih Rawl, Oman – development of concept and costs. Kurdistan, Iraq – development of fast-track EPF production facility with concept definition, costs and schedule.



Chergui Gas Tunisa – design review and due diligence with safety review workshops for onshore production and onshore/offshore pipelines.

Alternate Energy – development of concept for a concentrated solar power

generation scheme

Assignment 2003 - 2005

Project Manager - Crescent Petroleum International, UAE for the concept, basic engineering and EPC of a new Gas Treatment plant for Sharjah, UAE. Management of EIA Studies for Offshore facility, pipelines and Gas Plant. Tendering of Client support services (TPI; O&M; EIA) and execution of reviews and support studies during EPC phase. Site Management & Construction / HSE overview and systems acceptance and pre-commissioning.

Assignment 2001 - 2003

Project Director – Petrofac International – FEED for QP, Qatar to upgrade NGL 1,2,3, &4 facilities for increased throughput and new feed stocks; including two new gas pipelines; new slug catcher and a new Propane Refrigeration System. Facility upgrade included column re-trays; new and replacement reboilers, condensers & rundown coolers; additional pumps, air coolers and extensive hydraulic debottlenecking of lines and valves. Supporting works included Risk and Environmental; Control Systems extensions and extensive site works including detailed surveys.

Proposal Director – Epic tender for new grassroots refinery at Sohar in Oman; responsible for complete tender and supporting development engineering, cost & schedule and representation at JV co-ordination. Lead design improvement studies.

Development Consultancy

Prepared overview analysis of issues facing a new field development in onshore Africa – political, business, technical, and socio-economic

Independent Engineer

Reviewing process facilities of the Shell Sakhalin Development – offshore production; onshore receiving and processing terminal; pipelines; pumping & compression stations; LNG production facility; export terminal – LNG and Oil

Independent Engineer

PEER review of new heavy oil field in early concept development in East Africa

Independent Technical Advisor

Advisor to the Contract Close Out Team of the subsea and topsides facilities of the Mossgas Bredasthorp Development, offshore Mossel Bay, South Africa



4 INDEPENDENT ADVISOR ROLES

4.1 International & National Oil Companies (IOC/NOC) – Business Support

Provide the Project Champion, as an Independent Member participating on the Client Decision Review Board to create Value in: -

➢ Strategy support to the Company developments

➢ Create and participate in integrated teams with Client’s personnel

➢ Provide leadership to Clients’ in-house development teams

➢ Execute support studies & services with a BaronNet team

The Project Champion serves the DRB to provide direction of the development process, reviews and approvals through - Capability to provide

Understanding of the “total” project, is

Independent and has

Technical Authority to

Challenge and to

Communicate to provide

Elegant Solutions that realise

True Value.

A Project Champion greatly enhances the likelihood of project success. A bona fide project advocate, who is on the front lines of any project, and in direct communication with the entire team at all times, the project champion is the protector of a project. A critical sentry devoted to delivering the project, yet ready to warn management of threats to success – external or internal. After each project stage is complete and approved, the Project Champion leaps into action to get the next one rolling. The true advocate for a project, the Project Champion is the gatekeeper of a project’s heroic success to meet and exceed the Value expectations of management

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Creative - Screening

Concept

Development

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Design /

Engineering

Front End

Engineering

(FEED)

Prospect Attributes

Approval: Select

Preferred Schemes

Approval:

Scheme(s)

/ Options

SANCTION

Approval: Matrix of possible

solutions with ranking



4.2 Contracting Companies – Project Support

BaronNet proposes to provide Independent advice and support to Companies who provide services such as design, project execution, manufacturing or equipment supply, support services to the Clients who develop oil & gas fields and their associated facilities, infrastructure and transport systems, and downstream processing. This Independent Role can start at the marketing, business development or project proposal stages and continue through the decision-making process of the company business. The most effective involvement would be from the earliest involvement of the Company in a project, through its development until won and then, on through execution to final delivery. The Independent Advisor will have a broad background of business management and project development, in the O&G industry. He will have familiarity with its technology, as well as experience in projects of a similar nature. The Advisor will have an industry reputation for knowledge and integrity. Whilst being comfortable in the presence of, and working with Company senior managers, the Advisor will be equally at home presenting to Clients or pitching in to a proposal preparation team. Although independent in view, he/she will be very much an integral part of the Company team, acting as the Project Sponsor or Project champion. As the opportunities are developed the Independent Advisor would become more closely involved to include the overview of the competitors, logistics, contract strategy, potential sub-contractors, risks, costs etc., and support the proposal preparation. A key service would be to facilitate analysis or review to seek additional value through alternate routes, new technology application or simpler enhancements to the initial scheme – to help create differentiators for the Company. From the outset a goal would be to identify and track both risks and opportunities, another would be to present “independent” ideas and comment on the status and direction of the selected project(s) to the Senior Company representative / decision-maker. A key role would be to provide team leadership in the self-appraisal of the opportunity and co-ordinate inputs to the management and the decision making process or run the equivalent of a pro-active “red team” for continuous assessment of the status of the opportunity. Finally the role might extend to the Execution Phase, acting as the Project Sponsor, to continuously review performance and Client views to provide feedback to Company senior management.



5 WORKSOPS FOR DECISION SUPPORT

Workshops can be used to bring together all aspects of a development project, and provide an environ where the complete subject can be grasped and understood. In the earliest stages, much use is made of experience and professional judgement to identify decisions that can be made and weaknesses or risks to be mitigated by further actions.

The workshop also acts as a safe zone to provide a protected environment removing barriers to communication. It is also a reference point, which acts to collect, collate and integrate all the accumulated knowledge to date on the project. There are two main uses, at the start and end of each new stage as:

• a “direction” to ensure the planned stage activities embrace the full requirements

• to review the stage and assure the objectives are met, and present a consensus view for management decision.

Much of the traditional conceptual work requires at least three steps of generating ideas, filtering via feasibility reviews and the refining via various topic studies. A dedicated and well-selected team can accelerate these – with workshops at the core of the decision-making steps. BaronNet envision three such steps – with workshops run along similar lines but each one becoming more focused and defined as the scheme(s) are developed.

5.1 The Creative Workshop

At the very beginning the team has little more to go on other than the attributes of the Prospect. Therefore, it is essential that the Client and Consultant assemble a team of wide experience embracing all potential facets of the development. The team and the facilitator would move through three initial steps

• Ideas generation – totally unrestrained deductive reasoning

• Review of key influences and screening on judgment of team members

• Selection and weighting into a main scheme with options.

At this level we would be dealing only with the major blocks of processing, structures etc which identifies the work which the team must then undertake to assemble the next level of information about the



scheme(s). Subsequent to the workshop team members are actioned to better define the scheme options, costs, technical merits etc

5.2 Screening Workshop

Now the team (essentially the same as for the first workshop) will step through the potential scheme(s) but with the benefit of additional technical and cost data. The review objective is to select the most favorable scheme and identify the possible matrix of technical and cost acceptable solutions for further study.

Subsequent to this workshop the team will carry out studies aimed at the confirming technical feasibility, assessing uncertainties and risks, testing sensitivities and developing budget level cost estimates. The results of these are used to assess all of the key issues, develop the transformation factors and create a ranking of the various options. These then are assembled and used as input to the third workshop.

5.3 Review Workshop

In this, the schemes and options - with the technical and cost assessments, the rankings are subjected to the same three steps.

• Ideas – a re-work of the logic to look for missed opportunities and consider the ‘elements’ within the blocks.

• Key influences and importance, check ranking factors and quantify rankings.

• Selection and definition of the preferred scheme and its sub-options, identify uncertainties and actions

The output from this is a technical and cost acceptable scheme ready to start the full process / concept design with the full concept studies.

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Define (FEED)

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Associates:

Houston, USA

London, UK

Perth, Australia

Dubai, UAE

BaronNet

Baron Consulting Fze.

http://www.baronnet.co.uk

Email: [email protected]

UK Contact:

+44 7986 353979 (Mob.)

Dubai Contact :

+971 4 256 5409 / +971 50 636 3805 (Mob.)

Philippines Contact :

+ 63 927 527 7998 (Mob.)

Baron Consulting FZE.

Registration 13710 in the Hamriyah Free Zone

Registered Office: PO Box 51651, HFZ, Sharjah, UAE

(Tel +971 (0)4 442 3839 / fax 3814)

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