Sep 24, 2021

William Anthony

  • William Anthony
  • Accra, GH
Full time Education Oil & Gas Production and Operations Professional Services Projects, Facilities and Construction Research

Personal Summary

Versatile mechanical engineer seeking a challenging engineering role in project management, facility management, technical support, audit, research and teaching, where I can utilize my skills and experience to enhance the organization performance, and to learn other new and innovative approaches in organization development.

Work Experience

SENIOR PRODUCTION AND FACILITY ENGINEER, PETROLEUM COMMISSION
Sep 2014 - PETROLEUM COMMISSION
  • Monitor and assess production operations, and offshore production facilities performance to ensure compliance to production objectives, and recommend
    drawbacks and performance improvement respectively
  • Review plan of development and operations (PDO), quarterly and annual operations
    report, drilling and completion programme, and other technical reports and advise
    management
  •  Assist is the drafting and implementation of regulations governing the upstream
    petroleum sector
  •  Assist in drafting of annual corporate operation reports
  • Assist in developing annual work programme and budget
  •  Attend to client's queries
SUPPORT ENGINEER, BROWNFIELD PROJECT
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019 TULLOW GHANA LIMITED

• Supported in project activity planning and progress reporting
• Managed vendors and personnel for Jubilee and TEN fields brownfield (shutdown)
project to meet manpower and resource requirements for the project
• Supported in project execution and management to ensure completion of maintenance tasks within time and at an optimal cost
• Assisted in verification of mechanical completion and documentation to ensure a
seamless handover to operations

COMMISSIONING ENGINEER, TEN PROJECT
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015 TULLOW GHANA LIMITED

• Undertook facility/site inspection to ensure site activities were safely carried out
• Reviewed boundary mark-ups drawing to ensure it matches facility (FPSO) system design
requirements
• Walked-down systems for punch list identification and verification of mechanical
completion
• Carried out punch list tracking and close-out verification process
• Reviewed commissioning procedures

SUPPORT ENGINEER, JUBILEE RISER 5 RECOVERY & REPLACEMENT PROJECT
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016 TULLOW GHANA LIMITED
  • Reviewed riser recovery, transpooling, mobilization and installation procedure to ensure
    it meets operational requirements including safety
  •  Supervised ruptured riser recovery from seabed and decommissioning in a safe and efficient manner
  •  Supervised new riser mobilization to field, testing and safe installation operations
ENGINEER
Oct 2009 - Aug 2014 MINISTRY OF ENERGY
  • Streamlined, processed and evaluated applications for exploration blocks to enhance
    transparency and attract interest
  •  Assisted in identifying and developing key investment areas for promotion in a bid to attract investment in the petroleum sector
  • Attended to investor and client's queries 
  • Reviewed technical reports and investor proposals, and advised management 
  • Assisted in the formulation and implementation of policies governing the sector
  • Assisted in drafting of annual work programme and budget
LECTURER
Dec 2008 - Aug 2010 ACCRA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
  • Delivered lectures on fluid mechanics and fluid related courses, and carried out related
    research work 
  • Advised on academic related issues 
  • Supervised student projects
  • Assisted in the development and review of Syllabus for TVET programme
RESEARCH/TEACHING ASSISTANT
Jun 2006 - Apr 2008 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
  • Promoted the use of ANSYS FLUENT (CFD) software in solving complex flow dynamics
    problems and made improvement suggestions to FLUENT as a research tool
  •  Assisted students and clients with the use of FLUENT software
SERVICE PERSONNEL
Nov 2003 - Aug 2004 SOUTH TONGU DISTRICT WORKS DEPARTMENT

• Supervised government projects, assessed and took inventory of government assets and projects in the District in a bid to safe cost and ensure timely completion
• Assisted in contract documentation
• Assisted in the preparation of bill of quantity for projects



AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING TRAINEE
Feb 2001 - Mar 2001 GHANA AIRWAYS LIMITED

Gained skills in mechanical servicing and maintenance of airliners

AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING TRAINEE
Feb 2000 - Mar 2000 GHANA AIRFORCE

Gained skills in mechanical servicing and maintenance of helicopters

AUTO MECHANIC TRAINEE
Sep 1999 - Oct 1999 TOYOTA GHANA COMPANY LIMITED

Gained skills in mechanical servicing and maintenance of automobiles

Education

MSc. - OIL AND GAS ENGINEERING
Sep 2011 - Oct 2012 ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY
MSc. - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Jan 2006 - Jun 2008 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
BSc. - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Sep 1998 - Jun 2002 KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY