Michael J. Carlson, PE
779 Spring Meadow Road, #17D
Murray, Utah 84107
435-640-5862
pikespeeker@msn.com
Profile
Education
Seeking a challenging Project Management/Engineering position in onshore pipeline
systems. Extensive experience for over 30 years in the energy business encompassing
many aspects of surveying, pipeline and compressor design, both offshore and onshore.
Five years management experience in an engineering discipline, service on industry
committees, work on a cutting-edge synthetic fuels plant and the gathering and
processing of natural gas from the wellhead to the interstate pipelines in the
southwestern U.S. Critical and hands-on experience in a deepwater Gulf spar and
pipeline project. My family and I have now relocated back to Utah and I’m seeking an
energy position in the intermountain west with a reputable firm.
Bachelor of Science, Ocean Engineering
U. S. Coast Guard Academy New London, CT
Mustang Engineering, Houston, TX
Senior Technical Professional – Project Management
Nov, 2010 – July,
2012
Worked on and completed as project manager/engineer
pipeline replacements, lowerings and facilities additions for
DOT pigging requirements. Also assigned as PM for over
500 miles of pipeline desktop GIS routing. More recently I’ve
been the pipeline manager of gathering and processing
projects for a client in the west Texas area designing and
building 20”pipelines and assisting with Pre-FEED studies
for expansion gathering.
T. Baker Smith, Houston, TX
Pipeline Consulting Manager
Oct, 2009 – Nov,
2010
A nearly 100 year old company was seeking to add the
discipline of a Pipeline Design Group to its organization
based on client requests and market considerations. I was
charged with marketing, growing the group and performing
billable project work during this period. We worked a
number of onshore and offshore pipeline projects and
expanded the group in a short period of time.
Foster Wheeler USA Upstream, Houston, TX
Chief Engineer – Pipeline Systems
Career History
I was part of a small group of technical employees brought
on to build the Upstream Group at Foster Wheeler through
company acquisitions and organic hiring methods. My
assignments included business development, due diligence
for the targeted acquisitions and pipeline technical expertise.
In April of 2009, we successfully acquired the first company
to begin the building of upstream; OPE, Inc. Further
expansion is planned.
Aug, 2008 – May,
2009
AMEC Paragon, Houston, TX
Project Manager—Offshore/Onshore Project Management
Jul, 2007 – Aug,
2008
Project Manager and field Project Engineer on approx. 100
miles of pipeline remediation in Oklahoma for Enogex
Corporation. Project Manager for engineering design and
construction management for ongoing 766 miles of 42”
pipeline for TransCanada coming out of the Rocky Mtn.
region.
El Paso Natural Gas Corp., Colorado Springs, CO
Principal Engineer—Project Management
Nov, 2005 – April,
2007
Assigned numerous and varied projects in a Project
Management status. Projects included Horizontal
Directional Drilled railroad ROW crossings, compressor
station modifications, 9 miles new 12” pipeline, compliance
hydrotesting and CPS installations. All projects were
completed on schedule and budget.
Williams Energy Services, Houston, TX
Project Leader – Williams Deepwater Pipeline Repair Team
Feb, 2004 – Nov,
2005
Project Manager for a Team of engineers, operations
personnel, commercial and pipeline integrity for researching
and recommending to management a path forward on repair
methodologies of Williams’ deepwater assets. This effort
focused on diverless ROV intervention tooling and
mechanical end connectors and clamps. I also represented
Williams in ongoing industry studies of SCR Integrity
monitoring, flexjoint design, DW RUPE deepwater repair,
Deepwater Hydrotest Alternatives and other committees
involved with cutting-edge deepwater industry cooperatives.
Williams Energy Services, Houston, TX
Senior Project Engineer- Devils Tower Deepwater Project
Pipeline Project Engineer For approx. 200 miles of 14”, 18”
and 20” pipelines in the deepwater Mississippi Canyon Area
of the Gulf of Mexico. Water depths ranged from 10’ to
5,600’. I had direct involvement with the designer of the
truss spar and officed for a year with the Contractor laying
the deepwater 18” pipelines from the Deep Blue, a pipeline
reeling vessel operated by Technip. I made a number of
trips on this vessel when pipelaying, setting subsea sleds
and making SCR attachments to the spar. During this
period, I represented Williams by overseeing most aspects
of the project. I spent some time on the deepwater spar and
interfaced extensively with Williams’ Operations Group
regarding the spar operation, punch lists, and review of the
Maintenance and Integrity documents produced by ABS and
McDermott.
Sept, 2001- Feb,
2004
Williams Gas Pipeline – Transco, Houston, TX
Senior Engineer – Pipeline Design
May, 2001- Sept
2001
Assigned looping and expansion projects involving 36”
pipeline in the northeastern U. S.
JP Kenny, Inc., Houston, TX
Project Manager Category III
March, 2001- May,
2001
Project Manager for E&C projects for operating clients such
as British Gas-Trinidad and Exxon Mobil.
Williams Energy Services, Green River, WY
Principle Engineer – Operations Engineering
Jan, 2000 - July,
2000
Assist Wyoming Operations Group in all aspects of gas
gathering, compression, processing and
efficiency/optimization projects. Geographic responsibilities
included the Big Piney area, Moxa and Shute Creek area
and the Wamsutter area.
Williams Energy Services, Salt Lake City, UT
Principal Project Engineer
June, 1999 – Jan,
2000
Assigned as Pipeline Project Manager for the Aspen
Pipeline Project. The project scope was to transport approx.
75,000 Barrels/Day of refined products from Odessa, TX to
the Utah Wasatch Front. My responsibility was the reversal
of 300 miles of existing 10” NGL line and all aspects of
design and construction of 260 miles of new 12” pipeline
from north of Moab, UT to Salt Lake City across desert,
mountains and urban areas.
Williams Energy Services, Salt Lake City, UT
Senior Project Engineer
Nov, 1993 – June,
1999
Assigned Project Management responsibility for numerous
multi-million dollar capital expansion/efficiency projects
primarily in the Rocky Mountain/San Juan Basin area as
well as well as project work in Wyoming’s Big Piney area.
Represent in meetings the Engineering Managers, San Juan
Basin and RMA, in their absence. Mentor younger engineers
and assist in project guidance. Handle special projects such
as committee work related to EFM and other technologies.
Assist Operations and Marketing with technical questions
and problems when requested.
Transco Energy Company, Houston, TX
Manager, Survey Department
Managed seven office and four field personnel involved in
the collection of preliminary and as-built field survey data for
facility expansions and retirements along company’s
extensive pipeline system. Transco’s system consisted of
Oct, 1988 – July,
1993
hundreds of miles of offshore pipelines, platforms and meter
stations along with an onshore system running from Texas
through the eastern states, terminating in the New Jersey
and New York market areas. Additional responsibility
included the translation of the field data into project
drawings used for right-of-way acquisition, permitting and
construction. In the course of the fieldwork, the company
utilized the services of contract personnel and contractors. I
had the responsibility for approving and processing the
associated invoices.
Transco Energy Company, Houston, TX
Design Division Coordinator
April, 1988 – Oct,
1988
Worked under the Director of Design Engineering.
Responsibilities included chairing the weekly Design
Managers Meeting and producing an updated project status
report. Also worked on special projects assigned by the
Director.
Transco Energy Company, Houston, TX
Senior Pipeline Design Engineer
Mar, 1884 – April,
1988
Designed numerous onshore and offshore pipeline and
platform facilities working in a “lead engineer” capacity with
other Design, Land, Permitting and Construction groups.
Design work included routing selection, offshore riser
designs, preparation of bid/construction drawings, cathodic
protection design, operating and design pressure
determination, hydrostatic testing criteria, road and railroad
crossing calculations, blasting calculations, preparing and
tracking schedules, cost and material acquisition, among
other functions. Also spent about a year on field construction
assignments and served on industry committees such as the
AGA Ad-Hoc Committee for stability analysis of offshore
pipelines.
Transco Coal Gas Company, Beulah, ND
Field Piping Engineer
Transco formed a subsidiary company to invest and take
part in synfuels projects. The company purchased a 20%
interest in the Great Plains Coal Gasification Project in
Beulah, ND, and in 1981 selected a small group of
employees to work on the project with the other partnership
personnel. The Plant’s purpose was to produce pipelinequality gas from lignite coal by a series of processing steps.
The plant phase I cost was $2.2 billion and contained
approx. 200 miles of piping. My responsibility in the piping
department included tracking installation progress by the
contractor, “walking” individual process systems with the
spool drawings to insure proper installation of piping,
equipment and supports. I prepared completion “punch lists”
and witnessed and approved hydrostatic testing. Upon
completion of the plant construction, Transco returned the
employees to the Houston office.
Jan, 1982 – Mar,
1984
Transco Energy Company, Houston, TX
Pipeline Design Engineer
Mar, 1981 – Jan,
1982
Responsible for design of offshore pipeline facilities in a
“lead engineer” role. Same responsibilities as detailed in
Senior Pipeline Design Engineer above.
Oceanonics, Inc., Houston, TX
Project Manager
July, 1979 – Mar,
1981
My initial assignments were as an offshore project manager
for collection of high resolution seismic data in the Gulf of
Mexico for clients such as Tennessee Gas Pipeline,
Transco, Shell, Arco and others. The data collected was
used for route selection of offshore pipelines and
preparation of permit drawings for the Minerals Management
Service (MMS). I was involved in the projects from start to
finish including assisting with the job proposals, client
interfacing, mobilization of equipment on the vessel,
collecting and overseeing the quality of the data, assisting in
the interpretation of the data and preparation of the final
report. In October 1980 I was assigned an offshore pipeline
design project in the Vermilion area of Louisiana, which was
successfully completed in March 1981.
Professional
Memberships
Registered Professional Engineer – Texas #60877
Additional Skills
Excellent and extensive Onshore Project Management/Engineering experience
Five years in a manager position responsible for eleven employees
Numerous in-house and outside computer courses including Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, Project Workbench
Proven Organizational and Negotiating skills related to contracts
Excellent mentor of younger engineers.
Outstanding written and oral skills
Ability to focus a team to achieve specific objectives
Good understanding of business economics and goals
Extremely versatile in technical assignments. Able to get up to speed quickly on
new challenges and produce results
Management Seminars including:
One Minute Manager, Supervisory Skills (AGA), Effective Management, Situational
Leadership at Transco/Williams and El Paso.
Technical Seminars including:
Natural Gas Measurement Course (SWRI), Process Safety Management (PSMWilliams), Natural Gas Processing-Colorado School of Mines, GIS/LIS 1990Building Digital Photogrammetric Landbases in Support of GIS Models, Technical
Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Surveying with GPSNavtech, Surveying Engineering 1989, Pipeline Pigging Technology, Incident
Training-Williams, Riser Fatigue and Riser Interference. Recently attended Clarion’s
Subsea Pipeline Engineering 4-day course by Andrew Palmer, Roger King and RJ
Brown, Pipeline Hydraulics 3-day course in-house Mustang.