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Norway (EU.NO)

Oddbjørn Thingstad

First Name: 
Oddbjørn
Last Name: 
Thingstad
Professional Since: 
Feb-2008 (16.5 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Feb 2001 (23.5 yrs experience, WARNING: 7.0 years variance with Professional Since)
Years Experience: 
9

Fabricom Suez Senior Planner

START Date: 
August, 2008
END Date: 
October, 2008
Senior Site Planner on a 6 week Shutdown – Mongstad oil refinery in Norway

Fabricom Suez Senior Planner

START Date: 
July, 2009
END Date: 
April, 2010
Senior Site Planner from mid July’09 to End April’10 on Kårstø Processing Plant.

Foster Wheeler Lead Planner

START Date: 
March, 1984
END Date: 
December, 1985
Lead Planning Engineer responsible for 4 Discipline Planning Engineers during the Detailed Engineering Phase. Upgraded to Planning Supervisor for setting up & running Follow on Engineering with a group of 6 Planning Engineers.

Shell International Exploration & Production Planning Engineer

START Date: 
July, 1991
END Date: 
December, 1991
Site Planning Engineer responsible for the monitoring of Planning Procedures & Progress of the Contractor during the Fabrication & Commissioning of the Accommodation Unit for the Nelson Project.

- Project Planning Engineer

START Date: 
November, 1987
END Date: 
January, 1989
Working in Norsk Hydro Head Office on the Basic Engineering of Oseberg 2 Platform then moving out to the Detailed Design Contractors office at Asker monitoring the Progress Status

BP Planner

START Date: 
June, 2010
Current Role

AMEC Process & Energy Ltd. Planning Engineer

START Date: 
February, 1995
END Date: 
June, 1996
Sep 95 - June 96 Working on the Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) 1996 Revamp reporting to the Engineering Manager for Front End Engineering & Design and Procurement, and the Construction Manager for Shut Down Activities.
Development of engineering progress monitoring network utilising Open Plan (5.1) for civil, structural, mechanical, vessel, piping, electrical and instrumentation disciplines.
Developed Shut down Construction logic network covering the removal and replacement of the Reactor and Regenerator heads and internals with replacements of new parts.

Talisman Project Controls Manager

START Date: 
April, 2009
END Date: 
September, 2009
Providing project controls expertise to the Upstream Project Team on the Yme re-development project (~Nok 10 Billion).

The project involves a turnkey contract for the fabrication of a Mobile Offshore Production Unit with a subsea storage tank, and subsea tiebacks.

Role initially involved the project management elements for the bid process for a Drilling Work over Unit project for the MOPUStor, and subsequent management of the project services team for this function of the project.

Keppel Norway A/S Project Controls Manager

START Date: 
August, 2006
END Date: 
May, 2009
Project Control Manager for major offshore maintanance projects in the North Sea, as well as fabrication/installation contracts in Singapore.

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