Alan will go on to enroll as a Mentor for Ingen’s recently implemented Approved Company Training (ACT) Scheme, accredited by the IChemE.  Mentors work to counsel trainee engineers through the training over a period of 3-5 years tutoring and advising them through the range of experience required to achieve chartered status. It is Ingen’s policy to provide a comprehensive programme of training and experience, ensuring that all engineers seeking Chartered Engineer status develop a wide knowledge of appropriate professional engineering skills.

 With several other members of the engineering team working towards achieving Chartered status, Ingen have no doubt that the quality of their team will continue to strengthen as 2011 progresses.

At present there are several members of staff fully IChemE Chartered and a further 9 in training.  The company is investing heavily in training and development of staff and believes that even in this current economic climate it is worthwhile and necessary to position the business for success going forward.  Senior management believes the industry skills shortage is ever present even in this fragile economic environment and wants to position the company for future growth. 

It is Ingen’s policy to provide a comprehensive programme of training and experience, ensuring that all engineers seeking Chartered Engineer status develop a wide knowledge of appropriate professional engineering skills.  The training scheme will also provide a broad understanding of applied chemical engineering to the benefit of the company, its employees and its clients.

Conor and seven other representatives were invited to the competition all having previously won an EI Award for Best MSc. project on their respective courses from the Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen.  After a short presentation and Q&A session the outcome was decided a panel of judges.

Conor studied the MSc Oil & Gas Engineering at RGU and his MSc project was carried out with Ingen.  The title of his project was “A Knowledge-Based Concept Stage Development Screening Tool for Artificial Lift & Subsea Processing Technologies"

Well Done Conor!

Rob Binner has over thirty years of experience engineering and commissioning in the Oil & Gas Industry in a variety of different roles covering several worldwide locations.

Rob's particular skills include:

• Instrumentation and Control Systems
• Electrical
• Facilities Engineering
• Brownfield Modifications
• Commissioning

Rob's experience builds on our current capabilities, and in particular with respect to our support to projects involving:

• Multi-discipline FEED
• Topsides modifications associated with tie-backs
• C&I, Electrical, Facilities Engineering or commissioning activities arising from process modifications.

Ingen is delighted to welcome Rob to the team and we look forward to a long and fruitful association.

Senior management believes the industry skills shortage is ever present even in this fragile economic environment and wants to position the company for future growth.  “Investment in staff is one of the key goals of the company and implementation of the training scheme has been in preparation for almost two years.” Wayne Strachan, Commercial Director. 

It is the Ingen’s policy to provide a comprehensive programme of training and experience, ensuring that all engineers seeking Chartered Engineer status develop a wide knowledge of appropriate professional engineering skills.  The training scheme will also provide a broad understanding of applied chemical engineering to the benefit of the company, its employees and its clients.

It is expected that all participants in the scheme will be in a position to apply for full Corporate membership typically within three to five years through a combination of experience developed through direct work assignments, including secondments and training – both formal courses and “on the job” training as defined by Ingen’s approved scheme.  In doing so, it is expected that an engineer will meet the requirements as set out by the IChemE.

Russell Cutler, an expert with over 20 years experience in flow assurance modelling in the Oil & Gas industry, has been recruited to create and head up the flow assurance team within Ingen to service clients in Aberdeen and internationally.  A significant increase in the number of flow assurance projects, both in the UK and overseas, has prompted this investment, together with increasing our service offering by directly offering transient analysis using specialist simulation software.

The position is underpinned by the significant investment in specialist software, OLGA, to allow Ingen to carry out transient analysis of oil and gas pipelines in house. Operations Director Andy Robertson comments that, “This investment in the new position and software is a significant step change for Ingen in the improvement and delivery of our services.  The investment in OLGA and recruitment of Russell further underpins our commitment and ability to deliver successful flow assurance projects, from concept to production.

“Our objective is to grow this team in house and create a further five positions over the next year, which based on our current workload and increasing demands from the Middle East, is well within our reach.”

Ingen Ideas has recently made significant investment to improve process and flow assurance simulation capability by adding the OLGA transient simulation package to the current service offering, which includes HYSYS Dynamics and RAVE integrated asset modelling. The ability to manage transient analysis in house and to a very high standard has become a key component in the company’s ability to support fast track developments for key clients, and to reduce any potential delays in analysis. Ingen has already secured several orders for work with the new package and believes that this integrated capability will be a very attractive proposition for new and existing clients in the UK and internationally.

Technical Director Robbie Leask comments, "although we've offered a successful transient analysis management service for 10 years, using specialist suppliers, our company has now grown to a size where we are best placed to execute this work in-house.  This investment will reduce project interfaces, improve delivery schedules and be a vehicle to further support our engineers' personal development.  We also see it as a research tool to evaluate in-house development projects, for example in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage, where we've been heavily involved for the last four years."