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About the Course Director
Dr John Preedy is the Director of the Course and Senior Consultant. He worked for BP for 28 years as a Research Associate and Team Leader, working on Feasibility Studies and acting as “trouble shooter” covering all aspects of BP’s businesses. These covered field development project in the North Sea, and several novel resource recovery techniques which were taken from Concept to Field Pilot trials in Canada. His specific work in the offshore area covered Subsea Robotics/Automation, Seabed Production Concepts, Seabed Excavation Methods, Underwater Repair Techniques, Flexible Riser Studies and Maintenance Cost Reductions.
After leaving BP in 1992, he has continued working in the offshore oil industry through Azur Offshore Limited, including activities in the assessment of Emerging and Novel Technologies, Technical and Economic Audits, Deepwater Studies, Production Sharing Agreement Evaluations, Safety and Environmental issues. Clients have included Chevron UK, BP Exploration, British Gas, Technomare, Trident Consultants, Fina UK and Cameron France.
John is a regular University lecturer at Cranfield School of Industrial Sciences (UK) and is a course Group Project external examiner for Cranfield. He also lectures on offshore oil industry activities at ENSIETA (France), the Technical University of Delft (Holland) and the Northern Territories University in Darwin (Australia). He is an active member of the UK Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) and serves on their Subsea Engineering and Operations Committee.
