1. Lex C. B. Maclaine
Qualifications Professional Memberships
BS Industrial Engineering Institute of Quality Assurance
Chartered Quality Professional American Welding Society
IRCA - ISO 9000 Lead Auditor American Society for Quality
Professional Training & Development HSE Courses
Project Controls & Change Management CPR, AED & First Aid for Adults (Certified)
Project Management Fundamentals Office Safety Representative
Participation in HSE Audits – Site Construction
Quality Management Fundamentals Offshore Survival Training
Project Leadership Fire and Chemical Safety Training
Project Risk Management Defensive Driving Training
Project Management Fundamentals Incident & Injury Free (IIF) Coaching
Legal Courses Special Courses
Antiboycott, how to handle Boycotts LNG technology seminars & workshops
Export Controls – Commercial Products LNG Carrier Ship Study workshops
Foreign Corrupt Prevention Association E-Gas technology seminars & workshops
Economic Trade Sanction and OFAC
Experience and Objectives
Encourage project personnel to achieve an incident, injury-free (IIF) working environment, and maintain the
highest Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards in our industry. Strives for continuous im-
provement in worker safety and is dedicated to ensuring that each employee understands, and acts in ac-
cordance with, the company’s HSE policies. Work’s with high integrity and complies with corporate
guidelines on business ethics.
Project quality manager professional with 25 plus years experience in multi billion dollar oil and gas capital
projects from conceptual through to award and execution phases. International experience with Client
Operating/Owner companies overseeing contractors and vendors in project home offices as well as site
locations across North and South America, Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
Strong management skills, capable of good decision making based on sound engineering practises and
consideration of economical business factors. Experienced in quality planning and resourcing ensuring
costs are within budgets, proper reporting & required schedule frequency of Inspection agencies.
Conducting project internal and external audits as part of an audit team and/or as an individual.
Furthermore I have gained experience during compliance auditing during my many projects, auditing
subcontractors, fabricators and vendors. Experienced in facilitating efforts to resolve interfaces issues and
coordinate multiparty QA objectives. Managing Interfaces with IVB compliance and 3rd party inspection
organizations.
Eager to join a leading Oil & Gas Operating Company develop and execute a major capital project,
whereby I can provide expert guidance and advise to maximise quality performance and reduce costs. My
next assignment should challenge my knowledge, capabilities and also provide new skills to expand upon
my current project quality management abilities.
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2. Lex C. B. Maclaine
Employment History
Nov 2009 - Present Qafco 5 Fertiliser Project, Qatar - QA/QC Manager
Overall responsible for quality management and project quality support activities during the execution of $4
Billion QAFCO 5 Fertiliser Plant Project awarded to EPCC Joint Venture Contractor, Saipem from Milan and
Hyundai, from Korea. Resident in The State of Qatar with oversight of design and procurement centres at
Saipem Home Office in Milan, as well as construction, commissioning and start up activities in Qatar. My du-
ties included the following:
• Implement Qafco Quality Management System and provides quality planning input for the PMT.
• Monitor Quality Management system effectiveness.
• Provide input to the Project Organization Plan and staffing of quality personnel for the PMT.
• Ensure the implementation of project-specific quality training and orientation.
• Provide direction and instructions to Quality Assurance Coordinators and QC Inspectors.
• Approve Contractor's Project Quality Plan and (unless delegated to discipline engineer or specialist) in-
dividual Quality Plans of subcontractors, vendors, and sub-vendors (i.e., Suppliers) as required.
• Reviews and comments on Contractor's schedule(s) for internal and external technical and quality
audits, and the plans for each audit.
• Ensure PMT reviews and, as required, approves quality deliverables of Contractor and suppliers (e.g.,
plans, Criticality Ratings, Inspection and Test Plans).
• Ensures processes in place so that deviations to specification, equipment and approved plans/proced-
ures are subject to appropriate review.
• Coordinate the quality management activities of QA/QC Team and maintains interfaces between Site,
design offices and Qafco to ensure a consistent, effective approach across the Project.
• Prepare and manages the PMT Audit Schedule and stewards audit findings to resolution and closure.
• Monitor Contractors quality performance and provides and distributes surveillance metrics as described
in the Vendor Quality Management System Control Procedures.
• Interface with Project Operations to ensure clear understanding of project quality issues. Participate in
turnover activities as appropriate.
Aug 2008 – Sep 2009 BHP Billiton Inc. Houston, USA – QA/QC Manager
Overall responsible for all quality management activities during the EPCC activities of a $450M new offshore
gas platform, topsides, bridge and flare and for new and existing platforms located east of Trinidad and To-
bago. My duties included the following:
• Interface with various project teams and departments on resolving related issues that requires effective
communication, initiative, flexibility and an ability to induce collaboration.
• Interact effectively with corporate management and external stakeholders, including statutory auditors,
shareholder auditors and other entities to discuss project practices and issues.
• Exhibit team leadership skills, integrity, self-confidence, fairness.
• Manage Quality Coordinators multi-disciplined QC Inspectors and is develop / mentor.
• Review and approval of contractor and supplier quality plans and ITP’s.
• Oversee quality activities at Jay Ray McDermott’s in Louisiana and TOFCO in Trinidad.
• Oversee inspection activities at Vendors in USA, Europe and Japan.
• Manage project action tracker, issuing lessons learned and quality alerts;
• Conduct internal/external quality audits to ISO 9001: 2000.
• Manage QA/QC budget of $3M.
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3. Lex C. B. Maclaine
Aug 2007 – Jul 2008 Peru LNG, Peru – QA/QC Manager
Responsible for overall supervision of QA/QC during the procurement and construction of a $1.2B - 34 in
diameter pipeline for the transportation of natural gas from Chinquintirca located in the mountains around
Ayacucho, to a Greenfield $2.6B LNG Plant at Pampa Melchorita on the coast. Camisea gas field supplies
natural gas for the LNG plant through a pipeline. The pipeline runs for 408km through 22 districts in
Ayacucho, 4 districts in Huancavelica, 8 in Ica and 1 in Lima. It provides 550mcf of transport capacity to the
Peruvian market.
The LNG plant is a single train facility with a capacity of 4.4 million tonnes a year. It can process 620 million
cubic feet of gas every day. It carries out the following functions: feed gas receiving, liquid separation, gas
metering and pressure reduction, and removal of carbon dioxide and water from the feed gas. The equipment
and utilities include gas dehydration and carbon absorption units, facilities for refrigeration and liquefaction,
two storage tanks of 130,000m³ LNG capacity each and refrigerant storage.
My duties included the following:
• Development of PLNG Project Manual, incorporating plans and procedures.
• Conduct internal and external quality audits to ISO 9001: 2000.
• Review and approval of Contractor Quality Management System, subcontractor and supplier ITP’s.
• Supervise QA/QC Engineers, multi discipline QC Inspectors overseeing inspection activities at equip-
ment suppliers and pipe mills (India and Italy) and construction Site in Peru.
• Track deficiencies, making recommendations and improve operating procedures and processes;
Aug 2004 – Jul 2007 ConocoPhillips Inc. USA, Canada – QA Manager
Overall responsible for establishing a Management System for Regas Capital Projects providing consistency
of approach and improvement opportunities for $20 Billion business development for the following projects:
 $4.2B REX NGL Pipelines USA & Canada, Feed Equity Shared
 $3.8B Kentucky E-Gas Facility, KT Feed Equity Shared
 $3.3B Sweeny E-Gas Facility, TX Feed Equity Shared
 $3.2B Keystone NGL Pipelines, Canada / USA Feed Equity Shared
 $3.0B Golden Pass Regas LNG Facility & Pipeline TX EPC Equity Shared
 $1.5B Beacon Port LNG offshore Facility & NGL Pipeline Feed study AL & TX
 $1.2B Compass Port LNG offshore Facility & NGL Pipeline Feed study LS & TX
 $800MM Eemshaven onshore LNG terminal & LNG Pipeline Feed study Europe
 $750MM Freeport Regas LNG Facility & Pipeline, TX, EPCC Management
 $650MM Sound Energy Solutions onshore LNG terminal Feed study CA & TX
 $350MM Sooner NGL Pipeline USA Feed Equity Shared
 $160MM Brazoria Interconnector Gas Pipeline Project, EPCC Management
• Work on large capital projects in a highly dynamic team environment that has tight-deadlines, high pres-
sure and visibility, requiring accuracy, initiative and the ability to multi-task as essential skills.
• Implementation of the individual Quality Plans and directing, improving, and verifying the effectiveness of
quality systems during the development and construction of capital projects.
• Perform continuous improvement process, including lessons learned, best practices, non-conformance
reports, corrective and preventative action reports, quality bulletins.
• Develop internal/external schedules and conduct quality audits to ISO 9001: 2000.
Participated as an active member of the ConocoPhillips network of excellence Team and provided quality
management support to Brass LNG Facility & Pipelines and Qatar Gas 3/4 LNG Facilities & Pipeline projects
which are part of the Middle East and North Africa BU as well as supporting Surmount Oil sands Phase 1
Project in Canada being presented with an Outstanding Award for significant QA/QC contributions in 2007.
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Aug 2003 – Jul 2004 Dolphin Energy, Qatar – Project QA Manager
Overall responsibility for development of Qatar Office business development procedures and oversight of all
quality assurance activities in operating centres, Paris, Qatar and Abu Dhabi during the final FEED phase
and lead up to contract award of all five major contracts of the $3.5 Billion Project). This was a one year as-
signment as the previous QA/QC Manager (QP assigned person) had resigned, and I was pending USA
work visa for returning to work with ConocoPhillips in Houston Texas USA.
Prior to leaving, I successfully hired and trained two replacement QA/QC Managers for assignment in Japan
and Abu Dhabi where the two major contracting companied held their offices. I had been requested by a
senior representative of Qatar Petroleum to take on this short term assignment.
Sep 1998 – Jul 2003 Phillips Petroleum Co. Inc. – Senior QA Engineer
Overall responsibility for quality assurance activities during Qatar Chemicals [Q-Chem1 $1.2 Billion]
Polyethylene / Ethylene Project FEED phase. In addition, assigned to NGL-4 $650MM Brownfield/ NGL-3
Revamp and recovery shutdown scope to a new NGL-4 fractionation facility, installation of new flare line and
60,000-cm/³ propane tank with tie-in facilities at terminal, 14” -100 km Raw NGL and 6” Pentane pipe lines
post start-up and design modifications on the new NGL-4 fractionation facility. Later transferred to Italy from
1999 thru 2001 to oversee detailed design and procurement activities, with frequent travel to Korea where
the Contractor JV partnership (Snamprogetti / Hyundai) was located in Seoul. Finally, I was relocated to
Qatar to oversee construction, commissioning until Oct 2003.
Apr 1997 – Jul 1998 Marathon Oil Company, USA - QA Approvals Leader
Overall responsible for the supervision/ verification of quality assurance certification during the
refurbishment/modification of a $750 Million Arctic Drilling & Production facility and send out Oil Pipeline
(Molikpaq) destined for operation in Sakhalin Islands, Russia.
Jan 1994 –Feb 1997 Chiyoda Corporation, Japan – Project QA/QC Manager
Overall responsible for the quality management at Home office (Yokoyama, Japan) for project quality support
activities in preparation of ISO 9001 PMS for $1.3 Billion PSR-2 Melaka refining project stage I based in
Melaka, Malaysia.
Mar 1992 – Dec 1993 BP, Aberdeen UK – Project QA Engineer
Ensure the effective implementation of the BP quality program whilst providing continuous communication,
coordination and advice to the Project Manager on quality issues concerning PMT discipline execution and
the oversight of Contractors/Suppliers for £1.2 Billion BP Bruce offshore platform in the North Sea. Work
scope included onshore fabrication and offshore hook up and commissioning.
Jan 1989 – Feb 1992 Shell, Aberdeen UK - Project QA Engineer
Implemented the Shell quality program and developed ISO 9001 Project Quality Plan for the design,
procurement & installation of topsides & subsea emergency shutdown valves £250 Million Brent
Refurbishment project meeting statutory governmental regulations
Jul 1987 – Dec 1988 BG, Hydro-Carbons UK - Project QC Engineer
Overall coordination with multi-disciplined QC activities associated with the procurement, fabrication, and
offshore hook-up of £250 Million British Gas DB6 & DB8 gas installations located in the Irish Sea.
May 1984 – Jun 1987 Total, Aberdeen, UK - Project QC Engineer
Overall coordination with multi-disciplined QC activities associated with the procurement, fabrication, and
offshore hook-up of £750 Million North Alwyn B Jacket platform, topside modules, and Subsea pipelines
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Feb 1979 – Feb 1984 McDermott's International, Scotland – Project QC Engineer
Responsible for multi-disciplined QC activities associated with the following projects:
 £1 Billion Conoco North West Hutton Tension Leg Platform (Complete topsides and Hull).
 £250 MM BP Ravenspurn platform jackets only.
 £350 MM Conoco Valiant platform jackets and topsides.
 £400 MM Phillips Audrey Platform jacket and topsides.
References provided upon request
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