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CURRICULA VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Title: Mr.
Surname: Sharp
First names: William Richard
Address: 13 Parade Crescent, Constantia Hills, Western Cape, South Africa
Postal Code: 7806
City : Cape Town
Country: South Africa
Home phone: +27 21 712 9470
Mobile Phone: +27 83 602 9714
Email: william.sharp@yahoo.com
Date of birth: 20/03/52
Nationality: South African
Marital status: Long Term Relationship
Passport No.: M00080100 - Expiry Date: 30/10/2021
Occupation: Quality and Testing Services – General and Project Management,
Business Development,
Technical
Qualifications: ASNT Level III UT, RT, T, PT – expired, HUET certified
Summary:
Extensive experience in the Oil, Gas, Energy & Engineering industries both on and offshore.
15 years Middle East experience.
Excellent communication, negotiation, interpersonal and presentation skills.
Strong organisational and logistical skills.
Sound commercial appreciation and judgement.
Extensive experience of managing and working in a multi-national, multi-cultural environment.
Sound knowledge and understanding of international codes and standards including ASME, BS, DIN, ISO
and AD Merkblätter
Specialties Include:
Project & Operations Management
QA/QC management
Non Destructive Testing
Tender and bid preparation
Contract compliance & variation negotiation
Risk assessment
Business development
Financial forecasts & budget control
Strategic planning
Commercial & Legal Awareness

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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
October 2013 - Present
Employer: Self
Position: Independent Consultant
Independent consultant in integrity assessment of static equipment in the Oil & Gas,
Petrochemical, Chemical, Refining and Power Generation Industries. Independent
consultancy in Advanced Inspection Services including Advanced Ultrasonic Testing
(AUT), Tube Testing, Low Temperature Hydrogen Damage Assessment, High
Temperature Hydrogen Assessment, Inspection and Remaining Life Assessment of
Reformer Tubes and Corrosion Monitoring.
Also offering Consultancy and Services in the following fields:
Management of large scale inspection projects.
Corrosion Assessment and Monitoring
Cathodic Protection
Inspection
Metallurgical Services
Mechanical Services
Engineering
Personnel Solutions - Bespoke solution to the provision of permanent and contract
personnel in the Inspection, Integrity and Engineering Fields
Recent projects undertaken include project management of AIS services on a refinery
shut down, supervision and data interpretation and of a major LTHA project and procedure
development and validation of TOFD and PA for complex geometry underclad cracking on
an effluent exchanger on the Refining New Zealand Refinery in Whangarei, New Zealand.
Business development on behalf of NIGSA Energy both on and offshore Nigeria. This
includes procedure development and validation of a Phased Array technique for the
inspection of Riser Bolts.

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1999 to September 2013
Employer: Stork Technical Services
Position: Manager Advanced Inspection Services
Duties:
Mr Sharp had full responsibility for Cooperheat Middle East’s Advanced Inspection
Services Division for the Middle East region. This area included Saudi Arabia, The United
Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Pakistan, India and Central Asia
(Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan etc.), Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia.
Mr Sharp’s primary responsibilities included general management of the division as well
as business development.
During 2009, due to restructuring of Stork Technical Services, Malaysia, New Zealand,
Australia and the Caspian regions were no longer part of Mr Sharp’s responsibilities
although he continued to provide consultancy input into those regions
Contracts have been performed for the following major companies:
 Saudi Aramco
 GASCO – Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Limited
 TAKREER – Ruwais Refinery (Abu Dhabi Nation Oil Company)
 Kuwait National Oil Company
 DUGAS – Dubai Natural Gas Company
 Babcock Engineering
 ADOC – Abu Dhabi Oil Company (Japan)
 DOPET
 PAKARAB Fertilizers Limited Pakistan
 KIO – Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V.
 ENOC – Emirates National Oil Company
 KNPC – Kuwait National Petroleum Company
 GPIC – Gulf Petrochemical Industries Corporation
 SABIC – Saudi Arabian Basic Industries
 Crystal Chemical Company
 Kuwait Ministry of Electricity and Water
 Qatar Petroleum
 Bechtel – Australia
 ADGAS
 ADMA OPCO
 Maritime Industrial Marine
 ADMA OPCO
 BILFAL
 Fluor
 PDO – Petroleum Development Oman

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Apart from his Managerial duties Mr. Sharp also involved himself in the practical aspects
of the company with regard to Procedure Development and Validation and practical
execution of Hi-tech projects. Mr Sharp has also exercised direct responsibility for
training of NDT technicians in advanced inspection methods.

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Mr. Sharp's experience covers the following:
 Hydrogen induced damage including:
 High Temperature Hydrogen Attack
 Stress Orientated Hydrogen Induced Cracking
 Stepwise Cracking
 Hydrogen Blistering
 Sulphide Stress Corrosion Cracking
 Stress Corrosion Cracking.
 Weld Root Erosion.
 Fatigue Cracking.
 Weld Inspection for Manufacturing Discontinuities.
 Underclad Cracking.
 Propagation Monitoring of Existing Discontinuities.
 AUT of new projects both in pressure vessels, spheres and pipelines
during manufacture and construction. Extensive experience in ASME
Code Case 2235-9, API650 appendix U and B31 Code Case 181
 Base line surveys of new and in-service plant
 EMAT Inspection
 UT measurement of oxide scale thickness
Outside of the Ultrasonic Technique Mr Sharp has also exercised direct management
responsibility for tube testing, (IRIS, Eddy Current, Remote Eddy Current and Flux
Leakage), Acoustic Emission Testing of Crude Oil Storage Tanks, Magnetic Flux Leakage
of tank floors and various other inspection services.
Practical projects undertaken during this period include ToFD, High Temperature
Hydrogen Attack Assessment, Low Temperature Hydrogen Attack Assessment, Colour
graphic 'C'scan imaging and manual and automated Pulse/Echo on Piping, Pressure
Vessels, Caissons and Storage Tanks at the following installations:
 Saudi Aramco – Ras Tannura In-service & new manufacture
 Kuwait Oil Company In-service
 GPIC In-service & new manufacture
 Gasco In-service
 Pakarab Fertilisers - Multan Pakistan In- service
 KNPC In-service
 Camalco (Australia) New manufacture
 Babcock New manufacture
 ADGAS In–service
 Qatar Petroleum In-service
 TAKREER Refineries In-Service
 Maritime Industrial Service New manufacture
 ADMA OPCO In-Service
 BILFAL New Manufacture
 Belleli New Manufacture
 Fluor New Manufacture
 PDO In-Service and New Manufacture

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A number of the projects listed above included plant integrity assessment, Fitness for
Service and Remaining Life Assessment as well as RBI.
During this time Mr Sharp has also conducted theoretical and practical training courses in
ToFD and Automated Ultrasonic Testing on behalf of RTD in the Netherlands and for
Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia as well as several in house training courses.
Mr Sharp has extensive experience and knowledge in all aspects of managing large
projects both during manufacturing and construction and in the in-service inspection
environment. He has extensive speciality knowledge and experience in automated
ultrasonic testing and has many years specific experience in the Time of Flight Diffraction
technique.
Mr Sharp has gained exhaustive experience in the detection, recording, sizing, monitoring
and reporting of Hydrogen Damage in pressure vessels and piping systems.
Some recent highlights include:
Direct involvement in the inspection of over 110 pressure vessels and 20 piping systems
for Low Temperature Hydrogen Attack, using a combination of Automated Ultrasonic
Techniques as a single project. His involvement in this project included project
management, procedure development, validations and review and final interpretation and
disposition of all ultrasonic data showing evidence of material degradation as well as
review and approval of all reports. The temperature of inspected equipment ranged from
ambient to 180° C. This project included Fitness for Service and Remaining Life
Assessment of all of the pressure vessels and ping systems inspected.
Multi channel automated ultrasonic inspection of 30 vessels during manufacture to ASME
VIII in accordance with the requirements of ASME Code Case 2235. Wall thickness range
55 to 150 mm.
Procedure development, validation and training & qualification of personnel and auditing
for AUT of over 5 000 welds during manufacture in the thickness range of 9 to 26 mm.
ToFD inspection of heavy wall clad reactors in a Saudi Arabian petroleum refinery, the
reactor wall was in excess of 300mm.
Eddy Current Testing of 190 000 heat exchanger tubes for manufacturing defects.
Automated ultrasonic inspection and online monitoring of cryogenic vessel at temperature
of –48° C
Procedure development, data interpretation and reporting in excess of 100 items of
equipment for HTHA including assessments done for SABIC – SAFCO, Saudi Aramco
and TAKREER.

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During Mr Sharp's 36 years in the inspection industry he has gained extensive experience
in the interpretation and application of a wide range of international codes and standards.
These include but are not limited to:
 ASME
 BS
 DIN
 AD Merkblatter
 API
 ANSI
 AWS
Mr Sharp is fully computer literate with extensive experience in MS Word, Excel,
PowerPoint as well as various other software packages. Over and above this Mr Sharp
has a basic working knowledge of Information Technology.
Mr Sharp has published various papers and carried out presentations at numerous
international conferences during his career.
1995 - 1999
EMPLOYER: Condition Assessment & Testing Services S.A. (Pty) Ltd
POSITION: Managing Director
Founder member with the responsibility for a company dedicated to providing a highly
professional service in Advanced Technology, NDT and development of a market for
these services on a worldwide basis.
Contracts were carried out for the following major companies:
 Sasol Synthetic Fuels
 Sasol Chemical Industries
 Mossgas
 AECI
 ICI Chemicals & Polymers (UK)
 Babcock Engineering
 OCTO Marine (Sub sea ToFD and corrosion mapping)
 NATREF
 PAKARAB Fertilizers Limited Pakistan

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Apart from his Managerial duties Mr. Sharp also involves himself in the practical aspects
of the company with regard to Procedure Development and Validation and practical
execution of Hi-tech NDT projects.
Mr. Sharp's experience covers the following:
 Hydrogen induced damage including:
 High Temperature Hydrogen Attack
 Stress Orientated Hydrogen Induced Cracking
 Stepwise Cracking
 Hydrogen Blistering
 Stress Corrosion Cracking.
 Weld Root Erosion.
 Fatigue Cracking.
 Weld Inspection for Manufacturing Discontinuities.
 Underclad Cracking.
 Propagation Monitoring of Existing Discontinuities.
 Inspection of new projects both in pressure vessels, spheres and
pipelines during manufacture and construction.
Practical projects undertaken during this period include ToFD, High Temperature
Hydrogen Attack Assessment, Colour graphic 'C'scan imaging and manual and
automated Pulse/Echo on Piping, Pressure Vessels, Caissons and Storage Tanks at the
following installations:
 Sasol Synthetic Fuels East/West - New & In-service
 Sasol Chemical Industries - In-service
 Natref - In-service
 Mossgas - In-service
 ICI Chemicals & Polymers - Switzerland - New
 ICI Chemicals - UK - Caster Kellner Plant - In-service
 Octo Marine - Panther Platform, Ivory coast - In-service – Sub Sea
 Pakarab Fertilisers - Multan Pakistan - In- service
 SASTECH - New
 South African Atomic Energy Authority - In-Service

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1990 - 1995
EMPLOYER :SA X-Ray (Pty) Ltd / SA Inspection Services (Pty) Ltd
POSITION: Managing Director
DUTIES: Joined the company with the responsibility of establishing a company
dedicated to providing a highly professional service in advanced technology,
non destructive testing and developing a market for these services.
In line with his responsibilities, trading agreements were negotiated with
various international companies who provided either suitable equipment or
suitable services.
Contracts were negotiated with a number of major companies, including
Sasol Synthetic Fuels, Sasol Chemical Industries, SAPREF, NATREF,
Caltex, Mossgas, AECI, SAPPI, Eskom and Shell MDS - Malaysia,
Services, which were, offered Included:
 Automated ultrasonic testing including Time of Flight Diffraction, automated
code compliant pulse echo, colour graphic corrosion monitoring and
hydrogen damage assessment.
 Alternating current potential drop techniques.
 Various conventional NDT methods.
 Welding inspection.
 Expediting.
 High and Low temperature Hydrogen Attack Assessment
Whilst Mr Sharp has directed the company he has also gained extensive hands-on
experience in all of the above techniques and was regularly involved with any non-routine
inspection work.
He also developed and validated procedures in various NDT methods on an ongoing
basis, as well as being directly involved in the development and training of personnel.
Most of the inspection carried out by Mr Sharp was on petrochemical plants and he
developed procedures and techniques for the detection and evaluation of the following
discontinuities as well as propagation monitoring in piping and pressure vessels, as well
as implementation of the same:
 Hydrogen induced damage including:
 High Temperature Hydrogen Attack
 Stress Orientated Hydrogen Induced Cracking
 Stepwise Cracking
 Hydrogen Blistering
 Stress Corrosion Cracking.
 Weld Root Erosion.

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 Fatigue Cracking.
 Weld Inspection for Manufacturing Discontinuities.
 Underclad Cracking.
 Propagation Monitoring of Existing Discontinuities.
1978 - 1990
EMPLOYER: L & C Steinmuller (Africa)
POSITION: Quality Assurance Manager
DUTIES: Joined the company as NDT technician and was promoted through various
positions. In June 1984 was promoted to Group NDT Manager, reporting
directly to the General Manager, Quality Assurance Division.
In March 1988, was appointed as Manager Inspection and Engineering
Services, a Government Approved Inspection Authority in accordance with the
Machinery and Occupational Safety Act of 1983. The Department of Mineral
and Energy Affairs in accordance with the mines and works act further
approved Steinmuller Inspection and Engineering as an Inspection Authority.
Mr Sharp retained full functional responsibility for this department, which
operated from independent offices in Randburg, with a branch office in
Amanzimtoti. This department operated as a profit centre along the lines of a
strategic business unit.
In January 1990, Mr Sharp was promoted to the position of QA Manager
based at the Steinmuller (Africa) (Pty) Ltd Chamdor works. Mr Sharp had full
functional responsibility for the Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Non
Destructive Testing Departments including Vendor Surveillance.
Mr Sharp retained his responsibility for Steinmuller Inspection & Engineering
Services.
At that stage Mr Sharp was responsible for a staff compliment of  140.
Major contracts in which Mr Sharp had a direct involvement while employed by
Steinmuller (Africa) (Pty) Ltd included:
 Manufacture and erection of boiler plant for Kriel Power Station.
 Manufacture and erection of boiler plant for Duvha Power Station.
 Manufacture and erection of boiler plant for Tutuka Power Station.
 Erection of boiler plant for Matimba Power Station.
 Manufacture and erection of splitter column for Polypropylene plant for
Sasol Synthetic Fuels.
 Erection of HP pipework on Kendal Power Station.
 Erection of boiler plant on Sasol III.
 Maintenance contracts on various Eskom sites.
 Supply and management of NDT technicians and equipment to ESKOM’s
Koeberg Nuclear Power Station

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 Manufacture and erection of pressure vessels and heat exchangers for
various petrochemical and chemical plants.
 Maintenance and in-service inspection on petrochemical plants.
1977 - 1978
EMPLOYER : CHEL Engineering
POSITION : NDT Technician
DUTIES : Carried out UT, RT, MT and PT on welding, forgings and casting.
These functions were primarily carried out on pressure vessels,
pipelines and shipping, although limited work was also carried out on
light aircraft. Extensive in-service inspection was carried out on
petroleum pipelines.
1976 - 1977
EMPLOYER : South African Bureau of Standards
POSITION : NDT Technician
DUTIES: Joined the company as an NDT technician on a contract basis.
Duties included UT, RT, MT and PT. Carried out these NDT
disciplines primarily on the penstock of the Steenbras Dam Pump
Storage Scheme during manufacture.
1975 - 1976
EMPLOYER: South African Iron and Steel Industries
POSITION: Laboratory Assistant
DUTIES: Joined the company as a laboratory assistant in the metallurgical
laboratories. Transferred to the NDT section as a trainee. Received
training in UT, RT and MT. UT received the most emphasis. Worked on
castings and weldments, as well as carrying out corrosion monitoring on
pipelines.