1. Anthony Patrick Haynes
Born: 4 August 1951, British
Education : Birmingham University - B.Sc (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
CEng CSci FEI, SPE, ACS
Career: 1973-1975 Burmah Oil Trading Limited, Swindon, UK
1975-1977 Land and Marine Petroleum Consultants, Geneva,
Switzerland
1977-2005 Eboroil S.A., Fribourg, Switzerland, Managing Director
2006-2011 Eboroil Limited, Isle of Man, Chairman
2011- Eboroil Ltd., Manchester, Chairman
- see www.eboroil.com for company write up
Projects: Technical consultancy support services to the oil and gas industries.
The main clients have been Amoco, BNOC, Chevron, Mobil, Northern
Resources, Wilh. Wilhelmsen and Wilrig, Quatronor, Haugesund Mek Verksted,
Sonangol and TransCanada Pipelines.
• The cement and barite systems on 35 rigs, over 240 supply vessels and 6
platforms
• Technical and financial responsibility for ballasting the Thistle Single
Anchor Leg Mooring in 23 hours
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Patented a catenary shape to allow for movement for flexible risers
Developed novel technology for acoustic control of subsea operations and
oil production technology including a patent for the co-mingling of subsea
wells and the use of downhole hydraulic pumps.
• Participated in the Executive Inter-Change programme with the Canadian
Government and had the Deputy Minister of Energy Mines and Resources
as an executive director in UK as preparation for the development of the
East Coast of Canada.
• Negotiating a UK sector farm-in where an FPSO could be applied.
Legislation was introduced in the Budget to stop concessionaires having a
shareholding in contractor solutions for a UK field development and this
stopped the financing and resulting the farm-in award.
Cont overleaf
2. • for Mobil on Statfjord and Amoco on Valhall included developing long
term forecasts for operations, marine chartering programmes, and
controlling vessel conversions of six vessels and two newbuildings. The
work included negotiating tax exemptions, full scale motion data collection,
developing anti-collision radar both ship mounted and platform mounted
and inventing the concept of dry evacuation from offshore platforms using
shutes and transfer baskets.
• for Wilh. Wilhelmsen and Wilrig including project managing the
coordination of the newbuilding/conversions of six rigs including the
Seaway Swan into Treasure Swan and the concept and conversion of the
Treasure Hunter as a tender support for use on the Odin field.
• technical and financial audits of exploration and production operations of
six offshore operators for the Governmental authorities in Angola
• advised the Federal Authorities on achieving the same return on Hibernia
for Mobil as they received on Statfjord. The solution included a $1 billion
grant.
• evaluating the technical and financial aspects of projects using reuseable
production systems ( jack-up, tanker and semi-submersible based concepts
using subsea completions) all over the world for HMV, Quatronor and
Trans Canada Pipelines
• reviewed prospects in the Russian arctic for the Canadian Government and
represented Prime Minister Mulroney in the Canada Soviet negotiations on
the Arctic Treaty signed in November 1989
• patent of ice breaking systems and development of amphibious lifeboats as
well as all aspects of developing a 100,000 dwt ice strengthened Oil-Bulk-
Ore carrier together with Canarctic Shipping
• preparing for DSND’s mobilisation for the monohull m.v. Botnica.
• packaging the oilfield development plans for a number of companies in
Lithuania, Udmurtia and Kazahkstan. The underbalanced sand jetting on
coil for Genciu Nafta achieved 1000 fold increase in production and the
underbalanced drilling on rotary achieved a 17 fold increase in production
when compared to an overbalanced leg for Minijos Nafta. Negotiated oil
sales agreements with both fields. Joint ventured the technology combined
with oil sales with Shell Global Solutions in Russia.
• co-authored a patent on the use of dynamically positioned tankers for the
use in Direct Well Intervention and offshore underbalanced drilling
operations on coil. A patentee on performing underbalanced operations
and production simultaneously offshore when drilled with rotary.
• The concept of using a catalyst to convert refinery residuals to diesel and
application of water miscible solvents produced from biomass for in-situ
tar sands production
• The concept and chemistry of recovering oil chemically from reservoirs
• Sale of indirect interests in UKNS of 10% in Skipper and 7.5% in Blythe