Professor Phil Hopkins

Professor Phil Hopkins has over 30 years experience in pipeline and marine engineering. Previously Managing Director of Andrew Palmer & Associates, Phil is now a Director of Penspen as well as Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, UK.

He has worked with most of the major oil and gas companies and pipeline companies around the world providing consultancy on management, business, design, maintenance, inspection, risk analysis and safety, and failure investigations in Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East.

Phil has served on many national and international committees, including the British Standards Institution, the European Pipeline Research Group (co-chairman), the American Gas Association's Pipeline Research Council International, and the DNV Pipeline Committee, and is currently a member of the ASME Pipeline Committee (Chairman in 2006).

He is internationally renowned as a trainer in Pipeline Integrity, and regularly presents courses in North and South America, West and East Europe, and the Middle and Far East.

Michelle Unger

Michelle Unger is the Knowledge and Training Manager for Penspen Integrity based in the Newcastle upon Tyne office. She has over 15 years experience of lecturing, research and engineering consultancy. She joined Penspen in 2001 and as a Senior Engineer she focused in the area of pipeline integrity.

Michelle has specific knowledge in pipeline defect assessment, fitness-for-purpose assessment, integrity management systems, risk management and pipeline audits.

Michelle was also a member of the development team of the MSc in Subsea Engineering and Management at Newcastle University, where she is an Associate member of staff, and lectures on their MSc in Pipeline Engineering. She has previously lectured at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and continues to lecture on Pipeline Defect Assessment in Latin America.

Michelle is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Studies and Academic Practice.

Roland Palmer-Jones

Roland Palmer-Jones is Head of Pipeline Integrity at Penspen. He has previously worked with the pipeline engineering consultants, Andrew Palmer and Associates (APA), as well as in the Research and Technology Division of British Gas.

Roland is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with more than 20 years experience in the oil and gas industry, the majority dedicated to pipeline integrity. He is also a visiting lecturer at Newcastle University, UK, on the Masters Programme in Pipeline Engineering.

Roland has provided pipeline integrity consultancy services to onshore and offshore pipeline operators around the world, ranging from small companies operating just one pipeline to large national oil companies, and the international majors.

He is the author of numerous papers on pipeline topics, and has presented training courses all over the world.

Susannah Turner

Susannah Turner is a Consultant at Penspen Integrity, a graduate of the University of Cambridge and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. She has 18 years experience in the Oil & Gas Industry having worked in pipeline operations, consultancy and research.

Experience and skills include pipeline integrity assessment, risk and reliability methods, pipeline management, offshore pipeline inspection, pipeline design, decision-making strategies, and maintenance and inspection planning.

Susannah's recent work has concentrated on pipeline integrity and risk management strategies, having developed risk-based inspection methodologies and strategies for a number of pipeline operators.

Susannah also has qualifications and experience in education and training.

André Gonçalves

André Gonçalves is a Senior Pipeline Integrity Engineer with extensive experience in the integrity management of onshore and offshore oil and gas pipelines.

André has worked on a wide range of pipeline integrity projects for numerous operators around the world. André's experience includes the detailed assessment of pipeline defects, pipeline risk based inspection, inspection planning, pipeline pigging and pigging technology, pipeline repair, and pipeline fracture control.

André is an experienced lecturer and has delivered numerous training courses in pipeline engineering topics including pipeline defect assessment, on-line inspection, and inspection of unpiggable pipelines.

As well as in English, André is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.

Dr Roger King

Dr Roger King has over 40 years experience in corrosion engineering in the North Sea, Middle East, Far East and Australian oil and gas production industry.

He has specialist knowledge of sweet and mildly soured corrosion and its prevention by chemical inhibition, monitoring of corrosion, microbiological corrosion and the design of efficient cathodic protection systems for onshore and offshore pipelines, structures and seabed installations.

He has published over 80 papers on these corrosion topics.

Professor Andrew Palmer

Professor Andrew Palmer is Keppel Chair Professor in the Center for Offshore Research and Engineering of the Department of Civil Engineering of the National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Chartered Engineer.

He has divided his career equally between practice as a consulting engineer and university teaching. In 1985 he founded Andrew Palmer and Associates, a company of consulting engineers who specialise in marine pipelines. In 1996 he returned to research and university teaching as Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Cambridge University in England. He was a Visiting Professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, 2002-03.

He is the author of four books and more than 220 papers on pipelines, offshore engineering, geotechnics and ice. He has an active consulting practice, and was Chairman of the DNV Pipelines Committee from 2007 until 2010.

Dr David Eyre

Dr David Eyre is a Principal Consultant for Penspen Integrity, and has over 30 years of experience in corrosion, coatings and materials selection.

David's experience includes the development of corrosion management strategies, corrosion management procedures, materials selection, design of cathodic protection systems and pipeline rehabilitation.

David has been involved in a number of training courses and has worked and lectured in many countries.

John Simon

John Simon is Head of Inspection Consultancy for Penspen Integrity has specific knowledge of Pigging Operations for both onshore and offshore pipelines and worked in Pipeline Operations & Maintenance, Pigging Product Development, Business Management and Pigging Business Development.

John has held senior manager positions and has 25 years international experience including Planning, Engineering Studies, Supervision and Project Management of Pipeline Pigging operations for Oil, Gas and Product pipelines.

John has provided training for pigging and was a developer of the Practical Pigging Training Course.

Graham Goodfellow

Graham Goodfellow is Head of Risk & Reliability for Penspen Integrity, and a graduate of the University of Oxford with 18 years experience in pipeline quantitative risk assessment, structural integrity assessment and the development of risk and reliability based asset management strategies for mechanical and structural systems in the oil & gas and other industries.

He has worked for the research and pipeline operations departments of British Gas and in general structural integrity consultancy before joining Penspen in January 2001 as Head of Risk & Reliability in Penspen Integrity based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Graham is a member of UKOPA Risk Assessment Working Group and contributor to the development of IGEM/TD/2 and PD 8010-3 on application of pipeline QRA.

Dennis Keen

Dennis Keen is a Principal Consultant for Penspen Integrity, and has over 33 years experience in both the onshore and offshore gas and pipeline industry as a pipeline constructor and operator as well as in depth experience as a Safety Regulator with the Department of Energy and the Health and Safety Executive.

His key strengths are a comprehensive knowledge of UK Health and Safety Law, management and quality systems, with particular emphasis on pipeline integrity management.