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Pipeline Structural Integrity Engineer

Location: Rijswijk, Netherlands

Shell companies have been exploring for and producing hydrocarbons for over a century. Today, Exploration & Production (EP) employs some 17,000 people worldwide and has interests in ventures in 36 different countries. This is a technically challenging work environment characterised by research and the pursuit of new ways of working. It demands people who will thrive in a culture that encourages and rewards innovation, collaboration and the ability to learn from success as well as failure.
We have ambitious growth targets for the next ten years and, to achieve them, we need to complete a number of major projects on time, within budget, and in line with our performance predictions. Our EP Projects ‘Centre of Excellence’ has been established to help us raise our game in project delivery and ensure we meet and exceed our project targets.

We’re currently looking to recruit a Pipeline Structural Integrity Engineer to join our team in Rijswijk, the Netherlands.



Responsibilities:


The Shell Group is planning and/or building pipelines in increasingly challenging environments. These include:
  • Deep water (over 2000m for the Na Kika Pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico)
  • Earthquake loads including fault crossings and other seismic loads
  • Irregular seafloors that make spans of the pipeline inevitable, which can lead to vortex-induced vibrations
  • Offshore ice keel loads where pipelines have to be built deep enough below the seafloor to make sure they will not be damaged by ice keels, or icebergs gouging the seafloor
  • High temperatures in offshore pipelines where expansion spools cannot easily be incorporated within the pipeline, and pipe-soil interactions which due to lateral buckling can be challenging to predict and model
  • Transport of corrosive products that cause not only loss of wall thickness, but also can embrittle the steel
In addition, new developments such as the development of high strength line pipe steels and new inspection and welding techniques provide additional challenges and opportunities, and these need to be assessed to formulate an appropriate course of action.
As a Pipeline Structural Integrity Engineer, you’ll have the ambition to become an expert on pipeline/integrity design issues, and be ready to identify, steer and conduct needs for our R&D work.
With an in-depth knowledge of numerical techniques (such as FEA) for simulating pipeline behaviour, as well as the limitations of such techniques, you’ll be able to develop a sharp judgement about differences between predicted and actual behaviour.

We’ll require you to advise operating units worldwide on pipeline design criteria and requirements, and develop the ability and judgement to establish suitable design criteria where these don’t exist, including the application of probabilistic design methods where needed. You’ll also develop company standards for pipeline design and integrity assurance, and enhance our reputation as an industry leader in this area.



Requirements:


Key areas of uncertainty where your knowledge and expertise will be especially important are:
  • Pipe-soil interaction issues, including geotechnical loads such as fault movements, liquefaction and/or lateral spreading landslides, or turbidity currents
  • The integrity of welds under possible extreme loading and/or environmental conditions, including fracture and fatigue assessment, considering the effect of relevant defects
  • Hydrodynamic loads on subsea pipelines that may cause vortex-induced vibrations, or excessive lateral movements of the pipe on the seabed.
With this in mind, you’ll have an established record or contribution – for example a PhD – in at least one of these areas, but you’ll also be expected to develop expertise in the other areas.
You’ll be comfortable working in a culturally diverse environment and demonstrate flexibility without compromising on key objectives and project milestones. Excellent communication skills are vital, as is a proven commitment to HSE and quality.

Highly motivated, experienced and resourceful with the ability to work under considerable time pressures, fluent spoken and written English is essential.


Application Deadline: Thursday, October 18, 2007