Michael Ritchie Houston, TX 77064

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Process, Projects, and Facilities Engineering

Professional Experience: More than thirty years of engineering and management experience in the oil & gas business. Most recent responsibilities focused on process engineering and project management. Background also includes project/construction management, project development, workover/completion supervision, reservoir, and production engineering. Recent experience includes process engineering lead supporting West Africa deepwater FPSO conversion project for a mid-size independent and for ExxonMobil projects ($50M to $1.4B). Proficient with HYSYS, Pipephase, Prosper, PHAST and other modeling applications.

Also served as project manager for ExxonMobil projects on the Zafiro Producer FPU in Equatorial Guinea, engineering support for FPSO Serpentina conversion, and subsea commissioning of an expansion project in Zafiro Field. As Project and Construction Manager for CMS Oil & Gas, responsible for the design and planning of the $430M, 800 MCFD Alba Field development project offshore and onshore Equatorial Guinea, West Africa including cryogenic gas processing, compression and reinjection facilities for 600 MCFD, interface with methanol plant, onshore storage and offshore LPG and condensate loading facilities. Also managed onshore and offshore (FPSO) projects in Tunisia, Congo and Cameroon. Process and facilities engineering experience includes design of new facilities and troubleshooting/optimizing existing facilities. Construction management experience includes onshore and a wide variety of offshore facilities and structures. Operations experience includes FPSO operations and familiarity with ABS rules and specifications. Early career experience focused on workover / completion design and supervision, production and reservoir engineering, secondary recovery, artificial lift design and troubleshooting.

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Employment:

November, 2013 to February, 2015 Consultant to Cobalt International Energy Lead Process Engineer supporting concept selection, basis of design and FEED process for a deepwater West Africa FPSO conversion. Project failed to achieve sanction, in part due to decline in oil price, by target date leading to a change in management and other reorganization.

February, 2009 to November, 2013 Consultant to ExxonMobil Production Company

Process Engineering Technical Lead supporting midsize to large production projects. Projects included major West Africa gas utilization and monetization studies, polymer flood enhanced recovery project, preliminary design of major European steam flood opportunity, SCR NOx reduction, flare system upgrade of a one BCFD lean oil gas plant, and crude treating system to allow crude firing of four GE 6B gas turbines.

January, 2006 to January, 2009 Offshore International Group

Engineering Manager primarily supporting activities of the Peruvian based PetroTech Peruana (PTP) oil and gas production company. Company has significant assets including 80 offshore platforms, work barges, yards and skids for jacket and deck fabrication. In conjunction with new field development, completed detail design to convert a deck barge to spread moored FPSO to ABS class with nominal 70,000 bbl storage, 15,000 BOPD and 15 MCFD capacity. Also support Fairways Offshore activities domestically and in the Gulf.

September, 2002 to January, 2006 Consultant to ExxonMobil Production Company

Project Manager - Member of Projects Group supporting the EM affiliate in Equatorial Guinea. Project Manager for utility, water handling upgrades and electrical load shed projects on the Zafiro Producer FPU. FPSO Coordinator and Subsea Coordinator with the Early Production Systems team engaged in the West Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Zafiro Field Development project. Served one year as FPSO Coordinator and Subsea Coordinator - Responsibilities included engineering support for the FPSO Serpentina conversion including marine, topsides and subsea. Served as the subsea commissioning/startup lead for the project. Subsea architecture included five drill centers, five production manifolds, six production risers, gas lift and water injection risers, three electro-hydraulic umbilicals in water depths to 2600 feet.

1998 to September, 2002 CMS Oil & Gas Company

Construction and Operations Manager - Managed operations and projects in Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Tunisia, and Cameroon. Responsible for the Alba Field Development Project as described in more detail above. Other responsibilities included FPSO operations (offshore Congo, West Africa including ABS certification requirements and topsides process of heavy oil to No. 6 Fuel Oil), management of major pipeline projects in Congo, management of construction, installation and startup of two offshore platforms and multiple pipelines in Equatorial Guinea, design and implementation of gas processing plant modifications in Equatorial Guinea. Assisted parent company's successful negotiation and sale of CMS Oil & Gas to Perenco SA.

1995 to 1998 International Paper Petroleum Company

Division Engineer - Offshore production operations and project management of platforms/facilities design, construction, installation and start-up including two MOPU

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installations with 100 MCFD capacity each. Managed P&A and platform removal projects. Designed and supervised well testing operations for 20 - 50 MCFD completions. Managed design, permitting, installation and start-up of amine unit for high H2S concentration field.

1993 to 1995 Independent Consultant

Supervised workovers/completions offshore, land and inland waterways in South Louisiana and Texas. In-house workover/completion design and production engineering for American Exploration and IP Petroleum.

1989 to 1993 Laurel Operating Company

Production Engineer - All phases of business and operations of fields primarily located in inland waterways of South Louisiana, including reservoir engineering, unitization, property evaluation, oil & gas purchasing, permitting, planning and supervising drilling, completions, workovers, facility design, and production optimization.

1980 to 1989 GoldKing Production Company

Assistant Production Superintendent - Supervised workovers/completions, pipeline projects, and facility installations and start-ups. Managed production operations for 115 wells.

1976 to 1977 Prior to graduation, employed by Amoco Production, Diamond

Shamrock Chemical, Florida Gas Transmission, Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline in junior or assistant engineering capacities, reservoir engineering, secondary recovery, chemical plant capital projects.

Education/Certification:

Licensed Professional Engineer, Texas

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering University of Houston 1980

Numerous industry courses and seminars covering production operations, workovers, completions and well control, Design of Fixed Offshore Platforms (UT) and Financial Control and Planning for Oil & Gas Company Managers (SMU).