Offshore Designers Forum

Fully experienced on AUTOCAD Release 14 through Windows and Multi-Steel with auto-detailing package. Worked on various projects detailing all aspects of offshore welded and temporary/removable bolted structures. Experience of F.P.S.O. tanker conversion, topsides, sub-sea templates and protection covers. Primary steelwork i.e. plate and box girders, nodes and main bracing. Secondary steelwork i.e. access platforms, stairtowers, plating, grating, handrailing, ladders, pipe and equipment supports and sea fastenings.

Paul Kearney has 25 years’ experience in the construction industries, as a designer & Draughtsman of offshore, onshore and subsea installations and pipelines. 11 years of CAD expertise, using AutoCAD, up to Release 14, and most proprietary third party applications. Supervisory background includes management of an 18-station CAD network, and management and Q.A. of several major projects. He has also instructed on college training courses in AutoCAD to City & Guilds level, and delivered presentations on the use of CAD in the oil and gas industry at seminars in London.

After finishing my apprenticeship at O.S.E.L. I moved to the company drawing office to train as a draughtsman. On completion of my HTEC certificate I left to go contracting working in and around Gt Yarmouth for the local chemical and petro-chemical companies. Employed primarily as a design draughtsman I worked mostly for design companies on existing offshore installation modification projects from conception to completion. More recently I have worked for construction companies as a design draughtsman, with contracts abroad as well as in England.

Offshore structures, modules, Semi-Subs, Drill Ships, Drilling Facilities & Pile Installations, Flooding & Grouting Load Out & Hook Up detailing. Petro-Chemical work has included bridges, pipe racks, Towers & stairs.