ASEEDA

Principals

Rohain Cornelius

Rohain graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1993 with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering. Since then, Rohain has acquired 15 years experience in design, procurement, construction and installation management of subsea pipelines, umbilicals, submarine power cables and associated facilities for the offshore oil and gas industry.

Rohain has worked for J P Kenny, Technip, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Clough Offshore, Chevron, Woodside, Saipem. He has worked on Projects on the North West Shelf of Australia, Timor Sea, India, Gulf of Thailand and Korea. Recent experience includes Woodside's Package Manager for the installation (including transportation from Europe) of the Angel Gas Project subsea umbilicals and subsea power and communications cable. Rohain's current role is Installation Package Manager for the subsea umbilicals on the Gorgon Project.

Jason Christie

Jason Christie has 18 years experience in the offshore industry ranging from design (involving advanced numerical analyses) through to field supervision of construction and installation operations for fixed and floating platforms, in addition to submarine pipelines and subsea production facilities.

Jason’s experience has included work on projects in the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea in deep water floating developments West of Shetlands, and in Nigeria where he gained some 18 months of construction site experience.

His technical experience includes mooring analysis, floating production system modelling (diffraction and motion analysis), subsea installation analysis (including pipelay and diverless installation activities) and site supervision of these oil field construction operations.

Jason’s recent experience in Australia has focused on subsea rigid and flexible tie-in systems and S, J and reeled rigid pipelay installation as well as diverless installation activities in both shallow and deep water, for a variety of clients including installation contractors and oil majors.

Reuben Sunderland

Reuben is a Chartered Engineer with over ten years of experience as a subsea pipeline engineer.

Reuben’s academic qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Maritime Civil Engineering, both of which were attained at the University of Liverpool in the UK. After a number of years in the industry, he became a Chartered Member of the Institute of Maritime Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST).

Reuben’s career began with Kellogg Brown and Root in the UK and he has since worked with Kvaerner (in the UK), SNC-Lavalin (in Canada and the UK) and JP KENNY (in Australia).

Reuben has worked on numerous projects in various parts of the world, including, Atlantic Canada, Australia, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caspian Sea, the North Sea, the Persian Gulf and West Africa. He has worked with a range of project operators, including: Apache, BP, BHP-Billiton, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Norsk-Hydro, PEDCO, PEMEX, Santos, Shell and Woodside Energy.

David Sartor

David has 18 years experience in both the mining and oil and gas sectors. David graduated from the University of Queensland in 1992 with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree.

David spent 4 years in the mining industry working for Merz Australia and Mount Isa Mines Ltd in Mount Isa Queensland after which he moved to Sinclair Knight Merz in Perth.

David joined the oil and gas industry in 1996 gaining experience in topside design and subsea infrastructure design and installation. He has worked for Transfield Worley, Coflexip Stenna Offshore (now Technip), JP Kenny Ltd and Saipem on projects for Woodside, Apache, Chevron Texaco, BHP-Billiton to name a few, with postings in Australia, Singapore and Houston.

He currently specialises in design management, manufacture and installation of subsea structures.

David has been self-employed for almost 13 years.