Brief Qualifications:

Mark Bothamley is an independent consultant specializing in oil and gas processing and associated facilities. For the past several years he has been a Senior Technical Advisor for PetroSkills, a large technical training and consulting company that supports the Upstream energy industry. Previously, Mr. Bothamley was Chief Engineer with John M. Campbell and Company for 8 years, in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to joining JMC he was with BP/Amoco for 24 years, in several locations around the world. He has 18 years of diverse process/facilities engineering experience combined with 6 years of production/operations experience. A significant amount of this experience has been in the field and at various on-site facility locations. Mr. Bothamley has worked at numerous locations in Canada, the U.S., and internationally. He has a very broad engineering background covering the areas of design, operations, optimization, process safety, troubleshooting and de-bottlenecking of offshore and onshore oil and gas production and treating facilities, gathering systems, subsurface/surface facilities integration, gas plants (sweet and sour service), sulphur recovery, natural gas liquids fractionation and storage facilities, and conceptual design of large oil and gas pipelines.

Education:

BSc, Chemical Engineering - Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, 1982
Diploma, Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1978

Professional Experience:

Apr 2016 – Current President

Mark Bothamley Consulting, LLC
Bozeman, MT

Oil & gas process/facilities engineering

Consulting
Training

2013 – Mar 2016 Senior Technical Advisor

PetroSkills | John M Campbell & Co.
Katy, Texas, USA

Development of Facilities Engineering training & competency development courses and programs

New courses:
- Process utilities systems
- Troubleshooting oil & gas processing facilities
- Process/facilities consulting
Instructor
STAR (Separation Technology Research program) JIP representative (2014-2015)
SPE Facilities Committee member
SPE Separation Technical Section member (2012-2014)

2004 – 2012 Chief Engineer

John M. Campbell & Company
Norman, Oklahoma, USA

Responsible for technical quality of all JMC’s course material and instructors.

Technical “expert” resource for John M Campbell & Company training/consulting staff.
Identification, development and review of course material.
- Oil Production & Processing Facilities
- Process Safety Engineering
- Onshore Gas Gathering Systems
Process/facilities consulting.
SPE Facilities sub-committee chairman (2005)

2003 – 2004 Senior Staff Engineer

John M. Campbell & Company
Norman, Oklahoma, USA

Process/facilities consulting:

design review
troubleshooting
debottlenecking
optimization
process safety analysis

Technical “expert” resource for John M Campbell & Company training/consulting staff.
Part-time/backup instructor.
GPSA Editorial review board member.

2001 – 2003 Senior Process Engineer

                                    BP America, Inc.
                                    LNG & Gas Processing/Facilities Development
                                    Houston, Texas, USA

BP Upstream Gas Processing Network leader.
GPSA Editorial review board member.
Process Engineer providing technical support to BP E&P operations worldwide.

Deepwater GOM Projects
Egypt
Canada
Azerbaijan
Trinidad
Alaska
Vietnam

Production Technical Limits (PTL) evaluations.
Facilities of the Future (Offshore facility PFD/UFD comparison/analysis/optimization).
Conceptual design of large pipelines.

1997 – 2001 Lead Process Engineer

Phase 1 Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli Development Project
Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC)
London, U.K.

Responsible for directing, reviewing and approving all aspects of the project process design, including offshore facilities, pipelines and onshore facilities.

Phase 1 of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) Development Project (FAI) is a $3 billion, 400,000 bpd oil field development project in the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan. AIOC is a consortium of 11 oil companies who have combined resources to develop the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field (11 billion barrels of oil-in-place). The Phase 1 project consists of a large production platform, an injection compression/dehydration platform, an onshore oil processing facility and numerous interconnecting pipelines. Associated gas production is approximately 500 MMSCFD.

1994 – 1997 Senior Process Engineer

Amoco Corporation
Worldwide Engineering & Construction
Houston, Texas, USA

Process Engineer providing technical support to Amoco E&P operations worldwide.

Process/facilities consulting:

design review
troubleshooting
debottlenecking
optimization
process hazards analysis studies
gas transmission line design

Main areas supported include:

Egypt
UK
China (Liuhua project)
Decatur NDC Plant (Amoco Chemicals)
Slaughter Gas Plant Fire Protection Study
Sharjah
Texas City Gas Plant
Gas Pipeline Projects

1992 – 1993 Engineering Supervisor

Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Ltd
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for all aspects of engineering for the Eastern Area including technical support to operations personnel, identification and implementation of projects, optimization of existing operations and assistance to head office engineering.

The Eastern Area includes the Sarnia Fractionation Plant, the largest plant of it's type in Canada, two storage terminals and a large pipeline distribution network.

1991 – 1992 Plant Engineer

Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Ltd
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for providing technical support to operations staff, identification and implementation of projects and optimization of existing facilities.

1989 – 1991 Plant Engineer

Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Ltd
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

North and South Caroline Gas Plants. Medium size sour gas plants with NGL recovery, sweetening systems, inlet compression and sulphur plants. Also responsible for associated field facilities.

1986 – 1989 Plant Engineer

Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Ltd
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada

Ricinus and Willesden Green Gas Plants, area production facilities and gathering systems.
Ricinus is a 220 MMSCFD turboexpander plant (92% propane recovery), with high pressure (6600 psig design) injection compression.
Willesden Green is a 50 MMSCFD plant utilizing propane refrigeration for NGL recovery and featuring a nitrogen generation facility, injection compressors and an Air Products cryogenic nitrogen rejection unit for handling solution gas.

1982 – 1986 Production/Operations Engineer

Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Ltd
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Heavy oil and conventional oil and gas production operations. Calgary head office and Crossfield District office.

1978 – 1980 Production Technologist

Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Ltd
Anzac (near Ft.McMurray) and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gregoire Lake experimental tar sands recovery project near Ft. McMurray and Edmonton District office.