Since 2005, Jeremy has operated as a versatile and independent consultant working for Subsea 7, Technip, DeepOcean, Van Oord, GMSL, NKT, Xodus, Enshore Subsea; focused on bringing together all the experiences and lessons learnt during his career to deliver full project and engineering lifecycles, multi-million-pound international marine installation projects.
His experience enables him to interface many areas of the supply chain, engineering, planning, managing and monitoring critical activities and interfaces; as a contractor conceptualising and designing, constructing, managing and operating installation vessels and the support activities that help deliver successful projects.
Jeremy originally studied Agricultural Engineering at tertiary level, which included study work into Soil and Water Management, later continuing on to Mechanical Engineering in which he holds a BSc degree and is a Chartered Engineer. Working initially for Schlumberger (SLB), spending a number of years internationally as a project engineer initially and latterly Project Manager in the offshore oil and gas sector, during which time he undertook extensive control umbilical and flexible flowline installations, shore crossings and was involved the design, development and build of new generation HDD rigs – this included the MOSSGAS export production pipeline shore crossings at Vlees Baai.
In 1989 he commenced working in the deep water seabed mining sector during its transition from explorative to full productive and was pivotal in the development of seabed mining systems and vehicles. Over the next 10 years Jeremy held various senior engineering and EXCO positions within the seabed and land-based mining sectors, which included programme lead for Lome III and Lome IV EU Funding programmes, targeted financial and technical support into emergent mining developments.