Biography
Nigel Blake is a chartered chemical engineer with over 30 years’ experience in a variety of industries, majoring in oil & gas. Nigel began his career at AEA Technology in process development, extending and optimizing techniques for effluent treatment in different sectors. After a period managing flow assurance and safety consultancy teams, he moved into oil and gas contracting with CB&I. In recent years, he has returned to safety and environmental consultancy.
Nigel directs a variety of safety and environmental workshops and has recently facilitated an environmental risk assessment for Continua Solutions examining well plugging and abandonment options for offshore California.
Career Highlights
- Chief Safety and Environmental Engineer and discipline Global Functional Leader at CB&I for five years. Oversight of FEED and EPC projects including offshore installations, international pipelines, gas and LNG terminals.
- Participation in a number of industrial advisory bodies, including
- membership of the EU’s Technical Working Group developing a Hydrocarbon Best Practice (BREF) document.
- managing the Physical Processes Panel of the Effluent Processing Club.
- membership of the Mineral Industry Research Organization’s steering committee for effluent treatment.
- Managed the environmental permitting process to obtain the PPC licence for the UK’s Interconnector Terminal, capable of importing up to 25% of the UK’s gas demand.
- Seconded to Giprotruboprovod in Moscow to oversee the final stages of the environmental permitting program for the Russia-China Pipeline.
- Worked on a number of sour gas projects. Developed air monitoring procedure assisting reduction of sulphur dioxide emissions from flaring.
- Developed effluent treatment processes in a number of industries, including commercialization of a scheme for removal of complexed heavy metals. Managed trials of oily water separation equipment at an Eaton Corporation plant in Shelbyville (US).
