Primary contacts at TWI for Oil, Gas and Chemicals

Membership contact
	Caroline Young can help with any issues concerned with your Membership package and can help you access the services and benefits to which you are entitled. Caroline is Section Manager for Industrial Member Services, managing the customer relationship between TWI and all its Members. In addition, she is the Sector Manager for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry Team within TWI where she is responsible for membership recruitment and development. She previously worked as Project Leader in the Advanced Materials and Processes Technology Group. Caroline participated in a wide variety of project work in high temperature materials for applications in the oil, gas and petrochemical sector.
Industry liaison / Technical contact
	Amir Bahrami is the first point of call for you to discuss any issues relating to your interface with TWI e.g. JIPs, enquiries, information, problems or concerns as well as placing a work project. He will be able to call up a team of specialists to put together a plan to fulfil your needs. He can also incorporate your strategic technical needs into TWI's research activities at a corporate level. Amir is the Manager of TWI's Oil, Gas and Chemicals Industry Sector. His experience includes welding, testing and qualification of materials particularly polymers as well as organisational integrity and multidisciplinary programme management for the oil and gas industry. His main focus is on strategic development of services and technologies needed to provide effective and efficient solutions to the current and upcoming technical challenges facing the safe and reliable exploration and production of oil and gas.
Technical contacts
	Paul Woollin is Technology Group Manager of the Metallurgy, Corrosion & Surfacing Group. His work includes study of the welding metallurgy of duplex stainless and weldable 13%Cr steels and their use in sour service and the optimisation of the corrosion resistance of weldments in high alloy austenitic stainless steels and nickel alloys in chloride media. His work includes weldability and weld properties of supermartensitic duplex and superduplex stainless steels.
	Stuart Bond is the Section Manager - Ferritic Steels & Technology Manager - Corrosion, working within the Metallurgy, Corrosion & Surfacing Technology Group. He is responsible for line management of TWI Ferritic Steels expertise, plus project development, major programme management and provision of consultancy to support the oil & gas sector at TWI. Stuart is a Professional Member of the Institute of Corrosion and Certified as a NACE Senior Corrosion Technologist. He is an active participant in NACE standards under STG32, is a Member of NACE Task Group 299 / ISO TC67/WG7 (the ISO15156/MR0175 oversight committee), Chairman of NACE Task Group 328 (Welding of CRA for oil & gas production) and a member of the European Federation of Corrosion Working Party 13 (Oil & Gas).
	Dr Mohamad Cheaitani is Principal Engineer. He specialises in the field of structural integrity with a particular emphasis on oil and gas installations. He takes a leading role in the development of TWI's fitness-for-purpose software - CRACKWISE®.
	David Harvey joined TWI in 1986 with a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering, working initially on process control for gas shielded arc welding. He was then instrumental in the development of TWI's thermal spraying facilities. He was Chairman of the UK Surface Engineering Society from 1994 to 1997 and helped establish the UK Thermal Spraying & Surfacing Engineering Society in 1998. As a member of the OGC team, his current role is to provide business support to TWI's process groups.
	Andy Brightmore is Manager of TWI's Software Development Section which is responsible for all joining related software developments in house and for external sale. This includes web-based systems, multi-media training systems and more conventional database software such as Welding Co-ordinator.
	Sayee Raghunathan joined TWI in 2005 in the Manufacturing Support Group as a senior welding engineer. His experience includes welding and fabrication of pressure vessels, heat exchangers and fractioning columns, fabrication and installation of offshore platforms and pipelines. He currently manages the Arc Process, Fabrication and Welding Engineering (AFWE) section in the Manufacturing Support Group. Sayee is a participant on Pipeline PTC and API-AGA 1104 committee.
	Ruth Hammond is a Senior Project Leader in the Ferritic Steels Group at TWI. This involves managing technical projects, failure investigation, consultancy, and general enquiries. Ruth has experience of sour service in the oil and gas industry, including running two Joint Industry Projects (JIP) on KISSC thresholds and effect of plastic strain on behaviour in sour service. Ruth is also developing the facilities for mechanical testing in high pressure hydrogen at TWI.
	Richard Shepherd joined TWI in 2007 bringing 20 years experience of polymer applications in the Oil & Gas industry to the Polymers Section. He has significant experience of the manufacture and processing, testing and inspection of high value, safety-critical elastomeric components such as flexible joints and sealing systems and has published a number of technical papers and patents in areas including pipe insulation and HP/HT sealing systems.