Directors

Partner

Andy Clucas

30 years’ experience in Oil & Gas. Chartered Engineer, holding various strategic & Project Management roles for major brownfield & decommissioning projects with a proven track record of exceptional performance.

Responsible for Decommissioning delivery and upscaling in 2 off Major Tier 1 Contractors, Specialist Decom provider, consultancy and Operator (BG Group), with successful and  rapid upscaling, growth and subsequent delivery.

International Decom experience over the North sea, The Gulf of Thailand, India, The Irish Sea, Trinidad, Brazil, Australia etc.

An enthusiast for (what was) the new challenge of decommissioning, with various Decom project involvements over a 15 year period, for example:- Manager for various liability estimates and deep dives, front end Manager of BP Miller topside facilities,  BG Group Decom Manager for Central north portfolio in front end, Execution Senior PM for CNR Murchison and in a Strategic BD manager for NW Hutton, Brent, Murchison etc.

Expert in:-

• Competitive scoping and option/solutions for decom challenges

• Capturing and applying Best Practice

• Finding technical solutions for decom challenges and promoting gaps for technology to aspire.

• Strategic Change planning to achieve alignment on decom proposals/plans/programmes

• Developing teams to expert level and coaching performance.

• Brokering and supporting a pragmatic regulation for decom

• Applying execution experience and lessons learnt to long term decom liability planning

• Project Excellence and assurance

• Business development expert for supply chain contractors with a track record of managing 12 major pursuits all of which were successful.

• Relationship and stakeholder management

Education

2:1 Honours Degree in Engineering with management

Activities & Affiliations

• Chartered Engineer

• IOSH Managing Safely

• Member of Decom North Sea Leadership Group

• Previous Member of O&GUK Decommissioning Forum

• Previous member of O&GUK Decommissioning Technical taskforce

associates

Decom & Late Life Experts and Specialists.

Evolved solutions utilise a wide network of decommissioning experts on a sub-contracting basis. Applying Industry leading strategic experience and innovative thinking:-

• Subsea Specialist - Execution and Front End Solutions practitioner. Highly experienced with Execution contractors and specialist consultants.

• Commercial and tax specialist - highly experienced in complex field commercial agreement resolution for Late Life and Decom and efficient fiscal management.

• Construction manager - Facilities Turn down and prepared for and removal assistance. Highly experienced with Facilities and removals contractors.

• Lifting Engineer - Highly experienced in the lifting of topsides and subsea facilities, from the analysis, selection of methods and implementation.

• Environmental advisor - Track record of framing independently the various influencing factors regionally and methods to balance outcomes.

Tom Leeson - Well P&A Associate

Tom worked in Oman, Netherlands and UKCS in Well Services for Shell after graduating with a B.Sc. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham. He then held a number of roles managing business development and engineering teams for a number of service companies focused on well intervention, production enhancement, and increasingly from 2003 onwards in abandonment engineering and operations. After a strategic global role for a major contractor in this sector, Tom has worked for many years as a consultant in the abandonment sector, engineering over 1100 abandonment designs across more than 12 countries. Responsibilities have including developing Regulatory guidelines, delivering training for SPE and industry regulators, cost estimation, and strategy development for both Operators and Service Companies. More recently his scope of responsibilities has broadened into the other aspects of decommissioning where he has developed Operator strategies for regulatory engagement, engineering planning, data collection and cost minimisation. He was a Board member of the industry body Decom North Sea for 6 years until 2017 and then held the position of CEO for a period leading the development and launch of their strategic Decommissioning Leadership Group.

Over the years Tom has mentored a number of engineers who have gone on to deliver excellent results on projects around the world, and he puts this approach to good use in the community by coaching track and field athletes including a number of international representatives.

Administration

Heather Toye

Business Admin professional

Education

Degree educated