SERVICES Accident/Incident Investigation Standard of Care Expert Witness and Dispute Support Property Damage and Business Interruption Insurance Claims Performance Improvement INDUSTRIES Oil and Gas Production Gas Processing Petroleum Refining EXPERIENCE Offshore Operations/Maintenance Industry Practice/Standard of Care OSHA-related Safety Environmental Forensic Analysis Toxic Tort LNG Gas to Liquids Pipeline Waterborne/Marine Product Quality PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS Professional Engineer (P.E.) AK & TX Certified Fire & Explosion Investigator (CFEI) Six Sigma Black Belt with LEAN tools LETAPAEWE EDUCATION Louisiana Tech University, B.S. Chemical Engineering (1981) MELVIN M. SINQUEFIELD Consultant CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Mel has over 30 years of professional experience in refining, petrochemicals and oil and gas exploration and production. He began his career at Exxon’s Baton Rouge Refinery where he provided process operations support to Hydrocracking, Hydrotreating, and Middle Distillates process units. At BP, Mel began as a Gathering Center process engineer, followed by leadership positions in process safety management (PSM) and health, safety, and environment (HSE). Mel’s experience in process engineering, PSM, and HSE cross-cuts refinery and production operations, major facility construction and commissioning, seismic, drilling and well operations. As a Master Root Cause Specialist, Mel investigated numerous incidents involving casualties, major asset losses, and environmental damages. He has deep insight into risk-based PSM/HSE management system requirements and the bearing of human factors on related incidents. Mel served as the Safety Officer on the incident management team (IMT) for Deepwater Horizon and for many other global IMT events. Mel is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and Alaska, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator. In 2019, Mel achieved a Level 7 Certificate (Regulated Qualifications Framework, RQF, accredited at master's level qualification) for Legal Experience Training Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence (LETAPAEWE). PREVIOUS POSITIONS 1991-2015: BP, Health and Safety Director-Iraq OMS Advisor-Houston, Texas Asia Pacific Regional HSE Coach-Indonesia Exploration Drilling HSE Manager-Brazil Health and Safety Manager-Azerbaijan Startup Technical Integrity Coordinator-Colombia HSE Coordinator, PSM Coordinator, Senior Process Engineer-Alaska Short-term risk management assignments in Jordan and Egypt 1989-1991: Engineering Consultants (Alaska Anvil and TEST), Process Engineer 1985-1988: Exxon Chemical, Market Planner, Plasticizers & Intermediates Technical Sales Representative, Paramins 1981-1985: Exxon Company USA, Process Engineer, Baton Rouge Refinery