UK Offices

Our UK offices support vibration, dynamics and noise needs in Europe and Africa, with teams in Southampton and Glasgow.

Our vibration, dynamics and noise team in the UK comprises 30 engineering staff and supports our large number of customers in the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. The team of experts also helps to bolster Wood’s capabilities in different areas, such as:

• World-class leadership in subsea vibration including lead researchers on recent Joint Industry Programs involving flow-induced pulsations, vortex-induced vibration, and other vibration issues.
• Piping vibration involving main and utility piping, flare systems, flashing, turbulence, and multiphase flow and slugging
• Structural dynamics, blast analysis, damage assessments
• Fatigue analysis, field troubleshooting, noise and monitoring

For more information on our extensive capability, or to get local support, visit our service overview page or contact our team in the UK

Jonathan Baker

Jonathan Baker, PhD, is a chartered engineer with extensive experience in asset integrity and specialization in vibration and noise, both in the oil and gas and marine industries.
With over 25 years of consultancy experience, he has worked on projects from FEED through detailed design, construction, commissioning, and operations, including on-site troubleshooting. He has also been involved in a number of Joint Industry Projects developing a greater understanding of industry problems and generating industry standard guidelines. Jonathan will lead the business development activities within the team.
 

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Mark Hutchinson

Mark Hutchinson, PhD, is operations manager of Wood's UK vibration team.
Mark has over 30 years of specialized engineering experience in oil and gas and renewable energy. He specializes in structural integrity, FEA, fitness-for-service assessments, advanced materials, fatigue and fracture mechanics and failure analysis. Over the last few years, he has been working on new computational analysis techniques for FFS Level 3 assessments of corroded, eroded and damaged pipelines and risers. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and chartered as a mechanical engineer, naval architect, European engineer, and professional manager.

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Rob Swindell

Rob Swindell, MSc, has the role of R&D and technical authority.
Rob is a mechanical engineer with over 30 years of professional consulting experience in the marine and oil and gas industry in both the upstream and downstream sectors. Areas of particular expertise include vibration and fatigue relating to structures, static plant and rotating machinery; this includes topsides, subsea and onshore production systems. Rob has been involved in the provision of specialist plant integrity and engineering consultancy to a number of operators and engineering contractors. This has included advice at the design stage as well as troubleshooting problems on operational plants around the world.

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