Michel Friedman

In March 2010, I started to work as HSE field superintendent for rehabilitation and upgrade of existent field in Zubair. Eni workers operator of this contract based Basra Iraq for this JV with INOC (Missan and SOC) with international oil and gas companies like Oxy and Korean Gas like field Superintendent dedicated to drilling, seismic and maintenance also ( very short group of HSE dues to Visa problemes)

Before that I was working as QHSE manager in a project of Sinopec Sichuan, for to do the start up and commissioning of this gathering system with wells stations and pipeline which are going to the purification plant because with are working with very high content of H2S ( sour gas).
In 2008 like QHSE and Emergency Manager in. I coordinated all QHSE concerns with drilling cie, Sintez Russia and first drill Ltd the consultant for engineering and my employer on this project. , I was in charge of all QHSE activities of the project, writing all the procedures and Manual but also setting the emergency response offshore and onshore with creation of ERC, training procedures for SNG personnel in Namibia

I am a QHSE Manager with 23 years’ experience focused on the design, development and implementation of integrated HSE Management Systems for the upstream oil & gas industry. I have also a lot of very strong skills in Emergency response and crisis management. One other very strong point is my large experience in CIP and sustainable project like compensation.

Additional Qualifications:

Resident in South America & France
Fluent in Spanish, English, French, also able to use Portuguese and German
Senior QHSE (S + ER +EER) & Environmental Manager
Years of experience: emergency response and crisis management 11 years
Safety environmental, health, CIP and sustainable project of compensation 20
Social mitigation during construction ( 6 big projects)
Work in H2S high content ( >160.000,00 ppm) 5 years
Experience in the petrochemical and Oil & Gas Industry: 20 Years
Decontamination , 16 years
HSE, environmental affairs 20 years
International: Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America
Work contract long rotation or resident accepted ( depend of the day rate) single status

The Positions I held have included:


HSE field superintendent for rehabilitation and upgrade of existent field in Zubair. Eni workers operator of this contract based Basra Iraq for this JV with INOC (Missan and SOC) with international oil and gas companies like Oxy and Korean Gas ( following Drilling and workover done by Iraqi drilling company)
QHSE Coordinator various team commissioning in well pads, Gathering Station and recovery plan sour gas in Puguang China for Sinopec ( 2x9 B cubic meters days sour gas at 1600000 PPM or 16% H2S)
Project QHSE manager of Sintezneftegaz Namibia Ltd dealing with authorities for emergency plans like Oil spill , ER and merging HSE management of drilling offshore cie with Sintezneftegaz Namibia Ltd standards
QHSE Manager or merging of to CIE ( Addax and PAE) , resettlement of HSE material, upgrade personnel and reorganization department
Emergency Response – Crisis management Adviser for Sonangol P&P in Angola Africa
HSEQ + S / Emergency manager for project – MNSTCI Project (KBR / Halliburton) in Iraq
HSE-environmental manager JGC Middle East in Dolphin project Qatar.
HSE-environmental Manager for Feed, Construction in big pipelines project in South America Gasyrg, Gasbol
Waste management and decontamination with YPFB