A day in the life

Leading with integrity

Ayulik A. Trihendro – Asset Integrity Engineer, Jakarta, Indonesia

I studied engineering because it translates something in your mind, your vision to make life easier, into something that’s real – logical things, proved by calculations, not something abstract. I went into the energy industry because it was the biggest contributor to the Indonesian economy in the 90s.

After graduating in materials science and engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology in 2000, I started my career at BP as a metallurgist.

Now my role involves managing the integrity of the fixed assets in Natuna Sea. I am responsible for performing inspections, maintenance and integrity anomaly repairs to prevent major accident events.

A typical day starts at 7am, reviewing the daily reports from offshore plant inspectors. This is followed by inspection progress monitoring, reviewing open anomalies and performing co-ordination if any immediate inspections need to be made as part of continuous risk reduction offshore. The rest of the day is spent in handling reviews and approvals. I also attend equipment fabrication factory acceptance test (FAT) workshops as part of the quality assurance process and conduct HSES safety leadership visits and work in progress (WIP) audits on our contractors in their yards and offshore as required. 

Martin Wardrope

Graduate Process Engineer, AELE operations

Martin is a graduate process engineer supporting the North Everest production asset within our Armada, Everest, Lomond and Erskine (AELE) hub in the UK. He recently moved to the role after his first rotation on the graduate programme as a process safety engineer within Harbour's HSES team. 
Martin joined Harbour Energy after graduating from the University of Aberdeen in 2021, with an MEng degree in Chemical Engineering.

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Mavis Anagboso

Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Europe)

After more than 20 years of working across the public and private sector, Mavis Anagboso’s appointment at Harbour feels like a homecoming to a role that plays firmly to her strengths.

Growing up in the oil city of Warri in Nigeria where her dad worked for Shell, Mavis has fond memories of her childhood in the 80s in a very close-knit family. Like a lot of youngsters, she dreamed of being an actor when she grew up, something that has stayed with her to this day, where she is part of a keen amateur theatre group and has even been an extra in Dr Who.

Although acting was her first love, Mavis studied economics and statistics at the University of Benin and then an MSc in international economics, banking and finance at Cardiff University.

I started my career in the civil service and I'm a recovering economist , she explains.

Since then, Mavis has worked in several disciplines including petroleum economics, supply chain, client relations and now human resources. The draw of being responsible for setting the strategic direction for diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Harbour Energy has now brought her firmly back to the fold within the oil and gas industry.

To Mavis, DE&I is about three things – recognising that we are all unique, respecting our differences and taking tangible steps every day to make sure the people around us feel included. 

My priority is to build awareness around DE&I within Harbour and to create the infrastructure to make it part and parcel of everything we do. That means formulating a strategy that works for us and then executing it , she explains.

Mavis was attracted to the role at Harbour because of the opportunity to join the team as we evolve our story. She feels Harbour is set apart by having a Board of Directors, CEO and Leadership Team who are all firmly committed to the DE&I journey. One of the company’s core values is integrity, which is something that she identifies closely with.

Without integrity, who are we? It is fundamental to who we are as individuals. A person of respect will have respect for others, be direct and honest and make everyone around them feel safe to speak up , she says.

Mavis loves meeting people, making new friends and acquaintances and doing her bit to make a difference in her own way. She is married and lives in rural Aberdeenshire with her husband, two sons and the family dog, Ollie (a fox red Labrador).

Her favourite film is the 2018 Marvel movie Black Panther, and she stood up clapping with tears in her eyes and so much pride in her African heritage when the film finished at the cinema – much to the embarrassment of my kids , she adds laughing.

To her, the movie showed an alternative reality where black people can also be superheroes – a lesson that’s there for everyone. It’s not just about race, but also about what happens when you allow people to shine.

Harbour is proud of its open, inclusive and welcoming culture, where difference and uniqueness are celebrated and everyone is supported to be themselves and fulfil their greatest potential.
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Dale Checksfield

Offshore Installation Manager, North Everest

As offshore installation manager, Dale oversees Harbour Energy’s North Everest platform and its bridge-linked CATS riser platform. His focus is on maintaining production from the late-life Everest field and ensuring the safety of everyone onboard.

This role and the responsibility that goes with it are truly a great achievement for a boy who left school in Scarborough at 16 and headed straight to sea on a “non-traditional” vocational pathway. 
Despite gaining a Master Mariners certificate of competency, having the privilege of command and senior leadership roles, some NVQs, a HND in nautical science from South Tyneside College, a PGDip and a pass with distinction in the Royal Navy Specialist Navigator’s Course (the toughest course in the Navy), Dale has previously been told that not having a degree would hold him back.

Not one to shy away from a challenge, he decided it was time to correct this, not for others, but to prove to himself that he could. So, two years ago, Dale started on a journey that today has neared completion with the recent submission of his final assignment for his Master of Laws with Professional Skills degree at the University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen University Law Society.

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Dale’s passions are helping other people and doing the right thing at the right time. For the past six years he has been a member of the Durham Constabulary Executive Leadership Team with responsibility for the strategic and operational management of Special Constables in the county. Its role is to safeguard, to provide response and road policing and to work with specialist departments across County Durham and Darlington. Here he works closely with partner agencies and stakeholders and influences volunteers to achieve results to the benefit of the communities within a force credited as being consistently “outstanding” by the HM Inspector of Constabularies.

He is also a warranted police officer with 15 years’ experience who retains an operational exposure on the front line and is co-chair of Step Change in Safety’s cross-industry OIM Network raising the voice of front-line managers in the safety narrative at strategic and operational levels. His role in the OIM Network is a pivotal one, ensuring those in the offshore community are adequately represented in everything we do within the industry.

When he’s not offshore, volunteering with Durham Constabulary or attending cross-industry safety meetings, Dale likes to spend time at home in County Durham with his family.
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