Alan Knowles

Alan is Jee’s Civil and Construction Specialist - a civil engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the design of oil, gas and water pipelines.

Professional qualifications

• Chartered Engineer
• Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers
• FEANI European Engineer
• Affiliate Member of the American Institute  of Steel Construction

Alan’s particular expertise includes:

• installation methods for subsea lines for hydrocarbon developments
• design and specification of onshore and offshore pipelines
• soil assessment for pipeline trenching, burial and pile design
• subsea pipe bundles
• flowlines, landfalls, directional drilling, river crossings, marine structures and sea defences
• both conventional and single-point moorings for tankers
• finite element analysis of subsea equipment and finite difference analysis in soils
• calculations for coated pipelines with regard to both stability and thermal insulation
• design and construction of outfalls including investigation of primary and secondary effluent dispersion patterns