Deepwater Wind announced that it has named Robert Billington as Construction Project Director for the Block Island Wind Farm project, and named Bryan Wilson as Manager of the project.
Billington, a civil engineer, has more than three decades of experience in the oil and gas industries in the United States, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He joins the company’s Rhode Island-based team and will oversee all the planning, logistics, procurement and management of the assembly and construction of the Block Island Wind Farm.
Billington, a Texas native, most recently worked for Callon Petroleum, of Houston, as the Estrada Field project topsides manager, overseeing the offshore hookup of the sub-sea oil well in the Gulf of Mexico to Conoco’s Magnolia platform. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan.
Wilson, a year-round Block Island resident, has been Deepwater Wind’s on-island liaison since 2009. He’s a former member of the New Shoreham Town Council and a number of island boards and commissions. He has owned and operated ZMA Design/Build Inc., a design and construction business on Block Island, since 1998. He is also a volunteer firefighter/EMT for Block Island Volunteer Fire & Rescue.
Wilson will now oversee on-island operations and logistics, as well as lead the project’s public engagement efforts.
“Bob brings decades of project management experience to our Block Island team,” Moore said. “His experience and leadership, combined with Bryan’s expanded role on the project, will provide key support as we continue to ramp up the permitting and move into the pre-construction phase of both the Block Island Wind Farm and Block Island Transmission System.”
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Source: dwwind, September 23, 2011