Gavin Smith

Gavin Smith (FIChemE) is a graduate from the University of Melbourne in Chemical Engineering. Having started off as a Winemaker, has spent the last 22 years based in Europe (when not in the Middle East or North Africa!) as a Professional Chartered Engineer working in Engineering Management, EPC and technical consulting across the Food/beverage, Pharmaceutical/Biotech, Energy (Hydrocarbons) and Wastewater industries. Former Chief Process Engineer for AMEC upstream Oil and Gas, now working within the Pharmaceutical and Biotech sector.

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Gavin Smith13/05/2024
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An “unforeseen event” or an accident waiting to happen?

The recent collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge (Maryland State, USA) following the strike by the container ship Dali…
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Gavin Smith05/03/2024
632

‘COP’-a-load of this – Chance would be a fine thing!

As COP28 fades into the past, and Labour Leader Sir Kier Starmer is now safely back in the UK following…
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Gavin Smith21/12/2023
632

Gen Z “Climate Change Anxiety”

As COP28 rolls on and “countries and oil companies” at this event talk promises to make “major” (??) progress in…
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Gavin Smith10/11/2023
533

You’re having a barge?

The chorus of outrage over housing UK asylum seekers in the Bibby Stockholm barge berthed off Dorset was one I…
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Gavin Smith17/08/2023
1,092

Ocean Gate Titan: An Engineering Risk Assessment

The tragic events around the Ocean Gate Titan submersible disaster (18-June-2023) have many layers of the onion to peel away. …
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Gavin Smith10/07/2023
692

BBC balance or bias?

Sometimes the BBC surprises me – this time not in a good way. Upon reading the 13th of April article…
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News & Events

Gavin Smith08/05/2023
593

No Country for Oil Spills

The reporting of a recent pipeline leak into Poole Harbour, Dorset (Poole Harbour: Pipeline sealed after onshore oil field leak…
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Gavin Smith27/02/2023
567

Should population control be the new green energy?

2023 has started and two events in the news stuck out for me. In a 25-year deal, China and Afghanistan…
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Gavin Smith22/12/2022
7,151

Elon Musk: The Fake Engineer

I was slightly bemused when watching BBC news during an interview, where the interviewee was being asked about Elon Musk’s…
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Gavin Smith15/09/2022
510

Why fools and fanatics are a recipe for disaster

The recent outbreaks of the Monkeypox virus is of concern, especially as how a previously uncommon virus has now given…
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