Lab Scientist
Saudi Aramco
Total years of experience :39 years, 9 Months
• Non routine analysis for water, using ICP, spectrophotometers & potentiometric methods.
• Non routine analysis for sour crude oil - Emulsion Stability Index (ESI), sulphur content by XRF.
• Non routine analysis for lube oil, jet fuel and sour natural gas.
• Non-routine and advanced analysis for solid materials (scale, corrosion products) - using Scanning Electronic Microscope/Energy Dispersive Spectra (SEM/EDS) and X-Ray Dispersive (XRD).
• Field chemicals testing & monitoring - demulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors.
• TEG units for natural gas surveys - studies to improve efficiency.
• Corrosion inhibitor downstream systems - studies to improve efficiency.
• Provide recommendations for field chemicals use, demulsifiers treatment, scale cleaning, corrosion prevention and mitigation.
• Preparing work instructions for analyses, according to the ASTM, API and operations manuals of the instruments.
• Environmental and microbiological tests for waste water - BOD, COD, coli form bacteria.
• Corrosion monitoring in separators and pipelines, using corrosion coupons. Provide options and recommendations relating to corrosion engineering issues. Provide recommendations for redesign corrosion preventing activity. Monitoring cathodic protection system.
• Gas chromatography analysis for determination of the corrosive agents in gases - H2S, CO2, water.
• Weekly and monthly reports for corrosion activity.
• Corrosion monitoring in separators and pipelines, using corrosion coupons. Provide options and recommendations relating to corrosion engineering issues.
• Gas chromatography analysis for determination of the corrosive agents in gases - H2S, CO2, water.
• Monthly reports for corrosion activity.
• Analysis of crude oil, natural gas, lubricating oil, jet fuel, waste water, drinking water, formation water, scale, sulphur & mercury content in gas, residual waters and oil products.
• Analysis performed by gas-chromatography, spectrophotometry, atomic fluorescence, X-ray (XRF) and standard analytical methods.
• Corrosion monitoring using corrosion coupons;
• Training the laboratory staff and the new employees regarding specific activity of the laboratory and HSE procedures.
• Implementing ASTM, ISO, BS and API standards for chemical analysis.
• Management of all aspects of chemical treatments, processes and analysis on the oil platforms - oil treatment, gas treatment, water treatment, water injection, lab analysis.
• Manage chemical stocks, bunkering chemicals, track chemical consumption and reporting.
• Elaborating new methods to improve the methods for waste water, crude oil and natural gas treatment and analysis. In cooperation with BAKER-PETROLITE specialists, I designed and applied new methods to improve crude oil treatment. I have tested and used Baker - Petrolite demulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, biocides, oxygen scavengers and other type of products.
• Supervising chemical injection and treatment, including advising and monitoring safe working with chemicals offshore.
• Analysis for waste water, injection water, crude oil, natural gas performed by gas chromatography and spectrophotometry.
• Implementing national and international standards for chemical analysis - STAS, ASTM, API and ISO.
• Gas freezing preventing and crude oil paraffin fall-out inhibition using chemical treatment.
• Corrosion monitoring and preventing. Provide options and recommendations relating to corrosion engineering issues. Assure the continuous improvement of the corrosion control process following the field feedbacks. Providing solutions for improvement of corrosion preventing and scale removal.
• Scale preventing using chemical treatment and scale removal by chemical cleaning.
• Ensuring the laboratory equipment is in good condition.
• Drilling fluids conditioning.
• Reporting daily, weekly and monthly to the Offshore Manager.
• Training the laboratory staff according to lab and HSE procedures specific for oil platforms.
• Management of the chemical processes and field operations.
• Supervising preparing and testing in oil fields explosive materials for well perforation.
• Crude oil, produced water and waste waters analysis.
• Elaborating new procedures for well stimulation, well perforation materials and drilling fluids.
• Training the laboratory staff according to lab and HSE procedures.
• Monitoring the hydrocarbons content in drilling fluids using gas chromatography.
• Corrosion preventing using corrosion inhibitors.
• Laboratory analysis for drilling fluids, produced water and waste waters.
• Drilling fluids preparing and conditioning.