Principal Process Engineer
Technip
Total years of experience :30 years, 3 Months
I’m responsible of EPC Process Engineering for reconversion of La Mède refinery to produce 500 KTPA of Biodisel, 464 KTPA BioJet, 322 KTPA Heavy Reformate comprising the following units. Pre treatment U-100 619 KTPA CPO, Hydrotreater U-201 540 KTPA linear paraffins, Hydroisomerisation U-202 486 KTPA biodiesel and 44 KTPA SR Naphtha, C3 Recovery U-400 20 168 KTPA off-gas, ARU-301 882 KTPA lean amine, Naphtha Splitter U-602 795 KTPA SR Naphtha, SWS U-302 115 KTPA, Unifiner Stabiliser U-651 1194 KTPA Unstabilised Naphtha, Reformer Stabiliser U-652 1544 KTPA Unstabilised Reformate, Gas Plant U-601 193 KTPA LPG, U-701 Deisopentaniser 726 KTPA Light reformate and benzene rich cut, U-702 Deisopentaniser U-702 330 KTPA iC5 cut & iC5 AvGas. Supporting ten process engineers in daily deliverables, PFS revisions, Process Design Basis and Control Narratives, IPF Narratives, etc., HAZOP and SIL Studies, Model Reviews, Alarm Objective Analysis meetings and Operating Manuals.
Responsible Atmospheric Residue Desulfurization units, Merox Unit-21, Hydrotreaters, Hydrocrackers Crude Unit-11, VRU-13, HCR-14, Amine plant and Sulfur Recovery block, Revamp area, Tank Farm. Responsible for the main refinery systems by product and intermediates, VGO/TGO/CGO/HGO/UCO, ATK/DPK/JP5, Refinery Naphtha, RAW Kerosene/Diesel, ULSD, Refinery Fuel Oil, HSAR/LSAR, Crude feed system and dry slops.
Responsible for the MAB1/MAB2 Refinery Inter Unit Control package which include all refinery and offsites operation during start-up, normal operation and shut down scenarios. Activities management derived of P&ID (PEFS’s) and PFS revisions, Process Design Basis and Control Narratives, IPF Narratives, etc., HAZOP and SIL Studies, Model Reviews, Alarm Objective Analysis meetings and Operating Manuals for the Revamp area, Tank Farm and Revamp
Responsible for the Management of Parking lot activities and items, Scope of change and Engineering Development issues: ability to use the Contract contents, specifications, ITB, PVs, TORs and Company Standards to define and classify all modifications derived from the PEFS’s review to sort them out.
Condensate Stabilization and Gas Stabilization Jordbær FPSO (Topsides) Project Teekay Petrojarl (TKPJ) for construction of a Floating Production Storage & Offloading Vessel (FPSO) for the Jordbær Field in Norwegian Continental Shelf. The FPSO is based on a new-build hull to be located on Jordbær Central Field, app. 120 km west of Florø (North Sea), Water depth 410 m. The Stabilization Package comprises of a Debutanizer Column together with its associated Reboiler, Reboiler Pumps, Overhead Condenser, Overhead Receiver and Reflux Pumps. The function of the Debutanizer Column is to extract lighter components (C1 - C4) from the liquid arriving from different sources (scrubbers and knock out drums) thereby increasing the yield of crude and 2x 100% Molecular Sieve dehydration adsorbers complete with a regeneration system.
CPS1 Khurmala Dome Development integration and expansion for start-up the facilities to process up to 260, 000 bpd. Two GOSP stations. The additional fluids will be processed on an adjacent site (known as CPS2) with some sharing of the original CPS1 facilities. The Project consist of the integration of different assets, the 100 scfd Gas Treatment Plant consisting of Desulphurization plant, Dehydration and Conditioning plant, Turbo-Compression station, Produced Water Treatment and Injection plant, Fuel Gas, Fire & Gas detection systems, Flare, Depressurization and utilities
Responsible of 130 000 KBSD Refinery comprising Inlet Separation CDU, VDU, HDS, Ultrafiner, Ultraformer, FCC, Alkylation, SHP, NH, PENEX, Sulphur Recovery, Dimersol G, Waste treatment, Tank farm and three berth Jetty installation. The main responsibilities and work focus is to manage the Process Department with ten unit engineers to solve the main daily process issues of the refinery. Process Optimization, Troubleshooting, and Debottlenecking, corrosion management, process monitoring, process safety management, Catalyst management and process scanning. Developing the major reconfiguration studies and refinery steering to comply with HSE, EA and financial perspective.
I developed the FEED for a major re-configuration of the Refinery, comprising the economic evaluation and the FEED to increase de production from 130 M KBSD up to 150 M bbl/d. This upgrade consist of Crude tower trays, pre flash drum, enhancing vapour recovery unit, a new kero hydrotreater, the Vacuum Unit ejector system, FCC cyclone capacity and chiller package for the Isom.
Alkylation unit optimization and debottlenecking to increase the lifecycle, Alkylation API 751 audits and reduce the ASO production thru the upstream units constrains set-up (Olefins feedstock.- FCC Coker depropanizer bottoms) and (iC4 SGP deisobutanizer, FCC depropanizer overhead liquids). ASO control by more efficient water removal < 5 ppm in feed streams. Sulphur content reduction in the FCC olefin feedstock < 10 ppm, H2S removal in the FCC Gas Plant maintaining the low proportion of C3 olefins in the feed, improving the mercaptans removal in the caustic treatment and carbonyl sulphide in the amine plant. Minimize of butadiene and other diolefins reducing the FCC severity and improving the SHP plant to control the overall dienes in the olefin feedstock. Avoiding Oxygen, ethane, non-condensables, nitrogen compounds (acrylonitrile, acetonitrile, amines) in the feedstock. Upgrade the acid strength above 92% and operating temperatures inside the 16 to 40◦C range avoid runaway and major inventory conversion to ASO and organic fluorides. Reduction in Fractionator tray fouling by isorecycle optimization due to C6 plus heavier impurities, controlling as well the organic fluorides formed in the acid settler effluent and product streams in order to maintain the isobutene-Olefin (I/O) ratio due to iC4 over time purity loss. This optimization comprised of reductions ALAARP of the corrosion factors. CBM, alky tar in the bottoms of fractionators, iC4 stripping vapor temperature control (
I was responsible of the FEED of the new Zauliyah Sweet Gas Processing Plant of 1.2 MM sm3/d to cope to transport specification of SOGL (South Oman Gas Line), OGC (Oman Gas Company), NGL recovery and Customers’ specifications. The Contract comprises the Procurement, Erection, Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Handover and six month post-start-up assistance of the production facilities.
I developed the Epic project Tank Farm 16 Nos oil storage tanks with 204’510 bbl each, The Contract comprising the Procurement, Erection Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Handover of a Tank Farm in Iraq in Erbil, Kurdistan
I developed the Process Engineering, Detailed Engineering of 1.5 MM KBSD 48° crude oil, 34 MVA Power (2000 A busbar switch gear) Pumping Station and 250 Km. 42” X65 W.T. 0.688” API 5L X65 Pipeline from Khurmala to the Faysh Khabur Tank Farm in the borderline with Turkey.
The Contract comprising the Procurement, Erection Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Handover of a Natural Gas Compression Station of 1 MM scfd in Iraqui, Kurdistan and 24” x 60 W.T. 0.5” API 5L X60 gas pipe line from Khormor Field to Duhok, borderline with Turkey.
I was responsible of the FEED and Detailed Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and validation of the 30 MM GPY Bioethanol to cope the standard ASTM D-6751.
I was responsible of the Basic Engineering 30 M TPA of Ultraclean Diesel Bio Refinery to cope the standards EN-590 for Diesel and EN14214 for Biodiesel (automotive gasoil) CAPEX 185 MM USD. I developed the FEED for an integrated bio-refinery to value the wastes coming from the FAME biosynthesis and Bioethanol to obtain Syngas as intermediate for catalytic reforming to finally produce Ultra Clean Diesel with a very low carbon footprint. This project was developed in two stages, being former by Thermal Oxidation (TO) and after completing the basic research on Catalysis we reconvert the process to reduce temperature, energy and capital investment.
I was responsible of 296 M KBSD crude processing facility, developing intangibles and productive assets up to the maximum economic output with null accidents and surpassing HSE regulations. The Human Capital, quality plans, the CAPEX and sustainable growth. I’ve increase the production capacity from 296 KBSD up to 330 KBSD developing a reconfiguration including the revamping of heavy ends processing, FCC (KBR License) feed nozzles, multi component hopper, raiser and catalyst, vacuum tower ejectors system, the resizing Delayed (Foster Wheeler) Coker drums, upper and lower deheading valves, interlocks, fractionator, furnace burners and tubes, and compressor. The revamping of the desalter trains, the atmospheric furnaces, the alkylation unit (Chiyoda) increasing the HF purity, the tank farm operation to reduce the bottom solids accumulation.
I’ve realized the Basic Engineering of the six plants comprising the Burgos Gas Processing Complex of 1200 MM scfd total sweet gas capacity, 99+ % recovery NGL + dry gas residue, proceed to direct the Detail Engineering, Procurement, Erection, Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Handover of the first two trains of 400 MM scfd. I’ve operated the first two modular train of 381 MM scfd sweet gas real input, 2 x 100 MM scfd, 2x 400 MM scfd total capacity (Single Column Overhead Recycle, under Ortloff License). This project was realized in four years; I remained as operation leader, after several months and already stabilized the maximum production of this facility I was transferred as operation responsible of the refinery.
Plant Superintendent
Pemex, Cactus Gas Processing Complex, Tabasco,
As head of the operations of this Processing Complex I was responsible for the revamping of all plants derived from the accident I should to cope with an ambitious and almost non affordable program to recover the output of this gas plant in one and half year, we achieved under my leading the commission of this asset six months later. In order to accomplish the goal I realized the Process Engineering of a major retrofit of Cactus Gas Processing Complex of 1800 MM scfd sour gas total capacity
I was responsible of the process engineering for reconfiguration of 250 M TPA up to 500 M TPA of p-xylene, aromatics and intermediates at Petrochemical Complex, the processes development, optimization and economic analysis of assets up to the maximum profitability output with and surpassing HSE regulations for the following plants:
Benzene, Toluene, Xylene Reforming- The basic engineering involve mathematical modelling to determine the most economic operating conditions (feedstock, rate, solvent) of existing BTX units (UOP), and the size and best configuration for design of new units, as well as investment and operating cost analysis
Extractive Distillation and Extraction Unit. - Sulfolane Process (UOP) for aromatic rich reformate and Hydrotreated Gasoline feedstock. I developed the simulation tools for the high degree of non-ideal processes and the lack of Thermodynamic and Kinetic data. This unit produce high purity aromatics > 187 M TPA, 98% benzene for production of styrene monomer, cumene, cyclohexane, linear alkylated benzene and derivatives. The basic engineering comprises the pilot plant and laboratory research for mathematical modelling purposes and software design tools assessment.
p-Xylene Isomerization unit- Improving Acid-catalysed process for the isomerization of ortho- and meta-xylenes to para-xylene, as well as removal of ethyl benzene from the C8 aromatics stream. The design feedstock was non-equilibrium feed mixture containing at least 30 wt. % xylene isomers. I developed the simulation tools for design and optimization purposes and the feasible studies.
Continuous Catalytic Regeneration Plant- The new CCR naphtha reforming plant to achieve the required volume of aromatics. I developed the simulation software for design works for 25 ¬lumped pseudo components including C6 to C9 hydrocarbons.
Complete the major to finally accomplished Process Engineering specialisation
