oil refinery project manager
IDOM
Total years of experience :30 years, 7 Months
• Management of engineering projects and support for the construction of the Caribbean HUB in Colombia.
• FEED engineering for the installation of solar panels in REFICAR.
• Feasibility engineering for the green and blue hydrogen project for the Cartagena refinery.
• Engineering to reduce sulfur in gasoline on the U-107 of the Cartagena refinery.
Production Planning. Economic Engineer. Downstream Business Development. Production Scheduling. Project Development Support. Economic Evaluation Using Netbackcracking. Analyst Refining Benchmarking studies. Economics modeling using NPV and IRR. Expert in developing yields, qualities and balances of chemical processes for process configurations in chemical and refining units. Financial modeling for project evaluation. Advice on the selection of licensors for processes derived from chemical and refining products. Analyst of cost refining in projects.
• Identify, evaluate and optimize the production program, market prospects, economic and financial evaluation, oil price forecasts, planning of competitive scenarios and knowledge of changes in energy policy and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate potential opportunities in Joint Venture.
• Analyze and monitor price shifts, margin analysis and report implications to competitive position.
• Calculation and analysis of refining margin.
• Identify, evaluate and optimize the downstream capital asset program; Market outlooks, economic and financial evaluation, oil pricing forecasts, competing scenario planning, and awareness of energy policy shifts and regulatory requirements.
• 2020 Solomon Benchmarking study integrator leader for Cartagena refinery REFICAR.
• Participate in the preparation of the annual Business Plan and 10-year outlook.
• Analysis and build up to NPV´s and IRR.
• Develop business cases to support profitability and growth targets.
• Economic evaluation with PIMS.
• Refinery Configuration development and economic evaluation opportunities.
• Develop strategies, which stimulate continuous business improvement.
• Refinery Shift Operation Manager in startup of the Cartagena’s Refinery Project (REFICAR).
• Lead of Refinery Planning during the REFICAR’s Project start up.
• Construction of the PIMS/APS model of the new refinery in association with KBC.
• Project engineer in REFICAR’s project in Cartagena (Colombia).
• Tank Farm Area, Blending Crude and Products, Marine and Fluvial Terminals.
• Facilities for Crude and another feedstock.
• Products sales.
Responsible for the definition of the startup sequence of 16 new process (Delay Coker/Hydrocracking Unit/ Sat Gas Unit/ Butamer/ Alkylation/ Diesel Hydrotreating/ Naptha Hydrotreating/ Hydrogen). Operations Staff Trainer.
• Lead the planning group to implement and deliver the refinery plan that allowed the improvement of refining margin. Calculation and analysis of cost refining.
• 2006 Solomon Benchmarking study integrator leader for Cartagena refinery.
• Construction of the APS (Orion) model of the new refinery in association with ASPENTECH.
• Prepare and assure the execution of the refinery production plan and program with the product standards, the results obtained reflect the refinery's economy and the reliability of the plants; Leader of the pursuit y/o control in strategic, financial and monetary terms to the processes of expenses, costs and investments as well as to measure the integral administration of the process units, with the purpose of optimizing the refinery margin, EBITDA and the EVA.
• Working with corporate planning, sales, transport and production to optimize all the supply chain.
• Lead of the NIR control project for crude oil management (Hydrocarbon Engineering October 2007).
• Liaison with Offtakers with respect to Production Programs, Lifting Nominations. Lifting Schedules and Inventory Control/Allocation.
• Coordinates raw material inputs (crude, gas liquids, etc.) and additive purchases.
• Perform economic studies and products availabilities forecast considering inventories, refinery equipment availability and product demand.
• Improve the PIMS model of Cartagena refinery in association with SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS.
• Process Engineer in Crude Distillation FCC, light ends, Blending and storage tanks areas and Terminals.
• Mass and heat balance, P&ID development and process equipment selection (pumps, heat exchangers, cooling towers, chillers and control valves) for plant expansion project.
• Reviewed/commented on P&ID’s prior to being issued for construction. Reviewed bases of design for equipment to ensure the equipment was fit for purpose. Also checked hydraulic designs.
• Function as the project/process engineers on all major capital jobs within areas of responsibility and was part of the engineering support for the plant project.
• Management of several plant optimization and revamping projects in ECOPETROL. Including energy efficient replacement equipment. Projects schedule and budget control.
• Management of the chemical treatment program for cooling towers, chillers and boilers.
• Lead of Recommend and setting in operation of the proposals of improvement (PFI) of the project of optimization of Refineries (agree with Shell Global Solution).
• Control the acting of the operation by means of the insurance of the execution of the monthly, weekly program and production; as well as to maintain the programming models and planning with the purpose of reproducing the operation of the refinery.
Master Degree