Nurgul Shuakbayeva, Senior Process Engineer

Nurgul Shuakbayeva

Senior Process Engineer

NCOC (North Caspian Operating Company)

Location
Kazakhstan
Education
Bachelor's degree, Fuels and Hydrocarbon materials.
Experience
30 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :30 years, 9 Months

Senior Process Engineer at NCOC (North Caspian Operating Company)
  • Kazakhstan - Atyrau
  • June 2018 to June 2021

Supported Onshore Production Facilities in Incident Investigations and troubleshooting.
Led small projects, dosing pump replacement, and Antifoulant usage and their concept selections.
Reviewed contracts, and worked with purchasing team on equipment, catalyst, and consumables selection.
Created consumables database including replacement frequency, required quantity per vessel, and optimal stock.
Initiated and reviewed MOCs.
Participated in RCA, and HAZOP (Pipeline section).
Designed and developed a spent catalyst sampler tool for SRU.

Laboratory Senior Safety Specialist at Tengizchevroil
  • Kazakhstan - Atyrau
  • June 2013 to December 2016

Led Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) program.
Ensured compliance of Laboratory safety procedures with the company and RoK standards, OHSAS-18001, and NFPA.
Promoted safe work practices, by launching Monthly Topics (Month of preventing unlabeled samples and chemicals), describing hazards related specifics of liquid, gas, and solid samples.
Introduced to laboratory staff ISO -17025 (5.3 Accommodation and environmental conditions).
Prepared annual Emergency Drill plans, scenarios, and protocols for the Emergency Response Team (ERT).
Developed and updated Safety Procedures, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), and Job Hazard Analysis (JHA).
Created safety test questions, and participated in proficiency testing.
Conducted risk assessments and hazard analyses when changes in the lab processes appeared.
Coordinated internal laboratory MOC process, and database to ensure it is updated in a timely and accurate manner.
Ensured fire-extinguisher conditions, inspections, and gas and fire alarm systems are regularly tested.
Arranged the internal and external (government and Chevron ETC) safety audits, ensured the corrective actions were done properly, and hazards were eliminated.
Managed waste disposal processes, expired chemicals, mercury-containing chemicals, and discarded equipment.
Determined possible air emissions composition and calculated concentrations from fume hoods.

Process Engineer - Energy and Environmental team at Tengizchevroil
  • Kazakhstan - Atyrau
  • February 2012 to June 2013

Calculated Gas Balance, sales gas volume, internal use gas consumption rate, and flared gases.
Calculated SO2 emission rate.
Investigated plant process upsets which led to flaring.
Reviewed Material Balances for the following systems: Fuel gas, Nitrogen, and Instrument air.

Process Control Engineer at Tengizchevroil
  • Kazakhstan - Atyrau
  • April 2010 to April 2012

Provided advice and solutions to problems involving basic regulatory control, and controller tunings.
Developed control strategies and control narratives.
Worked with automation technicians/engineers in Advanced Process Control (APC) implementation project.
Reviewed existing plant alarm and ESD system.
Tracked Bad Actor alarms and the actions are taken to fix the underlying problems that cause the alarms.
Controlled process parameters during Well Flow Back.

Competency Development Group at Tengizchevroil
  • Kazakhstan - Atyrau
  • September 2011 to February 2012

Developed Process Control test questions for the following Honeywell control system sections, Process Fundamentals, DCS (Distributed Control System), SIS (Safety Instrumented System), CCC controller, and control loops.

Process Engineer at Tengichevroil
  • Kazakhstan
  • January 2003 to April 2010

Supported Operations during the start-up, shutdown, and commissioning of new facilities.
Collected oil/gas/liquid/ solid samples, and provided smog tests. Wrote procedures to analyze unusual samples.
Performed detailed system analyses, and engineering calculations;
Reviewed a new demercaptnization unit documentation, and participated in commissioning.
Provided internal Inspections of various types of process equipment.
Created PFD (Process Flow Diagram) for Sulfur degassing unit (SDU).
Created, and modified environmental performance monitoring program and product balances.
Provided technical support to Regulatory Affairs group in annual environmental permit requests.
Participated in RCA, and HAZOP (Sulfur forming unit).
NOP/ Alarm & Trip review with board operators and PCO team.

Process Engineering Technical Assistant at Tengizchevroil
  • Kazakhstan
  • January 2001 to January 2003

Technical Assistance to Process Engineers (incl. investigations);
Updated Process Flow /Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams;
Daily monitoring of process variables maintain teams files;

Central Plant Lab Technician at Tengizchevroil
  • Kazakhstan
  • May 1989 to January 2001

Preparatory Group.
Research Group.
Gas-Liquid Chromatography Group.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Fuels and Hydrocarbon materials.
  • at Aktobe Regional State University named after K.Zhubanov
  • July 2001

4 years full bachelor programs of Chemical Technology.

Diploma, Organic Synthesis Technology.
  • at Chemical Engineering College.
  • April 1989

That was six semesters studying courses, teaching students about chemical laboratory techniques, oil/gas processes and equipment. It also introduces them basic scientific research experiments.

Specialties & Skills

Process Engineering
Laboratory Experience
Document Control
Gas Processing
Document control, Data sheets, Process drawings updating
Turn around, Primavera
Process Critical Data Analysis
Understanding of gas plant processes and interconnections.
Process control safety, alarm management
Laboratory safety experience

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Languages

English
Intermediate
Russian
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Amine Treating Seminar, USA (Training)
Training Institute:
http://www.sulphurexperts.com/SulphurExperts
Date Attended:
April 2008
Duration:
40 hours
Gas Conditioning & Processing Course, Norway (Training)
Training Institute:
http://www.jmcampbell.com/gas-conditioning-and-processing-g4.php
Date Attended:
October 2006
Duration:
80 hours
Sulphur Recovery Seminar, Germany (Training)
Training Institute:
http://www.sulphurexperts.com/SulphurExperts
Date Attended:
October 2004
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • Reading, youtube training materials.
    Power BI beginner level by self-training.