Chartered Process Engineer
Atkins Ltd
Total des années d'expérience :13 years, 11 Mois
Repsol-Sinopec Resources Limited
As the responsible Engineer, I have recently been involved in the transition of Asset Integrity Management from the incumbent contractor to Atkins. My role involves the assessment of a variety of key assurance factors, including the evaluation of work orders to ensure that remedial actions have been appropriately prioritised. This role also includes offshore site visits to conduct in-situ assessment of Pipeline and Pressure Systems for defects by manner of General Visual Inspections (GVI’s).
BP (AGT)
As the responsible Engineer, I have also recently been involved in the project to evaluate the feasibility of expanding the existing MEG pipeline injection system to meet future produced water requirements. I was responsible for conducting Appraise-Select stage activities including the evaluation of suggested improvement options, as well as assessing the existing systems constraints. This involved a review of the systems operating conditions and determining the effects of the additional flowrates on the suction and discharge pipework, ensuring the system did not exceed client and industry guidelines, such as BP GP 42-10 (piping systems).
I have been involved in the hybrid Appraise-Select phase and my deliverables have included Appraise-Select report, Business Case Assessment and Scope of Requirements, these are used by the Client for evaluating the project as part of their internal stage gate processes.
BP (AGT)
As the responsible Engineer, I have recently been involved in the investigation and remediation of a process outage at the Sangachal Terminal. I have been responsible for conducting Appraise stage activities including the evaluation of suggested improvement options, as well as the proposal of additional options to reduce the likelihood of the incident occurring again. This involved a review of the system design against industry guidelines, such as ISO 10418, and operational best practice. Subsequently I have been involved in Select phase activities including Construct/Destruct P&ID generation, and constructability assessments.
I have been involved in both the Appraise and Select phases of this project. My deliverables have included Appraise report, Business Case Assessment and Scope of Requirements, these are used by the Client for evaluating the project as part of their internal stage gate processes.
Maersk Oil (UK) - Well Tie-Back Offshore Commissioning and Procedural Development
As the Lead Process Engineer, I have been involved generating and execution of scope of commissioning procedures for a number of Production Well tie-backs, and Interim Repair & Maintenance (IRM) Workscopes. This includes identifying the required isolations (process, hydraulic, electrical and chemical), developing pre/post-commissioning methodologies (de-gassing, de-oiling and de-watering) and developing leak testing practices in line with company and industry standards and also involved supporting the project offshore onboard the FPSO, coordinating the successful completion of the workscopes and liaising with multiple parties both offshore and onshore. I was responsible for the generation and provision of permits to the Dive Support Vessel and third party contractors, as well as providing any necessary operational support whilst offshore.
Reliance Jamnagar Offsites and Utilities
Process Engineer responsible for the design of the new freshwater cooling system part of the most recent Reliance Jamnagar expansion project. This has involved taking the client specifications, and using them in the sizing of equipment and development of all design documents including basis of design, datasheets, and system drawings such as PFD’s and P&ID’s. With all deliverables running concurrently, I am responsible for managing my time and workload to ensure that all deliverables are produced and issued to the client on time.
Projects include: Reliance Jamnagar J3 Refinery Expansion
Additional responsibilities included:
•Maintaining design documents in line with up-to-date client and licensor data.
•Attending client meetings. In these reviews, I am responsible for justifying the design chosen, and to manage any changes and deviations from the brief as requested by the client in the form of trends.
•Ensuring that each deliverable is generated and issued within the budgeted man-hours.
•I am also required to lease with other engineers responsible for different utilities and managing their cooling water demands as their individual designs develop and mature.
•Due to my operational experience, I am required to assist the graduates in understanding some of the practical aspects of refinery designs, as well as familiarising them with the overall design process. I am also required to explain the basic set up of a typical refinery to help them understand how their individual utilities may be used around the facility.
Unit performance / process engineer for the 3PTR and 4PTR Naphtha Hydrotreating units within a Tier 1 COMAH site. Role included responsibility for the monitoring, optimisation and troubleshooting of the two operating units, in addition to providing process discipline support to other asset engineers to resolve emergent maintenance and operational issues.
Additional responsibilities included:
•Identification of production / reliability enhancing modifications such as new burner installation, partial re-tray of existing distillation column, and change in level instrumentation philosophy. Subsequent ownership of management of change, through MAF generation, hazard analysis and multi-disciplinary team review.
•Providing process engineering input into multi-disciplinary plant failure analysis - e.g. a fuel gas isolation valve failure investigation, resulting in the discovery that the demister in a knock-out drum had significantly corroded, allowing entrained acid into the unit fuel gas system.
•Proving process engineering input to equipment modifications owned by others as part of multi-disciplinary review.
•Monitoring plant performance, and scheduled unit maintenance (e.g. heat exchanger / burner cleaning) in order to ensure minimal plant upset and continued high plant availability. Interfacing with front line operations and planning personnel in order to ensure man power requirements where available.
•Provided technical input into turnaround workscopes - e.g. technical and commercial evaluation of catalyst tenders.
•Provided process engineering support during safety critical workscopes such as PSV removal, undertaking process hazard analysis in order to ensure plant remained safe to operate.
•Provided process engineering input into a plant wide alarm rationalisation review in order to reduce CRT workload and in turn increase both safety, and operability of plant.
•Owned and redlined process documents such as P&ID’s / PI process monitoring system.
•Attended daily plant meetings with front line operations personnel in order to gain insight in process upsets / communicate any accidents / near miss lessons learned to team.
•Trained performing authority within plant control of work system.
In my role as Treaty Administrator, I was responsible for checking the work of both Underwriters and Brokers to ensure there were no contractual errors. This meant ensuring that policy dates and durations were consistent, as well as confirming that scheduled premium payment amounts were correct. This was particularly challenging as some policies were paid in 5 or more different currencies.
I also took part in a number of exercises to help improve the flow of work between Underwriting Services and the Underwriters themselves, this involved streamlining the transfer of policy data, and using my numerical and language skills to explain the best practises for completing the necessary checks to my colleagues, therein improving the efficiency of the department and reducing the backlog of work.
As well as checking and entering the data supplied by the Underwriters, I was also responsible for maintaining the database, and amending it as required when conducting checks on the entry work of my peers. This was to guarantee the integrity of the data that cascaded into the credit reporting tool used to collect premium payments.
Whilst working at Canopius I decided to study for the “Certificate of Insurance” (Cert CII) qualifications, which required me to sit three separate exams in order to display my knowledge of key Lloyds of London Subscription Market policies and governing laws, as well as broader Insurance laws and classes of business. These studies were conducted outside of office hours in my own time.