Sherif Rifai, UAE Branch Manager

Sherif Rifai

UAE Branch Manager

Egypt Gas

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
Experience
20 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 8 Months

UAE Branch Manager at Egypt Gas
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since November 2019

Studied the local market and sought potential opportunities and/ or partners through events, conferences and networking. Achieved the required certifications and the essential documentation. Led the preparation of the technical and commercial bids for ADNOC and other major infrastructure companies’ tenders.

• Registration as subcontractor and service provider in ADNOC and major infrastructure companies such as Trojan Holding, Nurol LLC, Bin Hafeez General Contracting Establishment, Nael & Bin Harmal Hydroexport, Saif Bin Darwish Co. LLC, Wadeadams, PEG, Modon, Aldar, Hyundai, Samsung, NPCC, Technip and Maire Tecnimont.

Al Snobar and Al Keena Internal Distribution Piping Network EPC Project Manager at Egypt Gas
  • Jordan - Amman
  • December 2017 to June 2018

Client: Al Snobar Hygienic Paper Mill Co. Ltd.

Project/ Construction Manager in accordance with international codes and standards including contract negotiations, projects planning, managerial meetings, reporting and invoicing.

Industries Natural Gas Feeding Project Manager at Egypt Gas
  • Jordan - Amman
  • December 2016 to May 2018

Established the base for industries natural gas feeding in Jordan (sub-contractors, materials, manpower and services supplier, etc.). Studied local market and potential opportunities (plants) for the company. Participated in Granting the contract for the first two industrial plant natural gas feeding pipelines in Jordan (Al Snobar & Al Keena plant, Nuqul Group, Amman) and (United Iron Steel, Manaseer Group, Amman). Prepared the draft of the contract for the internal natural gas network for Al Snobar and Al Keena plant.

• Negotiated contract items on behalf of Egypt Gas decreasing the retention from 10% to only 5% of the contract value.

Al Snobar and Al Keena Feeding Pipeline EPC Project Manager at Egypt Gas
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2017 to May 2018

Client: Jordanian Egyptian Fajr for Natural Gas Transmission and Supply

Project/ Construction Manager in accordance with international codes and standards including contract negotiations, projects planning, managerial meetings, reporting and invoicing.

Steel Pipelines Projects Dept. Manager at Egypt Gas
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2016 to November 2016

Client: EGAS | Delta Egypt

Managed several pipeline construction projects in accordance with ASME B 31.8, API 1104 and British standards including contract negotiations, project planning, managerial meetings, reporting and invoicing. A member of the technical team for studying offers of steel pipes, fittings and valves supply bids and technically receiving those materials. A member of the technical team for studying tenders of international projects and offering technical and financial bids.

Chilled Water Network in ISF Camp Project in Duhail Construction Manager at Al Manara Oil and Gas Services
  • Qatar - Doha
  • August 2015 to May 2016

Client: Aktor - Al Jaber Joint Venture

Construction in accordance with ASME B 31.8, API 1104 and British standards utilizing the new technology of automatic welding for the gained deep knowledge of both Licoln/ BugO and Miller/ Dyna-Torque automatic welding systems.

• Empowered Al Manara Oil and Gas Company by hiring, training and utilizing unskilled and skilled labour forming a qualified crew for the project and next projects.

Business Development Manager at Al Manara Oil and Gas Services
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2015 to May 2016

Creating new opportunities in construction and bidding for new projects. Introducing Al Manara Oil & Gas to the Qatari market through networking.

•Prequalified Al Manara Oil and Gas Company for Shell approved bidding SME contractors.
•Negotiated Chilled Water Network contract items decreasing invoice review period from 45 days to 10 days and transferred the supply of the material for valve chambers to the client side.

Steel Pipelines Construction Department Manager at Egypt Gas
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2013 to April 2015

Client: EGAS : Egypt

Managed several pipeline construction projects in accordance with ASME B 31.8, API 1104 and British standards including contract negotiations, project planning, managerial meetings, reporting and invoicing. A member of the technical team for studying offers of steel pipes, fittings and valves supply bids and technically receiving those materials. A member of the technical team for studying tenders of international projects and offering technical and financial bids.

Marg and Khosos Natural Gas Feeding Pipeline Network Project Manager

•Overcame the nature of the undeveloped area and the utilities crowded right of way for (7 km * 16 in. and 15 km * 12 in.).

Shobra El Kheima Network Connection Pipeline

Steel Pipelines Section Head at Egypt Gas
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • January 2009 to December 2012

Project/ Construction Manager of pipeline projects in accordance with ASME B 31.8, API 1104 and British standards including contract negotiations, projects planning, managerial meetings, reporting and invoicing.

Abo Qir Power Generation Station New Pipeline 24” and Modification of Old Pipelines 16” & 24” Project Manager
Client: Gasco | Alexandria | Egypt

• Handed over the project manager duties after four months of the project start and recovered the backlog of the project activities of two months by applying a mitigation plan of increasing productivity rates and extending daily working hours.
• Restored control over mixed up Q/ C of the project after Q/ C engineer leaving taking over his duties, retrieving all missing data and records of welds and NDT, sorting them for the three pipelines and creating a tracking system to NDT results, repairs and retests.

Raw water pipeline 16” of the Egyptian Methanex Methanol Co. Project Manager
Client: Methanex | Damietta | Egypt

• Negotiated contract prices regarding materials procurement and pipeline installation and land compensations increasing project size by 3 million EGP.
• Spearheaded construction crew achieving 3 weeks early completion bonus (250000 EGP / week).

Pipeline Construction Senior Engineer at Egypt Gas
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2006 to December 2008

Repair of 30" Cargo Pipeline at El Hamra Terminal
Client: WEPCO | Alexandria | Egypt

• Conducted daily, weekly and monthly progress reports showing S - curve.
• Restored 300000 L.E. for works done for cancelled items of the project through negotiations with the client.

Sharm El Sheikh City Natural Gas Feeding and High-Pressure Distribution Pipelines Construction Manager
Client: EGAS | Sharm El Sheikh | Egypt

Hot tapping, Planning and QA/ QC Engineer at Egypt Gas
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2005 to August 2006

Supervised hot tapping of natural gas pipelines crew in Cairo and Delta. Prepared time schedules, WPS, PQR, WQT for steel networks and pipelines projects in accordance with ASME B 31.8, ASME B 31.3, ASME IX, API 1104, API 2201 and British standards.

•Coached Q/ C team for hot tapping steps monitoring and control.
•Pioneered fire pass and check list for hot tapping processes in the company.

Piping Installation Engineer, Industrial Natural Gas Networks Section at Egypt Gas
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2002 to August 2006

Piping Installation of internal natural gas networks of plants, hotels, bakeries, etc. in accordance with ASME B 31.3, API 1104 and British standards, major networks being:
•Abo Zaabal for Engineering Industries (Military Factory no. 100).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at Cairo University
  • July 2000

Very Good with Honour Degree

Specialties & Skills

Certified Welding Inspector
Primavera
Project Management
NATURAL GAS
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
INVOICING
Construction Management
Tendering and Bidding
Technical Office
Planning
Project Management

Social Profiles

Personal Website
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Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker
French
Beginner

Memberships

Egyptian Engineers Syndicate
  • Member
  • August 2000
Al Ahly Sporting Club
  • Member
  • June 1994

Training and Certifications

Cathodic Protection for Metallic Constructions (Training)
Training Institute:
Continuous Engineering Education Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University
Date Attended:
May 2002
Duration:
30 hours
Advanced Welding Technology: Codes, Standards and Quality Assurance (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering Services, The American University in Cairo
Date Attended:
June 2003
Duration:
30 hours
Quality, Environment and Health & Safety Concepts According to ISO 9001: 2000, ISO 14001: 1996, OH (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering and Quality Experts
Date Attended:
August 2003
Duration:
18 hours
Engineering of Piping Systems (Training)
Training Institute:
Alexandria Petroleum Maintenance Co. (PETROMAINT)
Date Attended:
August 2004
Duration:
30 hours
Verification of Delivered Materials and Their Certificates (Training)
Training Institute:
Petroleum Pipeline Co.
Date Attended:
January 2006
Duration:
30 hours
Primavera Project Planner, Level II (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering Services, The American University in Cairo
Date Attended:
March 2006
Duration:
30 hours
Primavera Project Planner, Level I (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering Services, The American University in Cairo
Date Attended:
December 2005
Duration:
30 hours
Hot Tapping and Stoppling (Training)
Training Institute:
Petroleum Pipeline Co.
Date Attended:
January 2011
Duration:
30 hours
Building Team Work (Training)
Training Institute:
Commercial Research and Studies Center, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University
Date Attended:
July 2016
Duration:
30 hours
Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Commercial Research and Studies Center, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University
Date Attended:
July 2016
Duration:
30 hours
Developing Great Managers (Training)
Training Institute:
Commercial Research and Studies Center, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University
Date Attended:
July 2016
Duration:
30 hours
The Art of Persuasion (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (Enppi)
Date Attended:
March 2021
Duration:
6 hours
Strategic Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (Enppi)
Date Attended:
March 2021
Duration:
12 hours
Performance Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (Enppi)
Date Attended:
March 2021
Duration:
6 hours
Crisis Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (Enppi)
Date Attended:
March 2021
Duration:
12 hours
Leadership Positive Mindset (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (Enppi)
Date Attended:
March 2021
Duration:
18 hours
Occupational Health and Safety (Training)
Training Institute:
National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety
Date Attended:
September 2021
Duration:
72 hours
ASNT UT Level II (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2014
ASNT RT Level II (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2004
Valid Until:
January 2007
AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2005
Valid Until:
September 2017

Hobbies

  • Watching Movies
  • Board Games
  • Writing Short Stories
  • Reading