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Working as a lead process engineer and technical authority (TA2) on the Carmon Creek Field Facilities scope which includes oil and gas wellpads, acid gas disposal wells, Casing vent gas, Cliffdale gas facility and pipeline, produced gas disposal wells and pipelines, natural gas pipelines and sour gas treatment facilities

Some of my job responsibilities during the project were as below:

 Supervising and reviewing the engineering design in various engineering phases of the project, Pre-Feed, Define and Execute phases
 Compilation and validation of existing gas plant data and developing basis of design for new project
 Review and assurance of the gas plant technology vendors design for acid gas, gas dehydration plant and amine unit gas sweetening plant
 Review and design the safeguarding system for Carmon Creek process facility including relief valve sizing selection, Instrumented protective function, SDVs and emergency blow down system
 Development of safeguarding memorandum for field facilities including wellpads
 Review and approval of process engineering deliverables developed by engineering contractor
 Implementation of Shell DEPs, NFPA, ASME and CSA standards and codes
 Conduct economic studies and cost analysis of various crude oil processing options and optimizing the process design by recommending alternative solutions
 Coordination with all stakeholders on project to develop consensus on various design issues
 Ensuring process design is safe to operate and fit for purpose
 Early involvement in capital projects as part of the front-end-loading to address process optimization, heat integration and lessons learned.

Senior process engineer with sub-lead role on thermal heavy oil projects. Responsible for all process engineering activities including:
 PFD and P&ID development
 Equipment and instrument sizing
 Preparation of instrument and equipment data sheets
 Preparation of cause-and-effect diagrams
 Participation in inter-discipline meetings
 Preparation of other process engineering deliverables such as Process Control Narratives, operating philosophies, process studies
 HAZOP reviews
 Mentoring of junior and intermediate engineers
 Process Modelling using Hysys

Worked as a Sub-Lead Process Engineer on sustainable projects for various clients including Moose Jaw Refinery and Nova Chemicals for plant revamping and debottleneck studies, plant safety integrity and validation and thermal rating evaluation of the refinery atmospheric section preheat train and overhead condenser and cooling system.
 Leading and mentoring small team of Process Engineers
 Development of simulation models for small and medium scale facilities
 Support studies and sustaining projects
 High level economic evaluations and screenings of process options
 Process and mine large amounts of plant operating data to validate models and identify trends
 Sizing of equipment and hydraulics
 Responsible to validate all new and sustaining project design simulations, thermodynamics, oil characterizations, and heat & material balances

Worked as a PMC contractor for the client Apig KCO on the follow up engineering activities during construction phase of the project, This includes process related studies, optimization and design integrity review of 450 kbopd Agip KCO Kashagan green field project in Atyrau Kazakhstan. The project included design of three oil trains and two gas trains. Gas trains of the project include Gas Dehydration, sour gas sweetening, and dew point control and storage facilities. Oil trains include oil treating for crude oil stabilization, flash gas recovery and compression and storage facilities
 Leading and mentoring Process Engineers
 Relief system Modeling of the LP and HP flare system
 Dispersion and Radiation Modelling
 As Building of the P&IDs
 Blowdown system optimization study
 Design integrity review of the new facility

Worked on the design and engineering and technical support on Gas oil separation plant, gas dehydration units and oil and gas storage and marketing terminals for WAHA oil and Gas Company in Libya
 Process plant site visit for collection and validation of gas plant data
 Developed simulation model for gas dehydration units and gas oil separation plant
 Coordinate effectively with the client and inter-disciplines and disseminate instructions to team members to the progress of project in accordance to schedule, allotted man hours and budgeted costs
 Recommend cost effective measures to reduce the overall project cost
 Lead the development of process design and calculations for equipment including pumps, vessels, exchangers, columns, safety valves, control valves, line sizing, adequacy checks, Relief and Blow down system
 Development of cause-and-effect charts, Heat and Mass balance and datasheets for process equipment
 Interact with Quality Assurance to ensure compliance with Company’s ISO Quality procedures
 Prepare technical proposals and man-hours estimate for new projects
 Review and finalization of process deliverables
 Supervision of junior and intermediate engineers
 Review and completion of techno-economic studies
 Participation in Hazop SIL review meetings
 Review and finalizing of PFDs and P&IDs

Process Study, basic and detailed design of the central processing facility for Devon Jackfish-2 Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage projects. Activities performed on the project included:
 Development and modification of HYSYS model of Central Processing Facility (CPF)
 PFD and P&ID development
 Sized PSVs, PVRVs, relief systems piping, flare headers, Knockout drums, and contingency analysis and flare relief load calculations by determining relief from pressure control valves/Emergency shutdown systems
 Equipment sizing
 Participation in inter-discipline meetings
 Functional Control Description
 HAZOP reviews
 Mentoring of junior and intermediate engineers
 Flare relief system design
 Planning and scheduling of process deliverables
 Heat integration study of the process plant

Worked on the detailed design of Christina Lake SAGD Project, Some of major responsibilities on the project are:
 Design of flare relief system including relief valve sizing, flare stack sizing and flare dispersion modelling
 PFD and P&ID development
 Equipment sizing
 Instrument datasheets
 Glycol relief system design
 Checking the process engineering work of junior and Intermediate engineers
 Prepared report on the progress of the project
 Planning and scheduling of process engineering deliverables
 Preparation of process engineering manhour estimates

Worked as a Process Engineer on medium and large scale projects related to enhanced oil recovery plant using propane gas. Some of the major job responsibilities are:
 Carried out the modeling of process facilities using HYSYS for oil recovery and gas separation, heating and compression system
 Support research and pilot plant projects that will enhance oil and gas recovery from reservoir and surface field processing
 Developed Line Designation Tables and process equipment data sheets
 Provided the engineering support on the development of new technology
 Developed and reviewed the basic engineering design documents of the on-going projects of the company
 Carried out sizing calculations for various process equipment
 Equipment and instrument sizing
 PFD and P&ID development

1998 - 2005 Operations Engineer, National Refinery Limited, Karachi Pakistan
Worked as operations engineer on following units
1- LPG Merox
2- Two stage distillation unit (Atmospheric and Vacuum)
3- Propane De-Asphalting unit
 Conducted debottleneck and optimization studies based on new processes and due to induction of new technologies
 Audit and review existing gas and oil separation plants and stabilization units to identify improvement opportunities, potential problems and remedies to existing problems
 Provided innovative solutions to existing problems/concerns in flare systems and flare systems components from design perspective as well as from operation perspective
 Worked closely with EPC contractors for proper process selection and design basis
 Identified problems related to process plant and recommended optimum solutions
 Provided training to plant junior engineers, supervisors and operators for safe plant operations of the process facility
 Process troubleshooting, analysis of plant shutdowns & start-ups, day to day monitoring of the Plant, advising changes to operating parameters keeping in view the safety and economic limitations, ensuring product specifications are in line with requirements, ensuring smooth operation of processes and planning shut downs in case of shortage of raw material or storage facilities
 Catalyst regeneration, unloading and loading as per standard procedures
 Furnace decoking supervision
 Develop plans for reviewing and incorporating new technologies in the refinery process facilities
 Conduct audit of the process facilities to make sure that the facility meets applicable standards
 Process and catalyst performance monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization
 Carried out regular benchmarking of individual process units and overall refinery operations, performance evaluation, coordinated process monitoring and optimization activities (Atmospheric Distillation, Vacuum Distillation, Propane De-asphalting units).
 Implemented refinery best practices, reviewed refinery procedures and operating envelopes
 Provided support in company annual capital programs which includes participation in screening study, development of design basis document, reviewing PFD, P&IDs, FEED, project specifications, detailed engineering
 Participated during catalyst loading/unloading, start up, catalyst sulfiding and SOR / EOR catalyst performance guarantees
 Demonstrably improved technical skills of trainee engineers through coaching and mentoring performance monitoring, optimization and troubleshooting activities
 Provided engineering support to plant operations and maintenance
 Coordinated with technology vendors and licensors for the induction of new technology
 Actively participated in various plant pre-commissioning, commissioning and start up activities