Operation Manager
Schlumberger
Total years of experience :25 years, 9 Months
Directed all facets of production chemical supply operations and services contracts CMS in both Iraq (Iraq ENI Zubair Field) and Qatar (Qatar Maersk Oil and Total E&P).
OPERATIONS MANAGER (2006 to Present)
Provided senior-level leadership with full accountability for training, oversight, and overall support for engineers, supervisors, operators, and remote personnel.
• Oversee supply operations and service for specialty production chemicals (corrosion inhibitors, demulsifiers, scale inhibitors, scale dissolvers, foamers & deformers, H2S scavengers, surfactants, gas hydrates inhibitors (KHI), biocides, well stimulation chemicals, cleaning chemicals, oxygen scavenger, wax, asphaltene solvents, inhibitor chemicals).
• Spearhead day-to-day operations of Qatar (Ras Laffan) and Iraq (Basra) warehouses. Manage all aspects of freight, returns, receiving, parcels, and transfers. Lead and develop warehouse team, leading group initiatives and ensuring superior levels of customer service.
• Collaborate with financial controller to organize financial reporting and forecasting (monthly sales, projected sales, revenues, ROFO, EBITS). Prepare P&L statement and review IBT.
• Prepare tender documents (technical/commercials), review frame work agreements, and facilitate other small enquiry quotes for customers throughout the ME.
• Organize and evaluate commercial offers through product cost review and supplier negotiations, following through with margin setup (centralized on market intelligence).
• Perform contract review and thoroughly analyze all terms and conditions with business legal team, addressing any and all exceptions to the T&C.
• Optimize dehydration of crude oil and produced water treatment through chemical application. Conduct chemical field trails for demulsifiers and water clarifiers. Minimize corrosion and scaling potentials by driving optimal chemical injection rates within the limitation of the process equipment. Manage biocide evaluation/treatment control and monitoring programs.
• Tote Tanks Management: Monitor over 65x2000L tote tanks and 18x3800L tote tanks (Schutz tanks, ISO tank containers). Facilitate DNV certification and ensure compliance with international standards slings/load tests, according to client EN 12079 specifications. Clean tanks, retain shipment samples, and manage fleet of 30 x 20’ ISO containers for U.S. chemical shipments.
• Supply Chain Management: Evaluate stock levels on a weekly basis and place orders to maintain sufficient inventory to effectively meet consumption demands.
• DRA: Managed five-year Drag Reducer Agent contract ($100MN operation). Ensured products are delivered in optimal homogenous state through constant air circulation of ISO containers and Schultz tanks, utilizing air supply and heavy duty pump skids.
• Injection Skids: Manage maintenance for over 80 injection pump skids for onshore/offshore operation
• Inventory Control: Facilitated weekly meetings with management and staff to review in-house inventory/impending orders.
• QHSE: Establish and develop standard operating procedures for individualized specific duties. • Collaborated closely with drilling solution/completion fluids group and environmental solution group in numerous assigned projects as designated team leader.
Sodium Bromide Reclamation Project:
• Restored over 50, 000 sacks of damaged Sodium Bromide bags. successfully resulting in an added reclamation savings of over $3MN.
Waste Management Project:
• Controlled drilling solution/completion fluids waste and production chemicals waste. .
• . Implemented action plans in 2012, effectively disposing 95% of generated waste by 2013. Deployed prevention measures to reduce future waste generation.
• Coordinated installation of new fire alarm system and firefighting/foam sprinkler system designed for storage of flammable/toxic/corrosive chemicals for a 2600 M2 chemicals storage warehouse.
Consulting services 2005 - 2006
Calgary, Alberta
Worked as independent technical consultant for several production oil companies in Alberta, the scope of the work involved recommendations for scale build up solutions related to calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate deposits and validation of the water analysis analytical methods for production. Implemented several programs to help production and successfully implemented commercial scale program. Other work involved
Recommendation for wax and asphaltene plugging problems, this involved filed visit for sample collections, the procedure involved selection of best chemical for prevention of wax built up and clean up chemicals.
• Bacteria growth monitoring for downhole and facilities in oil & gas production. Written several recommendation to control bacteria growth which involved field sampling, lab testing such as kill test and chemical screening
• Provided metallurgical and corrosion monitoring assistant, failure analysis for several production facilities
The main customer was Maersk Oil Qatar for the supply of Production Chemicals. The normal work consist of service calls, service visits, e-mail correspondence, logistics, technical support, environmental ratings, laboratory testing and evaluations, fluid monitoring and optimization, tote tanks management and maintenance, technical services reports, auditing, and sales reports are done on monthly.
Meetings: Weekly meetings with Mearsk production staff at the Doha office to discuss the chemical programs and to set programs and agendas for the weeks ahead and to schedule the next field tests and visits.
AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
• Chemical Applications
1. Production support to the offshore /onshore on chemicals treatments and matters.
2. Performance and cost optimization on all chemical applications
3. Quality control and assurance of chemical products.
4. Oil Dehydration chemicals optimization with process control.
5. Corrosion, Scale Control and online monitoring
6. Biocide treatment control and monitoring.
7. Pipelines integrity chemical assessment
8. Chemical injection systems, sampling and injection points reliability.
9. Chemical products compatibility and environmental control.
10. QHSE support
• General duties
1. Monitoring and evaluation of chemical application performance
2. Coordination and control of chemical supply logistics.
3. Perform chemical cost control and prepare input for yearly budget.
4. updates and control of test procedures and standards
5. Training and education for the onshore/offshore staff.
6. Participate in the preparation of production weekly and monthly reports.
7. Auditing chemical of chemicals storage facilities
Champion Technologies is worldwide supplier of specialty production chemicals. The company services are in the upstream chemical treatment for the oil and gas sector.
Champion’s chemical lines are as follows:
*Corrosion treatment chemicals *Demulsifiers *Specialty Chemicals
My areas of concern were in the specialty chemicals, as listed below:
• Wax and Asphaltenes
• Scale
• Foamers & Defomers
• H2S Scavengers
• Surfactants
• Gas Hydrates
• Solids Analyses
• Bacteria Growth
• Well Stimulation Application
• Cleaning chemicals
Duties:
• Product application, problem solving, lab testing and evaluation, product development, product performance, conduct training schools, seminars, report writing, and field service solving team.