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Nationality: Romanian ; Birth Date: 07- 05-1955
; Civil Status: Married / one child
Qualification
Ph.D. Eng. in Chemical Engineering, Major in Petroleum & Gas Processing Engineering.
Education
* DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY: July 1993, Petroleum & Gas University Ploiesti, Petroleum & Gas Processing and Petrochemistry Dept., Ploiesti.
* MASTER OF SCIENCE: June 1980, Petroleum and Gas University Ploiesti, Petroleum & Gas Processing and Petrochemistry Dept., top 8 %.
* Career Summary
20 years of experience in On-shore/Refinery Oil & Gas Operations / Oil & Gas Processing Engineering, out of which:
„« 7 years experienced in Oil Refinery Operations as Topping & Vacuum Unit, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, HF Alkylation, Catalytic Reforming & Nafta Hydrotreating, Gas Fractionating, Aromatics Separation, Delayed Coking, Sulphur Recovery..
„« 8 years experienced in Petroleum and Gas Processing Engineering (Design, Research and Development of Oil Refinery Processes).
„« 5 years of international exposure in Europe ( Germany, Italy ) Asia ( Malaysia ), Africa ( Libya ), Middle East ( UAE, Oman ), acquired in Oilfields, Petroleum Refinery, Gas Plant and Power Plant Operations, taken part in works of 5 International prestigious Projects.
Professional experience
06/02 ¡V 05/03 Concept Process Engineer with Electrowatt Engineering (Oman), Muscat, Oman.
Seconded in South Oman Engineering team.
Responsible for transient analysis of oil pipelines under various scenarios. Reviewed adequacy of existing protection and proposed changes where required.
06/01 ¡V 06/02 Concept Process Engineer with Electrowatt Engineering (Oman), Muscat, Oman.
Seconded in Petroleum Development Oman L.L.C (Qarn Alam Asset Team).
In the role of Concept Engineer I provided process engineering expertise for the identification, appraisal and conceptual development of upstream oil and gas projects.
Core Duty: carry out conceptual engineering and optimisation studies in order to define engineering projects in terms of technical scope, cost execution strategy and duration.
Specific Responsibilities include developping sound concept engineering designs against a backdrop of uncertainty/changing parameters, creating operating envelopes, evaluations of various concepts, carry out process simulations and optimization using engineering packages as Hysis, Pipesim, speeadsheet calculation to rate or size process equipment, well hook-ups, documented concepts selection. Used UTC calculations spreadsheet, carried out Life Cycle Cost,provided inputs for Programme Build and forecasts. Took part in the Value Assurance Reviews Team. Proposed solutions to debottleneck the existing production facilities in Barik Oil Station (using of a PCHE, increasing the propane chilling capacity), supported Operations to monitor and assess Station performance.
Took part as Process Engineer in the team of Barik Main Devlopment Project (Gas Reinjection) and participated in reviewing and approve process discipline deliverables issued by Front Enginering Design Contractor (PARSONS LLC, Oman). Reviewed and optimized the various design cases, participated in the Hazop and IPF (Instrumented protective function) exercises. Familiarised with PDO and Shell DEPs, API Standards as well as Codes of Practice.
08/99 - 04/01 Senior Process Engineer, Sulphur Project ¡V RAM Petroleum Refinery ( A JV of AGIP PetroliS.p.a & Kuwait Petroleum Corp. ) Milazzo, Sicily, Italy.
Core duty: Process Engineering Follow¡VUp of BDP performed by Foster Wheeler Italiana for a New Gasoil Desulphurisation & FCC Amines Unit Revamping, New LPG Merox/Deethaniser Unit & Kero-HDS Amines Unit Revamping, New PSA Unit for Hydrogen Purification, New VSA Unit for Oxigen Separation & CLAUS /TGTU Plant Revamping, to boost the refinery capacity of processing Kuwait High-Sulphur Crude Oil.
Specific responsibilities: Liaisons with other Discipline Engineers and End Users in order to develop cost effective, safe and fit-for-purpose design solutions. Have the responsibility in assisting to resolve outstanding problems quickly and to the mutual satisfaction of both Operations and the Project Team. Attend review meetings with Engineering Contractors (Technip & Snamprogetti), Process Licensors (Parsons, Storck, UOP, Linde) and relevant Equipment Vendors (Nuovo Pignone, Akzo Nobel, Atlas Copco) in order to clarify any arising operational issues and to ensure any potential obstacles are overcome so as to avoid any delays to the Project Schedule.
Review process data sheets for equipment and instruments, all PFD's, UFD's, P&ID's, cause & effect charts. Checks the adequacy of designs, to ensure fitness for purpose and technical quality, in terms of providing safe/environmentally operations and facilities, in compliance with the BDP, Codes, Standards, Principles, Procedures, Practices and Specifications.
Assist in the establishment of Process Control structure as well as the Emergency Shutdown (ESD) and Fire & Gas System Philosophy. Reviewed also equipment shutdown conditions, particulary the interlocking diagrammes, alarm and trip settings.
Participated in the HAZOP Team and use hand-on refinery experience, engineering priciples and know-how, in order to ensure that adequate protection has been provided and to guarantee the safety of the plant personnel and the integrity of the process equipment. Ensure that all local and national safety regulations have been adopted and the plants are safe operated.
Review and approve on behalf of Operations Department the Operating Manuals, Equipment Flushing, Inerting and Drying-out Procedures, Lube Oil Dossiers and all Tie-ins connections. Review and approve functional test procedures and witness the functional tests, prepare punch lists and follow with contractors to clear all items as per the Project scope. Review the Commissioning, Start-up & Shutdown Procedures as well as Mechanical Completion and Ready to Start-up Certificates. Participate in Plant Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Start-up activities using existing operational experience to avoid delays in performance test.
05/98 - 07/99 DCS Process Operations Trainer for a Foxboro I/A Series DCS - Peninsular Gas Utilization Project - Gas Processing Plant 5&6 Package (2x 500 MM Scfd Sales Gas Capacity) for PETRONAS GAS Bhd.,Paka,Terengganu, Malaysia, employed by Daelim Engineering Ltd. & Snamprogetti S.p.a Consortium.
Taken part in works of Commissioning, Start-up, Performance Test and Post Handover Assistance of Dew Point Control Unit (DPCU3) and involved in Commissioning and Start-up of GPP5 Plant.
Main duties: Training DCS Operators to control preliminary gas and condensate separation, acid gas removal, gas dehydration, condensate stabilization, NGL recovery and separation as well as propane refrigeration cycle, by taking proper action and guiding the field operators in order to maintain the products quality within the specifications limits. Skilling same ones to operate heat transfer equipment - fired heaters, tube and shell heat exchangers, air coolers, plate fin exchangers (cold boxes), dinamic equipment (pumps, reciprocating and centrifugal compressors) as well as gas-liquid and liquid-liquid separators, amine absorbers, fixed bed adsorbers and distillation columns (NGL condensate stripper, demethaniser, deethaniser, depropaniser, debutaniser). Trained operators also to accomodate with PLC's sequences, complex loop and combined feedforward/feedback control, to tune various types of linear PID controllers by manual tuning or by selftuning, to use the nonlinear control to stabilize the plant run, to trend plant parameters, to respond to process alarms and to activate the plant emergency shutdown system.
02/97 - 04/98 Head of Separation and Energy Conservation Division, Oil & Gas Processing Engineering Dept., ICERP-SA ( Romanian Institute for Design and Development of Petroleum & Gas Processes ), Ploiesti, Romania.
Responsibilities: Conducting and managing projects and engineering studies dedicated to:
Profitability Improvement of Romanian Refineries by:
* performance analysis of existing primary processing units as Crude Topping as well as secondary ones - Fluid Catalytic Cracking,Catalytic Reforming, Delayed Coking, Lube-Oil Furfural Extraction and Solvent Dewaxing, Light Ends and Aromatics Fractionation, Claus, and identifying the adequate revamping solutions ;
* screening of refinery processing alternatives in order to adapt to frequent crude-oil quality fluctuations using linear programming;
* using evoluted software simulation packages as Hysim, Pro II, Chemcad III, to rate and size process equipment ;
* issuing flowsheets, PFD's and P&ID's, as well as preparing equipment specifications and data sheets ;
* technical assistance, training and consulting activitities in order to improve operating phylosophies.
Energy Conservation in Petroleum Refineries by:
* applying of modern thermodynamic concepts ( entropic or exergetic method) in order to identify the available work losses for either existing or new refinery proceses;
* distillation trains synthesis by implementing energy conservation specific solution to increase their thermodynamic efficiency ;
* benchmarking of distillation alternative separation processes as adsorbtion, parastillation, reactive distillation, centrifugal distillation, supercritical extraction, membranes diffusion and/or to select the best option of distillation process configuration (trays vs packing), use of a heat pump, optimising design operating pressure and feed tray location, identifying proper mass and heat transfer enhancing devices;
* finding out managing solutions to lower the energy consumptions in refinery processes ;
* implementing of advanced control systems.
Gained experience in the field of quality control of Process Units either by on-line analysers and lab testing methods. Skilled to check the quality of crude oils and of various petroleum cuts as well as residual water streams. In addition, carried out new experimental procedures in order to develop modern testing methods and statistical processing of the experimental data. Throughout '87-'97 period, performed 59 Engineering Reports, presented 19 Scientifical Papers at various meeting (10 published or in press), advised 3 M. Sc. Thesis and worked out 3 Patents.
05/96 - 01/97 Shift Supervisor, Mirfa Power and Desalination Plant, General Contractor Ansaldo Energia S.p.a, employed by Telford Intl. Ltd. in Water Remineralisation - CO2 Production Plant, Mirfa, United Arab Emirates.
Duties: Precommissioning, Commissioning, Handling Trials, Start-up, Performance Test. Performed checks of the conformity of the plant equipment against project documentation - P&ID, isometrics, specification data sheet and other various drawings and removed out all deviations in geometry, material quality etc.
Checked also the functionality of process equipment according to dedicated procedures. Skilled to operate limestone filters & backwash sequences, chemicals dosing - chlorine, oxygen, dosing, hexametaphospate, carbon dioxide as well as CO2 Plant equipment ¡V burners, absorption and desorbtion columns, dryers, compressors and centrifugal pumps, sea water filters, refrigerant cycle. Dealt with quality control schedule - total hardness, conductivity, anions content, residual oxygen and chlorine content.
11/95 - 04/96 Head of Separation and Energy Conservation Division, Oil & Gas Processing Engineering Dept. ICERP - SA, Ploiesti, Romania.
Core Duty: Conducting projects focusing on new software developing and applied thermodynamics in order to improve the engineering calculation methods. Specific responsibilities:
* prediction of V-L equilibria for undefined mixtures and multicomponent systems using various Equations of State (S.R.K., P.R., B.W.R., K.D. L.K.);
* numerical simulation of the crude-oil distillation columns;
* phase equilibria investigation in ideal, non-ideal systems or undefined mixtures;
* reconciliation of the mass and thermal balances data ;
* mass transfer enhancing in liquid - liquid extraction, distillation and absorbtion processes.
03/95 - 12/95 Applied Thermodynamics Engineer, Technical Thermodynamic Dept., Kaiserslautern University, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Responsibilities: Performing experimental investigations on the multiphase high pressure equilibria in the ternary Carbon Dioxide-Water-(1-Propanol) System. Skilled to measure thermodynamic properties of sub and supercritical CO2 containing mixtures, compositions, phases distribution, densities, critical points, enthalpies, entropies in order to describe phases behaviour vs. working pressure and temperatures. For above purpose used typical high-pressure lab testing equipment such as gas cromatograph, high - performance liquid cromatograph, densitometer, equilibrium cell and processed the experimental data by computer.
09/93 - 02/95 DCS Board Operator, Bu Attifel AGIP (NAME) NGL Plant ( 380MM Scfd ), with COMERINT& SNAMPROGETTI S.p.A, Libya.
Duties: participate in works of Precommissioning, Commissioning, Start-up and Performance Test. Skilled to use a ABB Masterview 850 DCS, in order to improve the economical effects and the safe run of the plant. Accustomed to operate both dynamic - pumps, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors - and static equipment such as heat exchangers, heaters, molecular sieve dryers, distillation columns, PSA process and electrodialysis reversal (EDR) Units. Involved also in NGL recovery, Three-Phase Separators and Crude Oil Stabilising, Desalting & Demulsifing.
09/87 - 08/93 Development Engineer, Oil & Gas Processing Engineering Dept., ICERP SA, Ploiesti, Romania.
Responsibilities: Performing applied research and conceptual design focussing on the development of new refinery processes, as following:
* pilot studies and engineering to develop new products and/or Rrfinery processes - MTBE, TAME, Nafta and Middle Distillates Hidrodesulphurisation/Hydrotreating, Hidrocracking of Heavy Distillates, Short Residuum Conversion, Gasoil Hidroisomerisation, to deeply convert the crude oil ;
* termophysical properties measurement of the petroleum fractions and light hydrocarbons;
* investigation of the formation, stability and breaking of crude oil - water emulsions in the presence of electric field and surfactants, to optimize the crude - oil dehydration and desalting process;
* crude oils caracterising and physical properties investigation of distilled cuts;
Concerned also with preparation of project budgets and equipment procurement.
06/85 - 08/87 Shift Supervising Engineer, Petrotel S.A. Petrochemical Works, Ploiesti, Romania.
Assigned to work within Steam Cracking Plant (200,000 tpy ethylene), in Furnaces, cold and hot separation, High-Pressure STEIN - Boiler and the Feed Water Demineralisation Units.
Responsibilities: start-up, troubleshooting and debottlenecking, resources allocation, improving quality and increasing the yields of valuable products, lowering the energy consumptions.
09/80 - 05/85 Junior Process Engineer, Petrotel S.A. Fuel & Lube-Oil Refinery (5 mil. tpy crude), Ploiesti, Romania,
Worked in CDU/VDU, Catalytic Cracking and HF Alkylation, Delayed Coking, Claus, LPG Merox, Nafta Hydrotreater, Catalytic Reforming and Gas Fractionating Units.
Responsibilities: Precommissioning, Commissioning, Start-up and Test Run, troubleshooting, environment protection, corrosion prevention, turnaround activities scheduling.
Skilled to check the conformity of equipment against project documentation as P&ID, isometrics, specification data sheet and other various drawings. Performed also preparatory works such as internal inspection and filling of process vessels, testing instruments and process equipment functionality, handling trials for heat exchangers, heaters, molecular sieve dryers, distillation columns, reactors, pumps, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, steam turbines.
Taken part in Commissioning and Test Run of MTBE Unit in RAFO S.A Refinery in 1982.
Language abilities
Language Speaking Reading Writing
English Good Very good Good
French Good Good Good
Italian Good Good Good
German Poor Good Poor
Computer skills
Experienced to use general software - Windows, MS DOS, oriented packages - MS Office,MS Works, Corel Draw, Corel Flow and various software packages for the simulation of chemical processes such as Hysis, Pipesim,Pro II, TLNET and Fred.
Relevant expertise areas
Oil & Gas Process Engineering, Oil Refinery Operations, Design/Research/Development, Commissioning and Start-up, Power Plant Operations, Oilfield Operations, Energy Conservation, Applied Thermodynamics, Separation Processes.
Professional associations membership
Member of Romanian Association of Chemical Engineers, Romanian National Surface and Colloids Engineers Association and Prahova's County Scientist Association.
Personal appraisal
Fast learner and having the ability to analyze and integrate information quickly and to propose creative solutions. Strong desire to succeed and bring real drive and enthusiasm to all activities. Good interpersonal, communication and strong team working skills. Demonstrated leadership strengths. Ability to work with a minimum supervision and to drive studies to completion as a lead engineer Proven team worker with a positive and open attitude. Exposed to business planning and economics, developing strategies and managing uncertainties.
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