Senior Instrumentation, Control Systems and SCADA Engineer

Challenging engineering lead or management position in the oil and gas industry.

Since 2005 Senior Instrumentation Engineer
Gulf Interstate Engineering, Houston, TX, USA

Located in Moscow, working on the Caspian Pipeline Expansion Project /CPC/. The project increases the capacity of the existing 1500 km pipeline by three-fold; extending the existing five pump-stations and building ten new ones. The Marine Terminal facilities are also expanded to accommodate the increased pipeline capacity. The detailed design is done by Russian, Kazakh and foreign Engineering companies, coordinated by Gulf Interstate Engineering.Responsible for the co-ordination of the design and procurement of the Instrumentation, Control System, Custody Transfer Metering Systems, Telecommunication, LAN/WAN, Security and SCADA systems for the expansion.

1991–2005 Senior Instrumentation Engineer,
SNC-LAVALIN, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2002–2005 Project Engineer
YCOT and E/W Pipeline Control Systems Replacement Project /Saudi ARAMCO/
The East/West Pipeline is a 1200 Km long 56” multi-product pipeline across Saudi Arabia with a Loading Terminal in Yanbu, on the Red Sea.

Led the engineering design for the replacement of the
o Communication infrastructure,
o SCADA (Yokogawa FastTools),
o Nine Royalty and Custody transfer metering systems, using Alderley Metering System (ControLogix PLC network, OMNI Flow Computers and Citect SCADA)o Batch Tracking Application by Advantica (Stoner)

Supervised the System Integration and Factory Acceptance Tests.

2000-2003
Lead Instrumentation SCADA and Control Systems Engineer
Corridor Pipelines Project

The 450 km Corridor Pipeline Systems is in Alberta, Canada, consists of four pipelines carrying dilute bitumen, diluent and various refined products, seven pump stations, terminals and twenty-three block valve sites.

Was responsible for leading the engineering design and procurement of the following disciplines:
o Control system (Allen Bradley ControlLogix, VFD, Quantum Eagle Fire and Gas Detection, Automatic Sampler, Motorola MOSCAD RTUs). The control system used various control networks /ControlNet, DeviceNet, MCPM, TCP/IP/.
o Custody Transfer Metering (using OMNI Flow Computers)
o SCADA (Metso Automation OASyS),
o Stoner Leak Detection System
o Instrumentation

1997-2000 Project Manager
Three-Phase Well-site Metering Skid Project for Tengizchevroil /Kazakhstan/

2001 OASyS SCADA Configuration and System Management courses (2 weeks) Metso Automation, Calgary, Alberta
2000 Intools (one week), Intergraph, Calgary, Alberta
1996-1999 Business Management /Certificate/, Faculty of Continuing Education, University of Calgary, Alberta
1998 Project Management, SAIT, Calgary, Alberta
1980-1982 Digital Systems Design/Postgraduate School/, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
1978 Doctor of University in Digital Technics, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
1970-1975 Electrical Engineering Diploma in Process Automation, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

1996 Professional Engineer of Alberta APEGGA, Calgary, Alberta

Project Management: Experience in planning and executing projects, leading discipline teams during preliminary and detailed engineering, implementation, testing, field installation and commissioning. Experience in delegating and reviewing assignments, selecting and motivating employees, assuring quality and customer satisfaction, controlling budget and man-hours. Familiar with integrated engineering systems, ISO and company QA/QC procedures.

Control Systems and Instrumentation: More than fifteen years’ experience in engineering, installation and commissioning of control systems, including over six years of overseas assignments. Experience with SCADA, DCS, PLC, and ESD systems in oil and gas plants, gathering systems, pipelines, custody transfer and tank farm automation applications, hot switchover. Developed software for real-time, communication and oil and gas field applications in various languages.

Telecommunication: Practical and theoretical knowledge of LAN and WAN communications, MODBUS and other protocols, packet switching, ISO seven layer architecture. Designed and commissioned many computer communication solutions. Led telecommunication hardware and software R&D projects.

International: Worked on international projects in several European countries, North America, Russia, East Africa and the Middle East. Used both North American and European design codes.

LANGUAGES

Fluent in spoken and written English, Russian and Hungarian