Senior Process Engineer in Oil Refining

I wish to further my Oil career be it in upstream operations or refining.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Aug 2007-Present Chevron Refinery Cape Town

Position Senior Process Engineer for FCCU and Jet Merox

2005- Aug 2007 Chevron Refinery Cape Town

Position Process Unit Engineer for Two Crude, Two Vacuum and Visbreaker Units


Developed competencies and experience in these two positions include:
8 Start-ups on CDU/VDU, 5 Start-ups on Visbreaker (this includes start-up Technical assistance and procedural improvements)
Design Modifications
Hazops on entire plant as well as on new installations
Turnaround and Inspection (Shutdowns)
Lead engineer for 3 month CDU/VDU T&I which includes:
Full preparation and identification of equipment that requires process cleaning
Heat exchanger inspection
Column tray installation and inspection
Pumparound and spray nozzle testing
Drum inspections
Participant in Reformer catalyst regeneration
Process Monitoring/Troubleshooting
Furnace optimization
Preheat exchanger fouling calcs
Desalter optimization
Sour water stripper optimization
Furnace decokes
Corrosion control
Chemical additives
Creation of new monitoring tool
Yield Optimization
Cutpoint Maximization
Yield shift effects
Crude slate yield effects
Plant Capacity Test Runs
Fuel Oil Blending
Team member of Chevron Best Practice Globally for CDU/VDU
Investigation lead

2003-2005 Holcim Lichtenburg North West

Position Junior Process Engineer & Works Chemist

Developed competencies and experience in these two positions include:
Quality manager during new Kiln train commissioning (2 month commission)
Quality control schemes
Production Capacity Test Runs

1999-2002 Holcim Lichtenburg North West

Position Intern Engineer (During University Holidays)

COMPUTER LITERACY

MS Word
MS Excel
MS Powerpoint
KBC DIST-SIM (CAMS)
KBC FCC-SIM
Hysis
Aspen
Polymath
DMC Advanced Control Schemes
PI

WORK ACHIEVEMENTS

2007 – Promoted to Senior Process Engineer
2007 – Mid year Performance assessment of “1” achiever
2006 – Performance assessment of “1” achiever
2006 - Elected as a Chevron HIPO (High Potential Employee based on Excellent Performance)

EDUCATION

Degree

1999-2002 University of Cape Town

BSc. (Chemical Engineering) Honours with Honours

2002 - Awarded Honours Chemical Engineering degree with Honours (Point System)
2000 - Awarded 1st in Class and Top U.C.T. Chemical Engineering Undergraduate in 2nd Year
1999 - Awarded 1st in Class and Top U.C.T. Chemical Engineering Undergraduate in 1st Year
1999 - Awarded “Most Promising Chemical Engineering Student”