Senior Process Engineer

A senior level process engineering position

Senior Consulting Process Engineer, URS Washington Division, 3/2007 – 1/2009
Simulated and rated early production facilities for cost estimation, de-bottlenecking studies, and front end design.

Principal Process Engineer, VECO Corporation (RTX): Alaska, 2/2006 – 1/2007
Coordinated as process engineering lead on Rosneft (Russian) grass root production facility. Developed P&IDs, PFDs, and hydraulic analysis of gathering lines with inter-disciplinary functions resolving processing issues and concerns. Participated in retrofit project of water treatment and injection facility for enhancing water injection capacity of BP oil wells at Prudhoe Bay.

Consultant, UOP, The Project Group, Chicago, Illinois, 2004 – 2006
Hydroprocessing/Hydrocracking/Hydrotreating, PFD, P&ID, HYSYS
Supported schedule-A design of hydrocracking & hydro-processing projects for various local and global UOP clients including CITGO, Petrobras, ENI, Italy, Petrochina, and Bayernol, Germany. The project work spanned PFD/P&ID review, PRV sizing and relief load estimation, and process equipment design via UOP licensed technology and specialized plant design procedures.

Sr. Process Engineer, Anvil Corporation, Bellingham, Washington, 2001 – 2003
Isomerization, Gas Pipeline Compression, FCC Revamp, PFD, P&ID, HAZOP, HYSYS
Organized and delivered formal presentations for refinery revamp projects. Conducted P&ID review and HAZOP discussions involving gas treating, sour water strippers, steam boilers, debutanizers of crude, and reformer units.

MS Chem. Eng. Cambridge University, England
MS/BS, Punjab University, Pakistan

Member, AIChE, USA
Member, SPE, USA

§ Compiled operating manuals for MTBE, Alky, desulphurizers, sour water strippers, and LPG treating that enabled a Japanese engineering company to timely meet its project contractual requirement.
§ Prepared design basis and sized equipment for costing a biorefinery including gasifier, heat recovery, syngas wash, bioreactors and Ethanol distillation sections.
§ Conceptualized crude oil field processing enhancements with potential earnings of multi-million dollars for detailed design of a central processing and gas injection facility installed by Halliburton.
§ Optimized process equipment, reviewed P&ID, and compiled detailed process specifications for gas/oil separators, desalters, storage tanks, chemical injection, and produced water treatment facilities.
§ Prepared investment plans for a grassroots turbo-expander plant for NGL/LPG recovery involving plant wide Hysys simulation, equipment sizing, and vendor’s coordination.
§ Analyzed, designed, and implemented refinery retrofit for LPG recovery from reformer gases with potential for yearly saving of up to million dollars for Conoco refinery in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
§ Simulated production plans of a refinery for assessing the product loss of a catalytic cracker involving multi-million dollars in litigation.
§ Reviewed in Tokyo, process design of a polyethylene project for Malaysia and helped a Japanese project team consolidate the detailed design of a plant supporting facility.