Petrochemical Instrumentation and Control Systems Expert

Expertise

• All aspects of Instrumentation and Control Systems (I&CS) from design to testing and installation.
• International project and in-plant experience completing major I&CS capital projects within petroleum and petrochemical industries of forty years.
• Project engineering and project management major capital projects for petroleum and chemical plants worldwide.
• Safety instrumented systems, distributed control systems.
• In-plant troubleshooting - start-up, and process engineering.

Experience

Independent Consultant, (Contractual work), 2003 - Present

• Develop new methodologies covering direct and indirect costs for Honeywell, Triconex, Bently Nevada Control Systems.
• Update existing methodologies associated with control system field devices, wiring, buildings, and infrastructure required to produce the Total Erected Cost (TEC) Estimate.
• Participate in a risk-based reliability assessment covering existing critical control valves for PPL Corporation.
• Complete I&CS planning and design specification preparation and related FEED package review work for the FEED phases of Sriracha Refinery and Singapore PAC Refinery modification projects ($2 Billion).
• Replacement of grass roots, Scanfiner units.
• Serve as an Advisor to the ExxonMobil Global ACS/PMX Migration Project Team.
• Replace an obsolete control system with modern distributed systems.
• Conduct a detailed Safety Instrumented System review for Formosa Petrochemical.
• Provide FEED phase consulting and FEED package reviews for the Petrojam Ltd. Refinery Upgrade Project (RUP).
• Ensure successful testing and approval for shipment and delivery of the FGSs and PESDs for Ras Gas / ExxonMobil AKG-2 Project.
• Review and approve all documentation, including C&E Matrices, P&IDs, FLDs, Triconex application programs.
• Develop all testing requirements, including pass-fail criteria.
• Coordinating testing schedules and personnel.
• Observe, supervise, guide, and provide formal approval of all testing.
• Lead I&CS Engineer for Kawasaki and Wakayama plants as part of the Japan Low Sulfur Mogas Projects.
• Led the factory acceptance testing of a new Triconex-based safety instrumented system for the Erg Raffinerie Mediterranee Powerformer unit.
• Conducted a comprehensive reliability assessment for the I&CS and safety instrumented systems at the Benecia Valero (California) refinery.
• Provided frequent in-plant I&CS trouble-shooting and design guidance at the Amerada-Hess Refinery, (New Jersey).

ExxonMobile, Engineering Manager, 1977 - 2003

• Led project teams to complete detailed engineering plans, site construction, testing, and start -up of instrumentation and control systems facilities at ExxonMobil plants worldwide.
• Modernizing of control systems at the Singapore Refinery with the plant in full operation.
• Lead project engineer for the engineering and construction of instrumentation and control systems for a $400 million paraxylene project.
• Serving as lead engineer for two refinery and chemical plant projects ($500 million total) to include extensive additions and modifications to process units, control systems, and fuels blending facilities.
• Serving as engineering team lead for a group responsible for worldwide support of Exxon's instrumentation engineering and custody tansfer businesses.
• Provided project design consulting and field support to Exxon affiliates.
• Monitored vendor instrumentation and control system development.
• Led a task force to improve reliability of chronically malfunctioning instrumentation at Bayway chemical plant.

Honors & Publications

License

• Licensed Professional Engineer, State of New Jersey

Languages

• Thai, conversationally fluent.
• Italian
• Spanish
• French
• Latin

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Instructor for several Exxon and non-Exxon, (ARAMCO) training courses on I&CS fundamentals.
• Represented Exxon Research and Engineering Company (ER&E) on Exxon's worldwide Instrumentation Standards Committees.
• Chairman of the Bayway Instrument Practices Committee, which determined I&CS policies and practices at the refinery.

Publications

• Authored several design specifications that included ergonomics/human factors associated with operator consoles and control rooms

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY