Petroleum Refinery and Utilities Operations and Safety Management Consultant

Technical Consultant #2387

Execute petroleum refinery and petrochemical technical support in: Operations, major projects, environmental regulatory support, logistics, and process safety management.
Experience in third party petroleum facilities and ability to network and collaborate with vendors, clients, staff, co-workers and contractors.
Utilities robustness reviews for various facilities.
Steam studies for utility facilities.
Utilities design package during assessment phase of major projects.
Steam agreements between major suppliers.
Lead fuel gas and steam accounting improvement teams.
Operations Support Engineering for Utilities.
Integration of third party cogeneration facility.
Operations Support Engineer for all utilities refinery including; cooling towers, boilers, boiler feed water treating, and waste water treating.
Logistics Support Engineer: Planning and economics of refinery operation including scheduling crude runs, projecting product inventories, and developing short and long term operating plans.
Process Safety Management (PSM), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) Coordinator, and conducting PHAs.

Undisclosed Company, Senior Process Engineer, Present

Providing clients with over thirty years of experience in the petrochemical industry with focus to major process engineering for projects in; fluid catalytic cracking, hydrotreating, HF alkylation, catalytic reforming, crude distillation and gas processing.
Offers technical consulting in: Logistics, utilities, business development, process safety, and environmental, both regulatory and waste water treatment.

Shell Global Solutions (U.S.) Inc., Technologist, (various sites), 2007 - 2016

Principal and Senior Technologist-Energy and Utilities

Provided operations technical support for utilities systems of 11 Shell manufacturing sites and several third party facilities.
Developed utilities master plans for facilities.
Led Utilities Robustness Reviews for Shell facilities.
Performed multiple steam studies for facilities.
Developed utilities design package for the assess phase of two major projects
Utilities support engineer for several major projects and many multiple minor projects
Coordinated and taught multiple Utility Systems training classes for Shell and third parties.
Mentored junior utilities engineers.

Business Development Representative, Deer Park Refinery, 2002 - 2007

Negotiating steam agreement between DPRLP and Shell Chemical Limited Partnership.
Location focal point for industrial gas contracts.
Developed the NOX control plan for the Shell Deer Park Refinery.
Led fuel gas and steam accounting improvement teams.

Energy and Utilities Operations Support Engineer, Deer Park, TX, 1998 - 2002

As Operations Support Engineer for Utilities of a large petrochemical facility including raw water treating, boiler feed water treating, steam system, air system, and nitrogen system.
Location focal point for energy monitoring.
Played a key role in integrating third party cogeneration facility replacing and shutting down 4 million pounds/hour of 1250 psig conventional boiler steam generating capacity.

Support Engineer-Flare Systems, Odessa Refiner, TX, 1996 - 1998

Operations Support Engineer for all utilities including cooling towers, boilers, boiler feed water treating, and waste water treating.
Logistics Support Engineer responsible for planning and economics of refinery operation including, scheduling crude runs, projecting product inventories, and developing the next month operating plan.
PSM - PHA Coordinator and Leader for four PHA's.
Location coordinator for Kerosene Merox Treater including responsibility for coordination of engineering and construction contractor and responsibility for operating procedures, operator training, and startup.
Operations Support Engineer for two (2) platformers, two (2) hydrotreaters, crude unit, and wet treating.

Process Engineer, Wood River Refinery, IL, 1978 - 1988

Updated all air permit applications that came due during this period.
Worked with the Illinois Petroleum Council and the Illinois Environmental Regulatory Group on commenting to state agencies on proposed environmental regulations.
Performed air dispersion modeling.
Led the startup effort including updating operating manual and training operators for startup of Visbreaker Flasher which was re-commissioned after being down for 10 years.
Coordinated much of the process design and modifications to the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, approximately $50 million project.
Operations support engineer for two fluid catalytic cracking units, cat feed hydrotreater, two crude units, two gas plants, DMK plant, and a spent sulfuric acid (from a sulfuric acid alkylation unit) plant.

Representative

Represented Deer Park Refinery on the Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (DPRLP) Shared Facilities (includes Utilities) Committees.