MOHAMMAD ANWAR

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PROFILE

Outstanding professional with over 20 years of experience in transmission and distribution in power utility; emphasis on network operation, maintenance, construction and commissioning of high voltage substations of 13.8 to 380 kV with power transformers rated from 40 to 868 MVA. Participated in protection and control detail design, design review, equipment specification, procurement support, and generator interconnections; contributing to Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), a power utility with 570 substations and 1653 power transformers which have capacity of well over 148,088 MVA. Also contributed to SNC-Lavalin’s Transmission & Distribution in detailed design of protection and control schemes of high voltage substation, a company of engineering, procurement, construction and project management (EPC/EPCM) of more than 1,600 substations worldwide. Also contributed to Kentz Canada Limited (Member of the SNC-Lavalin Group) for commissioning of high, medium and low voltage substations and cogeneration for oil sand project of Imperial Oil Kearl expansion phase Alberta Canada, which will add another 110,000 barrels of oil per day to the existing plant.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Protection and Control

High voltage substation Commissioning

Transmission & Distribution Substation Maintenance

Equipment Specification

Design Review

Team Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KENTZ CANADA LIMITED (Member of the SNC-Lavalin Group) August 2014 – April 2015

PROTECTION AND CONTROL COMMISSIONING PROFESSIONAL

Working with “Integrated System Completion Team” the main function of protection and control commissioning professional was to commission the high, medium, and low voltage substation equipment in oil and gas industry. My major responsibilities included:

Ensure proper installation and operation of protective relay equipment and systems achieve engineering design requirements within transmission and distribution power equipment and safety procedure for commissioning are implemented

Functional testing of low, medium, and high voltage electrical systems

Perform commissioning of primary and secondary power equipment including circuit breakers, transformers, switchgear, protective relays, and batteries, battery chargers, UPS and AC/DC auxiliary power.

Set up and operate specialized and standard test equipment to diagnose, test, and analyze the performance of control equipment and systems ensuring accuracy of relays and associated schemes

Testing of relays by secondary injection for transformers, motors, feeders, and lines. Implementing the relay setting and communication interface equipment to ensure proper operation

Verify drawings including protection and control panel layouts, single line and three line diagrams, AC/DC schematics & wiring diagrams, interfacing diagram for communication equipment

Verify wiring and external devices such as CTs, PTs, and breakers, ensuring engineer design requirements are accomplished and protection schemes shall function as designed

Identifying design deficiencies and preparing revised field information, reporting unsafe protection schemes and suggesting modifications

Trained for lock out tag out, self-isolation for power equipment, Job safety analyses, Filed level risk analyses, work permit, arc flash awareness and mitigation, safety for oil field, and toxic and combustible gas testing

SNC-LAVALIN T&D TORONTO CANADA April 2012 – July 2014

PROTECTION AND CONTROL PROFESSIONAL

Reported to functional manager protection & control and performed detailed designed activities of high voltage substations for various utilities.

Designed new and modified existing substations for various clients; coordinated and worked with other team

Prepared conceptual design, design basis and scope, COMS report, ad technical specifications

Developed protection and control schemes for transmission line, bus bars, power transformers, and feeders

Planned design activities and provided input to schedule updates; participated in constructability reviews, technical reviews, prepared bill of material and cable schedule

Developed detailed design drawings including protection and control panel layouts, single line and three line diagrams, AC/DC schematics & wiring diagrams, Interfacing with SCADA and communication equipment

Attended design review meetings with client at different stage of design and made design change according to client's comments

Attended constructability meeting and provided construction support

Calculated voltage drop for AC/DC cables, cable sizing, battery and battery charger and station servicer sizing

Ensured that all deliverables were on time and within the budget

Maintained complete project documentation with respect to engineering calculations

The above experience includes the following major projects:

Replacement of power circuit breakers of up to 230 kV at Windsor Maladon, Kingsvills, Port Hope, Warden, Wawa, Kelenburg, Woodbridge, Algoma TS of Hydro One

Bus bar protection replacement at Des Joachims TS of Hydro One

DG (Distributed Generation) protection and control for wind farm at Ontonabee TS of Hydro One

Replacement of 230/60KV power transformer, 230KV circuit breaker at Cheekye substation of BC Hydro

25KV feeder addition at Oyster River substation of BC Hydro

SAUDI ELECTRICITY COMPANY JUBAIL SAUDI ARABIA 2002 -2012

SECTION HEAD, SUBSTATION COMMISSIONING AND START-UP

Reported to manager power transmission, commissioned various substations and power plants that includes power transformers, GIS, GIB, Hybrid SF6 breakers, outdoor SF6 breakers, disconnect/ground switches, bus bars, Power reactors, capacitors banks, Static VAR Compensators, power cables of up to 380 kV with power transformers rated from 40 to 868 MVA. Also commissioned protection and control schemes, protective relays, control and interlock schemes, CTs, PTs, Tele-protection equipment, energy meters, fault recorders, sequence of event recorders, Alarm systems, SCADA systems, batteries and battery chargers, inventors, un-interrupted power supply and AC/DC auxiliary power distribution system of substation.

Performed and supervised commissioning test for transformers and reactors for winding insulation resistance and polarization index, winding resistance, excitation current, insulation power factor, core insulation resistance, core balance test, turn ratio, percentage impedance, zero sequence impedance, sweep frequency response analysis, dielectric frequency response analysis, partial discharge and thermo vision scanning using state of the art test equipment. Testing of mechanical protection, alarms, cooling system, temperature and oil gauges, RTDs, on load tap changer and functional trip test, vacuum oil filling, transformer oil testing for quality and DGA

Performed and supervised commissioning test for GIS, GIB, outdoor SF6 breakers for dew point, purity, timing contact resistance, alarms and interlocks, vacuum and filling of SF6. High voltage test up to 850KV using HI Pot test equipment (variable reactors and variable frequency), measuring partial discharge during HI Pot test

Performed and supervised commissioning test for protection relays, IED for power transformers, bus bars, and transmission and distribution lines and breakers failure. Implementing relay setting and functional test by secondary injection. Commissioning of power line carrier and inter trip equipment. Commissioning of current and voltage transformers for polarity, ratio, and knee point, insulation resistance, winding resistance, and burden, primary and secondary current injection

Performed and supervised commissioning test for power cables, capacitor banks and SVC system

Developed Commissioning and startup procedures for high voltage substation equipment

Coordinated commissioning schedules and activities with all stakeholders, vendor, and contractors

Performed, evaluated, and approved commissioning tests

Ensured safety, regulatory and environmental compliance and training of operational staff

Prepared, reviewed, approved and signed-off the testing and commissioning reports

Maintained documentation records for all commissioning deliverables for each project

Supervised seventy five engineers and technicians, participated in hiring and training of new employees

The above experience includes the commissioning of following major projects:

Manefa and Abuhadriyah 380/115 kV GIS substations each with 2x502 MVA, 380/115kV transformers and five 380 kV breaker and half bays and a number of 115 kV bays

Jubail, 380/230 kV GIS substation with 4x750MVA, 380/230 kV transformers and eight 380 kV breaker and half bay and six 230 kV breaker and half bays.

Al–Fadhili 380/230 kV GIS substation, addition of 2x120 MVAR 380 kV reactors & HIS outdoor SF6 circuit breaker.

Al–Fadhili Gulf Cooperation Council interconnection consist of 1200MVA HVDC back to back converter station with three 380kV underground cables and Four overhead lines connecting 380 kV, 60Hz to 400 kV, 50Hz system.

Jubail 2, 230/115/34.5 kV GIS substation #1, 2x400MVA, 230/115kV and 2x185MVA, 230/115kV transformers and sixteen 230kV and twelve 115kV bays.

Installation of capacitor banks up to 120 MVAR in various substations.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

SECTION HEAD, SUBSTATION MAINTENANCE (SEC)

Maintained 65 high voltage substations of different voltage levels of up to 380kV with power transformer up to 750 MVA and 5 power plants of 4000 MVA requiring 24 hour responding to emergency calls. Planning and scheduling of maintenance outage, manpower and material

Developed preventive, corrective and predicted maintenance procedure of substation equipment and implemented major assets replacement program

Implemented on line DGA monitoring system for power transformers, on line partial discharge measurement system for GIS and transformers, and condition and life assessment of transformers

Developed failure analyses procedure for power transformers

Implemented thermo vision scanning for substation equipment

Developed training program for maintenance of transmission and distribution substation equipment

FIELD ENGINEER, SUBSTATION MAINTENANCE (SEC)

Developed specification for procurement of power transformers, circuit breakers, protective relays, battery, battery chargers and auxiliary equipment of transmission and distribution substations

Investigated and conducted failure analysis of power transformers, circuit breakers, protective relays, and other equipment in the transmission and distribution network

Prepared scope of work for various high voltage substation projects

Kept excellent working relations with clients vendor, and contractors

Provided technical assistance to maintenance personnel in the field

Introduced substation inspection and safety audit program for substation equipment

Reviewed designed package for new substation

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Office, Auto Desk Design Review and working knowledge of AutoCAD and Micro station

TRAINING

Serveron TM8, On line Dissolved Gas Analyzer in power transformers

Transformer Oil Testing, Diagnostics and Condition Monitoring by “NYNAS”

Substation Safety by Design and Substation Design Basics (IEEE)

Power PD, Partial Discharge measurement in GIS and Transformers

Omicron CPC 100 Multifunctional test system for transformers and circuit breakers, CPC TD1 Capacitance and Dissipation factor testing of power transformers and Omicron 256 Relay test system

Fault recorder and fault locator by ABB, and Rochester

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling of Power Transmission Network

Static VAR Compensation of power transmission network

Effective Supervision, Managing Employee Performance, and Meeting Skills

Various project management related presentations by local PMI Chapters

EDUCATION AND MEMBERSHIPS

Member of OSPE, ON, Canada

Member of IEEE, USA, Member of PMI, USA

BSc. Electrical Engineering

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