Name: Tommy Ethridge Cell: 713-***-****

Email: bi8eap@r.postjobfree.com

Title: Principal Process Engineer

Education: BS, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Registrations: Registered Professional Engineer, State of Texas, No. 48596

Experience: More than thirty years of experience with operating companies and engineering contractors. Involved in grass roots plant design, optimizations, debottlenecking, PSM, and start-up.

Plant design experience includes cryogenic plants for production of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Syn Fuel Plants (SNG), Natural Gas Liquids Plants (NGL), Gas Plants for recovery of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG), distillation and expander plants. Designed offshore topside facilities for oil/gas production, and ship loading terminals, and refinery front-end process units, including crude desalting, preheat trains, atmospheric and vacuum crude units, hydrotreaters, FCC, Fluid Beds Reactors, hydrogen reforming, and sour gas sweetening by use of DEA, MEA, and DGA.

Other design experience includes construction, commissioning, and start-up of a 1200-tons/day Pulp and Paper plant for Champion; installation of two 300-MLBS/HR boilers for Simpson Paper; and design and installation of a 60,000-gpm cooling tower. Responsible for the construction of oil pipelines, pump stations, natural gas pipelines, and compressor stations for onshore and offshore pipeline systems.

Englob Engineering Feb. 2008 to April 2010.

Project Engineer assigned to the Englobal Construction Management Team to Rebuild the Alon Refinery in Big Spring, Texas after the Feb. 18, 2008 fire and explosion. The Alon Fire Rebuild efforts included the removal and rebuild of damaged equipment and piping for the FCC, Cryo, Cat Light End, Waste Treatment Plant, and 4 new Cooling Towers. Five Rail Car Loading station were added to accommodate loading of plant units feeds that were not on line. Other items included new pipe racks, plant air, instrument air and nitrogen distribution systems. Plant Fire Water Loops new monitors and deluge system installations. Last Plant Construction in 2010 was construction of 5 Asphalt Tank Storage.

Technip USA, Inc., Houston, TX, 2007 to Feb. 2008

Lead Process Engineer for the XOM FCC NOx Reduction Project. Process requirements consisting of the installation of a selective catalyst reduction (SCR) Unit to remove NOx from the CO Boiler Hot Gas Expander exhaust gas. Process units consisted of the catalyst reactor, ammonia injection systems, and supporting systems.

Support systems utilized to increase plant time on line were soot blowers, steam lances, purge air systems, and a means for reducing the hot flue gas temperature so the COB and Economizer could be taken out of service during hot operation. Analysers, air movers, control systems, ducting, guillotines, dampers, all were used for control and safe operation of the high volumes of hot (1200°F) flue gases.

Lead Engineer for the XOM Power Plant 3 Boiler 33/34 NOx Reduction Project. Modifications consisted of installation of low NOx Burners and Flue Gas Recirculation System with controls and analysers to confirm NOx emissions.

Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, 2005 to 2007

Principal Engineer

Process engineer for the JSC NAFTAN Delayed Coker & SWS Project to be constructed in Novopolotsk, Belarus. Developed Heat &Material Balances with Pro II.

Developed PFDs, and EFDs. Sized pumps, vessels, and lines. Completed equipment data sheets, and relief valves sizing.

Assigned to KBR’s Houston Offices for the Repsol/Gas Natural joint venture to build a grass roots 2 Billion SCFD LNG Production Plant and Loading Terminal to be constructed in Algeria.

HHI/CNL Escravos Gas Project, Nigeria – Phase 3 – Verification contract for the expansion of an onshore Gas processing plant to process an additional 450 MMSCFD of associated offshore gas. Product recovery was Sales, Gas, Propane, Butane and Pentane Plus (NGL). Unit included slug catchers, TEG and Molecular Sieves for Drying, with expander plant recovery of natural gas liquids.

ExxonMobil Beaumont, TX, 2003 to 2005

Process Engineer

Responsible for monitoring Refinery Units such as the Crude Unit, Coker, FCC, and LPG units for energy savings. A benefit to cost was utilized to justify maintenance on Energy Critical Equipment.

SPS Inc., Houston TX, 2002 to 2003

Process Engineer, Corocoro FSPO Offshore Venezuela

Responsible for Process Engineering, and verifying basic engineering of heavy oil process equipment such as electrostatic treaters, multi-phase pumps, heaters, and heat exchangers, specifying and evaluating sources for materials, equipment, and instrumentation. Additional duties include project cost compilation, and preparing final proposal documentation for presentation.

REF-CHEM Corp., Houston, TX, 2001 to 2002

Process Engineer

Completed BP-Amoco Ethane/Propane Expansions-Hobb’s Plant. Developed PFDs, P&IDs, sized equipment, exchangers, lines, pump hydraulics and put together bid packages. Followed-up on fabrication of columns and skid packages. Completion cost estimated at over 6 Million Dollars.

Anvil Corporation, Anchorage, AK, 2001 to 2001

Process Engineer

Responsible for the computer design of Offshore Well Production Facilities/Subsea Pipeline, to Shore and On-shore GOSP, with Storage and Vapor Recovery Unit. Completed a Class A Package of the Production and Utility Systems for Forest Oil. Total job estimated at 135 Million Dollars.

Paragon Engineering, Houston, TX, 2000 to 2001

Process Engineer

Responsible for Offshore Oil & Gas Topside Facility Design. Designed Production and Utility System, developed PFDs, P&IDs, sized three-phase separators, pumps, and compressors. Conducted debottleneck studies for Coastal’s 1-BSCFD Gulf of Mexico Offshore Gas Production to shore. Also worked on Oxy’s South America Heavy Oil Production.

BEI Engineering, Houston, TX, 1999 to 2000

Process Engineer

Contracted under BEI to the Shell Deer Park Plant. Job requirements consisted of analyzing client needs, scoping job requirements, establishing engineering man-hours, and scheduling work. Process functions consisted of conceptual design, H&M balances, P&IDs, and Utility Diagrams development. Sized heat exchangers, vessels, and did pump hydraulics. Plant process models were achieved using Hysim.

Parson, Houston, TX, 1996 to 1999

Senior Supervising Engineer

LAO Linear Alpha Olefins Plant, Responsible for distillation area design. P&IDs development, vessel sizing, pump and compressor hydraulics, line sizing, relief valves, and HAZOP reviews. Completed detail engineering.

CDI Engineering Group, Houston, TX, 1993 to 1996

Process Engineer

Performed Process System design and debottlenecking for plants in the Texas City, Beaumont, and Freeport, Texas area. Job requirements consisted of analyzing client needs, scoping job requirements, establishing engineering man-hours, and scheduling work. Process functions included Heat and Material Balances, P&IDs, and Utility Diagrams, and plant modeling with Hysim.

Flour Daniel, Houston, TX, 1987 to 1993

Lead Process Engineer

Responsible for supervision of process teams to develop total plant design. Made schedules to meet work assignment and computer simulations to develop heat and material balances. Developed PFDs, P&IDs, and Utility Diagrams for total plant design. Sized piping, pumps, compressors, vessels, and columns, and completed data sheets for the bid and purchase of equipment and instrumentation. Performed optimization and economic evaluation of gas plants and oil refining facilities.

All American Pipeline, Houston, TX, 1985 to 1987

Project Manager

Field Engineer/Engineering Manager and Construction Manager reporting to the vice‑president of construction. Responsible for working with subcontractors in the building of electric and gas turbine driven pumping stations, and oil storage terminals for a 300,000 BOPD, 1240-mile, 30-inch pipeline.

Brown & Root, Houston, TX, 1982 to 1985

Principal Engineer (Engineer V)

Supervising engineer responsible for design and installation of oil/gas onshore & offshore process facilities. Developed PFDs, P&IDs, specifications for instrumentation, and equipment for oil and gas production units. Gas dew point as specified was achieved by refrigeration, dried by glycol dehydration units, and compressed for transport through pipeline.

M.W. Kellogg, Houston, TX, 1980 to 1982

Senior Process Engineer

Responsible for pilot plant Process Development Units (PDUs) (Fluidized Bed Combustion, and Water Gas Shift Reactors) built under contract for the DOE. These units were built and tested to evaluate operation efficiencies. Gasification units were tested with coal and petroleum coke; modifications were made to the IGT gasifiers so tests could be run with lignite. Testing of SYN fuel in turbines for combined cycle power generation was evaluated.

J. E. Sirrine, Houston, TX, 1979 to 1980

Senior Process Engineer

Designed and constructed total plant hydraulics from the wood yard, through the chippers, mechanical pulpers, digesters, deckers, to the head box on the paper machines at the St. Regis Paper Mill in Sheldon Texas, later purchased by Champion. Generated the PFDs, P&IDs, and heat and material balances, including steam and cooling tower requirements for the total plant.

H.K. Ferguson, Houston, TX, 1978 to 1979

Process / Instrument Engineer

Duties required design and construction of gas plants, a crude and vacuum column for oil refining, and design and construction of a polymer compounding plant in Crockette, TX.

Fluor, Houston, TX, 1972 to 1978

Process Engineer

Designed GOSPs (Gas/Oil Separators Plants); gas dew point was controlled to meet pipeline specs for the associated natural gas from oil field production units. Utilized computer simulation models to design gas plants distillation units for methane, ethane, propane, and butane recovery. Designed and constructed in-ground salt dome storage.

LNG Expansion for Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Companies (TRANSCO) LNG Facility located in Hackensack Meadows, New Jersey. Project objectives were to increase the existing 10 MMSCFD straight cascade LNG facility to 20 MMSCFD. Process responsibilities included the review and modification of the existing MEA and Molecular Sieves to accommodate the increase feed rate.

Work assignment included the modeling of the existing straight cascade refrigeration unit. This was accomplished by writing a program to model the plant refrigeration system, and cold box configuration. Computer model was achieved by writing a Fortran IV program to calculate refrigerant system horsepower and exchanger duties for methane at cryogenic temperatures. Modified BWR equations were utilized to determine enthalpies for methane at cryogenic conditions.

Other job functions were to increase the above ground storage. Spill tests were conducted to determine if dykes could contain a spill/leak from the above ground storage.

1972 to 1978 Other LNG activities included shipping, loading and storage, vaporizing for return to pipeline users and a tour of the LNG carrier Manhattan while in dry dock at the Coast Guard Dry Dock Facilities located in the Houston Ship Channel (1981). Also ship loading was reviewed, and shipping capacities.