Riaz Mirza, P.Eng ** Bridleridge Green SW Cell:

306-***-****

Calgary, Alberta, Canada Home: 403-537-

0704

T2Y 0E4 E mail:

ab9m6z@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications:

. 30 years engineering, procurement, construction, operations,

maintenance and project management experience in mining, power, oil

and gas sector

. Experience in business development, technical leadership, project

management and construction

. Design, procurement, construction, start-up and commissioning of

upstream and downstream energy projects in North America and Middle

East

. PMC and client project manager experience. Managed and supervised

international EPC contractors on major projects including process

licensors

. Experience in designing processing units for mining, power,

conventional fuel refineries and bitumen upgraders

Key Accomplishments:

. Owner & EPC contractor Project Manager, executed mining, refinery &

turnaround projects in the $1.5 billion to $4.2 billion range, within

budget and schedule meeting production objectives.

. Selected and executed EPC contracts with major international

contractors

. Developed and supervised business development, project engineering,

design, construction, inspection and turnaround planning departments

within an operating refinery

. Managed and executed $50 million to $110 million refinery annual

capital budget and major turnarounds. Capital projects executed in an

operating refinery environment.

Business Expertise:

. Development and submission of proposals for domestic and international

projects in the energy sector,

Including strategy for wining proposals and client communication and

presentations

. Development of project execution standards and procedures, engineering

design standards and specifications

. Procurement, contract administration, audit, risk management &

insurance

. Project controls: cost estimate, budget, progress reporting and

detailed schedules

. Management of engineering and project teams of 50+ technical

personnel

Technical Expertise:

. Engineering design, construction, operation and maintenance of mining,

power, refinery processing units, utilities, off sites, pipelines and

marine terminals

. Planning and execution of major refinery turnarounds. Preparing

capital and turnaround budgets

. Project controls including estimates, budgets, progress and level 1-3

schedules. CPI, SPI & KPI

. Design, procurement and construction of civil, structural, mechanical,

piping, electrical, instrumentation and controls, tanks, pipelines and

materials selection for corrosion resistance

. Process Safety Management: Management of Change, PSSR, HAZOPS,

PHA

Industry Sector:

. Mining, refinery, upgraders, bitumen mining, Steam Assisted Gravity

Drain (SAGD), steam plants, cogeneration, carbon capture and storage,

Potash Mining.

. Cold weather processing units design

Languages:

. Fluent in French and Urdu. Basic knowledge of Spanish and Arabic

International Experience:

. Canada, USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan

. Riaz Mirza, P.Eng

Professional

Experience

2010 to Present Agrium Inc. Calgary, Canada

Task Force, Project and Business Manager, VAULT Programme

-Responsible for $2 Billion Potash Expansion Project.

Increase potash production from 2 to 2.8 million metric

tonnes per year. Full responsibility for project controls,

procurement, contracts, risk, audit and finance. Supervised

EPC Contractors during the EPC phases. Project Manager

with full responsibility for the mine, hoist and surface

processing facilities. Responsible for the business

processes, progress reporting, project controls,

procurement, contracts, AFE funding and the BOD packages.

2009 - 2010 Alberta Energy, Edmonton, Canada

Director

Integrated Projects, Measurements and Valuations

- Responsible for the cost allocations: capital,

operating, maintenance for upstream and downstream

operations for major integrated plants in Alberta,

capacities ranging from 70,000 to 300,000 BPD of

processing and upgrading bitumen

- Worked on the RFP for a 50,000-75,000 BPD grassroots

upgrader with a blended bitumen feedstock.

- Established the bitumen availability and infrastructure

for the implementation of Bitumen Royalty In Kind (BRIK)

regulation

- Implemented density measurement standards for Bitumen

Valuation Methodology (BVM) for integrated projects

- Working on the Gross Product Worth (GPW) for valuating

bitumen

- Established design basis and royalty fence line for the

upgrading processes including diluent recovery, crude,

vacuum delayed coking and hydrotreating units for

royalty calculations

2006 - 2009 SNC-Lavalin Inc. Calgary, Canada

Manager of Proposals, Business Manager, Project Manager

- Corporate responsibility for all domestic and

international proposals:

Engineering services for grassroots refinery, upgraders,

revamp, SAGD, mining, gas plants and pipelines

- Project Manager for $1.1 billion definitive engineering

package for the Gasifier, Air Separation and LC Fining

Units.

- Business Manager on the $4.2 billion North West

Upgrader Project. Successfully concluded the $600

million EPC cost plus contract with Lurgi/KBR for the

Gasification Unit

- Supervised the procurement of long lead equipment and

EPC contracts on the NWU project

1990 - 2006 Valero Energy Corp. Wilmington Refinery,

California. USA

Project Manager, General Superintendent

- Project manager on major projects, upgrades and revamps

in an operating

refinery environment

- Planned and executed major refinery turnaround as

General Superintendent

- As Valero project manager supervised EPC contractors on

major projects,

revamps and capital projects

- Managed and executed the refinery capital budget

- Managed and supervised the refinery design, project

engineering, inspection

turnaround planning and construction departments

- Established project engineering and PSM standards

for execution of capital projects

- As General Superintendent created new refinery

maintenance and turnaround

Planning, project engineering and construction

departments.

1985 - 1990 Valero Energy Corp. Quebec Refinery, Quebec,

Canada

Senior Project Manager

- Managed and executed major projects for the Quebec

refinery lead phase down

- Managed and supervised EPC contractor for the execution

of major projects

- Executed the first catalytic cracking unit shutdown

1978 - 1985 Fluor Canada Ltd. Calgary, Canada

Site Coordinator/Lead Engineer

- Responsible for field engineering for a grassroots

refinery

Processing units

- Managed and resolved RFI's for all disciplines on site

- Coordinated field work with home office engineering

- Responsible for the care,custody and control, start-up

and commissioning

Of the new processing units

- Lead piping stress engineer on major projects

Project Experience:

Major Integrated Projects:

. Potash Mine Production expansion from Business/Area

Project Manager for $2 billion Potash

2 to 2.8 million metric tonnes per year Expansion project

for Agrium in Vanscoy. Supervised

New hoist and surface processing facilites EPC

Contractors for schedule, budget and production.

. CNRL Horizon- Fort McMurray, Director, Responsible

for cost allocations: capital,

Mining and Upgrader. 100,000 BPD. operating and

maintenance costs. Established

. Opti Nexen- Long Lake, Fort McMurray procedures and

standards for royalty calculations

SAGD and Upgrader, 70,000 BPD Establishing royalty

fence lines for integrated

. Suncor-Fort McMurray, Canada operations. Established

benchmarks for the

Mining and Upgrader, 300,000 BPD complex capital,

operating and maintenance costs

. Syncrude-Fort McMurray, Canada including power and

utility consumption

Mining and Upgrader, 250,000 BPD

. Shell-MRM, Jackpine Scottford-Edmonton

Canada, Mine and Upgrader, 100,000 BPD

TOTAL Upgrader, 100,000 BPD, Manager of Proposals-Prepared and

submitted

Saudi Aramco, Gas Treatment & proposal for the definitive

engineering package

Pipelines, Imperial Oil Nabiye (FEED), lump sum EPC in

joint venture with

SAGD, Enerplus SAGD construction contractors

NWU Upgrader, Redwater, Canada Business Manager-EPC contract

Lurgi/KBR

77,000 BPD Dilbit & Synbit feed for $500 million for Gasifier.

Project Manager

PMC Management role FEED package for the LC Fining,

Gasifier

and Air Separation Units. PMC

responsibility

for the $4.2 billion upgrader.

Completed the

Feed package including class 2 cost

estimate

and level 3 schedule

Valero Wilmington Refinery, Project Manager-EPC.

Supervised Jacobs, California, USA. 100,000 BPD Fluor

and Worley Parsons on revamp projects in

the refinery processing units and

off sites including marine terminal:

crude, vacuum, delayed coking,

naphtha, distillate and gas oil

hydrotreaters, sulphur recovery

unit, amine and sour water treating

units, fluid catalytic cracking, HF

alkylation, logistics and pipelines.

General superintendent major

refinery turnaround. Established and

supervised the project

engineering, design, inspection

and turnaround planning

departments. Executed capital

projects ranging from $2 million

to $120 million total installed

cost.

Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery (SAMREF) Planned and

executed major refinery turnaround,

Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. 350,000 BPD including replacement of FCC unit

cyclones.

Executed within the $60 million

budget (excluding capital cost) and

six weeks duration.

Valero Quebec Refinery, Quebec, Canada Project Manager -executed

major upgrades and

300,000 BPD grassroots units including new

vacuum unit,

hydrotreaters, isomerization unit,

utilities and

offsite. Managed UOP, Fluor and

SNC-Lavalin.

Project value $110 million,

projects completed

within budget and schedule for the

lead phase out

in gasoline.

Fluor Canada, Calgary.

Valero Quebec Refinery, Site Field Coordinator for

the $370 million

50,000 BPD upgrade to produce refinery sophistication

project including

unleaded gasoline Exxon licensed catalytic

cracking unit.

Provided engineering and technical

support

at site for all disciplines: from

site preparation,

piling to mechanical completion,

start up

and commissioning. Prepared the

care, custody

and control documents for the

client. Assisted in

the start-up of new processing

units.

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