Engineer Mechanical
Resume:
Carlos Garcia
Houston, TX ***68
ac0b7d@r.postjobfree.com
Education:
University of Houston
Bachelor of Science
Chemical Engineering, 1997
Summary:
Nineteen years’ experience in providing specialized technical oversight to the conceptual design, FEED, detail design, fabrication, installation, commissioning, operations, and maintenance related aspects of onshore and offshore facilities including terminals, compressor stations, FPSOs, TLPs, semi submersibles, spars, and fixed platforms; provide comments, guidance, and expertise to verify compliance to project specifications, industry codes, and standards for project documentation, drawings, and vendor equipment while maintaining HSSE focus within the team to ensure HSSE requirements are included in the design.
Experience:
Noble Energy Inc
Project Manager
06/2014 to 05/2016
Project Management for East Mediterranean Division, Ashdod Onshore Terminal, Tamar and Mari-B offshore gas and condensate facilities.
Provide technical support for facility upgrades including vapor recovery from condensate storage tanks, liquid carryover into compressors, and open drain treating system.
Manage the work of engineering subcontractor (Jacobs) and vendors to provide conceptual and FEED drawings, specifications, and equipment as well as Detailed Engineering activities. Oversee RFQ and procurement activities.
Conduct weekly contractor meetings, to facilitate resolution of open issues
Jacobs Engineering
Project Engineer
08/2013 to 06/2014
Project Facilities Engineer subcontracted to Shell Woodcreek, Appomattox and Vito Conceptual Designs of Semi-submersibles, Gulf of Mexico.
Responsibilities included review and comment on Basis for Design Documents and Drawings for all aspects of project including Wells, Subsea Trees, Flowlines, Hull Systems, Topsides Facilities and Utilities, Living Quarters, Export Pipelines, Operations, Maintenance, and HSSE.
Topsides Lead Engineer subcontracted to Shell Woodcreek, New Build Arctic Drill Rig Feasibility Study, Chukchi Sea, Alaska.
Responsibilities included generation of Basis for Design for topside’s drilling systems, Utility systems, Mechanical Handling Systems, and HSSE Systems. Develop a Scope of Work for a Gap Analysis for an Arctic Drill Rig built to Industry Standards and Classification Society Rules vs. compliance with Shell DEPs (Design and Engineering Practices).
Mechanical Engineer for ConocoPhillips, Cowden, Clyde, and Gandu fields, Permian Basin, Midland/Odessa, TX. RFQ packages for West Texas surface static and rotating equipment.
Mechanical Engineering for Noble Energy, Big Bend and Danztler subsea tiebacks to Thunder Hawk Platform. Specification of Topside's Specialty Item Double Block and Bleed Injection Valves and Quills
Water Standard
Project Engineer
03/2013 to 08/2013
WATER STANDARD is a global water treatment specialist and recognized leader in delivering innovative desalination, water-based enhanced oil recovery and produced water solutions to the onshore and offshore Oil & Gas Industry.
The company uses proprietary designs and processes employing proven technologies incorporated into modular offshore and onshore customized water treatment systems.
Tertiary Oil Recovery: The design of offshore and onshore facilities for Alkali, Surfactant, and Polymer Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery .
Also, the use of Membrane Nano-Filtration and Reverse Osmosis technology for low salinity water floods.
SNC-Lavalin Hydrocarbons and Chemicals
Topsides Project Engineer
07/2012 to 03/2013
Topsides Project Engineer subcontracted to PDVSA (Owner’s Engineer), Mariscal Sucre Dragon Patao Development portion of the Delta Caribe Oriental Project, offshore NW Venezuela.
Oversight and comment of Technip’s Engineering, Procurement, and Construction for 600 MMSCFD per day plant, designed for 1,300 psig and 70 F.
Lead of Topside’s design with consideration for 30 year life, operability, and maintainability.
Responsibilities included coaching and training of PDVSA Topside’s Discipline Engineers in Cumana, Sucre, Venezuela.
Alliance Wood Group Engineering
Topsides Lead Engineer / Mechanical Engineer
11/2010 to 07/2012
Topsides Lead Project Engineer subcontracted to Woodside Browse (Owner’s Engineer), Calliance and Brecknock TLPs, offshore Broome, Australia.
FEED for 2 BSCFD and 100,000 Barrels of Condensate per day, designed for 2,900 psig and 220 F.
Primary focus is on leading process, mechanical, structural, instrument, and electrical engineers for evaluation of topside’s design competition as well as interfaces with Drilling Rig, Top Tension Risers, and Export Steel Catenary Risers.
Responsibilities included coaching and evaluation of two paid FEEDs; by Aker, Norway and Modec, Houston, for normally unmanned facilities.
Mechanical Engineer for Chevron South Nemba Auxiliary Platform, offshore Angola.
Detail Design for static equipment for quotation and procurement.
Modec International Incorporated:
Lead Facilities Engineer / Technical Authority
08/2005 to 10/2010
Modec Atlantic Operations Division. Responsibilities include: Providing technical support to Operations Fleet in Mexico, Brazil, and Africa for:
Engineering, Design, Drawings, Specification of equipment for upgrades, Technical evaluation of supplier quotes to verify of compliance to project specifications, codes, and standards
Maintenance / Asset Integrity, identification of most crucial corrosion monitoring locations, compilation of readings and wall thickness calculations on vessels and piping.
Developing strategies for further testing and mitigation of material losses
Coordinate multi discipline investigations for determining root cause of failures in ESD system, process, electrical, structural, instruments, controls, and mechanical equipment
Providing resolution to offshore technical problems and failures
Provide interface from operations to marine, turret, sub sea divisions as well as local suppliers of individual facility’s equipment.
Operations Fleet includes the Pemex FSO Ta’Kuntah, Shell FPSO Fluminense, Petrobras FPSO Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, PB FPSO Cidade de Macae, PB FPSO Cidade de Niteroi, PB FPSO Cidade de Santos, and CNR FPSO Baobab.
Modec Technical Authority on HSE Management of Change (MOC) procedures and technical queries for Atlantic Fleet
Operation’s technical review of new facility topsides designs, recently under construction or final commissioning, including the PB FPSOs Guara, PB FPSO Angra dos Reis, and Tullow FPSO Jubilee
Technical evaluation and commercial proposal development for operation’s aspects of new bids, including the PB FLNG, PB FPSO Tiro / Sidon, Shell BS-4, PB Papa Terra FPSO, PB Papa Terra TLWP, and Noble FPSO Benita. Work with clients to progress requested improvements and investigations.
Long term assignment in Barra de Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, onshore and offshore, subcontracted to Shell (Owner’s Engineer) for the FPSO Fluminense’ Seawater Injection Upgrades, Produced Water Treatment Upgrades, Calcium Nitrate Injection addition, and Scale Squeeze program. Provided engineering, design, and project administration for projects awarded to outside contractors
Alliance Wood Group Engineering:
Process/Mechanical Engineer
05/2000 to 07/2005
Mechanical Engineering for BHP Billiton Shenzi TLP, Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico, Detail Design of 150,000 BOPD, 150 MMSCFD of Gas, and 75,000 BWPD processing facility. Specification of rotating and static equipment for quotation and purchase.
Package Engineer for EOG (Enron Oil and Gas) Resources Trinidad Limited Oilbird Fixed Platform, offshore Trinidad, 300 MMSFCD of gas production. Provided onsite package engineering and training to local, junior engineering staff in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
FEED proposal for Petrobras Golfinho FPSO topsides, Espiritos Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil. Facilities designed for 100,000 BPOD of production, 50,000 BWPD of produced water, 138,000 BWPD water injection and 125 MMSCFD of gas compression and dehydration. Responsibilities included generation of P&IDs and review/checking of package specifications and datasheets.
Detailed Engineering for topsides of ConocoPhillips Corocoro Phase I Fixed Platform, Gulf of Paria offshore Venezuela. Facilities designed for 70,000 BPOD of production, 80,000 BWPD of produced water, 130,000 BWPD water injection and 60 MMSCFD of gas compression and dehydration. Generation of P&IDs and datasheets for static and rotating equipment.
Package Engineer for ConocoPhillips Magnolia Deepwater Tension Leg Platform, Garden Banks Blocks 783 and 784, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, installed at depths of 4,700 feet of water. System designed for 50,000 BPD of oil and 150 MMSCFD of Gas. Generation of specifications, request for quotations, bid evaluations, and purchase orders of all specialty items, with many valves, fittings, and hoses designed to API 10,000 and various items constructed of duplex and super duplex materials.
Construction/Field Engineering for topsides of Shell Fluminense FPSO for Offshore Brazil. Provided offshore construction supervision and technical consultation for final phase of construction onsite in Campos Basin, Brazil. Modularization of vessels, pumps, compressors, and skidded packages at Delta Engineering’s Fabrication Facility. Duties included: coordination of engineering, design, structural, piping, and electrical subcontractors, and vendor field representatives in final assembly and/or modification of skidded packages, alignment of rotating equipment, and preservation procedures for overseas transportation of modules.
FEED and Detailed Engineering of FPSO topsides production modules for Enterprise Oil, Bijupira and Salema Fields, Offshore Brazil. System designed for 80,000 BPD oil production, 75 MMSCFD gas handling, 52,000 BPD produced water, and 100,000 BPD water injection. Including: simulations of separation train using Hysys, generation of functional specifications for major process equipment, and completion of air emission and produced water injection studies. Evaluation of vendor pressure vessel design using COMPRESS Software. Confirmation of vendor compliance with client (Modec) specifications. Review, checking, and updating of both vendor and project P&IDs.
Pressure Drop Evaluations of Lube Oil Cooling Water, Jacket Water, Fuel Gas, Inlet Air, and Exhaust Air of Williams Gas Compressor Stations for Air Emission Reduction Projects. Thermodynamic calculations to determine required flowrate of cooling water to size pumps.
Simsci-Pipephase steady-state modeling, yielding a nodal analysis of temperature, pressure, and flow in gas pipeline networks, for ExxonMobil Piceance Creek Gas Gathering Facility, to determine whether condensate would develop.
Neotec steady-state modeling of pipelines for BP Cusiana and Cupiagua fields, in Columbia, to determine pressure/temperature gradients and liquid hold-up of two-phase, 20” pipeline, with network, carrying 160,000 BPD oil, 25,000 BPD water and 1 BSCFD gas, to Cusiana Production Facility.
Appraise Evaluation of produced water treating for BP – Galeota Point, Trinidad. Screening evaluation for upgrade of existing produced water treating in terms of equipment, processes and cost estimates, for 160,000 BPD water.
KCC Process Equipment (acquired by Cameron):
Proposals Engineer
03/1999 to 04/2000
Design of packaged upstream Oil and Gas process equipment for projects worldwide. Evaluation of separation and dehydration process trains for chemical, mechanical, and instrumental requirements. Use of specialized software for pressure vessel design, sizing, wall thickness, and weight. Determine costs for engineering, procurement, and delivery of process trains. Preparation of technical and commercial proposals. Project execution upon award.
Toyo USA:
Process Engineer
05/1997 to 02/1999
HYSYS simulations of oil/gas separation and gas processing facilities. Material and energy balances, line sizing, and pressure vessel calculations. Rotating and static equipment specification and data sheets. Project controls, scheduling, and planning.
Design of production facilities for five fields in Megion, Siberia, Russia. Extreme cold weather application with enclosed process equipment, oil heaters, insulation, heat tracing, gas dehydration and water injection systems.
Language Skills:
Fluent in English and Spanish, Technical Translations to English. Limited Portuguese
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