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LUIS SUAREZ

ac4nyj@r.postjobfree.com

713-***-****

SUMMARY

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) Senior Process Engineer with Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree study and 20 years of experience in Oil & Gas and Petrochemical Industries. Excellent understanding of EPC operations, FEED studies, Basic & Detailed Engineering, and Construction Support. Extensive experience in Upstream/Downstream facilities, process water and wastewater treatment sistems providing technical expertise and services focused on enhancing the safety, reliability, profitability of process units and support in equipment and technology selection to ensure correct guidance consistent with environmental and operational requirements and industry standards. Development of process associated drawings and calculations: (PFD’s, P&ID’s, PSD’s, UFD’s, MSD’s, H&MB, and Process Flow Sketches, Process Equipment including separators, vessels, tanks, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors and other miscellaneous equipment, line sizing and hydraulic calculations. Evaluation of safety relieves systems, including pressure relief analysis, develop relief scenario for PSVs sizing, Flare headers and atmospheric venting.

EXPERIENCE

2016 – 2017 Senior Process Engineer, Phillips 66, Sweeny Refinery, TX, USA Revamp of Waste Water Treatment Unit (6,700 GPM), Upgrades on Delayed Coker Unit. Project Description: Provide process technical expertise to improve performance of process units. Interfaces with all departments throughout the refinery including operations, maintenance, planning, and technical services. Provide process-engineering support of refinery operations or develop process design packages for the capital project team. Responsibilities:

Developing, monitoring, evaluating unit performance metrics and maintaining effective monitoring reports.

Troubleshooting operational and process quality problems. Generating process design improvement projects for strategic and real business enhancement. Participating as required in major project activities. Providing technical content for operating procedures. Completing process hazard analysis and process safety management requirements, including the completion of action items.

Ensuring full management of change compliance with all of their activities. Supporting catalyst management activities.

Assisting in preparation of and maintaining capital and operating expense budget. Interfacing with Licensors for technical support.

Support unit turnarounds including work list identification/justification, procedure writing and reviews, equipment inspection (from operations perspective), etc. Day-to-day support of their respective operating unit to meet short- and long-term operating plans and the refinery business plan.

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2013 – 2015 Upstream Senior Process Engineer, AMEC- Foster Wheeler, TX, USA Eagle Ford Projects in South Texas, USA.

Project description: Engineering, Procurement and Construction of Upstream Multiwell Facilities

Responsibilities: Develop and coordinate basic and detail engineering for design of natural gas treating plants and production equipment: Production Separators and Heater Treaters for conditioning and condensate stabilization, Natural Gas Compression packages for Reinjection and Gas lift. Gas Dehydration (TEG & Molecular Sieves), Gas Sweetening (Amines& Membranes).

Condensate Stabilization.

Gas Treating units for the removal of Water, CO2, H2S and Mercury using TEG, mol sieves, amines, activated carbon, Membrane. Oil dehydration and desalters, oil storage tanks, CPI, water filtration. Oil, Gas and NGL pipelines.

Cardon IV Topside Project located at Golfo de Venezuela, Republic of Venezuela. Project Description: Design and construction of three (3) Offshore Platforms connected with Pipeline to the onshore terminals

Responsibilities: Owner’s technical representative (ENI) in the area of process engineering for Pre-FEED and FEED studies carried out by third party engineering contractors. Ensure facilities are designed to meet the company and the project technical specifications and are safe and operable.

Guarantee that cost, schedule, design packages, specifications, procedures and other engineering deliverables are transmitted to enable the timely planning, contracting and efficient field execution.

2011 – 2013 Senior Process Engineer, WorleyParsons, Houston, TX, USA Exxon Hebron Topsides Project: GBS Offshore Platform located in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Project description: Develop Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and detailed design phase model for the following Offshore Topside Facilities including Water injection System (300 KBD capacity): composed by deoxygenating package (Minox Technology), Filtration stage, Booster Pump and Injection Pump, Produced Water System (300 KBD capacity): Three Stage Treatment Process including Hydrocyclones, Compact Floatation Units, Reject Oil Separator and Degassing Drum.

Responsibilities: Design of Produced Water and Water Injection Systems. Develops AFE quality estimates, prepare construction bid packages; provide recommendations for award on supplier/vendor’s bid. Development and Revision of P&ID’s, PFD’s and PSDs. Implement Process Safety Management (PSM) & Management of Change (MOC). Pump and line sizing/ hydraulic calculations, issue datasheets, system description and other supporting deliverables for FEED. Sizing PSVs and calculations of Two Phase Separator tanks / vessels. Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP) resolutions, analyzes of supplier bids and technical vendor documentation. Simulations, Heat & Material Balance. Page

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2010 – 2011 Senior Process Engineer, KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Roots), Houston, TX, USA Yanbu Export Refinery Project (YERP): Expansion project of Refinery located in Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Project description: Metering Skid System (80 KBD Capacity): Detailed design phase model to the NGL Offshore Facilities for Yanbu Refinery. Detailed design phase model for the following Onshore Water Treatment Modules: Water Treatment for Steam Generation (170 KBD): Three Stage Treatment Process including Multi-Stage Flash, Demineralization, Deaeration and Pump to the Steam Boilers. Water Treatment for consumption (1.5 KBD/10m3/h): Two Stage Treatment Process including Reverse Osmosis, Storage and Pump to be used for safety showers, eyewash stations and administrative building. Responsibilities: Ensure the concept design issued at the Feed stage of the project is maintained in the detailed design issued according with the client’s guide lines. Developed PFD, UFD, Process & Utility P&IDs, Technical evaluation and approval of process data sheets, line list and deliverables from Vendor supplied at the bid stage; confirm that meets the process design basis. Conduct feasibility study to evaluate the impact of removing the demineralizer package from the scope of the water treatment system for Steam Generation and guarantee the required quality of make-up water and Boiler Feed Water (BFW) supplied to steam generators. Rastanura Integrated Project (RTIP): Petrochemical Complex for grassroots and plastic production located in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Project description: Preparation of process specifications basis for the Design Contractor to proceed with the detailed phase of the Aniline and Formalin Units. Responsibilities: Development of the Process Technical Data Book and Process Description of Aniline and Formalin system Units. Provide support in the development of control philosophy according with Down Chemical Standards. Update related P&ID’s, PFD’s and UFD’s. Vendor’s Data Review.

2008 – 2009 Process Engineer, Commonwealth Engineering & Construction, Houston, TX, USA. Delayed Coker Unit Expansion Project: Revamp of Refinery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

Equipment selection, Desalter Package review, rating of heat exchangers, data sheets, vendor process design documentation and updating PFD’s and P&ID’s. Flare Gas Recovery Project: Revamp of Valero Refinery located at Port Arthur, TX, USA Perform technical analysis in the design of utilities, PFD’s, P&ID’s involved in the Gas Processing of the FGRS Unit. Evaluation of the flare header using visual flow to resolve backpressure issues during PSV’s relief scenarios. Calumet Project: Revamp of Cooling Water Treatment System (100 KBD) at Calumet Refinery Louisiana, TX, USA.

Analytical study of the steam generation, transmission, condensate’s recovery, water treatment of the Boiler Feed Water. Evaluation of the existing wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) made up of the following units: Desalter, API separators, Induced Gas Flotation Unit, Activated Sludge biological treatment and aeration lagoons. Propose improvement in WWTP according with projected 30% increase in the effluent capacity.

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1998 – 2008 Engineering Department Lead, SISHICA Sistemas Hidroneumáticos, Caracas, Venezuela Supervise front-end process engineering and detail design phase. Coordinate activities during the design, construction and start-up of water treatment plants and pump systems, managing start-up and commissioning activities.

Casarapa EPC Project: Design and Construction of Waste Water Treatment Plant

(184KBD) in Guarenas, Venezuela.

Manage the execution of the project by maintaining an overall plan, tracking requirements/inputs, deliverables and milestones. Development of basic, conceptual and detailed engineering design of activated sludge municipal wastewater treatment plant, with ultraviolet disinfections systems for 30,000 habitants. Supervising process engineering design work performed by the External Contractor, and ensuring this work is timely delivered in compliance with required codes, quality, specifications and budget. PDVSA Cooling Towers Complejo Jose Project: Revamp and star-up of Cooling System in Cryogenic Unit, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela.

Manage execution of EPC and start-up of automatic Water Softeners for water refill of the cooling towers loop.

PDVSA Cooling Towers Complejo El Palito Project: Revamp and star-up of Cooling System in Cryogenic Unit, El Palito, Venezuela.

Manage execution of EPC and start-up of automatic Water Softeners for water refill of the cooling towers loop.

PDVSA Gran Valle de Chara I (1st and 2st stage): Design Construction and star-up of waste water treatment skid 1 & 2, Valencia, Venezuela. Sizing, specifying and selecting process equipment involved in the process water treatment plant skid, such as blowers, aerators, submersible and centrifugal pumps, DAF, CAF, filters, compressor, biological reactors. Manage execution and commissioning activities. Well Activation Project: EPC and start-up of Potable Water System for Procter and Gamble Company, Caracas, Venezuela.

Sizing and selecting process equipment involved in the drinking water treatment plant skid made up of Sand Filters, Softeners and Ultraviolet Disinfection Systems. Manage execution and commissioning activities.

P&G Industrial Water Project: Design Construction and star-up of industrial water treatment for Procter and Gamble Company, Guarenas, Venezuela.

Sizing and selecting process equipment involved in the industrial water treatment plant made up of Trickling Filters, Submersible pumps, blowers, Sand Filters and Activated Carbon Filters to process industrial effluents in the industry. Manage execution and commissioning activities. Page

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EDUCATION

Master’s Degree Studies in Environmental Engineering, Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Caracas, Venezuela. 2006.

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, 1998. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Upstream: Separation, Relief System, Water Treatment, Water Injection, Crude storage and offloading

Downstream: LNG Terminals (loading arms and metering skid systems), gas purification, Sulfur Recovery Units, Water Treatment, Delayed Coker Unit, Utilities and Facilities. Software: Process Simulators: Aspen Hysys 2006.5, HTRI, PRO II, Hydraulic Simulators: ATF Fhatom 7.0, Pipephase 9.2, Visual Flow (Relief System, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Adobe Acrobat, basic knowledge of Autocad and Smart Plant P&ID.

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