Engineering Engineer

Arya Kavousian, P. Eng - Resume

** ******** ***** **, ******* AB, T3A 6B8

email: ****.*********@*****.***, Tel: 403-***-****,

Education: B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology (1986)

Registrations: Association Professional Engineering and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

Association Professional Engineering and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS)

Objective: Piping Engineer

Core Skills:

Static & Dynamic stress analysis working with Caesar II, Auto pipe, Pipe plus, and familiarity with FE analysis

Pipeline stress analysis including underground pipeline engineering according to CSA Z662, as well as above ground steam and emulsion pipelines stress analysis and engineering.

Slug flow and vibrational analysis. Flange and pressure vessel calculations as per ASME Sec VIII. Pipe support design and weld calculations.

Applying Codes and Standards such as API, ASTM, ANSI, ASME, ALA and CSA Z662

Pipe material engineering, Line designation table, material requisition, and technical bid evaluation

Field engineering and construction experience. Providing procedures and installing piping, pressure vessels, Air coolers and rotary equipment.

Experience with both large and small projects, including oil and gas upstream and downstream, refineries, petrochemical plants, SAGD CPF and well pads, In-Situ CSS (cyclic steam stimulation), tailing and heavy oil projects.

Employment History:

AMEC Foster Wheeler - Three Streams Division,

Piping Engineering Department Lead (2014-Present)

Projects:

Cenovus Telephone Lake - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for a team of piping and stress engineers working on a green-field CPF plant of bitumen production with 90,000 BPSD capacity to develop field bitumen production using SAGD as the in-situ recovery method of choice. The facility included de-oiling, co-gen, pipe rack, tankage, glycol and dewatering systems and CSA pipelines.

Cenovus Foster Creek Offsite - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for piping engineering and stress analysis of 9 SAGD well pads with steam, emulsion, purge gas and fuel gas lines. Pads including pipe rack, test separator and other facilities and included. Each pad included 8 to 18 wellheads. Job involved slug flow study.

Kinder Morgan Belt line Tanks - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for piping engineering and stress analysis of a green-field tank terminal project in Edmonton to be used for merchant tank storage of light crude, heavy crude and condensates including, 18 tanks of, 220,000 to 400,000 bbls, booster pumps, valve matrix, pipe rack, metering and surge relief tanks. Job included providing piping material specs and design of special pipe supports.

Department lead responsibilities:

Responsible for coordinating piping engineering team, recruitment and interview, coaching, providing department technical procedures, attending in audits, giving professional opinions to projects, time sheets review and approval as well as working as piping engineering lead for some of the projects.

Jacobs Canada Inc.

Piping Engineering Supervisor (2012-2014)

Programs & Projects:

Nova Chemicals program- Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for stress analysis and material engineering, material technical review and purchase

order for development of brownfield projects for Joffre Petrochemical Plants.

Nexen Long Lake Base plant, pipelines and SAGD well pads program - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for SAGD well pads, Steam & Production Flow lines and CPF projects. Job included piping material engineering, line designation table, material requisition, steam and production pipeline stress analysis and underground piping engineering.

Husky Well-pads and CPF program - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for stress analysis of well pads, piping material engineering, line designation table and material requisition.

Methanex Project - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for stress analysis and material engineering of relocating, redesign and ABSA approval

for an existing Methanol plant in US moving to Alberta.

Department supervisor responsibilities:

Responsible for supervision & coordination of piping engineering team for simultaneous programs, providing project man-hours, technical information, calculations, material requisition, providing professional opinions, technical bid evaluations, technical reports and engineering procedures.

Worley Parsons

Lead Piping Engineer (1997-2012)

Imperial Oil alliance – Upstream Cold Lake Projects - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for supervision & coordination of piping engineering team for development of Imperial Oil Cold lake oil sand plants and facilities and above ground steam and production pipelines, including SAGD and In-Situ (cyclic steam stimulation) pads, Infill pads, expansion of existing steam generation plants, designing new units i.e. SRU, SO2, CO2 units as well as Horn River facilities, Nabiye pads and pipelines, high temp underground pipeline projects.

Imperial Oil alliance – Canada Conventional Projects - Piping Engineering Lead

Responsible for supervision & coordination of piping engineering team for development of Imperial Oil Conventional oil and gas projects (Sarnia, Wizard Lake, Bonnie Glen, Norm wells including small oil and gas plants, pipelines, conventional well pads, pump and compressor stations. Job included also requisition of VRU package, valves and piping special items, providing piping specs, LDT, working with regulatory, ABSA and water hammer dynamic analysis as well as solving issues of piping engineering, giving professional opinion to projects, providing technical reports, engineering procedures and man-hours estimate.

Petro Canada – Mackay River – Senior Piping Engineer

Mackay River CPF and upstream SAGD project, including stress analysis of piping steam generation boiler and plant, high temperature pipelines, steam injection, bitumen recovery & treatment plant.

Shell Canada Ltd – Athabasca Oil Sand project – Senior Piping Engineer

Sulfur complex plant of Athabasca oil sand refinery. Job included stress analysis of hot large size pipes containing heavy and dens liquids, modeling and analyzing high elevated towers and connected piping, twin tube and shell heat exchangers, heaters, air coolers and hot rotary machinery, dynamic calculation of pressure safety valve, slip joint and expansion joints.

Aux Sable Liquid Products Inc. – Liquid Extraction Plant, Morris Illinois – Senior Piping Engineer

Stress analysis for a liquid gas plant including, earthquake analysis, underground cryogenic, towers, rotary equipment and PSV dynamic analysis.

Suncor Energy Inc. – Millennium oil refinery project, Fort McMurray – Stress Engineer

Stress engineering for naphtha unit of oil sand refinery plant including pipe racks, steam turbine, compressor, pressure vessels and towers.

Nova Chemicals Ltd – Joffre Polyethylene Plant project – Stress Engineer

Stress engineering for Joffre polyethylene petrochemical plant in Joffre AB, including stress analysis of towers, air coolers, rotary equipment, flare, utility and process area and relevant pipe racks.

Prime West – La prise creek Compressor Station & Glycol System – Mechanical Engineer

Responsible for mechanical engineering and requisition of compressors including sizing, bid evaluation and procurement of new two stages reciprocating compressor, air cooler and inlet separator skid, upgrading and modification of old compressor system, providing LDT, piping of manifolds and pump sizing and selection. Job included heat transfer analysis of tanks and sizing of glycol heating system.

Field engineering & Engineering Management Experience:

SAZEH

Field Engineering Manager (1995-1997)

National Iranian Oil Co. – Karanj & Parsi Gas Injection Compressor Stations – Field Eng. Manager

Field engineering of a 230 mmscfd, 900 psig injection compressor station, including four centrifugal compressors and gas turbine drivers and related equipment, piping, civil, structure, buildings, instrument and electricity.

Job included management of engineering disciplines as well as project and administration groups during construction period.

Field Piping Engineer (1993-1995)

National Iranian Oil Co. – Dalan Gas treatment Plant – Mechanical and Piping Field Engineer

Responsible for a complete work from design to construction field engineering and commissioning of a 1400 mmscfd, 1800 psig condensate extraction and gas dehydration plant including 150 meters 30” finger type slug catcher, towers, pump stations, stress analysis and layout, providing material specifications during design period and then field engineering and commissioning of piping, mechanical equipment, related pipeline during construction.

Design Piping Engineer (1988-1993)

National Iranian Oil Co. – Aghar Central Facilities – Lead Piping Engineer

Responsible for piping stress analysis and layout, support design, providing material specifications, P&ID mechanization and development of a gas gathering facility unit, including 24” finger type slug catcher, sphere receivers and launchers and utility system.

National Iranian Oil Co. – Abadan Refinery Visbraker Unit – Lead Piping Engineer

Responsible for piping stress analysis and supporting, providing material specifications and completing line list for an oil refinery Visbraker unit – 25,000 bbls /d.

National Iranian Oil Co. – Isfahan Linear Alkyl Benzene (L.A.B.) – Piping Engineer

Responsible for piping engineering of utility piping, P&ID mechanization and line list development, stress analysis and pipe support design, underground sewerage system design and field engineering for 50,000 tons per year L.A.B. petrochemical plant.

Additional Training/Technical Skills:

Certificate in ABSA Pressure Equipment Safety Legislation

Certificate in advanced ASME B31.3

Certificate in CSA Z662

Certificate in FE/pipe and Nozzle Pro Finite Element analysis

Certificate in Dynamic analysis (CAESAR II)

Certificate in ASME B31.3

Fundamental of project management course

ACSA (Alberta Construction Safety Association) course

H2S safety & first aid CPR courses

AutoCAD course

Accomplishments and/or Publications:

Translating book: Electricity for house keeper (1983)

Employment History:

TSE division - Amec Foster Wheeler, 2014 – Present

Piping Engineering Department Manager

Jacobs Canada Inc. 2012 – 2014

Piping Engineering Department Supervisor

Worley Parsons Canada 1998 – 2012

Lead Piping Engineer

Cub Engineering Canada 1997 – 1998

Mechanical Engineer

SAZEH 1988 – 1997

Piping Engineer / Field Engineering Manager

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