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Gerald G. McBean

Sr. Process & Process Design Chemical Engineer (25+ Years Experience)

My objective is to continually improve the performance and safety of unit processes while maximizing product quality and profitability.

Safety First, Pro-Team, Pro-Optimization

Professional Experience

Pinnacle Services VI Port Hamilton Refinery (PHRT), St. Croix

Sr. Process Engineer/PSM Manager 2021 – 2023

Provided all levels of process engineering support for a full array of project design engineering assignments.

Provided consulting to refinery process engineers for a main Crude Unit, Catalytic Reformer (Platformer), Hydrotreaters, SRU’s, TGTU, Amine Units, and Advanced Wastewater Units during the LBR refinery start-up.

NES Fircroft – Assigned to: Jacobs Engineering/Worley Limetree Bay Refinery, St. Croix

Sr. Process Engineer 2018 – 2021

Served as the lead process engineer for sixteen (16) refinery unit PHA’s.

Successfully spearheaded over twenty (20) process engineering initiatives from FEED (Front End Engineering & Design) to process equipment sizing, selection, and start-up.

Provided all levels of process engineering support for a full array of project design engineering disciplines.

Provided consulting to refinery process engineers for a main Crude Unit, Catalytic Reformer (Platformer), Hydrotreaters, SRU’s, TGTU, Amine Units, and Advanced Wastewater Units during the LBR refinery start-up.

Calumet Lubricants Oil Refinery Princeton, Louisiana

Sr. Operations Engineer/Lead PSM Engineer 2016 - 2018

Successfully, worked to troubleshoot numerous refinery units’ process problems by employing chemical engineering calculations, process simulations, and root cause analysis methodologies.

Performed all engineering support activities for Pre-Turnaround and Turnaround initiatives for a multi-train distillation unit (Primary Crude Unit) and a hydrotreater unit.

Completed and closed over 150 outstanding PHA Action Items and took the Technical Services lead for all process units PHA reviews.

Performed technical review evaluations for all unit related Incident Investigations.

Completed over 60 PSV evaluations (i-PRSM) for new and existing safety valves, including inlet and outlet piping requirements, adhering to API 520/521 guidelines and API 2000 guidelines for storage tanks.

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Performed several engineering feasibility studies and spearheaded the project development for these projects. One project involved the successful conversion of crude tower internals for increased throughput and tower performance. Project Cost: $8 MM

Provided engineering support to a team of 14 Process Operators and Refinery Maintenance Personnel.

Generated technical documentation related to process unit test runs, MOC’s, AFE’s, data trend analysis (related to troubleshooting efforts), KPI reviews, environmental protocols, and safety reviews.

Developed the MOC process and greatly improved the PSSR program at the refinery.

Service & Technology Corp. Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Sr. Process Operations/Sr. Design Engineer 2011 - 2016

(Lead Assigned to Conoco Phillips/Chevron Phillips/Koch Ind./CVR Energy Refineries)

Successfully, completed over seventy (70+) medium to large capital projects, equipment sizing & specifications for client companies ($200 M to $12 MM), i.e. new multi-train distillation unit at Chevron Phillips in Borger, TX, new hydrotreater Phillips 66, major conversion of a fixed bed hydrotreater to CCR.

Performed over 300 PSV evaluations for Koch Nitrogen/Ammonia plants, including inlet and outlet pipe sizing and relief valve header studies for global cases.

Served as the contractor engineer for numerous unit PHA’s, i.e. Chevron Phillips & Phillips 66 Companies.

Worked to complete a backlog of over 100 incomplete/outstanding Management of Change (MOC) documents at CF Industries in Woodward, OK and over 30 PSV evaluations to meet full API compliance.

Developed over 500+ process engineering simulations utilizing HYSYS, BRE Pro Max, and Sim Sci Pro II (utilized heat exchanger design tools such as HTRI to produce preliminary to detailed equipment designs).

Served as the Sr. Contractor Engineer leading daily monitoring and unit(s) support (including process optimization studies and turnaround support at several companies, e.g., CVR Energy, Coffeyville, KS and CF Industries, Woodward, OK)

Due to the medical absence of the Lead Process Department Engineer, I served for two (2) years as the ‘acting’ Process Department Manager and direct supervisor of five (5) full-time process engineers and three (3) contractor process engineers.

Select Engineering, LLC Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sr. Process Design Engineer 2008 - 2009

Produced over 100+ process simulations as the initial step to developing client studies/projects (via BRE ProMax & HYSYS).

Performed new equipment sizing calculations/simulation’s rating and worked with vendors to guide equipment detailed designs. Expert user of HTRI, BRE ProMax rating programs, and i-PRSM.

Developed new P&ID’s, PFD’s, Demo Drawings.

Spearheaded numerous hydraulics studies for Williams Pipeline, Tulsa, OK.

Served as the technical lead to complete the FEED work for several new gas field glycol dehydration units.

Served as the technical consultant engineer for PHA reviews for new processes and process unit upgrades.

I enjoyed working for Select and the Engineering Director Mr. Bevan Collins, however, I resigned from Select to return to the Virgin Islands where my wife was under a nursing contract until the end of 2010 and our son was a high school student.

Gerald G. McBean (Hovensa, LLC Cont.)

Hovensa Refinery, LLC St. Croix, USVI

Sr. Refinery Process Engineer (Level III) 1997 - 2008

Assigned to seven (7) Distillate Desulfurizers and Hydrotreaters, two (2) Nitrogen Plants, one (1) Deisohexanizer, two (2) Crude Oil Distillation Units, two (2) Vacuum Distillation Units, two (2) Catalytic Reformers (Platformers), Entire Refinery Terminal, Delayed Coker Project Team, FCC Debottlenecking Project, Asset Team - Terminal, Refinery Energy Management Team, Fire Brigade, and the HAZOP teams.

One of three (3) process engineers assigned to the engineering reviews and evaluations for a new 55 MBPD Delayed Coker Unit. Our team was responsible for reviewing every segment of the development of the new unit relative to major equipment sizing & selection, process piping and interconnects, process control’s equipment, and all PSM requirements. The project cost was $650 MM and constructed by Bechtel.

Spearheaded all assigned unit’s daily monitoring, troubleshooting, test runs, KPI’s, catalyst end-of-run calculations, platformer catalyst regenerations, and turnaround engineering support. Generated all of the technical documentation for the aforementioned process engineering activities.

Developed a refinery wide review and assessment study of all process fired heaters and implemented an energy management program that optimized heater performance and fuel consumption.

Spearheaded over eight (8+) UOP Platformer regenerations and over twelve (12+) hydrotreater catalyst changeouts and sulfidings.

Worked on a myriad of Process Safety Management (PSM) initiatives such as PSV evaluations, PHA’s, HAZOPS, What IF’s, etc. I also completed all ‘action item’s generated from these PSM initiatives.

Worked on performing all chemical engineering calculations to address troubleshooting efforts and improve unit performance.

Computer Skills (Expert User Level: All Programs)

Microsoft (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visio)

AutoCad Lt

iPRSM (Relief Valve Sim)

BRE ProMax

HYSYS

Pro II

HTRI

Pipesim

Language Skills

English – Primary

Spanish – Fluent (Written & Verbal)

French – Fluent (Written & Verbal)

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Education

Howard University, Washington D.C. 1997

B.S. Chemical Engineering

References

Available Upon Request

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