Basic information
Name
Mohamed Mahmoud Korany
Career
Electrical Engineering (Instrumentation & Control)
Experience
Education
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering 1996
Nationality
Egyptian
Date of Birth
10-July-1973
Residence
Egypt, Alexandria, New Borg Arab
Marital status
Married
Language
Arabic & English
Driving License
Qatar & Egypt
Contact information
Mobile Telephone
Egypt +201********* & Libya +218********
Personal Email address
*********@*****.*** & *********@*******.***
Educational Qualifications
University education: 5 years (consecutive & full time)
Education Level: B.Sc. Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering -Alexandria University, Egypt
General Grade (Good) (June 1996)
Machine Control Project: Closed Loop DC Single and Four Quadrant Drives
Power Project: Computer Aided for Power System (Short Circuit & Coordination)
Total Projects Degree: Excellent (June 1996)
Secondary education: 3 years, general grad V. Good (June 1991)
Prep school education: 3 years, general grad Excellent (June 1988)
Primary education: 6 years, general grad Excellent (June 1985)
Personal skills
Health & physical conditions are good & fit for office & field work activities.
Good ability & interest for learning new technology & programs & software.
Good communication & leadership skills & self-motivated.
Team player & team builder & team leader good ability.
Reporting & presenting ability for technical & safety issue.
Flexibility for working & communicating with multinational staff.
Less supervision & work independently and self-motivated & creative.
Flexibility to work onshore/offshore and remote area also relocate overseas.
Employment History from 1996 to 2023
Job title
Company
Project & Area
Location/Country
From
To
Instrument Analyst
Bonatti
Mellitah oil & gas complex
Libya
2022 Q4
2023Q3
Construction Manager
ALRAYA Company
Engineering & Construction
Egypt, Alexandria, Borg Arab
2019 Q4
2022 Q3
Technical Support I&C Engineer
Dolphin Energy Limited
Dolphin Down Stream Facilities
Qatar, RAS LAFFAN
2015 Q4
2019 Q3
Field Maintenance I&C Engineer
Gas process & utility & metering
Qatar, RAS LAFFAN
2013 Q1
2015 Q3
Field Maintenance I&C Supervisor
Gas process & utility & metering
Qatar, RAS LAFFAN
2006 Q3
2012 Q4
Metering engineer
Egyptian LNG company
Liquefied Natural Gas plant
Egypt, Alexandria city, EDCO
2006 Q1
2006 Q2
Fiscal metering senior engineer
SHELL- BAPETCO
OBAIYED GAS PLANT
Egypt -Western desert
2005 Q1
2005 Q4
Metering Maintenance Engineer
Fiscal metering station gas/condensate
EGYPT - ALEX CITY
2004 Q1
2004 Q4
I&C Maintenance Engineer
OBAIYED GAS PLANT
EGYPT - western desert
2000 Q1
2003 Q4
E&I Project Engineer
PETROJET Company
OBAIYED FIELD GAS PLANT PROJECT
EGYPT - western desert
1997 Q4
1999 Q4
Project Electrical Engineer
Expansion of Storage Capacity Tanks for SUMED CO
EGYPT, Alexandria northern cost
1996 Q4
1997 Q3
CV Introduction:
I am electrical engineer graduated in 1996 from Engineering Faculty – Alexandria University, my scope of work is E&I and I&C activities in oil & gas plants.
Currently working in MELLITAH OIL & GAS B.V. LIBYA with Bonnatti Company as Instrument Analyst in Planning & Engineering department to provide the required technical support & consultation for maintenance scope for running plant & facilities.
I had the opportunity with PETROJET & BAPETCO & DOLPHIN to lead multi skills teams (Electrical / Instrumentation / Mechanical) for maintenance, construction, commissioning, startup & shutdown jobs successfully, safely and efficiently.
Previous Experience:
My working experience includes project phase construction work & operation phase maintenance work in oil & gas plants electrical & instrument scope mainly but also cover other area of expertise in fiscal metering systems.
Handling & leading teams in construction activities & commissioning & startup
Supervision of maintenance work daily activities as well as plant shutdown preparation & coordination and execution then plat startup.
Follow up vendors and contractors during construction, modification, upgrade, maintenance with field supervision of site activities to ensure the work quality & safety.
Familiar with plant hazards & safety requirements, handling field work permits, task risk assessment, isolation types & certificates and toolbox talk.
I have excellent computer skills & reporting & presentations and good communication & coordination skills for handling multiple tasks with different disciplines.
Gulf experience, 13 years working in QATAR at Dolphin Energy Limited gas plant since construction & commissioning and startup mainly for process instrumentations and control systems & gas metering systems and condensate shipping tank farm.
Last role in Dolphin was in technical operation support E&I section to support onshore and offshore operation, maintenance, project & reliability teams for technical studies of plant upset, failures, trips, and faults in field instrumentation, control systems, ESD system, F&G system and fiscal metering systems.
Local experience, 10 years in EGYPT working for PETROJET & BAPETCO companies in petroleum plants construction & operation/maintenance, scope include electrical, instrumentation & metering systems.
I had been assigned for different metering jobs for commissioning & upgrade projects & also maintenance for the gas & condensate fiscal metering stations of BAPETCO-SHELL company in addition of handling the regular metering validations & international audits and also I had been in Netherlands for SHELL training course for fiscal metering systems.
Technical Experience Summary
●I started as project E&I engineer in oil and gas plants construction then I&C maintenance engineer through various roles in O&G operational companies.
●Handling projects commissioning of field instrumentations, control packages, metering stations with multinational companies as well as engineering practice & knowledge with international standards.
●Handling maintenance activities of gas process instrumentations for various types of process measurements & automatic control systems as ESD & PLC/UCP for process units & equipment’s plus the machine monitoring system MMS for rotating equipment’s in parallel with reliability team for performance monitoring and troubleshooting of abnormal conditions or system alarms.
●Carry out routine maintenance & troubleshooting and validation for fiscal gas & condensate metering & gas analyzers.
●Participation of plant modifications review & plant trips & failure investigation and root cause analysis.
●Handling fiscal metering validation & auditing for metering equipment’s & flow measurements & sampling system & analyzers and flow computers parameters traceability to the meter certificate & skid parameters plus monitoring the overhaul performance of the metering systems.
Competencies & skills
Sound understanding and familiarity of instrumentations & control systems, safeguarding and fiscal/sales metering systems for oil & gas plants as well as engineering international standards.
Experience in project handling engineering documentations, procurement, factory acceptance testing (FAT) and commissioning site acceptance tests (SAT).
Handling maintenance activities for instrumentations & control systems for running plants as well as shutdown & overhauling maintenance activities.
Hands on experience for control system controller (PLC) & monitors (HMI) for HIMA & Siemens & Allan Bradley and shutdown system ESD by TRICONEX and machine monitoring system (MMS) Bentley Nevada 3500 system.
Awareness on using engineering tools; Smart plant instrumentation (IN-tools)
Maintenance software for troubleshooting & calibration for Gas metering flow computer (ABB & POLAR), ultrasonic flow meter (Instromate-Sonic Guard), Gas analyzers-Chromate (Fisher Rosemont GCX) & Dew point analyzers (AMETEK) and KELTONE software for flow calculation.
Maintenance planning programs SAP and MAXIMO for CM & PM and spares.
Excellent skills of general PC software: windows XP and office applications word & Excel & power point and outlook.
Company / Location
MMAC – Bonatti - Dietsmann / Mellitah Oil & Gas Complex – Liby
Job title
Instrument & Control Advisor
Department
Planning and Engineering Department
Duties
I&C Technical operation support for O&M
Main scope of work & responsibilities:
Follow up processing of preventive & corrective work activities for instrumentation, automation, fire & gas, metering and analyzers.
Prepare the work scope & drawings required for special jobs modification, upgrade, shutdown with method statements & tool box talk & risk assessment and required isolation & inhibit list as required and any special resources (scaffolding, cranes).
Prepare field data base for field instrumentation, packages control system (PLC, MPS, HMI), IAS (DCS, ESD, FGS), ECS (EDR, PLC, PC), HVAC (LCP, PDP), Firefighting deluge skids (water, foam), substation INERGEN fire suppression system, power plant (boilers, turbine), metering (UCP, FC, PC), analyzer shelters (analyzers, sampling)
Review documentation & conduct site survey to verify equipment existing installation & update documentation accordingly as-built the as found conditions
Organize documentations as per equipment category (system, package, instruments, valves, meters, panels) to reduce searching time and utilize the Tag, Vendor, Description to find out the related documents & technical details (P&ID, C&F diagram, Data Sheet, loop drawing, logic diagram, hardware configuration, I/O list, wiring diagram, Assembly drawing, O&M manual, Test Certificate, Calibration, loop dossier, layout)
Provide field support to maintenance team during field troubleshooting, plant trips, and start-up and prepare the required technical proposals and failure reports as required.
Review the job completion feedback in MAXIMO and rout, reschedule, reassign, follow-up to ensure the proper completion from all involved disciplines to close the work orders.
Prepare the material requisitions as per equipment assembly drawings and bill of material recommended by original manufacture/suppliers.
Carry out field survey and investigation for plant trips & failure to find out the root cause and provide the corrective actions and/or modifications required.
Follow up plant modification and upgrade for instrumentation & automation scope to schedule the required work scope with all involved disciplines & ensure the completion of field activities
Review and update preventive maintenance plans & procedures as per vendor & manufacture recommendations to ensure reliable & efficient maintenance program
Carry out field survey and routine function testing for fire & gas and firefighting systems
Company / Location
Dolphin Energy / Qatar, Ras Laffan Industrial City
Job title
Instrument & Control Support Engineer
Department
Technical Operation Support
Duties
I&C Technical operation support for Dolphin facilities
Main scope of work & responsibilities:
Carry out technical review & site survey for plant frequent problems in the I&C scope reported by operation & maintenance teams to find out the proper solution, modification, upgrade to ensure reliable function
Support engineering team for modification & upgrade project review and follow up execution in field with vendors & contractors till commissioning and hand over to operation & maintenance teams
Provide field support when required to maintenance E&I teams for critical troubleshooting and plant startup or recovery
Carry out incident investigation for plant trips & equipment’s failures; doing field survey & technical review for the incident to find out the root causes and the required precautions & corrective actions to avoid reoccurrence of such incidents or failures
Carry out PM routine & corrective maintenance for control packages and maintain the recovery backup for PLC/HMI for restoration in case of system failure
Review field instruments & control system spares for missing stock & obsolete components in order to find the suitable alternative or new successor from manufactures & suppliers
Follow plant modifications implementation & commissioning and provide field start-up assistance & troubleshooting
Carry out PM optimization review/update/create new routine for I&C equipment’s
Field support for FM team during plant upset shutdown/trips/failure for troubleshooting & rectification and startup
Offshore support for technical issues & spare parts & vendor consultation
Company / Location
Dolphin Energy / Qatar, Ras Laffan Industrial City
Job title
Instrument & Control Engineer
Department
Field Maintenance
Duties
Maintenance of instruments & control equipment’s for Dolphin gas plant On-shore facilities
Main scope of work & responsibilities:
Follow up field maintenance activities for instrumentation & control & metering for onshore production facilities.
Maintain maintenance record in SAP system for PM & CM with failure code & cause & corrective action as well as spare parts where utilized
Handling plant trips & equipment’s failures and follow up troubleshooting & repair work.
Follow up plant modifications review & implementation and update documents for modification/upgrade.
Follow up metering equipment’s calibration & validation and auditing with client & third party and record all flow computer parameters & calibration sheets with validation report.
Follow up spare parts for instrumentation maintenance stock review & update
Follow up vendors & suppliers & contractors for field activities
Reporting plant instrumentation status & faults & maintenance progress
Keep record of instruments & systems information & program back up for recovery in case of any equipment failures.
Carry out root cause analysis & incident investigation for plant failures/trips
Upgrade obsolete instruments & control system components to the new models to ensure plant sustainability and vendor & manufacture support for hardware & software
Company / Location
Dolphin Energy / Qatar, Ras Laffan Industrial City
Job title
Instrument & Control Supervisor
Department
Field Maintenance
Duties
Maintenance of instruments & control equipment’s for Dolphin gas plant On-shore facilities
Process area instrument & control maintenance:
Schedules and controls daily maintenance workload, progress of the works, updating man-hours and troubleshooting activities feedback in SAP.
Checks that all calibration and test equipment is acceptable to carry out a full range check for the instrumentation specified.
Checks and detects troubles and defects by making use of technical information contained in the vendor’s documents, drawings and technical specifications.
Inspects the quality of work on a day-to-day basis and ensuring that drawing data and specifications are adhered to.
Ensures that safe working practices relating to Instrument works are adhered to.
Carrying site surveillance for the instruments & control units and preparing surveillance reports including findings, corrective actions & recommendations for improvements suggestions when required.
Initiates failure/incidence investigation reports & root cause analysis related to instruments & control systems, such as process equipment’s/units & ESD (TRICONEX) & PLC (Allen Bradley/HIMA/SIEMENS).
Follow up field modification FMP for instrumentation & control systems implementation & commissioning and markup the final as built drawings for documentation updating. Raising I.S. for field improvements/modifications suggestion required to eliminate hazard condition or to avoid unnecessary plant upset/trip as corrective action for abnormal findings or incident investigations.
Working in conjunction with reliability for maintaining the rotating equipment’s machine monitoring system MMS; 3500 BENTELY NEVADA; for monitoring & analyzing all measurements and troubleshooting of abnormal conditions of probes or system alarms of the system rack cards & loops.
Handle the fire water system (DELUGE) control equipment’s maintenance & troubleshooting & regular testing and logic function testing and prepare PM method statements & spares stoke for maintenance.
Raises purchase requisitions for stock items, standard tools, calibration equipment and service work order for repairable items.
Prepares of method statement for routine maintenance and critical activities prior to execution of the activity.
Prepare & follow up local national staff technical & practical training programs & assessments.
Gas Process Shutdown Preparation & Execution:
Preparation for gas process area shutdown scope of work for the instrumentation & control systems required for shutdown plan & schedule.
Carrying out all field surveillance & review instrument & equipment’s performance/failures/trips record plan the shutdown work for inspection/repair/testing as required.
Schedules and controls daily instrumentations shutdown workload, progress of the works, updating man-hours and daily activities progress.
Inspects the quality of work on a day-to-day basis and ensuring that drawing data and specifications are adhered to.
Coordinate with vendors & contactors and other disciplines related to shut down.
Prepares of method statement for shutdown maintenance activities with permit to work & associated certificates.
Carry out tool box talk for the maintenance technicians for work method & safety aspects and related hazardous.
Ensures that safe working practices relating to Instrument works are adhered to.
Record job history into SAP with time confirmation & failure code as per findings.
Plant construction & Commissioning Activities:
Assigned as I&C commissioning supervisor during plant construction & commissioning of different scopes for process, utilities, fiscal metering systems
The scope of commissioning work includes SAT such as loops check & logic test & instruments function test.
To ensure the proper installation of field instrumentation & termination & local control panels and marshaling cabinets has been done as per the drawings & company specifications.
Report & follow up punch list items/issues during commissioning activities.
Follow up commissioning activities of the gas plant Instrument & Control Systems & fiscal gas & condensate metering systems.
Coordinate commissioning activities with operations and other vendors & contractors.
Plant startup & early gas production/exporting & process area:
Assigned as maintenance start up shift supervisor for Instrumentations & Electrical & mechanical during startup of utilities & gas streams & condensate storage/loading facility
Company / Location
ELNG Egyptian Liquefied Natural Gas / EGYPT, Alexandria
Job title
Measurements maintenance engineer
Duties
Metering systems & Analytical equipment’s
Carry out the maintenance activities for the fiscal gas & liquid metering systems and on line analyzers.
Prepare routine maintenance tasks procedures
Routine check for metering system performance & flow measurements accuracy using cross reference calculations
Trouble shouting for instrumentation & control faults in the metering systems instruments, control valves & systems control panel.
Prepare proposals for operational spare parts & calibration tools
Prepare operating procedure for the metering operating software & train operators for routine operation & maintenance tasks on the metering flow computers & supervisor computers
Routine performance checks for gas & liquid flow meters (ultra-sonic meter, turbine meter, orifice meter)
Company / Location
Shell BAPETCO / OBAIYED GAS PLANT (Egypt -Western desert)
Job title
Senior instrument engineer for metering stations
Duties
Seals gas & condensate fiscal metering systems
Carry out commissioning & SAT & as built documents for metering upgrade project
Validation for metering system & flow computer calculation verification using FLOCALC software form KELTON. Metering operators training
Prepare maintenance spare parts proposals for spare stokes.
Follow up the routine & corrective maintenance activities for the gas plant, well heads & fiscal gas and condensate metering stations
Prepare the maintenance task procedures for routine maintenance & instruments calibration
Follow up the gas & condensate metering stations routine validation & calibration
Perform an internal audit program & attend international audit form (NMI, KELTON, & APATCHI) for fiscal metering systems.
Study field change proposals & review technical quotations
Review & update the maintenance spare parts for field instrumentations & control valves.
Company / Location
Shell BAPETCO / EGYPT - Alexandria
Job title
Metering Maintenance Engineer
Duties
FISCAL METERING STATIONS
Review the metering station specification & drawings for upgrade project for fiscal metering system for gas & condensate measurements.
Commissioning, carry out site acceptance test (SAT), for metering stations upgrade projects. Follow up the metering system as built documents along with punch list completion with vendor staff.
Validation for fiscal gas metering system & flow computer calculation verification using FLOCALC software form KELTON, flow meter performance & analyzers calibration.
Prepare maintenance routines task procedures & maintenance spare parts stokes
Follow up operating metering system & maintenance activities for fiscal gas & condensate metering station
Conducting regular & routine calibration of metering transmitters & gas analyzers. Conduct fiscal metering station audit with international crew & client staff
Carry out trouble shooting, routine maintenance & regular calibration for process transmitters, gas analyzers, control and shutdown valves, shutdown system, fire alarm system & gas detection sys.
Carry out complete validation for gas metering stations (orifice meter, ultra-sonic meter) & condensate metering station (positive displacement meter).
Carry out maintenance routine & defect trouble shooting for electrical systems like switchgear distribution boards, control panels, UPS system, lighting, earthing grids, emergency generators, air compressor for instrument air, motorized valves.
Prepare maintenance routine procedures & maintenance spare parts stock for electrical systems & instrumentation & control system & metering system & fire and gas detection sys.
Carry out technical presentations for gas & condensate fiscal metering systems for metering staff operators & technicians.
Company / Location
Shell BAPETCO / EGYPT - western desert
Role
Instrumentation & Control Maintenance Engineer
Duties
OBAIYED GAS PLANT
Carry out daily maintenance work for PM & CM instrument work scope
The instrumentation work scope includes the followings:
Field process & utility instruments, transmitters & controllers
The pneumatic control system for control values shutdown values and explosion proof pressurized equipment
The hydraulic control system for Gas well head flow & pressure control (Baker system) remote controlled by ROC unit (fisher)
The fire & gas detection system
The gas flow metering, orifice meter, venture meter, ultra-sonic meter, Gas chromatography
The condensate flow metering, positive displacement meter & Ball prover.
The flow computer system for gas flow metering and gas analyzers (chromatograph & dew point & moisture).
The DCS system (Fisher Rosemont, RS3) configuration of control loops & plant parameter settings.
The cathodic protection system for protection of pipelines & storage tanks.
The emergency diesel generators (cater pillar & CAT)
The instrument air compressors (Atlas copco & Ingressol land)
Prepare spare parts stoke & review min/max stoke & update
Company Name
PETROJET - NORTHEN BRANCH
Location
EGYPT - western desert
Job title
Electrical & Instrument Project Engineer
Duties
OBAIYED GAS PLANT PROJECT CONSTRUCTION
Carry on the electrical & instrumentations construction & commissioning activities according to the project construction dossiers for the following systems
The Switch Gear Station HOLEC & ABB
The Power Distribution System
The Building & Street _Lighting
The Fire & gas detection system
The field instrumentations and PCS/ESD systems
The water treatment station & irrigation system
Company Name
PETROJET - NORTHEN BRANCH
Location
SIDI KREER (EGYPT – ALEXANDRIA)
Job title
Electrical & Instrument Project Engineer
Duties
Expansion of Storage Capacity Tanks at ARAB PETROLEUM PIPELINES CO. (SUMED)
Carry on the electrical & instrumentations construction and commissioning activities according to the project construction dossiers for the following systems
●Switch Gear Station (AEG)
●Pump Station for crude oil
●Fire Alarm System for storage tanks
●Switch Racks (Distribution & Control Panels)
●Cable Laying, testing, termination, Connection
●Instrument loops (Pressure, temperature, Level)
●Lighting System (Normal & Emergency)
●Earthling System
●CCTV system for plant monitoring & security
Training Record
●M269 - Gas & Oil Fiscal Metering and Allocation at Shell-Training Center (Netherlands)
●Programmable logic controller (PLC) at ENPPI company (Egypt)
●Electrical Measuring & Industrial Electronics from Cairo University center (CAPSCU)
●Instrumentation and Automatic Central from Cairo University Center (CAPSCU)
●Process Instrumentations & Automatic Control System at the Training Center of First Egyptian Engineering Co.
●Intrinsically safe systems course by PETROMAINT Training Center.
●Pre-intermediate, intermediate & elementary English course from I.L.C
●Safety training as H2S & breathing apparatus & working at height & confined space entry & work permit system & fire fitting and first aid training.
●PC Software training: Win, word, Excel certified from IBM & Microsoft and SAP
●TRICON hardware & software training by INVENSYS at Qatar QOP training center
●Smart Plant Instrumentation SPI ver.7 at State of Qatar
●Allen Bradley PLC training by Rockwell _ Qatar
●HIMA PLC training by HIMA _ Qatar
●Rolls Royce Trent 60 DLE package training course (Qatar)
●HSE trainings for offshore and offshore
Confined space training
Working at height training
Fire fitting training
First aid training
H2S training
Helicopter training
Sea survival training
Defensive driving training
Work permit training
Tap-Root software training for incident investigation & root cause analysis
SAP training for maintenance & material managements
Microsoft office application (word, excel, PowerPoint, outlook, .. ext)