Environmental Engineer / Chemist / Safety Specialist / HSE

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Top Skills

Regulatory Affairs

HSE Management Systems

Product Stewardship

Languages

English (Native or Bilingual)

Spanish (Professional Working)

Hindi (Professional Working)

Certifications

Drilling Fluid Specialist

Asif Babar, EIT

Environmental Scientist/Engineer HSE Assessment in the Oil & Gas Industry Global Regulatory Compliance

Houston, Texas Area

Summary

I am a quality-focused environmental chemist with chemical engineering background, with 10+ years of experience in the oil

& gas industry with a proven record of impacts on health, safety and environmental programs (EHS systems). I have extensive experience in oilfield chemicals, understanding environmental regulations regarding product safety and stewardship, hazard communication, and chemical risk management, and the related occupational health and safety issues.

My objective has always been to provide excellent professional support to employers and clients in the following areas:

Emphasis on environmental science, HSE, and regulatory compliance with regards to improving environmental quality and ensuring responsible land, water and air management in compliance with global regulatory requirements;

Product chemistry knowledge & evaluation with regards to risk assessment (human health & ecological), product life-cycle assessment, and toxicology;

Proficient in industry best practices, development and implementation of environmental programs, and integration of HSE into daily operations via assessments, audits, and training programs;

Comprehensive chemical hazard & risk management, environmental permitting and report writing, and drilling fluid/mud chemistry and testing;

Ability to communicate complex problems & solutions easily in a way to be clearly understood by those charged with implementation. If you need to ensure all environmental programs, procedures, training, work practices & controls are effectively implemented, or need to identify applicable domestic & international environmental regulations & risks, or need to interact with operations to ensure Page 1 of 6

compliance & conformance to the Environmental Management System, then we should talk.

Experience

CARBO

Product Stewardship Consultant

December 2018 - Present

Houston, Texas Area

CARBO Ceramics Inc. is an industry-leading technology and service company that provides products and services to the global oil and gas and industrial markets. The Company's oilfield technologies and services segment includes the manufacturing and selling of proppant products for use primarily in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells, Fracpro software for the design of fracture treatments, and StrataGen consulting services for the optimizing of well completions.

Role: Product Stewardship support for product development and regulatory compliance in the areas of product registration, coordination of ecotoxicity testing, hazard analysis, risk assessment, regulatory review & interpretation, development of product safety documentation (i.e. SDS) & product labeling, and customer requests.

Responsibilities:

Manage global regulatory compliance and product stewardship in the development, production, marketing, and the overall life cycle of growing portfolio of chemical product line to assure compliance.

Maintain and interpret chemical supplier’s composition data for preparing chemical risk assessments & worldwide HazCom documents (SDS, labels).

Monitor, interpret, communicate, and assess business impact of product compliance regulations for the offshore markets (Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Brazil, and Canada) for regional approvals & commercialization of product line.

Assist customers with regulatory submissions, product registrations

(REACH, TSCA, etc.) & confidential business information dossiers, inquiries regarding raw materials, products and manufacturing facilities/tollers as they relate to regulatory or EH&S concerns and questions.

Support the continuous improvement of Product Stewardship Management Systems for the business.

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Witt O'Brien's

Regulatory Specialist

March 2017 - January 2018 (11 months)

Houston, Texas

Witt O'Brien's (A Seacor Company) has been an innovator in crisis and emergency management since 1983. The firm helps businesses and governments in disaster preparation, response & recovery efforts. The company partners with two-thirds of the offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico. Also, Seacor’s ocean transportation & logistics services businesses own marine equipment operating in the U.S.

Role: Preparing, updating and maintaining various regulatory compliance plans, while interpreting state and federal agency regulations and applying that regulatory knowledge to assist clients.

Responsibilities:

Managing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans and inspections for client-specified projects.

Performing field work as needed; visually inspecting client sites (facilities, terminals, tank farms, refineries) to ensure compliance including travel to various locations around the country.

Develop and manage storm water discharge permit applications and storm water pollution prevention plans (SWPPP).

Manage site reportable spills and work with agencies/contractors to resolve corrective actions and penalties; and coordination with state and local environmental permitting & licensing agencies.

Develop and conduct training seminars on spill control, storm water, and other state and federal environmental permit and program requirements for clients and terminals.

Auditing environmental programs, identifying gaps, and working with environmental/HSE teams to implement corrective actions. Key Achievements:

Developing & presenting the SPCC and DOT training documentation for the ExxonMobil Water Workshop [April 2017]

Responding to a bid for the creation of a database for critical client documentation

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Assisting in the management of key accounts including Motiva, Shell, Kinder Morgan, NRG, Exxon, Plains All American, Delek, as well as other local Texas- based companies that required permitting/compliance work. Schlumberger

9 years

Environmental Chemist V – Product Support

January 2011 - March 2016 (5 years 3 months)

Houston, TX

Schlumberger is the world's leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. Working in more than 85 countries and employing approximately 100,000 people who represent over 140 nationalities, Schlumberger supplies the industry's most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production.

Role: Managed the environmental aspects of the corporate product approval system, and provided internal regulatory support for M-I SWACO product line. Responsibilities:

Coordinated regional efforts to register products for discharge globally.

Worked with regulatory agencies for product registration (REACH, GHS, EPA, OSPAR, TCEQ, OSHA, NPDES, and California Region IX).

Trained and mentored professionals on environmental regulatory compliance corporate standards.

Communicated environmental product acceptance and regulatory and market limitations to incorporate into product bulletins and various marketing literature.

Provided support to chemical disclosure regulatory requirements to protect technology and confidentiality.

Headed efforts for NSF compliance for M-I SWACO product line.

Led the research and testing efforts for offshore environmental impacts of chemical products, drilling fluid formulations, and evaluation of new treatment technologies, with a focus on environmental science.

Developed environmental compliance programs including waste management, air emissions monitoring and technical consulting. Key Achievements:

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Achieved goals of annual savings of $700,000 on toxicity testing (in-house bioassay laboratory) to ensure products met discharge criteria based on U.S. Gulf of Mexico (NPDES) standards.

Creating a modeling tool/database to manage and automate hazard and risk assessments for oilfield chemicals.

Reducing potential liability for the business line by decreasing high-risk chemistry from product line by 20%.

Senior Regulatory/Product Safety Specialist

January 2009 - December 2010 (2 years)

Houston, TX

Role: Managed the occupational health & environmental product stewardship activities for R&E and Environmental Affairs (HSE) group, which consisted of analyzing and interpreting hazard communication practices, regulations, and chemical control laws.

Responsibilities:

Knowledge and training in facility response planning, NPDES wastewater permitting, storm water pollution prevention and permitting (SWPPP), EPCRA / CERCLA / SARA chemical tracking and reporting, non-hazardous industrial waste management, and emissions inventory.

Provided technical support to facilities with air permit applications, emission calculations, air dispersion modeling tools, and communication of regulatory compliance to federal and state agencies.

Entrusted with confidential chemical composition data provided by chemical suppliers directly to Occupational Health department.

Coordinating chemical regulatory registration and toxicology testing activities to seek resolution on health & safety issues, including noise and air monitoring, corrosivity and heavy metals testing, and hazard communication. Key Achievements:

Becoming proficient in WERCS® program for creation of Material Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and labels, for both GHS and Osha.

Meeting the regulatory deadline for GHS implementation for all SDS & Labels for Schlumberger & M-I SWACO products.

Reviewing & outputting over 150 products SDS within GHS deadline, and completed 3-year review of over 350 drilling fluid products. Senior Environmental Scientist

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April 2007 - December 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Houston, TX

Role: Review & analysis of M-I SWACO’s spill prevention management system, and incorporate industry best practices.

Responsibilities:

Coordinating all aspects of the SPCC rules for M-I SWACO to ensure full implementation and compliance with federal and state regulations.

Completed SPCC checklists and exclusion criteria documents for 200+ regulated facilities.

Worked with 3rd-party consultant on a Tank Testing database for scheduling monthly inspections, categorizing tanks for base-line testing, and ensuring use of good engineering practice (proper integrity testing methods).

Communicated with contractors & Professional Engineers (P.E.) on facility deficiencies, industry standards for tank testing and secondary containment issues.

Key Achievements:

Creating training documentation for SPCC Compliance at facilities and achieving goals of 85% completion in overall training for 450 global facilities worldwide.

Receiving executive approval for $8 million budget cost estimate for 2008 tank inspections and facility deficiencies to achieve compliance by the deadline. Education

Virginia Tech

Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering · (2000 - 2006) Page 6 of 6

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