Tom Tran, P.E.

Lead Instrument & Automation Control Systems Engineer

Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering

832-***-****

adfu7c@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective:

A position in Instrument, Electrical Controls Engineering or Project Engineering within an engineering, operating, or a manufacturing company where I can effectively contribute and utilize my well rounded background in both upstream, downstream and pipeline Instrument and Controls engineering applications. I also have extensive experience designing and building in electrical power systems for petrochemical plants and skid mounted process units. I am a hands-on engineer who enjoys a dynamic and fast paced environment that requires bold leadership.

CAREER SUMMARY

Lead I&C Engineer with 23 years’ experience in instrument, electrical and automation control systems engineering, construction, and start-up for oil & gas, LNG, and petrochemical (ethylene, polypropylene, delayed-coker, etc.) projects, from conceptual stage through detailed design stage.

●Worked directly with Technology licenser group and Project Managers to provide input as required for several oil & gas, LNG, and petrochemical (ethylene, polypropylene, delayed-coker, etc.) projects.

●Knowledge of current federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations that impact liquids and plant operations (FERC regulation, NFPA F&G,etc..)

●Issued I&C detailed engineering deliverables including specifications, data sheets, instrument index, range alarm & trip settings, etc.

●Participated to establish new and maintain existing specifications company standards. Reviewed standards and compliance requirements applicable to the electrical control systems, provide recommendations as required.

●Reviewed and provided guidance and equipment wiring plan to electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and shop departments.

●Prepared flow, level, temperature and analyzer instrumentation datasheets.

●Reviewed electrical design, schematics, and drawings in AutoCAD.

●Knowledge of Codes and Standards (NEC, IEC, UL 508A, Category 3 Safety).

●Knowledge of power distribution (120V, 480V and 24V DC Control Systems).

●Reviewed various Instruments / Control system vendors offer, prepared material requisitions, technical clarification, and Technical Bid Evaluation report.

●Reviewed and provided comments on various instruments, electrical substations, one-line diagrams and mechanical package vendor deliverables.

●Participated/Evaluated/Resolve issues in P&ID and HAZOP reviews with PHA (Process Hazards Analysis) team and maintain documentations for assigned projects.

●Participated Factory Acceptance Tests for DCS, SIS, FGS, SCADA and OTS.

●Familiar with Instrument calculation using SPI, Instrument Calc, and vendors’ software.

●Reviewed Safety Requirement Specifications, SIL verification calculations, Fire Detection & Alarm System deliverables.

EXPERIENCE

I&C Engineer, 1997 – Present

CB&I McDermott

Responsible for engineering efforts on technical definition work, including design, drawings for field instruments, ICSS systems, and fire and gas systems. Supervised engineers & designers. Defined, directed and coordinated to ensure the quality and technical accuracy of the implementation of I&C engineering requirements. Developed pre-FEED and FEED for I&C packages; specifications, block diagrams, estimate index, basis of estimate, subcontracts, long lead items requisition, I&C philosophy, project execution plan, man-hour estimate, evaluate vendors’ commercial and technical offer for project budget. Projects included:

●Golden Pass LNG, EPC project in Sabine Pass, Texas USA, converts the existing LNG receiving facilities into a new natural gas liquefaction plant with a capacity of 15.6 million tons a year (3 x 5.2 million ton trains).

●Formosa Sunshine FEED, the industrial complex will produce polyethylene, polymer and ethylene glycol that are used to make everyday products including car casings, plastic bottles, grocery bags, drainage pipes, artificial turf, polyester clothing, antifreeze and playground equipment. The Sunshine Project and site preparation is underway for the estimated $9.4 billion industrial complex to be located in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

●Freeport LNG, EPC project export terminal is a 20 million tons per annum (Mtpa) natural gas liquefaction and export project being developed on the Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas, US.

●Cameron LNG, EPC project, awarded a contract valued at approximately $6 billion by Cameron LNG to construct the Cameron Liquefaction Project in Hackberry, Louisiana. The scope of work includes engineering, procurement and construction for the addition of natural gas liquefaction and export facilities to the existing LNG regasification facility. The Cameron Liquefaction Project will consist of three liquefaction trains with a nameplate capacity of approximately 13.5 million tons per year of LNG. The facility will utilize Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.’s (APCI) process and equipment as the liquefaction technology.

●IGP Methanol (IGPM), Myrtle Grove, Louisiana, has contracted CB&I to execute a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) with an Open Book Estimate (OBE) for a methanol complex in Myrtle Grove, Louisiana. The site is anticipated to include four (4) methanol production trains each with a capacity of 5,000 mt/d, four (4) air separation units (ASU), utilities, storage, load out and site infrastructure to support operations.

●Gulf Coast Ammonia Plant, FEED, 3,500 MTPD, Texas City, TX is developing an ammonia complex in Texas City, Texas. The site will include an ammonia plant with a capacity of 3,500mt/d, utilities, ammonia storage, and marine dock to load ships and barges.

●NextDecade LLC, FERC/FEED, two 4.5-Mtpa LNG trains, export terminal with two 180,000-m3 full containment LNG tanks, Rio Grande LNG, Brownsville, Texas, USA.

●Anadarko Petroleum, reimbursable/fixed-rate FEED & EPC estimate, pretreatment and two-train 5-Mtpa LNG grassroots liquefaction export facility (design for 50 Mtpa future capacity for LNG park), AMA-1 project, remote location, Mozambique LNG, Palma, Afungi Peninsula, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique.

●Westlake Chemical Corp., EP, ethylene cracking heater SRT-V No. 8, revamp Petro No. 2 ethylene unit, Lake Charles complex, Westlake, La., USA.

●Yemen LNG, joint venture: Total, Hunt Oil, Yemen Gas Co., etc., EPC, grassroots 420-MMSCFD LNG cryogenic unit, upstream gas processing plant, Marib, Yemen. Supported construction.

●Imperial Oil Resources/ExxonMobil, EPFC, grassroots modular bitumen extraction plant, 107 pipe rack modules, and stick-built pre-assembled unit construction, KEP (Kearl Expansion Project) and KEIP (Kearl Expansion Interconnecting Piperack Project), Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Supported construction.

●Terasen LNG, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. Supported construction.

●BP Cuisiana, Gas Sweetening plant, Columbia. Supported construction.

●Oxy (Occidental Petroleum Corp.), EPFC, 200-MMSCFD cryogenic gas plant and fractionation facility, Elk Hills oil field, Bakersfield, Calif., USA.

●Chevron/Cabinda Gulf Oil, lump-sum EPFC, 25-MMSCFD gas plant & processing facility, Cabinda Gas Plant, Block O, Area A, Cabinda, Angola.

●Essar Oil Ltd., EP, 4-Mtpa Lummus delayed coker unit and 2-Mtpa expansion, Vadinar, Gujarat, India.

●United Refining Co., BEP, upgraded delayed coker and FCC hydrotreater units, Warren, Pa., USA.

●Petrojam Ltd., joint venture: PCJ (Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica) and PDVCaribe/PDVSA, lump-sum BEP, delayed coker, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies.

●GGSR (Guru Gobind Singh Refinery), BEP-plus, delayed coker unit, India.

●MRPL (Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd.)/ONGC, extended basic engineering, grassroots 51-kbpsd delayed coker, India.

●CPCL (Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd.), BEP, delayed coker, Manali, Tamil Nadu, India.

●NOCL (Nagarjuna Oil Corp. Ltd.), BEP, delayed coker, India.

●KNPC (Kuwait National Petroleum Co.), BEP, 37,000-bpsd delayed coking unit, Clean Fuels Project 2020, Mina El-Ahmadi Refinery, Kuwait.

●Rosneft Oil Co. OAO, 10-Mtpa four-drum coker, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia.

●Shell Eastern Petroleum Ltd., BEP FEED-plus EP, Butadiene unit, ECC (ethylene cracker complex), Pulau Ular, Singapore.

●Saudi Chevron Phillips Co., BEP, grassroots ethylene plant, NCP Project, Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Served as I&C Engineer.

●Phoenix Park Gas Processors Ltd., joint venture: ConocoPhillips, NGE, GE, etc., E FEED and estimate, Phase III 24,000 bpd expansion project, 600-MMSCFD gas processing plant and gasoline storage, Point Lisas, Trinidad. Served as I&C Engineer.

●Q-Chem joint venture: Phillips Petroleum and QAPCO (Qatar Petroleum Co.), BEP, NAO (normal alpha olefin) plant, Mesaieed/Umm Sa'id/Musay'id, Qatar. Served as I&C Engineer.

●ExxonMobil China Petrochemical Co., Aramco Overseas Co. and Fujian Petrochemical Co. Ltd., 80,000-Mtpa ethylene and pygas units, Fujian refining and ethylene project, Quanzhou, Fujian, China. Served as I&C Engineer.

●Tyumen Oil Co. (OAO Tyumenskaya Neftayanaya Kompaniya), BE EP, modernization, Ryazan Refinery, Russia, 2001–2004. Project included: 9,500-BPSD alkylation & isomerization, VGO hydrotreater and 65,300-Nm3/hour hydrogen production units.

●Rio Polimeros, joint venture: ABB, Suzano, Unipar, BNDESpar and Petrobras, lump-sum EPC commissioning and startup, grassroots 520-ktpa ethylene cracker, gas-based petrochemical complex, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Served as I&C Engineer.

●Pequiven/PDVSA (Petroquímica de Venezuela SA), Environmental Project, El Tablazo, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Served as I&C Engineer.

●Monsanto Chemical Co., EPC, grassroots Mercosur Back Integration Project, herbicide intermediate facility, Camacari/Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Served as I&C Engineer.

●NROC (NAFTA Region Olefins Complex), joint venture: BASF Corp. and Fina Chemical, EPC, grassroots C4 olefins complex with 934-ktpa ethylene cracker and 535-ktpa propylene recovery unit, Port Arthur, Texas, USA. Served as I&C Engineer.

●Amoco Corp., now BP, deep-water TLP (tension leg platform), Marlin offshore production, Gulf of Mexico. Office and field assignment, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.

I&C Engineer, 1995 – 1997

CDI-Stubbs Overbeck, now CDI Corp.

Responsible for field startup. Defined, directed and coordinated to ensure the quality and technical accuracy of implementation of I&C engineering requirements. Responsible for engineering efforts on technical definition work, including design, drawings, specifications and vendor packages for DCS and PLC systems. Based in Houston, Texas, USA.

Developed SIL-3 (safety integrity level) system to interface with TDC-3000 by using Schneider Electric Triconex -v9 TriStation 1131™. Developed MMI (man-machine interface) system to interface with Allen Bradley/Rockwell PLC-5. Projects included:

●Mobil Chemical, MAPD (methyl-acetylene and propadiene) project, Houston, Texas, USA.

●Shell Oil, marine vapor recovery system, Deer Park, Texas, USA.

●Dow Chemical, process control and marine department, Freeport, Texas, USA.

I&C Engineer, 1988 – 1995

Bechtel Corp.

Performed basic I&C design and analysis of DCS and PLC systems. Based in Houston, Texas, USA. Projects included:

●Lyondell Citgo, EPC, hydrotreater and sulfur recovery, Pasadena, Texas, USA.

●Tampa Electric, now TECO Energy, EPC, coal gasifier, Polk power station, Tampa, Fla., USA.

●British Gas Tunisia Ltd., EPC, natural gas project, Hannibal, Tunisia.

●Mobil Oil Co., EPC, stormwater segregation, Beaumont, Texas, USA.

●Rohm and Haas Co./Dow Chemical Co., EPC, propylene and H2SO4, Deer Park, Texas, USA.

●Texaco, precontract, PO (Propylene oxide) and MTBE (Methyl tert-butyl ether), Port Neches, Texas, USA.

●Tennessee Eastman, EPC, Chemicals from Coal Project, Kingsport, Tenn., USA.

●Shell, EPC, water effluent project, Wood River, Ill., USA.

Electrical Engineering Assistant, 1985–1987

Houston Lighting and Power, now Reliant Energy

Developed and applied computer programs to power systems for short circuit, load flow and stability studies. Worked on circuit analysis and design. Based in Houston, Texas, USA.

EDUCATION

●Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, USA, 1988

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

●NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers), member

●Eta Kappa Nu (National Electrical Engineering Honor Society), member

●Tau Beta Phi (National Engineering Honor Society), member

●Golden Key International Honor Society, member

TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

●PSV (pressure safety valve); Anderson Greenwood/Pentair Valves and Controls, 2002

●Control Valves; Fisher/Puffer Sweiven, 2018.

●Honeywell Experion DCS / SIS Controller; Honeywell Process Solutions, 2014.

●Emerson Delta V DCS SIS, 2018..

●Schneider Foxboro I/A DCS, 2014.

●Siemens DCS SIS, 2019, Siemens TIA.

●Beckhoff Automation Open, PC-based control technology

●ESD (emergency shutdown) SIS; Triconex®/Schneider Electric, 1996

●HMI and Ladder Logic PLCs (programmable logic controllers); Allen Bradley Wonderware/AB panelview /Rockwell Automation, 1995, GE FANUC certification.

●Programming languages (FORTRAN, DOWTRAN, C). Knowledges of C++, Java and Python.

●Field bus networks (ETHERNET IP, AB DEVICENET, PROFINET, PROFISAFE)

●CAD (AutoCAD, SolidWorks)

●Databases (MS Access)

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