Engineer Refinery

DAVID A. DECUIR

PROFILE

Senior Electrical, Instrument, Control Systems, Automation and Project Engineer/Manager, specializing in refinery, petrochemical, offshore, oil field, plant refurbishments and new installations. Highly knowledgeable of industrial equipment operation and how it interfaces with other pieces of machinery and equipment. Experienced in installation and upgrading of DCS and SIS and basic instrumentation systems. Uses keen observation and sound judgment to analyze and troubleshoot design and operational problems by spending time in the field.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CDI Engineering & UP Professionals Automation Engineer Oct. 2017 - Sept 2020

Contract assignment at Shell, Convent Refinery, Convent, LA.

Support Project Engineering and Design for systems providing direction and reviewing engineering and design from various engineering companies, including: Hargrove, WINK, CDI and Ford Bacon & Davis. Projects for refinery included automation and analyzers. Aug 2018 rolled from UP to CDI and continued on-site contract assignment and duties remained the same.

UP Professionals Senior I&E and Project Engineer July 2006 - Aug 2017

Contract assignment at Phillips 66, Alliance Refinery Belle Chasse, LA.

Project Engineering and Design of instrument and electrical systems for the refinery. Specification, layout, and design of electronic, electrical, and PLC/ DCS based control systems.

Providing project engineering, design, construction and commissioning support for converting the entire refinery (approximately 10,000 points) from an obsolete distributed control system to Honeywell Experion DCS and Honeywell Safety Manager SIS. This project also included boiler SIS and shutdown/first-out for all major process compressors,

Overseeing multidiscipline engineering, design and implementation for revamping the Light Ends Recovery Unit which had been mothballed for several years.

Providing engineering, design and commissioning of anti-surge and shutdown/first-out systems of plant air compressors.

Providing engineering and design support to several outside engineering firms, including Mustang Engineering, Audubon Engineering, WINK, AECOM, Jacobs Engineering and Hargrove Engineering for several larger projects.

Performing engineering, design thru implementation for several smaller in-house projects.

CDI Engineering Senior E&I Engineer April 2004 - July 2006

Contract assignment at DuPont, La Place, LA.

Responsibilities include design of instrument and electrical systems for the petrochemical industry. Duties include the specification, layout, and design of electronic, electrical, pneumatic, PLC and DCS based measurement and control systems for various projects including. First year of assignment was under Allstates Technical Services, Newark DE. CDI acquired Dupont’s national contract.

Verification and update of plant Area Classification drawings and documentation.

Preparation of plant ground testing/inspection procedures and implementing same.

Design of plant personnel logging system for monitoring ingress and egress of restricted process areas.

Design of safety shutdown interlocks on Melt Columns and various other processes.

Replacement of obsolete analyzers throughout the plant.

Replacement of obsolete UPS systems throughout the plant.

Design and installation of variable speed drives.

Design and installation of compressor controls.

Provide engineering support of various other small projects as required.

W. H. Linder & Assoc Sr. Instrument Engineer Sept 2001 - March 2004

Responsible for the design of instrument systems for the petrochemical and oil and gas producing industries. Duties include the specification, layout, and design of electronic, electrical, pneumatic, and PLC based measurement and control systems for various projects including:

Installation of Multiphase flow meters,

Modification of the Gas Sphere Launcher control.

Modification of LACT unit controls to detect overpressure from the discharge Pumps.

Pre-commissioning field inspection of the Sand Probe project.

Installation of a new Well Unloading facility.

Modification of the “B”-Annulus heat exchanger system for heating a selected well stream.

Installation of Flare Purge to prevent air ingress into the flare header.

Implementing interface between PLC and DCS on various small projects.

Installation of Shell Auger DCS-11 including rerouting of fiber optic network to redistribute CPU loads.

Upgrade of Shell Auger Waste Heat Recovery Unit.

Installation of Chevron Texaco’s Waterflood Injection pump.

Jacob’s Engineering Principal Control Systems Engineer Jan 1997 - Sept 2001

Manage Union Carbide projects involving plant refurbishments and new installations - as the lead control systems engineer - coordinating with all disciplines.

Head up control system projects and work with process engineers to develop control strategy for various plant automation projects.

Design and install Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) to mitigate process safety hazards. This included modifications to existing Triconex systems as well as replacing old relay-based shutdown with Triconex.

Work closely with inexperienced process engineers to develop logic for OSS compliance projects.

Awarded leadership award of the quarter due to outstanding quality achievement.

Overview of some multi-million projects:

Reactor projects to facilitate predictive, preventive maintenance.

Major boiler upgrades using latest codes and standards.

Adding metering facility to improved and modernize catalyst systems.

Meeting various compliance issues in automating the plant

DSM Copolymer Sr. Engineering Specialist Jan 1984 – Dec 1996

Company manufactured synthetic rubber and oil-additive products

Promoted from Senior Engineer to Engineering Specialist to Senior Engineering Specialist, supervising 6 others on major control system projects.

Managed project engineering, instrumentation, and electrical design

Troubleshot electrical and instrumentation systems.

Prepared design and construction specifications.

Provided technical assistance and training for new systems start-ups.

Trained and guided new designers and engineers

Planned strategies for plant automation projects.

Directed code compliance reviews throughout plant and numerous instrumentation installations.

Convinced decision-makers to computerize the engineering department. Solely developed software for automation, design and drafting procedures.

Due to strong computer skills, selected as design and project engineer to procure hardware and direct entire Novell Network Installation Project - networking two separate plants together.

After installation, served as resource person to resolve any network problems.

Trained users on the system.

Ashton & Associates E&I Engineer Oct 1976 - Jan 1984

Performed design engineering and startup assistance.

Designed electrical and instrumentation systems, motor wiring diagrams and instrument loop wiring diagrams.

Client base: Georgia-Pacific, Exxon, Ciba-Geigy, Allied Chemical, Copolymer Rubber & Chemical Corp., BASF-Wyandotte Corp., Stauffer Chemical, Kaiser Aluminum

STRENGTHS

Analyzing & resolving electrical, instrumentation and diversified distributed control system problems.

Preparing technical specifications for equipment procurement.

Providing construction support, technical support and training for project start-ups.

Accurately estimating highly detailed cost justifications

Heading up electrical and control systems projects as well as multidiscipline projects.

Strong knowledge of computer hardware & software. Experienced in directing all phases of computer networking projects—from conception to completion to training users.

Computer proficiency with Excel, Word, Access, AutoCAD, PI, and various vendor-supplied and client-supplied software. Quick to grasp new software applications.

Providing front-end support for strategy planning for plant automation

EDUCATION

University of Southwestern Louisiana. Lafayette, LA.

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

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