MOHD WANI

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER

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Spring, Houston, TX-77379, USA

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OBJECTIVE:

Process Engineering Specialist

QUALIFICATIONS:

Chemical Engineer with 25 plus years of diversified experience in downstream, mid and upstream facets of petroleum industry. Proficient at identifying process enhancements that have resulted in savings of millions of dollars. Industry experience spans PRE-FEED, FEED, detailed engineering design and process HAZOP. Contributed to grassroots & revamp projects of LNG/NGL, refineries, oil&gas gathering and production facilities, FCC, isomerization, and hydroprocessing with technology furnished by BP//ABB/CONOCO/UOP/JGC/IFP. International experience includes process work in USA, Canada, Japan, Asia, Middle East and North Africa. Well versed with industry standards and design codes such as API, ASME, ANSI, and NACE.

EDUCATION:

MS Chemical Engineering, Cambridge University, England (1973)

BS/MS Chemical Engineering, Punjab University, Pakistan (1964-1968)

Professional Affiliations:

Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Society of Petroleum Engineers, USA

SKILLS:

FUNCTIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

Schedule-A design, Refinery revamp, PFD/P&ID/HAZOP reviews, project scope/budget/schedule, pre-commissioning and commissioning, inter-personal communications and presentation abilities, Hysys, Aspen+, Icarus, Pro-II, Promax, Flarenet, HTRI.

OIL REFINERIES

Supported schedule-A design of hydrocracking & hydro-treating projects for various local and global UOP clients including CITGO, Petrobras, ENI, Italy, Petrochina, and Bayernol, Germany.

Reviewed P&ID and developed plant hydraulics in close coordination with UOP equipment specialists for hydrotreaters and hydrocrackers units of UOP worldwide clients.

Saved over two million dollars in catalyst purchase for a reforming unit as a result of technical bids evaluation and by introducing a new breed of catalyst in Sirte Oil refinery of Libya.

Improved product delivery by organizing in-refinery test runs of crude distillation column. Rated pump/lines and replaced a constraining control valve in Conoco Lake Charles refinery.

Simulated and sized process equipment including strippers, cold/hot separators of hydrotreaters, pumps, and heat exchangers with updates to PFD & P&ID's of refinery units.

Applied intensively HYSYS, PRO II, HTFS/HTRI, Pipesim, and Flarenet.

Provided in plant technical support for daily refinery operations, Glycol dehydration and Amine gas sweetening units including Methanol & desalination plants of Sirte oil industrial complex.

Re-designed existing reformate stabilizer tower with heat integration of reactor effluents. Reviewed tray hydraulics and marked PFD/P&ID's for revamp & demolition.

Developed P&ID and PFD of revamp projects of BP (Cherry Point), Chevron (Hawaiian) and CONOCO (Lake Charles) refineries including reformers and FCC feed preparation units.

FUNCTIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

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OIL & GAS PROJECTS

Projected cost savings of over 3 million dollars by reviewing design options of a new Glycol dehydration unit of Sirt Oil Company of Libya. Developed Hysys simulation models for several oil&gas gathering networks feeding a central processing facility and LNG plants.

Coordinated as process lead & principal engineer for detailed engineering design of Rosneft (Russian) grassroots oil production facility. Developed P&ID/PFD and hydraulic analysis of gathering lines with inter-disciplinary functions resolving process & production issues.

Analyzed gas gathering and compressors network of Chevron Picence gas field resulting in millions of dollars savings in field development costs.

Supported World Bank funding of multi-million dollars gas compression project by integrated simulation of reservoir, well tubing, and gathering network of Sui gas field in Pakistan.

Contributed to Pre-FEED design of green and brown fields of Abu Dhabi Oil Company for P&ID, design philosophies and simulation reviews in Denver, USA.

LED retrofit/capacity expansion projects of water treatment and injection facility for BP oil wells at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

Functioned as process lead for design of vapor recovery system for BP, Alaska North Star processing facility. Represented process for HAZOP and P&ID reviews with BP plant operation and third party HAZOP chair.

Assisted in proposal work and design revision cost estimates for expanding chemical injection capacity for various flow stations of BP facilities at North Slope, Alaska.

Led onsite operation support for debottlenecking of existing Glycol Dehydration unit designed and constructed by ESSO, USA for a major Oil & gas processing facility in Libya.

PIPELINE

Completed engineering design of a crude oil pipeline as engineering manager for Dubai based Iraqi engineering company. Saved the company over quarter million dollars on HAZOP studies.

Managed a team of multi-disciplinary engineers including mechanical, civil, electrical, and pipeline engineers for on-schedule delivery of several pipeline design and construction dossiers.

Analyzed and dynamically simulated pressuring/de-pressuring of miscible and gas injection pipelines for well pads operating under Arctic conditions of Alaska.

PLANT START-UP & OPERATION

Wrote operating manuals in Tokyo for several process units of a Kuwaiti refinery upgrade

project including Alkylation, MTBE, LPG Treating, and Shell ADIP regeneration units.

Documented details on process upsets, pre-commissioning/commissioning, until start-up/shutdown, and trouble-shoot procedures.

Coordinated with UOP/IFP on resolving different process and plant start-up issues.

Compiled operating manuals for Bangkok Refinery Deep Gas Oil De-sulphurizer, Fuel Gas Treatment, and Sour Water Stripping units while coordinating with Foster Wheeler and IFP.

Teamed up with a new refinery start up group assigned to crude distillation unit in National Refinery, Karachi, Pakistan.

FUNCTIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

EMPLOYMENTS:

Principal Process Engineer

Lead Process Engineer

Senior Process Engineer

Process Engineer

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PROCESS ENGINEERING DESIGN

Conceptualized NGL recovery worth millions of dollars in added product revenue as a result of improving front end design of ABB for crude oil processing and gas injection facility of Anadarko.

Applied UOP licensed technology and specialized plant design procedures for PRV sizing and relief load estimation, and process equipment design of hydrotreaters and hydrocrackers.

Established design basis for pressure vessels, pumps, compressors and instrumentation for Hydrotreaters and Hydrocrackers units of various refineries

Developed PFD, P&ID and heat/material balance for LNG/NGL/LPG plants including detailed simulation models in Hysys and Pro-II.

Completed engineering economics of recovering waste heat from heavy duty gas turbines of LNG plants comparing hot oil versus combined cycle steam/power generation systems.

Simulated and sized hot oil/power-steam generation systems developing class-1 cost estimates via Hysys Icarus detailed cost estimating software.

Refined design work instructions for LNG plant related equipment and processes such as pumps, compressors, expanders, shell & tube heat exchangers, towers, technical bid evaluation and refrigerated liquefied gas storage. Introduced dynamics of BOG estimation.

Rated equipment, reviewed P&ID/HAZOP and compiled detailed process specifications for gas/oil separators, desalters, storage tanks, chemical injection, and produced water treatment and compression facilities as part of- detailed design of Algeria oil field processing facility.

Coordinated with vendors for mole sieves gas dehydration for the FEED design of three NGL plants of Qatar. Reviewed P&ID of NGL plants.

Designed in Tokyo a loading, storage, and pumping facility for Butane and Hexane involving P&ID development, pumps, and hydraulics.

Petrodyn,(Proprietor), Houston (2015 – Present)

JGC, America, Houston (2014 - 2015) Mitsui Engineering, Tokyo (1997-1998)

Amazon Oil, Libya/,ME Eng., Dubai ((2010-2014) Conoco Refinery, Lake Charles, LA (1996-1997)

URS Washington Div, Houston (2007-2009)

VECO Corporation, Alaska (2006-2007)

UOP, Chicago (2004-2006)

Anvil Corporation, Washington (2001-2003) Brown & Root, Houston (1998-2000)

Consultancy Services, Houston (1990-1995)

DOS, Manhattan, New York City (1988-1990)

KNPC Refinery/Corp. Plan., Kuwait (1982-1988)

PPL (Burmah Oil), Karachi (1979-1981)

Enar, (National Refinery), Karachi (1974-1979)

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