FRED KOOMALEKI P.Eng.

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QUALIFICATIONS:

•Certified Professional Engineer from Ontario (PEO), British Colombia (EGBC) and Alberta (APEGA)

•Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

•International Certificate in Environmental Protection (sponsored by United Nations)

•Diploma in Project Management, Quality Management, Lean Six Sigma, and Workplace Safety and Health

•Strong leadership, presentation, negotiation and communication skills

•Extensive process / project engineering experience for 30+ years in Oil & Gas industry

•Excellent management, supervisory and training experience for 15+ years

•Demonstrated talent to plan, execute, and finalize projects within schedule, quality and budget

•Innovative engineer with impressive achievements in design, cost saving, process improvement, optimization and troubleshooting

•Demonstrated ability to adapt and implement technological changes in multibillion dollar projects

•Proven knowledge of Design (Process design of equipment such as pipeline, reactors, pumps, compressors, PSVs, flare systems, storage tanks, vessels, control valves, distillation columns, heat exchangers, furnaces and pipe sizing), Simulation, Total Quality Management (ISO9002), Energy Conservation, Environmental Management (ISO14001) and PHA Techniques (HAZOP, HAZID), Process Safety Management ( PSM)

•Proven problem solving abilities, including root cause analysis of operational problems

•Profound knowledge of industry standards, specifications and regulations (Shell Standard, API, ASME, BS, TEMA, OSHA, ABSA, CSA, AER)

•Proficient in ASPEN HYSYS, ASPEN EDR, PIPENET, PIPEPHASE, FLARENET, VMG, Coreworx, PIPESYS, PIPEFLO, PIPESIM, OLGA, HXNET, HTRI, HTFS, IDEAS, PI, PROII, HEXTRAN, KORF, Fisher Control Valve, Word, Excel, Power Point

•Highly motivated team player in a multidisciplinary environment

EXPERIENCE:

Responsible for various duties of process engineering including management, leadership, mentoring, design (business case, feasibility study, scoping study, FEED, process study, detailed engineering), commissioning, plant start-up, monitoring, optimizing, troubleshooting, revamping, executing performance/capacity test runs, managing / executing projects and preparing Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) / Process & Instrument Diagrams (P&ID), HAZOP assessment, under safety, environmental and industrial standards.

Senior Process Engineer 2019-2022

Tidewater Midstream (Husky Energy), Prince George, British Colombia

Prince George Oil Refinery, 12,000 BPSD

•Supervise and lead engineers and coordinate with project managers for Discipline engineering and design deliverables.

•Participate in Unifiner Co-processing and debottlenecking projects as in charge senior process engineer to add 300 BPSD Canola oil to feed and increase unit capacity by 800 BPSD and defined the project scope of work, project charter, specifications, schedule and all inter-discipline requirements; and risk identification.

•Participate in Unifiner Pre-fractionation project as in charge senior process engineer to remove light ends from cold feed and replace with more profitable feed.

•Identified changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications on Prefrac project based on change of light end on crude oil and provided necessary supporting documentations.

•Debottlenecked Unifiner BFW injecting Pump and incorporated approved Lessons Learned into engineering procedures.

•Provide process engineering support for refinery operation.

•Design a new Light Distillate Trim Cooler in Unifiner Unit using Aspen EDR software.

•Using Aspen EDR software, revised Hot Vapour Bundle heat exchanger design with 19.5 MMBtu/hr duty to double duty, reduce fouling and shell pressure drop, provide sparing capacity and reduce production loss equal to $1.5 MM with payback of <6 months.

•Debottlenecked Unifiner charge heater duty by reviewing design, performing test runs, increasing fuel gas supply pressure gradually and producing burner curve.

•Introduced and inject a new heat exchanger fouling agent that postponed mechanical cleaning by 3 months.

•Conduct crude revamp study to increase plant capacity up to 10% and improve plant heat integration by rearranging crude preheating and control system, and installing new flash dram, heat exchangers and pumps.

•Calculate heat exchanged duty, create HYSYS simulation and prepare equipment data sheet, and update PFD and P&ID

•Prepared process revamp study report and power point presentation / project charter for management.

•Conduct LPG value added and fuel oil desulfurization scoping study.

•Conduct investigation on raptured and corroded PSVs on services and recommend preventing solutions.

•Attended to UOP FCC technology conference in Colorado Spring USA.

Technical Adviser- Process 2016 – 2018

KBR Inc., USA, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco Jazan Oil Refinery, 480,000 BPSD

•Supervised and trained engineers.

•Provided technical and integration support for $23 billion Jazan Oil Refinery Project.

•Communicated and negotiated with project management teams of over 20 EPC contractors to mitigate any technical and interface issues that can impact projects’ schedules, budgets, and quality.

•Participated in Engineering Design Reviews and HAZOPs; provided recommendations from lessons learned items.

•Reviewed process design documents, deliverable and activities and assured specifications, codes and standards are met.

Lead Process Engineer 2013 – 2015

Jacobs, Calgary, Alberta

Syncrude's Mildred Lake Plant, 350,000 BPSD; Syncrude Froth Tank and Pipeline Project

•Supervised and trained engineers.

•Contributed $ 25MM value plus on the project that recognized by client and received endorsement letter from project manager.

•Provided technical support and participated in project cost estimation and TIC estimates for different options.

•Revised tank design, pumping capacity and pipe line sizing based on operational needs and saved $16MM in project’s capital cost and $1.5MM/year in operating cost.

•Prepared schedule and list of process activities and deliverable.

•Prepared process design basis and process philosophy to install 100 KBBL working capacity froth tank (total capacity: 146 KBBL).

•Conducted solid management study with power point presentation for client and slurry hydraulic study.

•Liaised with client team to review project objective and ensure budget and time lines being met.

Hamad International Airport Jet fuel & Strategic Gasoline Storage Tanks and Pipeline Projects

•Provided technical recommendation and reviewed contractor’s design; reviewed project initiation notes and statements of requirements.

•Completed studies and engineering designs to develop scopes of work for tender.

•Prepared the basis for design, selected appropriate technology, philosophy and standards.

•Approved and reviewed technical aspects of bids from consulting engineering companies and construction contractors.

Principal Process Engineer 2006-2013

SNC Lavalin, Calgary, Alberta

Petro-Canada Fort Hill Froth Treatment Project, 220,000 BPSD (FEED)

Husky Sunrise SAGD Project, 60,000 BPSD (FEED)

•Supervised and trained engineers.

•Optimized glycol heat recovery with HXNET software to reduce 37% pumping capacity and save 9.7 MW energy.

•Conducted Solvent Recovery Unit Optimization study to optimize the process, operating conditions and saved $30.7MM/year in operating cost without increasing in capital cost.

•Conducted Tailing Solvent Recovery Unit Optimization study to optimize the process, operating conditions and select vacuum pumps verses steam ejectors and saved $14.7MM in CAPEX and $1.58MM/year in OPEX.

•Conducted Diluted Bitumen and De-inventory Solvent Cooler Selection Study to select shell & tube verses welded plate and optimize the number of shell or frame, sparing and temperature profile and saved $1.53MM/year in operating cost with 2 years payback for incremental capital cost.

•Actively participated a Process Design Engineering Team, originate, review, check design reports for Front End Engineering Design.

•Conducted Vapour Recovery Unit study, Froth Heater (Froth De-aerator) Scale-up Design study, SRU 2nd Stage Steam Heater Study and Flare Study.

•Prepared Design Basis Criteria for SAGD Process and simulate by HYSYS.

•Produced the Design basis Memorandum, Heat & Material Balance and PFD

MEG Energy SAGD Phase 3A Project, 51,000 BPSD (FEED & Detailed Eng.)

CNRL Froth Treatment Train2 Project, 135,000 BPSD (Detailed Eng.)

•Conducted an independent design review for Naphtha Recovery Unit and reported to client and senior management staff.

•Prepared Guideline to determine fire relief load using HYSYS dynamic simulation and developed relief load scenarios and PSV sizing template.

•Communicated and negotiated with client to pursue corrective action, as required in terms of schedules, budgets, priorities, staffing, and work quality.

•Reviewed and approved level one design calculation and issued to client for approval.

•Developed and validated Process Design Criteria, HYSYS simulation and prepared heat and material balance.

•Developed and checked Hydraulic Simulation by KORF and HYSYS (Olgas, Tulsa)

•Performed PHA, HAZOP, SIL, Model Reviews, Value Engineering, Risk Assessments, Inherent Safety, Squad Checks, Control Philosophy and Narrative Review.

Suncor Energy Firebag SAGD Facility, 203,000 BPSD; Firebag Sustainable Projects

•Conducted a WAC water treatment skid project for Firebag SAGD central facility to produce 130 m3/h BFW (net gain from incremental bitumen production is 50 MM$/year; nine times more cost effective than original plan).

•Defined sustaining projects and prepared scoping studies and development from beginning to end.

•Optimized Firebag91&92 water balance and prepared road map to increase boiling feed water from 1650 to 2100 m3/h within 2.5 years.

•Evaluated Water Treatment vendors such as General Electric (GE) and Veolia Water for installation of Reverse Osmosis (RO) and Weak Acid Cation (WAC) units in Suncor Firebag Facility.

•Conducted produced water tank scrubber revamp project ($30MM), Cogen water hammer project, and tanks’ vacuum protection project (PVRV installation).

•Conducted cogeneration cooling glycol project to provide cooling during Plant 91 turn around (net gain from incremental bitumen production is $13MM).

•Provided technical support for OSLI Water Technology Development Center.

Devon Jackfish I SAGD Facility, 35,000 BPSD

Devon Jackfish SAGD Troubleshooting Project

•Increased plant production from 14,000 to 22,000 BPSD by optimizing glycol system and saved more than $8.7MM/year in energy consumption.

•Conducted troubleshooting on heating and cooling glycol system in Jackfish I SAGD facility.

•Defined troubleshooting projects and prepared scoping studies and development from beginning to end.

•Optimized operational variable, conducted a heat recovery study on Free Water K.O. Drum and Treaters, troubleshooting on a group separator, vapour recovery and crude stabilization units.

•Conducted de-ethanizer troubleshooting projects, diagnosed the operational and design problems and provided the solutions using HYSYS.

Catlettsburg Refinery, USA, 220,000 BPSD

Marathon Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT II) Revamp Project, (Detailed Engineering)

•Conducted Relief and flaring system study and detail design for Reformate Pre-fractionation, Extraction and BTX Post-fractionation Units.

•Determined relieving scenarios for all columns, vessels, heat exchangers and size PSV and hydraulic sizing by using FLARENET software.

•Determined the effect of MAST II (to revamp and expand the benzene removal capability) on relieving load and modify flaring system accordingly.

Senior Process Engineer 2003- 2006

Shell Canada Limited (Albian Sands Energy Inc), Calgary / Fort McMurray, Alberta

Shell Albian Sands Facility, 220,000 BPSD

Albian Sands De-bottlenecking Project

•Created and turned over HYSYS models in existing and de-bottlenecking cases, and trained process engineers.

•Proposed a modification on the TSRU tailing dilution water system for a closed loop recycle cooling water project to save about $2,000,000/yr. in heating costs.

•Actively participated on De-bottlenecking of Muskeg River Oil Sands Plant to increase bitumen production from 180,000 to 220,000 BPSD Produced FEED1 and FEED2 heat and material balance of Muskeg River Oil Sands Plant.

•Quantified production increase associated with increased overflow chillers duty and with reduced solvent temperature.

•Participated with Colt and AMEC Engineering process groups in the De-bottlenecking project.

•Revised the Process Flow Diagrams of Froth Treatment, Solvent, Vapor and Tailing Recovery Units (CCD, SRU, VRU & TSRU), closed loop recycle cooling water and Utilities.

•Monitored the plant operation and identified the plant limitations.

•Participated in the November 2005 Albian Low Grade Ore Test Run.

•Created an Excel file to monitor the Albian operation on hourly and daily bases.

•Lectured on the furnace operation for process engineers including furnace and burner specification, revamp, optimization and energy conservation.

•Designed a skid mounted metering/regulating natural gas station, a filter separator bank, piping, safety valves and control valves.

Senior Process Facility Engineer 1990 – 2002

National Iranian Oil Co. Esfahan Oil Refining Co., Iran

Esfahan Oil Refinery, 370,000 BPSD

Natural Gas-Esfahan Refinery Fuel Conversion Project

Esfahan Refinery Environmental Management (ISO14001) Project

•Provided day to day process engineering (normal operation, start-up/shut-up, optimization, capacity / performance test run and catalyst regeneration / loading).

•Achieved 88% reduction in fuel oil consumption and SOx emission with heater and boiler optimizing and fuel converting and saved $12MM/year.

•Defined and executed environmental protection projects and ISO-14001 programs and achieved 30% reduction in waste and flaring and saved $ 1MM/year.

•Increased the capacity of a lube oil plant from 10,000 to 14,000 BPSD by executing several test runs and revamping.

•Produced extended oil for synthetic rubber production from by-products thereby saving $600,000 per year

•Designed a C4 raffinate (a by-product) purification system to achieve 80% reduction in impurities and saved $ 800,000 per year.

•Determined need for, designed and managed a project to convert the refinery from fuel oil to natural gas consumption.

•Revised and revamped fuel gas network in an oil refinery to increase fuel gas consumption from 20kNm3/hr to 200kNm3/hr using Pipe Phase software.

•Revamped fired heaters to increase capacity by replacing burners with purchased high duty and low excess air, NOx, COx, noise, and flame height burners.

•Programmed the oil refinery fuel consumption / waste calculation with Excel software.

•Simulated and revamped Atmospheric / Vacuum Distillation Towers using PRO II software.

•Optimized the production of crude oil, catalytic, and lube oil plants.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering 1990

Tehran University (Degree is evaluated and recognized in Canada by World Education Services and Professional Engineers Ontario and Alberta)

International Certificate in Environmental Protection 2000

University of Science and Technology of Suzhou; sponsored by the United Nations and

Government of China.

CERTIFICATE

Diploma in Project Management, Alison Institute, Galway, Ireland. 2014

Diploma in Quality Management, Alison Institute, Galway, Ireland. 2015

Diploma in Lean Six Sigma, Alison Institute, Galway, Ireland. 2016

Diploma in Workplace Safety and Health, Alison Institute, Galway, Ireland. 2017

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING LICENSE

Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) 2007

Professional Engineers Alberta (APEGGA) 2007

Professional Engineers British Columbia (EGBC) 2022

PAPERS

•Refinery Technical & Programming Data Book 2002

•Fired Heaters in Oil Industry (5 papers) 2004

•Canadian Oil Sand: The Sunrise Industry 2004

•Technical Basis for Froth Treatment HYSYS Simulation 2005

PUBLIC INTERVIEWS

End User Report, “Five Minutes with Fred Koomaleki of Suncor Energy” in Valve World Magazine (Volume 16, Jan/Feb 2011)

TRAINING COURSES

•Project Management (PMI)

•Coreworx

•Thermal Glycol Trap in SAGD Heat Recovery

•Slurry Pipeline Course

•Process Modeling Using Aspen Plus

•Human Factor Engineering

•Extraction & Upgrading of Oil Sands Bitumen

•HYSYS Simulation

•Environmental Protection System ISO-14001

•Dynamic Process Simulation (Pro II) Software

•Cooperation Management & Proposals Sys.

•Quality Auditor Course for ISO-9002

•Energy Management-Fuel and Wastes

•Safety System and Occupational Health

•HEXTRAN and Pinch Technology Network

•Processes Interrelation of Refining Units

•HAZOP and What-If in OHSAS 18001

•Control Valves

•Pumps and Turbines

•Fired Heaters

•Management Training Course

•Supervision Skills

References and portfolio are available upon request.

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