Process Engineer

NITEESH A. DINGARE

E-mail address : ********@*****.***

Mobile No.: 009**-*********

Date of Birth : 23/02/1963

OBJECTIVE : - To work as a process engineer where I can use process optimization skills to reduce the capital and operating costs and contribute to decarbonization.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Have more than 25 years of professional experience in Process Design, Commissioning & Operations Support. Number of years of experience -Upstream Oil & Gas -16 years (10 offshore + 6 onshore), Refinery /Petrochemicals -13 years, Utilities -11 years, Commissioning / Operations – 6 years. Have worked as Asst. Process Manager, Principal Process Engineer and Process Technical Authority.

For most of projects handled, worked as Lead Process Engineer and did Concept study wherever possible.

The Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and Detail Engineering work (EPC) work. Work includes developing Scope of Work / Design Basis, doing basic engineering including optimizing process plant and utilities, developing /updating PFD’s/ H&MB /P&ID’s, sizing of process lines / equipment, doing flow assurance, developing operating, control and safeguarding philosophy, generating equipment/ instrument data sheets. Conduct Design Review sessions. Participate in HAZOP and SIL studies (HAZOP Chairman for one project), developing commissioning philosophy and doing plant commissioning.

Development work involves doing basic engineering and concept studies to increase oil/gas production and reduce energy consumption. Formal Concept select /define study includes studying various options and then finalizing option based on techno-economic analysis and involves taking study through various stages/ gates and then getting formal budget approval from management to proceed with FEED. Informal concept study includes “Value addition initiatives” to be substantiated by techno-economic analysis.

Operations Support and Commissioning involves providing technical solutions to operation problems and define / validate plant modification/debottlenecking requests by doing feasibility study. Participate in value engineering, participate in safety audits and follow company HSE policy and regulations. Liaise with Engineering Contractors. Updating process engineering standards.

PMC work includes overseeing FEED/EPC contractor work and ensuring meeting project requirements.

A)Company: Kent (From June ’23 till July’2025)

Designation: Senior Process Engineer

Worked as PMC for “ADNOC Refinery Off-Gases Recovery Project” to recover hydrogen, ethane, propane, butane and pentane from sour fuel gas using NGL recovery / fractionation concept. The FEED project included gas treatment plant including gas compression, H2S/water /mercury removal, PSA and NGL fractionation. Did concept study to reduce design pressure of a plant section and number of valves.

Worked as PMC Lead Process Engineer on “380 MMSCFD RAKGAS Sales Gas Pipeline” FEED project.

Worked as Lead Process Engineer for “ADNOC Water Injection Debottlenecking” EPC project to enhance water injection capacity from 1.1 MMBWD to 1.2 MMBWD including water treatment. Did concept study to confirm that existing pump configuration is adequate and new pump is not required.

Worked as Lead Process Engineer for “ADNOC BuHaseer BR021 /BR022 well flowline” EPC project for new water injection well and new producer well.

B)Company: Penspen (From Jan.’23 till May’23)

Designation: Senior Process Engineer

Worked on various ADNOC and international projects as a Lead Process Engineer. These projects include crude oil gathering and dispatch facility, gas compressors, jet fuel storage facility etc. In one project, managed to reduce the number of big bore valves by 20%.

C)Company: Global Process Systems (From Aug’22 till Nov’2022)

Designation: Lead Process Engineer

Worked on Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. ‘Ajaokuta Kaduna Kano Gas Pipeline Project” involving 9 Filtration skids (did concept study to remove 3 skids), 5 metering skids and 6 Water Bath Heater skids.

D)Company: SNC Lavalin (From Oct.’21 till June’22)

Designation: Senior Process Engineer

Worked as PMC for ADNOC TAZEEZ project, UAE containing many petrochemical plants. Carried out pre-feed scope process related activities including interacting with feedstock suppliers / tenants, making PFDs, pipeline sizing, utility consumption and addressing process related issues.

Worked for 1000 MT/day Salalah Ammonia Project, Oman to support commissioning activities.

E)Self-employed in Dubai, UAE (From Aug.’16 till Sep. 2021)

Designation: Process Consultant

Did proposal estimation work ((for various clients in UAE, India and Iraq) that includes checking process scope, doing Heat and Material balance, process simulation and optimization, developing, etc. Work included sour gas processing (including amine treatment and dehydration), gas compression and transport.

F) Company : McDermott Middle East, Dubai, UAE (From Mar.’12 to July’16)

Designation : Lead / Principal Process Engineer

Worked on proposals, Actively guide lead process engineers in completing the project by conducting technical reviews (including visits to Saudi Arabia) and sorting out technical issues.

Worked as a Lead Engineer for Saudi Aramco “Safaniya-3” project. The EPC project scope involved work on total of 26 new and existing production platforms spread across four fields along with production pipelines to onshore facilities. Reduced flange rating from 1500# to 900# for Safaniya on-shore facility.

Worked as a Lead Engineer for ADNOC Offshore “4GI-WP3-3BT” EPC project. Project scope involved work on new /existing production /gas injection platforms and oil production /sour gas pipelines.

Worked as a Lead Engineer for Saudi Aramco “Karan-45” EPC project. This involved new production platforms and sub-sea pipeline transportation of 500 MMSCFD of sour gas to on-shore. Work included 2 phase separation, handling NGL, gas dehydration and sweetening (H2S removal).

Worked as Lead Engineer for doing FEED for Alternate Gas/Water Injection project and Fuel Gas Filter project for Dubai Petroleum (DP). These were EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) projects.

Giving technical guidance on process related issues to Lead Engineer for Saudi Aramco “Safaniya-2” EPC project. The project involved 3 new platforms and upgradation of 4 existing platforms and transportation of 100000 bpd of oil and associated sour gas through sub-sea pipelines.

Worked as a Lead Engineer for RasGas “Barzan Helideck modification” FEED project. The project involved new helideck along with modification of existing facilities.

G) Company : Dubai Petroleum, Dubai, UAE (From Aug.’07 to Nov.’11)

Designation : Senior Development Engineer / Senior Facilities Engineer

Assigned mainly for Development and Operations Support work for the offshore facilities. Worked as Technical Authority on Process Engineering related issues. Other work includes doing concept studies and making recommendations for upgrading the existing CPF for meeting the forecast production and to reduce utility consumption. Did FEED and detailed engineering work to make necessary modifications.

Did concept study and identified constraints that inhibit production and made recommendations to remove them. Successful implementation increased liquid production by about 17000 bpd.

Developed a process control scheme that would result in improved operation of Production Separators.

Did concept study and initiated a project that would increase the oily water treating capacity by 40000 bpd with nominal capital cost which envisaged making use of existing equipment meant for other purposes.

Did concept study and reduced fuel gas consumption by 0.8 MMSCFD.

Reduced the discharge pressure of gas-lift compressor trains and improved its performance. Also worked on segregation of sour gas compressor trains to reduce overall utility consumption of compressor trains.

Developed a cost-effective scheme to eliminate hydrate formation in gas lift lines in the facility.

H) Company : Worley Parsons Oman Engineering Co LLC, Muscat, Oman (From May’04 to June’07)

Designation : Senior Process Engineer

Worked on Mukhaizna Field development project for Occidental Petroleum Oman. The FEED project involved heavy crude extracted through steam injection.

The other projects (see details below) done were for client Petroleum Development Oman, LLC.

Worked on four major FEED / EPC projects in Lekhwair area related to Water Injection to generate AFC package for EPC contractor. Developed scheme to limit concentration of oil in over-board water.

Worked on other six small FEED / EPC projects, which include “Relief Valve Rationalization project”, “Marmul Water Injection Wells Automation”, “Birba Gathering Station Wells Hook Ups”, “Yibal ‘A’ bypass project”, Budne-1 well hook-up and Sahma booster station expansion.

I) Company : Granherne LLC (now TR Engineering), Muscat, Oman (From Apr’03 to Apr’04)

Designation : Senior Process Engineer

Worked on “Instrument Gas system” FEED project for OGC LLC for 12 Pressure Reduction Terminals.

Completed FEED work on “CDU Revamp” and “Isomerization” packages for Oman Refinery Co. LLC.

Completed FEED work on Lekhwair – Dhulaima gas / injection water pipelines for PDO, Oman

J) Company : Toyo Engineering India Ltd. (TEIL), Mumbai, India (From Oct.’92 to Mar’ 03)

Designation : Assistant Process Manager

Completed the work as Commissioning Manager on “LPG Import / Export Facility” for Indian Oil Petronas Ltd. Commissioned this EPC project successfully and reduced the commissioning period. By changing the operating philosophy, reduced the number of operating equipment (gas compressors from 4 to 2, boilers from 2 to 1, cooling water pumps from 3 to 2, amount of chemicals for boiler / Demineralized water plant / cooling water dosing etc.) which reduced the utility bills by 30%, resulting in reduced maintenance costs and improved plant safety with no adverse impact on plant performance.

Worked as Lead Engineer and Commissioning Engineer on “10000 Ton Ammonia Storage” for Sanjana Cryogenic Storages Ltd. Actively involved right from concept stage to commissioning this LSTK project. Reduced project capital and operating cost by 10 % by reducing the size and number of equipment.

Worked in Toyo Engineering Corp (TEC), Japan on Kertih Aromatics EPC project to manufacture 420,000 tpa of paraxylene for Petronas Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia which included refinery sections including CDU (worked in role of PMC), benzene and paraxylene. Also optimized the number of heat exchangers.

Worked on “1175 X 2 tpd Urea Plant” EPC project for Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd., Kota, Rajasthan. Proposed improved gas evacuation system and steam turbine specs to lower operating costs.

Completed work on “100000 tpa Polypropylene Plant” EPC project for Petrochemical Industries Corp., Kuwait. Made a proposal that would reduce operating costs by about $100,000/ year.

Worked on “Dew Point Control Unit -II” FEED project (including NGL recovery) for Petronas Sdn. Bhd..

Worked on “2500 tpa Extreme Pressure Additive” EPC project for Lubrizol India Ltd.

Worked on many concept/proposal studies (including cryogenic storage proposals for ammonia and LPG).

Had taken initiative and developed a variety of chemical engineering software including a software package for flare header network system (TEC, Japan purchased this software after evaluation).

K) Company : ABB Simcon, Inc., NJ, USA, (Jan.’90 to Mar.’91)

Designation : Applications Engineer

Duties include doing dynamic (real time) simulation and modeling using GEPURS software package (including start-up and shutdown) for various sections of ethylene plant. Preparation of simulation P&ID's, heat and material balance, Process Control, emulation of Yokogawa Centum DCS for these projects.

Worked on two ethylene projects - for Maruzen Petrochemical Corp., Japan and KPIC, S. Korea.

L) Company : Enseco, Inc., NJ, USA, (Jan.’89 to Dec.’89)

Designation : Chemical Engineer.

Duties included environmental testing and development of engineering software.

SKILLS :

Have hands-on familiarity in using computers and handling of chemical engineering simulation software ASPEN HYSYS, PRO-II, PIPESIM, FLARENET, FRED, TLNET, CHEMCAD and GEPURS.

Have done extensive programming in VISUAL BASIC and EXCEL for Chemical Engineering Process Design and has developed chemical engineering software packages and utilities.

Good knowledge of International Engineering Standards including API, SHELL, BP, NORSOK, ADNOC AGES and Saudi Aramco Standards. Have used MAXIMO.

ACTIVITIES : Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

EDUCATION : - Master of Science in Chemical Engineering

University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. (Dec.’88)

-Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India (May’86)

PUBLISHED WORK:

Completed work on “Design and modeling of radiantly heated biomass spouted bed pyrolysis reactor” as a topic of M.S. thesis. Based on this work, paper was presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society, San Diego, California, August 21-25, 1990.

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