P ERSONAL SUMMARY  
A Process Engineer with more than 7 years of experience working with one of the natural gas exploration and production
majors (BG GROUP). In addition to a year-long of teaching experience in the Chemical Engineering dept. of Alexandria
University, Egypt.
Current role is Lead Development/Facilities Engineer in BG Egypt corporate office working on field development plans for
recent discoveries as well as expansion opportunities of existing facilities.
Previously seconded to the major single natural gas producer in Egypt as a Process Engineer in the Brownfield Projects and
Engineering Group. I was responsible for the delivery of multi-discipline project packages, in addition to the process
engineering duties of other brownfield projects and operations support requests.
Areas of experience include:
o  Offshore, subsea, and onshore projects
o  Vent/Flare studies and modifications
o  Flow assurance & Subsea Systems
o  High Pressure Protection
o  Process design of upstream equipment
o  Firewater systems
o  Process modeling and simulation
o  Industry Standards including API 520/521, API 2000, API 20
API 14E/C, API 500/505, ASME VIII, and ASME B31.3.
W ORK E  XPERIENCE  
BG Egypt/Developments
Main Scope &
Responsibilities
  Liaison between the different corporate functions to generate and optimize field development
plans for new fields and discoveries in Egypt.
  Responsible for the facilities engineering input for ongoing projects
  Review and approval of Contractor engineering documentation/drawings during conceptual
studies.
Projects  Harmattan Deep Field Development
  Leading the field development engineering during the Venture Feasibility and Assessment Stage.
  Refining the field development plan and framing the field development concepts for the
commercialization of the Discovery offshore Egypt North-eastern coast.
  Coordinating the efforts of exploration, subsurface and reservoir engineering teams to optimize the value
of the venture
  Definition of economic sensitivities to assess and optimize the value of the venture
  Review of project cost estimate, and generating execution schedules.
Rosetta-to-WDDM Crossover Project
  Leading the concept selection/FEED stages of a project to link the existing onshore facilities of Rosetta and
WDDM
  Arrange and conduct concept selection workshop with internal company stakeholders to screen the
available options prior to involving external contractors
  Prepare contractor scope of work documents for the concept selection and FEED studies.
Condensate Export Project
utilizing existing infrastructure
  Technical Support to the commercial negotiations of condensate handling and transportation agreements
Libra-Taurus 3rd party gas Project 
  Review and approval of onshore and offshore process engineering, and flow assurance documentation
during the Pre-FEED phase.
  Provided technical support to the commercial negotiations of handling and transportation, and
construction and tie-in agreements
MOHAMEDMOKHTAR Z AYED,  AMIChemE 
Alexandria, Egypt 
Main Scope &
  Conducting conceptual studies for proposed brownfield projects.
  Preparing Scope of Work and Basis of Design documents for engineering contractors to design
and implement brownfield projects and studies.
  Review, approval, and follow-up of Contractors’ deliverables to ensure compliance with project
requirements and Company standards.
  Working closely with engineering contractors & suppliers (ENPPI, and others) to ensure proper
engineering for the Brownfield Projects in compliance with industry and corporate standards.
  Carrying out process studies and calculations to support ongoing operations and define
proposed modifications.
Projects Examples of Projects accomplished during this period:
  Re-design of the produced water handling system in the onshore plant reducing the amount of hose
connections in the process plant and removing 100+ daily truck movements from inside the process area
to outside the fence.
  Process study for bypassing the gas dehydration package and the effect on plant performance and export
gas specs, facilitating the maintenance/repair of a critical fired heater with minimal interruption to gas
production
  Study on the feasibility of injecting foamer to subsea wells using existing chemical injection units to
minimize CAPEX expenditure
  Study on the feasibility of interconnecting the firewater network of the two neighboring plants, and
develop an integrated hydraulic model for the firewater system.
  Developing safe solution to protect against High-Pressure gas breakthrough risk onshore and offshore,
and maximizing the allowable liquid production rates to avoid liquid bottlenecks in the system 
SEPT 2010 - JUN 2012:
SEPT 2009 - AUG 2010:
Scope &
Responsibilities    Defining the project scope and basis of design for the onshore and offshore projects
  Work closely with Contractors to progress through the FEED and Detailed Design of phases
  Review and approve contractors’ process engineering drawings and documentation.
  Responsible for the delivery of specific work packages
  Provide process engineering input to HAZOP, HAZID, and SIL assessment workshops
  Tracking & Close-out of the engineering actions that arise from various safety and design
workshops
  Provide technical support during tendering and procurement stages of the project
  Prepare operation and start-up procedures for the new modifications
Projects  Rosetta Upgrade Project (September’09 – Aug’12)
Held the responsibility of process design of the following:
- Platform modifications to enable operating test and production separation trains in parallel
- Installing a topside High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS)
- Designing proper protection against high-pressure gas breakthrough events
- Addressing low temperature issues in the vent system resulting from higher operating pressures
- Installing a new Chemical Injection package offshore, and modifying existing ones.
- Debottlenecking the onshore facilities to be able to receive 5,000 bpd of produced water.
WDDM Phase IXa FEED: Subsea Process/Flow Assurance (Mar’12 – May’12)
  Review and approval of Process Safety and Flow Assurance work of the FEED contractor.
  Based in the contractor office in the UK, acted as interface between Contractor Engineers, Company
Project team in Cairo, and Corporate technical consultants.
  Contributed to the Corporate Gate review meetings during the FEED prior to sanctioning the project
  Provided guidance and support to Contractor Engineers on developing the Process Safety deliverables in
accordance with Corporate Standards.
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BG Egypt - Seconded to JV/Operations 
Highlights    Provided process engineering support to a major hot-tapping campaign for the booster compression
project. Provided gas velocity predictions in tie-in locations as required by API 2201 to validate the hot
tap locations and propose alternatives.
  Successfully delivered the Operating Manual for Sapphire and North Sequoia subsea fields
  Participated in Safety Studies and workshops; HAZOP, HAZID, ENVID, and SIL Assessments for various
onshore, offshore, and subsea projects as an independent process engineer.
  Follow up of the High Pressure/Low Pressure interface protection issues identified during a field-wide
process hazard review.
Chemical Engineering, University of Alexandria 
Highlights   Classroom demonstrator for Thermodynamics, Mass/Energy Balance, Modeling and Simulation, and
Organic Chemistry Laboratory.
  Performed regular written and oral assessments to students.
E DUCATION  
  2002 – 2007: BSc with Degree of Honor in Chemical Engineering major, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alexandria.
  Accumulative Grade: Excellent with Honor degree (93.6 %) 
  Ranking: First of Class 
  Arabic native speaker
  Proficient User of MSWord, PowerPoint, and Excel.
  Good Command of HYSYS / UNISIM and FlareNET
  Familiar with PRO /II, PipeSIM, OLGA, ChemCAD, and MatLab
  Que$tor
  Operation and Control of Confused gas Compressors, ESD simulations – Aberdeen, 2012
  UniSim Steady State and Dynamic Simulation, Honeywell – Brussels – November 2011
  Basic Offshore Safety and Emergency Training Course (BOSIET), AAST – Alexandria, 2010
  Pipeline Hydraulics & Multiphase flow (with practice on OLGA), IFP – Paris, 2010
  Fundamentals of Process Safety, IChemE, Aberdeen – UK 2010
  Gas Conditioning and Processing, J.M. Campbell, Bergen - Norway 2009
Non-Technical
P ERSONAL I NFORMATION  
  Nationality:  Egyptian
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