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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