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Last Updated: Friday, November 23, 2007

Instrumentation and Automation Engineer
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Belayim Petroleum Company - Egypt
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Maintenance and troubleshooting of the control systems of Port Fouad gas plant and related offshore platforms, such as:
ABB Infi90 DCS system, August ESD system,
Turbine PLC system (Mark VI), Digital Radio Links,
Burner management systems,
Offshore pneumo-hydraulic control units.

• Calibration and loop checking of various instruments
• Participated in the HAZOP study for the Semman platform
• Participated in various commissioning and startup activities:
o The DCS unit on Port Fouad South East platform
o Temsah NW-2 offshore platform
o Anshuga Platform
o Gasoline heater (C) in Port Fouad plant
o Three offshore wells (on T-4 and Barboni Platforms)
o A PG-10 Gas Turbo-compressor (GE – Nouvo Pignone)
• Checking flow metering systems
• Played an active role in the upgrading of the DCS system to be carried out in Port Fouad Plant.
• Contributed in the building and implementation of a database system for the daily activities of Port Fouad Fields.
• Issuing and following-up requisitions for spare parts of various systems

Instrumentation and Control Engineer
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PGESCo Engineering Consultant(An affiliate of Bechtel Corp)
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• Evaluation of DCS offers, checking their conformity with the required specifications and requesting bidder clarifications.
• Working with and modifying DCS I/O lists for P&IDs and electrical single line diagrams.
• Checking DCS logic drawings, verifying them against system design guides and modifying as necessary.
• Preparing and checking instrument specifications and datasheets.
• Checking vendor transmittals and ensuring their conformity with the specifications.

Belayim Petroleum Company – Port Fouad Gas Field
Instrumentation and Automation Engineer , 2004

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and troubleshooting of the DCS control system (ABB Infi90) in Port Fouad gas processing plant and related offshore platforms.
o Checking cards, termination units, instrument loops, etc.
o Software modification: block configuration and addition
o Modification of operator display graphics
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Turbo-compressor (Nuovo Pignone PGT-10) control systems
o Control systems used: Suvimac and Mark VI
o Turbine operation and sequence
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of the plant ESD/PSD control system (August Systems) – a TMR system.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of the Gasoline Reboilers and Glycol Regeneration Burner Management Systems (Siemens Step5)
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of recycle compressors (Hanover – Waukesha Engine) Allan Bradley PLC system.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of offshore pneumo-hydraulic control units, which represent the main control and safety system on offshore platforms (ESD, GPSD and Well PSD).
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of ARES UHF Digital Radio Link systems which connect the offshore DCS loops to the onshore loop for monitoring and control.
• Calibration and loop checking of various instruments.
• Calibration and checking of flow metering systems.
• Issuing and following-up requisitions for spare parts of various systems through a SAP CMMS system.

Activities:

• Participated in the HAZOP study for the Semman platform
• Participated in various commissioning and startup activities:
o Temsah-4 and Temsah NW-2 offshore platforms
o Anshuga Platform
o The DCS unit on Port Fouad South East platform
o A number of offshore wells on various platforms
o A PG-10 Gas Turbo-compressor (GE – Nouvo Pignone)
o Gasoline Reboilers (B) and (C) in Port Fouad plant
• Played an active role in the study for the DCS upgrading to be carried out in Port Fouad Plant.
• Carried out training sessions for newly-appointed engineers.
• Contributed in the building and implementation of a database system for the daily activities of Port Fouad Field.

Other Skills:

• Interpreting P&ID diagrams, loop diagrams, data sheets, pneumatic/hydraulic panels drawings
• Interpreting various manufacturer documents
• Knowledge of standards:
o API RP 14C (Offshore Platforms Saftey)
o IEC 61508 (Electronic Saftey Systems)
o IEC 61882 for HAZOP studies.
• Knowledge of the implementation of offshore safety through hydraulic control units (ESD - GPSD – Well PSD)
• Knowledge of safety zones, enclosure types and the protections required for each zone.
• Knowledge about different iron and steel types used in process and instrumentation.
• Knowledge about recent automation trends: Device and Process IO Busses/ Networks, industrial Ethernet, wireless automation, etc.
• Control Valve basics: types, sizing and checking
• Knowledge of the principles of process control systems and DCS systems.
• Knowledge of the principles of various instrumentation types.
• Fundamentals of gas processing

Experience in Engineering (during 2007):
Company: PGESCo
A Bechtel Corp. affiliate operating in Egypt

• Evaluation of DCS offers, checking their conformity with the required specifications and requesting bidder clarifications.
• Working with and modifying DCS I/O lists for P&IDs and electrical single line diagrams.
• Checking DCS logic drawings, verifying them against system design guides and modifying as necessary.
• Preparing and checking instrument specifications and datasheets.
• Checking vendor transmittals and ensuring their conformity with the specifications.

Cairo University-
Post Graduate Studies in Computer Engineering, 2005

Ain Shams University –
B.Sc. in Computer and Control Systems Engineering, 2002
Grade: GOOD
Grade for Graduation Project: EXCELLENT
Graduation Project:
Designing a fuzzy controller using VHDL to be implemented on an FPGA chip

The American University in Cairo
Certificate in (English – Arabic - English) Translation, 2006
Grade: A

Systems
• Linux/ Unix: installation, using the command line to perform various tasks, security, networking, using graphical interfaces
• Microsoft Windows: up to Windows Server 2003
• Basics of high availability, RAID, load balancing, grid computing, multi-tier computing

Programming: C – HTML – Matlab
SQL and Database administration (Installation, disk management, backup, etc.)
Microsoft Office 2003 – Web design

Systems
• Linux/ Unix: installation, using the command line to perform various tasks, security, networking, using graphical interfaces
• Microsoft Windows: up to Windows Server 2003
• Basics of high availability, RAID, load balancing, grid computing, multi-tier computing

Programming: C – HTML – Matlab
SQL and Database administration (Installation, disk management, backup, etc.)
Microsoft Office 2003 – Web design
Systems
• Linux/ Unix: installation, using the command line to perform various tasks, security, networking, using graphical interfaces
• Microsoft Windows: up to Windows Server 2003
• Basics of high availability, RAID, load balancing, grid computing, multi-tier computing

Programming: C – HTML – Matlab
SQL and Database administration (Installation, disk management, backup, etc.)
Microsoft Office 2003 – Web design