Head Operations Department

• Jan 2014 - Present

One of the major governmental companies in oil refinery and energy production in Egypt. It is one of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation’s companies under the supervision of the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. It is processing as a total of 120,000 Crude Oil BBL / day. *** My units in charge are Crude Distillation Unit (CDU), Vapour Recovery Unit (VRU), Liquefied Petroleum Gases Unit (LPG / LRU), and Flare Unit in the Atmospheric Distillation Complex. Responsibilities: - Designing alternative engineering plans for production and manufacturing that lessen the impact of industry on the environment. - Taking measurements and interpreting data to ensure safety, environmental health, and pollution management; to identify operational hazards; and to coordinate and emergency scenarios. - Making improvements to operational procedures, scheduling and coordinating work to tight deadlines, and ensuring that equipment works to its specification. - Creating and carrying out test procedures, investigating problems, and diagnosing and repairing faults troubleshooting. - Liaising with, and supervising engineering and technical staff. - Assessing, developing, configuring, and optimizing the process and equipment performance and making financial audits. - Making monthly reports and annual suggestions of alternative modification of the process to increase productivity. - Scheduling plant start-up and normal shut down, ensuring plant is operating efficiently, analyzing specifications and controls, ensuring operation of processing units to produce fuel, and producing laboratory recommendations. - Participating in the development of training programs as well as building up the operation team and ensuring their competence for the tasks in the assigned area. Show less

Commissioning Utility Engineer

• Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

The largest Indian investor in Egypt and a major petrochemicals company producing Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) of 400,000 MT / year and also set up a 135,000 / year plant to produce Calcium Chloride granules, 400,000 MT / year of Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) and 60,000 MT / year of Green Ethylene. These capacities are the biggest thus in the entire MENA region. *** My Unit in charge for 10 months: Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Unit. Responsibilities: * During Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Unit Project commissioning period: - Following the generic activities through pre-commissioning and commissioning. - Ensuring that the project construction is properly designed, installed, tested and maintained. - Performing troubleshooting tasks, monitoring progress, performing tests, conducting audits, writing reports, and assisting in financial improvements. * After Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Unit Project start-up: - Operating and reporting wastewater treatment system including equalization tank, settler, clarifier, hardness removal units, softeners, cartridge filters, and reverse osmosis. - Monitoring and controlling the system pressures, flows, and levels through Honeywell Distributed Control System (DCS) and also monitoring all the dosing chemicals performance. - Ordering the mechanical work and ensuring safe disposal of wastes to save resources. - Finally my responsibility towards the operators is making work smooth for them. *** My unit in charge for 2 months: Off-sites. Responsibilities: - Operating and providing reports through Honeywell Distributed Control System about Boil off Gas (B.O.G) R-22; three compressors cycles, two chillers, three storage tanks of petroleum products and four storage tanks of chilled water, chilled glycol, EDC and VCM in the factory. - Make monthly reports about further production rate increase to make profits to the company. Show less

Intern

• Jul 2011 - Aug 2011