Antonio Andre
Luanda
Summary
Motivated Senior Chemical Engineer with over 12 years of progressive experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. Offering expertise in Hazard and Risk Assessment Techniques, Plant Surveillance, Dispersion Modelling, Plant Optimization, Equipment Sizing and troubleshooting, Project Management and Managing Risks in Projects, with aptitude in creating ideas. Energetic self-starter and Team Builder able to navigate high-stress situations and achieve goals on time and under budget. Hold a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Postgraduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering and a Diploma in Drilling and Production.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Process Engineer
SBM Offshore
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Support and Lead Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment processes. This include HAZOPs, LOPAs, HAZIDs, Human Factor Analysis, What-Ifs, Vulnerabilities studies, Bow-ties and Risk Action Plans.
- Responsible and accountable to provide detailed calculation for all Loss of Primary Containment across Mondo, Saxi and Ngoma FPSO in Angola Offshore.
- Lead investigation on three FPSOs operated by SBM in Angola.
- Help Offshore team to prepare Operating Procedure, Risk Assessment, Management of Change, Pre-startup Operations Review.
- Responsible to review Long Term Isolations, Long Term Overrides, Standing Alarms, Plant Surveillance and provide appropriate action to reduce them.
- Responsible to improve Cooling Medium Performance across Mondo and Saxi FPSO.
- Responsible to improve Efficiency of Glycol and Glycol Regeneration System on both Mondo and Saxi. So far busy improving high consumable costs on TEG Circulation Pumps which has reached up to 1 million US Dollars.
- Worked with multi-discipline team to deliver remedial activity that helped to increase pipework thickness. I have prepared risk assessment and provided procedure to leak test wrapped pipework with methanol as per ASME Code.
- Responsible to create strategic plan to remove completion fluid for new Well Delivery in Mondo FPSO.
- Conducted root cause analysis to identify, prioritize and eliminate process losses
- Met weekly with team members to discuss project implementations and alleviate any issues
- Evaluated proposed project economics and identified alternative solutions and designs producing improved results
- Reviewed processes, identifying areas requiring improvement
Discipline Process Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
09.2018 - 12.2020
- Provided Process and Process Safety expertise to other teams by performing and reviewing complex, or non-routine Process and Process Safety Engineering calculations and analysis.
- Supported Plant Optimization through identification of facility optimization options to grow production (debottlenecking) and avoid production cutback.
- Kept asset Aspen Hysys model up to date in collaboration with Process Engineers from Operations Support Team.
- Provided expertise to Management of Change and to Brownfield Projects and Modifications.
- Provided Process and Process Safety expertise to hazard identification and risk assessment processes. This included Management of Change, HAZOPs, LOPAs, HAZIDs, Human Factors Analysis, What-Ifs, Vulnerabilities Studies, Bow-ties and Risk Action Plans.
- Provided Process and Process Safety expertise in performing incident investigation and defect elimination.
- Ensured that appropriate process safety-related assessments were carried out. This involved looking at Safe Override Risk Assessment (SORA), Operations Risk Assessment (ORA) and defective Safety Critical Equipment.
- Provided Process and Process Safety expertise to Operations, which included design and operating envelope excursion, ensuring that Process and Process Safety Engineering documentation was up to date.
- Supported Regional Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) and Manjor Accident Risk (MAR) re-validation.
Production Efficiency and Improvement Analyst
British Petroleum (BP)
04.2015 - 09.2018
- Responsible and accountable for analysis of production figures across two operated blocks by BP.
- Provide data for reliabilities engineers and other engineers to enable them to close associated actions.
- Manage vulnerabilities across region. This involves looking at each individual vulnerabilities and ensure that proper risk assessment is conducted and right risk owners are assigned.
- Participate actively on Production and Reliabilities meetings. Provided production data and their associated actions.
- Coaching people on how to use Production Efficiency and Improvement Tool (PEIT).
- Represent Angola Region in community of practice for Production Efficiency and Improvement.
- Provide extra support to my colleagues. Excel Macros, Process Engineering related topics, plant operations inductions and process safety on FPSO.
- Data quality management on PEIT. This involves looking at key details and making sure that information is clear for investigator to better understand problem. This also involves checking for event that do not have investigators assigned.
- Prepared and provided reports to show how key performance indicators look like.
- Represented Angola Region in Community of Practice for Production Efficiency and Improvement.
Reliability Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
10.2013 - 04.2015
- Coordinated Production Efficiency and Improvement tool for Block 18 and 31 in Angola. This involved looking at data quality and ensure that people were inducted on how to use it.
- Responsible to coordinate defect elimination across Angola Region. This involved engaging people on defect elimination procedure and make sure that they could use proper investigation templates. In addition to this, save investigation report and follow up recommended actions until completion.
- Prepare program to proactively monitor performance of process equipment for both assets.
- Responsible to create automated spread sheet that could compare live process data with normal operating limits. This was used to check performance of rotating equipment (pumps and compressors).
- Developed stand-in procedure to enable operators to swap pumps. This involved engaging plant personals.
Onshore Support Process Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
04.2012 - 10.2013
- Coordinated pre-commissioning and commissioning of Oil Export Booster Pump in Block 18 FPSO in Angola.
- I was responsible for plant surveillance for Block 18. I was responsible to ensure that plant was been operated well within its safe operating limits or boundaries.
- Respond to Technical Queries and coordinate Management of Change (MOC).
- Help to optimize plant to meet oil specification (salt and water content).
- Coach new Assistant Offshore Operations Engineers and Process Engineers.
- I have assisted Offshore to assess options to operate plant with one Caisson. This work involved looking at hydraulic of whole topside cooling medium system.
Assistant Offshore Operations Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
04.2011 - 04.2012
- Responsible for material balance on FPSO. Created model that helped offshore to predict flare figures when flare flow meters were not reliable.
- Prepare and produce production and operations daily reports to BP and its partners.
- Technical assistance in operations. This involved participation on permit to work and tool box meeting, safety observed conversation, risk assessment, work management audits and assistant on TARs.
- Help on optimization of plant to meet its production target and as well oil quality and produced water quality.
- Prepare and present Key Performance Indicators on FPSO.
- Initiate and respond to technical queries. Initiate and coordinate Management of Change.
- Coordinate and manage Lock Open Lock Close Valve register in Greater Plutonio FPSO.
- Coach new Assistant Offshore Operations Engineers.
- Gained extensive knowledge in data entry, analysis and reporting.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines.
Onshore Support Process Engineer
British Petroleum
01.2010 - 04.2011
- Responsible for upkeep of Potable Water system. This involved looking at performance of whole system and assist on technical details to operation when required.
- Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers simulation and rating.
- Simulation of Plant using Aspen Hysys.
- Responsible to recheck sizing of PSVs. This was good exercise where proper API 520, 521 and other guides were exploited.
- Responsible for process surveillance on Inlet Manifold, Slug-catchers and Compression Unit.
- I was involved in couple of HAZOPs. To name few, studies of Fuel Gas Buyback Project and Seawater System in marine.
Chemical Engineer Intern
Schlumberger
01.2005 - 12.2005
- Participate on preparation of equipment for cementing operations for more than 3 Projects.
- Prepare cement slurries in laboratory. Cement slurries were being used to cement oil field well-bore.
- Responsible to ensure cement slurry meet criteria required for particular job.
- Design and prepare Mud-push.
- Report on daily basis to Field Service Manager.
Education
Master of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Stellenbosch
South Africa2009
Post Graduate Diploma - Chemical Engineering
University of Stellenbosch
South Africa2008
Bachelor of Technology - Chemical Engineering
University of Johannesburg
South Africa2006
Diploma - Oil and Gas Drilling and Production
Instituto Nacional De Petroleos
Angola2001
Skills
- Efficient user of Business Objects Bi4, Microsoft Excel, Aspen Hysys, UniSim, ChemCAD, HTRI, SEEQ and MatLab
- Use of MatLab to perform Process Stability Analysis (Bode Plot, Root Locus, Nyquist and Nichols)
- Expertise in troubleshooting issues
- Creative problem solving
- Operational analysis and Root cause analysis
- Exceptional time management
- Process and Performance Improvement
- Process Control, Modeling and Linear Programming
Accomplishments
- Three Times Nominated as the Best Student at Instituto Nacional de Petroleum.
- Published a Paper in Australia at CHEMECA Conference in 2009.
- Participated in a Riser Velocity Project at BP that saved the Company 1billion US Dollars.
Affiliations
- Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineer (AIChE). ID Number 009902790720.
- Associate Member of Institute of Chemical Engineer (IChemE).
Certification
- EHY101 Aspen Hysys: Process Modeling. Feb 11-13, 2013. AspenTech
- EHY202 Aspen Hysys: Advanced Process Modeling Topics. AspenTech
- Managing Risks for Projects. Dec 10-12, 2012. The George Washington University.
- Project Management Essential. Oct 22-25, 2012. The George Washington University.
- WCS Basic Laboratory Training. Completed on Oct 21, 2005
Additional Information
I am Married and have 2 Beautiful Daughters. I have a lot of ambition in Life, one of them is to become a Business Company Owner or Stakeholder.
Languages
Portuguese
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Senior Process Engineer
SBM Offshore
06.2021 - 12.2022
Discipline Process Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
09.2018 - 12.2020
Production Efficiency and Improvement Analyst
British Petroleum (BP)
04.2015 - 09.2018
Reliability Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
10.2013 - 04.2015
Onshore Support Process Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
04.2012 - 10.2013
Assistant Offshore Operations Engineer
British Petroleum (BP)
04.2011 - 04.2012
Onshore Support Process Engineer
British Petroleum
01.2010 - 04.2011
Chemical Engineer Intern
Schlumberger
01.2005 - 12.2005
Master of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Stellenbosch
Post Graduate Diploma - Chemical Engineering
University of Stellenbosch
Bachelor of Technology - Chemical Engineering
University of Johannesburg
Diploma - Oil and Gas Drilling and Production
Instituto Nacional De Petroleos
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