SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Bob has a strong track record as a persuasive and eloquent change agent who improves performance and gets results for firms
§ Extensive experience in leading scoping studies, performing design of refineries, petrochem. plants, oil & gas, storage facilities
§ His greatest depth is process safety, process and utility environmental design, waste treatment, and HSE Management Systems
§ Experienced in refinery revamps using “design-to-capacity”, “value improving practices”, “stage-gated design” methodologies
§ Initiated corporate standards for third-party contract HSE services in Process Hazard Analysis, Quantitative Risk & Reliability
§ Skilled in doing Process Scoping studies, FEED packages, detailed engineering FEL-3 phase of Process and HSE engineering
§ Supervisory experience includes plant unit engineers, advanced process optimization specialists, CAD and database developers
§ Construction phase roles include logistics, equipment checkout, commissioning of units and systems, and startup shift support
§ Taught chemical and materials engineering Process Analysis and Design, plus has been a faculty advisor at several universities
§ Implemented operator simulator training for unit startup, mentored control room staff during startup, advised University faculty
KELLOGG, BROWN & ROOT, INC,
Process Technical Advisor (2008 – 2009)
§ Revised department Systems Engineering Excel data sheets to enable US or Metric units, plus smart validation of data entry
§ Updated Process Development department intranet website to deal with migration of Technologies to a separate department
Gasoline Benzene Reduction Project – ConocoPhillips,
§ Project revamp scope encompassed distillation heat integration plus hydrogenation of aromatics to reduce benzene percentage
§ Assigned mid-way into detailed design, took over getting P&IDs “Issued for Design” through to closure of PHA Action Items
§ Ensured Safety Integrity Level (SIL) review decisions were executed for impacted instrumentation, control and valve systems
§ Appointed Systems lead of the “Issue for Construction” phase for distillation area, naphtha hydrodesulphurization, tank-farm
§ Responsible for Management of Change after IFD, quality assurance of Systems calculations, and project closeout documents
§ Facilitated bringing engineering inter-discipline inconsistencies to closure, still ensuring a safe, operable and efficient design
Ras Tanura Integrated Project – $25 billion Dow/Aramco,
§ Assigned as “Interface Coordinator” between licensed process technology units and project supporting infrastructure areas
§ Participated in technology reviews for ethylene oxide, ethanolamines, salt solution mining, chlor-alkali, flares/incinerators
§ Overlaid process scoping diagrams with all their utility streams, emissions and waste streams, consistently across all units
§ Defined all physical interfaces: steel, pipe, cable, roads between unit areas and utilities , infrastructure, power and off-sites
§ Developed smart software tools to validate, filter and auto-summarize date entry for interfaces between RTIP and licensors
FLUOR ENTERPRISES,
HSE Design Principal (2007 -2008)
§ Established global corporate sub-contract standards on daily services for expert staff from 3rd-party HSE services companies
§ Developed template scopes to access HAZID, QRA, HSE Impact Assessment, RAM, SIL and HAZOP services upon request
§ As a senior lead, advised department manager on staff skill mix needed to assign to project taskforces, recruited new staff
Odoptu First Stage
Processing Project – ExxonMobil,
§ Led the HSE team for emergency shutdown, fire and gas detection, fire protection, reliability, process area access and egress
§ Used “Fine Mist” systems for fire suppression in process modules, water storage in adjacent heated process module buildings
§ Achieved approval for alternative insulation (foam-in-place between metal panels) for prefabricated modules shipped to site
§ Authored HSE optimization Studies pre-FEED, addressing frozen climate issues e.g. enclosed process modules, fire-fighting
§ Authored Philosophies and Management Plans for HSE, advised Site HSE Manager on his corresponding construction Plans
§ Used knowledge of international codes to review Russian standards/codes, ensured project Alternative Designs got approval
§ Managed third-party subcontracts for HAZOP, Reliability/Availability/Maintainability, blast and noise prediction/mitigation
Habshan Alpha Platform Project - ADMA-OpCo, Umm Schaif Field
§ Took over as HSE lead on FEED for a sour gas processing platform needing a major design change from three levels to four
§ Evaluated safety aspects of the revised 3D model, developed HSE design path for equipment, structure & personnel protection
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Set up and managed third-party contracts for consequence modeling &
HSE impact assessments with firms in the
§ Managed sizing and specs for deluge & monitors, fireproofing, gas & flame detection, emergency shelters and escape systems
§ Ensured full Safety Case documentation met scrutiny of independent European verification firm plus PMC HSE rep. at KBR
SHAW, STONE & WEBSTER,
Sr. Process Systems Engineer (2006 – 2007 contract)
Refinery Major Expansion -
§ Responsible for validating Fluor’s FEED package, managed Q.A of detailed P&IDs in Hydrocracker and Hydrotreater units
§ Developed 3D geometry of gravity process water/rain sewers and firewater mains, ensured no conflict with lines or foundations
§ Specified systems conditions for “Specialty Engineered Items” data sheets within Hydrocracker and Kerosene Hydrotreater units
§ Ensured equipment data was consistent with P&IDs and Data Sheets, for all compressors, exchangers, heaters, pumps & vessels
§ Provided HSE expertise in 3D model reviews of equipment plan, personnel access, location of safety sensors and fire protection
Gasoline
Desulphurization Project - Giant Industries,
§ Performed design & procurement technical review for systems outside process unit: SO2 scrubber/oxidation and cooling water
§ Prepared data sheets and requirements in materials selection, performance, commissioning and warranties for package systems
§ Developed process control strategies, storage sizing & transfer requirements for gasoline desulphurization unit feed & products
§ Facilitated HAZOP workshops of detailed P&IDs for “S-Zorb” technology for process unit plus supporting offsites and utilities
ANVIL CORPORATION,
Senior Process Engineer (2005-2006 contract)
Canadian eXtra Heavy Oil Study - BP, Cherry Point WA
§ Developed technology selection and equipment sizes for FEL2 “Select” phase on crude oils alternative to Alaskan North Slope
§ Analyzed options for sustaining Coker and Calciner throughput, while still meeting constraints on metals in anode-grade coke
§ Developed complete specifications and licensing requirements for a new Merchant Hydrogen unit to be collocated on-site at BP
§ Fully implemented remote access to BP’s online process and laboratory data, used to establish current baseline for case studies
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP/DYNCORP,
Technical Consultant (1988-2005)
§ Provided expertise as a Professional Engineer, experienced doing complex systems, to EPA, OSHA and other federal agencies
§ Worked initially as an internal consultant, advising Dyncorp’s Task Order managers on their design options for compliance
§ Managed technology upgrade of EOC videoconferencing, data communication mapping visualization & decision support tools
§ Met mandated schedule for upgrade/remodel installation during a two-week shut-down window between Presidential primaries
§ Expanded capability to view real-time video, satellite surveillance, automated aerial imagery updates, interagency info. sharing
§ Tested and proved EOC capability to do ten-way video-conferencing, supported by electronic white-boarding in breakout rooms
EPA Oil Program Support (2002-2005)
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Developed mapping database intranet system for all fuel storage
tankfarms in
§ Principal reviewer of the responsibilities of a P.E. in EPA’s update of Spill, Prevention, Control and Countermeasure program
DOE
Long-Terms Stewardship (2002)
§ Consolidated CAD and GIS spatial information on 137 former nuclear weapons sites for the LTS “Report to U.S. Congress”,
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Resulting maps were posted online (but after terrorist
events of 9/11/2001 are now only on CD-ROM by authorized request).
DOJ Redistricting Software (2000-2001)
§ System Architect for geospatial analysis tools for Voting Rights redistricting analysis using Census 2000 race data percentages
§ Presented key features of capability to minimize gerrymandering with docked windows presenting map, race data and graphs
State Dept Nuclear
Non-Proliferation (2000)
• In Moscow and Kiev met with Science & Technology Centres devoted to non-weapons work by ~ 30,000 former
weapon makers
• Persuaded
both centres to transmit progress and spending
reports via clear ASCII text to avoid concerns on data being "bugged"
• CSC
specialists then put this data into an SQL database on a server in the DMZ
between external internet and State's intranet
Superfund Program Support (1998-2000)
§ Managed Lotus Notes, Web and Oracle application development staff for Superfund, Brownfields and Oil Spill assignments
§ Provided Subject Matter guidance to CSC Work Assignment Managers for EPA contracts; developed OSHA Expert Systems
MOBIL CORPORATION (1990-1998)
Mobil Global Professional Services,
Environment, Health & Safety
§ Defined EHS Management System framework across E&P, Transportation, Refining, Petrochemical, Chemical, Oil and Gas
§ Project Manager of GENIE “Global EHS Network Information Enabler” best practices network with global specialist teams
§ Supervised nine-person team of developers, two paralegals for daily content update and deployed GENIE on four continents
§ Chosen as a global best for ROI savings by Benchmarking Partners, and presented at international LotuSphere conference
§ Prototyped expansion to “BestNet” for Mobil’s Best Practices for over 100 subject matter areas e.g. corrosion, turnarounds
§ Trained “Korea Gas” engineers to fully understand API, ASME, ASTM, NFPA standards for safer design of LNG facilities
Mobil R&D Corp,
Environmental Research & Engineering (1993-1995)
§ Co-managed $20 million/year R&D budget for process measures to reduce pollution; co-wrote Refinery Water Reuse manual
§ Led Mobil’s role at quarterly P.E.R.F. meetings in collaborating with oil and power companies on shared cost R&D for HSE
§ Active in field trials to reduce desalter emulsions, quantify refinery unit emissions, and improve fugitives monitoring systems
§ Served on API committees for Refinery MACT regulations and wrote MACT compliance training manual together with EPA
Refining “Process Advisory” Systems (1990-1992)
§ Led team of process engineers developing optimization correlations for Mobil-licensed technologies, using global refinery data
§ Process architect implementing PROMIS “Process Management Information Systems” for three of Mobil’s European refineries
New Zealand Synthetic Fuels Corp, Motonui NZ (1985-1990)
§ Initially did acceptance startup tests of all non-process units from Bechtel, working with senior Mobil R&D Corp Facilities
Methanol Plant Debottlenecking
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Applied case studies of large
§ Prioritized bringing in second, high-CO2 content pipeline to increase production 9% with stoichiometric mixed feed gas
§ Developed pipeline transient monitoring system for Fox 1/A system as advance warning for feed & fuel control systems
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Presented Prevention of Reformer Overfiring During Startup to
AIChE Loss Prevention Symposium,
Process MIS & LIMS
§ Setup graphic monitoring of process conditions by setting up color schematics with updating values from “Fox 1/A”
§ Developed technical applications on "IBM 4361" mainframe with GDDM graphics and SQL/DS relational database
§ Worked with process engineers to identify and develop the schematics, daily reports and trend analysis for each unit
§ Integrated lab data by direct connection to HP analyzers, and setting up lab tags for all routine wet chemistry results
CADD
§ Installed the first large twin-screen Intergraph system in N.Z., used it to manage 18,000+ drawings from Bechtel
§ Accredited N.Z. Synfuel Library for Interloan between technical libraries, maintained Tech. Standards repository
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Chem. & Materials
Process Analysis and Synthesis
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Developed and delivered materials from 10-years design, consulting and
startup experience in
§ Developed a categorized list of 1,000 published references in process design and taught students how to access them
§ Developed software in FORTRAN and BASIC for execution on six dedicated workstations in purpose-created room
Process Design Project
§ Rather than all students doing the same project, each team was given their own industry sector process plant to design
§ Examples of plants chosen were relevant to NZ's resources: e.g. aluminum from alumina, phosphate fertilizer, dairy milk processing, oil and gas processing, steel by electric furnace from ironsands, glass-making, brewing, cement manufacture
§ Over the academic year, the teams each had to produce Process Flow Diagrams, Heat and Material Balance, size major equipment, propose control schema, do screening-level Hazard Analysis, present their project to the C&M Dept. Faculty
§ Had each team of four choose their own lead person to coordinate the division of tasks. I met weekly with just the 12 leads, in order to make them accountable for gathering questions, but accompanying lectures and tests I gave were for the whole class.
Forster-Morrell Engineering, Colorado Springs, CO
(1982-1983)
Senior Process Engineer
Energy Conservation for DOE Rocky Flats
§ Gathered data about facility building HVAC designs, data on process unit energy consumption, steam, power, CW
§ Developed BASIC program analysis tools on PDP-8, using ASHRAE handbook as approved calculation methods
§ Prepared reports showing potential energy savings, in MMBTU, KW, gallons plus $/year, retrofit cost estimates
Alternatives for Electronic Industries Wastes
§ Developed an options paper for State of
§ Incineration system for electroplating solvent waste streams and vitrification system for heavy metals residues
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PetroMAS Engineering Services,
Process Engineer & I.T. Supervisor
Three Refinery Revamp Projects
§ Performed simulations, process equipment and line specs, P&IDs, Heat & Material Balances
§ During each startup did control loop commissioning and control room panel operator training
Jet Fuel for Gladieux Refinery (1974-1975)
§ Crude column and Merox treater upgrade to meet military JP-4 specifications for Indiana Air National Guard.
Expansion of Gladieux Refinery (1976-1977)
§ Design/startup of modifications under “Old Oil/New Oil” pricing to handle broad crude range from 26° to 38° API
§ Used split overhead fin-fan condensers plus steam coils to cover wide range of overhead vapor traffic requirements.
§ Process assessment of impact on crude column, overhead systems, pumparounds, with switch from sweet light crude
Expansion of Ergon Refinery (1978-1980)
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Process design and startup of major expansion to 25,000 BPSD of Ergon
Refining’s
§ R&D on stable “coal-oil mixture” technology to pipeline coal suspended in residual oil to Mississippi Power & Light.
Merichem Cresylics Springing
§ Did process study on switching weak Lewis acid gas used to "spring" cresylics from H2S to CO2: driven by safety|
§ Gathered plant data onsite for development of alternate PFD and material balance ,with switch from HS2S to CO2
§ Automated stoichiometric material balance flow-sheet case study calculations in BASIC to include recycle streams.
Aspartame Precursors
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This pilot plant project was conducted in absolute secrecy: only our
boss knew the actual names of client, or ingredients, or
the intermediate products! Because of global competition, PPG split production-scale
pilot stages across several firms/sites
§ We did process design using Component "A", "B" etc with all of the reaction, physical, and transport properties provided.
Environmental Audits
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Under contract to the State of
§ Performed annual environmental audits for our four ILTA clients, advising them of best practice opportunities to improve.
Wastewater Treatment
§ Petrochemical storage tank wastewaters vary significantly in their composition as different product tanks are washed out. Developed biological treatment systems characterized by long retention for slow-degradation kinetics, choice of activated sludge or trickle filter, and planting bull-rushes in serpentine channel ditches for polishing residual heavy metals.
Emissions Inventories
§ In BASIC (pre-PC days) developed point-source emission calculation software based on EPA "TANKS" and "AP-42", including summary tabulating emissions for all tanks. Capability to quickly change identity of products, and re-compute entire emissions
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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B.E. (Honors) in
Chemical and Materials Engineering,
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Two years towards Ph.D.
on “Expert Systems in Steelmaking”
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES/CERTIFICATES
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Registered Professional
Engineer,
§ Member, Institute of Professional Engineers, NZ
FACULTY ADJUNCT
§ Advisor to
§ Co-developed a
complete two-year curriculum for new Professional MS at
§ Trained in ArcGIS, taught “Introduction to Planning” & “Advanced GIS” at Western Washington U. in 2006
ASSOCIATIONS
§ Being sponsored into American Society of Safety Engineers - MEC
§ Member of NFPA, the National Fire Protection Association, 2007
§ Invited member of "Society of Industrial Leaders” refining sector
§ Member of AIChE from 1977–1983, then 1990 upon return to US
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IChemE member from 1983–1990 while working in
PUBLICATIONS
§ “Implementing ArcGIS 8.1 for Redistricting” ESRI International User Conference, July 2001
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"Mobil Refines its EHS Regulatory Practices with Notes"
"Streamline" News for Manufacturing, Summer 1998,
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"Knowledge Management Across the Global Manufacturing Network
using Lotus Notes and Domino"
Benchmarking Partners for Lotus "Collaborative Solutions for
Manufacturing"
§ API
Publication 335, "Refinery MACT Workshop" for the American
Petroleum Institute with
USEPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. 23-24 October 1995,
§ "Emission
Inventory Applications of Refinery Stream Speciation Data", October
1995 for
AWMA Specialty Conference,
§ “Toxic Combustion Byproducts", PERF Project 92-19 (Bob Andrew & Jim Seebold)
§ API Publication
4630, “Electronic Exchange of Environmental Compliance Information:
A Proposed Approach”, August 1995. (Bob Andrew - Mobil & John
Grisinger - Radian)
§ "Reducing
the Desalter Environmental Impact" PERF Project # 91-14, (Members
Only)
January 1993, Petroleum Environmental Research Forum
§ "Prevention
of Reformer Overfiring During Startup" C. J. T. Bush, H. J. Weake
and R. D. Andrew, AIChE Loss Prevention Symposium, San Diego, 1990
§ "The
Role of Humanities in Engineering - A Personal View" R. D. Andrew
Proceedings of the
§ "Kinetic
Model of Steel Refining for a Batch Process" R. D. Andrew and G. A.
Wright,
Proceedings of the