Curriculum Vitae

Production Specialist

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name:ALI ASGHAR

Surname:SOOMRO

Date / Place of Birth:16-Febuary-1984 / BADIN

Nationality:Pakistani

CNIC No41101-1230231-5

Passport No:BJ1822311

Marital Status:Unmarried

Postal Address:C/o AL-Noor Communication DCO Chowk Badin, Post Office Badin, Sindh, Pakistan.

Contact No +92-3003508377, +92-3332576775

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • A highly skilled Production Operator with over 07 years experience of Exploration and Production Process Operation with a vast range of Oil and Gas Plant equipments operation and Commissioning Skills.
  • To secure a challenging career to enhance operational skills in the field of process operation, where in my team player attributes, experience, and communication skills can be utilized in obtaining personal career goals and those of the employer.
  • To advance technically in the field of Exploration and Production and contribute to industry by participation as an Operation Technician, Production Operator, and/or Process Operator.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical:

  • GAS FIELD: -Well head and facility gas compression system with positive displacement compressors,Gas dehydration & regeneration & condensate stabilization, Gas metering & FLOBOSS, Well stream Separation through high-pressure separators, Cathodic protection through ICCP rectifiers, On-line gas sampling via Welker Sampler.
  • OIL FIELD:- Tank dipping, gauging and sampling, Oil stock preparation & with 60 degree conversion factors, Maintaining Injection water quality by Millipore tests, Water injection & disposal systems, Artificial lift by hydraulic jet pumps / gas lift, Remote facilities operations, Oil dispatching via Road Tankers, Well testing, Well Commissioning & Decommissioning, open and closed drain system.
  • Others Include:-
  • Minor Maintenance of instruments like PCV, LCV, Texteam Chemical Injection pumps, Awareness of the Safety Critical Equipments like SSV, ESV, PSV etc, Pigging Gas and water injection lines.
  • ENGINES/POWER GENERATION:-Gas Engine (Waukesha 2540 HP & Caterpillars), Diesel Engines Prime mover machines for power supply, Power generation through 450 KVA generators, Power sharing (Synchronization). UPS (un-interrupted power supply,
  • Period: September 2003 –up-to-date.

Position: Lead Production Operator.

Company & Location: BP Pakistan Exploration & Production Inc. Pakistan

September-2003 to 2004

Worked at Khaskheli Facility,

Out standing work for to improve oil & produced water quality.

Got SRA award on K-16 commissioning.

August-2004 to 2006

Worked at Rind Facility

Oil & Gas Facility, Rind-1 well initially on artificial gas lift / then on hydraulic Jet pump.

PLC control unit sensing & controlling

October-2006-2009Worked at Duphri Facility.

30 mmscfd gas/ 500 oil producing Facility.

Gas Compression system fully controlled on PLC logic, HMI control & SCADA for Transmission of data towards CP facility.

May-2009 to up-to-date,

Lead Operator Missri Facility.

Attended various jobs of oil industries during working on all of these facilities some are specified bellow.

Principal Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

  • The core responsibilities of this position are: Performs lead operation function on all production facilities, production wells and process facilities such as separation, gas compression, condensate stabilization, gas export, condensate storage and loading, produced water disposal, relief and blow-down system, and all fire protection and safety systems while successfully completing required training and adhering to safety rules and regulations at all times.

PrincipalAccountabilities:

a)Updates SPO/Production Superintendent with ongoing activities, allocates duties, and monitors activities of plant labors.

b)Carries-out daily inspection of plant and equipment in oil/gas stations, tank and flare areas and/or water injection units to ensure normal operations, as applicable. Take variety of readings such as flow rates, levels and pressures, flow, line loads, running condition of surface pumps, Log all data daily log book/reading sheets.

  1. Keep four hourly reading records of compressor, pumps, wells etc in log sheet.
  2. Reports defects / abnormalities.

c)Monitors plant parameters, well testing activities, change charts and orifice size, takes 2 & 4 hourly readings and checks on meter skid, F. G. Scrubber, feed separator, inlet /outlet Separator glycol contractor, amine contactor, generators, instrument air compressors, water injection pumps etc. on tripping.

d)Carry-out normal shutdown/commissioning of all plant equipment installed at filed. Follow normal oil / gas plant start-up and shut - down operations in accordance with BPP HSE and operational procedures as directed by Senior Production Operators.

e)Checks for any malfunctions of equipment installed at plant like compressor & jet pumps, takes action accordingly. Includes isolating and shutting down individual plant equipment & generate work orders for corrective maintenance job in maximo software.

f)Carries out minor running repairs where possible according to standard safety & operating procedures.

g)Maintain quality control checks bottom sediment, water (BS&W), Calculates gas water contents and analyzes condensate sample for RVP, API, BS&W, PTB, and determines the volume correction factor.

h)Operates/Checks valves, lines and pumps/ compressors to meet operating requirements. Includes starting up and stabilizing degassing station, water injection units, main oil line pumps manifolds, flow/transfer lines, as appropriate

i)Participates in all maintenance and inspection activities. Prepares equipment for required job and place back on line upon completion. Includes de pressurizing/pressurizing, purging, isolating and releasing/ receiving wellhead equipment, transfer lines, trunk line flow lines, etc.

j)Participated in pre-commissioning/commissioning of new wells on various chokes and commissioned new early testing facilities.

k)Being an authorized gas tester check and monitors gas levels at various areas in the plant during maintenance activities. Attend maintenance work to ensure safe operations consistent with related Permit/ Certificate.

l)Prepared wells for inspection surveys, breakdown and planned maintenance. Includes isolating, spading and depressurizing the system.

m)Operated and closed various wells at wellhead. Changes and adjust production rates as instructed.

n)Operated and monitors process control system. Operates computerized flow analyzers in water injection system.

o)Prepared separators for testing wells and monitors flow pressure and temperature, prepares related data sheets and maintains test records record.

p)Starts stops and monitors chemical injection in central station, remote stations and water injection units. Maintains records of chemical injection rates as per desired PPM.

q)Re-charge chemical storage tanks. Keeps chemical stock and arranges for loading/ unloading of chemical.

r)Carried out many pigging jobs on various line & monitored pig launching & receiving activities

s)Monitored of up gradation jobs at Duphri ETF & suggested many changes like to simplify process for operation activities

t)Participated in the preparation/updating of operating procedures.

u)Look out sales tank level calculates dispatch requirements and bowser loading/ dispatching operations.

v)Calculates net oil and gas production rates and coordinates with Logistics Department to ensure the ethnicity of data pass to Logistics Engineer and verifies all logs, records and reports including previous 24 hours reports, challans, charts and logs. Forward the relevant documents to the Production Office.

w)Maintains stock of chemicals, diesel, potable water, first aid items, safety equipments, guides Operator - l. Conducts periodically visual checks of skimmer pit, day tank, diesel tank, fire water pond levels and chemical injection rates and records on a daily basis.

x)Competent in oil / gas plant emergency procedures and is able to use emergency shut - down procedures and is capable of using all safety equipments located on the gas plant.

y)Isolates and prepares vessels and equipment for maintenance in accordance with set safety and operational procedures of vessels.

z)Maintains high standards of house keeping on the gas plant.

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

  • Positive Displacement Pumps.
  • Secondary Recovery through Gas injection or hydraulic jet Pumps
  • Advanced Safety Audit.(ASA)
  • Operational Safety.

EDUCATION

  • Industry
  • In house Field Trainee Course
  • Production operator -I Course comprissies module like

a)Centrifuge Pumps

b)Positive Displacement Pumps

c)Compressors

d)Separators

e)Internal Combustion Engine

f)Belt Drives & couplings

g)Electric Motors& Generators

h)Transformers, Batteries and Batteries Chargers

i)Instrumentation

j)Storage Tanks Operation

k)Secondary Recovery

  • CMAS (Competency Measurement Assurance System)
  • Professionalcertificates /courses:
  • Permit to Work
  • Control Of Work
  • Hazard Recognition
  • First Aid to Injured
  • Basic Fire Fighting Training
  • HITRA (Hazard Identification Task Risk Assessment)
  • Routine Tank Inspection
  • OPITO ENDORSED CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY of H2S Hazard & Effects-International Advance (Level-II)
  • Academic
  • HSSC (Pre-Engineering) B Grade (12 years), B.I. S .E Hyderabad, Pakistan.
  • Matriculation Science, 1999, Badin,Pakistan.

LANGUAGES:

  • English(Fluent)
  • Urdu(Fluent)
  • Sindhi(Fluent)

COMPUTER LITERACY

  • Operating Systems: Windows98, XP,
  • Software worked:

a)MS office (MS-WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT)

b)Electronic Production & Dispatch system (ePODS)

c)Maximo (Work Request Generation for maintenance job)

d)MS outlook

REFERENCES

  • Available upon request.