LEAD Piping Engineer

CURRICULUM VITAE
LEAD PIPING ENGINEER

Personal Information

Name : Ahmed Salah Moubarak Mansour

Address : The Third Settlement -New Cairo City – Cairo, Egypt
Telephone : +2-02-7588203
Mobile : +966-55-457-3021
E-mail : ahsalahm@hotmail.com , asmansou@Bechtel.com
Nationality : Egyptian
Date of Birth : 29/11/1972
Place of Birth : GIZA, Egypt
Marital Status : Married
Military Service : Exempted

Education

University : Cairo
Faculty : Engineering
Graduate : B.Sc. in Mechanical Power Engineering-(July 1997)
General Appreciation : Very Good with Honor Degree (83.13 %)
Final Year Grade : Excellent
Rank : The Second
Graduate Project Topic : Fire Safety Science and Applications
Graduate Project Grade : Excellent

Memberships

Member of Egyptian Engineers Syndicate

Member of Egyptian Society for Mechanical Engineers (ESME)

Conferences Attended

7th Cairo University International Conference on Mechanical Design &

Production Engineering. February 15-17, 2000, Mena-House Oberoi
Hotel, Cairo, Egypt.

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General Experience summary

11 years of experience on Design of Pipeline & Piping systems for oil & gas and
Petrochemical industries on shore & off shore with the following fields of experiences:

I- Piping Design Experience

Complete design of piping general arrangement layouts, Piping isometrics, Supports

Details, Materials take off, Equipments location plans, plot plans, orientation drawings,
Tie-in Index & tie in packages.

Provide piping input to Process Piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), Line
designation table (LDT), Instrument specification sheets (ISS),

Preparing material take-off requirements and isometric drawings for construction using 3D
CADD (Computer Aided Design and Drafting) modeling software e.g. Intergraph’s PDS
(Plant Design System).

Preparing& checking of equipments orientation drawings for all types of petrochemical

equipments, Considering equipments spacing, accessibility, operation and maintenance
requirements.

Review all vendor documentations to assure the compliance with the design and technical
requirements.

II- Piping Technical Experience

Preparing and reviewing piping specifications in accordance with the company standards
and general codes (full awareness of Bechtel standards, ARAMCO standards, ENPPI
standards).

Preparing and reviewing valves datasheets, vendor technical specifications and bidders’
quotations.

Provide piping technical input to P&IDs including piping classes, valve types and special
items.

Preparing pipeline and piping safety instruction sheets with the required calculations for
pipe wall thickness, Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP), and test pressure

Preparing and reviewing Hot Tap calculations in accordance to ASME B31.3, ASME
section VIII div. 1

III- Plant Design System (PDS) Experience

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Highly experienced in using all PDS activities and modules including Equipment modeling,
Piping Designer, Isometric Extraction, Drawing Manager, Piping stress analysis, Piping
supports designer, piping design data manager and Project administrator.

Provide PDS administration activities including PMC and PCD files update in accordance
with the project specifications, Reference database (RDB) update, Isometric options setup
and material reporting.

Review the plant 3D model from design, accessibility, Maintainability and constructability
using Smart Plant Review software.

IV- Field Experience

Construction supervision on site activates for petrochemical and gas plants including:
Providing redesign solutions for the field Problems or changes (clashing mismatching lack
of material item)
Ensuring implementation and adherence to project specifications and procedures
Responsibility for monitoring piping construction and fabrication activities insuring quality
and taking necessary actions to maintain satisfactory standards
Preparing work packages with all design documentations and method statement for work
permits approval
Producing documentations required for field testing including hydrotest diagrams test
certificates mechanical completion certificates (MCC)
Witnessing all field tests including hydrotest (HT) dye Penetrante (PT) ultrasonic test (UT)
Reviewing all site work and prepare the punch list for the construction contractor

V- Other Experience includes:

Project Management, design management, staff mentor, engineering supervision, co-

ordination, materials procurement and inspection
Front End, conceptual and detailed design of offshore / onshore piping design and
construction, including LNG piping cryogenic piping, Jacketed Piping for sulfur plants.
Prepare complete piping modeling using PDS software and reviewing the plant design
using smart plant review software.

Highly experienced in using international regulations, codes and standards used in the
petroleum field (API, ASTM, MSS SP, TEMA, NFPA, ASME, ANSI, ISO, BS, NACE,
ISA, etc.)
High communication, presentation and coordination skills
Highly experienced in using Programs and software including PDS, Smart plant review,
Bentley navigator, AutoCAD, ORTHOGEN, MS office and MS Project planner

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Highly experienced in providing training courses for Piping design, piping technical and
Plant Design System (PDS),

Work Experiences

 Zuhiar Fayez Partnership company (ZFP)

Consultant for Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) (Decembery, 2006 –
present)

Position: Lead Piping Engineer & PDS group Supervisor

Projects:
1- Master gas system Upgrade Project: BI-10-00432 Gas Pipeline
EWYFG-1 20” pipeline for ARAMCO including valve stations,
pigging facilities and filtration stations.
2- Master gas system Upgrade Project: BI-10-00433 gas pipelines
UBTG-4 56” 192 KM pipeline, BJBFG-3 42” 7KM Pipeline, SRG-2
56” 56KM Pipeline for ARAMCO
3- “UTHMANIYAH & SHEDGUM Gas Plants- Sulfur Plant
Upgrade Project: BI-10-00057 & BI-10-00059 Detail design for 10
sulfur trains to upgrade the process from normal CLAUS process to
SUPERCLAUS process.
4- HAWTAH Stabilizer upgrade project: Detail design for upgrade
HAWTAH stabilizer plant from 100MBCD to 200MBCD of
ARAMCO Light crude including installation of a new O.H
compression area new equipments to produce NGL from OH gas
5- Crude pipeline to Ras Elzawar Project: BI-10-00227 20” 18 KM
crude pipeline for ARAMCO including pigging and metering
facilities.

Scope of work:
• Review the Piping Design documents (P&ID, Isometrics, GA’s, Tie-ins list, Supports
Details, orientation drawings and vendor drawings).
• Prepare the required Man-hour estimate for the project scope.

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• Review the piping activities and completion in accordance with schedule

requirements.
• Compilation of piping scope activities including MTO’s, drawings, and project
activity durations.
• Prioritized scope activities to most efficiently meet project schedule requirements.
• Ensuring implementation and adherence to project specifications and procedures.
• Responsibility for monitored piping designer’s quality and taking necessary actions to
maintain satisfactory standards.
• Continuously updated project drawings and documents to final As-built status.
• Ensuring implementation and adherence to project specifications and procedures.
• Setup the project specs, Catalogues and RDB for PDS 3D modeling
• Resolve RDB problems, for PDS
• Review the plant 3D model for all design, accessibility, Maintainability,
constructability using Smart Plant Review software.
• Preparing work Packages for construction activities and method of statements

 Bechtel Corporation London branch for KHORSANIYAH Gas plant Saudi

Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) (January, 2006 – November 2006) Recruited
from (ENPPI)

Position: Senior Piping Engineer & PDS group Supervisor

Scope of work:
• Review the Piping Design documents (P&ID, Isometrics, GA’s, Tie-ins list, Supports
Details, orientation drawings and vendor drawings).
• Review the piping activities and completion in accordance with schedule
requirements.
• Compilation of piping scope activities including MTO’s, drawings, and project
activity durations.
• Prioritized scope activities to most efficiently meet project schedule requirements.
• Ensuring implementation and adherence to project specifications and procedures.
• Responsibility for monitored piping designer’s quality and taking necessary actions to
maintain satisfactory standards.
• Ensuring implementation and adherence to project specifications and procedures.
• Review the plant 3D model for all design, accessibility, Maintainability,
constructability using Smart Plant Review software.

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 Rashid Petroleum Company (Rashpetco) & British Gas (BG) recruited from
Egyptian Maintenance company (EMC), Loaned from Engineering for the
Petroleum & Petrochemical Industries company (ENPPI)
(September, 2004 – December, 2005)

Position: Senior Piping Engineer & Technical Assistance

Scope of work:
• Review the Piping Design documents (P&ID, Isometrics, GA’s, Tie-ins list, Supports
Details, and MTO).
• Check the Material availability at site stock and the material replacements when
required.
• Review the piping activities and completion in accordance with schedule
requirements.
• Compilation of piping scope activity work packs including MTO’s, drawings, method
statements, sequences, manpower & equipment requirements and project activity
durations.
• Identify the piping materials deficiencies affecting in successful activity completion.
• Liaised closely with materials procurement group to specify and instigate local and
international piping materials purchases.
• Prioritized scope activities to most efficiently meet project schedule requirements.
• Arranged work permits as performing authority.
• Project the piping and Mechanical progress measurement and review of contractor
invoices in conjunction with site cost control department.
• Ensuring implementation and adherence to project specifications and procedures.
• Responsibility of monitoring the fabrication shop to insure the quality of piping
fabrications, welding, implementation of the required NDE, and Hydrostatic testing
in accordance with the codes and standards.
• Responsibility for monitored workmanship quality and taking necessary actions to
maintain satisfactory standards. This also included the preparation of punch lists and
associated rectification programs.
• Continuously updated project drawings and documents to final As-built status.

 Engineering for the Petroleum & Petrochemical Industries company (ENPPI)

(From April 1998 to September 2004)

Position: Starting from junior piping Engineer to Senior Piping Engineer &
assistance to lead Engineer.
Scope of work:

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Starting from preparing detail design piping drawings for construction using
AutoCAD, preparing manual MTO using P&ID and equipments arrangement till
doing the following activates:
• Assisting in man-hours estimate for new project within the proposal phase.
• Review the Piping Design documents (P&ID, Isometrics, GA’s, Tie-ins list, Supports
Details, and MTO).
• Preparing complete 3D Model For petrochemical plants Using PDS
• Review the piping activities and completion in accordance with schedule
requirements.
• Compilation of piping scope activities including MTO’s, drawings, and project
activity durations.
• Prioritized scope activities to most efficiently meet project schedule requirements.
• Ensuring implementation and adherence to project specifications and procedures.
• Responsibility for monitored piping designer’s quality and taking necessary actions to
maintain satisfactory standards.

Major oil and gas projects I participated in:

• MIDOR-Middle East Oil Refinery, one of the largest oil refineries in the Middle East.
1998
• MIDOR- Refinery off Fence Pipelines and Facilities. (1998)
• GASCO-Egypt's national gas producing company-project for NGL (Natural Gas
Liquids). (1998-1999)
• SABAN-JARNOF field development project in Syria. (1999)
• SAMSUNG (western desert) gas plant project. 1999
• GUPCO, HA'PY-west harbor gas treatment plant. (2000)
• OBAYED field development project. (2000)
• BAPETCO, OBAYED Pipeline, Epc. (2000)
• TEMSAH concession plant (on-shore and off-shore gas plant). 2000
• Scarab & Saffron gas development project (West Delta Deep Marine Concession).
• UGDC (United Gas Derivatives Company) for NGL (Natural Gas Liquids). 2001-
(2002)
• Egyptian LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) project (working in FEED & Detailed Phases
at Bechtel Head office, Houston, TX., USA). (2002-2004)
• ELAB (Egyptian Linear Alkyl Benzene) project (working in FEED& Detailed Phases
at Enppi) (2004)
• Scarab/Saffron & Rosetta plant Enhancement & Debottlenecking project (working
in Detailed Engineering Review & Construction Supervision With Rashid Petroleum
Company (RASHPETCO) through Egyptian Maintenance Company EMC (2004-
2005)

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• KHORSANIYAH Gas plant Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) with Bechtel
Corporation London branch (January, 2006- November 2006)
• Master gas system Upgrade Project (MGS): BI-10-00432 Gas Pipeline EWYFG-1
20” pipeline for ARAMCO, Via ZFP (December, 2006- March 2007)
• Master gas system Upgrade Project (MGS): BI-10-00433 gas pipelines UBTG-4 56”
192 KM pipeline, BJBFG-3 42” 7KM Pipeline, SRG-2 56” 56KM for ARAMCO, Via
ZFP (December, 2006- March 2007)
• “UTHMANIYAH” & “SHEDGUM” Gas Plants- Sulfur Plant Upgrade Project: BI-
10-00057 & BI-10-00059 Detail design for 10 sulfur trains to upgrade the process
from normal CLAUS process to SUPERCLAUS process for ARAMCO, Via CZFP
(March , 2007- Current)
• HAWTAH Stabilizer upgrade project: Detail design for upgrade HAWTAH stabilizer
plant from 100MBCD to 200MBCD of ARAMCO Light crude including installation
of a new O.H compression area new equipments to produce NGL from OH gas for
ARAMCO, Via CZFP (March , 2007- Current)
• Crude pipeline to” RAS ELZAWAR” Project: BI-10-00227 SKRZ-1 20” 18 KM crude
pipeline for ARAMCO including pigging and metering facilities. for ARAMCO, Via
CZFP (February , 2008- Current)

Main contractors of projects include:

SAMSUNG Engineering, BROWN &ROOT Ltd., TPL (TechniPetrol), AGIP, BECHTEL,

LG, J&P, IMAD

 Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University (August 1997 – March, 1998)

Position: Demonstrator

Scope of work:

Teaches the following courses:

• Turbo machines theory and design (at Cairo university faculty of engineering)
• Fundamentals of fluid mechanics (at Cairo university faculty of engineering)
• Mechanical engineering Labs (at Cairo university faculty of engineering)

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Training Experiences

Training at sites is included the construction phase, solving the erection problems and
making inspection on the site equipment/pipes/fittings for the following projects.

• GASCO-Egypt's national gas producing company-project for gas production

(Alexandria)
• CORC-Cairo Oil Refinery Company-for refining and producing petroleum
products (Cairo)
• SIDPEC-SIDI KERIR Oil Refinery & Petrochemical Industries Company
(Alexandria)
• KHALDA Petroleum Company; Oil and Gas Production (Western Desert –
Mattroh)
• GUPCO Gulf Petroleum Company; Oil and Gas Production (Eastern Desert –
The Red Sea)

Training Courses:

• Welding Technology & Inspection – By CMRDI (Central Metallurgical

Research and Development Institute)
• NDT (Non Destructive Test) – By CMRDI
• Liquid Penetrate Inspection - By CMRDI
• Magnetic-Particle Inspection – By CMRDI
• Ultrasonic Inspection – By CMRDI
• Radio graphic Inspection - By CMRDI
• PDS( PDS 3D theory, PD_Design, PD_Report, PD_Drawing Manager,
PD_Shell, pd_iso, pd_isogen, PD_Equip., PD_Project, PD Design_Review,
PD_Clash check, PD_Data, PD_Model, PD_ Spec Writing, Frameworks,
Smart plant review), and Microstation_V8 – By Enppi
• PDS OrthoGen- By 3DS
• Material Selection for Piping Engineers – By Enppi
• Materials Management, Warehousing Techniques and Inventory Control - By
AUC

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• Material Requirements Planning - By AUC

• English and Business Communication Courses - By British Counsel in Cairo

I gave the following training courses during my work experience:

• PDS (Plant design system) Equipment Modeling (at ENPPI &ZFP)

• PDS (Plant design system) Piping Modeling (at ENPPI &ZFP)
• PDS (Plant design system) Drawing Manager (at ENPPI )
• Microstation 2D & 3D (at Enppi)
• Piping design & drafting (at ENPPI & ZFP)
• Piping Technical course for piping components and materials selection (at ZFP)
• Smart plant Review Course (at ZFP)
• Welding technology & welding symbols (at corporation of petroleum)
• Construction and maintenance of pipelines(at corporation of petroleum)

Skills

Language Skills : Arabic (Mother Tongue)

English (Very Good)

Computer Skills : Programming (Very Good)

Using Packages (Very Good)

Programming: Q Basic, FORTRAN,

General software: Dos, Windows NT,
Windows2000, WinWord, Excel, PowerPoint,
Access,
Special Software: Auto-Cad 2006, Microstation V8,
Intergraph’s PDS (Plant Design System), CaesarΙΙ,
Auto-Plant, Pro-pipe, Pro-Iso, Design Review, Smart
Plant Review& Bentley Navigator

Typing Skills : Good (20 word/minute)

Communication Skills : Excellent
Presentation Skills : Excellent

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