MUHAMMAD ZAHID ALVI
7-Landseer Close
London, SW19 2UT
(Mobile) +44 (0)7949822070 (Home) +44 (0)2087156850
zahidalvi@gmail.com
OVERVIEW:
A highly motivated Senior Engineer with over 10 years of experience in Pipelines, Mechanical and Project Management, and a proven track record of successfully delivery on several projects.
Results orientated, dedicated with effective planning, organisational skills and major expertise in execution and accomplishment of project plans to ensure targets and objectives are achieved.
Worked for Projects at PMC, Concept, FEED, Detail Design & Construction stages. Some of the major clients worked with: KOC, Saudi Aramco, ADCO, Takreer, BSOG etc. Now seeking to enhance and progress career further with a challenging position within a progressive organisation and environment.
EDUCATION:
MSc Pipeline Engineering: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne UK 2005
BSc Mechanical Engineering: Al-Khair University, of Engineering & Technology, AJK Pakistan 2002
Advanced Diploma Project Management Oxford Study Centre UK
SKILLS SUMMARY:
• Pipeline Engineering
• Project Management
• Clients & Contractors Relations
• Results Oriented
• Adhering to codes & standards
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mentoring & Training Graduate Engineers
• Planning & Implementation
• Communication Skills
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
• Interacted with key client base to determine functional requirements & deliverables
• Identification of problems & issues with prompt resolution & efficiency measures
• Identified areas for improvement, creating action plans & implementation plans
• Ensured all documentation met the quality control and document control procedures
• Consistently worked to high quality standards to ensure all safety aspects considered
CAREER HISTORY:
Nov 2018- Ongoing
Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants Ltd UK
Currently Working as a Senior Pipeline Engineer. The main projects include:
• JLO Export Facilities and Upgrading of Existing Export Network- KOC – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Responsible for pipeline engineering activities including Pipeline Route selections studies, Route selection report, producing engineering specifications, Philosophies, Data sheets, performing design calculations. Checking, reviewing pipeline route maps and pipeline alignment sheets, reviewing and incorporating Client comments. Liaising and incorporating with in house other project teams. Work executed at FEED level. Ultimate Client is KOC (Kuwait Oil Company).
• Midia Gas Field Development Project – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Black Sea oil and Gas (BSOG) is developing Midia Gas Field, detailed design project where Genesis executing PMC responsibilities for work executed by COMPROIECT-92.
Overall PMC responsibilities to check, review and comments detailed design deliverables produced for onshore pipeline of 16’’ diameter and approx. 4.5 km long. Responsible for Liaising and interacting with PMC team, weekly meeting raising CRS on Pipeline Deliverables. Ultimate Client is Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG).
July 2017- October 2018
Wood-Amec Foster Wheeler Reading – UK
Worked as a Senior Pipeline Engineer and work undertaken to date includes, Onshore Pipelines FEED. Ultimate and major clients worked with were Saudi Aramco and Takreer UAE.
The major Projects include:
• JAUFURAH FIELD DEVELOPMENT – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Worked as a Senior Pipeline Engineer on Jafurah Field Development project. Work executed at FEED level. Flowlines and trunklines transfer the well fluid from the well pads to grassroots Gas Compression Plants (GCPs). Transmission pipelines transfer the separated well fluid and gas from the GCPs to the JFGP.
Responsible for pipeline engineering activities including Pipeline Route selections studies, Route selection report, Pipeline crossing report, producing engineering specifications, Data sheets, performing design calculations. Liaising and incorporating with Topographic and Geotechnical teams, checking, reviewing pipeline route maps and pipeline alignment sheets. Liaising and incorporating with in house other project teams. Ultimate Client is Saudi Aramco.
• MARJAN FIELD DEVELOPMENT – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Worked as a Senior Pipeline Engineer on Marjan Field Development project. Work executed at FEED level. Responsible for pipeline engineering activities including Pipeline Route selections studies, Route selection report, Pipeline crossing report, producing engineering specifications, Philosophies, Data sheets, performing design calculations. Liaising and incorporating with Topographic and Geotechnical teams, checking, reviewing pipeline route maps and pipeline alignment sheets. Liaising and incorporating with in house other project teams. Ultimate Client is Saudi Aramco.
• TAKREER-Gasoline and Aromatics Project – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Worked as a Senior Pipeline Engineer, Gasoline and Aromatic project require increasing gasoline demand growth whilst meeting product specifications. Project major locations include Ruwais Refinery East (RRE) and Ruwais Refinery West (RRW). Work executed at FEED level. Responsible for Liaising and interacting with PMC team. Responsible for all pipeline engineering activities including Pipeline Route selections, Route selection report, Pipeline Design basis, liaise and incorporating with Topographic and Geotechnical teams, performing design calculations, and overseeing drawing production. The ultimate client is TAKREER UAE.
Dec 2011 to June 2015: Senior Pipeline Engineer
PETROFAC/KW Woking UK
Worked as a Senior Pipeline Engineer and work undertaken to date includes, Onshore, Subsea, Pipelines FEED, and Detailed Design. The major Project includes.
• TCO KLPE Dry Gas Project – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Worked as a Senior Pipeline Engineer responsible for the FEED design of hot tap tie-in connections on a high pressure, large diameter gas pipeline and extension of existing block valve station. FEED development to include custody transfer meters and associated AGI facilities as part of the KLPE Dry Gas project to supply gas from the main GEEP pipeline to a new lean gas producing facility (gas separation unit) in Tengiz, Kazakhstan.
• ADCO BAB FEED – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Worked as a Senior Pipeline Engineer for the above project which consists of drill and well pads with the corresponding transfer and export line infrastructure for the Bab field in Abu Dhabi UAE. Work executed at FEED level, and work executed in according with Shell DEP’s and ADCO standards. Responsible for Liaising and interacting with PMC team. Responsible for all pipeline engineering activities including writing specifications, Philosophies, Design basis, Crossings report, Data sheets, Design reports, performing design calculations, and overseeing drawing production. The ultimate client is ADCO UAE.
• FPF1-Greater Stella Area Development UK – Subsea Pipeline Engineer
The FPF1 will be located approximately 1.8 km south east of the Stella Main Drill Centre. The Stella fields will be tied back to the FPF1 via subsea manifolds. The work executed at Detail Design level, responsible for writing specifications, Philosophies, Data Sheets, Design reports, Material requisitions using (VPRM), reviewed vendors submitted documents for metallurgical and QA/QC aspects. Responsible reviewing vendor’s bids documents and produced Technical Bid Evaluation (TBE’s) and Technical Queries (TQ’s) for linepipe and Carbons Steel Flanges. To identify problems & issues with prompt resolution & efficiency measures. Ensured all documents met the quality control and document control procedures. The ultimate Client is Ithaca Energy.
• Nawara Field Development Project Tunisia – Senior Pipeline Engineer
The gas will be exported to a tie-in point to the joint South Tunisian Gas Project (STGP) facilities from where it will be transported via a 320-km gas pipeline to Gabes. The work executed at FEED level, responsible for writing specifications, wall thickness calculations, road crossing calculation, producing pipeline mechanical design report using Tunisian and ASME standards
• In Salah Gas Southern Field Development Project Algeria – Senior Pipeline Engineer
Engineering support contract for In Amenas and In Salah gas fields. Responsible for producing Pipeline equipment specifications, Valve Installation Philosophy, Data Sheets, providing Procurement Management Support, Reviewing Vendor Documents, participated in house Auto Pipe software training. Ultimate Client is In Salah Gas JV.
Sep 2006 to Oct 2011
Onshore PIPELINE ENGINEER: PENSPEN Limited UK
Work undertaken includes pipelines consultation and evaluation to major client’s national and international level, including Onshore Conceptual, FEED and Detailed Design of Pipelines for oil and gas. The major projects worked on both with Penspen Limited UK and Penspen International offices Abu-Dhabi UAE includes:
Project: Penspen International Abu-Dhabi UAE
• ADCOP – Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline Project –Pipeline Engineer
Seconded to Penspen International Offices Abu Dhabi for a year from 2008-2009, to work on ADCOP Project. The work executed at Onshore Detail Design level.
Worked with Leads, senior pipeline engineers, and was responsible for working in Detail Design phase, including Pipeline route walk surveys in Habshan and Fujairah areas. Liaise and coordinating with 3rd party services providers, obtaining and reviewing No Objection Certificates (NOCs).
Co coordinating and reviewing Topographical survey details, producing crossing details, helped producing and reviewing pipeline alignment sheets, site survey meetings and survey reports. Responsible reviewing pipeline re-route options using appropriate programmes.
Responsible for Liaising and interacting with PMC team. I was also responsible for site visits and coordinating with Geotechnical contractors and reviewing bore holes and trial pits locations where appropriate.
Responsible writing specifications includes pipeline construction, topographical, hydrostatic testing specification, Philosophies, pipeline route selection studies, site surveys reports. Responsible for reviewing vendor’s bids and produced Technical Bid Evaluation (TBE’s) and raising Technical Queries (TQ’s) where required.
Co-ordination and control of all pipeline discipline including in house and on-site meetings with client and contractors.
Projects: Penspen Limited UK
• West Burton Gas Pipeline UK –Pipeline Engineer
The Onshore detail design & Construction project of a 24’’, 19 km cross country pipeline connecting a new CCGT Power Station to the National Grid Network UK.
Responsible and assistance to site visit and route walk survey, liaise with 3rd party service providers along the proposed pipeline route, responsible and coordinating with Geotechnical contractors and reviewing bore holes and trial pits locating where appropriate. Responsible producing wall thickness calculations, road crossing calculations, preparing crossing details, writing specifications, philosophies, data sheets. Responsible and assistance to procurement and construction supervision, helping to produce and reviewing pipeline alignment sheets. Responsible reviewing vendor’s bids documents and produced Technical Bid Evaluation (TBE’s) and Technical Queries (TQ’s). The ultimate client is EDF Energy (UK).
• Portland Gas and Brine Pipeline Project UK –Pipeline Engineer
The work executed at FEED level, responsible for raising CTR’s with lead engineer, wall thickness calculations, pipeline material specifications, pipeline construction, hydrostatic testing specification, Site Visits, preparing pipeline crossing details, and road crossing calculations. Responsible reviewing vendor documents and raising TQ’s coordinate all other engineering disciplines, including local staff. The ultimate client is Portland Gas UK.
• BP Dimlington Onshore Compression Terminal Integration Project (OCTIP) UK –Pipeline Engineer
Responsible for pipeline route study, site visits, responsible producing wall thickness calculations, pipeline construction and hydrostatic testing specifications, Data sheet. Producing CTR’s for 30-inch Amethyst and West Sole onshore gas pipeline to be installed within Centrica Easington Terminal to BP Dimlington Terminal. The ultimate client is BP.
• South - East Europe Regional Gasification Study UK – Pipeline Engineer
A study base project, responsible for examining the sources of gas supply from Russia, the Caspian region and other producer countries through Turkey and transit routes, showing transmission maps, key imports and exports points in South East Europe Region by using GIE (Gas Infrastructure Europe) and GSE (Gas Storage Europe) maps.PROFESSIONAL:
• Associate Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers UK (AMIMechE)
• Working towards Chartedship (CEng)
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING:
• Pipeline Defect Assessment Course, Penspen Integrity Newcastle UK
• Offshore Pipeline Engineering Course, Penspen Limited London
• An Introduction to Offshore & Subsea Valves arranged by Energy Institute London
• Project Management Course, Penspen Limited London
• ISO 9001 Internal Auditor Training Course, Penspen Limited London
• Managing Client Relationship, Penpen Limited London
• Project Management Overview Training Course, Penspen Limited London
• Maximising Commercial Opportunities, Penspen Limited London
• Introductory Training for Auto Pipe, Petrofac Woking London
• Optimising Personal Performance & Time Management organised by IMechE at Petrofac Woking London
• VANTAGE Project Resource Management (VPRM), Petrofac Woking London
• Global Performance Management Training, Petrofac Woking London
PERSONAL:
• Languages: English, Urdu, Punjabi & Arabic (Reading & Writing Only)
• Nationality: British
• References available on request
MUHAMMAD ZAHID ALVI