Process and Flow Assurance Engineer Specialist

Job description / Role

Job purpose

Provide subject matter expertise (SME) in process and flow assurance engineering to operations and other departments, including major projects to address technically complex and long-term process and flow assurance issues.

Job context & major challenge(s)

Operates in a technical environment with interface with multiple internal and external stakeholders (onshore and offshore operation, engineering, subsurface, offshore pipeline operations, pipeline integrity engineering, corrosion engineering, production planning, etc).

Required to independently undertake multi-disciplinary tasks while providing expertise in specialised areas like offshore and flow assurance to support operation surveillance, shutdown planning, pipeline pigging, and chemical management.

Key job accountabilities - I

• Ensure day-to-day process surveillance activities in compliance with QGMS ASV L3 process "Perform Plant Facilities Surveillance" for all QG offshore assets to ensure safe, reliable and optimum production.
• Prepare and issue surveillance reports and recommendations, troubleshooting, and timely escalation of threats and deviations from surveillance monitoring activities.
• Ensure hydrate management and flow assurance support related to multiphase flow dynamics during pigging activities, planned/unplanned shutdown, and ramp-up/ramp-down for all the pipelines to avoid detrimental effects at receiving facilities.
• Examine and monitor the systems and processes efficiencies to help improve asset performance and provide advanced and long-term engineering solutions in compliance with the existing procedures and operating manuals.
• Ensure process engineering and flow assurance support to EMOCs, other process engineering studies for the assigned area and conduct the assigned EMOCs and AIR.
• Participate and contribute in FRAs, RCFAs, RS, HAZOPs, HAZID, SIL and other assessments to address process safety and reliability issues.
• Provide shutdown support to respective asset, including shutdown scoping and planning for process-related activities.
• Provide flow assurance support on pipeline operation, pipeline chemical management, and pipeline integrity.

Key job accountabilities - II

• Act as administrator for HMS procedures, pipeline operating manuals, and pipeline management system (PMS) to ensure availability of adequate tools for tasks related to flow assurance activities.
• Participate and provide input in regular operations meetings (e.g., daily operations meetings, ALT meetings, SHE committee meetings, etc.) to address operations inquiries requiring process and flow assurance engineering support.
• Conduct regular communication with process and flow assurance engineering lead to provide updates and highlight the key issues to ensure proper management support.
• Review and provide preliminary analysis and design to process and flow assurance engineering project queries, including major projects.
• Review project interface agreements to ensure that existing operations and facilities are not adversely impacted due to brownfield modifications.
• Review and prepare the annual business plan assumptions data for corporate planning department in compliance with annual business plan assumptions procedure and submit the required data in a timely manner.

Qualifications

Bachelor's of Science degree in engineering.

Knowledge and/or experience

• Eight years' experience in an oil and gas environment (preferably offshore process).
• Possess pipelines flow assurance working experience with knowledge on offshore pipelines corrosion, failure mechanisms and corrosion controls.
• Good knowledge of industry analysis tools and software (PIPESIM, OLGA, HYSYS, PVTSIM, etc.).
• Attain and maintain competence level in accordance with the technical competence framework requirements.