Oil Processing Specialist

Saudi Aramco

Company: Saudi Aramco
Skills: Chemical Engineering
Experience: 20 + Years
Education: Bachelors/3-5 yr Degree
Location: Saudi Arabia

Position Description

We are seeking an Oil Processing Engineer to join the Upstream Process Engineering Division part of our Process and Control Systems Department.

The Upstream Process Engineering Division is responsible for providing process engineering expertise, support and consultation in the areas of Gas Processing, Oil and Flow Assurance Applications.

As an Oil Processing Engineer your primary role is to provide specific technical expertise as well as to support and consult in specific areas of Crude Oil Processing.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Provide technical support for Crude Oil processing operating plants. Troubleshoot major plant upsets and/or chronic operational problems and to identify improvement opportunities, potential problems, and remedies to existing problems.
• Provide technical lead in the evaluation of Crude Oil Processing and Water Treatment technologies to improve plant's performance.
• Develop plans and road maps for reviewing and incorporating new technologies including preliminary economics.
• Conduct simulations studies process simulation software such as Aspen HYSYS and utilize process models for new and existing facilities to conduct production capacity assessment and identify plant's bottlenecks.
• Prepare preliminary scope of work (including process schematic and equipment list) to debottleneck existing facilities or design new facilities.
• Coordinate the execution of capacity increase studies with operating facilities and detailed engineering design contractor and / or Vendors. This would involve setting the design basis and scope of work as require to ensure study is sufficiently comprehensive to satisfy objective.
• Create/Update Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards related to Crude Oil Processing.
• Support process design and engineering activities for new projects in conceptual, pre-FEED, FEED and Detailed Engineering phases.
• Mentor and develop young Saudi Arab Engineers.
• Develop new and/or deliver existing technical courses for engineers from operating facilities.
• Present technical papers in major international conferences and issue papers in reputable oil and gas journals.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you will hold a:

• A Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. A Masters or higher education is desirable, but not required.
• Minimum 20 years of experience working directly with Oil processing such as Gas / Liquid Gravity Separators, Liquid / Liquid Gravity Separators, Electrostatic Coalescers, Crude Stabilizers, Gas Compression Units, Primary and Secondary Water Treatment. With 3 years working with Crude Processing Facilities
• Membership of a recognized professional institute is preferred.
• Have adequate design experience in order to take a lead role as the company representative when working with engineering companies performing studies and design activities for Oil Processing projects.
• Expert in process simulation modelling such as Aspen Hysys.
• Experience with Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Analysis is preferred.