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Typical Instrumentation & Electrical Projects

• Panel Fabrication Including Control Systems
  
• Loop Function Testing
  
• System Grounding & Checkout
  
• Technical Audits
  
• Commissioning
  
• Field Installation & Supervision
  
• Walk-downs & As-Builts
  
• Documentation
  
• Sub-Station Rebuilds & Maintenance
  
• Switchgear Maintenance
  
• Compliance Auditing and Consulting For 21 CFR Part 11,
• OSHA 1910, and ISO Regulations

• Working for the Director of Global Commissioning
• Managing a team to develop Standardized Loop Function Testing Procedures for Global Offshore projects (FPSO)
• Participate in Consultant and Contractor Brainstorming Sessions for reducing Cost and Schedule for Commissioning
• Brainstorming sessions and consultancy advice on process control and safety system selections

• Full multi-discipline EPC scope for DCS, Control Room, Rack Rooms, and Instrumentation Infrastructure replacement for the East Refinery
• Engineering Management of project design, Procurement, and Construction
• Managed multiple contracts and contractors over multiple years
• EPC Scope included I&C, Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, Architectural, and Civil

• Working as the owner representative
• Managing a team to document an obsolete control system and install and program and new system interface for operator and engineering control
• Provided control system bid analysis and recommendations
• Provided engineering estimate reviews and technical advice

• H-Oil Reactor Cutbacks And Depressurization Temperature Surveillance And Reactor Catalyst Bed Level Control
• Full EPC scope for Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management, and Commissioning and Startup
• Design of Reactor Controls System
• Replaced entire DCS and instrumentation systems associated with H-Oil reactors

• Contracted by Fluor to provide design, implementation, and construction support for the Safety Shutdown System
• Triconex Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) technology

• Contracted by BA Energy to provide cold eyes reviews on design and process
• Provided I&C consulting reviews and FEED reviews

• Engineering Management of I/C design and process development staff which included detail design for LC-Finer Reactor Controls, Catalyst Bed Level Controls, and Temperature Surveillance systems.
• Lead responsibility for P&ID initial estimate phase of project
• Lead responsibility for P&ID detailed design development, FEED, HAZOPS, & IFC issue
• Detailed Design from inception to IFC phase including SIL reviews for A&V, RHC, SRU, and Hydrogen Plant.

• Engineering Management of I/C project task force
• Project Engineering Lead for Instrumentation and Controls Projects
• Console Replacements of Control system

• Engineering Management of I/C project task force
• FEED Development, Site Integration Analysis
• Managed site personnel for startup and commissioning
• Project Engineering Lead for Instrumentation and Controls Projects

The Athabasca Oil Sands Project is a joint venture of Shell Canada Limited (60 per cent), Chevron Canada Limited (20 per cent) and Western Oil Sands L.P. (20 per cent). The AOSP has been one of the world's largest construction projects in recent years. The project has ramped up to full production of 155,000 barrels per day of bitumen, it will supply the equivalent of 10 per cent of Canada's oil needs. Renaissance provides heavy oil process expertise in the form of project engineering & process controls engineering services for the Scotford Heavy Oil Upgrader Project. Renaissance established a core Instrumentation and Controls Team for:

• Process Control Dry Run - A comprehensive audit of the complex control schemes for the Residue Hydro-Conversion Area
• Project Engineering for advanced control systems and instrumentation
  Reactor Cutback Controls
  Heavy Oil and Hydrogen Heater Controls
  LC Finer Controls
  Burner Management Controls
  HydroCracker Controls
• Construction Completion and Turnover Teams
• DCS systems engineering
• FAT and SAT services
• Loop Function Testing
• As-Built Documentation
• Detail Design
• Implementation
• Construction Work Packages

The Athabasca Oil Sands Project is a joint venture of Shell Canada Limited (60 per cent), Chevron Canada Limited (20 per cent) and Western Oil Sands L.P. (20 per cent). The AOSP has been one of the world's largest construction projects in recent years. The project has ramped up to full production of 155,000 barrels per day of bitumen, it will supply the equivalent of 10 per cent of Canada's oil needs. Renaissance provides heavy oil process expertise in the form of process controls engineering and control systems services for the Muskeg River Mine Project.

• DCS systems engineering
  
• FAT services
  
  

Project Engineering & Construction Management Services for the Egyptian Electric Authority and Honeywell Control System Upgrade Project. 220kV Power Plant consists of 4 major units. Project scope is to convert all board mounted instrumentation to Honeywell Control using TPS HPM’s, Serial & Remote I/O, and GUS Station’s. Management and Responsibility for:

• Management and Responsibility for all aspects of field construction for a multi-discipline upgrade project.
• Contract Management And Compliance Management (USAID)
• Establishing Budgets, Schedules, And Manpower Loading
• Senior Management Summaries And Presentations
• Customs Clearance and Shipment Management between USA and Egypt
• Liaison with Ministerial Offices and Egyptian Government Authorities
• Site Facilities Design and Construction Management
• Field Engineering, As-Built Documentation, Validation, Detail Design, Configuration, Construction & Engineering Bid Packages
• Fiber Optic Network For DCS And Third Party Vendor Systems Such As GE Mark V And Bently Nevada
• Liaison With Consultants And Egyptian Electric Authority
• Project Scope: To Convert All Board Mounted Instrumentation To Honeywell Control Using TPS HPM’s, Serial & Remote I/O, And Global User Station’s. Additionally Upgrade All Electrical, Mechanical, Instrumentation, HVAC, Civil, And Ancillary Systems. The Power Station Consists Of Four Foster-Wheeler (USA) Steam Boiler And GE (USA) Steam Turbine Generators, Two Auxiliary Boilers, And One Combustion Turbine.
• The Units Are Mazout Oil and Natural Gas Burning, Rear Wall-Fired, Balanced Draft, Natural Circulation Drum Type Boilers. There Are Four Elevations Of Two Light Oil Igniters, Heavy Oil Burners, Natural Gas Burners, And One Elevation Of Light Oil Warm-Up Guns. Each Unit Has Two FD & ID Fans, Steam Coil Air Preheaters, Regenerative Air Heaters, Three Motor Driven Boiler Feed Pumps With Rigid Couplings, Two Circulating Water Pumps, Two Condensate Pumps, Six Feedwater Heaters (2 HP, 3 LP, And The DA), Superheat And Reheat Sprays. There Is One Stack Per Unit.
• Issued Lump Sum Turn Key (LSTK) Construction Bid Packages And Negotiated Foreign Contracts
• Responsibility For Constructing The Total Plant Integrated DCS/DAS, Instrumentation And High Pressure Control Valves, Turbine Controls, Electrical Systems, And Facilities Upgrades.
• Responsibility For Demolition Of Existing Plant Instruments And Controls And For Installation Of All New Plant Instrumentation And Systems, Including ASME Code Welding For Steam Drum And Piping Systems.
• Typical Third Party Instrumentation Design And Construction For Copes Vulcan High Pressure Turbine Bypass Valves, Opacity Analyzers, Oxygen Analyzers, CO Analyzers, Radar Level Gages, Pressure And Flow Transmitters, Steam Drum Level Gages, GPS Time Synchronization, Gas Chromatograph, Bently Nevada Vibration Equipment, Forney Scanners, Drive Amplifiers And Contactors, And Furnace Cameras.

Project Engineering & Construction Management Services for the Blue Island Control System Upgrade Project. Refinery consists of 6 major areas with multiple units such as Isomax (HydroCracker), Alkylation, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, Sour Water Stripper, Crude, Vacuum, Sulphur Recovery, Unifiners, Platformers, Naphthalene Reduction, Saturated Gas, and Flare. Project scope is to convert all board mounted instrumentation to Honeywell Control using TPS HPM’s, Serial & Remote I/O, and GUS Station’s. Management and Responsibility for:

• Engineering, Design, and Construction staff
• Engineering Design Standards
• Establishing Budgets, Schedules, and Manpower loading
• Senior Refinery Management Summaries and Presentations
• As-Built Documentation, Validation and Walkdowns, Detail Design, Configuration, Construction & Engineering Bid Packages
• Designed Fiber Optic Network for DCS, Information Systems, Emergency S/D’s, and Square D Power Logic monitoring system P&ID development
• Advanced graphics development
• Detailed instrument index development and related process specifications
• Loop and electrical design
• Engineered drawings
• Liaison with client and plant operations
• Design layout and installation, I/O loading, configuration, and programming of the DCS
• Coordinated efforts of several separate design companies and field personnel.
• Issued Lump Sum Turn Key (LSTK) construction bid packages
• Developed DCS Graphics and DCS point configuration guidelines and NCF database specifications
• Supervised Hot cut over checkout and sequencing
• Provide hot cut over start up support
• Bid Analysis, Preliminary Design, and selection of DCS vendors (Foxboro, Honeywell)
• Prepare DCS for implementing Advanced Control using Honeywell’s PHD Historian

Responsible for contract management and deliverables to client. This included but is not limited to detailed design, supervision, programming, training, and commissioning of a retrofit project for Hess Oil’s Seminole Gas Plant. Project scope was replacing an antiquated Foxboro Spectrum System with the latest Honeywell TDC-3000 Advanced Process Manager’s, Logic Manager’s, Serial & Remote I/O, Universal Station’s, and Unix Stations in an existing and operating Gas Plant. The was a joint venture project operated by Hess Oil with several major partners such as Mobil, Marathon, Texaco, and Exxon.

• Implemented a unique approach to this project which in turn saved our client nearly 50% in engineering costs as compared to competitive quotes. There were also several obstacles which are normal for an older plant that were overcome during the course of this project using advanced software techniques.
• There were no as-built wiring drawings for the plant and the only document that could be used to generate the basic design package was the Foxboro printed I/O list. Using this list and our trademarked Renaissance Technologies and technical capabilities, we were able to pre-generate skeleton loop drawings, termination panels, wiring, and I/O schedules that could be as-built verified in approximately 10% of the time it would take to normally as-built these plant documents. Utilizing existing plant resources such as maintenance personnel to verify our findings proved successful and efficient. Within weeks the plant was as-built to the point were detailed design engineering could begin.
• Document, Validate, Design, configure and engineer a Foxboro to TDC-3000 Advanced Process Manager project.
• Implemented the project as a lump sum design package
• Developed over 3000 loop drawings
• Created a detailed instrument index and related specification sheets for the entire facility
• Designed custom engineered drawing templates
• Configured and programmed the TDC-3000 Universal stations, APM’s and LM’s
• Developed and configured advanced graphics based on P&IDs and walk downs
• Developed concept loop drawings and major packaged equipment
• Managed and supervised engineers and designers in office and at site
• Liaison with client and plant operators
• Responsibility for design layout and installation, I/O loading, configuration, and programming of the TDC-3000 for approximately 3000 instrument tags and associated packaged equipment.

Honeywell & Modicon Control System for Catalyst Preparation, Compounding & Transfer Systems.

• Relocation of TDC Equipment, Demolition of Forney equipment.
• Pre-terminate and construct I/O Panels.
• Demolish existing Panels & Controls.
• Install New panels, Loop Check Function Check, Start-Up of each systems.
• 9000 I/O Points
• Revamp Control Room & Consoles.
• Install and Commission new Honeywell and Modicon equipment
• Install New Grounding and UPS Systems.