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Hi, I am Alen

Alen Alex Ninan

Flow Assurance Team lead at ExxonMobil.

I am a passionate Flow Assurance Engineer with 10 years of working experience. I have led Flow Assurance activities and studies for greenfield and brownfield projects, deep water and onshore projects, helping the team with finalizing concepts, understanding FA risks and challenges. I have been lead for various emergency response teams, helping with resolving unplanned shutdown and plant upsets caused by flow assurance concerns. I have come up with various surveillance strategies and tools, helping the operating assets easily monitor FA parameters, improving reliability and minimizing Flow Assurance concerns. I am currently the Team Lead for Flow Assurance team in ExxonMobil leading the resource planning, and scoping of various FA activities being executed. Furthermore, I am also tasked with leading mentoring, training and capability improvement of team members.

Leadership
Team Work
Hard Working
Learning
Mentoring
Courage of conviction

Skills

OLGA
OLGA

The OLGA dynamic multiphase flow simulator models time-dependent behaviour, or transient flow, to maximise production potential.
PIPESIM
PIPESIM

The PIPESIM simulator offers the industry’s most comprehensive steady-state flow assurance workflows for front-end system design and production operations.
Multiflash
Multiflash

Multiflash is an advanced software package for performing complex equilibrium calculations quickly and reliably. The main utility is a multiple phase equilibrium algorithm that is interfaced to Infochem’s package of thermodynamic models and a number of physical property data banks.
PVTsim
PVTsim

PVTsim takes you all the way from fluid sample to design and process planning. You can quality check your fluid compositions, develop EoS models, handle water, evaluate the risk of solids precipitation and generate input to more than 30 different external simulators including some of the most widely used reservoir, process and flow simulators.
PIPENET Transient Module
PIPENET Transient Module

PIPENET Transient Module is widely used for surge analysis, water hammer and steam hammer analysis of cooling water systems, fire water systems, hydrocarbon loading and unloading systems.
AFT Impulse
AFT Impulse

powerful dynamic simulation and analysis software used to calculate pressure surge transients in liquid piping systems caused by waterhammer.
Emacs
Emacs

At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing
JMP
JMP

JMP is the data analysis tool of choice for hundreds of thousands of scientists, engineers and other data explorers worldwide.
Linux
Linux

Using as the main operating system. Capable of writing bash/shell scripts.
Git
Git

Experienced with git-based development. Mostly, use Github. Also, have experience in working with GitLab.
Python
Python

Know basic python programming. Used for Flow Assurance automation and data processing. Used for scripting in PIPESIM and OLGA SDK and surveillance automation in SEEQ for surveillance.
Seeq
Seeq

Seeq is the first application dedicated to process data analytics. Search your data, add context, cleanse, model, find patterns, establish boundaries, monitor assets, collaborate in real-time, and interact with time-series data like never before.

Experiences

1
ExxonMobil.

June 2017 - Present, Bengalurur, India

One of the largest publicly traded energy providers and chemical manufacturers, develops and applies next-generation technologies to help safety abd responsibly Meet the world’s growing needs for energy and high quality chemical products.

Flow Assurance Team Lead

February 2022 - Present

  • Flow Assurance lead for Greenfield & Brownfield projects.
  • Understand and define scope for various FA activities.
  • Plan and schedule execution of various FA scopes.
  • QA and review team deliverables.
  • Plan and aid development of team capabilities.
  • Mentoring and training of new recruits and expereienced engineers.
  • Participate in HAZOP, risk assesment and pigging on paper workshops.
  • Surveillance planing and execution.
  • Pigging planning and execution.
  • Initial plant start-up and restart.
  • Support and lead emenrgency reposne for operational upsets caused by FA concerns.
Flow Assurance Engineer.

June 2017 - Januray 2022

  • Flow Assurance lead for greenfield and brownfield projects.
  • Independant contributor to various projects.
  • FA lead for deep water field development.
  • FA lead for gas condensate field development.
  • Concept select, pre-FEED, FEED FA assesment.
  • Understand system hydraulcis and constraints.
  • Understand Asphaltene risk and deposition concern.
  • Define hydrate management strategy and troubleshoot hydrate concerns.
  • Wax deposition risk assesment
  • Pressure surge analysis for single phase liquid systems.
  • Water injection system hydraulic assesment.
  • WAG change over and hydrate management.
  • Gas injection hydraulics.
  • Napthanate risk assesment.
  • Scale depostion assesment and management.
  • Managing sand deposition and erosion concerns.
  • Liquid management.
  • Pigging qualification and testing.
  • Pigging planning and surveillance.
  • Production optimization and planning.
  • Well testing and planning.
  • Mentoring and training new recruits.
  • Develop surveillance platforms and automations.
  • Develop custom tools for FA surveillance and risk management.
Wood.

December 2014 - July 2017, Chennai, India

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering across Energy and the Built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges.

Flow Assurance Engineer.

June 2015 - July 2017

  • Fluid characterization using PVTsim Nova.
  • Preparation of OLGA model for complex networks.
  • Steady state and Transient analysis of multiphase systems.
  • Estimating slugging potential of pipeline.
  • Pressure surge using PIPENET for water and liquid systems.
  • Develoiping Hydarte management startegies for projects.
  • Developing operational philospohies for pipeline system.
  • Developing OTS for Paradeep refinery Praxair plant.
Process Engineer.

December 2014 - June 2015

  • Preparation of Process design basis.
  • Pipeline hydraulic review.
  • Preparation of P&ID and PFD’s
  • Preparation of equipment lists and line list
  • Preparation of datasheets
  • Pressure surge analysis of liquid pipelines
  • Pigging logic and interlock design
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3
Haldia Petrochemicals Limited.

October 2012 - January 2015, Haldia, India

Modern naphtha based petrochemical complex located 125 km from Kolkata, at Haldia, West Bengal, India. HPL is a leading supplier of quality products and services.

Assistant Manager - Manufacturing.

October 2013 - January 2015

  • Panel operation of Naphtha Furnaces (8 Naphtha feed and 1 Recycle feed furnace)
  • Handled emergencies such as furnace tube rupture, boiler feed water valve failure, Furnace induced fan shaft sheer, charge gas compressor trip
  • Coordinated plant maintenance activities, coordinate furnace and tower vessel entry and hotjobs.
  • Reviewed processes, identifying areas that required improvement.
  • Interfaced with area teams to verify application of technical details.
  • Met weekly with team members to discuss improvement and alleviate any issues.
  • Created process simulations to test operational outcomes without causing service disruptions.
  • Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete activities on time.
Intern.

October 2012 - October 2013

  • Field Engineer for Furnace area.
  • Coordinate maintenance activities.
  • Coordinate daily field surveillance.
  • Coordinate critical field operation.

Education
National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode
2008-2012
B.Tech in Chemical Engineering
CGPA: 7.1 out of 10
Rajagiri Public School, Kalamassery, Cochin
2010-2012
Higher Secondary School Certificate
Percentage: 90 out of 100

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