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Felipe Borges

Hacienda Heights

Summary

Dedicated Fixed Equipment Integrity Engineer with 5+ years hands-on experience with piping, storage tank, and pressure vessel. Knowledge in all levels of testing, including performance, reliability, integrity, integration, supervision, and safety standards.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Asset Integrity Engineer

Team Inc
08.2023 - Current
  • Conducted Equipment Fitness for Service (FFS) Analysis for various industrial assets to assess their fitness for continued operation.
  • Led and executed Storage Tank Engineering projects, including tank strapping analysis, settlement assessments, shell plumbness, and roundness evaluations, ensuring structural integrity and safety of storage tanks.
  • Provided expert support on Inspection Data Management System (IDMS) projects, optimizing data collection, storage, and analysis processes to enhance asset reliability and performance.

Pipeline Integrity Engineer

TSG (The Select Group) / SoCalGas
06.2022 - 08.2023
  • Working as a contractor for SoCalGas in the High Pressure Pipeline Integrity Department
  • Elaborated ILI Feasibility Analysis
  • Participated in all 4 stages of ECDA process (Pre-Assessment, Indirect Inspection, Direct Examination, Post Assessment)
  • Prepared DDS (Design Data Sheet) for hydrotesting contingency piping
  • Participated on pipeline repair recommendation
  • Reviewed As-Built/construction drawings
  • Interpretation and compliance of 49 CFR part 192 code.

Hydropocessing Unit Inspector

PBF Energy, Torrance Refinery
06.2021 - 06.2022
  • Upheld API codes and regulations governing materials, acceptance criteria, processes, and procedures
  • Perform remaining life calculation to evaluate integrity of process piping, pressure vessel and above ground storage tank
  • Inspected and examined materials and finished parts and products for defects and wear to verify conformance with blueprints, diagrams and template specifications
  • Prepared reports detailing findings of NDE inspections (UT, RT, PT, MT, EDC etc.) investigations, and tests
  • Perform RBI & FFS ( API 580 & 579) analyses on unit equipment and piping
  • Evaluate CR and damage mechanisms affecting refinery equipment.

API Inspector / Rope Access NDT

TEAM Industrial Services
01.2018 - 06.2021
  • Perform routine and shutdown visual inspections on piping, pressure vessels and aboveground storage tanks
  • Evaluate corrosion data and acting damage mechanism on all equipment under inspection
  • Elaborate reports with collected data to establish equipment safety acceptance standards and remaining life
  • Give customers advises regarding maintenance of equipment under evaluation
  • Supervise/Perform NDE tests and review recorded NDE reports
  • QC/QA all previous and current inspection records of equipment under maintenance, repair or alterations.

Intern/Junior Engineer

Angular Engenharia
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Prepared and submitted reports and other documentation to assist development team members
  • Reviewed and checked technical drawings by architectural technicians, CAD technicians and drafters
  • Read and interpreted blueprints, technical drawings, schematics and computer-generated reports
  • Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components, providing input on potential technical improvements.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Petroleum and Gas Engineering

University of Vila Velha (UVV)
Vila Velha, Espirito Santo

Workshop - Subsea Technology

Western Norway University of Applied Science, Petroleum Institute
06.2014

Skills

  • Knowledge on ASME code books ( B313, B318, B 165, Sec V, Sec IX, Sec X)
  • Knowledge on API Code book (API 510, 570, 571, 574, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 620, 650, 651, 652, 653, 936, 1163)
  • NDT testing procedures
  • Knowledge on NACE standards and procedures
  • QC/QA reports
  • Work safety
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point
  • PCMS, GRT, Bluebeam, Antea, UltraPipe, Unitank
  • Perform multiple tasks and assignments
  • Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Knowledge of 49 CFR part 192 code

Certification

  • Piping Inspector (API 570)
  • Aboveground Storage Tank Inspector (API 653)
  • Pressure Vessel Inspector (API 510)
  • Ultrasonic Testing Certification (UT)
  • Magnetic Particle Testing Certification (MT)
  • Positive Material Identification Certification (PMI)
  • Liquid Penetrant Testing Certification (PT)

Timeline

Asset Integrity Engineer

Team Inc
08.2023 - Current

Pipeline Integrity Engineer

TSG (The Select Group) / SoCalGas
06.2022 - 08.2023

Hydropocessing Unit Inspector

PBF Energy, Torrance Refinery
06.2021 - 06.2022

API Inspector / Rope Access NDT

TEAM Industrial Services
01.2018 - 06.2021

Intern/Junior Engineer

Angular Engenharia
01.2014 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Science - Petroleum and Gas Engineering

University of Vila Velha (UVV)

Workshop - Subsea Technology

Western Norway University of Applied Science, Petroleum Institute

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