To gain more experience and advance my career in natural gas/energy production operations.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Operator 4 Senior Operator
Pembina
09.2019 - Current
My role consists of the safe and efficient operation of Saturn 1 and 2 Deepcut facilities.
Both plants are fed by third party processed gas, and the process consists of mole sieve gas dehydrators and regeneration, cryogenic gas process utilizing 25,000hp gas turbines for plant and sales compression.
Other duties include, safe work permitting, mentoring, safety checks etc. Safety and a positive moral are of utmost importance.
Transferred to 8-11 Resthaven Deepcut facility, as Senior operator my role is as follows.
Ensuring Resthaven operations is running in a safe and efficient manner.
Optimizing gas/liquid process
Training and mentoring new operators.
Scheduling of operators shift schedules, vacation, training etc.
Training control room (panel) operators in the operation of the whole facility.
Working with maintenance and PMM schedulers to ensure plant PM’s are up to date and work is carried out in a safe manner.
Supervision of operators.
Chairing safety meetings.
TMQ mentor and qualifier
District Supervisor Distribution Operations
Altagas
12.2018 - 08.2019
Duties consist of ensuring all customers natural gas needs are met in an efficient timely manner.
New service installs, meter recalls, leak surveys door calls, inside/outside leak investigation.
Ensuring time sheets are entered and monthly accruals are up to date.
Also making sure that TDO’s training is current and up to date.
Communication is a big thing to establish a strong safety culture. Software used are Maximo, Dayforce, ESRI.
Operator 4/Panel operator/Lead
Pembina
01.2012 - 01.2018
All duties the same as above at the same gas plant, which Pembina bought out from Encana.
Our plant had a major expansion upgrade from shallow cut refridge plant to Deep Cut facility. It is now composed of 3 designated inlet compressors (Cat 3608), 7 dual function inlet/sales compressors (Cat3616) two designated sales compressors (wauk 7042). 3 Mole Sieve dehydrators, one Turbo Expander, demethanizer tower.
We are currently rated for 200 million through put and will be expanding to 300 million. We also have 7 generators (wauk 3521) for our power needs. Previous to new pant start up, involved with construction for approx. 10 months to plan and safely complete 386 tie points in which the old plant was to be tied into the new deep cut facility.
Operator 4 Panel operator/Lead
Pembina
06.2012 - 12.2017
Duties consist of safely operating the Resthaven 300mmcf/d deepcut facility.
Ensuring daily production is at its highest potential, while working and leading a crew of 4, days and nights. Training and mentoring of new ops
Keeping PLS up to date and utilizing PMM for maintenance and ordering consumables for plant needs.
Also, a big part of planning the majority of Resthavens major outages and training other operators to do so as well.
Plant operator 4/Co-Plant lead
EnCana Corporation
01.2006 - 01.2012
Currently for Encana, I am the control room operator for the Resthaven 8-11&7-11 gas plants. My duties include the safe and efficient operation of both facilities. Training and mentoring of new and young operators. Well and plant monitoring via Cygnet. Site specific procedure development, assisting the development of Solis Trac for the Bighorn north area, Training of operators for LMS (Learning Management System) before the new version was installed. Running a crew of level 2 and 3 operators and various third-party contract and service companies.
Also, from April 2012 to March 2013 took over as co plant lead for Resthaven gas plant. Duties include all lead operator duties such as scheduling, work coordination, invoices, production meetings, managing operations personal. During that time, I have also assisted management in the planning of Resthaven 8-11/7-11 major turnaround.
Operator
Talisman Energy
01.2000 - 01.2006
My position with Talisman consisted of plant, field and pipeline operations, in the Central Foothills Gas Gathering System which primarily flowed to the Talisman Edson gas plant.
The Findley gas plant in which I was working at also was capable of being in control of the CFGGS if needed. My equipment experience ranges from Waukesha 7044’s, 3521’s, Cat 3306, 800hp electric drive Hitachi motor, all driving Ariel and Gemini compressors.
My process experience ranged from operation of 60mmcf 6% sour mole sieve dehydration facility to smaller glycol TEG dehydrators. Field experience consists of sweet and sour well operations, prepping and permitting service companies for well servicing, wireline and coil tubing.
Ground disturbance permitting for pipeline tie ins and construction with assisting in the commissioning of new equipment and wells.
Also included is SCADA, Hawk I, Exacta control panel operation and the use of them for trouble shooting.