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DR. M. E. Rana

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  • +92-316-7780001

Bio

I hold Ph. D degree since 1975, a UMIST (UK) product, having four (4) years research experience, 18 years academic and administrative experience to a professor level cum University /UNESCO coordinator for equipment procurement, augmented with 23 years direct oil and gas field experience (sweet/sour, downhole to GOSP, transportation, processing and manufacturing, Refinery, Natural Gas, LNG, LPG, Power Plants (Steam/Gas), Steam Boilers (Gas/Oil fired), Urea Plants, Ammonia Plants, Methanol Plants, MSF/MEE Water Desalination Plants, RO/DM Water Plants, Water cum Gas Treatment for Downhole Injection, Marine & Aviation Facilities to shipment). Entire 45 years are spent in corrosion engineering with an authority in all sections of corrosion and corrosion control to FEED, detailed engineering design, selection of materials, protective coatings, corrosion/scale inhibitors, biocides, production chemistry, selection of corrosion monitoring hardware to locations to installation and commissioning cum monitoring, chemical evaluations, writing specifications cum scope of works.

Also, have established fourteen (14) laboratories (corrosion & corrosion control, failure analyses, metallography, petroleum testing, basic chemistry, instrumental analysis, unit operation, heat transfer, microbiological, strength of materials, oil & gas analyses, chemical evaluations, coating evaluations, water & power plants). In addition, I have given 10 different training courses to oil & gas industry + three (3) training courses in the pipeline, conducted numerous failure analyses, procured equipment including complete water treatment plants. I am fully conversant with field experience in inspection, maintenance, turnarounds, repairs, hydrotesting, pigging operations including intelligent pigging, reservoir souring, multi-well chemical tracers, water shut off & mothballing. Last but not least, I have 20 publications with more in the pipeline. Also written, reviewed and rewritten seven (7) basic practices and standards.

Experience

  • 1971 1975

    Research

    4 years (UMIST and Salford University-UK).

  • 1975 1993

    Academic

    18 years (Lecturer to Full Professor cum UNESCO/University CoordinatorBright Star University of Technology - Libya).

  • 1994 2016

    Industrial

    23 years (Onshore/Offshore Oil/Gas & Water, Corrosion Engineering cum Production Chemistry-Sirte Oil Company-Libya, Harouge Oil Operations-Libya and GTSPetronas-Malaysia).

  • 1994 2016

    Industries Served

    Sweet/Sour Oil & Gas Production, Processing & Manufacturing, Downhole to Terminals, GOSP, Gas & Oil Transport, Refinery, Natural Gas, LNG, LPG, Power Plants (Steam/Gas), Steam Boilers (Gas/Oil fired), Urea Plants, Ammonia Plants, Methanol Plants, MSF/MEE Water Desalination Plants, RO/DM Water Plants, Water cum Gas Treatment for Downhole Injection, Marine & Aviation Facilities and Reservoir Engineering. Off shore operation facilities and engineering work.

  • 1994 2016

    Special Operations:

    Reservoir Souring, Multi-well Chemical Tracers, Water Shut-Off, Inspection & Maintenance, Turnarounds, Pigging, Intelligent Pigging, Pipeline Cleaning, Hydrotesting & Drying and Mothballing. Corrosion monitoring and hardware selection and failure analysis.

  • 2012 2016

    Special Studies & Engineering:

    Material & Corrosion and Inspection Projects, Root Cause Failure Analyses (RCFA), Corrosion Study & Corrosion Reviews, Corrosion Study, RBI (P-RBI, API RP 580 & API RP 581), CDBM & CMP, FEED & Detailed Engineering Design, Assets Life Extension Damage Assessment & Life Extension, Asset Life Integrity & API RP 584, Initial Technical Bidding, Production Chemistry. Acid Cleaning & Water Treatment.

  • 1975 2016

    Training Courses Given to Industry:

    • Corrosion Engineering
    • Materials and Materials Selection
    • Strength of Materials
    • Karl Fisher Titration
    • pH and its applications
    • Conductivity and its Applications
    • Pitting Corrosion & Damage Mechanism
    • Intrusive Corrosion Monitoring Techniques for Oil & Gas Facilities
    • Non-Intrusive Corrosion Monitoring Techniques for Oil & Gas Facilities
    • Inspection Techniques for Oil & Gas Facilities
    • Basic Course on Corrosion Under Insulation for Oil and Gas Facilities (ready)
    • Corrosion and Corrosion Control in the Crude Oil Refinery Plant (in the pipeline)
    • API 571 Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in the Refinery Industry (in the pipeline)

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. 1975

    Ph.D. in Corrosion Science & Corrosion Engineering, UMIST, Victoria

    University of Manchester, UK

  • P/G Diploma1970

    P/G Diploma of Merit

    Refining & Petrochemical Techniques & Economics , UNESCO Institute Enrico Mattei, Milano Italy,

  • M.Sc.1968

    M.Sc. in Chemistry

    Pakistan

  • EX-Memberships

    M. I. Corr. T. (UK), M.I.M.F. (UK), Sustaining Member (NACE-Texas/USA),Member of Corrosion Engineering Society, (UK/USA) and Life member

    Institute of Engineers Pakistan

  • Language

    Urdu (Native) & English.

    Pakistan

Scope Of Works /Specifications Written

  • Protective Coatings
    Protective Coatings
    Internal/External (Tanks, Pipelines, Vessels, Valves & etc.), Fusion Bonded and Three Layers Epoxy Coatings for underground oil/gas transmission pipelines, Heat Shrinkable Sleeves, Surface Preparation and Coating Inspection.
  • Material Selection
    Material Selection
    Oil and Gas Productions, Transportation, Gas Plants, LNG, LPG, Refinery, MSF & MEE Water Desalination Plants, RO & DM Plants, Travelling Water Screens, Sea Water lines, etc.
  • Corrosion Monitoring:
    Corrosion Monitoring:
    locations, Hardware, Instruments Selection, Programs & Schedules.
  • Water Treatment
    Water Treatment
    Cooling and downhole injection.
  • Gas Treatment
    Gas Treatment
    Transportation and downhole injection.
  • Oil Treatment:
    Oil Treatment:
    Transportation & storage
  • Failure Analysis
    Failure Analysis
    Pipes, vessels, heat exchangers in refineries, stripper, condensers pumps in urea plant, insulation joints, coating, de-bonding, downhole tubing, underground and aboveground pipeline failures.
  • Corrosion
    Corrosion Under Insulation
  • Selection of corrosion
    Selection of corrosion
    Selection of corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, biocides & chemicals evaluation.
  • Chemical Trials
    Chemical Trials
    Chemical Trials from desk top to laboratory to oil/gas (sour/sweet) field (downhole to terminal) and water flood.
  • Reservoir Souring
    Reservoir Souring
  • Water Shut-Off
    Water Shut-Off
  • Multi-well Chemical
    Multi-well Chemical Tracers
  • Water treatment
    Water treatment plant.
  • Cathodic Protection.
    Rehabilitation of Cathodic Protection.
  • Water compatibility
    Water compatibility for reservoir flooding.
  • NDT
    NDT for charred vessel integrity.
  • Flood application
    Sulphate removing for water flood application.
  • Injection applications
    Feasibility, compatibility & chemical evaluation for water Injection applications.
  • Failure analysis
    Failure analysis
  • Total corrosion
    Total corrosion assessment & auditing for entire oil & gas complex and associated facilities.
  • NORMS
    NORMS - evaluation and control measures
  • Water quality
    Water quality evaluation for reservoir flooding and optimization of treatment
  • Respective equipment
    Corrosion control, scale control, SRB control & procurement of respective equipment.
  • Satellite water
    Procurement of Satellite water analyses laboratory.
  • Corrosion monitoring
    Procurement of corrosion monitoring hardware and instruments.
  • Laboratories.
    Procurement of complete laboratories.
  • Chemical injection
    Procurement of chemical injection skids for oil, gas and water treatment.
  • Pigging
    Pigging and Intelligent Pigging new and old Pipelines
  • Air Separation Plant.
    Material selection, corrosion control, RBI, welding & inspection for Air Separation Plant.
  • Laboratory management
    Laboratory management, equipment selection and maintenance
  • Many more
    Many more

Research Summary

Phd and post doctorate research work on corrosion and corrosion products on lead and lead alloys in sulphuric acid and corrosion of iron and silicon alloys as anode for cathodic protection.

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Oil & Gas Chemicals Evaluations

  • Corrosion Inhibitors.
  • Scale Inhibitors.
  • Biocides.
  • De-Emulsifiers.
  • Reverse De-Emulsifiers.
  • Wax Depressants.

Major Projects Handled

  • Level recognition
    Procurement, installation and commissioning of entire Higher Petroleum Institute set up to university level recognition.
  • Euipment and Machinery
    Shifting, reinstallation and commissioning of entire Higher Petroleum Institute equipment and machinery to a new a university.
  • UNESCO Recognition
    Procurement, installation and commissioning of entire new university set up from scratch to UNESCO recognition.
  • Transmission Lines
    Construction, hydrotesting, drying and corrosion inhibition of new cross country Oil/Gas transmission lines.
  • Pipe line
    Pipe line repairs and patch ups.
  • Tubes Replacement
    Tubes replacement in MSF & MEE water desalination plants.
  • Gas plants
    Corrosion probes installation in a newly built gas plants.
  • Industrial Complex
    Corrosion probes replacement across the entire industrial complex
  • Corrosion monitoring
    Corrosion monitoring audit of entire industrial complex.
  • Acid cleaning
    Acid cleaning of boilers.
  • Water quality
    Water quality evaluation for reservoir flooding and optimization of treatment
  • Satellite water
    Satellite water treatment laboratory from procurement to installation and commissioning.
  • Water Injection.
    Commissioning of water treatment plant for water Injection.
  • CMP
    Design and P.I.Ds review and modification from Corrosion and Corrosion Control viewpoint (CMP).
  • Water disposal
    Water disposal.
  • Equipment
    Corrosion Control, Scale Control, SRB Control Procurement of Equipment.
  • Chemical Injection
    Procurement of Chemical Injection Skids.
  • Procurement
    Procurement of Oil & Gas Laboratories, Installation, commissioning and Operation
  • Chemical Evaluations
    Chemical Evaluations for Oil, Gas, Condensate and Water application.
  • Chemical Squeezing
    Chemical Squeezing into the reservoir.
  • FEED and Detailed
    FEED and Detailed Engineering Design for LNG Storage Tanks & Earthwork.
  • Oil Storage Tanks
    FEED & Detailed Engineering Design of Crude Oil Storage Tanks.
  • Treatment Systems
    Acid cleaning of Water Treatment Systems.
  • Oil & Gas Lines
    Pigging & Intelligent Pigging for Oil & Gas Lines
  • Cleaning and Drying
    Hydrotest, Pipeline Cleaning and Drying.
  • Slug Catcher
    Asset Life Integrity for Slug Catcher.
  • Cathodic Protection
    Corrosion monitoring, Probes Selection, Chemicals injections, Coating and Cathodic Protection.
  • P/S Potential
    P/S Potential Survey & C. P. design.
  • Crude oil
    Crude oil characterization, condensate quality and treatment.

Major Studies Conducted

  • Reservoir souring.
  • Water shut-off
  • Multi-well tracers for reservoirs water flood.
  • Water compatibilities for reservoir flood.
  • Sulphate removing for water flood application.
  • Feasibility, compatibility & chemical evaluation for water injection applications.
  • Water quality evaluation for reservoir flooding and optimization of treatment.
  • Chemical Squeezing for reservoir
  • Corrosion and corrosion reviews.
  • Corrosion study & risk based inspection (RBI).
  • Corrosion design basis memorandum (CDBM).
  • Corrosion management plan (CMP).
  • Assets life integrity
  • Assets life Integrity and life extension.
  • Assets life extension & damaged assessment + life extension (joint Petronas/Shell)
  • Rehabilitation of Gas/Condensate Pipeline using polymer liners
  • VPO PTS Adequacy on Content & Compliance Process to Support TIPS.

Materials Selections

  • Tubes in Heat exchanger in the Refinery
  • Tubes in MSF and MEE Water Desalination Plants
  • Tubes in Reboilers in the MSF Water Desalination Plants
  • Pumps in MSF Water Desalination Plants
  • Tubes in Stripper in Urea Plant
  • Tubes in HP Condenser in Urea Plant
  • High Pressure and high temperature Gas Plant
  • Tubes in Exchangers in Gas Plant
  • Corrosion Monitoring Hard Wares
  • Chemical Injection Skids
  • Pipelines for Oil & Gas Transportation
  • Water Treatment Plants
  • Cooling Water Pipelines
  • Flowlines
  • Sea Water Lines
  • LNG Tanks and Associated Pipes
  • Material Selection, Inspection Specification for New LNG Storage Tank & Getty

List of Failure Analysis Conducted

  • Reflux Condenser, high Pressure Carbamate Condenser, High Pressure Stripper, Hydrogen Reactor, CO2 Compressor & High Pressure Fresh Water Pump in Urea Plant.
  • Flowline Spools, Insulating Joints , Dis-bonded Coating.
  • Flowlines, Oil & Gas Valves.
  • Above- ground/Underground Pipelines.
  • Tubes in Boilers, Waste Heat Boilers & Reboilers Tubes/Shell in Urea and Gas Plants.
  • Tube, Spray Nozzles, Water Boxes, Travelling Screens in MSF and MEE Water Desalination Plants.
  • Reflux Condenser, high Pressure Carbamate Condenser, High Pressure Stripper, Hydrogen Reactor, CO2 Compressor & High Pressure Fresh Water Pump in Urea Plant.
  • Down-Hole Tubing of Source Water Supply Well & Oil & Gas Wells.
  • Heat Exchangers failures in Refinery & Petrochemical Plants.
  • Sea Water Condenser in Gas Plant.
  • Mug Compressor in Methanol.
  • GRP Water Injection Lines.
  • Aircraft Landing Gear.
  • Oil & Gas Pipelines.
  • Corrosion in CO2 removal system aMDEA circuit in Ammonia Plant.
  • CO2 Corrosion LNG Plant.
  • Corrosion Damage Mechanism for Fabrication of Heat Exchanger.
  • And many more...

List of Publications

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Morphological and Kinetic Studies on Lead Dioxide Electrodes, Power Sources, (7), Academic Press,Conference Papers

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication London 1979

Corrosion Aspects of Stainless Steel in Surgical Industry

M.E. Rana
Genarel PublicationThe Pakistan Times, 1980.

Self-Polarization of Underground Steel Pipeline;

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Genarel Publication I. J. Technology (India) 1985

Should Engineers Learn to Live with Corrosion;Bright University of Technology Conference.

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication (1984), Libya.

Basic Corrosion Course, A Manual for Training Man-Power for corrosion Control

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication In SOC, 1996

Failure of Reflux Condenser E-123 Urea-1 Plant, Causes & Prevention,Libyan Corrosion Society Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication August, 2001.

Failure of Insulating Joint Assamoud Well H-8, Causes & Prevention,Corrosion Society Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication Libyan August, 2002.

Lack of Cathodic Protection under Dis-bonded Coating,Libyan Corrosion Society Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication August, 2002.

Selecting Corrosion Inhibitors for Application to Oil and Gas Fields and Associated Facilities,Libyan Corrosion Society Conference

Genarel Publication October, 2003.

Self-Inflicted Corrosion Hazards;Libyan Corrosion Society Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication October, 2003.

SOC experience with Chemicals for Down Hole Application;First International Conference and Exhibition on Oil Field Chemicals

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication December 2003, Tripoli-Libya.

Corrosion and Corrosion Control in High Pressure Stripper, Urea Plant

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication 5th Libyan Corrosion Conference, Nov. 2005, Tripoli.

Comparative Evaluation of Corrosion Inhibitors for Mothballing, 5th Libyan Corrosion Conference.

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication Nov. 2005, Tripoli

Failure of 304L Stainless Steel Potable Water Line, 5th Libyan Corrosion Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication Nov. 2005, Tripoli.

Field Experience on Corrosion & Corrosion Control in Boilers, 6th Libyan Corrosion Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication Nov. 2007, Tripoli.

Field Experience on Biocide Performance, 6th Libyan Corrosion Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication Nov. 2007, Tripoli.

Field Experience on Corrosion and Corrosion Control in Thermal Desalination Plants; 7th Libyan Corrosion Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication Nov. 2009, Benghazi.

.Field Experience on Corrosion & Corrosion Control in Urea Plant (accepted) 8th Libyan Corrosion Conference

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Genarel Publication Sep 2011, Zawia (Libya).

Down-Hole Tubing Failure of Source Water Supply Well, Cause and Control, (accepted), 8th Libyan Corrosion Conference

M.E. Rana
Genarel PublicationSep 2011, Zawia (Libya).

Field Experience on Corrosion & Corrosion Control in Oil and Gas Productions, (accepted) in First International Conference on Oil & Gas

M.E. Rana
Genarel Publication Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Selecting Scale Inhibitors for Down Hole Application

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Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Field Experience on Corrosion and Corrosion Control in High Pressure Carbamate Condenser, Urea Plant

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Stress Corrosion Cracking in High Pressure Carbamate Condenser, Urea Plant

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Field Experience on Corrosion & Corrosion Control in CO2 Compressor, Urea Plant

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Failure of Hydrogen Reactor Cooler, Urea Plant

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Failure of Tubes in Primary Condensers, Refinery

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Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Failure of Tubes in Sea Water Condenser, LNG

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Failure of Water-Box in Water Desalination Plant

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Failure of MUG Compressor’s Rotor in Methanol Plant

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Oxygen Pitting in LNG Boilers

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Failure of P-016A Fresh Water Pump Impeller, Urea Plant

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Failure of Re-boiler Tube Bundle, Water Desalination Plant Oil and Gas

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

NORMS –Emerging Hot Issue in Oil & Gas Productions And Many more.

M.E. Rana
Publications in the Pipeline Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Chemical Injection and Sampling in Production & Process Equipment

M.E. Rana
Basic Practices/Standard Written Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Corrosion Monitoring in Production and Process Equipment.

M.E. Rana
Basic Practices/Standard Written Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Procedure for Mothballing and Preserving Process, Production Equipment

M.E. Rana
Basic Practices/Standard Written Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Pigging Techniques & Operations.

M.E. Rana
Basic Practices/Standard Written Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Corrosion Management Plan (CMP).

M.E. Rana
Basic Practices/Standard Written Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Corrosion Mitigation Strategy For Wet Sour Gas Carbon Steel Pipelines

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Basic Practices/Standard Written Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Installation & Commissioning of Cathodic Protection Systems.

M.E. Rana
Basic Practices/Standard Written Sep. 2011, Tripoli (Libya).

Teaching

List of Training Courses Given to Oil & Gas Industry

  • Basic Corrosion and Corrosion Control

  • Basic Cathodic Protection

  • Cathodic Protection Design

  • Intrusive Corrosion Monitoring

  • Non-Intrusive Corrosion Monitoring

  • Corrosion Under Insulation

  • Micro-biologically Induced Corrosion (MIC)

  • Material Selection

  • Oil Field Inorganic Scaling and Solutions

  • Oil Field Organic Precipitation, Deposition, and Solutions

  • Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

  • Corrosion Management (CM)

  • Corrosion Inhibitors selection, application, and evaluation

  • Protective Coatings selection, application, and evaluation

  • Surface preparation for coating application

  • Oil & Gas Fields NORMS, detection, and evaluation

  • NDT

Special Courses

  • API 510, API 570, API RP 571, API RP 580, API RP 581, API RP 583, API RP 584

Special Services

  • Specifications writing

  • Documents review

  • Failure analyses review & judgement

  • Corrosion monitoring hardware and location selection

  • Inspection techniques and location selection

  • Specific material selection

  • Technical report writing

List Of Laboratories Procured, Established and Operated

  • Corrosion & Corrosion Control

  • Metallography

  • Chemical Evaluations

  • Coating Evaluations

  • Instrumental Analysis

  • Petroleum Testing

  • Central Oil & Gas Analyses

  • Water & Power Plants

  • Unit Operations

  • Heat Transfer

  • Strength of Materials

  • General Science

  • Microbiological Testing

  • Strength of Materials

Software Used

  • BP Cassandra – Corrosion Prediction Software

  • Norsok M-506 – Corrosion Prediction Software

  • ECE 5, Corrosion Prediction Software (Trial Version)

  • Predict 6.1 Corrosion Prediction Software (Trial Version)

  • HydroCorr

  • ScaleChem – Scaling Tendency Prediction

  • French Creek – Down-Hole Scaling Prediction Software

Contact & Meet Me

I would be happy to assist you if you require my expertise for your research, academic & industrial setup for corrosion and corrosion control and training courses in oil & gas and associated facilities. I am available on my mobile and email as and when required.

Please forward your corrosion issues for investigation, solutions and recommendations.

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  •    +92-316-7780001
  •    dr_m_rana20246@hotmail.com
  •    mahboob_rana2002@yahoo.com
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