Michael John Foreman has over 30 years of experience in piping design, project coordination, and QA/QC checking for industrial projects. He has expertise in piping design for petrochemical, refinery, oil and gas processes. Some of his responsibilities include piping design, project management, cost estimating, engineering changes, and process safety. He is proficient in various piping design software like CADWorx, PDMS, Navisworks, and SmartPlant 3D.
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Michael John Foreman
Sr. Project Coordinator/Piping Designer/Checker/Supervisor
515 Whitecap Dr.
El Lago, TEXAS 77586 US
Phone:
Cell: (713) 876-7727
mike4man@outlook.com
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
I have a Technical/Mechanical background with emphasis in Piping Design, Project Coordinator, and QA/QC
(checking). I work in the Industrial Engineering & design industry and my duties included working with
Plant/Industrial personnelto meet and maintain the requirements of their expectations along with following the
given scope of work to have the project finished in a timely and efficient manner. I have experience with the
following Design specialties, and aided in management of Pipe & Process Design aspects of as large as $125M
Projects and numerous small $10M Projects. I bring to a new opportunity 30+ years of heavy design experience and
management/supervision skills tailored to the Industrial Petrochemical/Olefin/Oil & Gas industry while
incorporating use of the most popular and current software titles.
• ASME/ANSI pipe, fittings and valves
• Modular Piping
• Up-Stream Design
• Mid-Stream Design & Storage Design
• Down-Stream (Facility) Design
• LNG & NGL
• Detailed Design
• Skid Units & Skid Piping Design
• Mechanical Design & Checking
• Piping Isometric Drawings
• Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams
• Piping Flexibility
• Olefins Process
• Petrochem/Refinery/Oil & Gas Process
• Cryogenic Piping and Support Design
• Man-hour estimates, Man loading, Proposals
• Engineering Change Orders & Request
• Field Engineering, Field Walk downs
• Containment systems
• Firewater systemdesign
• Refrigerant Units
• Water treatment systems
• Management of change (MOC's)
• Hazop and Process Safety Management
Sr. Project Coordinator / Piping Design Checker/ Piping Designer 3D
Strategy Engineering (Contract)
June, 2014 — February, 2016 (1 year 8 months)
Software: Cadworx/PDMS/Navisworks/SmartPlant 3D/Bentley/Autodesk Plant 3D
Coordinated Upstream & Midstream Projects & personnel to stream-line operations with current industry standards.
QA/QC checked complete construction/fabrication/skid packages pertaining to all piping/mechanical facets of the project
Regions of Gulf of Mexico, Eagle Ford, Permian Basin, Barnett, Appalachian Basin, etc...
Complete Upstream & Midstream facilities
Cryogenic & LNG/NGL Facilities
Offshore Platforms (all related aspects), treatment, scrubbing, separation
Manifold design,Flow Lines, Ultra High Pressures,Skid designs,ship/boat loading & unloading
Launching & Receiving (Pig/Scrubber) product diversion and automation
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Sr. Piping Designer 3D / Checker / Project Coordinator
Audubon Engineering (Contract)
June, 2013 — June, 2014 (1 year)
Software: Cadworx//SmartPlant 3D/Navisworks/SmartPlant 3D/Bentley/Autodesk Plant 3D
FEED & detailed design & checking of many on-going Oil & Gas Projects located in the Eagle Ford Shale
Onsite P&ID Check for facilities located in the Eagle Ford Shale region
Constructing of Template models using Cadworx
QA/QC (Checking) of all piping & mechanical facets & P&ID’s of assigned projects
Coordinating work with clients schedules
3D design of Rack, Skid, Equipment & Inter-connecting piping
Location and setting equipment
Underground piping and locating existing underground pipe
Maintaining deliverables, oversee drawing production of designers & engineers
Sr. Piping Designer 3D / Project Lead / Project Coordinator
Universal Pegasus International (Direct)
August,2012 — May, 2013 (10 months)
Software: Cadworx/PDMS/SmartPlant 3D/Navisworks/Bentley/Autodesk Plant 3D
Lead Pipe Designer with Oil & Gas Projects located in the Eagle Ford Shale & Permian Basin
Greenfield design of several Oil & Gas facilities
FEED & Detailed Design
Completed packages for fabrication construction of facilities to enhance output capabilities
Upstream separation of Oil & Gas, sour crude treating & stripping gases
Automation and metering of liquids and gasses
Water extraction, storage and treatment
Sr. Piping Designer 3D / Project Lead / Coordinator
L-Con Engineering & Constructors (Direct)
March, 2011 — August,2012 (1 year 5 months)
Software: Cadworx/Bentley/SmartPlant 3D/AutodeskPlant 3D/ Navisworks
Oil and Condensate gathering, manifold design, pumping, metering, tank storage,Bulk & Dockside loading
LNG & NGL Spheres and all associated piping.
Began the design the new 1.6 million barrel tank storage facility and dock loading directly connected to the Gulf of Mexico
In-charge of all man-hours, staff, deliverables and design of this project
Ship/Barge loading, Vapor Recovery, Maritime.
Water Treatment/Collection & truck loading.
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Sr. Project Coordinator / Piping Designer / Checker
Burns & McDonnell in St. Louis MO. (Temporary Contract)
May, 2010 — January, 2011 (8 months)
Software: Cadworx/PDS/Navisworks/Bentley
3D Model creation using existing 2D pipe rack drawings and field survey for Conoco-Phillips Wood River Illinois facility
Model produced with Cadworx & terminated at existing equipment/vessels previously modeled in PDS
Survey & elevations of rack & equipment
Structural integrity/feasibility studies
Routing of several new lines in rack with challenging obstacles
Squad checking all aspects ofcomplete deliverables package
Sr. Piping Designer / Checker
Ref-Chem Pasadena TX. (Contract)
October, 2009 — February, 2010 (4 months)
Software: PDS/SmartPlant Review/Flexcad
Checked all piping, structural members and foundations related to this LNG/Gas project
Establish new battery limit
Set new equipment and moved/revamp existing equipment
Routed piping to/from new equipment using existing & new pipe racks with the addition of miscellaneous new supports
Designed to reduce field welding
Establish new battery limit
Sr. Lead Piping Designer / Checker
Technip (Contract)
February, 2009 — October, 2009 (8 months)
Software: PDS/PDMS/AutoCAD/SmartPlant Review/Flexcad
Projects: Exxon Mobil Flare Gas Control Project: (Downstream) Beaumont Texas
Shell Na Kika: (Offshore Semi-Sub.) Gulf of Mexico, 140 miles southeast ofNew Orleans
BP ThunderHorse: (Offshore Semi-Sub) Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles southeast ofNew Orleans
Marine Energy Swordfish & Neptune Spar (Offshore Platform)
Involved with design of modular piping
Software used AutoCAD, and PDMS
Replaced and upgraded all Flare Gas Headers throughout the refinery at Exxon Mobile Beaumont
Duties include, field survey,gathering information to replace several thousand feet of large bore pipe
Software used, AutoCAD, Microstation, SmartPlant, PDS, and LFM
The use of laser maps to aid in the routing pipe
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Sr. Piping Designer 3D / Checker
Shaw/Stone & Webster (Contract)
September, 2008 — February, 2009 (5 months)
Software: PDS/SmartPlant Review/FlexCad
Yansab/Yanbu, Saudi Arabia Project – Grassroots project completed using PDS metric
Checked the Isometric Drawings generated using SmartPlant Review to turnout accurate fabrication drawings
Checked both pipe and steel until Mechanical Completion.
Sr. Piping Designer 3D / Checker
Shaw/Stone & Webster Port Arthur TX. (Contract)
August,2006 — December, 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Software: PDS/Flexcad/SmartPlant Review
Huntsman Burnout Rebuild: Field verification of cold pipe supports,related piping, field change requests for work that wasn't in
the original scope of work.
Unit damage was a result of a large scale fire in excess of $50M
Updated several models and checked extracted Isometrics previously done by Stone & Webster
Updated existing piping drawings to reflect present work.
Sr. Piping Designer 3D / Lead / Checker
CDI Engineering, Orange Texas (Direct)
January, 2008 — August,2008 (8 months)
Software: PDMS/ PlantSpace Software with Microstation V8
Re-designed and redrew P&IDs to industry standards to remove years of drawing congestion
Redraw 2 primary units at a total of 100+ P&IDs each
The project was terminated for budgetary reasons to later be completed by others
Sr. Piping Designer / Checker / Project Lead
CDI Engineering, Beaumont TX. (Direct)
May, 2005 — August,2006 (1 year 3 months)
Software: PDS/PDMS/Cadworx/Bentley
Involved in several small projects in-house including pipe design using FlexCad (in-office)
PDMS & PDS certification training
Maintenance work, management of change, equipment changes/upgrades,hydraulics,stress isometrics etc.
Goodyear Chemical Inc. (In-Plant) AutoCAD & ProCad
Assigned to do all maintenance and aid in several capital projects with-in the Goodyear Beaumont facility
P&IDs, piping plans, elevations, and field notes were used to create accurate fabrication isometric drawings
Updated existing P&IDs, moved manual drawings to CAD, and designed standard structuralsupports
Sumotomo Rubber, Freeport Texas, PDMS/Flexcad used to make changes and add a new unit to increase efficiency in the isobutyl
unit.
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Sr. Piping Designer
Levingston Engineering Sulphur LA. (Direct)
July, 2004 — April, 2005 (10 months) CITGO Refinery (In-Plant)
Software: AutoCAD/CadPipe/Flexcad
Developed Engineering / Design package consisting of P&IDs, key plans, piping plans and isometrics
Software used, AutoCAD, FlexCad, and an in-house developed program that was 3rd party to AutoCAD.
Sr. Staff Piping Designer 3D / Checker
RCR Engineering Dayton TX (Contract to Direct)
August,2003 — June, 2004 (11 months)
Software: AutoCAD/Flexcad/Cadworx
Sr. Piping Designer for a facility in Phoenix Arizona
Fire protection piping, tubing involving orbital welding for joint-less connections
Provided the weld count and BOM for the stainless surgical steel tubing
Staff Piping Designer/Checker/Department Lead, for several small projects located in the LaPorte/Baytown/Deer
Park/Pasadena/Mont Belvieu area
Setting of 4 large spheres (NGL) and piping to and from them including over 1 mile of rack piping in the Enterprise Products
Facility.
Sr. Pipe Designer /Cad / Field Lead
Recon Engineering Lake Charles LA. (Direct)
October, 1995 — February, 2000 (4 years 4 months)
Software: AutoCAD/Flexcad/Cadworx
Designed and checked several projects necessary for the completion of the 3 Citgo Petroleum Cat Cracker Upgrades
Responsible for checking and running the drawings thru CAD-QC, a Citgo EDMS QC Program
Coordinated work with Stone and Websterto accurately design and draw isometric drawings on CAD using an in-house developed
isometric program
Software used, Staad, Caesar, AutoCAD, and in-house developed Isometric application, a library based P&ID library for Process
drawings, FlexCad used with several in-plant assignment.
Conoco Petroleum: Lead the Design/Drafting group to do both Isometric Fabrication Drawings, and P&ID walk downs.
Recon Office: Converted/Redrew existing hard copy/manual piping drawings to cad and maintained all piping related drawings for
several small projects in several local industrial facilities as well as larger projects, mainly at Citgo Petroleum
These projects included Small Bore Piping of all of the Citgo Petroleum Cat-crackers, A thru C, and the construction of large
reserve petroleum tanks in the tank farm
Coordinated thru the Department of Transportation (DOT) to design an underground pipeline consisting ofseveral large bore lines
under the near-by Interstate
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Pipe/Designer / Drafter / Cad
Petrocon Engineering (Direct)
Software: FlexCad/AutoCAD
February, 1991 — October, 1995 (4 years 8 months)
Process Safety Management, (PSM) Project - Walk-down of equipment, related piping, instruments, and valves to produce P&IDs
and utility drawings.
Responsible Care Project - Produced P&IDs for the Power Plant, Flare Systems, off gas,Water Treatment, Nitrogen Storage, Plant
Air and process utility units.
Drafter / Sketcher
Various Lake Charles Louisiana Area Construction Companies
January, 1983 — December, 1990 (7 years 12 months)
Employed by various Lake Charles Louisiana Area Construction companies (Mainly West-Cal Construction) as a field sketcherfor
spoolreplacement/fabrication/corrosion and hydraulic isometrics.
EDUCATION
Sowela Technical Institute
Associates, Drafting and Design Technology
December, 1989 — May, 1991
Degree date: 1991
Sowela Technical Institute - Associates degree in Drafting and Design Technology
Attended from December, 1989 to May, 1991 while maintaining a 3.25GPA, specialized in Mechanical/Pipe design.
Louisiana State University (Scholarship)
BSME, Mechanical Engineering (Unfinished)
September, 1984 — August,1986
Louisiana State University - September, 1984 until August 1986
Mechanical Engineering, "Unfinished BSME"
Sulphur High School: Diploma May 1983
Sulphur High School - Sulphur, LA
ASSOCIATIONS
Louisiana State University - "L" Club member, Tiger Football at LSU in 1984 to 1986
Houston Oilers Football Organization - 1 season.
Society of Piping Engineers & Designers (SPED IV Certification)