Craig W. Alden has over 40 years of experience as an instrumentation and controls engineer working on oil and gas projects. He has worked on a wide range of projects including pipelines, compressor stations, refineries, and LNG facilities. As a senior engineer, his responsibilities included control system design, instrumentation specification, and project management. He is knowledgeable in industry standards and has experience with DCS systems from major vendors.

1. Craig W. Alden, Sr. Instrument/Mechanical Engineer
1054 Apache Falls Dr. mail;craig_alden@aim.com
Katy Texas 77450 Phone; 713-493-1097
Senior Control Systems Engineer responsible for the design of control systems for oil and gas
facilities, including crude oil separation and treating facilities, gas compression facilities, gas
treatment (including dew point control and sweetening), gas plants, refinery and pipelines. As a
Control Systems Engineer I worked with the Process Engineering Group during the early phases
of the projects to define the control system philosophy, emergency shutdown philosophy, and
relief and blow down philosophy. As a Senior Control Systems Engineer I prepared
specifications for the facility control system, communications system, and fire and gas detection
system. Duties included development the control system architecture, along with control logic
diagrams and cause and effect diagrams. In this capacity I played a key role in the development
of the facility control room design and layout. Additional duties included the preparation of
instrument specifications and data sheets, and the preparation of the Instrument Index and I/O
List. In this position I maintained an important role in the development of the facility P&ID’s,
and participates or leads special studies such as hazards analyses and HAZOP, control room
ergonomic studies, and start-up feasibility studies.
As a Senior Controls Systems Engineer I am fully conversant with industry standard design
codes (AGA, API, ISA, IEEE, ASME, ASTM, IEC, SP84 etc.), and familiar with DCS systems
used in the upstream oil and gas industry.
CH2M HILL, Sr. Instrument Engineer, Houston Texas; 06/16/2014 to present
Major projects assigned to;
Control and SIS System design, P&ID development, process controls, Delta V DCS system, Fire
and Gas system, Asset Management system and compressor controls. Owners Engineer with full
responsibility for all control systems. Instrument and Electrical controls system engineer. Design of
control system I/O List, data sheets and safe charts. Configuration of PLC’s and Emerson Della V
control system integration for HART protocol. Ammonia truck, barge and rail loading system and
pipeline injection pump control. Created Control Narratives, logic drawings, interlock tables and
review PLC logic review.
Sr. Instrument engineer for DCS (A-B ControlLogix), level and flow instruments and design and
configuration of Profibus and AS-I interface systems. Performed SIL calculations and flow
calculations for slurries. Mechanical design details for installation oftransmitters in slurry service.
M&H Energy Services, Staff Engineer, Houston Texas 07/01/2013 to 04/09/2014
Instrumentation and Controls Staff Engineer on various onshore gas production facilities. Duties
included company standards and procedures for M&H and EP Energy. Preformed extensive work
on Apache oil projects in west Texas and Oklahoma gas and oil production sites. Worked with the
process group to resolve sand and clay issues
Developed models for wet gas measurement with orifice plates and the sizing of three phase relief
valves.

2. ZFT Technologies LLC, Senior Control/Mechanical Engineer, Lyon France 03/08/2010 to
03/25/2013
Mechanical/Controls Engineer and Project Management for various projects in Germany,
England and North Africa. Projects included pipelines for gas and liquids, metering stations,
pipeline and production facilities and Fina and Elf refineries in France. Duties included design
approval and startup of projects. All projects involved contact with the client and vendors to
resolve problems and maintain required schedules and cost control. Material requirements and
control valve sizing, pipe wall thickness calculations for both internal and external pressure and
process modeling were performed on many projects.
GE Energy, Gasification Group (Belcan contract employee and GE employee), Houston
Texas 04/2008 to 02/17/2010
Mechanical/Instrument Engineer for Edwordsport project. Duties include design of instrument for
heat flux and temperature elements for high temperature applications. Participated in the heat
flux and computational fluid dynamics modeling for the synthetic the gas cooler and coal gasifier
to model the process dynamics. Flow measurement and meter specifications and calculations
for lo-loss, and v-cone and meters. I was a member of various design groups involved in the
stress analysis and material selection and test procedures. Additional tasks included systems
safety analysis and failure rates of components. Participated in team efforts to develop design
practices and reviews.
Maverick Engineering Houston Tx 09/2006 – 02/2008
Sr. Instrumentation Engineer on gas storage, salt water disposal and compressor stations. Duties
included data sheets, P&ID development, bid documents, valve sizing and coordination with the
process and mechanical engineering groups.
Mustang Engineering Houston, TX 02/2006 – 08/2006
Instrument/Facilities Engineer for the design and project management of the Freeport LNG pipeline and
meter station. Duties included control valve sizing, ultrasonic meter selection and coordination of plant
piping. Additional duties included data sheets,specifications and process calculations. Project Manager
for and mechanical/instrument engineer for the Katy,Conroe and Friendswood gas plants and Beaumont
refinery for Exxon Mobil USA and Shell Oil.
France Development, Lyon France 09/2004 – 12/2005
Project engineer for Instrument/Mechanical Engineering for various projects for the ELF and Fina
refineries in Lyon and Marseilles. Duties included valve and meter specifications and Safety Integrity
Systems design DCS and PLC control systems. All projects were followed from the design through
completion.
Mustang Engineering Houston, TX 04/2000 – 08/2004
Project Engineer for Instrument/Mechanical/Electrical engineer in the special projects group involved
twenty seven fast track projects. Worked directly with my client counterparts at Enterprise Products
Company, Exxon-Mobil USA, Exxon-Mobile Pipeline and BP Offshore. The various projects included
liquid and gas pipelines, meter stations, compressor and pump stations and amine units. Duties and
responsibilities included control valve sizing, flow meter selection, scheduling, cost control, scheduling
and budget control and specifications.
Pegasus International, Houston, TX 09/1999 – 04/2000

3. Instrument / Electrical Engineer for the Corral Gas Energy gas pipeline and compressor station.
Design of control system for gas turbine driven compressors and electrical system including UPS System
and motor control center. PLS Logic diagrams and startup procedures including
Commissioning. Duties included flow measurement, electrical calculations, data sheets and specifications.
Universal Ensco Engineering, Houston, TX 12/1994 – 09/1999
Instrumentation and Automation Engineer for Transco lean burn conversion on six compressor stations.
Each compressor station contained four to eight electrical control of three dehydration units. Duties
included P&ID development, cause and effect charts and instrument specifications. Additional projects
include four- unit turbine driven compressor station in Russia for the Enron Corp. and three new
compressor additions for the Columbia Gulf Transmission Company and an1100 mile gas pipeline with
twenty compressor stations.
Gulf Interstate Engineering Houston, TX 08/1992 – 05/1994
Project Engineer for Instrument / Electrical for the Canadian Oxy production facility and island power
station in South Yemen. The facility consisted of a 360,000 BBL/day production unit powered by a
25MW power station. Duties included specifications, equipment testing and inspection and
PLC programming. After completing the design in Houston, performed the start-up of the power
plant and assigned to the start-up of the production facility as Sr. Startup Engineering Manager.
Fish Engineering Houston, TX 03/1990 – 7/1992
Instrument Engineer for various gas compressor stations, gas and liquid pipelines and refinery expansions
located primarily on the Gulf Coast. Major clients included El Paso,ARCO and Pacific Gas and Electric.
Duties included data sheets,specifications, and electronic and pneumatic controls.
Micro Automation AG, Germany 07/1981 – 12/1989
Project Engineer/Manager for Instrument/Controls and Mechanical for Petrochemical projects in North
Africa, Germany, Switzerland and France. Projects included design, procurement and commissioning.
Assignments included pipeline, meter and pressure control stations and power plants. Provided
specifications, system logic design and safety systems. Maintained cost control and estimates.
Brown & Root Houston, TX 05/1980 – 06/1981
Sr. Instrument/Automation Engineer for the Chevron Refinery expansion in Mississippi. Primary
responsibilities involved the contract administration and cost control, design procurement and
commissioning of the plant analyzer and sampling system. The facility required one hundred and ten
analyzers to operate the plant. Additional duties included instrument and valve specifications, logic
diagrams and P&ID’s.
Education
Southeast Junior Collage 1967
Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969-1970
University of Renfrew, BSc Mechanical Engineering 1987
References;
Paul Marinaccio Senior Project Engineer
866-684-4501 .ext 330

4. John Weistroffer, Chemical Engineer
281-636-7573
Clay Pinder, Mechanical Engineer
281-664-6837
Andy Carroll, Electrical Engineer
281-664-7704
Joel Katzman, PE
CH2M Hill
Manager Mechanical Department
281 721 8424