Life Cycle of a Process Plant

Mr. Mahdi Nouri CEng Fellow of IChemE, Founder & Principal Consultant of Triumph Gas Technology Consulting in Houston, Texas. Mr. Nouri has over 23 years of solid experience in gas processing, cryogenic gas processing (NGL and LNG facilities), and CCUS (carbon capture and utilization including CO2 compression & dehydration, and transmission). Prior to forming Triumph, Mr. Nouri was Vice President of gas processing & LNG sector at Americas Region with Worley Group; Director of Upstream and Midstream with Jacobs Consultancy, and Technical Specialist of Gas Processing & LNG with Technology Division of Bechtel OG&C. Mr. Nouri has led consultancy, design, engineering, project management teams for gas plants and LNG facilities design small to large capacity, gas plants modularization, carbon capture, benchmarking, due diligence, feasibility and conceptual studies, PreFEED, FEED, economic analysis, Owner’s Engineer, operation readiness, technical services (plant optimization, operational excellence, troubleshooting, debottlenecking and operation support). Mr. Nouri holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering. He has published various papers in the world of gas processing, and technical reports for GPA Midstream, and has presented the keynote addresses for the AIChE Spring gas utilization conference in 2017 and 2019. He was also honored with the GPA Midstream Committee Volunteer of the Year Award 2018, the F&PD Outstanding Presentation Awards at AIChE/2015 & AIChE/2016. Mr. Nouri is also the Chairman of the Facility Design, Operation and Maintenance Committee, the Chairman of the Facility Forum, and member of the Program Committee since 2017 at GPA Midstream; Director of AIChE Management Division (2019 – 2021) and Director of AIChE F&PD (2017 – 2020), and Chairman of Gas Utilization Conference at AIChE spring meeting (2018 – 2021). Mr. Lucke is a well-established and recognized expert in the oil refining and gas processing industries with over 30 years of experience as a consultant, engineer, and manager. Starting as process and technology engineer in one of Germany’s leading refinery, Eberhard completed a 2-year assignment in Venezuela before he moved to the USA. Working for several leading engineering and consulting firms in Houston he covered the regions Europe, Caribbean, North and South America in distinct roles like consultant, lead process engineer, owner’s engineer, project manager, department manager and company executive. He led studies and design work in oil refining and petrochemicals, gas monetization, carbon capture, storage and utilization, and biofuels manufacturing. In 2012 Eberhard founded Lucke Consulting Technology Services, LLC to utilize his technical expertise and industry experience in the growth and development of clients across the energy sector. Since then he supported many projects as owner’s engineer and consultant by providing design reviews, due diligence, and technical management. Eberhard serves on the advisory board for the Professional Science Masters Program (Environmental) at Rice University.

1. General guidelines and definitions 2. Feasibility studies 3. Process design 4. Cost estimating 5. Fabrication and construction 6. Commissioning and testing 7. Start-up and performance test 8. Operation, maintenance, and turnarounds 9. Process plant optimization, debottlenecking, and revamps 10. End of plant life 11. Project management in oil and gas