Advisory Committee

Members of the Advisory Committee

Abdulbasit Talib Hussain Al-Ajji Head of Rotating Equipment, OEE/2(O) Operations Engineering - Offshore Fields Department Maintenance Engineering - OFFS Qatar Petroleum

Hussain Ali Mohamed Hassan Al-Baloshi Head of Reliability, OEP/4(O) Operations Engineering - Offshore Fields Department Process Engineering Qatar Petroleum

A.Rahman Mohammed Hussain Saleh Al-Braik Head of Rotating Equipment, OEE/3(G) Operations Engineering- Gas Operations Department Engineering Qatar Petroleum

Ali Mohammed Al-Ghamdi Reliability Rotating Equipment Consultant Saudi Basic Petrochemical Company (SABIC) Ali Mohammed Al-Ghamdi has over 21 years experience in specification, technical, evaluation, commissioning and troubleshooting rotating equipment at several SABIC Petrochemical complexes. He was leading rotating equipment groups in YANPET complex (Joint project between SABIC and EXXONMOBIL) who are greatly involved in monitoring, troubleshooting and improving reliability of turbomachinery. He joined SABIC in 1988. Mr. Al-Ghamdi received his B. S degree in Mechanical Engineering Science at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Mineral (KFUPM) - Dhahran - Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Eyad M. Al-Khateeb Dr. Al-Khateeb is a Turbomachinery engineering specialist in Saudi Aramco’s Consulting Services Department. He is also Chairman of the Plant Equipment subcommittee under the GCC Standardization Organization (GSO) Oil & Gas Technical Committee. Dr. Al-Khateeb earned a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Saudi Arabia), with highest honors, and a Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University (USA). He has written several papers and earned a number of awards, both academic and professional. He is also a certified Associate Value Specialist by the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE) and a certified ISO Machinery Vibration Analyst – Level III. At present, he is also the Vice Chairman of Saudi Aramco’s Compressors, Gears & Steam Turbines Standards Committee.

Mohamed Ali Al-Mazrouei Mohamed Ali Al-Mazrouei received a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia – USA end of 2003. He has a mixture of experience as working in Power Generation and Oil and Gas Industry under the umbrella of TAKREER. He currently is a Sr. Mechanical Engineer where he directs, coordinates and supervises all mechanical maintenance activities carried out on a wide range of mechanical rotating and stationary equipment in the plant.

Abdul Aziz Mohd Nasir Al-Naimi METS Advisory Committee Co-Chair Manager - (Joint Interest) Operations Business & Joint Interest Departments RasGas Company Limited

Faisal Obaid Al Siddiqi QEWC Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ras Girtas Power Company Doha – Qatar

Akram Ayoub Customer Business Manager, Middle East & Central Asia Responsible for the customer relationship across the full spectrum of activity and in establishing the corporate regional strategies and growth plans.

Urs Baumann Mr. Baumann is the Manager of the Calculation and Development department of MAN Diesel & Turbo Schweiz AG, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Klaus Brun, Ph.D. Manager Machinery Section Fluids and Machinery Engineering Department Mechanical Engineering Division Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, 1996 M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, 1993 B.S.E., Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1991 Dr. Brun currently manages the Machinery Section at Southwest Research Institute. His research interests are in the areas of turbomachinery aero-thermal fluid dynamics, process system analysis, energy management, advanced thermodynamic cycles, instrumentation and measurement, and combustion technology. He is widely experienced in performance prediction, off-design function, degradation, uncertainty diagnostics, and root-cause failure analysis of gas turbines, combined-cycle power plants, centrifugal compressors, steam turbines, and pumps.

Sulaiman Bukhamsin Sulaiman is a reliability engineer in Saudi Arabian Chevron, with 30 years of experience in rotating equipment design, diagnotstics, and condition monitoring. As a machinery engineering specialist, Sulaiman worked on reliability, machinery performance and selection, projects design reviews, factory acceptance tests, and plants start ups and commissioning. Sulaiman holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Denver.

Dara W. Childs METS Advisory Committee Co-Chair Dr. Childs has been Director of the Turbomachinery Laboratory since 1984 and holds the Leland T. Jordan Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees (Civil Engineering, 1961, 1962) from Oklahoma State University, and his Ph.D. (Engineering Mechanics, 1968) from the University of Texas. He was named ASME Fellow Member in 1990, and received ASMEs Henry R. Worthington Medal in 1991.

Umesh Choondassery Umesh is the Equipment Reliability Superintendent for Qatar Chemical Company Ltd. He has 30 years of Experience in Oil refining and Petrochemical plants.

Dr. Giancarlo Cicatelli Dr. Giancarlo Cicatelli has his office at Flowserve Italy and has been a regular visitor to the Middle East since joining Flowserve. His duties include: Dealing with local customers and giving valuable support and advise for pump related issues, both field problems and technical presentations. In addition to pumps, he has a strong scientific education in the complete field of turbomachinery, including turbines and compressors.

Stefan Florjancic Stefan S.Florjancic graduated 1982 from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After industrial training periods in Switzerland, Germany, USA, France, and Brazil, he joined Sulzer Brothers Ltd in Switzerland (1983). He worked in the area of development and design of pumps, mainly covering rotordynamics and research. 1990 he received a Ph.D. degree from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich for a combined experimental and theoretical research thesis done under an EPRI contract for Sulzer. Dr.Florjancic then joined Sulzer Bingham Pumps, Inc., in Portland Oregon. As a Senior Field Engineer he covered general consulting on design, and troubleshooting via analysis of field installations and vibration data acquisition. In 1993 he joined ABB Power Generation Ltd, today Alstom Power, in Switzerland to be head of the Mechanical Integrity Team of Gas Turbine Development which is responsible for strength, dynamics, and failure analysis of the thermal block. After additionally deputizing the Base Development Department of Gas Turbines starting in 1996, he became responsible for the development of the turbines for all large Alstom gas turbine units and associated base technologies in 1997. After 4 years in this field, he took over the technical responsibility for the entire installed fleet of gas turbine fleet GT24 and GT26 in 2001. As this product matured, the responsabiliy for it was moved to Customer Service, and hence, Dr.Florjancic moved along in 2004, to become the Engineering Responsible in this new unit. With the merge of the GT24 /GT26 fleet and the GT13E2 / GT11N2 fleet in 2006, his responsibilities started to encompass the entire Advanced Gas Turbine Fleet in Power Service. This period ended in summer 2010, when Dr.Florjancic moved back into new equipment development at Alstom to work as Director of R&D Execution for gas turbines.

William E. (Bill) Forsthoffer William E. (Bill) Forsthoffer has more than forty -five years accumulated experience in the field of rotating equipment (custom designed compressors, pumps, gears, turbine and auxiliary systems). He is the President of Forsthoffer Associates, Inc. - Rotating Machinery Consultants specializing in training, trouble-shooting and application of rotating machinery on a world-wide basis.

Nidal Ghizawi Manager - Engineering Team GE INFRA, Oil & Gas

Satoshi Hata Satoshi Hata is a Group Manager within the Turbo Machinery Engineering Department, at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., in Hiroshima, Japan.

Christopher Holt Chris Holt is the Lead Rotating Equipment Engineer for Qatargas.

Ahmad Jamali Fifteen years of progressively responsible positions in Maintenance, expertise in small project management, productivity improvement, organizational design and development. Results oriented with strengths in leadership and ability to drive implementation of technology improvement. Experience of diversified Oil and Gas equipment such as Hyper Compressors, Generators, centrifugal Compressors, Gas turbines, Steam turbines, Pumps, Extruders, Jetty cranes and loading arms. Good crisis organizer & solid leadership in strategy and analytical skills. Strong executive presence coupled with excellent presentation skills. Entrepreneurial spirit, team motivator with keen sense of urgencies. Vendor follow up for diversified plan, Rotating equipment and associated systems, presently working as Maintenance Manager responsible of all maintenance activities in QAPCO. Managing over Two hundred and fifty professional staffs and controlling the cost within the budget.

Jassim al Jasmi Plant Availability Manager at Dolphin Energy Ltd - Qatar Jassim is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA year 2000. Jassim has been working in the oil and gas industry for more than 18 years and is now working as a Plant Availability Manager of the Plant Availability Department – Technical Division of Dolphin energy Qatar leading a large multinational team of engineers and specialists and is responsible of operating yearly budgets amounting hundreds of millions of dollars and assets valued over +11 $ Billion both onshore and offshore. Jassim is collectively experienced in Management, Business, Technical, Engineering, Machineries, Reliability, Integrity, Inspection, maintenance and minor project management of large scale industry field. He is also experienced in large scale green field development from conceptual design to operation and further to optimization. td>

Hideki Kanno Mr. Kanno is Technical Superintendent Bahrain Representative Office & Deputy Division Executive General Manager of Fluid Machinery Development EBARA Corporation, Japan.

Sven Konig Mr. König is a Research Engineer within Siemens Energy Sector, Oil & Gas Division, Duisburg, Germany.

Rainer Kurz is Manager of Systems Analysis and Field Testing for Solar Turbines Inc., in San Diego, California. His organization is responsible for conducting application studies, gas compressor and gas turbine performance predictions, and site performance testing. He joined Solar Turbines Incorporated in 1993, and has authored more than 70 publications in the field of turbomachinery. Dr. Kurz attended the University of the German Armed Forces, in Hamburg, Germany, where he received the degree of a Dipl.-Ing., and, in 1991, the degree of a Dr.-Ing. He was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2003.

Mahmood Mirza Mahmood Mirza Abdulla, holder of BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic of Wales – UK and MBA from University of Bahrain. Mahmood has 8 years experience in Power Generation Industry, where he worked as Mechanical Maintenance Engineer looking mainly of Gas Turbines. He also 17 years experience in Oil and Gas Industry with Bahrain Petroleum Company. He is currently Manager Plant Maintenance Department, which provides on-line maintenance to assets in the refinery.

Antonio Pelagotti is Manager of New Product Introduction and Standardization for Centrifugal compressor where he takes care of design and standardize new technologies. Previously he was the Manager of LNG and Reinjection Compressor Design for GE Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy, where he has overseen the aerodynamic and rotordynamic design of refrigeration centrifugal and axial compressors. His work included preliminary selection, detailed aerodynamic and rotordynamic design, computational fluid dynamic analysis, stress analysis, and stage optimization of large high Mach number LNG compressors. He has worked on more than ten world-scale LNG plants on the design, aerodynamic model testing, performance testing and startup, and on the research and development of high head 2D impellers. Mr. Pelagotti has been with GE Oil & Gas Turbocompressor group since 1999, and has worked as a Design Engineer, Field Engineer, and Application Engineer. He has a B.S. and M.S. degree (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Florence.

Adel Esmael Mohd Esmael Rahimi Assistant Manager, Operations Engineering - Systems, OES(D) Operations Engineering - Dukhan Department Operations Engineering - Systems Qatar Petroleum

Ahmed Esmael Mohd Esmael Rahimi Head of Rotating Machinery Section Maintenance Department Qatar Fertilizer Company (S.A.Q.) "QAFCO" Mesaieed - State of Qatar

Luis Rojas Mr. Rojas works for ExxonMobil Development Company in Houston and is currently assigned as Train 7 Machinery Engineering Lead for RasGas RGX2 Project in Qatar.

Ken Savoie Manger - Rotating Equipment Qatar Shell GTL Limited

Matthew Simms Senior Application Engineer Elliott Group Surrey, England

Dr. Murari Singh (Corresponding Member) Dr. Murari Singh (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is the President of Safe Technical Solutions, Inc (SAFETSOL). Dr. Singh has been involved in the design, development and analysis of industrial turbomachinery for forty years with Turbodyne Corporation, Dresser Industries, Dresser-Rand Company, GE CONMEC and most recently with GE Oil & Gas as Consulting Engineer. Dr. Singh has extensive knowledge and experience with fatigue and fracture mechanics, stress and vibration of structures, reliability, life analysis, probabilistic analysis. His practical application experience includes a variety of rotating equipments including CAES, Warm Gas and FCC Expanders, Steam Turbines, Gas Turbines and Centrifugal and Axial Compressors. He developed the widely used SAFE diagram for reliability evaluation of turbine blades. The SAFE diagram methodology is superior to other methods in providing clear analytical and predictive information. This concept has been applied to other turbomachineries. It is a significant contribution to design methods and vibration technology for the evaluation of turbine blade reliability. Dr. Singh has been involved in (developing and teaching) application of lifing strategy to many mechanical components. This includes subjects dealing with hcf, lcf, creep, fracture mechanics. Probabilistic method is used to estimate risk in design. He authored many technical papers and he is the co-author of the books "Steam Turbine, Design, Application, and Rerating", second edition and “Blade Design and Analysis” published by McGraw-Hill Co. He co-authoring a book on “Expander Design” to be published by McGraw-Hill Company.

Basel Wakileh Basel Wakileh is a Machinery and Reliability Manager in the Operations Technical Department for RasGas in Doha, Qatar.

Craig Winterburn Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer Reliability Department ORYX GTL Ltd

Scott Wisler Director, Centers of Technical Excellence World Wide Research & Development Dresser-Rand Mr. Wisler has over two decades’ experience in the aviation and energy industries, including seven years executive experience leading large organizations. He has worked with a broad array of large and mid-size companies, and has deep technical knowledge of the design, manufacturing and systems integration of today’s jet engines, electricity gen-sets, power turbines, wind turbines, and industrial compressors. In his current role, he has responsibility for advancing application of Dresser-Rand's core technology throughout all of our product lines. He leads the company’s functional sciences, including aerodynamics, rotor dynamics, acoustics, solid mechanics, vibration, heat transfer, materials sciences, and welding. He also has responsibility for three laboratories – materials, welding, and aerodynamics. Dresser-Rand is an OEM producer of compressor and power generation equipment for the world-wide O&G market.