Current Jobs

On April 18th, 2010, posted in: Blog, Current Jobs by Abalto

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HOT JOBS: Apply now!

Please send you cv to HR@abalto.com

    2 Alarm Management Consultants

    Documentation and Rationalization (D&R) and change implementation in DCS systems

    Management of Change (MOC) engineer

    Alarm Management baseline studies and project implementation

    Training of engineers and operators using PSS Real Time Alarm management
    software

    Project managment for alarm management projects including hardware,
    software, scheduling, & alarm management services and applications

    6 Alarm Management Engineers

    Documentation and Rationalization (D&R) and management of change
    implementation in various DCS systems

    Software and Hardware installation, configuration and client training

    Alarm Management baseline studies and project implementation

    3 Relay Test Engineers

    4 Electrical Technicians

    2 Process engineers Gas processing and transmission

    2 Reliability engineers Gas processing and transmission

    1 Material and corrosion engineer Gas processing and transmission

    We are also currently recruiting for the following positions and if you are really talented contact us:

    Project Managers

    Systems Engineers

    Control & Instrumentation Engineers

    Commissioning Engineers

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Saudi Kayan Phenolics

On April 18th, 2010, posted in: Oil & Gas, Projects by Abalto

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Deliver of Project Management for $15M MAC contract from initiation to closeout with full P&L responsibility. Sponsor assignment to assure maximum scope delivery without deferral to site phase and adhere to accelerated schedule with fixed delivery date.

Manage scope and quality to ensure deliverables including DCS and Safety Systems integrated into Remote Instrument Buildings and Control Room. Sole authority for every aspect of project and sole delegated authority towards Owner and EPC. Management of and communication with Owner, EPC and stakeholders.

Authorise procurement and manage performance and delivery of five subcontracts valued $5M. Manage performance and deliverables of Invensys as downstream partner with contract value $5M. Responsible for resource management including remote virtual and home office engineering teams. Ensure integration and inter-operability with 8 other projects executed in UK, Netherlands, Singapore and Korea.

Construct plans for and manage Risks, Issues, Communications, Resources, Quality, Integration, Schedule, Costs following PMI processes for Project Management

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Harweel Phase 1 EDF

On April 17th, 2010, posted in: Oil & Gas, Projects by Abalto

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Harweel Early Development Facility (EDF) project was a USD 100Million project for Petroleum Development Oman aimed at assessing the viability of miscible gas flooding which would yield highest oil recovery from high pressure sour Oil & Gas reservoirs.  The 4 reservoirs had 15 producing wells with flowing pressures from 260Bar to 700Bar and average H2S concentrations of 50,000ppm with 15% Co2.

This challenging Enhanced Oil Recovery project demanded cutting edge technology to deliver using prototype compressors and state of the art control and safeguarding system due not only to the process parameters but the fact that the wells were located 80Km from the production station Birba hence the base of design was remote operations.  The MAC scope dimension was USD 10Million provided by Yokogawa System Centre Europe who invited Abalto to provide the system integration, design and commissioning of Foundation Fieldbus instruments, valves, wellhead hydraulic control panels, Fibre Optic Converters and repeaters.

The production station Birba under the project scope had new separation train, 3 new reciprocating compressors, flare package and utility Air and Nitrogen generation packages.  The oil production capacity added was 20,000 barrels of oil per day and 1.8 million meter cubes of natural gas.

Abalto engineers had supervised construction and liaise with EPC to ensure quality completion which does not adversely introduce flaws that hinder commissioning.  Following structured pre-commissioning procedure and extensive testing helped mitigate hidden flaws in hardware and software.  We successfully integrated the MAC deliverables such as Yokogawa ProSafe IPS, Stardom FCS and FastTools to following third party system:

  • Nuevo Pignone Compressors LP, MP and HP compressors
  • Frames Wellhead Hydraulic Control Panels
  • Honeywell TDC 3000
  • Pepperl & Fuchs relay based shutdown system
  • Prognost Condition Monitoring system
  • Dymac VM600 vibration protection system
  • Haimo Multiphase Flow Metering units
  • Alan Bradley Utility UCP
  • ABB Variable Speed drives

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Birkenhead BAFF Pumping Station

On April 14th, 2010, posted in: Projects, Water by Abalto

Validate and optimise the BAFF Backwash sequences for 8 cells at the Birkenhead Waste Water Treatment Works in the UK. Addition of Inlet pump to increase flow through capacity. PID tuning for Heat Exchange valves for optimum performance and run step change trials. Modify SCADA and PLC systems to reflect the changes. An assorment of other modifications were made to rectify outstanding maintenance issues especially with the Allen Bradley DH+ industrial network.

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Chelmsford Waste Water Treatment Plant

On April 14th, 2010, posted in: Projects, Water by Abalto

Abalto provided the complete control system for the process control of the Chelmsford Waste Water Treatment Works in the UK including Rotating Bar Interceptors, Screens, Air blowers, Pathogen Kill Tanks, Digesters, Heat Exchangers, Buffer Tanks. System controlled by 6 Allen Bradley PLCs interfaced to an Intellution Fix SCADA system.

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Liuzhou Water Treatment Plant China

On April 14th, 2010, posted in: Projects, Water by Abalto

Project for the Systems Engineering of a complete end-to-end software systems design, development and commissioning of the 500 MLD Liuzhou Water Treatment plant China. Delivery of PLC, SCADA and Telemetry systems design, build and execution and completed on schedule and within the client budget. Detailed planning done and project team assembled, tasked, motivated and monitored. Deliverables validated against client process and functional specifications and proved with process testing. Site commissioning, as built documentation produced and client training delivered.

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Houdini MEG FEED

On April 14th, 2010, posted in: Oil & Gas, Projects by Abalto

During the Front End Engineering & Design (FEED) phase the assumptions and conclusions of the pre-FEED were checked and updated. The basis for the FEED was the Basic Engineering Design Data and met the following objectives:
•    Review the scope of work, basis of design and other design input data to determine if there are changes in the assumptions and conclusions.
•    Provide a system design with sufficient detail to move to the EPC phase of the project.
•    Development of the project design specifications and technical details in accordance with the engineering requirements, standards and specifications.
•    Support the project team in completion of the required phase gate review and deliverables to enable project sanction.
•    Support the procurement process through RFQ preparation to determine industry market costs and schedules for equipment for Long Lead Items.
•    Perform capital cost estimates for the project, adequate to meet project sanction requirements.
•    Contribute to the Project Execution Plans for the implementation phase of the project, including an organization chart showing resources, engineering description, procurement, fabrication, installation, commissioning and hand-over activities.
•    Contribute to the Master Project Schedule.
•    Preparation of documents needed for the implementation phase of work; requirements for the design, fabrication, installation, commissioning and start-up of the facility.

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Bromborough Waste Water Treatment Plant

On April 10th, 2010, posted in: Projects, Water by Abalto

This was a project to design & develop an end to end systems and software solution for the Bromborough Waste Water Treatment Works near Liverpool UK. Scope included creation of the Functional and System Design Specifications from control philosophies and P&IDs. We specified the control system including PLC Hardware, Drives, Instruments, IO Schedule, SDS, Test Specifications and approved the build for United Utilities at the Factory Acceptance Test. Abalto Designed, Developed, FAT & Commissioned 8 Allen Bradley PLCs with PanelView HMI and RSView32 SCADA system. We also designed and implemented the site wide communications with Fibre Optic DH+. All systems were FAT and SAT Tested with Commissioning, Startup, Training and As Built documentation. During operational optimisation of the process we provide control systems tuning.

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Wuxi Water Treatement Plant China

On April 10th, 2010, posted in: Projects, Water by Abalto

Responsible for a providing a complete control system including control philosophy, functional design specification, systems design specification, systems and software design and development, simulation, factory acceptance testing, commissioning, site acceptance testing and support for the process control of an 800 MLD Clean Water Treatment Works. Processes included Intake, Settlement, Dosing, Reverse Gravity Filter Beds, Contact tank dosing and pump distribution to the main supply all controlled by 7 Allen Bradley PLCs connected on a control network and interfaced to 7 distributed Intouch SCADA systems.

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Sludge Pasteurisation Plants

On April 10th, 2010, posted in: Projects, Water by Abalto

Control system and software design and development for a continuous batch process control of Sludge Pasteurisation Plant.  System controlled by an Allen Bradley PLC interfaced to a Panelview.  The control philosophy involved the sludge heating using heating and recovery coil heat exchangers to 72°C and holding the sludge for 30 minutes to kill pathogens for sludge disposal to land fill.  Residual heat recovery was use to heat incoming ambient sludge.  Sludge flow and heat to digesters was also improved and managed.

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