LOC VAN NGUYEN
6110 REDDING rd.
Houston, Texas 77036
(713) 995-1253 ( H )
(832) 419-6209 ( C )
locnguyen6110[at]yahoo.com

SUMMARY
Experienced Senior Piping Designer and Checker ( 32 plus years ) with expertise in all phases of design drafting. Areas of special experience include plot plans, equipment layouts, plant and skid piping, equipment and piping elevations and sections details, vessel and nozzle orientations, piping isometrics and material take-offs, and pipe support details. Work experiences also include preparation of Process Flow Diagrams and Piping & Instruments Drawings for new, revamp modifications, as-built projects and quote purpose. Field verification experience in most of the above projects. Structural skid assembly, platform / handrail, ladder, drip pan, anchor bolt pattern, lifting lug, ground lug, standard welding detail, estimated skid dry weight,wet weight, pipe support details and bill of material( 6 plus years). Computer experience in AUTOCAD 12, 13, 14, 2000, 2002,2005,2006,2007 3D PASCE and MICROSTATION, PRO-PIPE, MECHANICAL DESKTOP, CAD PIPE, FLEXCAD and 3D CADWORX 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. NAVISWORKS 2009, LASER SCAN TRU VIEW, LEICA GEO SYSTEM, CYCLONE CLOUDWORX

WORK HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

SR. PIPING DESIGNER / PIPING CHECKER August 2006 April 2009
COMMONWEALTH ENGINEERING Houston TX
Equipment and piping layouts. Projects included: Sour crude Unit 93, first & second stage desalter, Water feed pump & exchange, Crude preflash drum, Crude heater, Stabilizer overhead Systems, Condensate systems, Distillate product trim coolers, Crude column area, Stabilizer tower & Reboiler, Catalytic Dewaxing unit, Rich amine and LT diesel surge, Vacuum charge heater, HDT stripper, and Plot plan. General duties: Equiment layout, Piping plans, sections, detail and isometrics. Material take off and flow diagram. Pipe support details. Used FLEXCAD 2006 and AUTOCAD 2007. Amine System Offsites Unit 99, Natural Gas Compressors Model by CADWORX 3D 2008
CALUMET LUBRICANTS CO. SHREVEPORT,

LPVGO Hydrotreater Stripper charge heater, Steam section, hot separator, Effluent separator section.
NO.3 CRUDE UNIT Main fractionator section, HGO section, Pre-flashed crude exchangers
NO.4 VACUUM UNIT Hvgo section, Vacuum tower, Vacuum bottoms section
MODEL by CADWORX 3D 2008, 2009 and LASER SCAN TruView, LEICA Geosystems Cyclone Cloudworx; 3D CADWORX, Model Review.
MARATHON REFINING, LLC CATLETTSBURG, KY

Delayed Coking unit: Wet gas compressors 1st stages; Hydrocracker area flare ko drum & ko drum water pumps, Flare stack, Ko drum oil pumps; Combination tower overhead drum and pumps, HP flash drum,gas&wild gasoline coolers, Sponse absorber & exchangers, Blowdown overhead condensers & separator, Combination tower, Naphtha splitter, Hot flush oil area.
CADWORX 3D 2009,LASER SCAN Tru view, NAVISWORKS 2009
HUNT REFINING CO. TUSCALOOSA, AL

SR. PIPING DESIGNER / STRUCTRAL DESIGNER Feb Aug. 2006
ECL ENGINEERING Houston TX
Equipment and piping layouts: Vent, Flare Scrunner, Pig Launcher and Sump Pumps, Test Separator, Vent Scrubber, Manifold and Pumps Systems, Riser pipe ATP GAS CORP, BP PETROLEUM Offshore Platform. Drilling Deck, Production Deck and Cellar Deck. All pipe supports detail and Structural skid assembly; P&ID, Safety Charts, Piping Isometrics Revised and Checked 3D CADWORX 2006.

SR. PIPING DESIGNER&CHECKER / STRUCTURAL DESIGNER 2004 - 2006
EMERSON DANIEL, INC Houston TX
12, 20-600# ANSI Utrasonic meter station-PEMEX; Quote purpose DOLPHIN project: 1,2,3 run meter station UNITED ARAB EMIRATED; Tubine meter and bi-directional prover station, crude oil system - MLN EXPENSION project; Utrasonic meter station with master meter and flow control LIMRAMIENTO QUETARO MEXICO; Autocad 2000, 2006, 3D CADWORD 2006

PIPING DESIGNER / CHECKER _STRUCTURE SKID 2001 - 2003
ALSTOM POWER, ITH, INC. Houston, TX
Hydraulic start, gas fuel, liquid fuel, lube oil, low pressure cleaning and seal air, temperature vibration system. (Typhoon and Cyclone projects using AutoCAD 2002, 2005, 3D Mechanical Desktop)

SR. PIPING DESIGNER & CHECKER 1998 - 2000 JACOBS ENGINEERING Houston, Tx
General Arrangement, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floor plan, piping detail and section initiator building b4 (Daikin America Inc. Decatur, Alabama) Field Assignment with CAD PIPE.
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SR. PIPING DESIGNER AND CHECKER 1998 - 1998 S&B ENGINEERS Houston, TX
Spheres Area, Cooling Tower, Condensate and chilled water system, pumps area (EpB Chemical project-OSBL Texas Eastman Chemical, Longview, Texas) Field Assignment, AutoCAD 13 with PRO-PIPE, PRO-ISO and MICROSTATION 2D.

SR. PIPING DESIGNER AND CHECKER 1997 - 1998
FLUOR DANIEL Houston, TX
Vent System Blowers, Sulfuric Acid Storage, Chilled Water System, Intermediate & Flash Drum (Witco Corp. Engineering Dept. Gretna & Taft Louisiana) Field Assignment AutoCAD 12 with PRO-PIPE basis estimate: Plan, Section Major Pipe Routing (Modules): Triethyl Aluminum, Oleochemical Derivatives, Urethane Additives & Silicone Hydride Tea Repacking (Witco-Aisa Pacific China). AutoCAD 14, PRO-PIPE.

SR. PIPING DESIGNER AND CHECKER 1996 - 1997
PETROCON ENGINEERING Houston, TX
Air Booster Compressor Process. Cooling Water Purge, Air Chilling and Purification Skid (Air Liquide, Keystone Steel Bartonnille, Illinois) Precontracting pot, co Kill Systems, Bulk Oil reroute, C-Line Mini-Rerate, MPIII+ A2 Liquid Peroxide Injection, LPBD N2 Sparger, E-Line PHA, Safe Isolation of Hazardous Malts. Mods, JSM Rerate Wet Ends, CatalloyRerate. (Montell U.S.A. Inc. Bay Area Pasadena, Texas). Manuel and AutoCAD Re. 13with PRO-PIPE & PRO ISO

SR. PIPING DESIGNER AND CHECKER 1995 - 1996
UNIVERSAL ENSCOHouston, TX
Starting, Instrumental utility air systems, fuel gas systems, J.W., L.O.C.W Systems, free air exhaust systems for inside and outside auxiliary building of compressor station #520 (Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, A Transco Energy Company Lycoming County Pennsylvania).
Senior Piping Checker - Complete design check of piping plans, sections, elevation and construction isometrics for inside and outside Auxiliary Building of Compressor Station #505 (Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, a Transco Energy Company Somerset County, New Jersey) Manual & AutoCAD Re. 13with PRO-PIPE & PRO ISO.

SR. PIPING DESIGNER AND CHECKER 1994 - 1995
BROWN & ROOT Houston, TX
Aromatics Debottleneck Project (Exxon Baytown) complete design check of piping plans, stress ISOs, and construction isometrics for four large production areas. Paraxylene Absorption Unit (PAU), Toluenc
Disporportionation Unit (TDU), Naphtha Rerun Unit (NRU), Baytown Olefins Plant (BOP). Responsible for all field survey's on each piping system to ensure final field installation with no rework required. Responsibilities included check of all vendor drawings, squad checks, and P&ID's within assigned area. Also responsible for all checkers assigned to area working closely with piping supervisor, construction & project engineers to maintain schedule requirements.

PIPING DESIGNER & CHECKER /STRUCTURAL 1993 - 1994
UNIVERSAL ENSCO Houston, TX
Lean Burn/Combustion Air, Aftercooler Addition, Free Air Exhaust Hydraulic Oil, Jacket Water, Starting Air, Fuel Gas, Vents Drain System Pump Area. Compressor Station #535, Units 1, 2, 3, and 4. Field Assignment. As built compressor station #505, #240 and Jacket Water, Lube Oil Cooling Water for flushing system. (Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, A Transco Energy Company, Austin, Pennsylvania). AutoCAD Re. 12 with PRO-PIPE & PRO ISO

PIPING DESIGNER 1992 - 1993
PAI ENGINEERING Houston, TX
Offshore platform piping modifications for 75,000 BOPD Treating Facility and Export Facility. Angola, West Africa. Block 2, Bagre Development, Lombo East Project, (Texaco, Houston, Texas). Computer Check Piping in Pro-Pipe.
Offshore platform piping modifications for instrument gas dryer and filter, surge tank, flare scrubber, diesel fuel and drain systems. Nigeria Limited, Benin River Development Project, (Chevron, Houston, Texas). Computer Check Piping in Pro-Pipe. All pipe suppots and structural skid assembly

PIPING DESIGNER 1990 - 1992
S.I.P ENGINEERING Houston, TX
Ethylene dryer and heater, homo reactor area, contractor and wash column area (Phillips Petroleum Company, Pasadena, Texas).
Filters and softeners interconnects, clarifying water pumps and filter feed and blender areas, 45 psig, 175 psig and 650 psig steam system, condensate system (Shell Oil Company, Norco, Louisiana). Field Assignment.

PIPING DESIGNER 1987 1990
ABB LUMMUS ENGINEERING Houston, TX
Boiler area, water treatment area, raw water clarifier, steam generation, chlorination feed, dry storage, ore and coke storage, wet milling caustic system (Yukon Limited Ulsan Korea, NL Chemical Company, Lake Charles, Louisiana). Computer design piping in 3D PASCE.
Waste water handling, TDI collection system, condensate and chilled water system, TDA nickel catalyst filer manifolding, pump area (Mobay Oil Corporation, Shell Oil & Chemical Company and Exxon Chemical Company, Texas). Field Assignment

PIPING DESIGNER 1985 - 1987
UNION CARBIDE Seadrift Port Lavaca TX
Hazardous water tank farm, property improvement, in-plant lagoons, plot plan, zone incinerator project (Union Carbide Corporation, Port Lavaca, Texas). Field assignment.

PIPING DESIGNER 1983 - 1985
GULF INTERSTATE Houston, TX
Cooling system, high pressure gas, flare system, pump area, propylene system.
Compressor station (Bammel Company & Delhi Company, Texas). Field assignment.

PIPING DESIGNER 1981 - 1983
BECHTEL Houston, TX
Auxiliary area, debutanized tanks area, high pressure nitrogen (Tennessee Eastman Company, Tennessee).

PIPING DRAFTER 1978 - 1981 FORTER WHEELER Houston TX
Ethylene oxide and glycol plant, acid crude system, boiler area (Uranium Recovery Company, Florida, Celenese Chemical Company, Bay City, Texas, Cities Services Company, Louisiana & Delta Refining Company, Tennessee). Field Assignment. LPG Merox boiler area,catalyst storage (Navaho,New Mexico & Sigmore Refinery,Three River Texas )
PIPING DRAFTER 1976 - 1978 FLUOR ENGINEERING Houston TX
Cooling water system, water treating/dearation and heater separation facility (Houston, Texas).
PIPE DESIGNER 1969 - 1974 RMK ENGINEERING Saigon VIETNAM
Sewage system and underground piping in South Vietnam.
EDUCATION
Saigon University, S. Vietnam, B.S. in Mathematics
Harris County Community College, "Engineering Piping Courses"
Harris County Community College, AutoCAD 12, 13, 2000, PRO PIPE, MICROSTATION, and CADWORX
COMPANY-SPONSORED TRAINING
FLUOR PIPING DESIGN TRAINING
ABB LUMMUS : 3D PASCE
S&B : MICROSTATION, AUTOCAD
JACOBS ENGINEERING : AUTOCAD, CAD PIPE, PRO PIPE
ALSTOM : MECHANICAL DESKTOP
EMERSON DANIEL , ECL, COMMONWEALTH : CADWORX