Peter van der Schans Resume

Peter van der Schans

BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Peter van der Schans, a Principal with Long International, has 40 years of project management, engineering management, and engineering experience. His extensive international experience includes the overall responsibility for engineering, project control, procurement, construction, and start-up of oil refining, oil and gas, gas to liquids, petrochemical, chemical, industrial facilities, municipal and refinery hazardous waste processing, and environmental projects. His experience covers all project phases from feasibility studies, preparation of FEED packages, EP and EPC project execution to start up and operational troubleshooting. He has extensive experience in execution of refinery and petrochemical plant projects. He has analyzed delay, cost overrun, and lost production claims for refinery, offshore, and petrochemical plants.

Mr. van der Schans has experience in detailed commissioning planning of refineries, and mechanical completion and handover efforts, and has extensive commissioning and start-up experience. He also resolved many warranty claims to the satisfaction of Owner and Contractor by technical and operational analysis of damages. He participated in many HAZID and HAZOP reviews, and functioned as HAZOP Chairman. He was an expert witness in a large reactor damage claim, and was a Process Consultant for FPSO conversions. He participated in contract negotiations with Contractors for US $50 to $450 million contracts on behalf of the Owner.

Before joining Long International, Mr. van der Schans served as Senior Project Manager with Parsons E&C for 5 years, primarily as a leader of Project Management Consulting Teams and as individual Project Management Advisor for Middle Eastern Refiners. He also served 23 years with Badger and Raytheon Engineers and Constructors as a Process Engineer, Technical Services and Start-up Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, and Project and Sr. Project Manager. He started his career with Selas of America in process design and start-up of Hydrogen, Ammonia and Methanol Syngas, and Olefins plants. He served as Director and Vice President of Engineering and Technology for Power Recovery Systems Inc, and as Director for Project Engineering Services GmbH.

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EDUCATION
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
Institute of Professional Engineers, The Netherlands (Process Engineering).

LANGUAGES
English, Dutch, German, working knowledge of French and Italian

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Representative U.S. and international technical experience includes:

Analysis of cost overruns and delays of an upstream oil sands production facility.
Analysis of shutdowns of an MTBE plant in Canada and a related loss of production claim. Testified in court as expert witness.
Analysis of delays to the start-up and commissioning of an Upgrader Refinery that was built to process bitumen from a tar sands production facility in Canada. The delays were allegedly caused by a fire at the tar sands production mine site, which delayed the transport of bitumen to the refinery.
Analysis of the delays associated with plant handover, mechanical completion, and startup/commissioning of a chemical plant in The Netherlands.
Project Management Consultant for Abu Dhabi On-Shore Oil Production Company – Bu Hasa Field Upgrade.
Project Management Advisor for FEED execution of a refinery hazardous waste facility for TAKREER, Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company and preparation of EPC contract documents.
Project Management Consultant responsible for the Project Management Consultancy Team for a Base Oil Refinery project for TAKREER.
Project Manager responsible for the first phase of the Shell Goldeneye on-shore gas development project.
Project Management Consultant for the engineering and procurement phase of a large refinery upgrade project for NODCO. Anchor units were a Platformer and an FCC unit.
Start-up Superintendent for Rayong Refinery.
Project Manager responsible for the detailed engineering, procurement and construction phases of the Crude Block of a grass roots refinery project for the Rayong Refinery Company, Thailand. (CDU, CDR, HVU, VBU, RFO).
Project Manager responsible for the engineering and procurement of a refinery revamp project for Natref, Sasolburg, SA. (CDU, BOC, NHT, FCCU, PLF, ATU).
Project Manager responsible for the fast track engineering, procurement and construction of an expansion of an EB/Styrene plant for Huntsman Chemical Corp. Texas, USA.
Project Manager for several revamp projects for oleo chemicals.
Vice President of Engineering and Technology for Power Recovery Systems, USA, responsible for engineering technology development.
Project Manager responsible for all site activities for Badger on the Sasol synthetic oil plants. These activities comprised construction liaison, on site engineering and start up assistance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Long International, Inc.
Littleton, Colorado (June 2004 to Present)

As a Principal with Long International, Mr. van der Schans provides expert services in all facets of contract dispute analysis and resolution, litigation/arbitration/mediation support, and expert testimony. He has been responsible for the expert analysis of a dispute involving the delayed start-up and commissioning of an oil upgrading facility feeding synthetic crude oil derived from tar sands, technical assessments of defective installations on an offshore oil production facility, analyses of disputed change orders on an FPSO facility, the expert analysis of a dispute related to the mechanical completion and precommissioning of a chemical complex in the Netherlands, and the technical analysis of a loss of production claim for an MTBE facility in Canada.

Parsons Energy & Chemicals Group
Abu Dhabi (1999 to October 2004)

ADCO - Abu Dhabi On-shore Oil Production Company Project Management Consultant (Engineering) for a major oil field upgrade project, representing the Client in the EPC Contractor’s office.

TAKREER Central Environment Protection Facilities Project Management Advisor to TAKREER during the FEED execution of a hazardous waste facility including incineration, thermal desorption, centrifugation, solidification, landfills, and all associated facilities.

TAKREER Base Oil Refinery
Project Management Consultant on the first phase of a Base Oil Refinery deploying the hydroprocessing route to base oils (VDU, PDA, HCK, IDW, SRU).

Shell Goldeneye Feasibility Study
Project Manager for the first phase of the on-shore facilities for a new North Sea gas development for Shell UK, incorporating Full Wellstream Tie-Back.

Nodco Refinery Expansion Project
Project Management Consultant leading a PMT integrated in the Client Resident Team in the EPC contractor’s offices in Seoul. The project was a revamp / expansion of the refinery (CDU, HDTs, PLF, RFCC, LPG, SRU, etc.) tank farm and utilities.

Raytheon Engineers & Constructors
USA (1988 to 1999)

Rayong Refinery, RRC Thailand
Senior Project Manager and Start-up Superintendent responsible for detailed commissioning and start-up planning for this grassroots refinery and for the commissioning and start-up assistance. After hand-over of the refinery, was responsible for the resolution of warranty issues. Also functioned as Project Manager on an environmental project and an isomerization project for Shell/RRC.

Rayong Refinery Project, Shell The Hague
Project Manager responsible for the detailed engineering phase of the crude block of this LS grass roots refinery project (CDU, CDR, HVU, VBU, RFO). Also was an Engineering Manager for the Project Specification for this refinery project.

Natref Refinery Revamp, South Africa
Project Manager responsible for the detailed engineering and procurement of a lump sum refinery revamp project executed in South Africa (CDU, BOC, NHT, FCCU, PLF, ATU).

EB/Styrene Plant Expansion, Huntsman Chemical Corporation, USA
Project Manager responsible for the fast-track engineering, procurement, and construction of an expansion of an EB/Styrene plant in Houston, Texas.

Industrial Facilities, US
Managed several revamp projects for oleo chemicals facilities.

Power Recovery Systems
USA (1986 – 1988)

Vice President Engineering and Technology – Director of Engineering responsible for engineering execution and technology development of municipal solid waste-to-energy plants and related projects deploying fluid bed gasifiers.

Badger
USA (1975 to 1986)

Kukdong Refinery, Korea
Engineering Manager on a complete refinery project responsible for engineering of all process units, which included Badger-designed distillation and gas processing units and many licensed refinery units (hydrocracking, hydrotreating, delayed coking, sulphur plant, amine treating, tank farm and utilities).

Yukong Aromatics Complex, Korea
Responsible for the content and production of all P&I Diagrams.

Raytheon Environmental Project, Raytheon, California
Engineering Manager on a groundwater stripping and soil treatment project.

Sasol Three Oil-from-Coal Complex, South Africa.
Project Manager / Chief Commissioning Engineer responsible for all site activities on the Synthol and Chemical Work-up of a large synthetic oil plant. These activities comprised all construction liaison work and on-site engineering, start-up assistance and the engineering of start-up modifications, as well as process engineering and training assistance.

Sasol Two Oil-from-Coal Complex, South Africa.
Project Manager / Chief Commissioning Engineer responsible for all site activities on the Synthol and Chemical Work-up of a large synthetic oil plant. These activities comprised all construction liaison work and on-site engineering, start-up assistance and the engineering of start-up modifications, as well as process engineering and training assistance.

Chief Commissioning Engineer responsible for start-up and process assistance on a synthetic oil complex identical to the one above. Each of these facilities included eight giant circulating fluid bed reactors, three fixed fluid bed reactors, oil stabilizers, gas compression and washing facilities, heaters, condensate treatment and steam generation and a chemical work-up facility for the separation of alcohols and other non-acid chemicals by distillation. Also was a Process Supervisor/Process Engineer with key-level involvement in the engineering of the above-mentioned synthetic oil plant.

Various Refinery and Petrochemical Projects, Shell The Hague
Senior Process Engineer – Process design and engineering of refinery units, lube oil facilities, and an EB/Styrene plant.

Project Engineering Services
Deutschland GmbH (1974 to 1975)

Responsibilities as manager of a small subsidiary of an engineering company included setting up the (German) subsidiary, hiring the personnel, all sales work, and managing all operations. Project / Process Engineer responsible for the design and engineering of oil gathering systems and water injection systems.

Complant Ltd.

Saudi Arabia (1972 to 1974)

Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery, LPG Plants
Served as Commissioning Engineer for LPG fractionation, treating and handling plants and for water injection facilities including large gas turbines.

Selas of America NV

The Netherlands (1966 to 1972)

Syrian Oil Authority, Homs Refinery
Start-up Supervisor for a turnkey hydrogen plant.

Polimex, Poland
Start-up Supervisor for the hot section of an ethylene plant.

Konam, Montecatini-Edison, Courrieres-Kuhlman, NSM, ROW, Anic
Process Engineer / Technical Service Engineer with extensive commissioning and start-up and other field experience on ethylene plant hot sections, naphtha and gasoil based, steam/hydrocarbon reforming plants, and refinery units.

Various Clients
Process Engineer for process design and engineering of reforming plants for the production of hydrogen and syngas for methanol, butanol and ammonia production, and process engineering of ethylene plant front ends.

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