Expert in Material & Corrosion
Stan is a Chemical and Metallurgical Engineer who started his career in the water treatment industry before moving to oil & gas at Shell Canada in 1989. His entrepreneurial spirit led him to create several consulting companies to provide Oil & Petrochemicals Majors with expertise in maintenance, Risk-Based Inspection methodology development and implementation. His expertise plays a major role prior and during plant shutdowns. Stan has a Master of Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal and is member of NACE and Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec. He is also acting as a technical expert and auditor for the Luxembourg government.
- Air Treatment
- API
- ASTME
- Cathodic Protection
- Construction Standards
- Corrossion
- ISO 17020
- Maintenance and Inspection
- Material Selection
- NACE
- OHSAS 18001 & 18002
- Operation Strategies
- Risk Based Inspection
- Root Cause Analysis
- Training
- Water Treatment
- Welding Procedure
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Chemical industry, Power Generation
- Specialist in Risk Based Inspection approach
- Development of inspection and maintenance programs based on RBI approach
- Optimization of scope of work of maintenance and inspection for turn arounds
- Revise the entire RBI program of many refineries, including inspection methodologies to be applied for each specific Degradation Mechanism
- Hire, train and support young chemical engineers integrating RBI methodologies in petrochemical plants
- Established training courses for operators and process engineers
- Revise complete refinery construction standards under the aspect of material, corrosion and conformity to international construction codes
- Optimize unit design, define operation strategies, operating windows and material selection versus operating conditions to increase equipment’s reliability
- Act as a reference for the process equipment inspection teams to solve corrosion and operation problems
- Act as an expert for Shell France (corrosion of static equipment in refineries, soil contamination detection) and for the Wallon’s Ministry of transportation in Belgium (C. P., concrete and pipelines)
- Technical auditor for the Luxembourg government in various fields of activity linked with standards ISO17020, ISO17021, ISO17025, OHSAS18001 (laboratory research, production plant, etc.)
REFERENCES
- Design and implement RBI methodology for BP Belgium, BASF Feluy, Société de la Raffinerie de Dunkerque (SRD), VEOLIA (Wastewater Treatment Plant), SAIPEM, AGIP offshore, TOTAL, PETROINEOS, VALERO, ExxonMobil, Shell, including updating assistance.
- Evaluate 15 inspection departments within TOTAL and PEMEX offshore inspection department.
CAREER HISTORY
- QUALTEC S.A.R.L, Luxembourg Corrosion Engineer, Technical administrator. 2006 – till now
- CORROSION SERVICES Consultants s.a., Luxembourg Corrosion Engineer, Engineering department, Director. 1995 – 2005
- CATH-TECH Europe S.A., Brussels, Belgium Corrosion Engineer, Director of the company. 1992 – 1995
- SHELL CANADA, Montreal-East Refinery Corrosion Engineer, Inspection & Process Department. 1989 – 1991
- AQUATECH, Société de gestion de l’eau inc., Montréal Engineer, Environmental Projects (water treatment), material selection. 1986 – 1987
- HENLEX INC., Montreal (Water and air treatment) Sales representative and project engineer. 1985 – 1985
- CATHODIC TECHNOLOGY LTD., Bolton, Ontario Corrosion engineer. 1984 – 1985
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Master of Engineering (Materials). 1987 – 1989
- École Polytechnique, Montréal, Bachelor of Engineering (Chemicals). 1980 – 1984
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Member, Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec. Since 1987
- Member, National Association of Corrosion Engineer (NACE). Since 1985
- NACE Boston: Group related to reinforced concrete. 1995
- NACE Corrosion Risk Management Conference. 2016
- In progress, one damage mechanism: Hot Chloride Attack in Refineries
PERSONAL DATA
- Have addressed various associations on material, corrosion topics
- Was Secretary, Canadian Institute for Mine and Metallurgy’s corrosion section for two years.
LANGUAGES
Fully bilingual (French, English)
Basic Italian