Oscar Bentulan

January 2024 - Current

ADNOC MIRFA PIPELINE PROJECT, ABU DHABI, UAE

• Act as a Team Leader for construction and commissioning of Instrument, Control and Telemetry Systems of the Project
• Responsible for evaluating Instrument, Control and Telemetry design packages and ensured that commissioning issues were taken into account.
• Responsible for developing construction and commissioning programs/schedules, allocating necessary resources, and oversaw their implementation.
• Responsible for conducting and coordinating with various departments and performed Factory and Site Acceptance Tests.
• Responsible for evaluating vendor documentation and ensured that test procedures were carried out per same.
• Responsible for working in Asset HSE programs and performing various audits and reviews.
• Responsible to answer/address site technical queries when issues arise.
• Ensure all new systems operate effectively and meet performance requirements before handing over the project for operational use.

June 2023 - July 2023

RUMAILA OPERATING ORG.(ROO) POWER PLANT - O&M TRAINING, DUBAI, UAE

• Role as an Instructor to train ROO Power Plant I&C Engineers, Technicians and Operators on the plant Instrumentation, Gas Turbine MarkVIe Control System, Gas Turbine Continuous Emissions Monitoring System, Plant ICSS ABB 800xA, Plant ESD & F&G Systems, and Plant Gas Analyzer.
• Developed learning objectives, content outline, detailed instructions, practice exercises and test questions.
• Developed handouts, presentations, checklists and training manuals.

May 2018 - May 2023

RUMAILA OPERATING ORG.(ROO) POWER PLANT PROJECT, BASRA, IRAQ

• Act as a Technical Expert specifically on Gas Turbine Control Maintenance and Operation, and Plant ICSS
• Providing Gas turbine operational support to the operation team.
• Mentoring and providing technical expertise to operation and maintenance teams for plant instrument equipment troubleshooting, maintenance and start up activities, in cooperation with electrical and mechanical to ensure compliance to the maintenance activities.
• Lead/participate Operational Risk Assessment Sessions
• Providing technical/troubleshooting support in the field for the execution of critical activities and issues are resolve with minimum downtime and safely
• Plan and evaluate manpower allocation requirement for daily maintenance activities.
• Selection, monitor and control required material/spare parts, consumables and tools with regard to quality and quantities to ensure continuous availability.
• Overall responsible for fault diagnosis, repair and maintenance of Mark VIe control system of 5 Gas Turbine Generators, S7 PLC of 3 x Gas Compressors, ABB 800xA DCS and related instrumentation equipment. Including SCADA, HMI, Control panels, field instruments, Gas analyzers.
• Detect issues, propose and implement new objects in HMI(Cimplicity) screens.
• Lead team supporting plant power monitoring and control, the transport network, application servers, energy management monitoring and control, and various components and applications to ensure a robust secure operation of the system including plant IT/OT Cybersecurity.
• Responsible for optimization the 5 GTGs instrumentation equipment its parameters and propose amendments/adjustments.
• Analyze instrument and control defects issues, propose solutions on equipment to enhance safety, stability and efficiency.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure analysis and execute corrective actions to increase the reliability and availability of the equipment.
• Prepare maintenance, and preservation procedures on instrument and control systems of the plant.
• Monitor and analyze machine gas efficiency includes fuel gas analysis and machine combustion CDM.
• Monitor Gas turbine operation for adjustments and optimization for smooth operation of the plant.
• Providing troubleshooting support for software and automation systems(Mark Vie, 800xA, S7, GE Fanuc)
• Provide support to track the forthcoming maintenance inspections, such as gas turbine combustion inspections, hot gas path, and major overhaul.
• Adhere to the maintenance schedules/procedures of plant instrument control systems.
• Responsible for plant alarm management system maintenance and ensure spurious alarms are investigated and cleared.

• Performed onsite installation, modification, startup and maintenance of systems and equipment.
• Examined faulty equipment, interpreted reports and analyzed customer complaints to diagnose equipment malfunction.
• Disassembled and reassembled complex machinery to repair or replace worn or malfunctioning components.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction with prompt and efficient troubleshooting of complex technical issues.
• Provided expert technical assistance during installation projects, ensuring proper setup and alignment of complex machinery components.
• Lead the commissioning of control panels(MarkVIe, MarkVIeS, Promel F&G, Bently Nevada Systems)
• Lead the functional check/commissioning and startup of the turbine
• Lead DLN COMBUSTION Tuning for gas turbine.
• Performs investigation and diagnostic of the control system for reported issues and for the Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Issue RCA as requested by the client.
• Performed on site engineering/modification on control logics.
• Provides Technical Advice to the client on operation, maintenance of the plant and especially on any modification and review additional requirement on the control system.
• Create/Developed commissioning procedures and schedule with customer’s site requirements
• Responsible for setting up the control system(MarkVIe) for the units, includes integration to each local network switches, local HMI, EWS, RemoteHMI and established communication from GTG control system to customer DCS thru redundant TCP/IP Modbus communication gateway.
• Execute/Supervise modification of the control system on software and hardware based on approved documentation from company engineering.
• Provides support to company engineering relating to design issues of the control system.
• Review/Study additional request from client, and propose to GE Engineering the solution and execution of the issue thru company Maximo system.
• Survey/assess control and instrumentation system condition in case for client warranty claims.
• Manage Control System Spares to client.
• Manage As built and documentation of the project with reference to company documentation standard and procedures.
• Issues and report non conformity issues of the control system on the project especially during the installation phase.
• Energize, configure, test and calibrate auxiliary systems normally integrated in the Control Panel, such as Bently Nevada vibration monitoring system (3300 and 3500 series) including contact probes, accelerometers, velocity probes; gas detection systems; fire fighting system.
• Lead the SAT (Site Acceptance Test) and SIT (Site Integration Test) for the UCP accordingly to IEC 62381 automation standards.
• Verify turbine systems functionality with all related alarms, messages, displays, trends, signals(if updating on graphics and faceplates).
• Edit, modify, develop the existing control software if required to rectify non-conformities as per Engineering Dept instructions, implement sequence changes required from Engineering Dept, customize the control system to the site conditions,
• Performed troubleshooting of the control panel hardware, replacing faulty cards with spare, setting Berg jumpers
• Perform calibration of gas turbine control servo-mechanisms
• Ensures that I&C design & engineering deliverables are delivered per contract specifications, and within schedule.
• Ensures strict adherence to company HSEMS rules and regulations to uphold a safe and compliant work environment at all times.

GE Oil and Gas assignments:

May 2017 - February 2018

Lead Control Engineer

Rumaila Power Plant (CPECC/BP/ROO), Basra, Iraq

January 2017 - April 2017

Lead Control Engineer

Power Upgrade Zirku Island (ZADCO), Abu Dhabi, UAE

October 2016 - December 2016

Electrical Instrument Engineer

UCP Revamping(QATARGAS), Qatar

July 2016 - October 2016

Electrical Instrument Engineer

HotGas Path Inspection(MLNG Petronas), Malaysia

May 2016

Electrical Instrument Engineer

Technical assistance(ADGAS), Abu Dhabi, UAE

March 2016 - April 2016

Lead Control Engineer

UCP Revamping (SK/KOC), Kuwait

January 2016 - February 2016

Lead Control Engineer

Installation (CEGELEC/ADGAS), Das Island, UAE

February 2015 - December 2015

Lead Control Engineer

Commissioning and Start up (SHELL), Basra, Iraq

December 2014 - February 2015

Lead Control Engineer

Pre Commissioning Habshan NGI(SAMSUNG/GASCO), UAE

October 2014 - November 2014

Electrical Instrument Engineer

Installation Platform(Petronas) Ulsan, Korea

August 2014 - September 2014

Lead Control Engineer

Pre Commissioning Habshan NGI(SAMSUNG/GASCO), UAE

May 2014 - Jun 2014

Lead Control Engineer

Warranty IGD5 (HDEC/GASCO) Abu Dhabi UAE

March 2014 - April 2014

Lead Control Engineer

Survey IGD5 (HDEC/GASCO) Abu Dhabi UAE

October 2013 - November 2013

Lead Control Engineer

Panel Modification (SAMSUNG/GASCO) Abu Dhabi, UAE

October 2013

Lead Control Engineer

DLN Tuning (QAFCO) Qatar

September 2013

Warranty Engineer

IGD5 (HDEC/GASCO) Abu Dhabi, UAE

April 2013 - July 2013

Lead Control Engineer

Installation (HHI/ADGAS) Das Island, UAE

September 2011 - March 2013

Lead Control Engineer

Installation, Comm, Startup IGD5(HDEC/GASCO) Abu Dhabi, UAE

July 2011

Electrical Instrument Engineer

Modular Exchange (ELNG) Egypt

• Implemented industry best practices in the selection, installation, calibration, and maintenance of process control instruments.
• Participated in design specification review meetings, coordinating with inter-departmental teams to align ongoing efforts and overall business goals.
• Improved safety standards through meticulous inspection and calibration of instruments and controls.
• Increased production capacity by upgrading existing instruments to more efficient models.
• Managed procurement process for instrumentation components, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products within budget constraints.
• In-charge of on-site design for interconnection of various systems for integration such as I/O signals of 13.8KV,4.16KV, and 480V Schneider switchgears, remote turbine control, Fire Fighting System, HVAC, Water treatment Plant(WTP), Fuel Oil Treatment Plant(FOTP), Black Start Diesel Generator, and UPS , this includes cabling, interconnect wiring design, point definition and configuration, and graphic display assignments.
• Designed Plant Fiber Optic Network Configuration and interconnection for plant and unit data highway.
• Supervised the installation of DCS Equipment’s in the control room. This equipment’s include the consoles, HMI, servers, NTP w/ GPS sync, network Switches, large screen display and Alarm Printers.
• Responsible for coordination of Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for GE SpeedtronicTM Turbine Control and GE MarkVIe control system for integration of 4 new units(80MW each) Frame 7EA Gas Turbines and 6 existing units. The integration systems includes, Operator workstation, Engineering Workstation, Application Server, Automatic Generation Control, Performance monitoring system, Sequence of events recorder, and Historian.
• Worked on Commissioning for switchgears electrical network protection; SEPAM devices sepam 2000 series, and SFT2841 software.
• Well versed in GE Control System Toolbox and ToolboxST.
• SAT of FOTP(Alfa Laval) 6 transfer pumps and 6 GT50 Fuel Separators w/ Siemens S7-400 PLC and WinCC Flexible with mimic panels. The commissioning includes loop checking, reviewing and verifying I/O logics for instrumentation (pneumatic valves, solenoid valves, water sensor, level transmitter, flow transmitters, vibration switches),sludge pumps, motor controls and emergency shutdown devices.
• Assigned to maintain and monitor the performance of the said separators before turnover to customer.
• Experienced in S7 Simatic Software; programming, I/O testing, configuration, upload/download to controller.
• Responsible for tank farm remote control installation/modification; motorized valves(Rotork) and automatic Tank Gauge(VAREC).

November 2007-April 2008

232.0 MW Malitbog Geothermal Power Plant

Philippine National Oil Company -EDC, Leyte

• Role as DCS Technician on a rotating shift working primarily with Siemens APACS+ process automation system running on Symantec 4-mation software. Responsibilities include operating, configuring and troubleshooting 3 units interconnecting Siemens Quadlog PLCs.
• Assigned to insure efficient communication system between PLC, HMI clients and servers.
• Creating and maintaining backup clients and servers for the backup drive.
• Monitoring PLC power supply and battery output stability.
• Overhauling, calibration, and testing of analogue/digital field instruments.

January 2007-July 2007

180.0 MW Mahanagdong “A” and “B” Geothermal Power Plants

California Energy Int’l, Leyte

• Worked on two power plant sites using ABB Infi90 automation system, jobs include on-site troubleshooting, I/O modules preventive maintenance.
• Connectivity checking between DCS and field instruments during plant shutdown operation.
• Worked closely with ABB service engineer in troubleshooting with the Process Control Unit (PCU).
• Responsible for maintaining HMI clients, servers, and workstation computers.

April 2006-December 2006

132.0 MW Upper Mahiao Geothermal Power Plant

California Energy Int’l, Leyte

• Assigned in maintaining plant automation using GE Fanuc PLC running on LogicMaster90 software. Tasks include inspecting, servicing and application of preservation coating of PLC I/O modules.
• Monitoring PLC activity on a daily basis and ensured on-standby troubleshooting.
• Worked with lead Control Engineer in Start-up and Shutdown operations.
• Inspecting, testing and servicing of interfacing relays and fuse.